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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Feb. 24, 1986
News Briefs
15 drown after boat capsizes in India
NEW DELHI, India — A boat capsized yesterday on the Meshva River in western Gujarat state, drowning 12 schoolgirls and three teachers, the Press Trust of India reported.
The accident occurred near the town of Shamaiji about 400 miles southwest of New Delhi, the news agency said. The cause was not immediately known.
List may aid police
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — A list of names found after police arrested the son of former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro on drug charges may be to arrest other students at Middlebury College, police said.
The boat carried 18 people. Twelve female students between the ages of 11 and 15 and three teachers escorting them on a picnic were drowned. Three students survived by swimming to the river bank.
NEW YORK — About 500 Vietnam veterans rallying yesterday outside the Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations demanded the release of American soldiers thought still alive in Indochina.
John Zaccaro Jr. pleaded not guilty Friday in Vermont District Court to a charge of possession of a regulated drug with intent to sell. If convicted, he could be sentenced to five years in prison, fined $5,000, or both.
500 veterans rally
Speakers at the rally urged American and Vietnamese governments to get Americans home.
Among signs at the rally were "Hanoi Take Jane Fonda. Give Us Our Back," referring to Fonda's 1972 visit to Hanoi. Police estimated about 500 people were at the rally.
Probations increase
WASHINGTON — One of every 35 adult men in the United States is on probation, on parole or imprisoned, and offenders under community supervision now outnumber those who are in jail 3-to-1, a Bureau of Justice Statistics study said yesterday.
From Kansan wires
United Press International
Shuttle debate goes on
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A 15-foot-long piece of debris that may have been torn from Challenger's external fuel tank was brought to port yesterday after being recovered from the ocean floor 25 miles offshore.
meanwhile, the cause of the tragic explosion remains controversial as experts swap theories on the reasons why.
The 200-pound metallic piece was brought into Port Canaveral for examination by experts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Salvage crews also photographed what appeared to be parts of the shuttle's main engines, lying under 90 feet of water 18 to 20 miles east of the cape, said Lt. Cmdr. Deborah Burnett.
Also, two fishing boats picked up two chunks of debris and turned them over to the Coast Guard for further study by NASA to see whether they came from Challenger.
It it the explosion of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the 184-foot external tank that destroyed Challenger Jan. 28, killing its crew of seven. Some investigators think the blast was touched off by a rupture in
However, a group of rocket scientists, including the man who pioneered solid-propellant boosters for Morton Thicklok's shuttle program, sharply disagreed yesterday with theories that failure in O-ring seals on the booster rocket caused the Challenger explosion.
The scientists, including the former president of Thiolol Corp., are urging the president's shuttle commission to investigate the possibility that a leak of liquid hydrogen from the external fuel tank, not the O-ring seals on the booster, sparked the chain of events leading to the Jan. 28 catastrophe.
the side of the shuttle's right-hand booster rocket.
"If there were a hydrogen leak then almost everything else fits like a glove," said John Osburne, former Thiokil engineer, now rocketry specialist for Purdue University. "It's a far better fit than to try to arrange an explanation using O-rings."
One great discrepancy in the hydrogen leak theory, the scientists admit, is the existence of an extra plume of flame seen coming from the lower booster section. The pattern of the flame is clearly that of escaping solid-propellant gases, said former Thiolok president Harold Ritchey.
Other scientists who do not subscribe to the O-ring theory, which
is the focus of the commission's current investigation, include Henry Shuey, who has worked on space and army missile-propellant systems in Huntsville, Ala., for 45 years; Ed Fitzgerald, former consultant for NASA's booster program at Georgia Tech; and Tom Sovoca, a former manager of the Wasatch, Utah, division of Thiolok.
The scientists said that before ignition, the shuttle's main liquid fuel tank sprang a leak of hydrogen in the lower section. As it lailed, the hydrogen acted as a coolant, causing temperatures around the booster casing to fall. The hydrogen leak caught fire, burning the cork and causing the puff of smoke.
The scientists said the hydrogen continued to burn and the flame weakened the struts that formed the point of contact between the big tank and the booster.
Two explosive bolts blew out and the booster began its fatal bending motion which forced it into the main fuel tank at a critical juncture, at the point separating hydrogen and oxygen bulkheads, they said. The result was a fireball.
If the wreckage retrieved yesterday from the Atlantic is from the big fuel tank, it might provide some clues as to how the explosion occurred.
Amendment stirs S. Korea
United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — Controversy is reaching a boiling point in South Korea because of a proposed constitutional amendment which would allow direct presidential elections.
The ruling and opposition camps appear headed on a collision course over the issue and bitterness deepens after each confrontation.
The government has placed some 200 opposition party members under house arrest and sealed off their headquarters to prevent circulation of a petition calling for the amendment.
The government of President Chun Doo Hwan has outlawed the petition drive for 10 million signatures and warned that the government would punish anyone involved in the petition drive.
Under the 1980 constitution, the chief executive is picked by an electoral college chosen by popular vote. Chun was elected in February 1981 under that process.
Chun, who is constitutionally required to step down at the end of his term, has called on the opposition to postpone debate on the issue until after the 1988 elections so the nation can channel its energies toward the Seoul Olympics of that year.
Chun's foes, including the New Korea Democratic Party, backed by Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young-sam, argue that indirect elections do not give a fair chance to opposition candidates and are undemocratic.
Chun says he hopes to establish a tradition of peaceful transfer of power in 1988. Virtually all past governments in South Korea have met violent ends.
The two Kims, often called the godfathers of the chief opposition party, were forced out of politics in the election process which brought Chun to power after the assassination of President Park and a period of martial law which followed.
They were barred from politics along with about 800 others put on a political blacklist. Kim Dae Jung was sentenced to death for masterminding a bloody nine-day insurrection in the capital of his hometown province in May 1980. His sentence was later reduced to 20 years and then suspended.
Both Kims were leading oppositionists under Park and were strong contenders for the presidency.
When parliamentary elections were conducted Feb. 12, 1985, the two Kims used their influence behind the scenes for the birth of the NKDP.
The NKDP controls 90 seats in the 276-member unicameral National Assembly. But more important is that the party, under de facto control of the two Kims, subscribes to hardline strategy and tactics against the ruling camp.
Constitutional amendment for direct presidential election was one of the party's chief slogans during last year's elections and the NKDP leadership threatened a petition drive to collect 10 million signatures supporting their cause.
$100,000 bounty offered in search
United Press International
SELLS, Ariz. — A $100,000 reward was offered yesterday to bolster a hunt for three suspected drug smugglers thought to have killed a U.S. Customs agent in southern Arizona and possibly fled into Mexico.
The U.S. Customs Service issued the bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers while a search was conducted on both sides of the border.
"We've got people on the scene, on foot and vehicles talking to different people," said Dick Rogers, senior agent in charge of the Tucson FBI office. "We're pulling out all the stops."
Mexican officials joined with state and federal law enforcement agencies in seeking the killers of Glenn Robert Miles Sr., 42. Miles was found shot to death late Friday along a dirt road, 25 miles south of Sells and $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles from the remote San Miguel border crossing into Mexico.
Customs Service spokesman Charles Conroy.
Conroy said Miles had advised his Tucson office Friday night that he was pursuing three men on foot on the Papago Indian Reservation: Dispatchers became concerned when Miles did not check back and sent other officers, who found Miles' body.
Aerial photographs revealed three sets of tracks leading back into Mexico. Conroy said.
Authorities said Miles had been following three suspected drug smugglers with backpacks.
"The suspects were what is referred to as 'mules' — they carry drugs across the border," Steele said. "They headed into the United States, and when they noticed they were being followed they headed back south,
"Miles got between them and the border, and they shot him."
Joining in the investigation are the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the state Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Damaged capsules contain no cyanide
United Press International
NANUET, N.Y. — Federal officials said yesterday that tests showed there was no poison in a suspicious bottle of Panadol capsules found in a community near the New York suburb where a woman died from vanside-tainted Tylenol.
The discovery of Panadol with damaged capsules was reported Saturday in Nanuet, a suburb near Westchester County, where Diane Elsoth died Feb. 6 of acute poisoning after taking two Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules.
Food and Drug Administration spokesman Bill Grigg said tests on the Panadol were negative for cyanide. He said the problem appeared to be a manufacturing error.
The death of Elsroth, 23, and discovery of a second tainted bottle of Tylenol led Johnson & Johnson to stop making non-prescription drugs in capsule form. There were no new leads yesterday in her death.
Grigg said tests found one Panadol capsule was creased and two others were empty.
Earlier, Rockland County Executive John Grant urged the public to carefully examine any product in capsule form because the box of Panadol apparently had its protective seals intact.
"It looks like some demented person is just trying to harm people but we're treating this as a local isolated incident." Grant said.
The FDA also reported yesterday no evidence of tampering in a damaged bottle of Children's Tylenol opened by a New York woman.
Patrica Eldstein, 27, of Batava said the foil seal on a bottle of children's Tylenol tablets was broken when she opened the container, while the plastic seal on the outside of the package was intact.
Lois Meyer, a district consumer affairs officer for the FDA, said there was nothing wrong with the tablets in the bottle.
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