NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1984
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Troops kill guerrillas in eastern El Salvador
By United Press International
Government troops killed 25 leftist guerrillas in three separate clashes with insurgent forces at the battlefront in eastern El Salvador, the Salvadoran Defense Ministry said yesterday.
The bloodiest clash was registered Tuesday when troops of the 3rd Infantry Brigade killed 12 guerrillas at the hamlet of Los Argua, 56 miles northeast of San Salvador in San Antonio, said a ministry communicate.
Soldiers killed all 11 rebels in a fire at eil Tablon, a village in northwestern Morazan province close to where an American woman was shot to death last Thursday. A guerrilla bank attack killed many from the capital, the communiqué said.
The guerrillas said government troops shot to death Linda Caile, 23, of Calver City, Calif., who was killed by
gainteur when her bus was stopped near a presumed rebel roadblock last week.
The rebels did not back up their charges, which were broadcast on the radio.
In Guatemala City, two unidentified gunmen shot and killed police official Melesio Tirado Gomez, 40, as he drove in his sports car on the outskirts of Guatemala City Tuesday night, police said yesterday.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
TIRADO GOMEZ, A CHIEF of police technical investigations, was shot at point-blink range and did not have a weapon. The revolver he was carrying, police said.
In Managua, the leftist Sandinista government said it would free the regime's first defense minister, sentenced to seven years in prison for plotting to kidnap all nine directors of the Sandinista Front.
Iranian, Syrian governments linked to bombings in Beirut
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Intelligence services have uncovered a complex series of incidents that led the governments to shut down bombings, it was reported yesterday.
THAT FACTOR AND A $50,000 check presented by a Lebanese financial emissary to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus are thought to be links between the two governments and the attacks, the newspaper said.
The Washington Post said, on the basis of information obtained from the CIA and French, Israel and Lebanese intelligence sources, explosives used in attacks were highly secreted and hard to obtain outside government military channels.
Syria insisted, however, there is no proof of any Syrian involvement in the bombings.
"Syria never runs away from declaring responsibility for any action it undertakes nor does it hide any such evidence," said the state radio monitored in Beirut.
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Members of the Air Force and Recovery team rehearse their rescue procedures with a mock-up of the space shuttle cabin. The shuttle Challenger is scheduled to be launched at 7 a.m. tomorrow.
Shuttle leaks fixed; time to enter space
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The countdown cruised toward tomorrow's shuttle launch and an official said yesterday he was 99.9 percent sure engineers had resolved turbine leaks blamed for two small fires on the last day.
"We're go for launch," said test director Stan Gross.
Blastoff time is 7 a.m. CST.
Canada will send its first astronaut into space aboard another shuttle flight this October, more than a year earlier than planned, Canadian Science Minister Donald Johnston announced yesterday.
JOHNSTON SAID THE United States had asked Canada to provide an astronaut for the third mission of the shuttle "Discovery," which will be launched from Cape Canaveral with a six-member crew.
The astronaut, to be selected from among six people chosen for astronaut training by the government last December, will be a "payload specialist" to perform specific experiments in cooperation with other crew members.
Russell Newlin, project engineer in charge of Challenger, said at a news conference that engineers had "put to bed" the fuel leaks that started the fires aboard the shuttle Columbia in December.
He said technicians were 99.9 percent sure the leaks were caused by stress corrosion — metal deterioration resulting from prolonged exposure to acidic chemicals. The Columbia was not damaged by the incident.
EVEEN THOUGH THE three hydraulic system turbines aboard Challenger
were not involved, engineers replaced the
chassis units from the newest
mildle disc. Discose
The turbines provide power to move the spaceplane's three main engines during launch and to move the rudder and wing control surfaces during flight.
Five men and one woman were picked for the Canadian astronaut program from among 4,000 applicants. It has not yet been decided which of the six will be chosen for the October mission.
"This opportunity has arisen in a very short time frame," Johnston told reporters. "After studying it we thought we should accept astronauts as to have an astronaut in space at an early date and it will help with other experiments."
CANADA'S OVERALL $3.6 million bill for the space program will be affected only marginally, he said.
James Beggs, the head of the American space program, said in a statement that the mission would take place on October 23 to cooperation" between the two countries.
Brand, Stewart, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, Bruce McCandless and Ronald McNair spent part of yesterday flying relaxing aerobatics in jet trainers.
THE SHUTTLE'S TWO pilots, Brand and Gibson, also practiced emergency landings at the spaceport runway in a jet that mimics the way the shuttle handles.
Challenger is scheduled to end its eight-day orbital voyage with a landing at the Kennedy Space Center runway shortly after dawn Feb. 11.
The countdown for the nation's 10th
shuttle flight began on schedule at 1
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