European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yankees Roger Maris dead at 51 see Page 21 d Downing Street Security Alert Page 2 n France unveils new fighter Page 8 q Green berets teach tankers Page 14 the stars and stripes vol. 44, no. 242 monday december 16, 1985 8693 a scores Hurt in Colorado As lift Cable Breaks Loose Dillon Colo. A a chairlift Cable at a ski resort jolted violently sat urday throwing scores of skiers up to 40 feet to the ground and injuring at least 11 seriously witnesses and authorities said. All but 50 of the 370 skiers aboard the Teller lift managed to cling to their chairs As the giant wheel holding and turning the Cable slipped Oul of position dropping 8 to 10 feet said Jerry Jones president of the ,1 Keystone resort. The skiers who did not fall were trapped on the broken lift for up to three Henrs Jones said. When the wheel came Loose it caused the Cable to come Oul of the system it was attached to Jones said. That caused a kind of springboard effect like a rubber band snapping Back. We re grateful More people were not  the Jerk along the Cable was so forceful that in some cases in broke the backs of a Pho o Rescue workers Comfort an injured skier waiting to be of actuated after the chairlift Accident at the Keystone ski area in Colorado. Newfoundland town holds memorial service some of the chairs carrying skiers said Chi Sayer of Denver a skier who witnessed the Accident. It was sort of like the people on the chairlift were rear ended b a  he said. As dusk fell Over the resort do ens of friends and relatives huddled in 23-Dcgrec cold outside the clinic wailing fur word of skiers known to be skiing in the area where the Accident occurred. Those thrown from the life were taken from the Mountain in an hour bul it took three hours to Complete evacuation of the 300 skiers trapped when the lift stopped working Jones said. Helicopters flew 22 people t rom the re sort which is Al mile1, West i Denver to hospitals in Vail and Denver Hospital officials said. Nine of the Hospital in were to critical condition when admit led hut must were later upgraded to serious. University Hospi Tal in Denver listed a 12-year-old Chicago boy in critical condition but did Noi release his name. There was 45 inches of Sim on the slopes at Keystone and North Peak on sat urday according to reports Arnm Colorado ski country Usa. Skies were Clear and crowds were moderate Sayer said. In addition to the life that broke which is used on slopes marked for advanced and expert skiers. Keystone has a  life eight double chairlifts and to Poma. Or overhead lifts nil of which can accommodate 13,400 skiers an hour. In All there Are 680 acres of ski Runsa spokeswoman for the resort. Investigation intensifies of crash sife Gander Newfoundland a Canadian investigators began pulling key pieces of a shattered dc-8 from beneath a Blanket of new Snow sunday As . Army officials prepared to ship the bodies of american soldiers Home to the United states. A Windy storm left More than four inches of Snow sat urday night on the Hillside just South of Gander International Airport where the Arrow air charter crashed thursday morning after Takeoff killing the eight member Crew and 248 . Soldiers coming Home for Christmas from peacekeeping duties in Egypt. Identities on Page 3 Pelcer Boag heading the investigation for the Canad an aviation safety Board said the Snow was a Hin Drance bul it should not in the Long run interfere with finding what caused the crash. The four engines the cockpit instruments and other Ess Colial pieces of the plane Are to be shipped to Ottawa to be examined for clues. It s a very difficult investigation because of the catastrophic destruction of the aircraft because there arc no survivors he told a news conference. Still. Boag said he was optimistic about eventually pinning Down the cause of the crash. Boug said the safety Board s Laboratory in Ottawa expected to have information available soon from the plane s flight data recorder including the Speed Altitude and direction throughout the Takeoff. Maj. Gen. John s. Crosby told reporters the first 20 bodies would be flown to Dover fab in Delaware on Mon Day afternoon Tor autopsies with the Flag draped aluminium cases holding the bodies of the remaining soldiers and flight Crew members following on tuesday and wednesday. Crosby said there would be an appropriate ceremony to Honor All the soldiers who died As the first bodies were loaded. The Soldier were from the 101 is airborne div. The people of Gander a town of 12,000, conducted an interfaith memorial service sunday afternoon for the 248 men and eight women who died in the crash. The View in Gander is one of Shock sorrow and sadness for All the people who lost their lives and sympathy for their families said i Rasor i  town councillor. Crosby in remarks prepared Lor the  sen ice said he had been touched by the warm Chi Kern � t Dan act s townsfolk. You have displayed deep empathy with the suffering of our soldiers  he said your i Verne no officials have been tireless working to recover the re Mains. You have consoled us in our sorrow Ami Lemon started your own sharing in that  the soldiers were headed Home to tort Campbell after six months of duty in the International peacekeeping Force set up in Egypt s Sinai Peninsula under the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. The Arrow air Charier refuelled in Cologne in Nanny and switched Crews then landed in Iander thursday morning for another fuel Stop. Just before Dawn the plane look off from a runway headed due South bul in fell to the ground a halt mile away in a Rocky Woods and exploded killing Ever one aboard