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University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Mondale's lead decreases New Hampshire poll says
BOSTON — Former Vice President Walter Mondale has lost some of his lead for the Feb. 28 New Hampshire Democratic primary and Jesse Jackson has gained support in his race for second place with Sen. John Glenn, D-Dioh, a poll said Sunday.
The Boston Globe poll said Monday received support from 37 percent of voters judged likely to vote in this election year's first primary, a
Glenn remained in second place with 18 percent while Jackson surged into third place with 16 percent, a jump of 10 points from the previous poll, the Globe reported.
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., was fourth at 12 percent, followed by former Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., at 4 percent.
Fire in hotel near Dead Sea kills 2
NEWE ZOHAR, Israel — Fire destroyed the top three stories of a luxury hotel at the southern tip of the Dead Sea yesterday, killing two Israeliis, one of them an army reservist, and injuring 11 other people, police said.
A senior army officer told Israel Radio that the blaze "was not the result of guerrilla sabotage." Another source said a short circuit could have started the fire, which spread swiftly because of poor fire precautions.
Israel Radio said the dead were a chambermaid and an army reservist who assisted in the rescue operation and sufficated when he
Firefighters battled the flames for more than six hours before bringing them under control by evening. Army helicopters and giant cranes aided the rescuers.
Barroom-rape trial to begin today
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Six men charged with gang-raping a woman on a barroom table pool table on trial today and outraged feminists plan to
The six are accused of taking turns assaulting the 21-year-old mother of two on a pool table at now-closed Big Dan's Tavern on March 6, 1983, while the victim screamed for help and patrons yelled, "Go for it, go for it."
The men are being tried in separate trials on charges of aggravated rape, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The trials, expected to last up to eight weeks, were moved to nearby Fall River because of pre-trial publicity.
At a candelight vigil prompted by the woman's story, 2,500 angry demonstrators carried signs saying, "Rape Is Not a Spectator Sport".
Scientists predict Helens explosion
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Scientists monitoring the rise of lava inside Mount St. Helens said yesterday that a small explosion or landslide might occur in the next few days, but acknowledged that predictions about the volcano amounted to a guessing game.
Seismic levels and ground deformation near the lava dome have accelerated since Tuesday, geologists said, and magma rising beneath the huge lava dome in the volcano's crater could burst onto the surface early this week.
The year-old, non/explosive eruption is the longest period of continuous activity since the May 18, 1980, blast that blew out the north face of the mountain. It felled trees 20 miles away, sent a mushroom cloud of ash drifting across several states and left more than 50 people dead or missing.
Reagan likes idea for atom smasher
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration has approved the first stage of planning for the largest scientific instrument in history.
Included in the president's proposed budget for the Department of Energy is $20 million to look into the possibility of building what physicists call the Superconducting Super Collider, a new type of atom smasher.
There are no plans for the SSC, no site — although many areas have issued invitations — and no cost estimates. The first phase of planning, if approved by Congress, would be to find out whether such a project would be possible and worth it.
Man who refused food is identified
SYRACUSE, N.Y. . The 85-year-old man who, with court permission, starved himself to death in a nursing home was identified yesterday by a funeral home as G. Ross Henninger, a former Ohio college president known as a pioneer in technical education.
Henninger died Friday night, one day after state Supreme Court Justice Donald Miller ruled that the retired educator would, be allowed to return to school.
Henninger food and food because Henninger had refused solid food since Dec. 20.
To protect the patient's privacy, Miller had ordered reporters not to publish Henninger's name during court proceedings.
Hemminger, who retired from the Oregon Institute of Technology in 1977, lived alone in a Syracuse apartment until his deteriorating health required medical care.
Olympics may cause LA trial delays
LOS ANGELES — Worried that the wheels of justice will slow to a crawl in freeway traffic snarls during the Summer Olympics, judges and attorneys are exploring ways to reduce their workload — and driving time — this summer.
In Municipal Court, Assistant City Attorney Charles Goldenberg said his office would encourage clients and defense attorneys to postpone trials during the Olympics.
A panel of legal firms is working to reduce the court calendar in anticipation of traffic problems that will make it difficult for attorneys — many of whom are based in the outlying areas of Century City and Beverly Hills — to travel downtown.
Officials estimate that 400,000 to 600,000 people will visit Los Angeles during the Olympics, which run from July 28 to Aug. 12.
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Balloon blows shuttle's plans
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Challenger astronauts' 6½-foot target balloon exploded yesterday, deflating plans for a 17,500-mph game of space tag. But project managers finally managed to contact the errant Wester St6 satellite for the first time since its launch two days ago.
Western Union's Wester 6 relay station was contacted by technicians at a ground station in California about 2:30 p.m. CST. Bill Ziegler, mission manager of the Wester program, said satellite was probably a "total" loss.
That provided a bit of good news for the hard-luck astronauts who suffered the second setback of their eight-day flight when the shiny white balloon burst and drifted slowly away in tattered plastic fragments.
"It don't think there's any possibility we can get it into geosynchronous orbit," he said. "We'll complete the mission and finish it, much as we can about the failure analysis."
The balloon was to have been used as a target to rehearse an April rendezvous with the malfunctioning Solar Max satellite.
The balloon was launched from the cargo bay in a canister containing a nitrogen gas bottle for inflation. An explosive device failed to break the
A search using Air Force radars later found unidentified objects speeding along in a lopsided orbit ranging from 190 to 755 miles high, prompting officials to wonder whether the debris might be the remains of the satellite
Westar 6 disappeared shortly after Challenger's five-man crew released it. He flies for 8 hours after the shuttle blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
canister apart and the swelling balloon burst in the container.
"My opinion is that the PAM failed, probably a massive failure," he said, but added more information was allowed to nail down the cause of the accident.
Ziegler said Sunday the PAM rocket motor probably misfired and shut down, throwing the satellite in the air. Ziegler said the two largest objects spotted in the egg-shaped orbit probably were Westar 6 and its booster rocket.
Jeff Fister, a spokesman for Mc-Donnell Douglas Corp., builder of the solid rocket engine, said it was too soon to speculate about a PAM failure.
The astronauts will launch a nearly identical communications satellite for Indonesia early today, two days behind schedule.
Hartari Asturi, project manager for the Indonesian Palapa satellite said, "We have to support the data."
He said engineers believed Westar's failure was caused by a problem with the satellite's rocket motor The motor was to have fired 45 minutes after deployment Friday to start the satellite on it climb to orbit.
The Palapa is equipped with the same sort of rocket motor, called a payload assist module. The rockets have worked correctly on four nearly identical satellites launched on pre-launch orbit. But Westar was a random failure," said Asturi. "There is no indication that there is a design problem."
The space balloon burst shortly after being released from the shuttle's cargo bay, depriving the astronauts of a life target for rendezvous maneuvers.
Despite the upsets in the 10th shuttle flight, mission controllers still planned to have Challenger land on schedule Saturday at Cape Canaveral.
confident that the launch of his country's relay station would succeed.
Stewart told mission control the balloon popped with a fairly violent explosion.
Anti-Marcos joggers lead large rally
Concern about a collision with the balloon's 200-pound ballast that was drifting on its own in orbit, too small to be tracked by radar, also figured in mission control's decision to scrap the routine.
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Some 300 joggers, whose run honoring slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino triggered the largest anti-government uprising they had secured their destination yesterday, the airport where Aquino was assassinated
Military authorities agreed to allow the joggers to finish their 90-mile journey hours after temporarily blocking the route with 300 riot police armed with trucehems. The military also placed the joggers threatened airport security.
More than 10,000 Filipinos turned out to cheer the joggers, whose journey began nine days ago but was delayed until mid-March and suspended by organizers last week.
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leader, and 20 other members of the procession went to the tarmac where President Ferdinand Marcos' chief rival was killed Aug. 21.
The protesters were expected to extinguish a burning bamboo torch at the tarmac where a gunman identified by the government as a communist killed Aquino with one bullet to the head.
Officials said about 1,000 riot police and soldiers were stationed inside the Manila International Airport grounds. No incidents were reported.
The marchers were earlier blocked about a half mile from the airby riot police on the orders of Gen. Ruben Escarcha, police chief for the area. Escarcha said the runners "posed a threat to airport security."
**AQUINOS** MURDER remains unsolved, and a commission has been investigating the killing since Noah's arrival. The escorted by military guards from a
Thousands of Filipinos lined the final leg of the marchers' journey, with children on rooftops chanting, "Ninoy, Ninoy, Ninoy," the nickname for the slain opposition leader.
jetstream that returned him to the Philippines after three years of exile in the United States.
Confetti rained down on the procession of cars, jeeps, and joggers who arrived at the court that has symbolized opposition to Marco Rubio's years in power since Aquino was killed.
Chants of "Marcos, Hitler, dictator, dog" and "Marcos resign" rang through the procession, which had assembled early in the morning at two points on Roxas Boulevard along Malana Bay.
THE JOGGERS' JOURNEY began nine days ago in Aquino's hometown of Tarifa in Concepcion province and was to end the following day, but the military and police thrice blocked the marchers, delaying them.
Salvadoran fire support is increased
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador — The Salvadoran army is reinforcing combat units facing bolder and blooder attacks by beifl rebel rebattles to overthrow the armed military sources said yesterday.
The sources, who asked not to be identified, said the buildup is already underway in the east, where the heaviest fighting is centered, and is being implemented through the country by the High Command
Under the effort, the army is increasing the size and firepower of its "counter-subversive" battalions, which operate in each of the country's 14 provinces, a military observer said.
The observer said the army has found that the specialized 350-man battalions require more mortar support.
Beginning with a Sept. 3, 1983, attack on the city of San Miguel, government forces have suffered damaging defeats in at least four assaults involving several hundred bodies backed by heavy mortar fire.
Lt. Col. Domingo Monterosra, commander of the Third Military Zone incorporating the three eastern-most provinces, began the new buildup after his units in San Miguel province were routed in at least two rebel attacks since December.
The number of guerrillas has grown from the 6,000 to 8,000 men estimated six months ago and will be increased to 30,000 men by the end of 1984, the military sources said.
The Salvadoran army has about 25,000 men fighting 9,900 to 11,000 leftist rebels nationwide, and the government troop-to-guerrilla ratio in the east is estimated to be less than 2-to-1. military sources said.
The military observer said, "This is not a fundamental change.
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