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University Daily Kansan, April 13. 1994
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NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Chinese shell Vietnamese as border clashes continue
PEKING — China said yesterday that its border artillery killed or wounded large numbers of Vietnamese soldiers and wiped out hundreds of "military installations" in a counterattack against Vietnamese shelling.
stealth. The official Xinhua News Agency, issuing the highest casualty and destruction report since border fighting escalated last week, said Chinese artillery attacks had continued in the past few days.
"Chinese frontier guards had destroyed several hundred Vietnamese military installations, destroyed or seriously damaged several dozen Vietnamese field pieces and military vehicles and killed or wounded large numbers of Vietnamese soldiers," Xinhua reported.
Xinhua also reported that Vietnam had fired more than 1,000 shells into Chinese territory in the past week.
Letter carriers threaten to strike
WASHINGTON — Letter Carriers union president Vincent Sombrotty, angered over a U.S. Postal Service hint of a wage freeze or concessions, yesterday threatened a possible illegal strike against the nation's mail system this summer.
Sombrotto said his 198,000-member union had two options if negotiations with the Postal Service failed to reach agreement by the July 20 expiration of the current contract.
"One is illegal, the other is not," he said. "One, we go to arbitration. The other is we go out on strike."
The Letter Carriers union, which represents on-street city carriers, plans to bargain jointly with the American Postal Workers Union, which represents about 300,000 postal clerks, motor vehicle operators, and messengers.
Plane wreckage found near volcano
HILO, Hawaii - Searchers yesterday found the wreckage of a small rented plane carrying four Marines, that crashed Sunday near the Mauna Loa volcano.
Ine single-engine Grumman Cheetah, identified by its tail markings, was spotted on the northeast slope of Mauna Kea, about $6^{1/2}$ miles down from the 13.796-foot summit, military spokesmen said.
Three bodies were seen by the crew of an Air Force plane involved in the search for the aircraft, they said. All aboard were thought to be dead
The Marines, all based at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu, have been identified as Edward R. Finch, 21, of Plainville, Ind.; Cpl. David H. Sorden, 22, of Huntsville, Ala.; Lance Cpl. Paul W., Denke, 21, of Riesel, Tex.; and Pfc. Keith W. Bresee, 25, of Springfield, Mo.
Vets' difficulties linked to combat
CHICAGO — Only a minority of Vietnam veterans suffer emotional and behavioral problems, but the frequency of the problems increases with exposure to combat or atrocities, a study published yesterday indicated.
"The main thing is that the problems increase with exposure to combat or taking part in atrocities," said Thomas Yager of the Center for Policy Research in New York of the report, which was published in the American Medical Association's Archives of General Psychiatry.
the American Medical Association. Researchers studied 1,342 men who were of military age during the Vietnam War. They included 629 nonveterans and 713 veterans; 350 of whom served in Vietnam.
Blast kills officer, woman in Belfast
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police said yesterday that they suspected Protestant militants of planting a bomb in a satchel that killed a Roman Catholic mother of eight and a police officer in a quiet residential area.
But a police spokesman said that evidence indicated it was the work of the outlawed pro-British Ulster Volunteer Force, which is waging an underground war against the IRA, which seeks to oust Britain from Northern Ireland and unite the province with the Irish Republic.
Margaret Whyte, 51, and Constable Michael Dawson, 23, were killed in the blast, which occurred as Dawson inspected the satchel in the front yard of Whyte's home.
Texas court convicts admitted killer
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Henry Lee Lucas, who says he has killed 360 people, yesterday was found guilty of capital murder and rape in the death of an unidentified woman hitchhiker four years ago.
An eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for more than nine hours before reaching its verdict. Lucas admitted last summer to strangling the hitchhiker, who has not been identified. Her body was found in central Texas near Georgetown along Interstate 35 on October 31, 1979.
The panel, which spent much of its deliberations reviewing taped confessions Lucas made to Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell last summer, was ordered by District Judge John Carter to begin deliberations on punishment this morning.
Lucas could be sentenced to death or a second term of life in prison.
Friday the 13th is just another day
ACCIDENT, Md. — Doomsayers in other cities may avoid black cats on Friday the 13th, but the day is "no big deal" to the townsfolk of Accident.
"It's just another ol' day in this ol' town," says Wayne Fratz, the mayor of the farming town of about 250 people in the western foothills of the Allegheny Mountains.
"People here aren't superstitious," says Fratz, a farmer. "They're religious, good people."
At Accident's only bar — a warm, pine-paneled business on tree-lined Main Street — resident Lilian Nielson echoed Fratz between sips of a drink.
"There ain't nobody superstitious of Friday the 13th around here," Nielson says. "The only thing I'm superstitious about is planting onions during a full moon. They'll come right back out of the ground."
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORRECAST to 7 PM EST 4-13-84
Today will be fair to partly cloudy throughout the Western half of the United States. But Northeast Kansas is on the tail end of a storm system that will affect most of the Upper Midwest and parts of the Mid-South. Locally, today will be partly cloudy and windy, with the high in the mid-50s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with the low around 35. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with the high around 50.
Satellite repairmen are to return home
Bv United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With the reborn Solar Max satellite back in its sentry station in space. Challenger's astronauts were promised they would come home today — to Florida, they hoped.
The astronauts were scheduled to land at 6:07 a.m. CST at Cape Canaveral. In case of rough weather, they were to land at Edwards Air Force Base. The encounters were concerned about possible fog in the Cape Canaveral area.
BUT FORECASTERS WERE optimistic the "Ace Satellite Repair Co." crew would be able to land at Cape Canaveral to end the flight that moved America into a new era of space salvage.
"See you at the beer party," commander Robert Crippen said as the astronauts got ready for their last night's sleep in space.
Challenger was expected to have two landing opportunities at both sites
"We'll try to come down some place." flight director John Cox said yesterday.
'Welcome to the Ace Satellite Repair Co. We pick up, repair and deliver.'
— Robert Crippen, Challenger commander
Challenger had enough fuel and supplies to stay up two extra days, but Crippen, Dick Scobee, George "Pinky" Nelson, James "Ox van" the team, were reported they were ready to come home from their "mighty fun" flight.
"ALL OF THE HEALTH checks have been successful to date and a full science evaluation is ongoing and will be completed in days." mission reported.
"We'd prefer to cap it off with a touchdown some place tomorrow," Criepen told mission control.
The Solar Max satellite that was rescued, repaired and repositioned in space by the astronauts was checking out at "100 percent," controllers said.
Scientists are eager to use Solar Max to renew their studies of solar flares, massive outbursts of radiation that can disrupt communications on Earth.
Earlier in a news conference from space, Crippen said the success with
Solar Max had opened a new era for the American space program.
"I think this particular mission showed me that satellite servicing is a viable thing that we as a country
Crippen opened the half-hour news conference by saving:
"Welcome to the Ace Satellite Repair Co. We pick up, repair and deliver."
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes the success of the shuttle mission will convince the astronauts that they should be built to be serviced in space.
THE BILL FOR the tuncup to restore Solar Max to full strength for the first time since November 1980 will probably run about $50 million. But it cost $77 million to build and launch the satellite in 1980. To build a new Solar Max would cost $235 million
While the space agency dreamed about the future,the immediate
concern was the possibility of ground fog at Challenger's landing site.
"We do have potential for some ground fog," said Maj. Donald Greene, the chief forecaster for the shuttle program.
The mission's flight rules required seven miles of visibility for Crippen to guide the space plane, which weighs more than 100 tons, on a 3'-mile-long ribbon of concrete in the shape of a marsh at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA ALSO WARNED private pilots to stay out of Challenger's way. The space agency took out an advertisement in a local newspaper to warn private pilots to stay away from space center during the shuttle landing.
"People should be allowed access to what goes on here but not to the point where they hurt themselves or cause danger to the vehicle and the re-engineering equipment that Zwige, an aviation safety officer from the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Before packing up, the astronauts wrapped up their historic satellite rescue mission by putting Solar Max on a orbit a little more than 300 miles up.
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