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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Monday, October 24, 183 Page Two OUTLOOK "FROM UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL" Bomb blast kills 146 Marines At least 146 U.S. Marines and 27 French killed were Sunday troops by terrorists who crashed two trucks thousands with of packed pounds of explosives into a Marine headquarters and a French peace-keepipost three miles away. The suicide attacks by lone drivers wounded at least 59 other Marines, and 58 more French soldiers were trapped and feared dead. It was the heaviest loss of life in a single incident involving U.S. servicemen since the Vietnam War. A group calling itself the Free Islamic Revolution Movement claimed responsibility in a telephone call to the Beirut office of the French news agency Agence France Presse. The caller said two youths carried out the attacks, Massive explosions a minute apart reduced both buildings to burning rubble and trapped hundreds of sleeping marines and French paratroops beneath tons of concrete and twisted metal. "The number of wounded will go higher," a Pentagon spokesman said. Ma j. Robert Jordan, Marines spokesman in Beirut, said between 200 and 300 people were trapped inside the wreckage when the bomb exploded. "I have not seen carnage like this since Vietnam," said Jordan, a veteran of the Southeast Asia conflict. Outside the Marines' post, letters from home, American newspapers, a rock casette "Hooligans" by The Who, a paperback novel titled Deathwind of Vedun, snapshots of a Marine weightlifter were littered for hundreds of yards. The dead, covered by white sheets, were lined up in rows at the rubble-strew- n sites of the twin terrorist bombings-a- s a desperate search continued for those who might be clinging to life. Around the leveled buildings, the comrades of the U.S. Marines and French paratroopers killed in the blasts did not weep. Their shock was too great. " My first thought was, 'Oh my God,' " recalled Sgt. Alphonso of San Antonio, Texas, one of the first to reach Hernandez, the U.S. Marine Battalion Landing Team Headquarters after it was demolished in a swift and terrible explosion. BEIRUT, Lebanon ng -- r " . 2, "When I saw it, I was stunned," said Hernandez. "I took out two people, and they were both dead. The scene inside the building was dark and smokey, and there were guys lying around. Some were crying, some were yelling for help," he Said. v, One Marine, a witness to the blast, dived for cover just outside the building and watched helplessly as the truck, laden with explosives and driven in a suicide attack, crashed into the building, according to another Marine who spoke with him. " He immediately thought, 'Oh s a car bomb, " the marine Vrelated. At the Marine base, within a minute after the explosion blasted Marines out of their bunks in nearby companies and shattered the windows on Commander Col. Timothy Geraghty's office, the Condition 1 alert siren screamed. Between 200 and 300 Marines and Navy sailors were inside, most asleep, when the building collapsed on top of them in a jungle of twisted concrete. "There were bodies strewn for 50 yards," said Staff Sgt. Calvin Openshaw. : ... -: ory Sex linked to espionage plot A federal grand jury met Friday in SAN FRANCISCO the investigation of a spy case a defense lawyer said could result in six more people being linked to the transfer of U.S. missile secrets to the Soviet Union. William Dougherty, representing James Harper, the only suspect arrested, said he knew of five or six other participants in the espionage plot. A federal grand jury heard witnesses Friday morning that included relatives of Harper, a business associate, and a handwriting expert. Randall Knapp, an attorney for Jack Stouffer, a former business associate of the suspect, said the grand jury "wanted to know about the world of Harper." Others who testified to the grand jury included Harper's and Oiarlie Cole, a brother, Roland; his wife and daughter; 1982. handwriting expert consulted by Harper in accused of selling missile is a engineer, Harper, who gave secrets obtained in the Silicon Valley to Polish agents V them to the Soviet Union. had been case of uncovered, the surface the Stating that only to negotiate with the Dougherty told reporters he was attempting government for leniency. . Psychotics roam ourstreets facilities have led to dozens of seriously ill people being left to roam the streets, which cause a danger to themselves and others, according to state and county officials. "On any day we have at least 15 individuals waiting to get into care ... " said David Dangerficld, Salt Lake County's director of .mental health. v ' forensic which had the unit, Others are in county jail's also 80 week last had and 25 "seriously psychotic" patients said.' inmates on strong tranquilizers, Dangerfield State and county mental health officials said the overcrowding trickles down from the State Hospital and affects virtually every care facility in the state. They said the situation has worsened during the past couple of years and they want help from the C Legislature. as as far situation a "I believe we're in crisis having options for ill and serving the chronically mentally putting them in inpatient told members of the Legislature. facilities rapidly," Dangerfield State To complicate the problem, the Utah Hospital is nearly 318-be304 d full. Last week, the facility had patients, according to Superintendent Seymour Steed. "The pressure for beds results in premature release of patients to make room for the more dangerous ones," Steed said. 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