European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 22, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 720 die As Jet crashes off tip of Chile Santiago Chile a a chartered Airliner carrying 72 people including 65 . Tourists in route to an Antarctic cruise crashed wednesday into a freezing Channel near the Southern tip of Chile the airline said. Authorities said at least 20 passengers died. Seventeen of the survivors were injured in the Early afternoon crash of the four engine Jet said a spokesman for the chilean airline Lan. Among the survivors were seven Crew members a two pilots four flight attendants and a Mechanic said Lan president Jose Luis Moure. The plane skidded off the end of the runway and plunged into the frigid Beagle Channel As it attempted to land in Light rain at puerto Williams on Navari no Island 1,500 Miles South of Santiago the Lan spokesman said. Some passengers _ grabbed onto the planets wings and Tail amp and waited for rescuers. Others tried to swim to safety. The 65 americans were on an ants amps Susan Harris Arctic vacation organized by Seattle based society expeditions said Peter Cox the company a director of planning. One survivor told her father by phone that the plane landed safely but simply kept going until it hit the water. A several people got off ahead of them but before they could get off the plane filled up with water and some of the passengers drowned Quot said Bill Brice of Dallas father of Julie Brice Lally. A Yogurt company executive. Among the victims was mrs. A Aljy a 28-year-old husband Garvin Lally. Another group of 30 tourists on the excursion had landed safely in puerto Williams earlier wednesday on a flight from Punta Arenas 300 Miles to the North Cox said in Seattle. The entire group of vacationers had  Santiago from Miami on tuesday and turd veld together to Punta Arenas on a commercial flight. Investigators were trying to determine what caused the chartered Airliner to skid off the runway. A special air Force investigator cmdr. Hernan Barahona arrived in puerto Williams late wednesday. Society expeditions founded 16 years ago offers 25 cruises to exotic destinations annually on its two vessels. A a k 4 4. >1 a 4$ dangerous toy banned the owner of a toy store in Brussels Belgium holds a Box of Jared by the toys which when lighted Emit smoke and then  so far at least three children have been in explode. Their Sale has been banned by a local prosecutor. Albanian police enforce uneasy peace Vienna Austria a tanks pulled out of Tirana and police patrols kept an uneasy peace in the albanian capital thursday after demonstrators toppled stalinist monuments and forced concessions from the communist leadership president Ramiz Alia bowed to pressure from the Street late wednesday announcing he would take the government into his own hands. Sali Berisha a Leader of the opposition democratic party said Alia blamed the democratic party for wednesdays unrest. Berisha rejected the charges. Alia did riot offer participation in any form of new government and the democratic party is unlikely to accept any invitation to join a coalition with the communists Berisha said. A Gigantic statue of Enver Hoxha that had dominated downtown Skander beg Square was torn Down wednesday by a jubilant crowd unleashing decades of pent up Wrath against the stalinist founder of communist Albania. Other Hoxha statues were torn Down in the Adriatic port of murres and Korea in Southeast Albania. The government subsequently bowed to demands that Enver Hoxha University be renamed removing any reference of Hoxha. Alia who began scrapping stalinism last year is popular even with some non communists. His decision to take Power into his own hands seemed designed to attract non partisan support while preserving his own Power. A amps Mabuse up 400% in 40 years Berlin up a the average West German drinks four times As much Beer wine and liquor As he did 40 years ago a health report said tuesday. The three year study of daily drinking habits of West germans revealed that the consumption of alcohol has reached rather High Levels said a spokesman for the Federal office of health which conducted the study. A there Are 1.5 million alcoholics in Germany a the study a author Burckhard Junge  study said 14 percent of All men drink 1.6 pints of Beer 10 glasses of liquor or a bottle of wine a Day. The study showed that 8 percent of German women drank three Large glasses of Beer every Day seven shots of liquor or half a bottle of wine. Quot after surveying More than 5.000 West Ern germans about their drinking habits Junge said a the Only reason i can give for Why the germans drink so much Beer is  b a in Germany alcohol is the second leading cause of death after tobacco health officials said. In the past 10 years 22,000 people died from alcohol 400,000 Man years of life were lost and s3.3 billion was spent on booze the report said. The Cost of the Antarctic cruise ranged from $5,000 to $10,000. Cox said. The cruise was to have ended March 3. The names of the dead according to tour officials were not immediately released. A a a a a a a. The tourists planned to Board the ship society explorer in puerto Williams and be ferried to Antarctica said Miguel Rivero manager of the travel Agency that handled the plane charter. A the nearest Point on the Antarctic continent is about 1,000 Miles South of puerto Williams. A we have been Ope rating these trips for five years now and this is our first Accident a said Riveros the  Agency manager the Remote area in southernmost Chile is attractive to tourists because of its deep fiord hic channels and ice floes. Puerto Williams is a naval base located across the Beagle Channel from Argentina. World cargo ship sinks 14 missing from wire reports Seoul a fourteen crewmen were reported missing after a cargo ship of panamanian registration Sank thursday Oil paean Peninsula 75 Miles Southwest of the Seoul authorities said. The 4,417-ton Pacific Friend a Quot Timber Carrier went Down about 31/2 Miles Oil the coastline for an unknown reason a spokesman said. A. A a a. A a a. A a six of the 20 crewmen on Board made it ashore in a Lifeboat Nepal pilots strike Katmandu Nepal a strike by pilots of state owned Royal Nepal airlines stranded hundreds of passengers thursday and was expected to also affect fridays flights. Nearly All of the airlines pilots who Are demanding higher pay struck thursday.2 sentenced , Northern Ireland a the brother of sinn fein president Gerry Adams was sentenced to 14 years in prison wednesday Lor his role in an att ick on a police station during an Ira Jailbreak attempt. Sinn fein is the Legal political Wing of the outlawed Irish Republican army Sean Adams 32, and Anthony Gillen 28, were Quot convicted of attempting to wound a Soldier and a policeman in the Belfast attack in october 1989. Gillen also was sentenced to 14 years in  on cruise ship san Juan puerto Rico a More than 3,000 passengers and Crew were evacuated Early wednesday from the Sovereign of the seas one of the worlds largest cruise ships after a fire broke out in a pantry. One crewman was treated for smoke inhalation but there were no other injuries in the fire which broke out when the ship was moored in san Juan Harbor port authority spokesman David Rivera said. The 800-foot 74,000-ton left Miami on saturday Lor a seven Day voyage