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■f> — MANCHESTER HERALD. Wednegdav. Pec. 28. »9»7 More bodies recovered No problem: East girts Congress: Agenda shaped by others / page^ BUGLE BOY turn back neighboring from collision of ships CARGO MHS / page 13 Shopping: A good season for merchants / page 9 By Claro Cortes Mindoro island town of Pinama- Rescue workers continued The Associated Press layan, 130 miles south of Manila and PANTS searching today, but said there was S/Ms 2$ to 30 about 20 miles from where the little chance a significant number M ANILA, Philippines — The vessels collided on a moonless of the missing would be found alive. pevy today said 141 bodies were night. Only 26 survivors have been con found after the sinking of a Tech. Sgt. Victor Yap of the firmed rescued from both ships, passenger ship and an oil tanker, Philippine Constabulary today told and they were found soon after the and owners of one vessel released The Associated Press that the boy accident. No sign of debris from the BUY ONE new figures showing that 1,830 was not from the two stricken ships has since been found. people may be missing. vessels but had been injured on an Hundreds of passenger relatives In another development, authori outing with his father. continued their vigil outside the GET ONE ties contacted by radio-telephone Yap said the erroneous reports offices of the company that owned on Mindoro island denied that a were caused by confusion in a the ferry, waiting for word of the 4-year-old boy rescued at sea small, isolated community that has rescue operation or confirmation ilandirstrr Hrralit ) Manr.hnsiRr A Cily nl Villaot; Charm Tuesday was a survivor of the become the focal point of the search that family members were actually disaster, apparently the century's for survivors. aboard the ferry. worst peacetime accident at sea. Petty Officer Mario Salvadora, a The Sulpicio Shipping Lines, The collision occurred Sunday spokesman for the navy, said the FREE! mmmmm owner of the Dona Paz, today night when the 2,213-ton Dona Paz, 141 bodies had been recovered from released figures showing the ferry OFFER GOOD ON: Thursday, Dec. 24,1987 30 Cents an inter-island ferry, collided with about three locations in the Min carried 60 crew members and 1,583 STYLE NOS: the 6294on Victor, an oil-laden doro area. passengers, including 675 who GUYS ONLYII tanker, and both sank in flames Most were being transported to boarded |n Tacloban City and 908 •220649 near Mindoro Island in the north- the southern Luzon port of Batan- who came aboard in Catbalogan. Caprilands central Philippines. gas, 60 miles south of Manila, but If 1,643 people were aboard the •222215 Government radio operators said others were being ferried to Manila More arrests, ferry and 13 crew members on the Tuesday the 4-year-old boy had directly aboard commercial ves tanker and only 26 people were •252253 cited again been rescued by fishermen in the sels, he said. rescued, the total number of missing would be 1,630. Passenger manifests on such NOT GOOD ON PREVIOUS SALES • EXPIRES 12/25/87 COVENTRY — A well-known ferries are often inaccurate be herb farm has been cited a second quick trials Muscular dystrophy cause they generally do not list Ch»ek$ time for 10 fire code violations first small children or adults who pay WtleoniB uncovered last spring and also has their fares aboard ship. been cited with six new violations, ‘great feat’ reported If the 1,630 figure is accurate and according to a new state inspection no further survivors are found, the report. for rioters accident would be the century's 269 Middle Turnpike West The report by state Trooper NEW YORK (AP) - Re serious muscular dystrophy, and worst maritime disaster in peace (next to Walgreens) Donald Arcari of the state fire searchers reported today the dis causes progressive weakness and time. When the British liner Titanic marshal’s office said Caprilands Bv Karin Laub covery of the biochemical flaw that wasting of voluntary muscles, not to travel to Bethlehem," said sank in 1912, 1,503 people perished. 643-5065 Herb Farm, located on Silver The Associated Press the spokesman, who spoke on leads to the deadliest and most confining patients to wheelchairs Street, corrected six other fire code common form of muscular dys President Corazon Aquino has condition of anonymity. by age 12 and killing most in their violations. BETHLEHEM - Israeli forces trophy, a finding one scientist called the disaster a "national The roundup of suspected ring early 20s. ARMY & NAVY HOURS; Mon.-FrI. 9-9 / Sat. 9-8 / Sun. 10-5 Owner Adebifa Grenier Simmons rounded up hundreds more Palesti called a "great feat" in progress tragedy of harrowing proportion” leaders is part of an effort to quell No direct treatment is known, said Wednesday that she will nian activists in the occupied toward a treatment. and ordered a full-scale investiga riots in the occupied territories that although therapies can extend comply with the new findings "as territories today and quickly Following up on last year's tion. The Board of Marine Inquiry began Dec. 8 and have killed 21 survival and improve quality of far as it is possible for us to do.” brought some of them to trial. Some identification of a gene that causes said it would begin hearings Palestinians and wounded 158, by life. "W e have done a lot of things,” Christmas festivities in Bethlehem Duchenne muscular dystrophy Monday. Israeli count. Fifty Israelis have Working with Kunkel were Eric Simmons said. were scaled down because of the when defective, scientists identi been injured. Israel captured the Hoffman of Children's Hospital in Only two crewmen, both from the She declined additional comment unrest. fied the protein that the gene Gaza Strip and the We^t Bank in the Boston and Harvard Medical tanker, have been rescued so far, today. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir normally tells muscle cells how to School, Robert Brown of Massachu and there has been no official PEOPLE WHO know 1967 Middle E ait war. Adama Berluti, fire mashal’s^. m a k e . ---------- ^ know there's a certain magic I m l W W ■ ■ ■ warned that two weeks of unprece Troops were stationed on roof setts General Hospital in Boston, explanation why the two vessels office spokesman, said Caprilands dented Arab rioting must be Production of that protein is about Classified Advertising. tops while others patrolled the and C. Michael Knudson and Kevin collided in the busy shipping lane 643-2711 must take "deliberate steps” to controlled before peace efforts can disrupted when the gene is defec narrow streets of Bethlehem, a Campbell of the University of Iowa. off Mindoro's Dumali point. correct the remaining violations or be considered. tive, triggering the disease, scient hilltop town of 50,000 located 4 mileg face criminal penalties. In the occupied West Bank, ists say. south of Jerusalem. The inspection report has been unusually tight Israeli security The discovery of the protein "The army is trying to enable sent to state prosecutors for their ringed Bethlehem as the town of "tells us exactly what it is that everyone to attend the Christian Christ’s birth prepared for a tense needs to be corrected in order to services and, at the same time, Coventry Fire Marshal Richard Christmas. develop treatment for the disease," maintain as low a profile as Cooper asked for the state assist The town's mayor, Elias Freij, said Donald Wood of the Muscular possible,” said Maj. Gen. Amram ance in the second inspection of the canceled his annual reception and Dystrophy Association, which Mitzna, the West Bank military 18th-century farmhouse. His ear scaled down a procession held helped finance the research. commander who visited lier inspection drew public atten every year at this time because of "Now all the real excitement Bethlehem. tion and criticism. the violence. "The people are not in starts." Mitzna told reporters that sev Caprilands is closed now until a mood to celebrate Christmas,” he Finding the protein is a "great eral hundred Arabs had been April 1, which Berluti said "sof said. feat," said Salvatore DiMauro, a detained in the past two days. He tened the immediacy” of the In Manger Square, a police band muscular dystrophy researcher at said a new detention center was played Handel's “ Messiah.” Only Columbia University College of created at Dahariye, formerly a about 300 tourists were seen in.the Physicians and Surgeons in New Please turn to page 12 British army base south of Hebron, area today. York. and that tents had been set up to A U.S. Embassy spokesman said Researchers named the protein house an overflow of priaonera at 500 U.S. sailors from the 6th Fleet Fara prison in the West Bank. "dystrophin." It was found in ■Frotnme4leer had been advised to avoid Bethle muscle triads, a key area for "Our aim is to bring them to trial hem because of recent unrest. "W e as quickly as possible," said one regulating muscle contraction. advised them that under the That location is the first clue for from prison David Kool Manchester Herald spokesman, who spoke on condition circumstances it would be better the crucial question of what dystro he not be identified. phin does, said geneticist Ronald By Steven L. Herman Worton of the Hospital for Sick The Assocldted Press Moonlighting Santa Children in Toronto. The work is published today in the ALDERSON, W.Va. - Police Vivian Tiiden of Manchester is taken by It’s just letter carrier Bill Goodale with a Integration plan journals Cell and Nature by re patrolled mountain roads and surprise at the Shady Glen in the hat and a spray painted beard, looking searchers led by Louis Kunkel, combed woods early today for Parkade Wednesday by Santa in a as much like Santa as the postal service associate investigator at the How SONY Lynette “ Squeaky” Fromme, who mailman’s uniform.