University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
200 convicts release hostages
ODENVILLE, Ala. — About 200 rioting convicts, some armed with guns and knives, released the warden and 21 other hostages last night, 12 hours after seizing control of the St. Clair Correctional Facility.
Hours before Warden Larry Spears and the 21 other hostages were released, the inmates freed five other prison workers, who had been beaten, and allowed 17 prison employees, who had been hiding in rooftops, not convicts all day, to leave unharmed.
Officials said 15 of the rebellious prisoners surrendered yesterday evening, apparently after breaking into the pharmacy and taking some drugs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jack Burcham underwent two more hours of surgery yesterday so doctors could stop excessive bleeding from tiny leaks at the stitches around his day-old artificial heart. Doctors said the operation was a success.
Lie test verifies confession
Doctors decided against reopening the wound created Sunday when they implanted the Jarvik 7 into the world's fifth recipient. They made a new incision so they could approach the biomic heart from the rear, said Dr. Allan M. Lansing, chief medical spokesman for Humana Heart Institute.
Heart recipient has surgery
MENOONEE FALLS, Wis. — A lie detector test indicates a woman is telling the truth in recanting her testimony of raping her, her attorney said yesterday.
Lawyer John J. McLario said the results of the test indicated Cateleen Crowell Webb, 23, did not have sex with anyone on the day she originally claimed she was pregnant. May 6, 1977 and she had never seen Gary Boden before he appeared in a police lineup.
Society toasts Titanic victims
WASHINGTON — Ten men in tuxedos raised champagne glasses on the banks of the Potomac River yesterday and toasted the passengers who went down with the Titanic on a moonlight night in the icy Atlantic Ocean 73 years ago.
Since 1979, the Men's Titanic Society has made an annual pilgrimage on the anniversary of the Titanic's sinking to the ocean, a little-known memorial along the Potomac.
The British oceanliner sank April 14, 1912 on its maiden voyage.
Compiled from. United Press International reports.
Astronauts create swatters to save satellite
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Calling themselves the swat team, Discovery's astronauts built two飞swatters yesterday to try what no one else has done — save a stricken satellite on an emergency basis by snaring an errant switch with the shuttle's robot arm.
The Rube Goldberg scenario calls for a spacewalk 40 miles from the $80 million Syncom satellite this morning, to attach the swatters to the end of the mechanical arm, before it lands on Wednesday. Landing will be delayed two days and now is rescheduled for Friday.
"OK, we'll look forward to that," said co-pilot Donald Williams, when word of the decision to proceed with the bold salvage mission was radioed up to the seven-member
USING SCISORS, a Swiss army knife, a sail maker's needle and other boards on board, and following instructions radioed up from Houston, they fashioned the fly swatters out of plastic flight plan covers costing 30 cents and tape of the kind used by the home handman.
The astronauts quickly began preparations for the unparalleled space operation.
The flexible swatters were attached to metal rods aboard for other purposes.
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Rhea Seddon showed the swatters on television to engineers in Houston and Robert Springer in mission control said, "That's exactly it."
Seddon said of Sen Jake Garn, R-Uah,
he has played in a lot more of her listening to sounds.
The congressional observer was wired with two stethoscopes earlier in the flight to study the digestive tract in weightlessness.
ALSO HELPING was McDonnell Douglas
engineer Charles Walker, on board to operate a biological processor.
The crew, working beyond the normal bedtime, also was given instructions to build a third snare, called a lacrosse stick, that might also be strapped to the arm.
Griggs and Hoffman checked out the spacesuits they will wear and Hoffman reported: "Everything appears to be fine."
At one point when mission control called up to the astronauts, Hoffman said he and Griggs were all tied up, but all the swat team was listening."
Tomorrow, commander Karol Bobkо and Williams will track down the slowly-spinning military radio relay satellite and gently maneuver Discovery beneath the 15.200-pound satellite, taking care not to bump it.
Then it will be up to Seddon, a doctor and the fifth American woman in space, to try to salvage him.
SHE WILL GUIDE the robot arm up to the side of the satellite, sweep the flexible
swatter against Syncm's glittering solar cells and try to snag a 4-inch lever that should have opened when the satellite was launched from Discovery Saturday. Both swatters will have three holes to snare the switch.
If the switch is snagged, it should open and then the plastic should rip from the force imposed by the momentum of the spin of the magnet. If the switch does not snap, so the mechanical arm will not be damaged.
Flight director John Cox said engineers from Hughes Aircraft Co., which built the satellite, are confident the lever is extending slightly from the side of the spacecraft and is out to be snagged by the fly swatter. It is fully recessed, the operation will fail.
The lever should have opened automatically so it is perpendicular to the satellite side, but seemingly it did not. Once open fully, the lever is to activate an electrical switch that turns on the satellite's timing mechanism.
Reagan requests support for plan to aid Nicaragua
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, warning of atrocities and "institutionalized cruelty" in Nicaragua, told Congress yesterday a refusal to aid insurgents would be "a rejection of all the forces of moderation" in Central America.
In a push to overcome opposition to his policies, Reagan asked Congress to close ranks behind his $14 million aid request and request that the House risk U.S. prestige and credibility abroad.
"The truth is, there are atrocities going on in Nicaragua." Reagan said at a fundraising dinner for Nicaraguan refugees in Honduras and Costa Rica
The appeal came as Reagan plunged into a round of public appearances and
"They are largely the work of the institutionalized cruelty of the Sandinista government — cruelty that is the natural expression of a communist government, a cruelty that flows naturally from the heart of totalitarianism." Reagan said.
REAGAN, DEFENDING the need for $14 million in U.S. aid to the rebels, said that it was untrue that the Nicaraguan government enjoyed the support of the majority.
"It's so little," he said, referring to the aid, in a statement read to reporters in the Oval Office, "yet such an important symbol of our resolve — a signal to all of Central America and, yes, to those everywhere in the world who depend on us."
House meetings intended to spotlight his offer to provide the rebel Contras with only food, clothing and medical supplies if the rest of the group surrendered fire and peace talks with its opposition.
His daylong effort, which set the tone for the next two weeks, culminated at the $250-a-person fund-raising dinner for Nicaraguan refugees, where Reagan denounced the "Sandistina police state" in Nicaragua and said a vote on his proposal was a vote on the objectives pursued by the Catholic Church and the four-nation Contadora group
"I BELIEVE that a vote against this aid is more than a rejection of the freedom fighters," Reagan said in his prepared remarks. "It is a rejection of all the forces of freedom in our country." Contadora countries — which have called for freedom and democracy in Nicaragua —
Reagan said the refugees "are fleeing from people who are burning down their villages, forcing them into concentration camps and forcing their children into military service."
Reagan, who has referred to the rebels as "our brothers" and compared them to the Founding Fathers, briefed the Cabinet on his selling efforts in the afternoon.
"I'm asking Congress to give this peace initiative and democracy a chance." he said. "I'm asking Congress to work with me to stem the flow of refugees, the threat of hostile forces on our borders and the loss of faith in America's commitments around the world that could definitely result if we do not act quickly and responsibly."
Interracial marriage law repealed in South Africa
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa's white minority government agreed yesterday to repeal laws forbidding sex and marriage between people of different races — key legal components of its segregationist policies.
Dissidents, however, said repealing the laws would be mere "crumbs of concession" that would have no basic impact on the system of racial segregation known as apartheid.
The announcement was made after the government accepted a parliamentary committee report saying the 1949 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and Section 16 of the 1957 Immorality Act implicated because they were discriminatory.
The laws prohibit whites from marrying or having sexual relations with people of other races but do not affect relations among mixed-race "coloreds," Asians and blacks.
"THE TWO MEASURES are of a discriminatory nature in that they do not provide for the equal treatment of the various population groups but single out one identifiable population group only," the report said.
A political source said the laws could be scrapped by the end of June once a bill is presented to Parliament.
Home Affairs Minister Frederick de Klerk told Parliament the government fully accepted the committee's recommendations.
Apparently referring to apartheid, South Africa's official policy of racial segregation, de Klerk said "the continued ordering of our communities at social, educational and constitutional level will not be affected."
He also said the government remained convinced that mixed marriages caused social problems, but "the time has arrived to be removed from the political arena."
THE LAW AGAINST whites marrying outside their race was the first major legislation enacted by the National Party after it came to power in 1948 in the country of some 4.5 million whites and 22 million blacks.
Dissident spokesman said the government's action did not affect the essential needs of its citizens.
"We are merely tinkering with apartheid," said Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Bishop Dessmond Tutu. "We are being shaped by the will of the leader of the issue is political power-sharing."
Patrick Lekota, spokesman for the dissident United Democratic Front, said the repeal "will put an end to unnecessary personal humiliation to those couples who disregard racial barriers but freedom of sexual association is not a basic issue."
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