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Iran claims Iraq shot down passenger plane
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran
said today an Iraqi jet fighter
shot down an Iranian passenger
plane on a domestic flight bet
ween Tehran and Ahvar.. Ira
nian officials say they believe
the plane carried 46 passengers
plus crew, and all people
aboard were believed killed.
The official Iraqi News Agen
cy quoted an Iraqi military
spokesman in Baghdad as deny
ing the Iranian claim. The agen
cy, monitored in Cyprus,
quoted the spokesman as saying
Iranian “reports in this respect
are sheer lies," and adding that
Iraqi air attacks were confined
to military targets along the war
front and in southern Iran
Iran’s ambassador to the
United Nations, Kajain
khorassani. said in New York
he believed them wore 4K
passengers aboard the downed
plane in addition to the crew.
Them was no mason to believe
anyone survived, he said.
The ambassador said the
plane crashed 11 miles from
Ahvaz, and wreckage fell in a
nearby village.
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khorassani said he did not ex
pect I ho United Nations to take
the necessary action to punish
Iraq for this "criminal act" and
said Iran “is firmly determined
to even accounts in Baghdad."
An investigation crew was
sent to the crash site, the am
bassador said.
Iran’s official Islamic
Republic News Agency said the
Fokker Friendship airliner was
shot down at about noon local
time. It had been chartered by
Iran’s domestic Assertion
r
Airlines, the news Agency said,
and carried several members of
parliament and a representative
of Iranian leader Ayatollah
Kuhollah Khomeini,
IRNA identified the hho
meini representative as Ho
jatoleslam F a d h I o 11 a h
Mahallagi of the Revolutionary
Cuard Corps
In liahrain. Persian (luff avia
tion sources who spoke on con
dition of anonymity said tin'
plants was a turboprop Fokker
Friendship - used by Iran for
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Keagan flew here to honor the servicemen killed in
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the same excuses made for the communists, while the people
of Nicaragua see their freedom slowly but surely eaten
away.” . -
Grenada's prime minister. Herbert Blaixe. declared a na
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military purposes.
Ahvaz is alMiut (i() miles east
of lr««| and about :*1U miles
southwest of Tehran, the Ira
nian capital.
Both sides reported increased
activity by their air forces
Wednesday despite bad weather
on the warfront. Iran claimed to
have shot, down Jour Iraqi jet
fighters. . while Iraq said it.
downed, one Iranian jet- and a
. four-engine C-130 plane used as
an airborne radar command
post • •
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WASHINGTON (AP) — *
Education Secretary William
Bennett gave the states a report
card Thursday on lest scores,
dropout rates and other
measures that he cited as proof
America's schools are on the
rebound.
He said rising college en
trance test scores, and slightly
lower school dropout rates,
show that “the excellence
movement has clearly helped
our poor and minority
imputations."
In releasing the Education
Department's third annual chart
ol slate education rankings.
Bennett was following a tradi
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Bell, started to the dismay of
some slate school
superintendents.
"When you have this kind of
chart, some people are going to
come off looking hotter than
others It's inevitable." he told
a news conference.
But he added. "This is big
news It is essentiel not to
keep these findings a secret, to
tell the American people how
we are doing "
Oregon. New Hampshire and
Vermont led in SAT scores in
the 22 states where more
students take that test: Iowa.
Wisconsin and Minnesota set
the pace in the 2H slates where
the ACT is dominant.
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