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Plane was de-iced 23 minutes before takeoff, investigator says
DENVER — A federal investigator yesterday disputed Continental Airlines' assertion that the jet that crashed in a snowstorm, killing 27 people, was de-iced within 20 minutes of takeoff.
"It was obviously more than 20 minutes between the de-icing and takeoff," Jim Burnett, executive director of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference.
He said a preliminary investigation of the crash Sunday at Denver's Stapleton International Airport indicated the de-icing occurred 23 minutes before the plane was cleared for takeoff.
Tapes from Stapleton's control tower show the DC-9 was de-iced at 1:15:14 p.m., told to taxi into position at 2:12:33 p.m. and cleared for takeoff at 2:14:33 p.m. Burnett said.
Lawmakers not agreeing on deficit cuts
WASHINGTON — White House officials and congressional leaders, pledging to conclude a deficit-cutting deal this week, met into the night yesterday, but agreement remained elusive.
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"We have no choice but to put it together," said Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. "We have to show that the president
White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker said everybody wanted to agree, and even though it was "sort of a moving target and (sometimes) it seems like it recedes," success was "certainly a possibility."
Bhopal settlement may cost $500 million
BHOPAL, India — The Union Carbide Corp. and the Indian government appeared near agreement yesterday on a settlement in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster that left more than 2,600 people dead and more than 200,000 injured, officials on both sides said.
A proposed settlement calls for Union Carbide to pay more than
$500 million over the next 10 years in compensation for the world's worst industrial accident, accorded a source close to the negotiations.
However, both Union Carbide and Indian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed reservations that all details will be worked out before today, when the case is scheduled to go to trial.
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"This is tentative, and it may change dramatically," she said.
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Some other surplus commodities will be distributed at last year's level, she said, including corn meal, 48 million pounds; butter, 72 million; and flour. 144 million.
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According to the department's Commodity Credit Corp., which controls the government-owned surpluses, uncommitted inventories on Sept. 30 included 82.3 million pounds of butter, down from 193.8 million pounds; 98.5 million pounds of cheese, down from 558.7 million; and 63.1 million pounds of non-fat dry milk, down from 696.6 million.
WASHINGTON — The supply of surplus food stored at taxpayer expense has been reduced so much that the government will cut its donations to food banks and soup kitchens, officials said yesterday.
For the 12 months that began Oct. 1, 210 million pounds of free cheese will be donated, compared with 420 million pounds in 1968-87; 48 million pounds of non-fat dry milk, instead of 96 million; 48 million pounds of honey, instead of 76 million; and 90 million pounds of rice, instead of 180 million.
Government dairy products and other commodities also are donated to schools, military forces, prisons and other institutions. Foreign aid programs and sales abroad are other outlets.
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President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev are scheduled to hold the summit in Washington Dec. 7-10.
Diane J. Durant of the Agriculture Department's Food and Nutrition
"The inventories are in flux," she said. "Dairy policy succeeded in reducing the inventories . . . and going to be headed in the next year."
But Durant said that the projections still were highly tentative and that some authorities said there was a possibility the department would replenish its dairy surplus inventories if farmers continue stepping up milk production.
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Department officials expect to have a better idea of what may happen by January, Durant said. Meanwhile, the agency must notify the states, which delegate food distribution to local sponsors such as food banks, of levels they can expect in the coming year.
Federal policies and decisions by dairy farmers have slowed the rapid milk production of the early 1980s, which led to huge government inventories of butter, cheese and powdered milk
Service said that commodities would begin to run out by April because the food was being dulled out to the states at the previous monthly rates.
U.S., Soviets confident in treaty
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"A great deal of progress has been made over the past three days," an U.S. source said privately. He伯瑞还 talks as "very good and positive."
GENEVA — The United States and Soviet Union ended three days of pre-summit talks yesterday with both sides appearing confident that a treaty scrapping intermediate-range nuclear weapons will be ready for signing next month.
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A report of the interview by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, quoted Vorontosv as saying several difficulties arose late in negotiation.
The document is due to be released today. But glimpses of its findings were gleaned yesterday from a report of minority Republicans on the House and Senate investigating panels and from committee sources.
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And it is sharply critical of Attorney General Edwin Meese, questioning why he delayed launching a new law in 1968 when it became public a year ago.
Voronotsov was interviewed just before a final $3\frac{1}{2}$-hour session with Max Kampelman, head of the U.S. delegation.
The report says President Reagan flirted with constitutional crisis by creating a White House atmosphere that encouraged evasion of legal requirements and flouting of proper procedures for reaching foreign policy goals.
WASHINGTON — The congressional Iran-contra report paints a picture of a Reagan administration at odds with the law and the Constitution, but minority Republicans dismissed it yesterday as a partisan indictment of the president.
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It also says the administration violated the Constitution by going to Third World countries to solicit donations for the contrast at a time when Congress barred even indirect military aid to them.
He said U.S. delegates proposed that the warheads, guidance systems and rocket motors from U.S. cruise missiles be kept intact when the missiles were destroyed.
"Clearly, what went on here was not what the founding fathers envisioned," said a source familiar with the report, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. "It paints a picture of a government out of control."
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interview that work on the intermediate-range treaty should be completed by Monday. He said the document was 12 pages long.
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“with a great deal of work having been accomplished, as agreed at the Oct. 30 meeting” between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevadnadez, the source said.
After that meeting, the two governments announced the summit plans and said the medium-range treaty would be signed. They also said Reagan and Gorbachev hoped for another summit in 1988 at which they agreed that would reduce long-range nuclear forces by 50 percent.
Yuli Vorontsov, chief Soviet negotiator, said in a Soviet television
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