University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 9, 1988 NationWorld 7 Families of 3 Challenger dead to receive nothing from U.S. The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. government contributed 40 percent to settlements for two Challenge astronauts who worked for the government, but it now stands to provide nothing to settle with the families of three colleagues who also were federal employees. The reasons for the disparities are the Justice Department's determination to use the same financial yardsticks for survivors of all seven astronauts who died on the space shuttle and a legal strategy designed to protect the government's immunity from being sued directly by the relatives of federal military or civilian employees who die on the job. Relatives of all seven astronauts were free to sue Morton Thiokol Inc., whose booster rocket has been blamed for the explosion, for damages, but only the families of the two non-government employees, high school teacher Christa McAuliffe and Hughes Aircraft employee Gregory Jarvis, were allowed to sue the federal government. Federal law and a 35-year-old Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed last May prohibit the survivors of federal civilian or military workers killed on the job from suing the government for damages. High school murder blamed on drug The Associated Press DEHAM, Mass. — Rod Matthews killed, his attorney said, because a prescription drug he took for school stoked the fires of madness in his adolescent mind. In testimony last week, Matthews' mother, Janice, said that her son's behavior had become a problem in the third grade and that he was placed on Ritalin after a brief visit to his pediatrician. Matthews is 15. The boy's doctor, Theodore Goodman, testified that he relied only on what the mother told him. There was no test or follow-up for the drug's effects On Monday, psychiatrist Bernard Yudwitz testified that if a child with mental illness was misdiagnosed and given Ritalin, "impulsivity and fear" are their ability to act appropriately in a given setting decreases." Capitol Hill double standard decried The Associated Press WASHINGTON - A Justice Department official said yesterday that he favored raising congressional pay to as much as $175,000 in exchange for ending a double standard exempting senators and representatives from federal ethics laws. Assistant Attorney General William old said that it wasn't fair to punish him. job-related activities was a crime for executive branch officials but not for congressmen. Weld also said that Congress should apply to itself the federal conflict-of-interest laws under which former White House political director Lyn Nofziger was convicted of illegal lobbying. Congress has exempted itself from those laws. FAA to review commuter airlines The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Commuter airlines, which carried almost 30 million people last year, have been targeted for stepped-up inspections by the Federal Aviation Administration after seven fatal accidents and 56 deaths since November. carriers were expected to be singled out for particularly close scrutiny. An agency official announced the special inspections of commuters, which normally fly aircraft of 30 or fewer seats, at a news conference yesterday. The official said that about 20 percent of the 17 commuter FAA officials would not give the names of airlines to be investigated or details about how the airlines would be selected for special attention. FAA Administrator Allan McArtor told reporters that the agency was concerned because of the rash of commuter accidents in late 1987 and early this year. The industry had its safest year in 1986. The seven accidents over a four- month period appear to have nothing in common in terms of cause, McArtor said. The worst of the accidents, involving Ryan Air Service, killed 18 people Nov. 23 near Homer, Alaska. The latest was the crash of an Avair commuter craft during takeoff Feb. 19 near Morrisville, N.C., killing 12 people. Fatal commuter crashes have also occurred recently in Nebraska, Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois and Colorado. McArtor cited the rapid growth of the commuter industry and said measures must be taken to more closely monitor these airlines. The inspections, which will begin within 60 days, will focus on the airlines' management practices, flight crew training, record keeping and maintenance of aircraft. McArtor said that FAA officials already were reviewing information about the accidents to pinpoint possible problem areas. Nicaraguan truce negotiations canceled The Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Daniel Ortega canceled truce tails with contrast yesterday after the rebels said they would not attend a planned meeting in southern Nicaragua. Ortega accused the rebels of sabotaging the talks by demanding preliminary discussions. "This signifies the killing of the possibility of a meeting," he said on Voice of Nicaragua radio. But he suggested that new talks take place no later than the third week in March. Three days of talks had been scheduled at Sapoa, 90 miles south of Managua on the Costa Rican border. They would have been the first talks held on Nicaraguan territory and without a mediator. Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo mediated previous talks. "The Sandinista government spoke with the Nicaraguan Resistance at the last minute (Monday), informing us that they were ready for the meeting in Sapoa," Calero said in a telephone interview from Miami. "We are not willing to take part in a unilateral meeting mounted by the Sandinistas." Contra leader Adolfo Calero said earlier yesterday that the U.S.supported rebels would not attend the meeting scheduled by the leftist Sandistas. News Roundup TWO PALESTINIANKS KILLED: Arabs stabbed a man accused of aiding Israel and dumped the corpse at his mother's door, and Israeli gunfire killed another Palestinian yesterday, hospitals and witnesses reported. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir indicated yesterday on Israel Television that he intended to debate U.S. peace proposals and to present his own plan during his visit to Washington next week. EXPERTS CALLED IRRESPONSIBLE: The World Health Organization's chief AIDS investigator said yesterday at the First International Conference on the Global Impact of AIDS that sex experts William Masters and Virginia Johnson were irresponsible for suggesting AIDS can be transmitted by casual social contact. TWO HOSTAGES FREED: The Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist group yesterday freed Peter Coleridge, 44, Middle East coordinator of the British relief agency Oxfam, and Omar Traboulis, 31, his Syrian aide, five days after seizing them for taking pictures in a Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, a Sunni Moslem leader reported. WITNESS HAD MOTIVE: The judge presiding over Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham's impeachment trial yesterday told Mecham's lawyer that he had shown that Ralph Milstead, director of the department of public safety, had a motive to testify against the governor and ordered him to move on to other topics. Feb. 28 rioting in the city of Sumgait in the republic of Azerbaijan, U.S.S.R., were related by Armenians from Sumgait who gathered yesterday in a Moscow cemetery. Soviet officials have refused to elaborate on what happened in Azerbaijan, and Moscow-based journalists have been barred from traveling to the Caucasus region. BRUTALITY IN U.S.S.R.: Tales of brutal beatings and deaths that have occurred since the GM FINDING UPHELD: Three federal appellate judges yesterday uphold a lower court's finding that there was no evidence that General Motors Corp. knowingly sold 1.1 million 1980 X-cars with alleged brake defects. The judges rejected government claims that the cars had an inherent defect that caused rear brakes to lock prematurely and spin out of control under certain circumstances. WE'LL BE HERE WHEN THE TRUCK LEAVES! SAVE $351.00 AND GET THE SERVICE AND SUPPORT THAT YOU DESERVE AND EXPECT FROM COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS. 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