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WASHINGTON — The Viet
namese government, as part of
what appears to be a greater ef
fort to locate missing American
servicemen, soon will turn over
the remains of 2 1 additional peo
ple and begin investigating live-
sighting reports, a Pentagon offi
cial said Tuesday.
The Vietnamese also are plan
ning to conduct their own excava
tion of a possible U.S. airplane
crash site, have accepted for
study a list of five crash sites the
Pentagon would like to excavate,
and have agreed to send a team to
Hawaii to study U.S. investigation
and identification techniques, he
said.
Richard L. Armitage, assistant
defense secretary for interna
tional security affairs, discussed
the latest developments in the
long-running effort to locate
missing servicemen during a
briefing on the outcome of a re
cent meeting of technical experts
in Hanoi.
That meeting was the 11th
technical meeting between the
two sides since 1982, but the first
since a new- pledge by Vietnam to
resolve the status of missing
American servicemen within two
years.
6 dead, over 100 injured
after storms hit 3 states
Associated Press
Wreckage littered parts of Ken
tucky, Ohio and Indiana, and Na
tional Guardsmen patrolled against
looters Tuesday, after a barrage of
tornadoes and high wind killed six
people, injured more than 100 and
caused damage estimated at more
than $20 million.
Utility crews worked to restore
power after up to 70,000 customers
were blacked out in the three states,
though most were back in service
Tuesday.
Some roads remained blocked by
debris, states of emergency were de
clared in two Kentucky cities, and
the governors of Kentucky and In
diana set out to survey damage from
the tornadoes that struck late Mon
day.
At least three people were
charged with looting in Covington,
Ky.
San Juan Romero, air traffic con
trol manager at Cincinnati’s airport,
across the Ohio River near Erlanger,
Ky., said, “It’s a complete disaster. A
bomb could not have done the dam
age this has done.”
A survey of the hangar area Tues
day found 24 aircraft were dam
aged, 14 of them beyond repair,
down from earlier estimates, airport
spokesman Ted Bushelman said.
Indiana's tornado season usually
“It’s a complete disaster. A
bomb could not have done
the damage this has
done. ”
— San Juan Romero, air
traffic control manager at
Cincinnati’s airport.
doesn’t begin until about March 20,
the day targeted this year as tornado
awareness day, said weather service
meteorologist John T. Curran at In
dianapolis.
There were at least 12 reported
tornado touchdowns in 13 central
Indiana counties, Ed Yess, a weather
service hydrologist, said.
Curran said earlier there were at
least six tornadoes, more than in all
of last year and the two previous
years.
A roof at a day care center caved
in on 130 pre-schoolers in Johnson
County, Ind., south of Indianapolis,
but only three suffered minor inju
ries, said Rhea Furry, the center’s di
rector. A tornado destroyed an el
ementary school in the eastern
Indiana town of Lynn about 40 min
utes after some 400 students were
dismissed.
Two men died in Indiana, one of
them when a barn collapsed on him
after he had sought refuge inside.
Three people died in Ohio when
twisters flattened mobile homes.
One death was reported in western
Kentucky.
Kentucky GoV. Martha Layne Col
lins visited damaged areas late Mon
day and returned Tuesday, and In
diana Gov. Robert D. Orr walked
through the hardest-hit commu
nities of Acton and Lynn. Ohio Di
saster Services Agency officials were
sent out to check damage and report
back to Gov. Richard Celeste.
Officials of Covington, in north
ernmost Kentucky across the river
from Cincinnati, declared an emer
gency and warned non-residents to
keep out after high wind knocked
out power and ripped the roofs
from dozens of buildings.
The storm cut a swath 21 blocks
long and five blocks wide through
Newport, and 40 to 50 homes were
destroyed, with another 40 seriously
damaged. Police Chief Rick Huck
said he believed at least 150 people
were homeless.
At least 25 people were reported
injured and several hundred build
ings were severely damaged in Cov
ington and Newport. Covington re
ported three people were charged
with looting.
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NASA chief: New shuttle to cost $2.8 billion
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The space
agency’s acting administrator said
Tuesday it would cost $2.8 billion to
replace the lost Challenger, and con
gressional analysts reported that just
modifying the shuttle boosters will
run more than $200 million.
William R. Graham told a House
committee that it will be “very ap
propriate” to redesign the boosters
before any shuttle flies again.
He said overall design modifica
tions made in response to the Jan. 28
explosion of Challenger will cost
$350 million and that it will probably
be at least one year before a shuttle
flies again.
Graham was not specific about the
modifications, but a staff working
paper from the Congressional Bud
get Office put the cost of modifying
the shuttle boosters at $200 million
to $225 million.
Putting the space program back
together in the wake of the Chal
lenger accident, the study said,
“could require an additional $1 bil
lion in NASA’s annual budget
through 1990” and calls into ques
tion the future federal role in the
commercial and scientific devel
opment of space.
The paper, obtained by the Asso
ciated Press, said also that NASA’s
$350 million estimate might prove
low, if only a few of the 700 items on
a “criticality one” list must be re
worked. Criticality One is NASA’s
term for parts and systems whose
failure would result in the loss of
life.
The budget office sees a bleak
outlook for flying either scientific
payloads or commercial satellite on
the shuttle once flights begin again,
with only space equal to three shuttle
cargo bays open on 20 flights
through September of 1989.
“A reduced flight rate implies that
national security payloads will domi
nate the post-accident shuttle work
load,” the study said.
“Reduced system capability,
stacked-up national security pay-
loads . . . leave little if any room on
the manifest before 1989 for discre
tionary space science or new paying
commercial and foreign payloads,” it
added.
Graham told the panel it would be
possible to fly another shuttle in six
months, but that the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
does not anticipate launching an
other one for at least a year.
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