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Press, 24 July 1986, Page 10

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Disneyland to pay

The family of a teenager fatally knifed at Disneyland has been awarded SUS6OO,OOO in damages by a jury that found the world famous amusement park negligent. The mother and brother of Mel Yorba, aged 18, charged in a law suit that Disneyland had failed to provide Mr Yorba with adequate emergency medical treatment by refusing to call outside medical help after he was stabbed in the park’s Tomorrowland section in 1981. Disneyland, which relied on its staff to care for and take Mr Yorba to hospital, denied any liability in the only homicide at the 31-year-old park. — Santa Ana A-Ministry head The Soviet Union has appointed Nikolai Lukonin to head a new Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering, created to supervise

the nuclear energy industry after the Chernobyl accident Mr Lukonin, bom in 1928, was head of a nuclear power plant near Leningrad from 19761983. For the last three years he was in charge of a station at Ignalina, in the Lithuanian republic. — Moscow Libyan plot Seven people and five companies have been indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, on charges of trying to divert Lockheed Hercules cargo planes and parts worth SUSSO million ($93 million) to Libya. A United States Attorney, Stephen Cowen, said a seven-count indictment had been returned in Atlanta charging the individuals and companies with attempting to divert aircraft to Libya that had been sold to and were destined for another country. *— Atlanta