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Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, May 2, 1986 TO CALL GARRETT THURMAN Formerly of Ferguson & Co. NOW AT VERA’S HAIR DESIGNS Call 846-4150 For Appointment Please Elect JEAN WILLIAMSON JUSTICE OF THE PEACE BRAZOS COUNTY PRECINCT 7, PLACE 2 C.S. MAY 3, 1986 “ALL FOR A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!” SIXTH GENERATION TEXAN THIRD GENERATION COLLEGE STATIONITE TICKET FOR DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY paid political ad by the Jean Williamson campaign Photo by Mary Ciani Sasb Schulman’s Palace Theater presents Stage Center’s Spring Vaudeville Review May 1-10 at 8 p.m. Students w/ ID $3.50 Ticket info 693-0050 Need a good doctor? 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(AP) — NASA on Thursday postponed for 48 hours the first space launch here since the Challenger disaster, after a small fuel leak raised concern that the Delta rocket carrying a weather satellite would not reach or bit. The leak of about a quarter-cup of kerosene-type fuel past a valve in the main engine was found a little more than three hours before the rocket was to blast off. The launch was rescheduled for 6:18 p.m. Satur day. NASA spokesman George Dillard said, “There was no chance of an ex plosion . . . There was concern that the rocket could lose thrust and not have a full-duration burn,” prevent ing it from going into orbit. It is not uncommon to have a small amount of leakage in the en gine system, which is at the bottom stage of the three-stage rocket, offi cials said. The rocket’s payload this trip is GOES-7, the seventh in a series of geostationary operational environ mental satellites. It cost $57.5 million to build and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is paying NASA $42 million to launch it. McAuliffe’s funeral service held Thursday CONGORD, N.H. (AP) — Ghrista McAuliffe, who sacrificed her life for the dream of becoming the first ordinary citizen in space, was laid to rest Thursday in a hill side cemetery overlooking the city where she taught school. In a brief statement, the family announced that the 37-year-old Concord High School teacher had become the first of the seven Chal lenger astronauts to be buried. Family spokesman Michael Calla han said, “A private Roman Catho lic interment service was held at 1 1 a.m. for S. Christa McAuliffe. The service was conducted by McAu liffe’s cousin, the Rev. James Leary. “The family conveys its deep gratitude to all who respected its privacy in these moments,” Immediately after the ceremony, workers removed flowers from the bare gravesite, presumably to direct attention away from it. Soviet nuclear accident Soviet official defends accident reporting A WASH INGTON (AP) — A So viet official, in an extraordinary appearance before a House sub committee, said Thursday his country delayed telling the world about the Chernobyl accident be cause officials wanted to know “what the consequences were be fore making an announcement.” And Vitaly Churkin, a second secretary of the Soviet Embassy, calmly responding to sometimes testy questions of House mem bers, insisted: “We have been very forthcoming.” “If they have any prob lems, they will not have medical bills to pay. ” — Vitaly Churken, sec ond secretary of the So viet Embassy. Churkin’s testimony did not deviate from the official accounts put out by the Soviet government in the wake of the April 26 acci dent at the Chernobyl nuclear complex. The embassy representative in sisted that only two people were killed in the April 26 accident and 197 injured, 18 of them seriously. He also maintained the Soviet Union had met its responsibilities to notify other countries of the accident. “Definitely there has been an accident which lias not been liqui dated yet and theoretically poses a threat to people outside the So viet Union,” Churkin said. “We are still trying to manage the situ ation. We have not told other countries yet that everything is OK and that they can relax.” Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey, D-Mass., told Churkin that instead of celebrating May Day, the Soviets should have been sending a “Mayday (warning)sig nal" to the residents of the Sovia Union who lived near the Cher nobyl fallout. “It would not be correct on m) part to accept any advice from you,” Churkin replied. He added, “If they have any problems, they will not have medical hills to pay." At another point. Rep. Rot Wyden, D-Ore., pressed the So- viet official at one point tosayit laymen's terms how the aaident happened. “Can you tell me in those same laymen’s terms how the Chal lenger accident happened,’’ re plied Churkin, adding that, like the shuttle explosion, the nuclear accident was “something no one thought could happen." T.S. officials continued to of- lei a more severe assessment of the accident Thursday, citingthe likelihood of numerous radiation deaths, contaminated farmland and continuing radiation releases -cl at the damaged plant. Soviets ask marrow transplant group for aid LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Soviet Union agreed Thursday to accept help for victims of a nuclear acci dent near Kiev from an international bone-marrow transplant organization, the group’s chairman said. Dr. Robert P. Gale of the the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, which represents 128 centers that do bone marrow transplants, said he re ceived a telephone call today from the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Soviet officials told him they were “anxious for me come, confer with my counterparts in the Soviet Union and, if necessary, take whatever steps are necessary,” he said. Those steps would include determining the num ber of people suf fering from radiation sickness, then overseeing massive international efforts to locate suit able hone marrow donors and perform transplants, Gale said. The registry has access to lists of 50,000 to 100,000 people who have offered to donate bone marrow. Main >w transplants are the only way to treat other wise fatal doses of radiation. Radiation destroys the marrow, where vital components of the blood and the immune system are produced. Texas planf could be asked fo aid Soviets AMARILLO (AP) — The Pan- tex nuclear weapons plant here is reportedly one of several facilities the Department of Energy is sounding out for help if the So viet Union asks for aid in quelling its nuclear power plant accident. But the Amarillo Globe-News reported in a copyright story Thursday that officials at Pantex, the final assembly point for all the nation’s nuclear weapons, said they couldn’t do much to help. “All Department of Energy fa cilities around the country that have the capability of responding to an accident or incident involv ing radiation were pulsed to see what was available in case we were asked,” David Jackson, a spokes man for the DOE in Albuquer que, N.M., said Wednesday night. “There are no plans at this par ticular point to deploy any DOE people. That could change, and if it does, I’m sure there would be some kind of announcement.” Charles Poole, manager at the Pantex plant, said DOE officials have asked Pantex officials about its equipment and personnel for possible deployment to the Soviet Union. Poole said the plant has an 18- member team trained to deal with nuclear weapons accidents, but it has no personnel with expertise in nuclear power plant accidents. Jackson said, “Pantex is just one of our many, many facilities that was asked the same kinds of questions." Sandia National Laboratories, the Los Alamos National Labo ratory in Albuquerque, Pantex and 4 1 other places were queried about their resources, Jackson said. He said Pantex is not beingsin- gled out in any sjiecial way. U.S intelligence reports main tain that the nuclear disaster in the Ukraine is still out of control. The United States has offered technical and humanitarian assis tance, but the Soviets have notre- plied. Shultz says Marcos a free man There is no marker and there was no indication from Callahan as to when one might be erected. The grave is near the top of a gentle slope, in front of a large ev ergreen surrounded by other trees just beginning to bud. The spot overlooks the hills that surround northern Concord. It is about two miles from McAu liffe’s house and the high school where she taught how history af fected everyday people. BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Secre tary of State George Shultz said Thursday the Reagan administra tion considers deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos a free man entitled to call supporters in his homeland and to move from the United States if he wishes. In blunt language exposing ten sion between the administration and the government of Marcos successor Corazon Aquino, Shultz also said “we don’t have infinite capacity to provide money” to Manila. He said that Philippine Vice Presi dent Salvador Laurel, in a meeting with President Reagan, was told the administration believes the courts — not the U.S. government’s executive branch — must resolve claims by the Aquino government that Marcos stole billions in money and other valuables belonging to the Filipinos. Asked whether Reagan had pro vided to Laurel sufficient assurances of U.S. support for the Aquino gov ernment, Shultz snapped to report ers, “You will have to ask Mr. Laurel if he is satisfied. Let me remind you the president is not on trial here.” In his last full day on this tropical island before heading on to Tokyo and the seven-nation international economic summit, Reagan met with Laurel, conferred separately will Indonesian President Suharto a#! spoke to the foreign ministers of ikt Association of Southeast Asian Nt tions. 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