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Monday, August 31, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Space shuttle mission renewal is launched by rocket test-firing
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — A redesigned space shuttle booster rocket roared into life in its first full-scale test-firing yesterday, a successful and crucial step before the planned renewal of shuttle missions next June.
The 128-foot-long, solid fuel rocket blasted orange flame 500 feet and a thick cloud of smoke 1,500 feet into the sky above Morton
Thiokol Inc.'s desert test site. A spokesman said the rocket used up to 1 million pounds of propellant during the two-minute test.
Aquino says rebels wanted to murder her
Officials have decided that the redesigned booster must be test-fired at least four times on the ground before it is certified and the shuttles are allowed to fly again.
MANILA. Philippines — President Corazon Aquino said yesterday that mutinous troops tried not to topple her government but aimed to kill her and her family.
fired on civilians, and the timing ... proves beyond a doubt their murderous intentions," she said.
"The size and ruthlessness of the attack, the treachery that marked it, the brutality of the rebels who
Meanwhile, Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile said he was not involved in Friday's coup attempt ,in which about 1,200 rebel troops were led by his former aide.
Actor Lee Marvin. 63. dies of heart attack
TUCSON, Ariz. - Oscar-winner actor Lee Marvin, a gravel-voiced World War II Marine who went to star as the consumate tough guy in films like "The Man Who Shot Dirty Valance" and "The Dirt Dozen," died of a heart
attack Saturday at Tucson Medical Center. He was 63.
Mr. Marvin also played an unwanted role in a historic "palimony" suit, in which his former live-in girlfriend sued him for half his fortune.
Short, fat guys compete in Oregon road race
TERREBONNE, Ore. — The competition was fierce, but the first Short, Fat Guy's Road Race ended in a tie as about 40 men cheated, swated and swayed to the finish.
A line was drawn about 100 feet
from the finish line on the one-
mile, downhill course so all contest-ers could gather to finish at the same time. After the finish, the men were handed beers and Twinkies.
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The National Union of Mineworkers settled for management's prestrike wage offer, but it would not admit defeat and described the three-week walkout as "a dress rehearsal for an armful of companies reported that former strikers returned to work for yesterday's night shift.
South African miners end strike, accept wage offer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — the black miner's union ended South Africa's largest and costliest mine strike yesterday after management fired tens of thousands of strikers and refused to yield in negotiations.
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Nine miners were killed during the strike, and the union said yesterday that more than 500 were injured and 400 arrested. Tens of millions of dollars in wages and corporate profits were lost.
Most of the estimated 44,000 fired strikers are expected to be rehired, but at least 7,000 lost their jobs permanently when one company shut down two gold-mine shafts.
The end of the strike came during a three-hour meeting between the Chamber of Mines, which represents the six targeted mining companies, and a 30-member union delegation
The offer accepted by the union contained only slight improvements in benefits and was virtually identical to the one actually won, overwhelmingly rejected Wednesday.
He said Anglo American would try to rehire as many of the fired men as possible but made no guarantees. He said the company would not dismiss replacements hired during the strike and would not reopen two unprofitable gold shafts it closed 10 days ago.
"To take very large numbers of people out on strike and keep them out for three weeks is an achievement," Godsell said.
The chamber said the strike at its peak involved 230,000 mines at 31 gold and coal mines, with about 20,000 strikers returning to work in recent days. The union said 340,000 men struck at 44 mines.
About 40,000 of the fired strikers worked for Anglo American, the largest and worst-hit of the affected companies. Godsell said the company had been prepared to continue the dismissals to defend its economic interests.
"Both the union and the employers have demonstrated their ability to administer and withstand pain," said Bobby Godsell, industrial relations chief for Anglo American Corp. "None of my colleagues are going to be celebrating victory."
The biggest previous mine strike was in 1946, when about 100,000 miners walked off for a few days before troops broke up the strike.
Israeli vote halts warplane plans
spent on developing the plane, and U.S. officials were concerned about the huge cost overruns.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli Cabinet voted by a narrow margin yesterday to cancel production of the Lavi, a needle-nosed jet fighter designed as Israel's warplane of the future.
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The vote, which followed months of bitter debate, was 12 to 11 with one abstention.
leader of the Labor Party, had proposed the cancellation Absorption Minister Yaacov Tsur, a Laborite, said the Cabinet was headed for a tie vote, which would have kept the Lavi alive. But he said party leaders pressured Health Minister Shoshana Arbeli-Almzolno to abstain rather than vote for continuing the project.
"We welcome the Israeli Cabinet's decision to terminate the Lavi," said a statement issued in Washington by the Department of State and the Pentagon. "We recognize this was a difficult decision for Israel, but it is one we believe will best serve Israel's interests."
The decision was a setback for Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his right-wing Likud bloc.
The United States had provided almost all of the $1.3 billion already
32 cultists die in pact in S. Korea
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
The Associated Press
YONGIN, South Korea — A cult leader called "Benevolent Mother" and 31 disciples took drugs and strangled each other in a murder-suicide pact after police began probing charges she swindled $8.7 million, police said yesterday.
They said the last man left alive, factory manager Lee Kyung-soo, hanged himself.
Park Soon-ja, her three adult children and the 28 other followers apparently swallowed poison or powerful drugs Friday and let themselves be stranded with rope and cloth in the attic of the cult's factory, police officials said.
Police said Park, 48, and the followers hid in the attic after police began investigating allegations she swindled $8.7 million from about 220 followers.
"It itens to be a murder-suicide case. It's really hard to believe," said one police officer. "This woman built an empire."
The dead included 28 women and four men, with the youngest victim a 17-year-old girl, police said.
The cult persuaded followers to give up all their possessions and give Park their unquestioning devotion, police said. Park, who claimed to act on the orders of God, taught that the world was corrupt and about to be destroyed.
Park Hyung-in, who feared her elder sister was among the dead, said the cult practiced an extreme and frenzied form of Christianity.
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