The World - News from Jan. 7, 1985
Rescuers may abandon efforts to recover the bodies of all 29 people, including eight Americans, aboard an Eastern Airlines plane that crashed on 21,000-foot Illimani Mountain, 25 miles southwest of La Paz, Bolivia, last Tuesday, U.S. Embassy spokesman William Walker said in La Paz. Walker said that it was snowing “like mad” on the mountain and that a two-foot snowfall at the site may prevent the bodies from ever being found. Three Bolivian mountaineers who reached the site Saturday said they found no evidence of life.
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