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Wednesday, April 2, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7
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World and Nation
Official says exact spot destroyed
Part of shuttle’s suspect joint found
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— Searchers have retrieved part of
Challenger’s right booster con
taining some of its suspect joint, but
the precise spot where the explosion
was triggered was undoubtedly de
stroyed in the disaster, the chief of
the salvage effort said Tuesday.
Air Force Col. Edward A. 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.
Auditor: Marcos took $4.7 million
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ing he needed money to fight rebels,
Ferdinand E. Marcos took $4.7 mil
lion from a ministry during his last
daiys in power and left no trace of
the money, the chief government
auditor said T uesday.
Teofisto Guingona said this
brought to at least $8.5 million the
amount of money found missing in
the past month.
“We are in the process of uncov
ering more” irregularities, he said.
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.
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