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DAILY GAZETTE Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Vol. 41 - Eo. 186 -- U.S. Navy's only shore-based daily newspaper -- Monday, September 30, 1985 Plane crash kills skydivers, (UPI) - Federal officials say a Aviation Administration single-engine plane that crashed inspector grounded the Cessna with a load of skydivers killing Friday after discovering its all 17 aboard was ordered fuel was contaminated. He grounded just two days earlier notified the plane's owner and because of a fuel contamination was assured corrective action problem. would be taken. What is more, they say it may The officials say they are not have been overloaded. sure what was done. The parachutists were pre- An FAA spokesman also ques- paring for a formation jump yes- tions whether the plane had the terday when the Cessna 208 capacity to carry the 16 members Caravan stalled three minutes of a skydiving club. after takeoff from a private A club spokesman says the airstrip near Jenkinsburg, Ga. Cessna's eight passenger seats It nose-dived onto a rural road. had been removed and the plane Officials say a Federal was certified to fly 17 people. O rkmen busily erect the Base Chapel on If you have old photos of the base, Today in the. ssip Hill. This is how it looked on please take them to the photo lab to be January 15, 1942. For the next couple of copied. The original will be returned to months we will regularly feature a touch you. (Official U.S. Navy photo) Business world of 'old Guantanamo Bay; classic photos. (AP) - After Friday's hurricane-enforced close, the New York Stock Exchange begins an expanded session today, lengthening the trading day from six to six and one-half hours. The opening bell on the Search continues in Mexico for earthquake survivors nation's oldest stock exchange will ring this morning at 9:30 a.m. The exchange is going to long hours to accomodate overseas traders. (UPI) -- International opera debris. none were found yesterday. This might be the end of the time expansion, as the New York Stock star Placido Domingo finds his Workers from Mexico and about Officials announced yesterday Exchange considers staying open around the clock. Supporters of the relatives dead in Mexico. a dozen foreign countries have the death toll from the temblors idea say 24-hour trading is needed because of the international The bodies of his aunt, uncle, pulled hundreds of survivors has climbed past 5,200. Ten nature of securities trading these days. cousin and nephew were found in from devastated buildings, but Americans are confirmed dead. The New York Stock Exchange was ready to go Friday, but requests Mexico City yesterday. Domingo from brokerage firms caused it to call a very rare cancellation of said he will stay in Mexico to trading, with Hurricane Gloria passing near the New York City area. do more relief work. Reagan aide's future questionable Some regional exchanges were opened for a while, but decided to Mexico's President Miguel De call it a day early. La Madrid has assured volunteer (UPI) - A meeting with Presi- replace her, including Chief of rescuers the demolished Juarez dent Reagan today may determine Staff Donald Regan. (AP) - The price of gold in New York was up 50 cents Friday, at Hospital will not be dynamited Secretary of Health and Human Regan is one of several top $328.40 an ounce. The dollar rose against most other key currencies until there are no more signs of Services Secretary Margaret aides said to be working to have overseas, but not the yen, with the Japanese Central Bank life in the rubble. Heckler's occupational future. Heckler replaced as Health and intervening to push the dollar lower. De La Madrid toured the site Her request for a private Human Services head and sent to yesterday. Volunteers confronted audience with Reagan follows Dublin as ambassador to Ireland. (AP) - General Foods has agreed they be acquired by Philip Morris him and demanded more help in disclosures last week that some She declined an invitation for a for $5.7 billion, which will make it the largest non-oil removing victims from the White House officials want to meeting with Regan. acquisition in corporate history. The merger of General Foods into Philip Morris will create the nation's largest consumer products company. Under the agreement, Philip Morris is to acquire all of Bullfight spectators injured in grandstand collapse General Foods' more than 47 million shares outstanding at $120 a share. The tender offer for the shares begins today and expires (UPI) -- More than 60 people San Deigo, California. Some of Mouse temporary bullring." October 28. were injured in the collapse of the victims are reported to be The witnesses say the grand- what was called a Mickey Mouse Americans. stand began to sway and then (AP) - Bethlehem Steel is cutting back further on its pay and grandstand at a bullfight ring A witness says bullfighters collapsed without a sound of benefits for about 10,000 of its salaried employees. The company in the Mexican town of Tecate. were goading the bull just warning. says the steps are forced by severe competitive pressures. No serious injuries were before a fight when the It was only about 15' high Bethlehem Chairman Donald Trautlein says the company expects to reported in the collapse temporary grandstand fell down. thus avoiding more serious save about $45 million a year that way. He added that further yesterday at the town east of He described it as, "a Mickey injuries. payroll reductions are on the way to save more money to overcome what Trautlein calls the steelmaker's "competitive disadvantage." from around the globe. Hostages may speak to press (UPI) - A 12-hour telethon yesterday raised over (UPI) -- Some 200 Quakers yesterday rallied (UPI) - A man claiming to be The caller also announced $4 million for the victims of the recent quietly outside the White House to protest from an organization holding the hostages will hold a news earthquakes in Mexico. The event was co-ordinated President Reagan's Central American policies. six American hostages in conference soon to give mes- by SIN, a Spanish-language network. A staffer for They asked the United States government commit Beirut says the group has a sages to American leaders and one affilate says the broadcast was carried on itself to negotiations to end violence in the deadline on how much longer their families. In addition the network's 350 affilates in the United States region. it will wait for the United to the six Americans, eight and other stations in Canada, Chile, Argentia, States to meet its demands. other Westerners are missing the Dominican Republic, Italy and Spain. (UPI) - The New York Times reports that Boeing's The Arabic-speaking caller in Lebanon four Frenchmen, new jets will contain cockpit systems to warn said he represented the three Britons and an Italian. (UPI) - In El Salvador, leftist rebels have come pilots about potentially catastrophic wind Islamic Jihad, in calls The man did not give a time up with a new peace plan designed to end the shifts. Such wind shift warning systems are not yesterday to two Western news for the conference. He also five-year-old civil war. It indicates the required under federal air safety rules. agencies. He says the group did not give the deadline for guerrillas would halt their war of economic wants 17 Lebanese and Iraqis releasing the Lebanese sabotage if the military would do the same. One (UPI) - South African businessmen are calling jailed in Kuwait for a series prisoners. overnment official says the plan offers nothing for an end to their nation's racial spearationist of bombings released. new. The rebel peace plan was offered in a policy of Apartheid statements. conference sponsored by the National Conciliatory Party. (UPI) -- Utility crews are still working round- the-clock clearing away fallen trees and splicing (UPI) - Secretary of State George Shultz insists power lines to restore electricity to more than Reagan, Hussein to discuss peace the United States will not give up its "Star one-million people blacked out by Hurricane Wars" program. He says a Soviet proposal to cut Gloria in the Northeast. Power company officials (UPI) -- President Reagan meets stalled Mideast peace process. super-power nuclear arsenals may end the arms say it could be several more days before with Jordan's King Hussein today Egyptian President Hosni talks stalemate. electricity is restored to all areas. At least 12 to search for ways to peace in Mubarak got a cool reception people are known to have died in the storm. the Middle East. from Reagan last week when he (UPI) -- An Indianapolis hospital. spokeswoman Reagan is already heavily again prodded the United States says Aids victim Ryan White, 13, has been (AP) - One of France's best-known actresses has committed to Hussein. He has to break the deadlock by talking hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. The died. Simone Signoret, a veteran of about 40 just offered Jordan almost $2 to the Palestine Liberation sixth-grade student made national news when he movies and winner of a 1961 Academy Award for the billion in weaponry as an Organization. was barred from attending school because of Aids. film "Room at the Top," was 64. She was also an inducement for action. Reagan U.S. officials say the author, her first novel, "Adieu, Volodia," appears headed for a clash with American position remains (UPI) - Teachers in Seattle, Wash., return to published at the beginning of the year, Congress over that. unchanged, no dealing with the work today after a 25-day strike.