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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, March 19, 1986
NASA to finish study of accident in April
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space agency's internal review board should be able to determine the cause of the Challenger disaster in the next month even if parts of the ship's suspect rocket booster are never found, a top official said yesterday.
The official, James R. Thompson, vice chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's accident task force, said the presidential commission investigating the Challenger accident agency's agency review panel to complete its study by April 18.
The commission, headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers, is scheduled to present its findings to President Reagan June 3.
A public commission hearing was scheduled for Friday in Washington to review the investigation to date. Evidence scheduled to be heard includes the results of tests conducted to simulate the rocket failure thought to be responsible for Challenger's
destruction on Jan. 28.
Off the coast of Florida, shuttle salvage crews have recovered a piece of wreckage from one of Challenger's rocket boosters that could hold clues to what caused the disaster.
"I'm quite optimistic, given the talent of the large number of people we have involved in this, that we will arrive at the right answers and do it in a timely manner," said Thompson, a former NASA engineer now working at Princeton University's fusion research center.
Challenger was destroyed when a rupture in a joint connecting the lower two fuel segments in its right side booster triggered the explosion of the shuttle's external fuel tank. The prime suspect is the failure of rubber O-ring seals to contain hot gas and flame.
A 500-pound 4 feet by 5 feet piece of rocket debris was recovered by the crew of the Scottish salvage ship Stena Workhorse late Monday after the Navy's USS Preserver returned to port bearing wreckage from the shuttle's crew cabin and possibly more remains of the ship's seven astronauts.
WASHINGTON — The State Department released a report yesterday describing the typical contra as a young peasant and rejecting claims that the U.S.-backed guerrillas are the heirs of ousted Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.
United Press International
State Department calls contras 'rural youths'
The report, based on a survey finished in November 1985, said total contra forces included nearly 20,000 men under arms - a figure Nicaragua's Sandinista government and its supporters in the United States say is inflated by 100 percent.
"Resistance fighters are overwhelmingly rural youths," the introduction to the report said. "Most are between 18 and 22 years old; when Soomazi fell in 1979, they were in their early teens.
The survey said only 15 percent of the senior leadership of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the main contra band, were officers of Somoza's National Guard and that the same percentage were Sandinista soldiers during the revolution against Somoza.
"They fight today in response to Sandinista attempts to control their farming, their churches and in some cases their indigenous cultures."
Elliott Abrams. assistant
secretary of state for American hemispheric affairs, said the contras were more representative of the wishes of the Nicaraguan people than Somoza had been or than the Sandinistas were.
The Somoza dictatorship, handed down from father to son, began after the occupation of Nicaragua by U.S. Marines ended in 1933. The Sandista revolution forced Somoza from power in July 1979 after a bloody war with his National Guard forces. Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay in September 1980.
The State Department document was released as the administration campaigned for House approval of President Reagan's plan to give the contras $100 million.
"To continue to associate Nicaragua's resistance forces with Somoza is patently misleading," the report said. "Somoza is dead. The Central American dictatorships associated with Somoza have all given way to elected governments committed to democracy. Today, the only Central American president who wears a military uniform is the Sandinista president of Nicaragua."
According to the report, about half of the senior military personnel of the main contra group are either farmers or urban professionals.
UNIVERSITY - COMMUNITY SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
As a result of the efforts of many students on the evening of April 20, 1970 in the saving of furniture, art objects and invaluable service to firefighters during the Kansas Union fire, some insurance carriers decided to present to the Kansas Union a cash gift. After presentation of the gift, it was suggested that the Student Union Activities Board seek those students deserving of being awarded scholarship/awards from the interest on the gift.
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