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Ethiopian plane crashes
LONDON (AP) - An Ethio
pian air force plane carrying 54
passengers and crew crashed in
the Eritrean provincial capital
of Asmara on Tuesday and kill
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ed everyone on board, the of
ficial radio reported.
According to the report on the
official Ethiopian Radio,
monitored in London by the
British Broadcasting Corp., the
crash was due to a mechanical
failure.
The plane, carrying air force
personnel, was en route to the
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capital of Addis Ababa when
the plane suddenly went out of
control, the radio said.
"It crashed while it was try
ing to land after developing
sudden problems about three
minutes after taking off from
Yohannes the Fourth Airport (in
Asmara),” the broadcast said.
Hotel worker arrested
SAN JIIAN. Puerto Rico (AP)
— A Dupont Pla/.a Motel
maintenance worker was ar
rested Tuesday and charged
with 96 counts of murder for the
New Year’s Eve fire at the posh
hotel.
The hotel worker. Hector
Kscudero Aponte, was the first
person arrested in the case, hut
Justice Secretary Hector Rivera
Cruz said officials believed he
had not acted alone.
Rivera Cruz said in a state
ment that Kscudero Aponte was
charged with “setting fire to the
Dupont Plaza Hotel on New
Year's Eve. in agreement with
others.” But he said the in
vestigation was continuing and
therefore he could provide no
further information.
Kscudero Aponte used a
Sterno-like fuel to torch new
furniture stacked in the hotel’s
ground-floor ballroom, accor
ding to a complaint filed by the
FBI in U S. District Court.
Ambassador shot
BUDAPEST. Hungary (AP) —
A gunman approached Colom
bia’s ambassador to Hungary
outside his residence Tuesday
and shot the former leader of the
South American country’s anti
drug campaign five times.
In Bogota, Colombian Foreign
Minister Julio Londono told
reporters that Ambassador Enri
que Parejo, a former justice
minister, was shot three times
in the head and twice in the
arms but appeared out of
danger.
He said surgeons removed
two bullets from the am
bassador's brain and were try
ing to extract the third.
Londono quoted witnesses as
saying a man approached Parejo
as he was leaving his Budapest
residence at 11:30 a.m. (5:30
a.m. EST) and asked him in
Spanish "Are you Mr. Parejo?”
When the ambassador
responded that he was. the gun
man opened fire, Londono said.
Lebanon bombed
BEIRUT, Ubanon (AP) —
Israeli warplanes bombed and
rocketed Palestinian guerrilla
positions in eastern Lebanon
near the Syrian border Tuesday
in their third raid in five days.
Police said two guerrillas were
killed and seven wounded.
Four Israeli fighter-bombers
made three lightning sorties at
3:20 p.m. near the Bekaa Valley
village of Yanta about four
miles from the Syrian border,
police said.
The raid was one of the
closest Israeli air strikes to the
borders of Syria, the Soviet
Union’s closest ally in the Mid
dle Hast, since Israel’s 1982 in
vasion of Lebanon.
Police said the blasted posi
tions belonged to Col. Saeed
Moussa’s Fatah-Uprising fac
tion, which broke away from
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion leader Yasser Arafat’s
mainline Fatah in 1983.
Amtrak was speeding
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Amtrak train that collided with
three freight locomotives was
exceeding speed restrictions by
23 miles an hour, and in
vestigators are trying to deter
mine if that contributed to the
severity of the accident that
took lti lives, officials said
Tuesday.
The National Transportation
Safety Board investigation,
meanwhile, continued to focus
on why the engineer of the Con
rail locomotives, which also
was speeding, apparently did
not heed a stop signal until he
was almost on top of it. causing
the locomotives to skid into the
path of the Amtrak train.
At a news conference, it was
disclosed that speed recorders
showed the Amtrak locomotive,
pulling 12 cars, was traveling
128 mph when the brakes were
applied.
Job security protected
WASHINGTON (AP) — States
may require employers to give
pregnant workers job protec
tions not available to other
employees, the Supreme Court
ruled Tuesday.
The court upheld a California
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law requiring employers to
grant unpaid leaves of absence
of up to four months to women
whose pregancies leave them
unable to work even if leaves
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Although the 6-3 decision
was a major victory for working
women, some feminist lawyers
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equality.
Regional
Hanford bill introduced
SALEM (AP) — Measures to
create a Hanford Waste Board
and to exempt the state from
liability in case of a nuclear in
cident were among the bills in
troduced Tuesday in the Oregon
Legislature.
The waste board bill. SB13, is
aimed at giving the state a larger
voice in the U.S. Department of
Energy’s consideration of the
Hanford nuclear reservation as a
possible nuclear w as t e
repository.
The southeast Washington
state site is one of three being
considered by the department to
permanently dispose of the na
tion’s high-level radioactive
waste. Other sites are in Texas
and Nevada.
Elections director named
SALEM (AP) — Secretary of
State Barbara Roberts on Tues
day named William Flynn as
the new director of the state
Elections Division.
Flynn, 43. replaces Ray
Phelps, who recently resigned
after serving 10 years as head of
the agency.
Flynn has been with the divi
sion since 1979 and before that
worked in Benton County’s
Department of Records and
Elections.
He’ll receive a $42,000 salary
as head of the division, which,
among other things, in
vestigates complaints of elec
tion law violations and assists
county officials in running
elections.
Phelps, who resigned from
the division last month, has
been hired under contract by
the Metropolitan Service
District in Portland to review
the district’s performance.
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