European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Sac takes control of first 10mxs Page 2 d former miss America Vanessa Williams wed Page 5 d redskins Browns win in nil playoffs Page 21 vol. 45. No. 262 monday january 5, 1987 9nmmu . Aimed Pouch not to to d 6693 a 49 die in brazilian Jet crash Abidjan Ivory coast a . Embassy personnel surveyed the Sile where a brazilian Vartig Boe ing 707 crashed killing 49 of 51 people aboard and one official said there was nothing there one engine burst into Lames shortly after Takeoff Early saturday and the aircraft disintegrated upon Impact in he Forest about 12 Miles outside Abidjan the largest City of this former French Colony in West Afri Ca. Two gravely injured passenger survived according to airline and Ivory coast officials the airline said one survivor was an Ivory coast citizen and the other was from France. Other reports identified inc second person As a brazilian of lebanese origin. Television film from the area showed French Mili tary and Ivory coast Rescue workers searching through dense undergrowth and felled Trees for bodies and de Bris from right 797. Willy Holmes an embassy cultural affairs officer told inc associated press that officials who surveyed the site reported that few traces of the aircraft remained. The Impact was such hat the plane exploded. There was nothing there Holmes said. The dead included an american a German couple and a briton according to the airline s office in Rio de Janeiro. The other victims were from Africa and South America. Varig identified inc american Only As l. Cleveland without providing a Hometown and an airline of Ficiak snid he did not know whether inc couple was from East or West Germany. Holmes said saturday evening thai Only six or seven bodies had been found. Soldiers who later scaled off the area said inc four engine jetliner crashed about 300 Yards from the Small la me River which rescuers had to Cross in knee deep mud. They said debris from he plane still was burning and that the crash had touched Oft Nish fires. The flight for rip look off from Abidjan s port Boucly Airport carrying 39 passengers and 12 Crew members. The Pilot immediate reported problems to he control Tower then said he had an engine fire. The French news Agency Agency France Prusse said the Pilot s last message was that he was circling to dump excess fuel before com ing Back to land. When Contact was lost the control Tower called for help from French marines stationed near the Airport see crash on Page 28 spin demands explanation defense Palocy Washington vol the chair Man of the House arid service com Mittee has asked def inv Cas Par Weinberger to come if with specific Answon about the admin ration s National Security policy. Rep. Los Aspin d-wis., Slot a letter to Weinberger Friday asking me Penta gon chief to give the committee wails of 4 the administration s National policy As Well As the fiscal 1988 Burkt. Specifically Aspin said the comm wants answers on policy regarding sic nuclear forces nato the Gulf and Korea. Weinberger is scheduled to deify be fore the committee thursday cd Aspin has also asked him to Discor National Security strategy As req Eiurby the de sense reorganization a passed last year. Aspin told win Bujer the questions Are Lough but far in fact if to pm 1 answer them there s just now that you re going to be Able to come with a sensible National occur ii Hicy much less a budget that s based f anything but Sand lie said in inc Aspin in the obviously sensitive nature gnome of these issues will re quire be of the hearings to be inward to the strategic defense Ini it of known As Star wars Aspin i Weinberger to spell out the most using needs for a nuclear deterrent until and if sd1 succeeds and asked whether Toplan for ski is to protect 1cbm a Jill or to actually Slop an enemy attack Jan physical Means instead of inc the cart real question concerned whether list Alion policy relics on launch m ing or in regard to nato Aspin Askin t the potential of nato nations to pc with an attack by the Warsaw pad countries without resort to nuclear arms reliability of the Eastern european coun tries in such a War and barring Conven. Lional Force reductions what improvements and additions Are needed for a successful non nuclear defense of eur spin also asked about the prospects or Weferling an attempt by lie soviet Umic to take Over the Oil Fields in inc Gulf what is needed to create a non in Clear defense in that area and about if administration s Assumption of help it such a conflict from nations depend Conwi Oil from that Region. He if South Korea could wills Dan attack from North Korea what tie weaknesses arc in the South korean Winse and whether the United slates Dit ional Man event of an invasion Aspin also asked traction considers the ble of fighting a two North Korea is More to the United suites is i vol area and the Cost of enl have to commit and. O the area in the m North Korea. Or the adminis Union Capa War whether to attack if in another ing . De lenses to meet simultaneous advances. Dijt Lunan left and tint Moynih Husare clobbered by wave As they stand an u sea wait at Revere mass. A Winter storm and blah tides caused hundreds of residents to live their Homes Friday and seek higher ground. Story Page 18 another photo. Page 3. Important clues found in son jul can hotel Blaze Sanjuan a in Ca Tiff i big he of the Jigsaw but the cause of the new year s eve hotel fire that killed at least 95 people will not be known for Days police superintendent Carlos lot Liciano said. he 5aid air Al Len i to survivors and s disaster have been interviewed and 200 agents have a Dala they Hope will show we Puzzle he told reporters at he blackened Dupont Plaza hotel after a 2vi Lour meeting that included agents from the Fri the Federal Bureau of Alco hol tobacco and firearms and local police. He decline bodies a Ltd recovered Friday of the hotel s ground Casino and lower four doors. Urday turned up no additional bodies Twenty one people remained hospitalized of the 142 who suffered Burns trom the Blaze and at tempts to flee it. The investigation from the Han has focused on the possibility of a Tajii. Nov. Rafael Hernandez Colon has repeatedly died a labor dispute at the hol irl As a though he a not i has not 28
