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Show Page 16 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, March 14, 1385 National News Helicopter Crash Kills 12 Soldiers A FORT BRAGG, N.C. (UPI) -UH-6- 0 Black Hawk helicopter nadians Greet Bush; n May Ask- Tr ops to Stay 7 I If'" - " 7 4 ' k ' i i - ( . -- soldiers 12 ill (, aboard but the Army says the aircraft is safe despite 22 crashes in the past four years. The $4.8 million helicopter, built to ferry soldiers and weapons into combat, was flying 100 mph in a routine exercise for no apparWednesday when ent reason it nosedived into a i 4 U.S.-Sovi- wooded area and burst into flames, killing the crew of four and eight paratroopers. The bodies, trapped in the smoldering wreckage, had to be left overnight because of the intense heat at the crash site on the western edge of the base, officials said. Medical personnel prepared to remove the charred remains of the soldiers today, and a team of Army investigators arrived at the blackened crash site to try to determine the cause. "They were more than likely killed on impact it burned furiously after it hit the ground," said Lt. Col. Miguel Monteverde. "It happened so fast there was no opportunity for anybody to get out even if they were able." The crash was the second in volving a Black Hawk in less than three weeks. A crash that injured four people Feb. 26 at Fort Campbell, Ky., is still under in vestigation. the 22nd Wednesday's crash since the air assault craft was introduced in 1381 boosted the Black Hawk fatality total to 34. Pan Am Resumes Strike Negotiations - NEW YORK (UPI) Representative oi a striking mechanics' union and Pan American World Airways resumed negotiations tostrike with day to end the y the airline threatening to fire flight attendants honoring the strike. The negotiations between Pan Am, which plans to resume about half its schedule, and the Transport Workers Union, representing the 5,800 striking mechanics, were the first since the strike began 20-da- Feb. i ll JHalfccptenflv s aril .tflfwfl Wreckage from helicopter is strewn before two firefighters at Fort Bragg, N.C. these crashes." N.C. ORaleiqh-- The helicopter crashed while flying between 75 feet and 100 feet above ground in formation with two other helicopters, officials said. The Army has 555 of the helicopters, which replaced the UH-- 1 Huey of the Vietnam War. The aircraft is built by the Sikorsky Co., of Stratford, Conn. Sgt. Maj. Arnold Fisher, a base : ft Fort Bragg Atlantic Ocean ga. r--r o 200 miles upi But an Army spokesman said the helicopter is safe. "We think it's a darn good bird," said Maj. Robert Mirelson. "There is no pattern to any of spokesman, called the deaths "extremely unfortunate but part of the price we have to pay for freedom." "We're training to go into combat and win and if you don't have realistic training you're not going to be able to do that," Fisher said. MeLOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) chanical heart surgeon Dr. William C. DeVries said today Bill Schroeder is not healthy enough to f ulfill his goal of traveling to his son's wedding this Saturday. DeVries staff also was closely watching his other artificial heart patient, Murray Haydon, who had to have more fluid, including blood, drained from his chest. DeVries, speaking through a hospital spokesman, said his implant team agreed unanimously that Schroeder, who received the artificial heart Nov. 25, should not make the 180-mi- le round trip to bis hometown of Jasper, Ind., for the wedding. DeVries personally informed Schroeder of the decision. "Schroe years." The American forces, who have remained on the island since the October 1983 invasion ended more than four years of leftist rule, were to begin leaving next month. Before leaving Moscow,, Bush declined to discuss the contents of a letter he delivered from President FDA posed a summit meeting. "I believe the president does feel a meeting would be useful," Bush said. He gave no indication of Gorbachev's response. Kremlin meeting Bush described his Wednesday with Gorbachev as "constructive" and "non-polemica- l." "We are high on hope, high we can make progress in Geneva, high for an overall reduction of tensions," Bush said. Gorbachev, 54, accompanied by veteran Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, handled his first meeting with the U.S. leaders with "great confidence and assurance," Bush said. "He really made a strong impression." Bush emphasized that the meeting was "fruitful and good." "We really mean that. We felt that we perhaps had. made some progress," Bush said at a news conference after the meeting. But be declined to discuss specifics of the meeting with Gorbachev, who succeeded Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko on Monday. Chernenko, 73, the third Soviet 28 months, died Sunday. leader in the past Approves Penn State Artificial Heart (UPI) - The WASHINGTON Food and Drug Administration today gave Penn State's Hershey Medical Center permission to im- plant an artificial heart of the center's own design into a patient on a temporary basis until a natural heart transplant can be per- der was very disappointed with the decision," Humana Hospital Audu bon spokesman Robert Irvine said, but "indicated to his physician that he understood what Dr. DeVries was saying." Haydon, 58, who received his mechanical heart Feb. 17 and underwent emergency surgery March 2 to stop chest bleeding, DeVries withdrew a "very small amount" of fluid including some blood from his chest Wednesday. Irvine agreed the development was similar to the complication that led to Haydon's corrective surgery and said, "We'll be watching it." Irvine said Haydon had experienced "some discomfort" Wednesday before the fluid was Carl Andrews, public relations director for the medical center in Hershey, Pa., said there were no immediate plans to implant the mechanical heart, and no patient had been selected for the procedure. Andrews said the device would only be used on an emergency basis. air-drive- n The Hershey medical team, it di- rected by Dr. William Pierce, plans to use the artificial heart the same way doctors at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson used a mechanical heart to keep a young car mechanic alive until he could receive a second heart transplant. The Arizona medical team, however, did not have federal approval to implant the mechanical heart and defiance of federal law created a storm of controversy. 28. Federal mediator Robert Brown ordered both sides back to the bargaining table at a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday but union officials spent the day caucusing. Both sides sat down at the bargaining table at 10 a.m. today, but both union and Pan Am refused to make a comment on the renewed contract talks. et Reagan to Gorbachev, the new Communist Party general secretary, but indicated it may have pro- formed. Schroeder to Miss Wedding - Mricfs ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (UPI) Vice Presithe highest ranking Washington official to visit Grenada since the U.S. led invasion 17 months ago arrived today and was expected to be asked to keep U.S. forces on the island for two more years. Bush landed at the Point Saline airport on the Caribbean island from Moscow where he said he was impressed with new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachrelaev and was hopeful of improved tions. After a brief stopover in Grenada, he was flying to Brazil for the inauguration of President-elec- t Tancredo Neves. He immediately went to an exclusive hotel to rest before meeting with Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize and other officials later in the day. Foreign Minister Ben Jones, who headed the island delegation greeting Bush, said his government planned to ask Washington to extend the stay of some 300 U.S. military personnel "maybe a couple of dent George Bush " crashed and burned at Fort Bragg, killing all The latest reports in national news from United Press International Interest rates are down. Now is the time to DVGQY StU 0 PAQEIA B BIDBGQ 8t"JGAGQ sum PLG Environmentalists Threaten EPA Suit - WASHINGTON (UPI) The administration has a duty to classify sulfur in the atmosphere as a pollutant and take steps to control it, environmentalists said today, threatening to sue if the Environmental Protection Agency does not act. In a notice to be delivered today to EPA Administrator Lee Thomas, the Environmental Defense Fund gave formal notice of its plan to sue if the agency does not act within 60 days to limit sulfur in the air as part of an effort to fight acid rain. "This action is aimed at elimisituation which nating a Catch-2EPA has been using to avoid doing its job," said defense fund lawyer James Tripp. "Once EPA lists sulfur as an air pollutant, it will then have the basis for establishing a sulfur pollutant control pro- gram." Pooch Receives cmiTH ATOMIC or more per month! - AKRON, Ohio (L'Pl) Sister, an keeshound, was running around like a healthy dug today after receiving a heart pacemaker from a dead human. The dog was in excellent condition, said veterinarian Rod Ferguson, who performed the operation at the Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital Wednesday night, "She's running around and acp-inlike a normal dog," he said. "The prognosis is good that she'll have a normal life." The veterinarian said he performed the operation to save the dog's life and to show people there is hope for pets with weak hearts. He estimated fewer than 100 such g year. by refinancing your first mortgage through Citicorp... 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