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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday september 25,1885 14 bodies found at a. Plane crash site dryers Cave a. A searchers fought their Way through dense Brush tuesday and found the bodies of 14 people who were aboard a commuter plane that crashed into a Cloud shrouded Mountain after disappearing from radar screens. The crash monday came during commercial aviation s worst year Ever for fatal accidents. The bodies were recovered As the wreckage soldered under a thick autumn canopy and the smell of burning fuel drifted through the air. Sgt. . Anderson of the Virginia state police said the plane which was not found until late monday night disappeared earlier in the Day on a flight from Baltimore to Shenandoah Airport just a few Miles South of Harrisonburg. It hit the Brush covered 3,200-foot tray fool Mountain in the Shenandoah National Park from the Northeast after clipping several Trees. About 30 officers picked their Way up the Rocky path to the site during the night arriving about 2 . Anderson said spot fires burned through the night although none was visible at Daylight. The fire was very intense obviously he said pointing to the roped off wreckage. Patricia Goldman who Heads an 11-member nation transportation safety Board team sent to investigate the crash arrived at the site about 8 45 . The Hanson airlines Beech 99, carrying 12 passenger and two  crashed into the Steep Cloud Cov ered Ridge about five Miles cast of Shenandoah Valley. Henson vice president John Presburg said the names of the passengers would be withheld pending notification of to bar families. He identified the Captain of the flight As Martin e. Burns and the first officer As Zilda Spadaro Wolan. First lady from Page 1 in touch but that any further Steps in the . Aid Effort depends on the mexican president s informing the United states about what is needed. At the end of her Day she pronounced she was ready to collapse appearing drained by the hectic swing through mexi co. Later monday she flew to Southern California where she was to be honoured thursday by the entertainment Industry for her anti drug abuse work. She scheduled a series of Public and Pri vate functions through the week before her planned return to Washington on Friday. During her Mexico City visit mrs. Rea Gan with an entourage of reporters and camera Crews toured the streets in a 20-car motorcade and saw some of the City s most haunting scenes of death and destruction. She visited a collapsed 13-Story condominium Complex comforted injured youngsters at a red Cross Hospital talked with weep ing volunteers at a Relief Supply depot and observed search teams poking through the rubble of the Regis hotel. She also gave a Pep talk to workers at the 115. Embassy. It s been wonderful she said then paused perhaps thinking the words might not be appropriate to the turmoil the hid seen. Yes it s been a wonderful experience seeing both of our countries working it Friendship when there is a tragedy of the  we Are Good neighbors and will always be she added. Mrs. Reagan told reporters later it found strange the sights of twisted Metal and heaps of Concrete scattered about tit huge City of 8 million residents. Banks from Page 1 ers reported that everything was Back to Normal after the brisk business monday. People appear to be waiting for further developments before exchanging Large sums of  Hill said that despite Long lines at Bank ing facilities monday larger sums of Money were exchanged during Sharp losses by the Dollar in february. A Stampede of Selling Hii world markets monday after the United states Britain Germany. France and Japan agreed to act in concert to drive the stubbornly exuberant Dollar Down. Markets were edgy tuesday but the Dol Lar firmed. Down 2 pfennig at the Frank Furt opening it gained during the Day. For the second straight Day the Bundesbank intervened. After Selling j8 million monday Germany s Central Bank sold $46.6 million monday. A Bank official said the Selling of dollars the past two Days was the first intervention since March i. This was done to give a signal that a serious Effort will be made to get Exchange rates moving in the right  Given the huge and growing american Trade deficit the official said the move is necessary because the Exchange rates were moving in the wrong direction and aggravating an already serious  attractively priced imports pegged to the Strong Dollar he pointed out have contributed to heavy spending by americans and lower than desirable savings of the average consumer. While the Domestic Market has been flooded with cheap imports american Agri culture and Industry Nave struggled to Export products that became increasingly expensive As the Dollar soared. For the american overseas the Strong Dol Lar has meant cheaper vacations bargain buys on foreign cars and consumer goods and Inex pensive dining in Quality restaurants. As the Dollar loses value the Cost of Beer food and the Good things of life will Cost the american in Europe a Little More a Frankfurt banker said. But we have to get our priorities straight. A modest correction in Exchange rates is needed to Correct serious problems in the world economic  Buck from Page 1 Selling More than is billion Bankers said. Though the Dollar stabilized by the time currency markets opened in Europe the West German Bundesbank sold $46.6 Mil lion at the daily fixing. It did not however intervene on the open Market. In new York the Federal Reserve Bank reportedly bought japanese yen and Ger Man deutschmark a for an equivalent of about 5100 million dealers said. Promises of government intervention against the Dollar by the big five Western Industrial nations at a meeting sunday in new York sent the currency into a nosedive monday. Its 5 percent fall in Western Europe was its sharpest since president Nixon ordered a 10 percent devaluation in february 1973. The United states Britain Germany France and Japan agreed to act forcefully to drive the Dollar lower in an Effort to reduce the . Trade deficit and head off pressure in America for import barriers. In Tokyo where markets were Cloud monday the Dollar fell tuesday by nearly 5 percent compared with Friday. It ended to 230.10 japanese yen its lowest level line May ii 1984. Gold Rose in Zurich Switzerland flu Shing at s328 an ounce from $326.50. I London the precious Metal also climbed to s328.so an ounce from a previous j327.50, Silver remained stable in Zurich at $6.15 an ounce and in London at $6.165 u ounce. Calmer trading conditions saw a modal rally in the Dollar from its further fall on a Eastern and trans Atlantic markets Over night a dealer for Chase Manhattan said. Any Hopes that More Dollar sell off would take place when the Central Banks began Burf Ness were soon dashed and a steady recovery in the Dollar s fortunes soon ensued he said. Temperatures student from Page 1 Cruz who had been trapped standing up in an air pocket beneath tons of broken Concrete and twisted Iron rods was one of the most dramatic in the earthquake disaster that has killed and maimed thousands and left the City dotted with destroyed buildings. The Rescue probably was also among the last As Hope faded quickly for any More survivors even As foreign Rescue teams and equipment continued to arrive. A Hospital administrator estimated monday morning that perhaps As Many As 600 people were still buried in the Hospital wreckage and were presumed dead. The Rescue Effort was marked by drama at every turn. At one Point there was a shouting match Between the French team and mexican soldiers. It ended with a Ripple of weary applause from a crowd of Rescue workers mexicans French and a few americans As the exhausted medical Stu Dent crawled the last few feet on his elbows raised his head in bewilderment at the Mouth of the Tunnel and collapsed on a Canvas Stretcher. A few hours after the French team began trying to reach Hernandez they were Able to talk with him and learn that a Man in his Early 30s was also trapped nearby. As their work progressed the rescuers were Able to touch Hernandez s fingertips and pass him a bottle of glucose water which he shared with the other Man. But shortly after the team managed to save Hernandez its leaders determined that shifting debris had made the Tunnel too dangerous and they doubted they would be Able to reach the Man by other Means be fore he died. On sunday morning after the doctor and the patient had been pulled out mexican soldiers told the French they were moving too slowly members of both groups said. The soldiers wanted to Start tearing holes in a main Wall of the wreckage with heavy cranes. The French agreed that the mexi can approach would be faster but they said it might also cause the Tunnel to collapse and kill the two men. Soon the two groups of rescuers were Yelling at each other. Finally the French collected their tools and walked away. Outside the Hospital Gates however relatives of some of those believed to have been buried in the ruins of the 12-Story Hospital now a Dusty Heap less than half its original height insisted that the soldiers hold Back the cranes and let the French go on with their digging. Vessey from Page 1 the air Force space come and Norad will head the new command and maintain his other commands. Rear . William Ramsey the director of Navy space sys tems at the Pentagon will be the Deputy commander. The air Force s 1st and 2nd space wings both headquartered in Colorado Springs will be brought under the new command. The itt Wing commands surveillance satellites radar stations and other worldwide missile warning systems that Send data to Norad. It has about 6,000 civilian and Mili tary personnel and 2,000 private contractors employed around the world. The 2nd Wing will operate the s1.3 bit lion consolidated space operations Center scheduled to begin operation next fall nine Miles East of Colorado Springs. The Center will control military communications navigation weather and surveillance satellite systems and eventually All military mis Sions of the space shuttle. About 2,000 people will be employed at the Center when it opens and another 1,000 when it begins shuttle operations in themid-1990s. The Navy space come at Dahlgren va., includes the naval astronautics group at Point Mug calif., which provides control and operation of a worldwide navigational satellite system and the naval space surveillance system at Dahlgren. Which pro Vides satellite tracking and space surveil Lance via satellite. Neither of the naval operations will be moved. About 2,300 civilian and military personnel Are employed in the Navy s space related activities. 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