1' One hundred three years of editorial freedom ti Tuesday, September 13,1984 0 1994 The Michigan Daily Plane crashes onto lawn of White House AP PHOTO President Clinton shares a laugh with members of AmeriCorps during a ceremony at the White House where he swore in the first recruits. Clinton iaguae national service pla Los Angeles Times "Every generation in our history WASHINGTON - President has learned to take responsibility for Clinton inaugurated his national ser- our future and your generation is no vice program for youth yesterday, exception." swearing in thousands of young re- The ceremony, attended by first cruits across the country who will lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice work in schools and hospitals and President Al Gore and leading con- help clean up the environment. gressional sponsors of the national The program, dubbed service legislation, was delayed sev- AmeriCorps, was approved by Con- eral hours and later moved to the front gress last year to allow youths to earn of the White House from the larger college tuition or to pay off tuition South Lawn because of the crash ear- loans by performing community ser- lier of a small aircraft on the grounds vice. of the executive mansion. "Service is a spark to rekindle the Fulfilling a key pledge of Clinton's spirit of democracy in an age of un- presidential campaign, AmeriCorps certainty," Clinton told hundreds of is a domestic version of the Peace recruits gathered on the White House Corps, which was created by Presi- lawn in a ceremony beamed by satel- dent Kennedy, the chief executive lite to thousands of others. See SERVICE, Page 7 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Secret Ser- vice officials suggested yesterday that a dramatic suicide, rather than an as- sassination attempt, was the most likely motivation behind the crash on the White House South Lawn of a light plane piloted by Frank Eugene Corder, a 38-year-old truck driver with a history of alcohol and drug problems. The plane's dive onto the White House South Lawn at 1:49 a.m. EDT yesterday "does not appear (to have been) directed toward the president," Secret Service spokesman Carl Meyer told reporters, warning that the con- clusion was "very preliminary." The plane contained no explosives or other weapons, Meyer noted, and investigators have found no evidence that Corder had any political griev- ance against President Clinton nor that he had ever threatened the Clintons. Investigators did discover that Corder, who lived in Perryville, Md., northeast of Baltimore, had been treated last year for alcoholism at the Perry Point Medical Center, a Veter- ans Administration hospital in Mary- land, had separated three weeks ago from his wife and had been distraught over the death of his father last spring. Clinton said during a speech to young people enrolled in national ser- vice programs that "we take this inci- dent seriously because the White House is the people's house and it's the job of every president who lives here to keep it safe and secure." But even as workmen removed the debris from the wrecked plane and the Clintons moved back into the White House from a five-night stay across the street in Blair House, offi- cials conceded that they cannot now - and may never be able to - guar- antee that a pilot determined to pen- etrate the airspace around the White House could be stopped. The White House lawn became an See CRASH, Page 11 White House not assecure abelieved The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The crash of a small plane onto the White House lawn yesterday revealed what a former senior security offi- cial said is the "sad little secret" of presidential security: Numerous systems devised by the Secret Ser- vice to protect the president have been breached, strengthened and then breached again. The piercing of the protected airspace over the White House yesterday came despite strength- ened procedures put in place after a 1974 incident during which an Army private stole a helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn, about 50 feet from yesterday's crash site. Presidential helicopters are the only aircraft allowed to fly in the patch of airspace from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial to three blocks north of the White House. Under the guidelines put in place after the 1974 incident, the Fed- eral Aviation Administration monitors the area 24 hours a day, and any other intrusion is to be reported immediately to the Secret Service. Federal sources said last night that the plane was detected by FAA radar minutes before the crash. The preliminary investigation sug- gests that the information was not relayed to the Secret Service in time for agents to prepare for some type of threat, the sources said. Secret Service personnel, sources said, are trained to follow a series of "emergency response" See SECURITY, Page 11 U.N. delegates compronse on population plan Los Angeles Times CAIRO, Egypt - Finally clearing nagging disputes over reproductive health, birth control and migrant workers, U.N. drafters yesterday completed an ambitious new population plan that U.N. officials say has allowed the world for the first time to deal frankly with sex and spiraling human reproduc- tion. The plan, scheduled for adoption today by nearly 180 nations gathered for the International Conference on Popula- tion and Development, contains important compromises with both Roman Catholic and Islamic nationsaimed at assuring that sex education, reproductive health care and family plan- ning programs comply with each nation's own religious and cultural traditions. It emphasizes that abortion is not encouraged as a family planning tool and leaves that contentious issue - which at one point threatened to overtake the conference - up to each nation's own legislation. "It's all over but the shouting," U.S. Undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth said of today's upcoming floor debate. See POPULATION, Page 2 INSIDE MICHIGANENSIAN Michelle "Shelly" Ziska, who graduated from the University in 1981, was one of the 132 people who died after USAir Flight 472 crashed last Thursday. She is survived by her husband and two-year-old son. Officials downplay possibility of flaw in jet's braking system * LANSING (AP) - A new poll shows GOP Gov. John Engler with an I1t percentage point lead over Demo- ~rat Howard Wolpe in the gubernato- ial race. It also shows Republican Spence Abraham and Democrat Bob rArr in a ctatictiale dh eat fnr. NEWS 3 Ann Arbor teachers and students went back to school yesterday after a two-week strike. 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