European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 23, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 . Move holds Pilot unit s strike United nations up the inter National federation of air line pilots associations Friday postponed a threatened worldwide strike after receiving Assur ances that the United nations will hold an urgent debate on ways of curbing air piracy. But Ifalia president capt. Derry Philippines copter crash toll now 24 Manila a Rescue workers pulled the last of 24 american servicemen s bodies from the wreckage of a Marine Heli copter in the dense Jungle of Mindoro Island saturday the Navy reported. Officials said 14 injured servicemen including one Navy medical corpsman Hurt in the Rescue operation were being treated at . Military hospitals on Luzon the Philippines main Island. The names of the victims have not been released. The ch53-d sea stallion helicopter carrying a Crew of four and 33 passengers slammed into a Hillside on the Central Philippines Island As it was airlifting troop during a training exercise Friday. A Navy spokesman said the thick Jungle prevented Rescue helicopters from Landing at the crash site about 3l/2 Miles Inland from the Mindoro Island coast and 80 Miles Southwest of Manila. Rescue Craft set Down in clearings below the site and rescuers had to chop their Way through the heavy underbrush up the Hill to the downed helicopter. The cause of the crash is being investigated. The victims were among an estimated 6, 500 Marine and 13,000 sailors involved in a training exercise named fortress Light  marines participating in the exer Cise were from Hawaii Okinawa and Camp Pendleton Calif. About 1,200 marines had been designated As enemy troops and the others Rode Landing Craft and helicopters to establish beachhead and move Inland against Blan gunfire. Last sunday it. Randy j. Rickey 26, of Pinellas Park Fla., was killed when his Navy a4 skyhawk crashed into Subic Bay while returning from the exercises. Pearce said after meeting with . Secre tary general Kurt Waldheim for More than an hour that the two Day protest strike scheduled for next week would still take place later if the . General Assembly tails to take firm action against Hijack Ings. Pearce pronounced himself satisfied with the very sincere assurances Given to me by Waldheim that he would push the general Assembly to take up the hijacking Issue in its current session perhaps a Early As next week. At Waldheim s initiative a group of 30 countries met Friday to draw up a formal request for an urgent general Assembly debate on air piracy. Pearce who appeared to be holding the threat of a future strike Over the Assem Bly s head said Ifalia would closely Monitor the debate to make sure the general Assembly comes through with re  by results Pearce said he meant . Passage of a Strong Resolution urging coun tries which have not already done so to ratify existing anti piracy agreements such As the Hague and Montreal conventions. Those countries include Algeria a fre quent Haven for hijackers. Last week so Malia permitted the Landing of a hijacked West German Lufthansa Jet the incident which prompted the pilots federation Socall its strike. Most of Ifalia s 67 members including its american affiliate the air line pilots association had been opposed to the strike. A stronger supporter was Israel whose . Diplomats conferred informally with some of the pilots. We hoped they would strike. It s the Only Way said israeli press spokesman Tuvia Saar. I Don t expect the United nations to be capable of dealing with this problem. It is up to individual countries to Boycott others that give Refuge to terrorists Saar said. 8 Safe in Navy copter crash Syracuse Sicily a a . Navy helicopter from the 6th Fleet amphibious assault ship Guadalcanal crashed into the ionian sea off this sicilian City after suffer ing engine trouble. All eight crewmen were unhurt and picked by the Guadalcanal. An italian High Power tugboat recovered the helicopter and towed it to the docks where a . Helicopter lifted it Back to the Guadalcanal but the helicopter broke Loose and fell again into the sea. More at tempts to Rescue it were planned. Something to Chew on Leon Jaworski counsel to the House ethics committee Chews on a Pencil during the third Day of open hearings in Washington by that panel on alleged South korean influence buying in con Gress. A photo South Korea dismisses testimony As hearsay Washington up a South korean spokesman said saturday his government was unaware of any alleged pay offs to members of Congress by its agents and said a House probe into those charges was based largely on  reacting to promises by House investigators that they can prove korean officials conspired to buy influence in Congress us Doc Kim a spokesman for the korean embassy in Washington said we Are greatly disturbed by the allegations that have been made in congressional hearings. Most of the testimony Given during the course of the hearings has been based on  Kim said his government does not con done illegal acts by any of its  any wrongdoing that is said to have been done was not done with the knowl Edge approval or cooperation of our government he said in a statement release dearly saturday. Kim said that when the seriousness of the charges is considered it is one thing to accept the word of the witnesses about what they saw and did themselves and quite another to link the korean govern ment to the alleged illegal activities As some of the witnesses have  further Kim said the Seoul government had sought to cooperate with . Authorities to Settle the so called ton Sun Park affair amicably within the framework of International  on Friday House ethics committee chief counsel Leon Jaworski said Korea s ground rules permitting his interrogation of Park were too restrictive to be productive. Jaworski said he was disappointed by the korean attitude. Europe heroin spread alarms . Lisbon a Peter Bourne special american presidential adviser on drugs and alcohol abuse told an International drug conference saturday that the . Is greatly alarmed at the increasing use of heroin in Europe at a time when it is de creasing in the United  he said he had come to Lisbon to urge Western governments to take note of the problem and promised american assist Ance in the fight against the spread of heroin on the continent. Bourne said president Carter gives drug control and International cooperation against drug abuse High priority in his administration taking a personal interest inthe  the former army psychiatrist and per Sonal Friend of the president reminded his audience that Carter s three sons had All publicly admitted having smoked marijuana and eldest son Jack was discharged from the Navy for smoking the  said the Carter administration was not advocating the legalization of soft drugs but was in the process of decriminalizing Federal statutes on Possession of Small amounts of hashish and marijuana for personal use. Bourne said this would bring soft drug users to the same level As traffic offenders and would avoid the stigma of a criminal record. Kenya Tanzania Sharpen Battle for tourist Cash dares Salaam up a kenyan decision to bar planes Landing in Nairobi from continuing on to Tanzania will break Kenya s near monopoly of the tourist Industry in Tanzania s Northern game Parks a tanzanian government statement said. Beginning nov. 1, the Date the kenyan however he stressed heavy penalties for trafficking would remain in Force. He said the . Was making an International Effort to help replace opium growing with other crops and cited successes in Mexico which had reduced the flow of heroin from the country to the . To the lowest level in seven years. Bourne said the administration was taking new initiatives against the Over prescribing of barbiturates from legitimate sources such As doctors. He said Many people in America have died from misuse of these substances. He said pharmacologists were working on less harmful substitutes for barbiturates. He praised the efforts of the conference organizers the International Council on alcohol and addiction for playing a Cru ban is to go into effect Many International Cial role in the International Field of drug airlines including British airways will initiate new flight paths bypassing Kenya for Kilimanjaro Airport in Northern Tanza Nia and continuing on to dares Salaam. The 21/2-mile runway at Kilimanjaro is the longest and most modern in Africa. Control. The week Long 700 Delegate conference ended saturday. It was held in Lisbon at portuguese Goyer ment request after grow ing concern in the country Over wide spread drug abuse. 2 satellites launched to probe weather Cape canaveral Fla. Up two International explorer satellites designed to improve Long Range weather forecasting were successfully launched into orbit sat urday by a Delta rocket a variation of the same Model rocket which exploded during another satellite launch sept. 13. The launch came exactly on time and the two satellites went into identical elliptical orbits around the Earth 5r2 minutes after liftoff. There were absolutely no problems and we launched within seven hundreds of a second said George Page director of expendable launch vehicles for Nasa. Everyone agreed it s much easier to do it this Way. It was euphoric and it was a great feeling he said. For a Good launch a helluva lot of parts have to go right and it s a Small Miracle each  the two International Sun Earth explorer satellites one made for Nasa and the other for the european space Agency will conduct simultaneous tests in and out of the Earth s magnetosphere providing de tailed information on How solar wind affects the boundaries Between Earth and space. David Grimes Delta project manager said the launch was so successful that a planned nov. 15 Delta launch of a euro Pean meteorological satellite mete sat will proceed on schedule