University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 11, 1990
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Disabled protest for peace in S. Africa
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Hundreds of people on crutches and in wheelchairs yesterday protested political violence in black townships that disabled them and killed thousands of others in the past five years.
"we bury the dead, but we live with the disabled," said William Rowland, who is blind and was an organizer of the protest.
More deaths were reported in Natal yesterday. Police said eight blacks were killed in factional violence and one black youth died when police fired on a mob.
About 400 people have died in recent weeks in nationwide political violence, most of it in Natal. Hundreds have been injured and thousands left homeless. The main combatants in Natal are supporters of the
African National Congress and Inkatha, a relatively conservative Zulu organization.
Natal.
"Do we really want a South Africa full of disabled people?" asked Friday Mavuo, the organization's cochairman. He wept as he led the protest march in his wheelchair.
Also yesterday, municipal workers bulldozed more than 60 squatter shacks, leaving more than 130 Black people homeless in Kraafontein.
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A runaway power plant on the space shuttle Discovery found NASA to scrub its launch yesterday, postponing the liftoff of the $1.1 billion Hubble Space Telescope. Officials said it would be a week or two before they would try again.
Shuttle launch postponed
Nation/World briefs
The countdown was down to the four minute mark when sensors detected that one of three auxiliary power units was running too fast. Computers halted the launch
"A valve, which failed to respond, let too much fuel go into the unit which caused an over-
speed condition," said Bob Sleck, the Kennedy Space Center's launch director.
The APUS pressurize the shuttle's hydraulic system, which is used to move wing and rudder axles. The APUS brakes the skipping and steering systems.
NASA rules forbid a liftoff unless all three units operate perfectly.
The huge external fuel tank was drained of its half-million gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Each scrubbed launch costs $377,000 in lost fuel, and each day's delay means $247,000 in labor and materials.
Failure to fix jet's door led to deaths, board says
The Associated Press
The National Transportation Safety Board voted 3-0 to accept the results of a more than 13-month investigation despite the fact that the plane's cargo door remains on the ocean floor.
WASHINGTON — An accident that sucked nine United Airlines Flight 811 passengers out of a Boeing jumbo jet last year resulted from failures by the airline, manufacturer and FAA to correct problems in cargo doors on 747 jetliners, federal investigators said yesterday.
properly inspect the door after its electrical system failed in December 1988 and mechanics had to operate it manually. The door had been operated electrically since then, however.
On Flight 811, the door opened at 22,000 feet. A piece of the fuselage was ripped off and the passengers and their seats were sucked through the hole in the plane.
The NTSB said United failed to
The plane, en route to New Zealand, returned to Honolulu. Five other passengers were seriously hurt and 33 had minor injuries. A crew of 18 and 37 passengers were on board.
STAR WARS TEST SUCCEEDS: An experiment conducted by the Strategic Defense Initiative program successfully used laser radar to track a mock敌军 warhead last month, officials said yesterday.
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams called the March 29 test a significant milestone in the effort to distinguish real warheads from decays in mid-course.
Telling the difference between warheads and decoys is a key goal of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the space-based strategic missile defense system popularly known as "Star Wars."
STRESS ON THE JOB: Job stress can lead to high blood pressure and potentially cause dangerous physical changes in the heart, according to a new study of male workers.
The findings are based on a study of 215 men ages 30 to 60 at seven work sites in New York City, including a stock-brokerage firm, private hospital and garbage collection plant, researchers indicated in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Job strain resulted when workers felt they faced high psychological demands without having much contact with the patient. Peter Schenn, the lead researcher at
Cornell University Medical College in New York.
SURVIVOR FIGHTS FOR PROFITS: California's Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on whether a leukemia survivor deserves to share profits from an anti-cancer drug made from his cells in a case pitting medical progress against a man's rights to his own body.
"Without my knowledge or consent, the doctors and the research institutions used a part of me for their own gain," said John Moore, president of a Seattle soft-drink company.
Moore, 45, said he sued the University of California, two researchers and two biotechnology and drug companies to defend the rights of the patient in a case where the physician-researcher also was a businessman-entrepreneur.
A report by the General Accounting Office, an investigative branch of Congress, said the government lost more than $1 million in taxes for each new worker who completed a 26-month training course under the tutelage of senior auditors.
TRAINING COSTS IRS: The Internal Revenue Service may have lost $6.5 billion in taxes by taking senior auditors off cases to train new workers, congressional analysts said.
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