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THE JETLINER plummeted into the Atlantic off Ireland, scattering debris and bodies over five miles of ocean. It was believed to be history's third-worst air disaster. Irish officials said the Boeing 747, flying from Montreal, Canada, to a fueling -stop in London and then to India, vanished from their radar screens without sending a distress call. Search aircraft and boats rushed to the crash site found 106 bodies, and lifeboats that were never inflated. "Explosion is considered a possibility In view of the fact that the wreckage Is -spread over a wide area," Gehlot said.

"Sabotage is a distinct possibility." Flight 182 was the first commercial Jet to crash on the transatlantic route, according to the International Air Transport Association in Geneva, Switzerland. Air-India In New York and London said there were 307 passengers and 22 crew members aboard. AT LEAST 19 American residents, Including seven U.S. citizens, were believed to have been on board. Among the American residents identified were Alleykutty Job, 42, and her daughter Teena, 14, from Tonawanda, N.Y.; Pulivelll K.

Jacob, 43, his wife Alleykutty, 42, and three children from Canton Township, and Prabha Reddy, 35, of North Tonawanda, N.Y. In New Delhi, Air-India officials said many of the Canadian citizens were of Indian origin, and that there were 77 children and six infants on the flight. Flight 182 originated in Toronto, flew to Montreal and was headed for London en route to New Delhi and Bombay. (Please see CRASH, back page, this section) The Associated Press MEMBERS OF Montreal's Hindu community weep at a memorial service In Montreal Sunday for the 329 people killed when Air India flight 182 crashed off the coast of Ireland. BY MIKE PULFER The Cincinnati Enquirer It was time to go home.

The Gupta family from Anderson Township had been in the United States for five and a half years. None of them had been back to their native India in that time. Rajeshwar and Swatantar Gupta decided this was the summer for a six-week vacation and reunions with friends and relatives back home. But there was little vacation for them or their children, Vandana, 15, and Shaf-fl, 11. An apparent explosion and the resulting crash of the Air India Jet they were aboard took them and 325 other persons to their deaths Sunday In the Atlantic Ocean.

"After five years, they were going back," said Neena Sondhl, a friend who had worked in the same Walnut Hills office building with Mrs. Gupta, a 38-year-old computer-programmertechnician for Globe Corp. "THEY WENT to Toronto. Then, they were going to fly to New Delhi," she said, fighting back tears. Mrs.

Gupta had been planning the trip for months. "They were very, very excited," said Dr. Harlal Choudhury, a friend and fellow Hindu Indian who acted as spokesman for grieving relatives in Cincinnati. Rajeshwar Gupta, 45, was an Insurance salesman for MONY (Mutual of New York). The home of Rajeshwar's sister, Sneh Garg, at 2569 Meadowmar Drive, Mount Washington, was filled with mourners most of the day Sunday, as the Indian community paid its respects.

More than 60 people were at the house In early evening. "They were very happy, outgoing people," said Choudhury, a scientist for the Environmental Protection Agency here and a neighbor of Sneh and Prem Garg. "They both had successful careers They were very happy in America." THE CHILDREN, a daughter who attended Anderson High School and a son who went to Anderson Middle School, were comfortable with their lives here. "This was home to them," said Choudhury. Rajeshwar, their father, was a practicing civil attorney In India before leaving for the United States, Choudhury said.

He sold Insurance to help support his family while waiting to become a licensed lawyer here. He had taken Ohio's bar examination once and was preparing for a second attempt. "He was a friend of everybody," Choudhury said. "He was always happy, always smiling. There was never any sor-rowness In his face." Gupta, who lived at 1066 Beacon near Mount Washington, was a former secretary of the Hindu Society of Greater Cincinnati.

The family worshipped at the Hindu Temple In Clifton. "They were very much looking forward to the vacation because It was their first trip back home since coming to the United States," Choudhury.said. "Like all Indian people, they felt close to their family, and they took pride In visiting family and relatives back home." The Guptas left Cincinnati Friday morning, drove to Toronto and visited with relatives there before their Saturday evening flight en route to India. Their final destination was to have been the Punjab-their home. Ml 1 1 ft FT 7" p-ii sp Jit 1 'I The Associated Press ONE OF four bodies recovered from the North Atlantic following the Air India crash Is carried from the chopper at Cork Airport, Ireland.

LEFT TO RIGHT, Rajeshwar Gupta, his wife, Swatantar, and their children, Vandana, 1 5, and Shaf 1, 11. Luggage Bomb Kills Two In Japanese Airport comment about a possible connection between the two events. Baggage on the two flights came from both Toronto and Vancouver, which have sizable ethnic Indian communities. The CP Air flight left Vancouver after taking on some passengers connecting from Toronto. And passengers boarding the Air India flight In Toronto Included 29 coming from Vancouver, according to airline officials.

(Please see BOMB, back page, this section) Canadian authorities called the blast a "terrorist bombing." It was not immediately known whether the explosion at Narlta International Airport was linked to the crash of an Air-India Jumbo Jet on a flight from Canada to India. ALL 329 people aboard the Boeing 747 were believed to have died when the plane plunged Into the Atlantic off Ireland, and Indian authorities did not rule out the possibility that the crash was provoked by an explosion. Japanese police officials declined minutes in the air, landed 15 minutes early, at 2:40 p.m. (1:40 a.m., EDT). The bomb exploded at 3:20 p.m., so if it was designed to go off in midair, the timing would have been faulty even had the flight been on schedule.

The plane, CP Air Flight 003 from Vancouver, British Columbia, carried 374 passengers and 16 crew members. Aside from the baggage handlers, no one was hurt. About 7,000 people were In the terminal In the south wing of the airport here, 40 miles east of Tokyo. ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES NARITA, Japan A bomb, apparently planted in luggage, exploded Sunday after It was unloaded from a Canadian airliner at Japan's main International airport. Two cargo handlers were killed and four were wounded.

Japanese police officers and airline officials said It was too early to tell If the bomb had a timing device or whether It was supposed to have exploded in midair. But those possibilities are under investigation, they added. THE BOEING 747, after nine hours 15 Near Flawless Mission Heads To Touchdown Israel Will Free 31 Captives; Hostages' Captors Want More Index Four Sections, 145th Year, No. 76 1985 The Cincinnati Enquirer AROUND TOWN B-3 BUSINESS CJ CLASSIFIED D-4-17 COMICS DEAR ABBY BJ2 DEATHS D-3 EDITORIALS A-6 HOROSCOPE B-6 HORSE RACING METRO D-1-3 PEOPLE Bj2 PUZZLES B-6-7 SPORTS C-1-7 STARR CO TEMPO B-l-8 TV-RADIO BJ WEIKEL T2 hole In the Milky Way. Perhaps as important was the mission's diplomatic portfolio.

Saudi Prince Sultan Al-Saud, an Information official for his government, and Patrick Baudry, a French military officer who hopes to fly a French version of the shuttle one day, were aboard as much to foster International good will as for anything else. AL-SAUD'S participation was praised In an international telephone exchange arranged by the United States Information Agency (USIA). In Washington, a USIA commentator called Al-Saud "the pride and Joy of the Arab youth." From Riyadh, his uncle, King Fahd, said the flight was a "great achievement" and sent his best wishes "to his excellency, President Reagan." (Please see SHUTTLE, back page, this section) BY MICHAEL MECHAM Gannett News Service HOUSTON-A Saudi prince on an American shuttle mission said Sunday that terrorists would have a different attitude If they viewed the world from space. And a French aviator aboard shuttle Discovery offered mission control some gastronomic advice: A little wine would make meals nicer and put the crew in "good humor." The seven-day mission, which has gone almost flawlessly, is to end after 111 orbits today at 9:12 a.m. EDT with a landing on a dry lake bed at' Edward Air Force Base, Calif.

The seven-member crew launched three communications satellites, includingone for the Arab League (which Includes Lebanon), conducted the first shuttle test of a "Star Wars" missile tracking system, and made X-ray maps of lntergalactic gas clouds that might reveal a black all the Lebanese prisoners it moved from southern Lebanon to a prison near Haifa before they will release the American hostages. SUNDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS were played out primarily over American television, as the leading participants on all sides used Sunday talk shows to appeal to American public opinion in an effort to win support. The release of the 31, which is scheduled for today, was announced by Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation," broadcast from Washington. Rabin said the 31 people brought to Israel during the three-year Lebanese war were being released in accordance with Israel's policy of gradually freeing the 766 pr's-ners-most of whom are Shiltes. ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON Israel announced Sunday that It will release 31 of Its more than 700 Lebanese Shiite and other Arab prisoners, but the hopes that the move might help free the 40 American hostages In Beirut faded as Lebanon's principal Shiite leader called the action inadequate.

Further dampening the prospects for a speedy end to the impasse over the fate of the 40 Americans, U.S. and Israeli officials denied that Israel's action was Intended to placate the hostages' captors. Both sides seemed to go out of their way to stress that there Is no q-iick end in sight for the drama thai began 11 days ago when Shiite gunmen hijacked Trans World Airlines Flight 847. The hijackers have demanded that Israel free Rabin Insisted the move was "not linked whatsoever" to the demands of hijackers. But senior Israeli defense and army sources, who asked not to be identified, told the New York Times the release of the 31 was being undertaken to give Nabih Berrl, the leader of the Shiite Moslem movement Amal, some "room to maneuver," and to demonstrate that Israel was not the obstacle in resolving the hijacking, as the hijackers have sought to depict it.

Shortly after the Israeli announcement, Lebanese Shiite leader Nablh Berrl dismissed the move. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, taking the lead for the Reagan administration, reiterated in strong terms the U.S. position (Please see HIJACK, back page, this section) SPORTS RESULTS Telephone 369-1005, 369-1006 Partly cloudy today. Chance rain this morning.

High about 80. Clear tonight. Low, mid-50s. Mostly sunny Tuesday. High, mld-80s.

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