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Pilots gave high praise to Captain Takahama for keeping his stricken 747 in the air for at least 32 minutes after the tail damage was sustained over Sagami Bay. "In spite of such terrible conditions, the plane was kept aloft by engine thrust only," said Mitsuo Nakano, JAL's deputy chief of 747 pilots. "That is an incredible performance." A U.S. expert, Captain Homer Mouden of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Va., agreed. "The crew exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said...
...publishing is to some extent a gamble. If political figures really "don't create big books," a number of publishers are soon going to be surprised, sorrowful and even stricken, because the most notable fad in the book business this season has been the wild-eyed flinging of dollar bills in the general direction of Washington. Bantam has paid "about" $1 million to Geraldine Ferraro for Ferraro: My Story, due in October; Simon & Schuster "more or less" $1 million to Jeane Kirkpatrick for her U.N. memoirs; and Random House $1 million to House Speaker Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill...
After more than a year of steadily worsening reports from famine-stricken Africa, there is finally a glimmer of good news. In preparation for the opening of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) biannual conference in Rome last week, Director-General Edouard Saouma announced that Africa's best rains in years were producing record harvests in some areas. As a result, only five of the 21 African countries that needed emergency food aid this year--Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Sudan--remain on the list, and in 1986 Africa will need less than half the 7 million...
García has been less surefooted in dealing with the relentless but ragtag Shining Path insurgency, which has killed more than 6,000 in five years. To weaken the rebels, he has promised new economic aid to the poverty-stricken Andean region where they are based, and created a Peace Commission to establish a dialogue with their leaders. Though it is by no means clear that government programs are responsible, military officials last week reported "a certain tranquillity" in the eleven-province emergency zone in which the guerrillas are most active...
Amid confusion, reports put the toll as high as 400 dead and 6,000 injured. Scores of stricken people lay outside overcrowded hospitals. Others wandered aimlessly through broken streets covered with shattered glass. Hardest hit were the city's slums, where wood and adobe shanties simply crumbled. Many victims were children: 30 were buried under the Don Bosco School, southeast of the city, which collapsed just before students were to go home. Reported Radio Commentator Francisco Espinoza: "I've seen bodies that are destroyed, especially of children. Desperate people are digging among the rubble, looking for dead and wounded...