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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Feb. 6, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Hostages released in airline hijacking
GRAPEVINE, Texas — A man with a knife took 205 passengers and 11 crew members hostage on a Delta Air Lines jumbo jet yesterday and held them for nearly two hours after landing at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Airport police arrested Ralph A. Hughes, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a struggle with FBI agents. No one was hurt, officials said.
Officials did not announce Hughes's demands. Hughes boarded the plane in Florida.
Paris bomb hurts 9
PARIS — An exploding bomb injured at least nine people in a sports store in the crowded Les Halles shopping complex yesterday. It was the third bomb blast in Paris in three days, raising the total number injured in the explosions to 20.
No one took responsibility for the bombs, but the respected newspaper Le Monde earlier said police suspected that Arab terrorists were responsible for Monday's explosion on the Champs-Elysées and Tuesday's blast in a book store in the Latin quarter.
Farmer kills himself
WAYNESBORO, Ga. — A 67-year-old farmer shot and killed himself Tuesday 20 minutes before his 700-acre farm was to be auctioned for unpaid debts. It was the latest in a series of violent incidents linked to the farm crisis.
"He just couldn't stand to see his whole life go on the steps of the courthouse," Deborah Jennings said after her father, L.D. Hill III, shot himself at his cast Georgia home.
Train kills DuPont
WESTTOWN, Pa. — A one-car train hit a station wagon at a railroad crossing yesterday, killing Alexis Felix DUpront IV, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the United States, and slightly injuring four children he was taking home from school.
Police said DuPont's car was pushed over an embankment.
From Kansan wires
Challenger investigation continues
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Twisted fragments and debris from the shuttle Challenger were displayed yesterday in a vacant hangar as recovery crews at sea tried to find one of the ship's rocket boosters.
Search teams near the Florida coast spent the day focusing on about a dozen undersea targets. The search included an area where, according to officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, one of the ship's two solid rocket boosters may be resting
The official investigation into the disaster moved to Washington where the first meeting of a presidential shuttle commission is scheduled today.
A report by NASA's own review team was expected to shed light on possible causes of the Jan. 28 explosion that killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after blastoff.
Only two pieces of official film have been
The remains of the billion-dollar shuttle were shown laid out on a grid in a hangar at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
released, one showing a strange exhaust plume before the shuttle's fuel tank exploded.
There was no evidence of a crew module or other main structures, and most of the debris was unrecognizable. NBC reported that 17 feet of a 20-foot-long self-destruct package once attached to Challenger's external tank had been recovered and that it was not detonated in the explosion as earlier suspected.
As for the sunken booster, NASA spokesman Hugh Harris was unable to say when the rocket, if it is one, will be pulled to the surface. It was also not known which of Challenger's two boosters it might be.
Sources in Houston have said engineers suspect problems with a seal between two of the rocket's lower fuel segments allowed 6,000-degree flame to shoot out. That could have burned through the nearby external fuel
NASA spokesman John Lawrence said any effort to separate Challenger from its main fuel tank and booster rockets while the boosters were still firing probably would have broken the craft apart.
tank or raised internal pressure in the tank enough to cause its rupture.
The information from Lawrence contradicted earlier speculation that Challenger might have been able to abort its mission and glide to an emergency landing in the ocean or at the Florida spaceport. That step, even if possible, would have required that the crew take action in the nearly 15 seconds between the failure of one rocket and the explosion.
Finding Challenger's right-hand booster rocket would be a boon to investigators.
NASA spokesman James Mizell said engineers would be able to examine the seal between the fuel segments, analyze the remaining propellant to determine if it burned
properly and glean other important clues about the disaster.
The search for shuttle wreckage has turned up an estimated 12 tons of debris, including torn sections of the outer skin that surrounded the shuttle's crew compartment, sections of its wings and fragments of the fuelel.
But NASA officials said the ship's blasted crew cabin had not been found. They refused to confirm or deny increasing reports from sources that claim body parts have been recovered that may be related to the explosion.
The search for surface debris, while continuing, has wound down with attention now focusing on the undersea targets near the Kennedy Space Center.
Engineers at the shuttleport received permission to power up the shuttle Columbia yesterday and to begin routine processing, but officials stressed no flights are scheduled pending the outcome of the review.
Philippines brace for elections
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand E. Marcos, at his last rally before the election, yesterday accused his opponents of sowing hatred and revolution during the presidential campaign. Opposition candidate Corazon Aquino called him an old dictator whose time had passed.
Yesterday was the last legal day of campaigning before tomorrow's
Speaking in a Manila park during a heavy rain, Marcos addressed these remarks to Aquino and her supporters: "Slow down, you children of little brains, you're no match for the administration.
"I ask my opponents to stop what they have begun. You have sowed an atmosphere of hatred, anger and revolution. Now I say to you, the government of the Philippines is not defenseless."
Aquino told a crowd in her home province of Tarlac that Marcos was her only enemy. She blamed him for the 1983 assassination of her husband, Benigno, who had been the president's main political toe.
message issued by her headquarters that her campaign of people power had won, "and as the old dictator lurks in his palace with his dwindling band of cronies. . . I warn him: Do not cheat the people on Friday."
Marcos has been in power since 1965 and has ruled by martial law since 1972.
An official U.S. delegation of 20 members in the Philippines, led by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., will observe the elections.
She said in a final campaign
Before leaving Washington, Lugar said they would feel free to criticize
any election abuses they found.
Marcos had called the early election in an effort to show critics at home and in the United States that he was still popular and had the strength to deal with a growing communist insurgency.
The president's party projected that he would win with 56 percent of the vote. Aquino has said she needed 65 percent to provide a cushion against vote fraud.
Reporters and observers estimated Marcos' final rally crowd at 150,000, less than one-third of total that cheered Aquino on Tuesday night.
Stopping Libyan plane was wrong, Peres says
United Press International
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Shimon Peres, swamped by Arab and European condemnation, said yesterday that Israel made a mistake when it intercepted a Libyan en route to Syria and held it for five hours to search for terrorists.
Conceding that no terrorist suspects were aboard, the Israeli military Tuesday night allowed all 12 passengers and crewmen to fly on to Syria after the forced stopover at an Israeli air base.
"It was clearly a mistake," Israel radio quoted Peres as telling a closed
session of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
Israeli television reported that three planes left the Libyan capital of Tripii on Tuesday at about the same time bound for Damascus.
One of the two planes not in intercepted by Israel was carrying senior Palestinian officials, the television said.
Peres' admission that the operation went awry contrasted with the view of his defense and foreign ministers, who defended the seizure of the Gulfstream jet bound from Libya to Syria.
Meat poisoning threat prompts reward offer
United Press International
AUSTIN, Minn. — Geo. A. Hormel & Co. offered a $10,000 reward yesterday to catch those responsible for an extortion letter threatening to poison products of the strike-bound company, the FBI said.
The reward offered came amid 40 reports of package tampering in the Minneapolis area and on the eve of a rally by Austin meatpackers to discourage replacement workers from entering Hormel's flagship plant.
Union and company officials met again yesterday in an attempt to end the bitter strike, which began Aug. 17, but no progress was reported.
The FBI said it was investigating the tampering incidents and the anonymous letter sent to a Minneapolis TV station Tuesday.
we are going to start injecting a deadly poison at the plant and in stores within 1,000 miles of Austin," the letter said. "Hormel has no way to stop another Tylenol case."
Academy announces contenders
United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — "The Color Purple," the inspiring story of a rural black woman in the South, and "Out of Africa," a sweeping love saga, won 11 Oscar nominations each yesterday and lead contenders for this year's Academy Awards.
"Prizii's Honor," a black comedy starring Jack Nicholson as a Mafia hit man, and "Witness," the suspense thriller harrison Harrison Ford as a big city cop in Amish country, each won eight nominations.
Those four movies were nominated for best picture, along with "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
Although "The Color Purple" is widely viewed as being among his most ambitious works, Steven Spielberg, one of the industry's most celebrated directors, failed to win a nomination.
Ford and Nicholson were both nominated for best actor, along with James Garner for "Murphy's Romance," William Hurt for "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and Jon Voight for "Runaway Train."
Nominated for best actress were Meryl Streep for "Out of Africa," Anne Bancroft for "Agnes of God," Whoopi Goldberg for "The Color Purple," Jessica Lange for "Sweet Dreams" and Geraldine Page.
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