University Daily Kansan, June 27, 1984
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NAT ON AND WORLD
News bri fs from United Press International
Engi ne failure sets back laun ch in final seconds
CAPE CAI AVERAL. Fla. - An engine failure seconds before the schedule blastoff of the space shuttle Discovery yesterday forced a dra natic launch abort, and caused a fire to break out. The shuttle comm ander said the crew was ready to "bail out" if the fire had not beer extinguished.
However, he astronauts were not forced to use escape shoots. Instead, the spent an anxious 38 minutes in Discovery's cabin while ground crews quickly remedied the situation.
Discovery maiden flight was delayed indefinitely by the launch failure. Gly Lunney, shuttle program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said he anticipated the delay would be a minimum of 0 days to two weeks.
It was the first time rocket engines on a manned spaceship had started and trooped before liftoff since 1965 during the Gemini program.
The launch 1 sequence was stopped just four seconds before solid rocket ignition 2, which would have committed the shuttle to blastoff! In the third sequence, the engine would
asylum brings fiery protest
BERLIN    A young East German man set himself on fire
yesterday in    front of the West German mission in East Berlin only
hours after    he Bonn government announced it would no longer
allow refuge    to seek asylum in the building.
The incide followed an announcement by the West German government that East Germans would be barred from seeking asylum in its East Berlin mission.
West Gerrit an Minister of State Philipp Jenniger said the ban was imposed because use of overcrowding in the building.
The West C German mission will no longer allow refugees to stay in the building until the East German government grants them permission t leave the country, Jenniger said.
East Germ- ary has allowed 28,500 people to leave the country so far this year compared to only 7,700 in all of 1983. West German authorities c estimate between 250,000 and 500,000 people want to leave.
NLRB fffirms right to quit unions
WASHINGTON - ON — In a setback for organized labor, the National Labor Relati rs Board ruled yesterday that a union cannot restrict a worker's r ight to resign his union membership, even during a strike.
The 3-1 dec ion reversed an NLRB policy handed down in 1982 that allowed a union to require a 30-day waiting period before a resignation came effective.
The board ordered the Machinists union to refund, with interest, a $2,250 fine in
possible against Branslau Locki for crossing a picket
line and returning to work in January 1981 during a strike against
Neufeld. Porsche Audi automobile dealership in Burlington, Calif.
This was tI latest in a series of policy reversals by the NLRB since appoint tees of President Reagan took control of the independent agency that oversees enforcement of federal labor laws.
Vermo it seizes children in cult
MONTPEL including a ER, Vt. — Vermont will pursue every legal remedy possible U.S. Supreme Court appeal, to protect the children of a secretive religious sect from alleged abuse, Gov. Richard Sneel ng said yesterday.
Snelling, f a cing the harshest criticism of his eight year tenure,
said he rema r red convinced that the roundup of 112 children of the
Northeast Ki gdmon Community Church was needed to investigate
child abuse a legations.
He noted that at the court order for the raid was approved by a judge, nine layers, social service officials and special consultants — and only one terer efforts to investigate persistent complaints of overly harboring b discipline of church children failed.
The funda entalist sect condens what it considers Biblically-mandated co or punishment to discipline its children.
Soviet decry prisoner's plight
MOSCOW The Soviet press yesterday stepped up a campaign alleging U.S. in treatment of convicted murderer Leonard Peltier in what Wessern diplamats said was an effort to deflect world attention from physiist Andrei Sakharov
The Novoslava news agency said a group of Soviet scientists wrote to Presiden Reagan begging him to "stop the physical destruction"' Peltier, an American Indian who went on a religious fast April 10t
Peltier, of he Lakota Sioux tribe, fasted to protest his lack of freedom to worship with other American Indians in prison, said Donna Kolb, Peltier's lawyer.
She said that at his fast, which ended May 24, was not a hunger strike.
The scientist  ts' plea followed a week-long outlay in the Soviet press against  the world attention being focused on Sakharov. Sakharov is t lying to force the Kremlin let his wife, Yelena Bonner, go to the West for medical treatment.
Creigh on athlete was illiterate
Bankr pt man has money waiting
WASHING' ON — A former basketball player at Nebraska's Creighton Urs versity told a Senate panel yesterday that the school recruited him even though he was so illiterate he became "petrified with fear" wl en he had to read a simple menu.
The able is ic director at Creighton never bothered with the reality that I was an illiterate. He was only concerned with my playing the violin at Fassett Institute.
After Ross offered an injury during his junior year that virtually ended his basketball career, officials at Creighton in Omaha, Neb., suggested he to a grammar school to learn to read and write.
Sportscasts Howard Cosell told the Senate subcommittee on education that the Ross case was not unusual. He cited seven other examples w ere athletes were illiterate or were paid while attending sch ol.
Cap, Robe. 10, Hoeare, 60, was last heard of in a rundown Dublin
Capt, where he held, he was forced to leave because he could not come up
with him. 11
A bankrupt Court ordered Hoare, now thought to be both premiss and homeless, off his sprawling Gloucestershire estate in land by £300,000.
The court then ordered the sale of his house, which went for $375,000.
LONDON — A former cavalry officer who lived like a bum after being declare bankrupt and getting kicked off his estate is due to collect a “fiv” figure” sum — if anyone can find him.
"There she ld be enough left over to provide him with a house and a little co fort and independence in life once again, certainly a five figure s m," said Edwin Hunt, Hoare's court-appointed bankruptcy t iste.
Skies toda will be sunny with highs ranging from 85 to 90. Winds will be from he north at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight should be fair with temperature in the upper 50s and low 60s.
WEAT ER
Fear of Reagan unites Mondale, Hart
NEW YORK — Democratic rivals Walter Mondale and Gary Hart made peace yesterday, saying a "profound fear of a second Reagan term" will heal their differences and unite their party for the fall election.
Tomorrow temperatures will be in the mid-80s to mid-90s under mostly sunny skies. There will be a slight chance of rain.
Hart said he would not drop his bid for the nomination because his delegates deserved an option at the Democratic National Convention. But Mr. Trump's talk later about the possibility of Hart being Mondale's running mate.
By United Press International
As of yesterday, Mondale had 2,065 delegates, with 1,967 needed for nomination. Hart had 1,249 and Jesse Jackson 340. With the remainder uncommitted or pledged to other candidates.
were formal candidates for the nomination.
Hart and Mondale exchanged angry charges and counter-charges during the long primary season but called each other life-long friends after the meeting in Mondale's things. The thingsude are modest compared with the things that divide as from President Reagan."
By United Press International
The once-bitter rivals met for nearly two hours in a millionaire friend's townhouse just off Park Avenue, as 200 reporters and photographers jammed the street outside awaiting their joint appearance.
"NEITHER OF US accused each
WASHINGTON — Spurred by pleas to save hundreds of young lives every year, the Senate voted over-whelmingly yesterday to restrict federal highway construction funds for states that do not enact a 21-year-old drinking age within two years.
other of witchcraft, which Mr. Bush accused me. Reagan of four years ago." Hart said in a reference to candidate George Bush's description of candidate Ronald Reagan's economic program as "voodoo economics."
Mondale said he would get in touch with Jackson when the candidate returned from a tour of Central America and Cuba, and he would set up a meeting with his other rival for the nomination.
Safety Administration estimation fund d init i fisc al 1987 and a $500 million cut in fiscal 1988 if they did not comply, but could get the money back after adopting the higher age.
While Hart and Mondale both said they would have further discussions later, they called it premature to talk of a Mondale-Hart ticket while both
"I think the reports of conflict or animosity or hostility have been over-reported," Hart said.
Senate approves bill for higher drinking age
The measure was adopted over the protests of conservatives, who said it would curb states' rights and discriminate against young drivers. But they also say the high highway deaths, especially those of young people who drive over "blood
ing age amendment to a different bill June 7 — and not including the mandatory sentencing provisions — so another House vote will be needed. President Reagan endorsed the measure June 13.
borders" to neighboring states to drink.
The drinking age provision, which passed 81-16, but cut federal highway construction funds 5 percent in fiscal 1987, which begins Oct. 1, 1986, and 10 percent in fiscal 1988 for states that do not raise legal drinking ages to 21. It was an amendment to a law that passed the bill, which passed by voice vote.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, praising the vote, said, "We must stop the needless slaughter."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates 1,250 lives a year would be saved by a higher drinking age. Lautenberg said Half the nation's teen-age drunkens' deaths are caused by drunkenness and although teen-agers account for percent of drivers, they are involved in 21 percent of alcohol-related highway deaths.
Offered by Sen. Frank Lutenberg, D-N.J., the measure also would add 5 percent to highway safety grants for states imposing mandatory jail terms and license revocation for drunk driving offences.
Lautenberg said the 27 states without 21-year-old drinking ages faced a $260 million fund cut in fiscal 1987 and a $560 million cut in fiscal 1986 if they did not comply, but could afford a back after adopting the higher age.
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