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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 25. I960
February lift-off likely
for delayed shuttle
nation
United Press International
WASHINGTON — February
appears the most likely time for the
oft-delayed maiden flight of the
space shuttle Columbia, the head of
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration told a Senate sub
committee Thursday.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis.,
reminded NASA administrator
Robert Frosch that in March 1979 he
was saying December 1979 was the
most likely launch date. And last
October Frosch told the appropria
tions subcommittee that July 1980
was the best date.
“I think this is a better estimate
because we are an awful lot closer in
completing the things we have to
do,” Frosch said.
The first orbital test flight from
Cape Canaveral, Fla., is two years
behind the original schedule.
The mission has been delayed by a
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variety of problems with the latest
one centering on the ceramic tiles
that will shield the ship from the heat
of re-entry into the atmosphere.
Frosch said modification and re-
installation of thousands of the tiles is
now expected to be completed this
summer with the Columbia moving
from its testing hangar to the Ken
nedy Space Center vehicle assembly
building in early fall.
The shuttle’s main hydrogen-
oxygen engines also have encoun
tered a number of developmental
troubles, but Frosch said ground
tests should be completed on the en
gines in time to proceed with the
launch.
Astronauts John W. Young and
Robert Crippen will pilot the Col
umbia on its initial orbital flight
which is to last 54 hours with the
Columbia scheduled to land at Ed
wards Air Force Base in California’s
Mojave Desert.
Refugees find Big Macs,
cigarettes, Penthouse, Oui
United Press International
KEY WEST, Fla. — For some of
the Cuban refugees who had just left
the crowded squalor of the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana, the first taste of
their new homeland was an Amer
ican cigarette or a Big Mac.
A group of men who arrived
Wednesday aboard the Big Babv
waited for processing on the dock
outside the Truman Annex on the
Key West Naval Base, thumbing
avidly through copies of Penthouse
and Oui magazines furnished by
helpful Americans.
Nothing like that in Cuba, they
said.
Another group smoked American
cigarettes and noted that cigarettes
cost $1.60 a pack in Cuba.
“There aren’t any entertainments
in Cuba,” said Victor Cosst, 23, a
hairdresser at the Havana’s famed
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Tropicana nightclub, whose lavish,
glittery shows have been tamed con
siderably since pre-Castro days.
When the boat arrived late
Wednesday night with 80 refugees
aboard — bringing to over 500 the
number who arrived in the United
States Wednesday — the crew im
mediately sent out for McDonald s
hamburgers and handed them out.
The lx>at is part of a flotilla put
together by Cuban exiles to pick up
the refugees.
Vilified as “degenerates” and
wished good riddance by the official
communist press while they waited
in the embassy for exit from their
country, the refugees were receiving
warm welcomes in the United
States.
Crowds of Miami Cubans lined up
outside a chain-link fence in a pro
cessing area set up by immigration
officials in Miami. As refugees were
processed, their names were called
out over a loudspeaker and friends
and relatives rushed to embrace
them.
Many refugees said their arrival in
the United States seemed like a
dream after the treatment they re
ceived when they left the embassy.
Elias Moreno, 23, a construction
worker and secondary school
teacher, said after he returned home
from the embassy on a safe conduct
pass April 12, “insulting” post cards
began appearing on his door and the
walls of his house.
“Counterrevolutionary, gusano
(worm), he sells out his homeland,”
they read.
“They (pro-Castro Cubans) tried
to beat me, but I hid in my house. It
was like living as a prisoner in my
own house,” said Moreno.
Imelfadel Hernandez de Mori
who arrived with her husband
young son, said people insulted U
on the street when she retunwl
home on a pass. “They called J
prostitute and lots of worse thin*’
she said.
Their entry into the United Stats I
was not painless. Hardpressed [Tl
migration officials lined them up»I
side the annex and gave them Ll
to fill out by flashlight.
cials abandoned processing in fc. 1
West altogether and bused the arm. I
als directly to Miami.
For Hugo Landa, 27, a tecUa,
translator, the red tape was worth 1
“I think this country is so lara 1
there are so many opportunities,"U
said. “Perhaps I will clean the toilets I
or be a millionaire. I just don’t knot
but I’m full of hope.”
Re-introduction bill calls for
greater handgun control
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WASHINGTON — Peter W.
Rodino, D-N.J., has re-introduced
his 1979 handgun control bill in the
House of Representatives — this
time with 42 co-sponsors and more
determination to get it passed.
In first introducing the measure
last November, Rodino said his goal
was to reduce handgun slaughter
without setting up expensive federal
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Agricul
ture Department has sold $2.3 mil
lion worth of government rice stocks
as part of an effort to get rid of stocks
left over from the 1975 crop, officials
said Thursday.
The department’s Commodity
Credit Corp. sold 209,592 hundred
weight of rice for a weighted pric$ of
about $11.07. TheCCC announced a
month ago that it wanted to sell 5.5
million hundredweight of 1975 rice.
The rice came from warehouses in
Louisiana and Texas.
enforcement and regulatory
machinery.
“I want to stress that this bill will
not interfere with Americans’ right
to bear arms, ” Rodino said. “Instead,
it seeks to protect the fundamental
right of every American to live in a
peaceful society without the threat of
personal harm.”
After re-introducing the bill,
Rodino took part in a brief ceremony
staged on the Capitol steps by Hand
gun Control Inc. — a lobby formed
by victims of handgun violence.
Board Chairman Pete Shields —
whose son Nick was slain by a hand
gun during the 1974 Zebra killings in
San Francisco — presented Rodino
with a scroll listing 8,124 victims of
fatal handgun shootings in 1979.
During the Vietnam War years, in
which 40,000 American soldiers
were killed in combat, Shields said,
50,000 civilians were killed by hand
gun violence.
Rodino’s bill would ban outright
the manufacture, importation,
assembly and sale of easily concealed
handguns and would tighten controls
over other handguns.
The measure calls for creation of a
federal commission that would de
cide which weapons are to be de
clared easily concealed. Other major
provisions include:
— A 21-day waiting period for
handgun purchases to enable dealers
to verify the buyer is 21-years-old,
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AKRON, Ohio — Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Co. announced Thursday
production cutbacks at seven plants,
including the layoffs of 750 em
ployees at its Topeka, Kan., plant
and 200 workers at its Lawton,
Okla., facility.
The nation’s largest tiremaker said
the layoffs were necessary due to the
auto industry slump.
The Topeka and Lawton layoSs,
which the company said will begin
“over the next several weeks, bring
the total number of Goodyear em
ployees on layoff to some 4,700.
In addition, Goodyear will close
its Jackson, Mich., plant for one
week beginning Monday and will
have short work weeks in effect at
tire plants in Gadsden, Ala.; Danvil
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Madisonville, Ky.
The giant tiremaker reported
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$50.7 million, down from $54 miUwa
for the same period a year ago.
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