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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 18, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Death row inmates release two hostages
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - Dean row inmates, some wielding sharpened broomsticks, rebellied at the Indiana State Prison on Monday and held two hostages more than 12 hours before releasing them in good condition, officials said.
The inmates, who captured the prison employees during a recreation period, released them shortly before 10 p.m. in exchange for broadcast of a memorandum of understanding with prison officials, officials said.
The agreement includes a promise that no physical retribution would be taken against the inmates, according to a statement from Correction Commissioner Gordon Faukner.
No injuries were reported in the uprising, which began about 9:30 a.m. with overcrowding among the prisoners' complaints.
TWA still operating
NEW YORK — Trans World Airlines said yesterday that it had restored full international service and was operating at 85 percent of capacity on domestic routes as the walkout by 6,000 flight attendants entered its 11th day. No new talks were scheduled between the airline and the union.
TWA spokesman Lawrence Hiliard said the airline had 3,500 replacement attendants on the job. Another 240 members of the International Federation of Flight Attendants have crossed union picket lines and returned to work.
Transit strike begins
PHILADELPHIA - Residents experienced traffic problems yesterday on the first working day of a strike by 5,000 Philadelphia bus, subway and trolley drivers that left 400,000 workers and students scrambling for alternate transportation.
The Philadelphia strike is the second transit disruption in the Northeast this month. In Boston, a strike against commuter rail lines, which serve 12,000 passengers north and west of the city, went into its sixth day yesterday.
Shuttle flew without backup parts
United Press International
From Kansan wires.
SPACE CENTER, Houston — The shuttle Challenger was launched on its fatal flight with 748 parts — 114 in the booster rockets — that had no backups to prevent disaster, NASA revealed yesterday.
The two-inch thick list of systems that might fail under "worst case" conditions included the rubber O-ring rocket seals suspected of having triggered the Jan. 28 explosion that destroyed the shuttle and killed its crew.
Because of the Challenger accident, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is reviewing each of the items that lacks a fail
safe backup to see which ones still are applicable for acceptance to flight and possibly which are no longer acceptable, said Marion Merrell, of the Johnson Space Center's safety and reliability office.
Of the 114 booster rocket parts given the criticality 1 no-backup classification, 59 had received waivers and were allowed to fly because officials were convinced there was little chance of having a catastrophic failure.
The other criticality 1 booster rocket items fell under standard exemptions in which engineers say there can be no backup, such as the wing and tail fin on the shuttle, fuel or gas tanks and pipes, rocket igniters and other explosive devices and the ship's heat shield tiles.
Merrrell said, for example, if a certain tank ruptured, there probably was nothing that could be done about it.
"The only way I can prevent that from occurring is to provide safety factors in that design. I can't add another tank to preclude one tank from rupturing," he said.
"My experience is there will always be some criticality 1s," Merrell said at the first NASA news conference called to address the issue.
He said Challenger itself had 335 criticality 1 items, the external fuel tank had 133, the stair's main engines had 94, government-furnished equipment had 64 and ground-support equipment had eight critical 1 items. Of those 748, 617 items had gone through the waiver process.
Merrell explained that NASA's safety review process looked at each critical part on the shuttle in a "worst case" situation — the most severe condition to which that item would be subjected. He related it to it to having a tire blowout on a car traveling at its maximum speed of 70 mph.
"If I postulate a failure mode of blowout or rupture on that tire, I think you can see the conditions in which you might get into in that kind of a case. That would be called a critical item criticality 1."
The most likely candidate for prime minister is considered to be Jacques Chirac, the leader of the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic.
Mitterrand will remain as president
The constitution gives the president and prime minister broad, overlapping powers and the French fear the situation could result in a paralyzed government.
United Press International
Mittterrand told the people he would choose France's next prime minister today from the ranks of the new conservative majority.
PARIS — Socialist President Francois Mitterrand assured France yesterday that he would serve out his term despite his party's defeat in parliamentary elections and would name a prime minister from the new conservative majority soon.
Mitterrand, in a surprise address on national television last night, said he would remain in office for the full length of his presidential term, which runs until 1988. He was shown in front of a huge French flag and looked more relaxed than he had in weeks.
Before Sunday's legislative and regional elections, in which the right won a slam majority, some opposition leaders called for Mitterrand to step down in the event of a commanding right landslide.
Mitterrand said Prime Minister Laurent Fabius would remain head of the government until his successor was appointed. Fabius gave Mitterrand the resignations of the Socialist government yesterday morning but Mitterrand did not immediately accept them.
Marcos'
United Press International
A New York judge yesterday denied a request for a restraining order, clearing the way for U.S. officials to turn over to the new Philippine government and Congress documents which detail the wealth of former President Ferdinand Marcos.
The denial by Judge Dominick DiCarlo of the Court of International Trade was issued just hours before the Justice Department had scheduled release of the 1,500 pages of documents.
wealth to be revealed
Later in the day, however, administration officials said they would not be releasing the documents immediately. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said there still were legal questions to be resolved before the documents could be turned over to Jovito Salonga, head of a Philippine commission seeking return of Marcos assets, and members of Congress and the press.
Officials said Marcos' lawyers had taken further unspecified
Communist guerrilla attacks kill 20 in provinces
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Communist guerrillas ambushed a government jeep and raided a rice warehouse in two separate attacks that left 20 people dead, officials said yesterday.
ed a government jeep in the coastal municipality of Amlan in Negros Oriental province 360 miles south of Manila, killing 12 people and wounding three.
Congratulatory officials said 30 rebels hiding in foxholes along a mountain road Saturday ambush-
In Allacapan, Cagayan province, 260 miles north of the capital, about 100 rebels Friday swooped down on a warehouse of the National Food Authority, officials said. Seven troopers and a
soldier's wife died and five others were wounded in a five-hour gun battle with army troops and militiamen.
Officials said five other soldiers were missing. It was not known whether they had been captured.
The officials could not confirm a report by state television that 28 people - 15 rebels and 13 soldiers - died in Allacapan.
legal action-in New York and Honolulu that would prevent the release of the material, thought to be a roadmap to Marcos' financial holdings in the United States and elsewhere.
The documents were seized by Customs officials when Marcos, his family and friends fled the Philippines to Hawaii last month after 20 years in power.
to recover what it maintains is millions of dollars Marcos looted from the treasury of the Phillipines.
A congressional committee also sought the papers for its investigation of whether Marcos misused economic aid to his country.
But lawyers representing Marcs' son-in-law Gregorio Araneta and former Marcos military side Ramon Azurin asked Judge DiCarlo to stop the release of the 1,500 documents.
They asked for a temporary restraining order in New York because the trade court handles appeals on rulings by the Customs Service, which handed the documents over to the Justice Department.
Customs officers seized the documents, which were among property Marcos and his 89-member entourage brought to Hawaii, including several million dollars in Philippine pesos.
Swedish prosecutor calls for charges
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden —
Sweden's chief prosecutor was
accused a 32-year-old man of involvement in the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme and urged court officials to charge him with murder.
Chief prosecutor K.G. Svensson told the Stockholm District Court that suspicions about the man had
been strengthened after his arrest Wednesday as a suspected accomplice in the Feb. 28 assassination. Under Swedish law, charges can be formally levied only by a court.
A witness quoted the suspect as saying weeks before the killing that "Patme is on the death list" and that "blood will flow on the streets of Stockholm." Svensson said.
ment in the assassination, Stockholm police chars Hans Holmer said.
The suspect has denied involve-
Faced with a decision either to release the man or to press charges against him, Svensson said in a press release that he had asked the court to charge the suspect with being an accomplice in the murder as a perpetrator.
In his formal statement to the court — which is expected to comply with
his request Thursday — Svensson said the man should be charged with murder. He declined to give further details.
The ambiguous statement left it unclear whether the prosecutor thought the suspect fired the gun that killed Palme or was an accomplice in the killing.
Hans Holmer refused to elaborate on the charge.
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