University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 20, 1988
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New space policy approved; plans aimed for moon, Mars
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has approved a new space policy, designed to explore new technologies to help expand the U.S. program into the solar system, the White House confirmed on yesterday.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the president was expected to discuss the policy in his State of the Union address Jan. 25 or in the legislative program that he will send to Congress after the speech.
"This policy reiterates our desire for space leadership," Fitzwater said.
As part of the program, he said, the president approved a multi-year program established by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that would develop so-called "pathfinder" technologies.
Shuttle wrongful death suit is settled
HOUSTON — Morton Thiolok Inc. has agreed to settle wrongful death claims lodged by the parents of two astronauts killed in the explosion of space shuttle Challenger, an attorney said yesterday.
The amounts agreed on by the company and Sarah Resnik Belfer, mother of mission specialist Judith A. Resnick, and Bruce Jarvis, father specialist Gregory B.Jarvis, are confidential, said attorney Ronald Krist.
the technologies are aimed at returning astronauts to the moon by the year 2000 and beginning flights to Mars early in the 21st century.
The Associated Press
He said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was not contributing to the settlements.
"We filed a claim (against NASA)
Morton Thiokol officials in Chicago would neither confirm nor deny the reported settlement.
The Challenger exploded Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was blamed primarily on the solid rocket booster manufactured and assembled by Morton Thiokol.
for Bruce Jarvis, but it'll be resolved in this," Krist added.
NASA and Thiokol shared the cost of settlements reached in December 1986 with Jarvis' wife and survivors of Francis R. Scobe, Ellison S. Onizuka and Christa McAuliffe.
Sources have said each family received more than $1 million.
Sandinistas lift state of emergency
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The leftist Sandinista government formally lifted the state of emergency yesterday and disbanded its system of revolution "people's courts," Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto announced.
Nicaragua was required to take the measures to fulfill a Central American peace plan signed by five of the region's presidents on Aug. 7.
In Miami, Contra leaders were willing to accept Nicaragua's failure.
dent Daniel Ortega's offer to hold direct talks but said that they were wary about Ortega's motives.
D'Escoto told a group of diplomats during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry that the nearly 6-year-old state of emergency and the tribunal system were formally abolished by presidential decree.
Asked if the government was taking the measures only to influence the U.S. Congress to reject more Contra aid, the foreign minister said: "Of course we are. We want to stop the war."
American caught selling stolen violin
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Police said yesterday that they arrested an American trying to sell a stolen Stradivari violin for $1 million and seized the 320-year-old instrument.
shop told authorities it recognized the violin when Hwang came to sell it, a police official said.
Robert Hwang, a 31-year-old dentist from New York, was arrested Monday after a downtown music
Hwang arrived in Tokyo yesterday with the violin, made by Italian Antonio Stradivari in 1667 and stolen from a New York shop in November, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Soviet dissident arrives in Israel
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — Jewish activist Josef Begun arrived in Israel yesterday to a joyous welcome after a 17-year battle for the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
A grandchild in his arms, the 56-year-old Begun waved to the welcoming party and clambered down the stairs from the airline that brought the family from Bucharest, Romania.
Among those waiting was Natan Sharansky, who as Anatoly Shcharansky was the best-known Jewish dissident in the Soviet Union.
Israeli delegation will visit Moscow
"I feel like the happiest man in the world," said the bearded Begun, smiling broadly as officials and friends pressed around him and his family. Israel Television broadcast a movie "Ben-Gurion airport live to the nation."
Asked what he planned to do in Israel, Begun replied: "To be a Jew."
"Shalom, shalom," said his wife Inna. "I'm very happy," she said in broken Hebrew. "We don't have the
MOSCOW — A government spokesman announced yesterday that the Kremlin had decided to allow a small group of Israeli diplomats to visit Moscow. It would be the first official Israeli delegation permitted in more than 20 years.
The Associated Press
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Gennady I. Gerasimov told repor-
taters at a news briefing that the Israelis wanted to travel to Moscow to see how their nation's affairs are being handled here.
The Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with Israel in 1967 over seizure of Arab lands in the region and the occupation of official ties has been made tough on Israel's ceasing occupation of those territories.
Gerasinov said the visit was discussed at a meeting of Soviet and Israeli diplomats in Helsinki last week but that a specific timetable had yet to be agreed on.
words to express it in Hebrew or any other language."
In the absence of official ties between the Soviet Union and Israel, the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow has assumed responsibility for Israel's interests.
Begun, a soft-spoken Hebrew teacher, led the Jewish emigration movement for nearly two decades. He spent three years in prison and was exiled to Siberia during his campaign for an exit visa.
Yuri Stern, spokesman for Jerusalem's Soviet Jewry education and anti-Semitism.
would settle on a kibbutz, or com-
munal farm, in central Israel.
Begun got permission to emigrate on Sept. 7 but postponed leaving until Yanna, the wife of his 23-year-old son Boris, was allowed to leave.
When he first applied for permission to emigrate in 1971, he was refused on grounds that his job as an electrical engineer made him privy to state secrets.
He lost his post as an engineer and later was fired as a manual laborer. Begun was exiled to eastern Siberia until 1880 on charges of parasitism, or failure to hold a job, and violating internal passport laws.
Sweden detains suspect in Palme slaying
In 1983, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. He served three years in Chistopol prison in the Ural Mountains east of Moscow.
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Police on Tuesday picked up a man for questioning in the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, according to news reports.
March 1986 and then released.
They said the same man was detained for a week for questioning in
said the man had no alibi for two hours after 1 p.m. on Feb. 28, 1986.
news agency TT.
Under Swedish law, a suspect cannot be identified by name if there are no legal proceedings.
The Expressen newspaper said the man was a 34-year-old Stockholm resident. It said that police on Sunday restricted him to Stockholm and took away his passport. Police renewed their surveillance of the suspect last September, according to the national
The Aftonbladet newspaper said the suspect's former girlfriend was ready to testify that she had seen a weapon in his closet. The newspaper
Police declined comment on the reports.
Palme was shot in the back as he strolled along a Stockholm street shortly before midnight on Feb. 28.
News Roundup
'PHANTOM' ON BROADWAY: The play, "The Phantom of the Opera", which swows down Tuesday on Broadway, has already racked up a record $17 million in advance ticket sales. The British import is sold out for weeks at prices up to $50 a ticket.
GOVERNMENT SUES CHURCH: A trial began yesterday in Charlotte, N.C. involving a U.S. Labor Department lawsuit against a church. The Labor Department said the church violated child labor laws by using children as young as 9 for construction projects in a vocational training class.
INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY: U.S. industry operated at 82.1 percent of capacity in December, the highest level in almost eight years, as smokestack America continued to benefit from the falling dollar abroad, the government reported yesterday.
QUAKE JOLTS CALIFORNIA: Another aftershock of the Oct. 1 Whittier quake jolted the Southern California area yesterday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The aftershock measured 4.0 on the open-ended Richter scale.
GULD REPRIMANDS LANDIS: Officials of the Directors Guild of America have voted to reprimand director John Landis and two others in an accident that killed three people during filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie." The board cited them for unprofessional conduct.
UTAH STANDOFF: In Marion, Utah, shots were fired last night from a house where a polygamist clan believed responsible for a church bombing was holed up. Authorities sought to end the four-day standoff with floodlights and low-flying aircraft.
PAP SMEAR RECOMMENDED: Medical authorities yesterday recommended that all women over age 18 have an annual Pap smear to detect cervical cancer. The old guidelines called for screening to start at age 20 and to stop after age 60. The new standards set no upper age limit.
NOFZIGER CHARGED: At his conflict of interest trial, former aide aide Lyn C. Nofziger was charged yesterday with illegally lobbying the White House to deliver on political promises that would benefit his clients. Nofziger resigned as White House political director in 1982.
SOVIETS GRANT ASYLUM: An American couple from Pennsylvania was granted political asylum in the Soviet Union a Soviet official said yesterday. The Soviet spokesman said the two would be provided with jobs and housing.
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