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mm FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER THE CINCINNATI MAI 265 Feared Dead In Jet Fire I'Jcdnoodoy Acq. 20, 1000 The 291st day of captivity for U.S. hostages in Iran. chartered Icelandic Airlines DC -9 carrying Moslem pilgrims from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia crashed short of the airport In Colombo, killing at least 199 people. Sri Lanka, December, 1974: A chartered Dutch DC-8 returning Indonesian Moslems from Saudi Arabia went down and 191 passengers and crew were killed.

Morocco, August, 1975: 188 people were killed when a chartered Moroccan Boeing 737 crashed Into the Atlas Mountain near Agadlr. Three separate crashes each claimed 176 lives. They were a Soviet Aeroflot jetliner crashing near Moscow in October, 1972; the collision of a British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC -9 near Zagreb, Yugoslavia in September, 1976, and the crash of a Jordanian Boeing 707 at Nigeria's Kano airport in January, 1973. KUWAIT (AP) A Saudi Arabian TrlStar jetliner caught fire In the air Tuesday, made an emergency landing and burned on the runway at Riyadh airport, the Saudi state radio reported. It said flames engulfed the craft before the doors could be opened and 265 people aboard were feared dead.

The radio, monitored in this Persian Gulf sheikdom, said Flight 163 originating In Karachi, Pakistan caught fire shortly after takeoff from Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on a flight to the Red Sea port of Jidda to the southwest It said the pilot reported the fire onboard while SO miles from Riyafh on the way to Jidda, then lost contact with Riyadh control tower, but contact was restored after the emergency landing. THE PLANE landed on the main runway and taxied to the end of an of the worst single-plane disasters In aviation history. FOLLOWING ARE the major civil aviation accidents: Canary Islands, March, 1977; 582 persons perished in the collision of two Boeing 747s operated by Pan American and the Dutch airline KLM at the airport on Tenertfe In Spain's Canary Islands. France, March, 1974: In the Worst single-plane accident 346 persons were killed when a Turkish DC-10 crashed 26 miles northeast 0 Paris. Chicago, May 25, 1979: An American Airlines DC-10 crashed on killing 273.

Antarctlca, November, 1979: An Air New Zealand DC-10 taking tourists on a flight to the South Pole struck a mountain and 257 persons, were killed. Sri Lanka, November, 1978: A ed the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. THIS ALSO Is the time of the year when devout Moslems begin arriving In Saudi Arabia to prepare for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of the prophet Mohammed, that Is 40 miles east of Jidda. Hundreds of thousands of Moslems from around the world participate each year in the plglrlmage, which every Moslem is required by his religion to make at least once. This year the pilgrimage season falls In early November.

The Lockheed TrlStar Is powered by three jet engines and is a long-range airliner that can accommodate up to 400 passengers. The normal capacity for long flights, however, Is around 270 passengers. The accident appeared to be one older runway that runs parallel to it As fire engines, ambulances and flre-flghtlng helicopters raced toward the plane, the pilot reported he was trying to send the passengers down escape chutes, the radio said. Contact was lost again as fire engulfed the plane, Its doors could not be opened from outside or Inside, and all aboard were feared dead, the broadcast reported. It said 16 of the 265 aboard were crew members.

According to the broadcast the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority announced it was preparing messages of condolences to the families of the vlctma and that a detailed statement would be Issued later. The announcement was seen as an Indication that most of the passengers were Saudi nationals, possibly returning to their homes from the holiday and feasting that mark TODAY TOMORROW Variably cloudy today and Thursday, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms throughout the period. Dense fog expected during morning and evening hours. Highs will be in the upper 80s, lows in the 70s. Weather map, details, Page A-8.

mmmmkM Some colleges are In trouble because of falling enrollments. They're going to have to recruit students as If they were all football stars. i Strike Crisis Still Flares In Poland For the fifth time, workers at the Avon Products plant In Sprlngdale reject union affiliation. Page B-4. Riverfront Coliseum attorneys and city officials will discuss proposed new crowd-control ordinances.

Page B-l. VXp4 Oaths of office will be administered Sept 1 to a new Lockland auditor and a woman who may be the first of her sex to take a council seat there. Page Senate passes bill that would preserve In its natural state an area of Alaska twice the size of California. Page A-2. Ex-Lawyer Indicted In Roundup BYMIKETURMELL nd WALT SCHAEFER Erttju)rr Reporteri Thomas A.

Conroy, former Cincinnati lawyer and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent was freed on his own recognizance by a federal magistrate In Cincinnati Tuesday after he voluntarily returned to this city to face drug-related charges. I Conroy, 60, an administrative law Judge with the Social Security Administration office in Syracuse, N.Y, was named In a two-oount indictment Tuesday alleging that he conspired to possess, and possessed cocaine with Intent to distribute in the Cincinnati area. Conroy was one of 45 persons rounded up Tuesday in a joint federal and county Investigation centering on "people considered career criminals," said Sheriff Lincoln J. Stokes. As many as 20 more persons could be arrested as a result of the police Investigation which dates back to 1979.

Named In federal Indictments, but still at large Tuesday evening, were Burlln "Bud" Davis, of Clermont County, former president of Teamsters Local 100, and David Allen Mor-gArf, of Dayton, named in eight counts Involving stolen trucks and merchandise. THE FEDERAL indictments also Included Charges of sale of untaxed cigarettes, possession of stolen property and various weapons violations. Conroy, a former Colerain Township resident who worked for the FBI from 1946 to 1960, co-operated with local authorities when contacted about the indictment, said Alfred E. Smith, special agent In charge of the Cincinnati FBI office. Smith said Conroy Intended to distribute the cocaine In the Cincinnati area.

STOKES ANNOUNCED the arrests Tuesday, morning during a press conference In Blue Ash with federal, suburban and county law-enforcement officials. Most of the county Indictments were for receiving stolen property. "We primarily addressed ourselves to property crimes," Stokes said. Goods recovered In the operation Included liquor, credit cards, guns, automobiles, marijuana, narcotics, cigarettes, vending machines, televisions, stereos, citizen band radios, stained glass, jewelry, tools, oriental rugs, Uf elf, gold, silver and coin collections. A -St.

Bernard Police Chief Robert Heller, who was present at the press conference, was asked 4ater if police operated a fake fencing Jimmy Connors shows flashes of old personality while easily disposing of first foe in ATP Tournament at Nlcklaus Sports Center. Page C-l. GDANSK, Poland (AP)-Poland's crippling labor crisis spread to at least two more cities Tuesday and militant workers demanded anew that the communist government enact sweeping economic and social reforms. The government reportedly flew police reinforcements to this northern port city, center of the strikes, and Polish head of state Henryk Jablonskl declared the "fate of the nation' hung In the balance. Mlroslaw Wolciechowskl, editor of the news agency that speaks for the government said authorities would not occupy the strikebound plants by force.

But he also said the government negotiating commission would meet only with individual strike committees, not with the unified strike committee as demanded by militant workers. He confirmed that the five-day-old strike, the most serious challenge to Communist Party leader Edward Glerek's decade of rule, had spread to Szcsecln, a major port on the East German frontier. The Polish news agency PAP reported strikes In Elblag, about 40 miles east of Gdansk. DISSIDENTS SAID the unrest has reached the country's Industrial heartland In the south, with thousands of workers striking at the showcase steel center of Nowa Huta near Krakow. The report could not be confirmed.

Nowa Huta, a huge Industrial complex, was built following the communist takeover after World War and Is regarded as a model of socialist planning and workers' performance. The strikers began their walkout here last Thursday to protest the government's July 1 meat price increase. They have issued 21 demands, chief among them establishment of trade unions free of state control. Others include an end to censorship, access by religious groups to the mass media, higher pay, earlier retirement and guarantees against reprisals once the strike has been settled. Strike leaders at Lenin Shipyards said workers had now closed 174 enterprises In the Gdansk-Gdynia area, up from 150 on Monday, and remained firm in their demands for an average $66 monthly pay Increase to offset the rise In food prices.

DISSIDENT SOURCES reported the government was massing police and militia units at staging areas near Gdansk. Govern Hess Eisenhardt, the Blue Ash maker of armored limousines, file a lawsuit charging that a former officer acted as a double agent and peddled Its trade secrets. Page C-8. People used to say, "You are what vou eat." Nowadays. "You are what you do" is more apropos for working ious.

rage k-i. cntortnncjui The final TV ratings from both political conventions are In now and It looks like more people like to watch Democrats than Republicans. Page F-14. ment helicopters airlifted police and militia reinforcements from elsewhere In Poland, the sources said, and witnesses reported see ing convoys of militiamen, including three truckloads near Rebiechowo Airport nere. in cr onion But additional police did not appear on operation.

'I'm sure by our silence you can surmise our silence says something," Heller commented. city streets Tuesday, sources said. Dissidents from the Committee for So The discontents In Poland pose a dilemma for Americans. Editorial, cial Self-Defense, the primary source of Page A-10. strike news, said many Szczecin workers leit their jobs Tuesday, swelling the strikers' ranks to well over Indictments detailed, Page B-3.

In Gdansk, strike leaders repeated their indax demand tnat tne government negotiate di A WOMAN, standing amid striking workers at the Lenin shipyard In Gdansk, Poland uses a I rectly with worker representatives, a move megaphone as she exchanges opinions with a shipyard official. conroy cnarge 'snocKS' tnenas, Page B-l. amounting to de-facto recognition of their Six Sections, 140th Year, No, 133 seif-styied "free trade union. U.S; Admits Errors In Building Ohio Dams talEalsslS Landowners blame corps, Page B-l. BY ENQUIRER STAFF and N.Y.

TIMES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON The Justice Department has admitted that the Army Corps of Engineers made a series of mistakes and misrepresentations In building dams and dredging channels along the Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. ACTION LINE BIORHYTHMS i E-9 BRIDES B-5 BRIDGE BRUMFIELD A-ll BUCK Ol BUSINESS C-7-11 CLASSIFIED COLUMNISTS A-10, 11 COMICS F-16 CROSSWORD E-6 DEAR ABBY EJ DEATHS C-6 EDITORIALS A-10 ENTERTAINMENT E-9-11 FOOD NEWS F-l-18 GALLUP REPORT A7 GRAHAM F-14 HEALTH E-2 HOROSCOPE HORSE SENSE E-9 JUMBLE EJ LANG E-l RACES C-7 SOCIETY EJ TV-RADIO F-14 WEIKEL EH WHEN I WAS A BOY FJ4 WORD GAME E-9 The federal government might be held liable for tens, It not hun dreds of millions of dollars in dam the deepened channel led-to massive erosion of farmland. FOR EXAMPLE, In the town of Brandenburg, west of Louisville, landowners along the. river contend that the deepened channel has led to the erosion of as-much as 300 feet of land. Two years ago near Rockhaven, the soil erosion was so Severe that 52 cars of a Louslvllle Nashville freight train slid into the river after the riverbanks eroded under the banks.

The papers filed here last week involve only four lltigantas-'a'Dout 120 already are involved-'WtiONarfr seeking $25 million In damages. One of the litigants is Brig. Gen. Thur- man Owens, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, and his wife Phyllis of Florence, Ky.

Norman E. Hay of Indianapolis, an attorney representing, the four said the final amounts (ft money that could be assessed (or damages might be much higher. "There are 10,000 landowners along the Ohio where these dams have gone in and it's anyone's guess as to how many would sue, and how much they could collect," he said. ''THE CORPS of Engineers lied to Congress, they lied to the courts, they lied to landowners and they lied to the Justice Department," Hay said. He said the court must now determine damages based on the amount of land lost by each plaintiff.

"They're very happy that they've won," he said of the plaintiffs. "They've had a long uphill battle." When told that Crean had stated that he had made a mistake, Hay said he found It lnconcelveable that such serious error could be made. "There Is no doubt that this Is a very important and significant lawsuit" LT Gen. J.W. Morris, head of tne corps, said several years ago.

have said that the allegations were denied." Sources familiar with the case said, however, that the potential for damages is so enormous one estimate is more than $500 million that an attempt is being made to withdraw the admissions to save the Treasury money. Several dozen landowners living along the Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio have already filed suits against the federal government charging that the Corps of Engineers engaged in "fraud and misrepresentation" in acquiring land and easements, often under threat of condemnation, for the replacement of dams along the river. The members of this group contended In their lawsuits that the Corps condemned and purchased land in the 1960s on the basis of a 12-foot deep channel when only a nine-foot channel had been authorized by Congress. The result, they charged, Is that plaints of damages. The admissions of fault are contained in papers filed a week ago with the United States Court of Claims here that only came to light Tuesday.

IN A bizarre twist to a case that has dragged through the courts for five years already, the Justice Department attorney who signed the admissions, Hubert M. Crean, said in an interview that he had made a mistake. "I made a mistake, it's that simple," Crean said. "When It was stated that the allegations of the plaintiffs are admitted. It should ages which resulted from soil erosion and property damage.

In one lawsuit Involving Boone County, attorneys claim the Northern Kentucky county has lost about $10 million worth of highways along the south bank of the Ohio River because of soil erosion. The case may have national implications going beyond the Ohio River since the Corps of Engineers has built similar dams and deepened channels In rivers elsewhere in the country, leading to similar com- SPORTS RESULTS: Telephone 39-1005 or 349-WW.