November 16, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily KANSAN
Soviet helicopter delivery in Nicaragua, rebels sav
MANAGUA. Nicaragua — Nicaraguan rebels yesterday said a shipment of Soviet helicopter gunships to the leftist government had arrived at an isolated port on the Caribbean coast and their forces were moving toward the city.
Inquiry begins in Gandhi case
Eden Pastora, the former Sandinista leader known as Commander Zero, announced his troops were heading toward the port of El Bluff in a broadcast over his clandestine radio La Voz de Sandoi that was monitored in Managua.
NEW DELHI, India — More police officials were detained in the widening conspiracy investigation of the assassination of Prime Minister Indra Gandhi, and India said yesterday, and police began questioning a Sikh charged in her slaying.
Police were investigating where one of the suspected assassins, Satwant Singh, one of Gandhi's trusted bodyguards, spent a monthlong vacation just before the prime minister was slain Oct. 31, the Indian news agency PTI reported.
Reagans plan ranch holiday
WASHINGTON — Ronald and Nancy Reagan will gather with members of their family for a traditional turkey dinner on Thursday at the Tampa Bay fanapot ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.
The menu includes roast turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, peas, mashed potatoes, fresh cranberry mold, potato chips, bread pudding, celery strips and persimmon pudding.
Heagan will fly to California tomorrow for an eight-day vacation that will include
Dinner guests will include the Reagans' daughter Maureen and her husband, son Ron and his wife and daughter Patti and her husband.
Girl won't miss Easter egg roll
OLNEY, Md. — An 11-year-old girl, who said she was told she couldn't attend next year's Easter Egg Roll at the White House because she backed Walter Mondale, got a personal invitation yesterday from Nancy Reagan.
Jennifer Ledbetter had told a reporter she supported Mondale during an October rally for President Reagan in Baltimore — a view that prompted a Reagan campaign aide to tell her she would be invited to the traditional egg roll.
But Nancy Reagan, after reading about the incident in The Baltimore Sun, telephoned Jennifer Larson and invited her to the White House, said she invited Tate, Nancy Reagan's press secretary.
Compiled from Korean stuff and United Press International reports.
VANCOUVER — Singer Michael Jackson is levitated by a magician, Franz Harary. Harary, who performed his trick yesterday, is in charge of all the illusions that take place during the Jacksons' Victory Tour concerts. The Jacksons play tonight, tomorrow and Sunday in Vancouver.
Salvadoran rebels hit army unit near capital
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador — Leftist guerrillas yesterday poured mortar fire on a U.S.trained army unit northeast of the city, called “dozens” of casualties, rebels said.
The guerrilla's Radio Vencerosem said rebels attacked the U.S.-trained Arce Battalion with mortar fire directed from the cemetery and three surrounding hills of the town of Perquin, 63 miles northeast of San Salvador.
"As a result of the explosive attack, the so-called Arce Battalion suffered various dozens of deaths and seriously wounded," Vencercomos said.
Army spokesmen in San Salvador said they had no word on fighting in the Morazan province town, which was recently recaptured by the army from the guerrillas who have dominated the mountain region for three years.
Rebels wounded three government soldiers in the past 24 hours of fighting in Morazan province, but none of the action was near Peruqu, an army spokesman said.
Telephone communications were cut to Morazaan yesterday because of rebel bombings that knocked out electricity to half of El Salvador, telephone company operators said.
Government soldiers have occupied Per-
quin for four weeks as part of an operation intended to push rebels from their Morazan camps and prevent them from launching large-scale attacks.
Leftist guerrillas blacked out half of El Salvador yesterday by bombing electricity line torws and preventing repair crews from fixing the damages, authorities said.
Bus and truck traffic was only 40 percent of normal across the eastern and northern combat zones, dispatchers said. Rebels have also run into many of our own any vehicles caught on the highways.
Rebels blew down two line towers near the Usulitan province town of Aleigria, 50 miles east of San Salvador, and blacked out four eastern provinces, local authorities said.
Crews were sent to repair the damage but they refused to travel across a stretch of the Pan American Highway that was under rebel control.
North of the capital, rebels blacked out three more of the country's 14 provinces by blowing down two electricity poles late Wednesday near Aguilares, on the Troncal del Norte highway 18 miles north of San Salvador.
In Nicaragua, a pro-government newspaper printed a letter from Cuban President Fidel Castro to Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, congratulating him on winning 63 percent of the vote in the Nov. 4 presidential elections.
Shuttle crew finishes flight, prepares for return home
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery's satellite rescue crew packed up yesterday for a sunrise return to Florida today at the end of a space flight President Reagan said accomplished things "we never imagined were possible."
The twin $25 million satellites snatched from orbit Monday and Wednesday were locked securely in the shuttle's cargo bay, next to a pair of containers emptied last week when the astronauts launched two new satellites.
Astronauts Frederick Hauck, David Walker, Anna Fisher, Joseph Allen and Dale Gardner spent much of the their eighth day in orbit stowing equipment and testing critical systems they will use during their high-speed dive back into the atmosphere.
They also talked to reporters in Houston and to President Reagan in the White House and made it clear they are proud of their accomplishments already to wind up their action-packed mission.
fun and involved a lot of hard effort on a lot of people's part, both here and on the ground.
"We sure enjoyed it and we're looking forward to coming home tomorrow."
Asked what they would do for an encore, spacewalker Gardner said he was going home "to pay a lot of bills, unfortunately."
"IT WAS A difficult task but one that was
"My grass needs mowing," said Allen, the spacewalker who handled the two rescued
The 30-minute news conference preceding the presidential call turned into a comedy of errors for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the four television networks which had planned live interviews between their morning news show hosts and the astronauts.
None escaped without trouble, which may have been caused by problems with a NASA communications center in Houston. Adding to the difficulty, the NASA employee who had operated the complex audio switching board at the center during rehearsals was admitted to a hospital Wednesday night with appendicitis.
with this flight was't to include 40 million morning show viewers with some participation in the aspect of "flight." NASA said the flight called it off. "We actually felt we could pull it off."
The shuttle is scheduled to streak across Mexico and the southern tier of the United States and touch down at 6 a.m. CST on the 3-mile-long Kennedy Space Center runway.
"ONE OF THE things we were triving to do
The weather was expected to be good for the third shuttle landing at the Cape and, in an unusual turnabout, weather at the backup landing site in California's Mojave Desert was predicted to be unacceptable. Good weather could also be expected in the second alternate site at White Sands, N.M.
THE WESTAR 6 and Palapa satellites aboard Discovery will be checked to make sure no residual fuel is leaking and will be removed from the ship Tuesday and Wednesday. After the hazardous hydrazine propellant is drained from the satellites, they will be flown to the Hughes Aircraft at El Segundo, Calif., where they were built.
Just how much money insurance underwriters will get by selling the satellites after
they are overhaulled will not be known until after each one is inspected by Hughes engineers.
The underwriters paid NASA $5.5 million for the salvage effort and Hughes paid $5 million in preparing for the mission. The overhaul will be an extra expense. The underwriters pay out $180 million after the overhaul was wrong orbit by rocket failure last February.
The mission earned NASA $31.5 million — including the fees received for launching two satellite — but cost $100 million.
"You've demonstrated that by putting man in space on board America's space shuttle, we can work in space in ways that we never imagined were possible," he said.
PRESIDENT REAGAN SAID the retrieval of the two satellites demonstrated that the American space program "has reached another important milestone."
Alien said the double satellite capture was a tricky operation complicated by an unforeseen obstacle atop the Palaat萨台 he said. "The results speak for themselves."
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