The weather Ineide today 11^.“"*?' of occasional i"’ ^ *" ®®*' Ooooslonal rain Area news . .1—2-B F a m ily .........5-6-A tOTl^t, low around 40. Tuesday mostly Classified 5-7-B MACC new s. 3-A ctoudy, windy, mild with chance of C om ics___ .. 7-A MCC Calendar 3-A showers. High in 60s. National weather Dear Abby . .. 7-A Obituaries .... 8-A forecast map on Page 6-B. Manche$ter—A City of Village Charm SIXTEEN PACES Editorial .. .. 4-A Sports.......... 3—4-B TWO SECTIONS MANCHBSTEIR, CONN,, MONDAY, MARCH 28,1877 — VOL. XCVI, No. 150 PHlCEi FIFfEEN CENJS Worst air disaster in history Official blames Pan Am pilot SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, The governor said it had been es­ Am 747 and desintegrated in flames Spain (UPI) — Provincial governor tablished as fact that the control as it slid along the runway. The Pan Antonio Oyarzabal said today that tower told the KLM plane to go to the Am jet was also destroyed by the the worst aviation disaster in history head of the runway and the Pan Am fire. occurred Sunday because a Pan plane to taxi to a standby position. Oyarzabal said that “95 per cent of 2 American 747 turned into the path of “Both planes took to the runway,” the bodies are charred beyond a Dutch KLM 747 roaring down the he added. “The collision was head recognition” and that identification runway at 186 miles per hour for on.” is impossible in most cases. takeoff. Survivors said the KLM plane hit Air minister Gen. Carlos Franco Oyarzabal said 562 persons were the Pan Am plane on the side just and International Air Transport killed in the collision and subsequent behind the first class Section. Association president Manuel del explosions so fiery that the asphalt Oyarzabal said the cause will even- Prado y Colon, who is also the presi­ runway melted. He said 72 of the 634 tualjy be established by the in­ dent of the Spanish airline Iberia, persons aboard the two jumbo jets vestigation in which the black boxes attended the briefing. survived the accident but that some of the two planes — both found in the The officials were asked about m of them were in critical condition. charred rubble spread over a 200 ground fog. The U.S. Embassy put the death yard stretch of the runway — and Del Prado first refused to com­ toll at 599 and the Spanish Aviation tape recording of the conversations ment, but later said there was fog. w ministry put it at 559. Oyarzabal said between the control tower and the “But visibility was not below official figures showed that the KLM pijots will be used. accepted minimum standards,” he plane carried 244 persons, mostly Oyarzabal said that the crash oc­ said. Dutch tourists, and that all died. The curred on the runaway. “The KLM “All communications are taped Pan Am plane carried 390 persons, plane was on it first, then the Pan and those tapes are now a part of the Green School raises funds for Dinosaur Park mostly American tourists from Los Am plane,” he said. secret judicial investigation,” Del Angeles, and that 318 of them were The KLM plowed through the Pan Prado said. Gail Sheffield and David Kicking of Manchester Green School fill in a dinosaur “graph” killed and 72 survived. showing the percentage of students in the room who participated in the school-sponsored The worst previous air disaster “Dimes-to-Dollars for Dinosaurs” fund drive in connection with Dinosaur Week this week. was the crash of a Turkish airways Supreme Court to hear DCIO near Paris on March 3, 1974, The total collection from the school was $76.40 which will be given to the Friends of when 346 persons died. Dinosaur Park to preserve the dinosaur tracks at Rocky Hill. (Herald photo by Pinto) H ie ' Spanish news agency Cifra Nixon tape controversy said the flight recorder tapes of a WASHINGTON (UPI) - The conversation between the Pan defendants had exhausted their Supreme Court today agreed to American piiot and the controi tower appeals. decide whether tapes of Richard showed that the pilot apparently mis­ But the appeals court ruled this Nixon’s conversations, used to help understood the tower instructions to was not serious enough and noted Brezhnev warns Vance convict his closest White House aides stay on a taxiway and turned onto the that none of the defendants of Wptergate offenses, may be takeoff runway by mistake. themselves had objected. publicly distributed. Nixon contended his personal Pan Am spokesman and aviation The justices will hear arguments experts said it was far too early for privacy was invaded by placing the next fall or winter on the former on human rights issue the contents of the soKialled “black tapes in private hands “to be played president’s objections to further at cocktail parties and in satiric MOSCOW (UPI) — Soviet leader constructive development of box” to be studied since that publicizing of the recordings played mediate comment on the Tass report productions.” Leonid Brezhnev warned Secretary relations between the two countries required sophisticated equipment not to the jury during the 1974 trial. but confirmed that Vance had available on Tenerife. But the appeals court said, “The of State Cyrus Vance today that impossible.” presented Brezhnev with two The issue will be decided later by embarrassment Mr. Nixon an­ U.S. Embassy press spokesman Ed written opinion. President Carter’s human rights At the same time, Brezhnev proposals for the talks. Harper said a 41-member team of the ticipates is largely that which resulU campaign has Intruded into Soviet in­ stressed Soviet willingness to make a In the interim, in accordance with The Tass report was U.S. National Transportation Safety whenever misconduct or ternal affairs and could make im­ concerted effort at easing U.S.- a decision by the U.S. Court of characteristically convoluted but its Board has arrived to help Spanish questionable conduct is exposed.” possible “the constructive develop­ Soviet strains and finding “mutually Appeals in Washington, essential warning about the Carter authorities in the investigation. The material does not encompass ment of relations between the two acceptable solutions” to such com­ arrangements have been in progress human rights campaign was clear. The governor, speaking at a news all that was subpoenaed from the countries.” plicated issues as the search for a mass marketing of the tapes pending At a news conference Sunday, conference, said “The key point is White House at the time of the tr ia l- Brezhnev, according to the Soviet new strategic arms agreement. conclusion of the lawsuit. Vance told newsmen that he did not whether the KLM crew had been only what was heard in the cour­ news agency Tass, gave “an ap­ Soviet Ambassador Anatoly U.S. District Judge John Sirica had troom. intend to raise the issue at the talks, given orders to take off.” propriate appraisal” of Carter Ad­ Dobrynin previously warned Vance but was prepared to explain that barred distribution untii Watergate Texts are available in bookstores ministration actions “which do not in Washington that a series of U.S. Carter did not seek to single out any throughout the country. Other con- square with the principles of equality actions violated the non-interference individual nation on human rights. versAtions remain confidential. principle contained in a 1933 agree­ (and) non-interference in the inter­ Despite the implicit threat, the Sirica was told the National nal affairs of each other.” ment establishing diplomatic Soviet leadership remained outward­ Archives could distribute the tapes to relations and reaffirmed in 1973 in an The Soviet leader at the start of ly cordial, both at the talks and at a Today’s news the public for $3.75 to $4 per one-hour three days of U.S.-Soviet talks said agreement between former Presi­ luncheon for Vance hosted by cassette reel or $5 to $5.75 per one- failure to observe the principle of dent Nixon and Brezhnev. hour tape reel. Gromyko at a guest house in the summary non-interference could make “the The U.S. delegation had no im­ Lenin Hills overlooking Moscow. Compiled trom United Pnee Intemetlonel Directors predict budget cuts State PROVIDENCE, R. I. - By GREG PEARSON Pascal Prignano, deputy mayor, “Everybody will have to share the Mrs. Jackston also expressed con­ HARTFORD — Accidents took Michigan has issued extradiction Herald Reporter burden,” he said. said that the board will have to take a papers for Rhode Island cern about several departments the lives of at least eight Connec­ Members of the Board of Directors Phyllis Jackston, a member of the careful look at the entire budget. Represent-elect William Bailey, requesting new staff. ticut residents over the weekend, today predicted sizeable cuts in the board, said, “I think it’s unbelievable “It’s the highest request I can but he says he will resist. Bailey’s “That business about telling the including two boys whose budget proposed by Town Manager that they (the town administration) recall. I was a little surprised at the homemade raft broke apart in chances of gaining his seat in the Robert B. Weiss. department heads to get along on last increase that was requested,” he would present a budget of that size. year’s budget must have b ^ n a Stamford Harbor. House rest largely upon whether “I expect the board will cut the said. “I don’t know how they feel the farce,” she said. Weiss had Gov. J. Joseph Garraihy okays his budget substantially,” Mayor Prignano said that he has not yet pmple of Manchester can come up requested that department heads HARTFORD — The executive extradition.