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University Daily Kansan, April 6, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Brazilian rioters rob stores as unemployment rate rises
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Looters ransacked stores in downtown Sao Paulo yesterday in a second day of riots fed by government-imposed austerity measures and rising unemployment.
One man was shot to death, 96 were injured, and 200 have been arrested since the first reports of violence, Police Chief Col. Joao Pessoa de Nascimento said. Seven supermarkets and several smaller shops were looted.
The violence began Monday in the suburb of Santa Amaro, and radio reports said that it spread yesterday to three sections of Sao Paulo.
Police used tear gas and nightsticks to battle the looters who one witness described as "a swarm of feeding piranha."
Newly elected State Gov. Andre Franco Montover appealed for calm, but he acknowledged that the problems of unemployment "cannot be solved."
6,000 refugees leave Thai war zone
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand evacuated 6,000 Cambodian refugees from a battle-torn area yesterday and accused Vietnam of sending troops into Thai territory to provoke a confrontation.
Hours earlier, 150 Vietnamese troops had fled from positions a mile inside Thailand following two bombing and strafing attacks by Thai jets
The refugees were evacuated from the area around the village of Phnom Phra, which held 23,000 refugees before Vietnam's offensive began Thursday. Reporters at the border said that 10,000 refugees were removed before the Thai air strike.
The Thai Foreign Ministry issued a statement that said, "Vietnam clearly intends to seek a direct confrontation with Thailand by force."
AMMAN, Jordan — Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat abruptly left Jordan yesterday, refusing to give King Hussein a green light to enter peace talks with Israel on the basis of President Reagan's peace plan, a PLO official said.
But his departure after three days of talks was not seen as a complete setback for Reagan's initiative, which envisioned Hussein as a "last chance" negotiator for greater Palestinian autonomy in the occupied West Bank.
Jordanian and PLO officials said Arafat would return to Amman in 72 hours to consider a joint course of action — possibly a new Arab League summit or a call for Reagan to reconsider what one called his "trial balloon" peace effort.
Jobless may get medical insurance
WASHINGTON — By summer's end, the Reagan administration hopes Congress will approve a proposal to provide partial medical insurance for out-of-work Americans, Margaret Heckler, health secretary, said yesterday.
The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that 11 million Americans have no health insurance because the family breadwinner is out of work.
Heckler, secretary of health and human services, said that her department was talking with key senators and David Stockman, budget director.
"We're looking to have a concrete proposal in the next few weeks," Heckler said.
The secretary gave no details of the plan. She said she did not know how much it would cost.
Economic optimism reaches high
NEW YORK  Consumer optimism about the economy soared in March, reaching its highest level in at least 15 years, the Conference Board noted.
The Board, a nonprofit business research group, said its findings might indicate the economy was making a more robust recovery than
The survey compares present-day consumer attitudes to those in 1969 and 1970.
The consumer expectations segment of the survey soared to 115 (1969-70 equals 100) in March. The Board's Consumer Confidence Index, a measure of both consumer attitudes toward the present economy and expectations for the next six months, rose to 76.5 in March 65.8 in February.
Winds derail Disneyland tramway
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Strong winds from a violent thunderstorm whipped through Disneyland yesterday, temporarily stranding 100 visitors aboard an aerial tramway over the amusement park.
In other parts of Southern California, police said winds picked up a 26-year-old man and tossed him through a plate glass window, smashed store windows and damaged cars.
Several Disneyland visitors suffered minor injuries aboard the Skyway and were rushed by ambulance to nearby Garden Grove Medical Center.
Norm Morgan, a spokesman for the Anahine Fire Department, said rescue teams used fire trucks and ladders, and within an hour had removed visitors stranded on the Skyway, which was disabled when the wind knocked a steel cable out of its disc.
Another condor pecks way into world
SAN DIEGO — The second California condor chick hatched in captivity pecked its way through its shell and into the world yesterday with the help of a tiny chisel wielded by a San Diego Zoo employee.
The newest arrival, named "Tecuya," the Chumash Indian name of a ridge in the conder country north of Los Angeles, weighed barely more
The event came five days after the hatching of another California conder. The California conder is an endangered species.
Cyndi Kuehler, egg and propagation keeper, said, "I expect the chick to survive. I think it will be fine after feeding and rest."
Stolen viper bites 16-year-old in D.C.
WASHINGTON — A 16-year-old boy who likes to play with snakes responded to treatment yesterday for the bite of a deadly African viper stolen from the National Zoo, hospital officials said.
According to physician Murray Pollack, five East Coast zoos rushed supplies of antivirin to try to save the boy, Louis Morton, at Children's Hospital. Morton was bitten on the right shoulder shortly before midnight Monday by a Gaboon viper.
Morton remained in critical condition in the intensive care unit of the hospital late yesterday.
If the youngster survives, he faces charges in connection with the theft of a pair of the African snakes late Monday from a glass cage at the National Zoo, police spokesman Wendell Samuels said.
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Ground controllers rescue errant satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ground controllers working by remote control yesterday rescued a vital communications satellite launched by the space shuttle Challenger. A NASA official said there was a chance the satellite problem would have no effect on future shuttle missions.
By United Press International
Mission commander Paul Weitz and crewmen Karal Bobko, Story Mugrove and Donald Peterson were cleared of any blame for the rocket failure that sent the world's largest communist satellite tumbling into the wrong orbit.
Challenger itself was in fine shape on the second day of its maiden flight. Its astronauts, who started the day with a new mission, were on the chute running hard," managed to
Robert E. Smyly, an associate NASA administrator, said the successful last-minute rescue of the $100 million satellite apparently left the craft in perfect working order. The only problem was that the satellite was in too low an orbit.
ONE OF THE EXTRA CHORES was cleaning construction debris — nuts, bolts and gobs of blue lint — out of Challenger's clogged fan filters.
finish chores ahead of schedule despite the addition of some extra tails.
"Our next planned step would be to correct that orbit," Smiley said, noting that the satellite has its own small moon. "I will probably take it from place to place in space."
If the rescue had failed and the satellite had been lost, it could have been a devastating blow to NASA's four more mile missions this year.
One of those missions is scheduled to carry up a twin of the machine that failed, while a second must have both survived. data will keep its scientific data from being lost.
SMYLIE SAID IT WAS too early to tell whether all four missions could still be flown. But, he said, "there may not be any impact at all."
With their orbit too low to let them aid in the rescue effort, the astronauts followed the action by radio and pressed ahead with planned activities in the second day of Challenger's near-perfect shakedown cruise.
Musgrace, a surgeon-aastronaut,
tested ways to make super-pure
medicine in the weightlessness of
space. Weitz and Bobko practiced
maneuvers for an orbital mission
scheduled for 1984, and Peterson
managed the TV camera for a visual
tour of Challenger's surruced up cabin.
They beamed back to Mission Control a delayed teacast of the satellite's flawless Monday night launch. The blue-and-gold satellite seemed to float out of Challenger's cargo bay, propelled by six springs, with the full moon visible behind it in the black sky of space.
Challenger launched the communications satellite perfectly just before midnight Monday, but the craft tumbled out of control early yesterday while climbing toward a planned stationary orbit.
WEITZ FIRED CHALLENGER'S secondary engines, performing without a hitch the first of several planned maneuvers to simulate a rendezvous needed next year to bring a shuttle outfitted as an orbital repair shop — equipped sun-watching satellite for an ambitious mission to put it back into service.
Iraq-Iran war impeding efforts to control oil slick
By United Press International
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Iran and Iraq yesterday refused a cease-fire that would allow experts to seal the damaged wells pumping up to 10,000 barrels of oil a day into the giant Persian Gulf slick.
A Saudi official said that winds were pushing the mass of crude oil back toward Iran. Other Gulf nations were barricading their vital water defense plans to guard against the slick, estimated an area of 8,000 to 12,000 square miles.
The slick now covers about half the length of the Persian Gulf and is growing at a rate of 10,000 barrels a day, Gulf officials say.
Oil repair specialists have been
unwilling to cap the wells in Iranian offshore fields without a cease-fire in Iraq.
EDITORIAL IN THE ruling party's newspaper in Baghdad said that Iraq could not accept a cease-fire unless Iran guaranteed that it would not use the hull in the Gulf war to bring supplies still at sea awaiting delivery.
Rida Hussein Mirza Taheri, deputy prime minister of Iran, is in Kuwait for a key meeting today where the eight affected states will try to agree on joint action against Qajar's position, saying that his country would not accept a dictated peace.
Taheri, who is also head of the Islamic state's environment protection agency, said if the nations did decide to act together at today's meeting, the
wells could be canped within 20 davs.
"The slick will harm all Gulf states, particularly those who set up desalination plants on Gulf coasts," Taheri said. "More dangerous is that the spill is endangering navigation in the Gulf."
Richard Golob, executive editor of the authoritative Oil Spill Intelligence Report of Cambridge, Mass., said that the slick presented a unique challenge because it had occurred in a closed body of water.
HE SAID IF DESALINATION plants "are forced to close because of contaminated water, that region is filled with a very serious water problem."
Kuwait also dispatched an emissary to Moscow in an effort to rally diplomatic support to secure a ceasefire, and show the capping of the leaking wells.
agreed to cooperate with efforts to clean up the oil slick.
Rashid Al Rashid, the emissary deputy foreign minister, will then fly to Washington with a similar appeal for Mugabe, the Kuwait news agency said.
At the United Nations, a spokesman for Secretary-General Javier Perez de Torres said that the UN was "working on a resolution."
Abdallah Al Dabbagh, director of Saudi Arabia's Dharan College Research Institute, said a shift in wind had blown the slick away from the Saudi coast toward the Iranian coast to the east.
American satellites were tracking the movement of the oil menace.
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