The Michigan Daily Vol. XCII, No. 1-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Free Issue Twenty Pages w! Argentina sinks LONDON (AP) - An Argentine jet been rescued leaving about 360 McDon fighter blasted a missile into the British sailors still missing. survivors destroyer Sheffield yesterday and as BRITISH DEFENSE Ministry THE S many as 30 of the 270 crewmen were spokesman Ian McDonald said the battle fle feared killed as they abandoned the 3,660-ton Sheffield was struck by a more th blazing hulk, the British Defense missile and caught fire, "which spread vessels e Ministry announced. out of control." around t Although the ministry did not say the British news media said the seven- which we ship sank, it reported the crew was or- year-old Sheffield, one of the most McDon dered overboard "when there was no modern warships in the Royal Navy, British H longer any hope of saving the ship." sank after being hit by a missile fired the pilot Argentina's counterblow came as from a French-made Etendard fighter- field at SI Argentine rescue craft continued sear- bomber from a distance of more than 20 Argent ching for survivors from the cruiser miles. -The reports said the Argentine not imme General Belgrano, sunk in the frigid pilot of the land-based jet fired two sinking waters of the South Atlantic on Sunday missiles, one missing and the other claimed b by a British submarine. Argentina an- scoring a direct hit on the Sheffield's tacking nounced that at least 680 survivors have control room. 40 miles ..4m..W - M -1- -g Britis ald said all the destroyer's were picked up. SHEFFIELD was in the British et of at least 27 warships and an 40 requisitioned civilian nforcing a 200-mile blockade he disputed Falkland Islands, re seized April 2 by Argentina. ald also announced that a farrier jet was shot down and killed during a raid on the air- tanley, theFalklands capital. ina's military government did ediately issue a report on the of the HMS Sheffield, but two out of three Harrier jets at- a dirt runway at Goose Green, west of Stanley, were shot h ship down. It made no mention of a raid on the main Falklands airfield at Stanley. BOTH THE Stanley and Goose Green airstrips were pummeled by British warplanes Sunday in the first major strike of the air-sea offensive launched by Britain to recapture the barren Falkland Islands 250 miles off Argen- tina's southern coast. British Defense Secretary John Nott, confirming the first loss of lives by British forces in the warfare, initially told the House of Commons "twelve men are missing and there are likely to be other casualties" from the loss of the Sheffield. Within minutes he said he had new in- formation and told the stunned legislators the number of deaths could be as high as 30. "NEARLY ALL THE dship's com- pany and the captain are accounted for," he said, and were picked up by other British vessels. In other developments in the rapidly escalating conflict, the United States announced that some personnel were being evacuated from the U.S. Em- bassy in Buenos Aires because of Argentine fury at America's support of Britain. The British government repor- ted "no progress" in efforts to find a peaceful solution, and Ireland dropped its backing of Britain and called for an urgent U.N. Security Council session to end the bloodshed. U. N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he had given both See 30 SAILORS, Page 9 Catching up While the Daily was out of publication and the University community was in the throes of finals and then a vacation, the news did not stop. A brief recap of the major local events since April 17 ap- pears on Page 3. brain. A follow-up pathological study, conducted by the hospital's chief medical examiner Robert Hendrix, showed that the hemorrhaging was caused by an injury to the head, presumably incurred during Shapiro's fall from his loft, Hendrix said. SHAPIRO'S mother said yesterday that she still did not know the cause of her son's death. She said she and her husband Haskell of Newton, Mass., would not consider any legal action un- See STUDENT, Page 14 Preventive maintenance In an effort to protect the new grass in front of Angell Hall, the University has erected fences to keep people from making dirt roads where there would be foliage. The fences may come down ao winter approaches, officials said. Student dies after fali from dorm loft By BARRY WITT An 18-year-old Markley dormitory resident died early April 22 at Univer- sity Hospital after undergoing surgery on a broken leg sustained in a six-foot fall from his dorm room loft. An autopsy showed that David Shapiro, an LSA freshman, died of a head injury he apparently sustained when he jumped from his loft to answer the phone at 9:15 a.m. April18. SHAPIRO WAS fully conscious and reported no pain in his head before the operation, friends and family members said. An examination and full set of x- rays showed no sign of serious injury to his head, Shapiro's mother Arline said yesterday. But after a successful operation the morning of April 21, Shapiro "just didn't wake up," said Harold Rotman, the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy. The official cause of Shapiro's death is listed as a subdural hemorrhage, which Rotman described as blood in the FREE ISSUE! 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