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Worst aviation disaster 0 2 DDTlg (0 0 Otto: SANTA CRUZ DE TENER-IFE, Canary Islands (AP) The Spanish air ministry said today the death' toll from the fiery collision here of Pan American and KLM jumbo Jets had climbed to 562. It was the worst aviation disaster in history. Spanish officials said 72 persons survived Sunday's collision of the two Boeing 747s on the fog-shrouded runway. AH the survivors were aboard the American plane. Eleven were listed in very serious or grave condition.

"The whole plane was on fire and people were crying and screaming trying to get out," said James Naik, 37, of Cupertino, Calif. "Within just a few seconds the metal started to come apart." 33 Canary Islands lanzaroh LA 9 TENERIFESjnti PALM r-7iHi fj FUERTE- IRalph tfTrower 1 VENTURA GRAN CANARIA American employes. The airline said seven crew members survived. Royal Cruise Lines, which chartered' the Pan American plane, said the charter group was on a 12-day Mediterranean tour. The Dutch plane, which carried 239 passengers and crew, had been chartered by Holland International.

Both planes were bound for Las Palmas, on Grand Canary island, but were diverted here because of a bomb explosion at a flower shop at the Las Palmas aiport. The leader of a Canary Islands separatist group, Antonio Cubillo, claimed responsibility for the blast, which injured eight persons. The accident occurred at about 4:40 p.m. in fog witnesses said cut visibility to 60 feet. Both planes were headed for Grand Canary.

The last fatal air accident at Santa Cruz occurred in December 1972, when 155 persons died in the crash of a Spanish charter airliner. In London, insurance officials said the crash might cost insurance companies more than four times as much in claims as any previous air disaster. They estimated insurance claims by the two airlines could total at least $240 million. Monday, March mwm A r. Clayton House glad it's over, too "Right now, I might say 'no A year or two from now, who knows, I might just say yes." Clayton House Manager Bill Collins was responding to an obvious question, what will be your reaction next time somebody wants to use your motel for labor negotiations.

The future, Bill feels, will take care of itself. Right now, he's just happy to have seen the last of the nightly Racine Education Association-School Board circus for a while. There was many a night when his lobby contained hundreds of curious bystanders. "I don't mind the nego- Pending an official finding, there were conflicting reports on the sequence of events leading to the crash. The Spanish news agency Cifra quoted airport sources as saying the flight recorder from the American plane indicated the collision may have been caused by a misunderstanding on the part of the Pan American pilot, Capt.

Victor Grubb of Centerport, N.Y. In New York, a Pan American spokesman said the airline expected "anything substantive" concerning the cause of the collision to come from a U.S. government investigating team sent to the crash site "and anything else we view with eoncern." Sources quoted by Cifra said the recorder showed the airport control tower had ordered the Pan American plane to move onto the main runway. The sources said the U.S. crew apparently misunderstood the order and taxied onto another runway where the KLM plane was taking off.

But Cifra quoted Grubb, who was hospitalized at the Santa Cruz General Hospital, as saying he was taxiing down the main runway at the time of the collision. "The crew saw nothing right up to the moment of impact," he was quoted as saying- Another survivor, Roland Brusco of Longview, said the passengers were told the KLM jet was to hold its departure while the Pan American plane taxied across the runway to await its turn for takeoff "According to our pilot, the other plane was to hold at the other end of the runway," Brusco told the Portland Ore-gonian newspaper by telephone. "We pulled out and followed them. Just as we got to the off ramp, where we would get out of the way, well, communications must have gotten mixed up." He said the Pan American tiators," reflects Collins. That is business for me.

It's the sightseers and spectators who were causing the problems. I finally had to 'say something because I was starting to get feelers from the major companies who deal with us. Their people weren't getting much rest here. "I've never seen anything like it. Most people were understanding when I asked SPAIN Rabat MOROCCO 747s collided.

Sections 20c role in Watergate." Jobs in the field are available to persons who are "naturally curious, persistent and skeptical, and know how to write 'well." Freedom of the press as It relates to pornography "If you're for freedom of the press, I guess you're for Larry Flynt (publisher of Hustler magazine)." But Bradlee termed Hustler as being "awful" and said "Larry Flynt haunts me." About the number of 'honorable' people he has met during his career "As I grow older, I think there were fewer elected officials that fill me with. He clutched his hand over his heart and smiled. AURITAIASrg Collins lines pepaipa plane was taxiing when "all of a sudden were were turning and someone was screaming that KLM was taking off. was screaming. Those who survived the hol-ocoust of fire and explosions were thrown from the plane on impact or managed to scramble to safety before the flames filled the passenger compartment.

One survivor, John Charles Amadour, 35, of Marina Del Ray, telephoned his father that "he looked out on the runway and saw the (KLM) plane coming right at him," his father said. "He ducked down to put his head between his knees and he heard the grinding and the crash. He looked up and said the plane was split in three pieces. le felt as if he was in an tren. He said ne was airaia kjie was going to be roasted.

was clamoring to get to this opening. Others were too They were fighting and pushing. Finally he jumped about 12 feet, right Into the rim of the fire and smoke, he landed on his back." Investigators were en route to Tenerife from the United States, the Spanish mainland and the Netherlands to try to determine the cause of the collision. The U.S. Embassy in Madrid sent an eight-man delegation including a doctor, and three U.S.

Air Force C130 transports were ordered from bases in the Canaries and West Germany to move the dead and injured. However, the airport at Santa Cruz was closed by stormy weather and all flights were landing at Las Palmas, on Grand Canary island. Those who could not wait were taking a 50-mile ferry ride to get to Tenerife. Both planes were on charter flights, loaded with vacationers. Pan American said its flight carried 396 persons, including 364 passengers who boarded in Los Angeles, 14 who boarded in New York, a crew of 16 and four Pan tmt if BEN BRADLEE man who helped bring down a president.

Or maybe they weren't even interested in Bradlee at all. "I got this crazy feeling you were after (Bob) Woodward and (Carl) Bernstein, or perhaps maybe even (Jasoq) Robards," Bradlee said, referring to the Post's two star Watergate reporters and the actor who portrayed Bradlee in the movie version of Wood J' tit 4 I i Santa Cruz, where the 24 Pages 2 casions, said Bradlee. "Castro started talking about fishing. He's very interesting. Did you know the barracuda on the north side of Cuba are poisonous, and those on the south side are delicacies?" Bradlee quipped.

On other topics, Bradlee said: The assassination of John F. Kennedy "I think there should be a new investigation. It's perfectly clear the (initial) investigation by the FBI was inadequate, and it's perfectly clear the CIA withheld evidence." Education for journalism students "The picture is fairly bleak. An awful lot of people were influenced by Woodward and Bernstein's i EAot lively as speaker, too GOMERA HIERRO 300: MILES The map locates 28, 1977 media relates to national security, an argument often used by government employes to suppress an unfavorable story, Bradlee said. Many readers probably are biased against editors who run stories considered a threat to national security, Bradlee said.

"Well I am biased against people who hold such biases." Why does the government try to keep secrets from the American people? "The government is afraid of your anger. you may want to know why we went to war," he said. what it's all about national embarrassment." Bradlee, who recently visited Cuba, discussed his meeting with Fidel Castro, a man he described as being "very charismatic" who would "go over in this country like gang-busters." After having been told the meeting would be for only an hour, he and Castro talked for about seven hours on two oc Timet Pnoto by Arthur P. Hui them to clear the lobby. But I also had reaction.

Some teachers told me their livelihood was on the line. Well, so was mine. "I don't deny we were making money. Especially in the bar, although that is a separate trouble is, you can't just make money for a couple of months. I have 10 more months to worry about." "Guests would come in, see all the people and become intimidated.

Then, they would have to walk past more crowds to their rooms. There never was any disorderly duct but it wai, frankly, too noisy to sleep at times. I had the option of calling police, but I hated to use it. There would be hard feelings and I've got a business to run." Strike leftover Item: An unidentified wife told me one day why negotiations were failing at the Clayton House. "Tbey shouldn't try to go at it for so long," she said.

"When my husband and I talk past 9 o'clock at night, we fight." Item: Many Fratt parents chipped in to help pay bail and other expenses for Chester Jones, a fifth grade teacher charged with assaulting a striking teacher on the picket line. Bill Berggren has four children at Fratt including pne in Chester's room. Says Bill, "I appreciate what Chester and other teachers and aides did trying to teach my kids during the strike. Chester is the kind of man I want teaching my kids." Item: Speaking of those who crossed picket lines during the strike, teachers can call them "scabs" If they will. But had they not crossed during the 4Vi days proceeding the final settlement, thus convincing Department of Public Instruction fact-finders there was enough education going on to count that time in our 180 days, our state aids would have been lost.

These people may have saved Racine $21 million. Item: Do you suppose any Racinians enrolled children in Milwaukee, public schools during our strike just in time tq have them caught up in a possible teacher strike in our northern suburb? Item: Our state senator Henry Dorman carries considerable clout in Madison, but it's just as well for Henry he Isn't running for reelection here early next month. Because of his apparent pro-REA strike stance, Henry's popularity with many local voters Is not riding high at the moment. Timely and so cheap Curt of 413 Blaine found some sympathetic state patrolmen when he needed them most. Driving home from Madison late one night with friends, Cur; discovered the gas gauge arrow hovering around the big E.

Unable to find a gas station open, Curt sought the advice of the policemen, who took him to the pumps behind their headquarters, sold him seven gallons of gas and charged him $3. Simple division showed Cart his emergency supplies had cost him less than 43 cents a gallon. "I wouldn't mind trading at their pumps all the time," he concludes. Racine, Wis. 634-3322 ward and Bernstein's book, "All The President's Men." But Bradlee is who the audience got, in a lively, wide-ranging 45-minute presentation, followed by a question and answer session.

Few persons 1 seemed disappointed, even though the lecture was closer to story hour than the supposed topic of his speech, "The Media, the Fourth Estate." "Just because you' didn't read it doesn't mean it didn't happen," Bradlee said, warning of certain failures inherent in the media. "And the second rule, which follows logically: Just because you did read it doesn't mean it did happen." The reasons for those two "rules" are many, said Bradlee, offering a few examples: People who don't always tell the truth, time constraints, manpower limitations. "The obstacles in our path sometimes seem to be insurmountable," he added. A major problem facing the lournal i Zrr pi' 'f? 1 -V' i Ben Bradlee, at least partially, is a byproduct of the Watergate incident. A spinoff.

There's no- disputing that Bradlee, the Washington Post executive editor, IS recognized as one of the most influential journalists in the country. But Bradlee's rise to prominence on the lecture tour has to be attributed to Watergate, the national nightmare which felled "All The President's Men" and the President himself, Richard.Jvl. Nixon. Bradlee is quick to admit this, and he did last night to about 500 persons at the University of Wisconsin-Park-side. In Bradlee's estimation, had it not been for Watergate and the Post's subsequent Pulitzer Prize winning investigation, the Parkside theater would have been empty.

After all, the people would not have turned out to hear Ben Bradlee, the pre-Water-gate journalist. They wanted Ben Bradlee, the hero, the if 1 'J. In Umbo iiwM -4. 4 Court to hear Nixon appeal WASHINGTON (AP) TheSupreme Court today agreed to hear former President Richard M. Nixon's arguments against release of 30 White House tape recordings played during the Watergate cover-up trial of his top advisers.

Nixon's appeal asked the court to overturn a decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington that the tapes "are no longer confidential" and that copies may be released to the public. The ex-president's arguments in the lower court lost out to those of the three television networks, public television, a news directors' association and a recording company which want the tapes made available. In a 2-1 decision last October, the circuit court rejected Nixon's arguments that the tapes' release would invade his privacy and prove embarrassing to him. "The embarrassment Mr.

Nixon fears is not republication of highly personal matters," the court said. "Rather, we deal with conversations between business associates admitted Into evidence as proof of criminal misconduct," the court added. "The embarrassment Mr. Nixon anticipates is largely that which results whenever misconduct or questionable conduct is exposed." The tapes, transcripts of which were highly publicized during the Watergate trial of John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D.

Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, are of conversations within the White House Oval Office. If released, the tapes would let the public hear for the first time (he voices of Nixon and the Watergate figures discussing the scandal the tones and Inflections of voice used by each man. Filing suit last year to have the tapes released were War-1 I I i i i Out of sight Young Sandy Williams of 1523 N. Fancher Rd. wondered If we could take a picture of her kite 1500 feet in the air.

Sandy knew the kite was that far up because that's how much string she had bought. "You can hardly see it," she reported. And that, of course, was precisely the problem. Journal Times photographers are good, but not that good. As the saying goes around the old darkroom, you can't shoot what you can't see.

Nice kiting, though, Sandy I a The Racine area's weather fare was marked by light rain and fog Sunday and today, the dampness catching up with one motorist whose car 'couldn't follow the r- row at Milwaukee Avenue and State Street this morning. Rainfall totaled a quarter Inch In official recordings In Racine Sun-. day and overnight. ner umiiiiuiiituiiuns, iiuuuhui Druuutasiiiig v.u., American Broadcasting CBS, the Public Broadcasting Service and the Radio-Television News Directors Association..