European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday May 8,1989 the  plane rests Urnald Jugl re saturday after crashing on Mexico s Yucatan Peninsula. 6 americans killed when plane goes Down in mexican Jungle Mexico City up a chartered plane with at least 18 people aboard crashed in the Jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula killing six americans . Andred Cross officials said saturday. A chartered Aero Cozumel to islander plane flying from the archaeological site of Chichun itza in the Eastern state of Yucatan 19 the Caribbean coastal re sort of Cozumel crashed Friday afternoon. Jenny Valdez a . Consular official in Cancun in the neighbouring state of Quintana Roo said the air Craft carried 15 americans one Canadian and two mexicans. Jose Cazares a red Cross spokesman in Cancun a popular resort town 775 Miles cast of Mexico City also said the plane carried 15 american tourists. Ca arcs earlier said 17 americans were on Board. Six people killed arc americans four women and two men Cazares said adding that six bodies had been brought to a morgue in Cancun. Cazares said a mexican Pilot and travel guide were also on the plane and Mexico s official Noli mex news Agency reported that the Pilot survived. The nine . Citizens and one Canadian citizen arc hospitalized in Cancun and arc doing Well Valdez said. They suffered fractures. Some of the victims who were drought to the Hospital walked. Some of them were brought in on stretchers and others in  mexican Navy placed the number aboard at 19 people including the Pilot and a tourist guide. It said six people died in the crash and that the others were hospitalized in  efforts began at 5 00 . Friday but authorities could not reach the crash site until saturday because of Jungle forests. Police and firefighters used radio guidance from a Navy helicopter to find the  helicopter located the plane wreck late Friday about 20 Miles Inland from Cancun and managed to lower food to the survivors by  Monache a Federal police spokesman in Cancun said that shortly before 3 . Friday the Pilot informed the control Tower at the Cancun Airport that he was having problems with one of the engines of the  plane was about five or 10 minutes from the closest Airport Playa Del Carmen 40 Miles South of Cancun when the Pilot made a forced  men ache said. North Korea says its scientists created cold fusion reaction Tokyo up North Korea claimed sunday that its researchers had succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion re action at indoor temperatures joining a Host of other nations boasting similar results in controversial experiments that have triggered a worldwide scientific juror. The official North korean Central news Agency in a Brief five paragraph dispatch monitored in Tokyo said a research group from Kim ii Sung University recently succeeded in effecting a nuclear fusion reaction at indoor  it said the group in the course of painstaking research has realized a nuclear fusion reaction by electro lying heavy water with palladium and Platinum poles applied in  the news Agency said the cold fusion reacti9n was con firmed by recording neutrons coming out of this  another research group of the University reaffirmed the results of the research through the Experiment conducted by a similar method and observed a new phenomenon it said. Following their Many successes. Including those into High temperature superconducting materials the re search groups of the University have this time gained pre Cious results in research into High temperature nuclear fusion reactions thus providing the possibility of further developing scientific research into this Field. Convinced that the method of nuclear fusion in High temperature will open a Broad Vista for solving the Power problem in the future the research groups Are broadening the scope of scientific research to expand the successes already achieved the dispatch concluded. No further details of the claim were immediately Avail Able. The report did not indicate whether the cold fusion experiments also produced heat which along with the creation of neutrons is necessary for fusion Power. The juror Over cold fusion began on March 23, when chemists b. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Manin Fleischmann of Britain s University of Southampton claimed to have achieved fusion in a table top Experiment. Since then researchers from the soviet Union India Hungary and Brazil have also announced cold fusion re  bulk of the world s scientific Community however remains sceptical of the claims believing that the production of neutrons or heal from the experiments May be unrelated to an actual fusion reaction thought to require extremely High temperatures. Education round Eca pts sponsoring spelling Bee championship Naples Italy Joey Pascual and 13 other school age children overseas have been weighted Down by words these past few weeks. Words like demurrage  and Scicli Rosaur have combined to make up a heavy Load. The reviewing and memorizing him Cvar will come in Handy tuesday when the 14 Square off for a spelling Bee championship in willing in West Germany under the auspices of the european Congress Pascual of american parents teachers and students. Word study has Cut into my Friend time my outside time and my video time said Joey a 13-year-old Naples elementary eighth grader. But the Effort could result in a free trip to the United slates at the end of the month for Joey should he win tuesday s Competition. The Eca pts Champion will join 221 other Young sters at the annual Scripps Howard National spelling Bee in Washington. This year s Competition Marks the first time a european based Winner will compete in the National pc lotion. The stars and stripes pan american air pcs encyclopedia Britannica and National school studios have agreed to pay for the Winner to join the other spelling Bee finalists. Tuesday s competitors won regional competitions to qualify for the european championship held As part of the annual Eca pts convention. The contestants include fifth graders through eighth graders from Italy England Turkey Bel Gium and Germany. Vilseck principal elected to accreditation panel Vilseck. West Germany for the first time since 1972, an overseas High school Educa Tor has been elected to the North Central association of colleges and schools executive com Mittee. Vilseck High school principal Andy Zacharias was voted onto the 18-Mcmbcr panel last month at the association s Spring convention in Chi Cago. The committee is responsible for reviewing accreditation policy. The department of defense dependents schools is a member of the association which also includes schools from 18 states and the Navajo nation. Member schools must meet a variety of academic and other standards to receive association accreditation. Zacharias plans to attend the next meeting of inca officials in Chicago june 22. He has spent 23 years with the overseas schools system As a teacher and administrator. Zacharias was named Vilseck High school Prin Cipal in 1982. Student honoured for entry in Dar essay Competition Heidelberg West Germany a Heidel Berg High school Junior was honoured last week in new York for her entry in an essay contest sponsored by the daughters of the american revolution. Emily Roberts was one of nine students Hon ored at a Dar banquet. Emily was accompanied to the dinner by her social studies teacher  Barney. Students competed for honors by answering the question How do we the people influence the presidency and Congress in the Way they do their Job