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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, March 21, 1986
News Briefs
Capsules recalled after poison threat
PHILADELPHIA — A man's assertion of poisoning Contact, Dietac and Teldrin prompted the maker of the popular over-the-counter capsule drugs yesterday to order stores across the country to pull the products from their shelves.
The Food and Drug Administration said it had found no evidence of poisoning. The manufacturer, SmithKline Beckman Corp., said FDA tests showed some capsules in stores in Houston and Orlando, Fla., had been contaminated with cornstarch, not poison. The manufacturer also warned consumers against using the products bought after March 15.
Chileans dispersed
SANTIAGO, Chile — Police used tear gas and water cannons yesterday to disperse hundreds of women who demonstrated in downtown Santiago in support of free elections. At least 40 people were arrested, police said.
Opposition leaders and students joined the women and marched on downtown streets shouting, "The people want freedom."
Hormel closes again
AUSTIN, Minn. — About 200 striking meatpackers chanting "fight back" blocked the gates at Geo A. Hormel & Co. yesterday, shutting down the plant for three hours. Police said 24 people were arrested.
The protest delayed non-union replacement workers from going to their jobs in the slaughterhouse.
Eggs stand on end
ROME, Ga. — Scientists say they can't explain why eggs stand up on end on the first day of spring but hundreds of people attended the second Annual Vernal Equinox Egg Stand yesterday to see logic defied.
Scientists say there is no logical explanation for why the eggs stand on edge on the first day of spring, but some unfounded reasons range from the existence of enchanted ground to cosmic forces in the universe.
From Kansan wires.
Rocket piece may explain blast
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A piece of shuttle rocket wreckage that may prove what caused the Challenger disaster was brought ashore yesterday, but NASA officials would not say from which booster the debris came.
One source, however, said the debris was positively identified as coming from the shuttle's right-hand rocket booster, which ruptured Jan. 28, triggering the worst disaster in space history.
A photograph of the wreckage, released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, showed a jagged triangular piece of metal which included a large section of the joint suspected of failing.
The debris, painted bright white for launch, was severely discolored, perhaps indicating exposure to excessive heat.
Sources said the identity of the wreckage, possibly the most significant find yet in the shuttle salvage operation, was expected to be confirmed at a presidential disaster commission hearing in Washington today.
Along with a briefing on salvage operations, the commission planned to review tests of the suspect booster rocket joint seals and the effect cold launch-day weather might have had on their operation.
A source close to the commission said testimony at the hearing was expected to strengthen the case against the rocket joints and absolve the shuttle's external fuel tank of any role in triggering the disaster.
Off the coast of Florida yesterday, an approaching storm kicked up high seas and wind late in the day, forcing Navy divers to interrupt their work on the ocean floor gathering still
"Our intentions are to get divers out of the water at this time," the USS-Preserver radiued. "If in fact the weather kicks up to the point where it's going to get totally uncomfortable out here . . . we may consider returning to port either late tonight or early tomorrow morning."
more pieces of debris from Challenger's crew compartment.
Earlier, workers unloaded three pieces of debris from the salvage vessel Stena Workhorse, including the crucial booster wreckage.
Challenger exploded Jan. 28 when a flame shot from the right booster at or near a joint between the lower two of four fuel segments. Engineers suspect that problems with two rubber O-ring seals in the joint allowed flame and hot gas to escape.
The 4-by-5, 500-pound piece of debris included part of an attach fitting that once held the lower end of the rocket, to Challenger's external
fuel tank and part of a fuel-segment joint, complete with grooves where the O-ring seals once rested.
After three hours of close scrutiny by experts, Navy and NASA officials insisted they did not yet know from which booster the piece of wreckage came.
Sources close to the investigation said more human remains might rest amid the cabin wreckage that has yet to be recovered.
NASA will not discuss any aspect of the crew recovery process, but agency officials and public affairs specialists are developing plans that are expected to include a ceremony to honor the fallen astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center to remind their remains are released to crew families for burial.
Radio traffic from the Preserver indicated that Lt. Cmdr. William Shepherd, a Navy astronaut, inspected the cabin wreckage.
Panama rejects Marcos' asylum plea
United Press International
PANAMA CITY, Panama — President Eric Arturo Delvalle yesterday rejected a petition for asylum by deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, presidential news secretary Guillermo Abames said. The announcement dashed a U.S. deal to send Marcos to Panama.
The last-minute decision came after Reagan administration officials had said Marcos was expected to fly to Panama late yesterday for political refuge.
"They have already communicated to the U.S. Embassy that they do not accept him," a Defense Ministry official said.
There was no confirmation from the U.S. government that Panama had rejected Marcos. "We're still working the problem," an administration official who requested anonymity said.
Delvalle had said Wednesday that Marcos' petition would be discussed with his government and that a decision would be made soon, but opposition leaders yesterday reacted in
One leader said he would press for Marcos' expulsion.
Delvalle consulted with top members of the parties forming the National Democratic Union political alliance that elected his ticket in 1984.
come here," the Defense Ministry official said. "Marcos does not represent Panama's democratic interests."
"The president consulted with the UNADE parties, and the alliance does not agree that (Marcos) should
Abames said political parties that support the government told the president they did not think it was the appropriate time to allow Marcos entry.
The Defense Ministry official said the effort by the United States was dropped at the last minute by the Panamanian rejection.
Plane carrying first lady slips in mud before flight
United Press International
ATLANTA — A plane carrying Nancy Reagan and 15 others slipped into mud as it was preparing for takeoff yesterday, throwing some passengers onto the floor, but no one was harmed, officials said.
to Washington from a drug abuse conference.
The plane, an Air Force C-9, listed sharply to the right when one wheel became mired in mud at the edge of the runaway at Fulton County Airport, a small airfield in suburban Atlanta used for corporate and private planes. The first lady was returning
The accident occurred at about 1:40 p.m., and a White House spokesman said the president had been informed.
Mrs. Reagan spoke to the president by telephone after the incident.
"He asked if she was all right and said, 'I'll be waiting for you,'" a White House spokesman said.
The first lady took off for Washington on a second plane at 4:29 p.m. Motorists near the airport created a traffic jam as they slowed to look at the disabled plane.
Student's cry for help in essav seen too late
United Press International
CHESTER, Ill. — Scott Phillips turned in his essay, titled "Suicide Mistake" on Monday, but it wasn't until Monday night that his teacher read it. It described how an 11-year-old boy, having trouble making friends at a new school, killed himself by putting a plastic bag over his head.
Disturbed, the teacher immediately called the principal of Chester Community Grade School.
They agreed to seek counseling for Scott in the morning.
While they were talking, paramedics were trying in vain to revive Scott, found in his room with a plastic bag pulled over his head. His mother found his body at home and tried to identify the officer. Nell V. Birchner said the suicide in the essay was identical to the manner Scott used.
Scott's father, Richard Phillips, said Scott already was in counseling.
Limits put on power of Aquino
"The consensus is for a return to the presidential system," Laurel said when he met with Mr. Bashir.
The new constitution will replace a 1973 charter tailored by deposed President Ferdinand Marcos and will lead to a dissolution of the one-house, 200-seat National Assembly, he said. The assembly is controlled by Marcos supporters.
It also will limit the chief executive to a single six-year term and eliminate the presidential power to unilaterally declare martial law, he said. Marcos imposes martial law in 1972, and although he officially lifted it eight years later, he retained authoritarian powers until his ouster.
"We want to insert into the constitution a provision that never again should the president be allowed to impose martial law without the consent of congress, and only for a limited period."
The 57-year-old Laurel also confirmed reports that he and Aquino had received death threats in the past two days from 18 alleged hit squads of Marcos loyalists that were roaming Manila armed with the most sophisticated weapons.
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino will be limited to a single six-year term and will be unable to unilaterally declare martial law under a new Philippine constitution to be drafted within three months, Vice President Salvador Laurel said yesterday.
"We are supposed to be eliminated. Without Cory Aquino and myself, it would be very easy for Marcos to make a comeback," he said. "But we have to live with that."
United Press International
Marcos fled to exile in Hawaii 23 days ago after a civil-banked military rebellion ended his 20-year regime and installed Aquino.
As a investigation into Marcos' financial empire continued, Commission on Good Government member Raul Daza announced that bank accounts of 47 Marcos associates holding between $97 million and $146 million had been frozen.
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