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25 cents JL. Phoenix, Arizona Monday, October 4, 1982 XOZD Copyright 1982, The Arizona Republic EC SJlWC' 93rd Year, No. 141 more arrested extortion plot if in ainst Gulf Oil h- i't J. Plane crash takes 5 lives in Flagstaff Five people aboard a twin-engine aircraft were killed early Sunday when their plane crashed about one mile southeast of the Little America hotel complex in Flagstaff shortly after taking off from Pulliam Airport, officials said. The pilot was identified as William John Ramsey, 30, of Mesa.

The passengers, all from Flagstaff, were identified as David Bruce Millman, 25; Mary Sue Landrigan, 21; Ricardo Archibaldo Unwin, 28; and Nancy Eileen Cordero, 31. No other information was available about the victims or how they knew Ramsey. Robert A. Taylor, the Mesa owner of the aircraft, told investigators that Ramsey took off without permission, Flagstaff police Lt. J.P.

McCann said. Taylor said he and Ramsey had flown to Page on Saturday and Taylor had picked up a car, according to McCann. Taylor drove the car to Flagstaff, and Ramsey flew the plane to the northern Arizona city, where they met and checked into a motel, McCann said. Ramsey, who worked as a pilot for Taylor, borrowed the car late Saturday night, the officer said. After Taylor awakened Sunday morning and discovered Ramsey missing, he telephoned airport to see if his friend was there and heard that the plane had crashed, McCann said.

A Flagstaff man who was camping in the area heard the crash about 2 a.m. Sunday. The camper searched for the crash site before notifying Flagstaff police about 4 a.m., Flagstaff police Sgt. Patrick Tarrsaid. The plane's wreckage was spotted at 7:55 a.m.

by a search team that included a helicopter from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, he said. The white 1972 Beechcraft Baron crashed in a. heavily wooded area three miles north of the airport runway apparently just after takeoff, Tarr said. The crash site is within the city limits. The plane apparently dived nose-first because it didn't hit any trees, Roberts said, adding that there was no fire at the site.

Officials found the plane resting against a tree. One body was thrown from the plane, but the others were found inside the wreckage, officials said. Federal Aviation Administration authorities said they will investigate the cause of the crash. Taylor, who was staying in Flagstaff on Sunday night, could not be reached for further comment. However, police said, Taylor did not know why Ramsey took the plane and did not know the other people who died.

ture of plastics, detergents, cosmetics and other products. Two Durango men were arrested Friday night at an Apache Junction gas station in connection with the alleged extortion plot. The FBI identified those suspects as Theodore Duane McKinney, 45, and Michael Allen Worth, 34. Authorities said McKinney and Worth were on the telephone with Bob Quintana, a Gulf security official, when they were arrested. Bond of $1 million each was set on McKinney and Worth by U.S.

Magistrate Morton Citver, who scheduled a preliminary hearing for Friday for the pair. Quintana arrived in Arizona on Friday, as he had been instructed to do in a telephone call by a man who said he was one of the people involved in the extortion plot, according to an affidavit filed by the FBI. Agents used telephone taps during the investigation, the affidavit said. McKinney and Worth are accused of obstructing commerce under the federal Hobbs Act. Neither entered a plea before a U.S.

magistrate in Phoenix on Saturday. Hinchcliffe said McBride and Bird were arrested after the Durango Police Department and the La Plata County, Sheriffs Office joined the FBI in the investigation. A spokeswoman handling telephone calls for the two local law-enforcement agencies in Durango referred all questions to the FBI. A press release issued by the Denver FBI office did not specify what roles McBride and Bird allegedly had in the extortion plot. An FBI spokesman declined to elaborate.

William A. Gavin, head of the Denver FBI office, said McBride and Bird were arrested by federal agents and Durango law officers. Durango is in southwestern Colo- Plant-bomb probe is widened by FBI By Alan Ariav Republic Staff Two more people from Durango, were arrested Sunday in an alleged attempt to extort $15 million from the Gulf Oil Co. by threatening to blow up a refinery near Houston, according to the FBI. John J.

Hinchcliffe, special agent in charge of the Phoenix FBI office, identified the two as John Marvin McBride, 46, and Jill Renee Bird, 36. Authorities said the suspects were arrested in Durango and charged with violating a federal extortion statute. U.S. Magistrate David West set bond at $1 million each for McBride and Ms. Bird, who remained in jail in Durango on Sunday.

McBride had been free on bond on an unrelated extortion charge involving impersonation of a law-enforcement officer in California, according to authorities in LaPlata County, Colo. McBride is a private investigator in Durango, according to Barry Smith, police reporter for the Durango Herald, the city's daily newspaper. Meanwhile, the FBI is spreading its investigation into other parts of the country, and a deadline passed without any new explosions at the Gulf refinery, 30 miles east of Houston. Authorities on Sunday searched for additional bombs at Gulfs Cedar Bayou plant. Five bombs were found at the plant last week after Gulf had received a six-page letter threatening to blow up the plant.

One bomb exploded Thursday as it was being deactivated, but no one was injured. The plant, which employs about 1,100 people, was ordered shut down over the weekend. The plant makes petrochemicals used in the manufac i--irrf'-'-f T- AP Mark of a winner Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner douses him- will meet the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednes- self with champagne to the delight of third day, and the American League's Milwaukee baseman Bob Horner after the team won the Brewers will meet the California Angels in National League West title Sunday. The Braves Anaheim on Tuesday as the playoffs open.

C1. Israeli roop bus ambushed peinitw Today Lebanon; 6 killed, 22 hurt Arabian oryx from Phoenix Zoo are replenishing desert of Oman TYLENOL PROBE Investigators looking for whoever poisoned Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules with cyanide say they have come up with "at least two down potential suspects." A1 1. CHUCKLE Inflation has changed things. Now one can live almost as cheaply as two used to. PRAYER Lord, ker-p us gentle in the face of adversity.

Forgive our angered moments. Amen. WEATHER Mostly sunny and warm. Breezy at times. High in mid-90s, low in mid-60s.

Sunday's high 95, low CO. Humidity: high 42, low 10. D2. Israeli jets pummeled Syrian positions for hours the next day. U.S.

envoy Philip Habib on Sunday ended a two-day visit to Damascus where he won a pledge that Syria will withdraw simultaneously with Israel's 70,000 troops. On the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Israeli troops dug in 250 yards from U.S. Marine positions at Beirut airport in defiance of a U.S. call for the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the city. A half-dozen Israeli troops with automatic weapons manned a checkpoint on the nearby coastal road in the latest move in the Israeli diplomatic chess game around the fringes of the city.

The action was an apparent violation of agreements on an Israeli withdrawal from Beirut that were negotiated by U.S. envoys Habib and Morris Draper before the landing of the U.S. forces. American military spokesmen said Thursday they had understood that the Israeli front line would not be north of Khalde two miles south of where the Israelis dug positions in the red soil Sunday. In Tel Aviv, Israel Television broadcast an interview Sunday with a man who identified himself Lebanon, A10 Republic Wire Services An armed band ambushed an Israeli troop bus near Syrian-held lines in eastern Lebanon on Sunday, killing six soldiers and wounding 22 others, the Israeli military command said.

The unidentified attackers escaped. The attack occurred about 4 p.m. Beirut time on the Beirut-Damascus highway east of the town of Aley. The site is less than four miles from the front line of Syria's army in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Israeli troops blocked the highway and searched the area through the night for the killers.

Flares used to aid the search parties could be seen 10 miles away in Beirut, where U.S., Italian and French peacekeepers guard the streets. The right-wing Phalangist radio reported that one of the wounded soldiers later died, raising the death toll to seven, but Israeli officials could not confirm the report. It was not clear if the attack will complicate U.S. efforts to get Israel and Syria out of Lebanon. But the last time Israeli soldiers were ambushed three troops were killed and another was wounded in a bazooka attack on their jeep Sept.

10 thought by some to have inspired the myth of the unicorn, had been reduced in number to a few dozen. Estimates are that there now are about 450, almost all the prpgeny of the Phoenix "world herd." "We really don't know whether they would have survived in the wild at all," Dr. James Savoy, the zoo director, said last week. "But their future now seems bright." The return to the wild began in 1980. Ten oryx from the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, both of which had been supplied seed animals from Phoenix, were sent then to Yalooni.

To allow them to become acclimated, however, they gradually were deprived of supplementary feed and Oryx, A2 By Carle Hodge Republic Science Writer On the rocky plain of Jiddat al-Harasis, greened with acacia in the deep desert of Oman, rare antelope graze again. The Arabian oryx, their long, ridged horns swept back like slender wands, have returned home. For animals once gunned to the abyss of oblivion in their native habitat, their revival is remarkable enough. But the way by which the species was able to persist provides a classic revision of the usual history of man's extinction of other creatures. Those freed near a place called Yalooni are descended from oryx captured on the same plain 20 years ago and flown to the Phoenix Zoo to be nurtured over succeeding generations.

Two decades ago, the Arabian oryx, Weatherline 957-8700 Astrology Dl Leisure C9 Close-ups B6 Movies C10 Comics C8 Obituaries D2 Crossword 1)1 Radio C13 DearAbhy Dl Scrabble Dl Economy A12 Sports Cl Editorials A6 Thurber Bl Hutton B6 TV log C13 Jumble Dl Want ads Dl Kelly Dl Weather D2 4 fall to deaths mines Ebaitoon or injured 'rockets' after blast; 5 Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. An explosion aboard a hot-air balloon at a festival Sunday sent five people plummeting to Earth from the flaming gondola at heights of 50 to 200 feet. Four died. Nine people were aboard the craft when it blew up while still on the ground, and several were either blasted from the gondola or jumped away, witnesses said. The flaming balloon then raced into the air with the remaining occupants, witnesses said.

Five people were injured. "The whole basket around the. propane tanks was engulfed in fire," said J.W. Nimmo, a member of tjle balloon's chase crew. "We couldn't See who jumped out first." Nimmo, who was following the balloon after it lifted off with 200 others balloons from Cutter Balloon- port, said the craft had touched down near the Rio Grande in rural Albuquerque when the first explosion occurred.

"Three or four (people) jumped out," he said. "Immediately, the balloon started to lift. A girl climbed out the side and was hanging out the side by one arm. "You can't imagine what it was like to be running across that field and seeing that girl hanging from the gondola. We were screaming for her to jump before it was too late." Nimmo said that as the balloon reached 50 feet, he had to tackle his wife to keep her from trying to catch the girl as she fell to the Earth.

"There was another large explosion," he said. It threw pilot Joe Gonzales of Albuquerque out of the gondola. He was listed as one of the survivors. With the loss of the weight of the pilot and girl, "the balloon went straight up, and it really rocketed," reaching a height of 200 feet with three people still on board, Nimmo said. "lt looked like one of them jumped," Nimmo said.

"He climbed up on the side of the gondola. The other two either jumped or fell. The propane tanks fell, too. We were running and screaming for help, Joe (Gonzales) was walking around in a daze. He was burned pretty bad." According to police Sgt.

J.M. Mid-yett, Gonzales told officers he had set the balloon, the El Globo Grande, down in a 35-acre field near the Albuquerque Wildlife Preserve when one of the four propane tanks exploded. Gonzales said he was thrown from Balloon, A2 JK AP flates in the Rio Grande outside Albuquerque.The hot-air balloon exploded and crashed Sunday. A rescue worker stands in the charred remains of the gondola of El Globo Grande as it slowly de.