The World - News from Oct. 23, 1988

The Italian Merchant Navy ministry countered initial reports that an Italian freighter rammed and sank a cruise ship outside the Greek port of Piraeus, leaving two of its crew members dead, a 14-year-old passenger missing and 72 injured. The ministry said the freighter, Adige, had been stationary for 10 minutes Friday outside the entrance to the harbor, “waiting for the Greek pilot to come aboard to guide the ship in its docking maneuver.” The Adige skipper said the Greek ship Jupiter was approaching on a crash course and that he immediately ordered the Adige full speed astern but was too late, the ministry said. Greek officials arrested the Adige’s captain, Flavio Caminale. The missing passenger, Vivian Barley, was among 470 British students aboard the Jupiter.