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Nation - World News In Brief

The Chattanooga Times (Tennessee)

June 4, 1996, Tuesday

Nation/world news in brief

BYLINE: Wire services

SECTION: World, Pg. A2

LENGTH: 841 words
Beached

Strollers eye a ship that ran aground on Rio de Janeiro’s fashionable Leblon Beach during a storm Monday. Brazilian officials are pondering how to refloat the vessel but admit to being at a loss since they’ve never had this problem be-fore.

Searchers find another crater

MIAMI — Divers recovering wreckage from ValuJet Flight 592 discovered a large hole Monday at the southern tip of the murky crater, raising the possibil-ity that much more of the jet’s wreckage may lie below.
Half the airplane is still missing, including the cockpit section. Nothing from that part of the plane has been recovered yet, authorities said.

Divers hoped to enter the newly discovered crater today.

On Monday, divers also collected a “substantial amount of human remains,” in-cluding a skull.

Earlier in the day, a trucker who worked transporting the crash wreckage was charged with stealing parts of the aircraft, including a circuit breaker panel that could yield clues.

2 women found dead in park

LURAY, Va. — The deaths of two women hikers, whose bodies were found over the weekend at a campsite near the Appalachian Trail, are being investigated as homicides, authorities said Monday.

Two rangers found the bodies of Julianne Williams, 24, and Lollie Winans, 26, Saturday near the park’s Skyland Lodge, about 25 miles from Luray, said Ron Fankhauser of the Park Service.

Driver awarded $150 million

HANYNEVILLE, Ala. — A man whose Chevrolet Blazer flipped after he fell asleep at the wheel was awarded $150 million Monday for injuries suffered in the 1991 accident.

Alex Hardy claimed General Motors knowingly sold Blazers with defective door latches that opened in wrecks such as the one that left him paralyzed.

GM denies the allegations, arguing Hardy was at fault because he had been drinking and fell asleep. Witnesses for the automaker testified during trial that Hardy flew through a window because he was not wearing a seat belt.

Jewelry show boon for thieves

LAS VEGAS — An international jewelry show attended by 35,000 jewelers, has also attracted hundreds of professional thieves, trying their luck at lifting some of the estimated $8 billion in glittering gems.

The annual J.C. Kay Jewelry Show opened Thursday, and by Monday an estimated $1.8 million in gems had been stolen, police said. The show ends today.

Nine people have been arrested for theft, but most of the jewelry was already gone, police said.

5 are indicted in robbery ring

CONCORD, N.H. — Five men were indicted Monday after being linked to a string of bank and armored car robberies by a singular piece of evidence: a burning car containing bank bags, a bulletproof vest and a T-shirt emblazoned with a masked leprechaun and the words “Boston Bandits.”

The heists took place in five states across New England, including a brazen daylight holdup of an armored car in Hudson, N.Y., in which two guards were shot to death.

Stephen G. Burke, 40, Patrick J. McGonagle, 57, Michael K. O’Halloran, 38, Matthew McDonald, 34, and Anthony M. Shea, 33 all have criminal records. McDon-ald and Shea were already in prison when the federal indictment was handed down.

NATO getting an overhaul

BERLIN — Easing France’s re-entry into NATO, the United States and its al-lies approved historic changes in the 47-year-old European defense structure Monday to prepare for Bosnia-like crises in the next century.

Slow to respond to the ethnic bloodshed in Bosnia, the alliance will be re-vamped to be able to react more quickly to conflicts — perhaps even beyond Europe — with European commanders and using U.S. weapons and possibly troops, provided Washington concurs.

The revamping was the result of compromises between Europeans, led by France, seeking a larger role, and the United States, determined to make sure it re-tained a veto over use of American troops, intelligence or weapons.

Detectives’ offer draws rebuke

SAN FRANCISCO — OK, O.J., you lost your chance. Looks like you won’t be get-ting any free help from Bay Area gumshoes after all.

An offer by six San Francisco area private eyes to track down the “real” kil-ler of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman was denounced by Simpson’s own private investigator last week as the work of publicity seekers trying to “pros-titute themselves.”

Bill Pavelic’s beef was the television and radio appearances San Francisco detective Hal Lipset and five local colleagues made to pursue Simpson’s alleged tips that the killer of his ex-wife and her friend could be in the city.

Pavelic said the offer was “designed for propaganda purposes and self- ag-grandizement” rather than genuine help.

Britain starts a gun turn-in

LONDON — British police forces hoped to collect hundreds of illegal firearms during a four-week gun amnesty that began Monday.

Anyone turning in an illegal weapon at a police station in England, Wales and Scotland through June 30 will not be prosecuted, unless police find that the firearm was used in a crime.

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