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ational THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1981 Page 13 ol mitteefori arArms, nwasa" gun coiiii t out tla jurisdits has the control ii ’ Snyder ishingtoD, »yor Ed»; >te offedt )t convintt 'Vhen w| s alive, have to 'aid quietl lim. DeCa he dosagi tliesuspee Clao Ale: ce in C. ocialistfi inckley king d blow iei 'iitrollable an unsl d to reissi iv, 9, ‘5 Autopsy begins on possible 21st Atlanta slaying victim United Press International ATLANTA — The medical examiner’s office began an autopsy today on the body of ablack youth who police believe is the 21st victim of Atlanta’s child slayers. Identifica tion of the victim was expected to be estab lished later today. The body, clad only in undershorts, was found Monday afternoon floating on some debris in the Chattahooche River in south west Fulton County, the same general area where a number of other of the victims’ bodies have been found. Two young blacks are listed as missing by the special police task force investigating the string of killings that has terrorized the city’s black neighborhoods for the past 20 months. But authorities said the body could not be that of Darron Glass, who vanished in September. The other youth, Joseph Bell, 15, disappeared March 2. Assistant Fulton County Medical Ex aminer John Feegel said before the autopsy got under way that there did not appear to be any signs of gunshot wounds or sexual molestation. He said the victim was five feet, five inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds. Feegel said it appeared the body had been in the river more than three days, but not three weeks, as some earlier reports had indicated. Feegel, echoing police reports of Mon day night after the body was recovered, said the the victim was “obviously reminis cent of some of the other cases by age, sex, clothing and the place where the body was found.” He said dental records, body x-rays and fingerprints were being used in the identifi cation process. But, he said, “finding fingerprints of a suspect at this time is totally hopeless” be cause of the body’s decomposed state. Monday night, Fulton County Police Chief Clinton Chafin, asked if he believed the slaying was the work of the child killers, said, “I don’t think there’s any question about that.” Most of the bodies of the 20 previous victims found have been fully clothed. But the last body discovered, that of Curtis Walker, 13, was also wearing only under wear. He was also found in a river — the South River, on the other side of the metro politan area in DeKalb County. The body found Monday was only the fourth child’s body to be dumped in a river. April 10 receives boost for space shuttle launch United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Kennedy Space Center mana ger for the space shuttle project said he would recommend today that April 10 be officially set as the blastoff date for the Columbia’s oft-delayed maiden test flight. Robert H. Gray said a review Monday showed the winged spa ceship, the ground launch equip ment, and solid rocket booster re trieval operation were ready for the 54V2-hour voyage of John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen 36 times around the Earth. “We are prepared and ready to commence a launch countdown this weekend,” said Gray, who spent last Friday helping search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed condominium in nearby Cocoa Beach. Gray’s recommendation goes to acting space agency administrator Alan Lovelace for consideration at a today’s meeting of shuttle offi cials. They plan to review the state of readiness of all aspects of the Columbia’s preparations, includ ing the worldwide tracking net work and Houston’s mission con trol center. The project is already 214 years behind schedule. Launch director George Page said technicians began working Sunday toward the April 10 launch date. At the oceanside launch pad, technicians wearing protective suits were to complete hazardous hydrazine fuel-loading operations today. Work fell several hours be hind Monday because of a variety of minor difficulties. The corrosive liquid, which gives off poisonous fumes, is used to drive turbines, which in turn power hydraulic system pumps in the Columbia itself and in its twin solid-propellant booster rockets. Because the Columbia is part airplane as well as part rocket, it uses hydraulic power to operate the control surfaces that it re quires for flying in the atmos phere. A separate hydraulic sys tem steers the nozzles on the shut tle’s twin rockets. Young and Crippen were in Houston Monday for still another rehearsal in a computer-con trolled spacecraft trainer. Farmers call for crop protest United Press International WASHINGTON — The Amer- d grouplf|an Agriculture Movement is on farmers to withhold lircrops from market to protest resident Reagan’s decision to laintain the embargo of grain les to the Soviet Union. Marvin Meek, leader of the nn group that two years ago tied pWashington with a tractorcade, lidMondaythe new effort, called “iarmers’ embargo,” is intended i pressure Congress to raise Mrs under crop prices to com- ensate farmers for losses from the t£ Meek estimated farmers have lost $12 billion in potential crop receipts because of the embargo, which he said translates into a $60 billion loss to the economy. While he conceded past efforts to get fanners to withhold crops from market have failed. Meek said the current situation is diffe rent due to short supplies of crops after last summer’s drought. It would be a success if only 5 percent of farmers participated, he said. He also denied it would hurt consumers by causing high prices. A spokesman for the American Farm Bureau Federation, the na tion’s largest farm group and an opponent of the embargo, said the AAM effort probably will not work, primarily because farmers are in such bad financial shape they cannot afford to hold back their crops. “It just doesn’t work,” the spokesman said. “Farmers are too independent to organize that much. If they want to try it, they can try it.” In a weekend interview in The Washington Post, Reagan said lift ing the embargo, as he promised to do in the campaign, would send the wrong signal to the Soviet Union. President Carter imposed the embargo after the Russian inva sion of Afghanistan. On a related front, Meek said Kansas farmers would lobby the Kansas Legislature to enact an un usual bill setting the price of wheat sold in the state at no less than 70 percent of parity, or $4.89 per bushel. 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