Colombian Jetliner Explodes in Mid-Air, 107

VOL. XXIII NO. 57 TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 28, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Czech strike urges reform Communists ‘shaken’ PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) — M il lions of people ignored government pleas and joined a nationwide general strike Monday in the largest and most dramatic demonstration so far for democracy and an end to Communist Party rule. “ We don’t want you anymore!” a flag- waving crowd of 200,000 roared in a thunderous chant that echoed off the 19th-century buildings surrounding downtown Wenceslas Square. It was the 11th straight day of massive protests in Czechoslovakia. Huge crowds of workers also poured - into the streets of Bratislava, the east Slovak industrial center of Kosice, the mining center of Ostrava on the Polish border, and in Usti nad Labem, the heart of industrial north Bohemia. The showing was a resounding victory for the opposition, which had called the two-hour strike a referendum on the Communists’ 40-year monopoly on power. Communist leaders’ frantic attempts to avert the strike failed, as workers AP Photo joined the pro-democracy movement Taxi drivers in Prague stand idle beside their cabs at noon Monday, as they join a nation-wide strike in support of the started by students, artists and intellec opposition's struggle for freedom and democracy. tuals. see STRIKE / page 4 Colombian jetliner explodes in mid-air, 107 die BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Radio Caracol and claimed that “ The plane was flying along up and saw a plane explode in No one on the ground was Colombian jetliner crashed on a group called The when suddenly it exploded, the air, and bodies and pieces hurt, spokesmen for Colombia’s the outskirts of Bogota shortly Extraditables blew up the jet to broke in two and fell in flames of luggage were falling,” said Civil Defense teams said in ra after takeoff Monday and all kill five police informants. He and smoke,” said a witness, another witness, Mario dio interviews. 107 people aboard were killed. said the five gave police infor Alfonso Moreno, in an interview Vasquez. Investigators found no evi A caller to a radio station mation that led to the discovery with the radio network Caracol. Two Colombian air force pi dence of a bomb, said Col. claimed drug traffickers of the Medellin drug cartel Flight 203 was bound for lots in another plane reported Gustavo Leal, chief of national bombed the jet. leader’s hideout. Cali, about 190 miles southwest seeing two explosions on the police for the state. Witnesses said the Avianca The man did not identify him of Bogota. Cali is the headquar jet, said the director of Radio Caracol said the flight Airlines Boeing 727-100 ex self, and the claim could not be ters of one of Colombia’s Colombia’s Civil Aviation recorder was found and civil ploded before it plunged into a immediately authenticated. biggest cocaine cartels and has Authority, Col. Jorge Gonzalez. aeronautics specialists were hilly area south of the capital, A spokesman fo r the U.S. been the site of frequent bomb The airline refused comment analyzing its data. about a mile from a neighbor Embassy in Bogota said one ings and other attacks since the on the reports of explosions. The plane took off from hood of slum houses and facto U.S. citizen, Andres Escabi, was government declared war on Avianca spokeswoman Patricia Bogota’s El Dorado ries. Pieces of the jet were known to have been killed in the drug lords in August. Duarte said the plane carried International Airport at 7:15 found up to six miles from the crash. He said Escabi, a native “ I heard explosions and I 101 passengers and a crew of a.m., and the pilot, Jose Ossa, main point of impact, police of Puerto Rico, also held thought there was some prob six and that all were killed. told the tower at 7:18 a.m. that said. Colombian citizenship and lived lem with transformers in the Their nationalities were not everything was normal, Duarte Hours later, a man called in Bogota. electrical station, but I looked immediately known. told The Associated Press. Witness testifies to Jesuit killingLaundry claim forms SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador “ Padre Nachito spoke no more, ■ Salvadoran—Nicaraguan (AP) — The last words anyone nor could I hear a single voice,” due by end of semester relations severed / page 3 heard The Rev. Ignacio Martin- she said. By MONICA YAMT Two travel agencies will be Baro say were: “ What an injus A few seconds later, Barrera News Writer offering discounted pack tice. What carnage.” her statement Nov. 22 at the iieard furniture crashing and ages for the Orange Bowl, A few minutes later, he and Spanish Embassy, where the glass breaking. She said she Students who lost clothing said Joe Cassidy, director of five Jesuit colleagues were shot woman hid until fleeing to left the window and rushed to in the fire at St. Michael's student activities. Alumni down. The killers seemed de Miami last week under the tell her husband w hat she had Laundry need to sign claim headquarters will be just termined to leave no witnesses. protection of U.S. officials. seen, “ crying for what I imag forms even though the com south of Ft. Lauderdale, but The cook and her teen-age Mrs. Barrera said she was ined might have happened, be puter records remained in no definite plans have been daughter were slaughtered too. awakened by gunfire at about 1 cause I couldn’t hear the tact, said Dave Kinkopf, stu made regarding student ac But someone survived the a.m. and ran to a window. In padre.” dent body vice president, at commodations. bloodbath Nov. 16 at Jose “ moonlight that was like day A few minutes later she heard Monday’s Student Senate Some question remains as Simeon Canas Central American time,” she reported seeing five an explosion, then another. meeting. to whether student accom University: a cleaning woman uniformed men close in, shoot A categorization of items modations should be made named Lucia Barrera de Cerna. ing, on the residence the six “After the explosions ... I lost is not necessary unless in the vicinity of alumni In sworn testimony the judge Jesuits shared across the way. heard no footsteps, no sound, the student disagrees with headquarters. Cassidy ex made available Monday to The Two assailants wore camou nothing that told me where they the computer’s record of plained that students must Associated Press, Mrs. Barrera, flage, she said, like the uni had gone. It seemed as though what was lost, Kinkopf said. pick up their game tickets 44, said the killers wore m ili forms “ I have seen on the sol they had fallen from the sky.” A list of reimbursement val wherever the Athletic De tary uniforms. diers in the street,” and the ues for each item will be partment decides to dis Until Monday, only sketchy others were clad in dark uni When dawn came, the terri made available. tribute them, and if students second-hand accounts were forms. fied woman said, she emerged Students should sign their are staying in Miami Beach, available of her testimony She heard doors flung open and found the bodies of four forms by the end of the transportation for tickets about the killings that stunned and more shots, then “ voices, priests, including Martin-Baro, semester. and alumni-sponsored El Salvador and caused an in without being able to distin vice-rector of the university, The faculty lounge over the activities could pose ternational outcry. guish who spoke at first. Only and the Rev. Ignacio Ellacuria, South Dining Hall will re problems. “I don’t discount any the voice of Padre Nachito the( rector, sprawled on the main open 24 hours a day Senate member Lisa Bost- possibility; it’s probably (Martin-Baro) was I finally able lawn with their faces destroyed. during finals week, Dan wick reported that she is members of the military,” said to hear. He was saying: ‘What The others were inside the resi Hoag reported in other sen Ricardo Zamorra, the an injustice. What carnage.’” dence, which was ransacked ate business. see SENATE / page 4 investigating judge who took After an outburst of gunfire, and pocked by bullets. Tuesday, November 28, 1989 Page 2 The Observer I n s id e C o l u m n W e a t h e r Forecast for noon, Tuesday, November 28. Fire leaves 4 0 Lines show high temperatures. mark on men’s Yesterday’s high:60 Yesterday’s low:40 fashion at ND Nation’s high: 92 (Kingsville, Texas) Nation’s low: 3 Think about it. (Fargo, North Dakota) Seven thousand males with three weeks’ worth of dirty Forecast: Cloudy, laundry. No clean windy and much colder clothes, not even today with a 60 percent those on their backs. of snow, possibly ac And no St. Michael's cumulating. Tempera Laundry. What hap tures falling into the pens now? Joe Zadrozny 20s. Cloudy and very The styles and Asst. Production cold tonight w ith a 50 fashion at Notre Manager percent chance of snow Dame are in the showers. Lows 10 to process of making FRONTS: 15. Partly sunny and some radical changes over the next few cold Wednesday. Highs months. 25 to 30. COLD WARM STATIONARY Judging by the people I know, I would ©1989 Accu-Weather, Inc. estimate that about 95% of the male stu Pressure dent body has never touched a washer. For p v q them. Tide is something caused by the © © HIGH LOW moon, and Cheer is a TV show set in SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT.

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