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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Monday, January 20, 19g Page Two NEWS BRIEFS FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Caravelk jet crashed explanation why the French-bui- lt bill in a jungle area surrounding the into the low-lyiSanta Elena air strip, 155 miles north of Guatemala City. Officials of the airline, Merovias de Guatemala, said the 85 passengers and six crewmen aboard died when the a plane went down Saturday morning near the town, ld Mayan staging area for visits to the nearby ruins at Tikal. "The plane first brushed against the highest trees, and then broke up, leaving parts of its fuselage, the wings and who many bodies thrown around," said Carlos Estrada, saw the crash. "The plane kept going forward and it finally exploded in flames." Soviets support test ban MOSCOW ng The Soviet parliament appealed to Congress Sunday to support a ban on nuclear weapons testing as the "first and foremost" step to halting the arms race. The Supreme Soviet statement, which also said it would c an "irreparable error" for the U.S. to pursue its "Star research program, was the latest step in Wars" anti-miss- le a campaign accompanying arms proposals made last week by Soviet leader Mikhail Borbachev. The new proposals included a timetable to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the end of the century and a 1,000-year-o- extension of the Soviet moratorium on that nuclear tests expired Dec. 31. "To take a practical step toward curbing the arms race at its most dangerous direction The nuclear direction further staging of any nuclear tests should be stopped, first and foremost," said the statement carried by the three-mont- Grenade misses Aquino h ZAMBPAMG A. PHILIPPINES grenade exploded Sunday only about 300 yards from a stage where presidential candidate Corazon Aquino was campaigning, frightening hundreds of people and nicking three with official Soviet news agency Tass. shrapnel. No one was seriously injured by the grenade, which exploded in a deserted sunken garden near park where Aquino was campaigning in the city 550 miles south of Search on for survivors Soldiers SANTA ELEN, BUATEMALA A searched the jungles of northern Guatemala Sunday for victims of the crash of a commercial jetliner that slammed into a hill, killing all 91 people aboard, including seven Americans. Manila. The grenade blast came as Aquino's godson and campaign worker, Jeremias de Jesus, was buried four days after he and his driver were gunned down in a roadside ambush upon his return from a political meeting. Civil aviation authorities offered no immediate Minister still in control JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -L- esotho Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan, missing from surrounded his office five days public view since soldiers seclusion Sunday and accused South ago, energed from Africa of trying to oust him. In interviews with the South African Broadcasting Corp. and the British Broadcasting Corp., Jonathan said he remained in complete comtrol of the government of the tiny mountain kingdom that is surrounded by South Africa. Residents in Maseru, the capital, Sunday reported gasoline, meat and vegetable and medical supply shortages as a result of a South African economic blockade imposed. Jan. 1. South African Foreign Minister Moelof "Pik" Botha has accused Lesotho of harboring black guerrillas responsible for at least one of a series of bomb and mine attacks, which have claimed 14 lives since Nov. 26. Botha charged guerrillas are being trained in Nascru, about 3 miles from the border. The blockade has imposed to force Lesotho to expel the alleged rebels, who South Africa says belong to the outlawed African National Congress, which is seeking the overthrow of South Africa's White-minori- ty government. Fire kills 45 race horses ELMONT, N.Y. 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