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New Orleans
143 aboard,
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machine spewing out water on rinse.
"It was like a big vacuum cleaner
went through," said Victor Dean, a Pan
Am employee who lives six houses from
the point where the jet hit.
Dean said the impact demolished a
neighbor's house, "and it doesn't look
as if there was ever a house there." He
said the owner had used his telephone
and reported his wife and three young
children had been inside.
Kenner, located 15 miles west of the
heart of downtown New Orleans, is the
state's sixth largest city, and one of the
most affluent suburban areas. The
plane came down in the southeast sec-
tion of the city, an area known as Mor-
ningside Park.
The crash occurred about a mile east
of the east-west runway at New Orleans
International Airport, the runway flight
759 took off from. After the jet took off,
it passed over a municipal complex
containing the city hall, police, and fire
departments.
Then it hit some trees near busy
Williams Boulevard. It continued on,
hitting more tree tops. Then it clipped
two houses at the intersection of 17th
and Fairway streets, setting them
afire. It skidded and bounced for three
blocks, with most of the fuselage finally'
ending about three blocks away at 17th
and Taylor streets.
A large section of the fuselage with
part of a wing still attached to it and the
blue and white Pan Am insignia visible
ended on top of a maroon station wagon

jet crash kills
6 on ground
turned black by flames.
The plane left a black path about 100
to 150 feet wide and three blocks long.
"As soon as it went down my son-in-
law ran down there .. . it burst into
flames and people were screaming and
everything else. It was unbearable, the
way they were screaming," said wit-
ness Normand "Rock" Sheeren.
"When the plane came. over, I was
standing right in the back door and it hit
my tree. Then it hit the wires, big
cables on top of the electrical wires and
then she came nose right on down into
the next street," said Sheeren.
"It sounded likea tornado going over
and my dishes fell down," said Fay
Meyer, who lives a block from the crash
scene. "It clipped, off part of my palm
tree."
The rain had stopped about 40
minutes after the crash but smoke still
billowed from the scene four hours
later.
Grim-faced workers from hospitals
and funeral homes put the victims into
black body bags that were taken in
large refrigerated tractor trailers to a
temporary morgue.
"It's pretty nasty," said Greg Hill, 19,
who works for a local funeral home.
As night approached, the rescue
crews moved over the residential
neighborhood and planted red stakes
where each body was found.
Joseph Pace, 58, said his wife and two
children were in their house when a 40-
foot part of the plane landed atop of it.

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Water cooler.
Sally Greenburg gets an impromptu shower to cool off yesterday at the fountain
next to Regents Plaza.
U.S.trained troops in
El Salvador stalemated

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP)-
Troops newly returned from training in
the United States have failed so far to
give the Salvadoran army the military
edge it hoped for in the stalemated war
against leftist guerrillas.
The biggest setback to date has been
in northeastern Morazan Province,
where 6,000 government soldiers bat-
tled guerrillas through most of June
and withdrew without success.
AT ONE time, the battle included
1,500 troops recently returned from
special training in Fort Bragg, N.C.,

and Fort Benning, Ga. The Reagan
administration has also been providing
El Salvador with $55 million in military
aid this year and dozens of non-combat
military advisers.
The military is believed to have suf-
fered its heaviest casualties of the 32-
month-old war in Morazan, a longtime
rebel stronghold near the Honduras
border.
The renewed fighting broke a two-
month lull in guerrilla activity that
followed March 28 elections for a Con-
stituent Assembly,

Dialogue proves final blow
to empty 'Author! Author!'
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natural father, Ivan takes the kids and
makes a getaway on to the roof of his
brownstone.
The scene is meant to be airy, wild,
funny and sincere all at the same time,
but it's none of these things. It's only
amazing. Could a mature and
reasonable man be this stupid? Where
does he expect to go from the roof?
What does he plan to do from then on,
since the police already know where he
and the girls are living? The scene is a
trick, a mere stunt to keep us from get-
ting bored, and it does not work.
Joan Didion hit a piece of the nail
when she reviewed Allen's Manhattan
as a kind of tag sale of artsy, intellec-
tual goodies. Author! is not dissimilar.
There is a sale on writers. Writers are
supposed to be interesting, especially
when one juxtaposes their "brilliant" 'Author! Author!'
professional lives with their tortured
family lives..." lacks script
So we get writers writing about that in spite of Al Pacino and Dyan
writers and actresses acting as ac- Cannon and all the semi-precious wit,
tresses and it all starts to seem a little this is an annoying and meaningless
narcissistic and in-bred. And perhaps movie. And except for the fact that it is
the worst of all this is that now I'm liable to make you laugh a few times
writing about it. So be it. (not enough), there is realy nothing
There is a point, and the point is.this:... good to say about it.

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All1 locked up
What looks like an uncovered Ann Arbor bicycle theft ring is actually an idle.
collection of vehicles at a local shop.}