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University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Fire from gas car explosion kills 42 in Brazilian town
SALVADOR, Brazil — Gasoline cars from a deralied train exploded and engulfed a whole town in a fireball, killing at least 42 people. Among the dead were children that had been syphoning fuel from the leaking cars, officials said yesterday.
"The streets just turned into a single flame," one survivor said. Flames shot as high as 100 feet and burned all night Wednesday. The fire occurred in a poor section of Pojuca, 45 miles north of Salvador and 780 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
"There are bodies all over the place," an official said.
There are bodies allied with the German man Antonio Motta that rescue workers recovered 42 bodies but that the death toll "could be much higher."
"Witnesses said many people threw themselves in a nearby lake, and we have recovered some bodies from there this morning." Motta said. A spokesman for the health department said that 60 victims were hospitalized.
Arafat to speak at U.N.conference
GENEVA, Switzerland — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, surrounded by bodyguards and Swiss police, arrived yesterday to address the United Nations Conference on Palestine, which has been dismissed by Western countries as an anti-Israeli platform.
Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, flew in unannounced on a private flight from Tunisia and was driven directly to a hotel near the United Nations' European headquarters, the site for the conference. He is scheduled to address the conference this morning.
More warnings issued against AIDS
The visit was not announced before for security reasons, a PLO spokesman said. Arafat, clad in his usual battle fatigues and Arab headress, smiled and waved to reporters at the hotel but refused to answer questions.
ATLANTA — Dentists, morticians and medical examiners were warned by federal health officials yesterday to take special precautions against contracting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Medical evidence indicates that AIDS is caused by a transmissible infectious agent, and it appears to be transmitted "by intimate sexual contact or by percutaneous injection of blood or blood products," the CDC said.
against contracting Acqeu to Himalaya. The warning was issued by the national Center for Disease Control, which earlier suggested that precautions be taken by clinical, hospital and laboratory personnel who work with AIDS patients.
West Germans protest U.S. missiles
MUTLANGEN, West Germany — The peace movement yesterday launched its "hot fall" of protest against deployment of American medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe with a three-day blockade of a U.S. Army base.
Singing "We Shall Overcome." some 2,500 protesters marched with candles through the pre-dawn darkness to the Mutilangen base of the 56th Field Artillery and started their sit-down at 5:45 a.m. / the exact moment the Nazis attacked Poland to start World War II on Sept. 1, 1939
1959. "We are not against the United States, but only against American missiles," said U.S.-educated Petra Kelly, leader of the anti-nuclear Green Party. She was wearing a gladiator's gladiator helmet.
Claims for jobless benefits increase
WASHINGTON — New claims for jobless benefits rose to their highest level since late May according to a Labor Department survey released yesterday, and an AFL-CIO economist predicted unemployment will be up when the August rate is released today.
The July jobless rate was a seasonally adjusted 9.5 percent, 13 percentage points below the recession high and percent last week or prior of the recession level.
DECIDE THAT "I thought the 9.5 (percent rate) was a statistical aberration in the sense of having problems with the seasonal adjustment," said Rudy Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO.
"I would think that as a result, you'll have some slight jump. I don't expect it to go back to 10 percent. I would guess 9.7 percent would not be an unlikely place for it to be."
Louisiana refinery fire extinguished
CHALMETTE, La. — A Texas firefighting company sprayed foam from the air yesterday to extinguish a huge gasoline tank fire that had whipped flames 600 feet high for 16 hours and forced more than 3,000 people from their homes.
More than two dozen workers were injured and one man was missing after a 3-million-gallon Tenneco Oil refinery tank exploded Wednesday night five miles south of downtown New Orleans. No cause for the explosion had been determined.
The missing man was identified as Eddie Dolese, a contract worker from Chalmette.
"We're just praying that he's back there helping the people fighting the fire," Tenneco spokesman Don Brown said.
Officials said that a Tenneco employee was electrocuted at the refinery just as the fire was being extinguished.
WEATHER FACTS
Today, there will be scattered thundershowers across the nation. Locally, today will be sunny with a high in the mid-90s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the lower 70s.
For the holiday weekend, the weather will be partly cloudy with highs in the 90s.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the upper 90s.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporting error, a story in Thursday's Kansan incorrectly stated that all departments of Spencer Research Library would be closed for the entire Labor Day weekend. On Saturday, the Documents section will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Kansas Collection, Map Library and Special Collection sections will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. All of Spencer's departments will be closed on Sunday and Monday.
NASA's 'red eye special'enters 4th day of orbit; astronauts to repeat workout of Challenger's arm
The astronauts ran through their first series of exercises with the Canadian-built arm yesterday morning and lifted a pair of weights to payload from Challenger's cargo bay.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The shuttle astronaut aboard NASA's "red eye special" began their fourth workday in space last night, preparing to flex Challenger's metal muscles for a second bout of celestial weight lifting.
By United Press International
Astronauts Dale Gardner and Richard Truly were to test Challenger's robot again, this time by housing a robot inside a spacecraft size of a truck 50 feet above the ship.
FOR FIVE ORBITS, the dumbble and arm gleamed against the black background of space as Challenger zined around the Earth at 17.500 km.
The dumbbell has twice the mass of the heaviest object previously lifted by a person. The weightlessness less an orbital flight, they have mass, which requires force to move them.
While Gardner and Truly were pumping iron, William Thornton, Dan Brandenstein and America's first black astronaut, Guion Bluford, were finishing experiments on Challenger's third flight. The astronaut woke up to the sounds of the Penn State fight song, a reminder of Bluford's alma mater.
"It iture is a fine piece of machinery, and it worked like a champ today." Truly said.
"Good morning Houston, really enjoyed that Nittany fight song," Bluford said.
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At mission control, Bryan O'Connor replied, "It's a real rover."
THE ASTRONAUTS have been working at night and sleeping during the day, because of their night launch and landing schedule; the night shift has caused some ground personnel to dub the mission the "red eye special."
Challenger was nearing the midpoint in its 2.1 million mile mission and飞翔 flawlessly. Challenger is scheduled to be launched on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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