Show 6 A Oen World r Friday LONDON (AP) — The Times of London said today new evi- dence suggests a British ferry struck the harbor wall in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before it capsized a week ago killing 134 people The newspaper said the propellers of the Herald of Free Enterprise were damaged when the ferry hit the harbor wall forcing the vessel into an turn Officials of the British ferry rv' March 13 1SS7 company Townsend Thoresen said today they had no new information about the possible cause of the March 6 accident Most of the 543 passengers and crew were British A Belgian doctor for the ferry's captain David Lewry has quoted Lewry as saying he heard a bang before the ferry turned on its side Separate investigations into the cause of the crash are being conducted by the ferry owners and by the Belgian and British governments Meanwhile divers have recovered the body of another crew member raising to 55 the number of confirmed dead an official said today Paul Ellis spokesman for the ferry's owner said the "chance discovery" of the body was made Thursday afternoon by divers employed by the Dutch salvage company Smit Tak Ellis said the victim an officer identified but he could release no other information British Transport Secretary John Moore has blamed the disaster on an "inrush of water" through the ferry's bow doors which were open as the vessel left the harbor The Times said its account was "the result of a reconstruction by three separate groups of experts closely involved in the disaster" The newspaper identified the nel "The result apparently was that the ship moved too close to the wall's submerged foundations" The Times said ' British ruling favors maternal link J STAFFORD England (AP) — judge ruled that the natural mother of Britain's first surrogate twins can keep the children saying it was important to preserve the maternal bond she had provided In a judgment in Stafford High Court Judge Sir John Arnold said Thursday that the twins had spent a lot of time with their natural mother since they were born and must have developed a bond with her The judge ruled that despite a more stimulating intellectual environment in the home of the father and his wife the link between mother and children must be preserved The mother broke down and sobbed when Arnold said she would be able to keep the babies who have been in her care but under supervision of a local authority The ruling came a day after another judge in London permitted a childless couple to adopt a girl borne for them by a surrogate mother for $7500 The surrogate mother in that case did not contest the adoption The ruling also came as closing arguments began in a landmark case in the United States in which surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead refuses to hand over the child she agreed to bear for $10000 for William and Eliz A i I " ' - fa' V W V4 Associated Press Residents of the village of Lumbagui look at the site of a bridge that was destroyed by a mudslide Quakes may have killed QUITO Ecuador (AP) — A senior provincial official estimates that the death toll in last week's earthquakes could climb as high as 2000 based on an aerial inspection that he said showed whole villages wiped out by torrents of mud and water Prefect Jorge Gonzalez chief administrator of Napo Province said at a news conference Thursday that 2000 people were killed 5000 missing and another 50000 were left homeless by the series of very strong earthquakes that hit this Andean nation a week ago The International Red Cross has said 300 people were killed and 4000 are missing The national government has not re leased an official death toll It says 75000 people have been driven from their homes Gonzalez said the hardest-hi- t region was a zone surrounding the volcano El Reventador 40 miles northeast of Quito The region is home to about 100000 people "There are homes buried or submerged in water there are bodies in the mud and the rivers are contaminated with oil" said Gonzalez a member of the Social Democrat Party He said officials may never know the nal death toll from the earthquakes the worst catastrophe to strike this small Andean nation this century The 10 earthquakes struck last Thursday and Friday along the nation's Andean spine affecting an area from the Colombian border to Riobamba 95 miles south of Quito The temblors spawned avalanches of mud and rocks that destroyed homes and swallowed entire villages in remote forest regions The mudslides also destroyed a stretch of the nation's main oil pipeline forcing Ecuador to stop payments for this year on its $82 billion foreign debt The government said that it would take about five months to repair the pipeline and that oil exports would be halted Movement nations express support for Nicaragua Non-Align- Zeebrugge in calm weather and heading for the harbor mouth oa an easterly course The eastern w all of the harbor was extended more than a year ago but the newspaper quoted expert sources as saying the marker buoys had not been placed to designate a safe chan- experts as Belgian navy divers Belgian maritime pilots and Zeebrugge mariners vessel owners and others who regularly work at the port Marine experts said they expect a British government inquiry to focus on what caused water to rush inside the ferry through the bow doors Normally the doors are eight feet above the waterline The Times said the likely route to disaster began with the ferry its doors open moving out of of the ship had been positively abeth Stern In the British cases the parties involved are not identified Arnold said the woman got to know the childless couple through an acquaintance She agreed to be artificially inseminated and gave birth to the twins last October During pregnancy the judge said the woman "was assailed by doubts" about whether she could go through with the bargain but she also felt guilty about going back on the agreement After the babies were born they went home with the mother but the father and his wife visited In the judge said the mother wrote a "poignant" letter about how reluctant she was to give up the twins The letter said: "The pain of parting with the babies is with me now and I know I would be broken hearted when they go but I made an agreement with you which I will keep knowing you will look after my babies well" When the father's wife went on a business trip to the United States the judge said the natural mother felt the woman displayed "a lack of maternal commitment to the children" The natural mother then decided she didn't want to hand over the children In his judgment Arnold made no reference to any sum of money having changed hands Quake rattles New Zealand WELLINGTON New Zealand The Bay of Plenty region in (AP) — A strong earthquake hit New Zealand's North Island was the west coast of South Island tohit by a series of earthquakes that caused widespread damage earlier day but no major damage was rethis month ported Seismologist Murray Lowry of the National Siesmological ObserThe Richter scale is a gauge of vatory said the quake registered the energy released by an earth51 on the Richter quake as measured by 'the scale ground motion recorded on a Emergency services officials seismograph Every increase of said the temblor was felt stronone number means that the gest in the towns of Westport ground motion is 10 times greatGreymouth and Christchurch er ed GEORGETOWN Guyana (AP) — Members of the Movement on Thursday for expressed support Nicaragua and criticized the United States for its reported channeling of money from Iran arms sales to rebels The position is stated in a document being debated during a ministerial meeting of the group called to analyze problems in the Caribbean and Latin America Conflicts in Central America and Latin America's $400 billion foreign debt were the main topics discussed during the conference Parts of the document had been approed by Thursday but final agreement was not expected until early Friday Later in the 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