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O’Con nor, however, expressed confidence that more surrounding pieces will be found and will help pinpoint the ex act cause of the accident. He said a section of the suspected joint retrieved several weeks ago from the ocean door has been posi tively identified as part of the right booster rocket segment containing the joint that caused the disaster that killed seven astronauts. But he told a news conference the section is on the opposite side of the area where a plume of flame shot from the joint 15 seconds before the shuttle blew up. Even so, it can be valuable to the investigation, he said. O’Connor recently told the presi dential commission investigating the explosion that the 500-pound seg ment was believed to be from the right booster, but engineers were not certain at that time. Meanwhile, the USS Preserver, which has been retrieving crew cabin debris and astronaut remains, was heading into port Tuesday with sev eral small chunks of wreckage. It had planned to come in two hours earlier, but radioed, “We’re making real good progress, condi tions are very conducive to diving, and we’d like to stay out until sun set.” Monday was the First good diving day after 10 days of high winds and waves and poor visibility on the ocean bottom. Navy Capt. Charles Bartholomew, supervisor of salvage operations, said three debris fields have been lo cated that contain booster parts and the search is concentrating in these areas/ On the section of joint from the opposite side of the segment, O’Con nor said, “It shows us a lack of burn ing in its immediate vicinity as far as any heat source that would take it to a melting point because of case fail ure. So that’s going to help the engi neers to understand the problem of that whole failure.” Jackson tour suit allowed LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has allowed a promoter to go ahead with a $20 million suit against the Jackson brothers’ “Victory Tour,” but dismissed the promoter’s claim he had a bind ing oral contract with Michael Jackson. U.S. District Judge Irving Hill on Monday continued the case until April 21 after ruling that promoter Frank J. Russo of Rhode Island could proceed with his suit, which alleges he is owed money for advance work on the 1984 concert tour. Russo had contended that a binding oral agreement was reached at a March 29, 1984, meeting for him to promote the tour. But the judge said even if the terms had been written down, they would have been virtually impossible to enforce because Russo never made proposals about how and when the Jacksons should be paid. 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In other developments Tuesday: • A government commission said it has seized 34 companies belonging to two industrialists close to Marcos. • The Foreign Ministry an nounced that Thailand has notified the Philippines it will reject any re quest for refuge by Marcos, who fled to Hawaii after a revolt Feb. 26. Officials of the Aquino govern ment said Marcos and his associates may have stashed from $5 billion to $10 billion overseas in plundered wealth. Heeding a public clamor for offi cials of the new government to de clare their assets, Foreign Minister Salvador H. Laurel Laurel, who is also vice president and prime min ister, and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Entile released financial statements Tuesday. Laurel declared a net worth of about $970,000 and Enrile $1.2 mil lion. Park rangers nab weed-eater in New York NEW YORK (AP) — The Man Who Ate Manhattan was nabbed mid-bite. In a not-ready-for-Miami Vice caper, two park rangers used marked bills, a surveillance camera and walkie-talkie to get the goods on a bespectacled botanist who calls himself “Wildman.” Sure enough, they caught “Wild man,” a.k.a. Steve Brill, 37,in the act. He was handcuffed, hustled into a police van and taken to the precinct. Book him, they said, after searching his backpack. The charge? Eating the weeds in Central Park. Brill confessed in a telephone in terview Tuesday, “We picked dande lions and a few other common weeds.” For the past five years, Brill has been conducting four-hour, $15 walking tours of New York City parks, showing urban dwellers which plants are edible. The Parks and Recreation De partment says it warned Brill several times to spit it — er, cut it — out. When he refused, the law moved in. Brill was taking a college ecology group on an edible tour Saturday af ternoon, paying little heed to the couple who “acted a little strange.” The couple turned out to be un dercover rangers, and at the end of the tour Brill was arrested on misde meanor charges of criminal mis chief. “They searched me for weapons,” he said. “What am I going to have, as a botanist? Some insect repellent to spray them with?” “I’m just trying to get peopfe into Nature, to show them they can touch things, and smell things and taste them,” he said. Touching and smelling is OK, said Parks and Recreation Depart ment Commissioner Henry Stern, but the tasting part is a no-no. ** Studett*. Official Tanning Center of the Miss Texas A&M Pagent The Original. 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