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Wednesday, July 16, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 if World and Nation SCHULMAN THEATRES 2.50 ADMISSION 1. Any Show Before 3PM 2. Tuesday • All Seats 3. Mon-Wed • Local Student*. With Current ID’S. •DENOTES DOLBY STEREO THEATRE GUIDE Pritt Information ' 846-6 714 ' THEATRES idow files $15 million claim on NASA WASHINGTON (AP) — The p&mily of Michael J. Smith, the pilot In the ill-fated space shuttle Chal lenger, has filed a $15 million neg- 1 gence claim saying NASA should lave known “a catastrophic accident would likely occur.” I The claim, filed by Smith’s widow lane as executor of his estate, is the Brst by a member of the families of Hie seven astronauts who were Billed. “It alleges, as it must under the federal tort claims act, that we w'ere negligent and as a result an accident occurred during which Smith died,” said Edward Frankie, deputy gen eral counsel for the space agency. Under federal regulations, NASA has six months to decide how it wants to handle the claim, Frankie said, adding, “If we do nothing in six months, people can go to court.” A suit also can be filed if NASA denies the claim. Smith is represented by William F. Maready, an attorney in Winston-Sa lem, N.C., who specializes in aviation and space law. The claim was dated July 2, not long after the Challenger investigat ing commission reported that a leak on the shuttle’s right booster rocket triggered a sequence that resulted in the explosion. After the commission issued its re port last month, Jane Smith com mented that it reflected “incredibly terrible judgments (and) shockingly sparse concern for human life.” The claim says that NASA offi cials “directed, allowed and partici pated in the launch . . . when they knew or should have known . . . that a catastrophic accident would likely occur.” World Briefs Litton charged with contract fraud PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A division of Litton Industries, a major defense contractor, was in dicted Tuesday along with two employees on charges of de frauding the government out of $6.3 million in connection with contracts to manufacture instru ments for military hardware. The company agreed to plead guilty and to pay $15 million in criminal and civil fines and resti tution, authorities said. U.S. At torney Edward S.G. Dennis Jr. said that constituted one of the largest sums ever recovered from a defense contractor accused of wrongdoing. Little relief expected for Dixie drought 1 J lawyer! •resltdl to label l( !tp tWi | awer. I Hitlml m wfci K o is if it sow ncludet ssionir ho li® officii iff ini n said sticidf' iheltf nd sl« aid Clouds brought slightly cooler weather Tuesday to the South east, where a record string of eight days of 100-degree heat have caused 10 deaths. But fore casters warned the relief was tem porary, and scattered rain did little to ease the region’s drought. The high temperatures and the months-long drought have killed thousands of chickens, withered crops and forced water- use restrictions in communities. The weekend heat stroke deaths of three elderly people raised the number of heat-related fatalities in Georgia to five. Two heat-related deaths have been re ported in North Carolina and one each in South Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana. Mayor seeks end to garbage strike PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cit ing a threat to public health from growing piles of trash, Mayor W. Wilson Goode asked a state court Tuesday to order striking health care and sanitation employees back to work. The request came two weeks after 14,000 workers in two union districts walked off the job in a contract dispute, halting garbage collection, closing libraries and museums and slowing other serv ices in the nation’s fifth-largest city. The request applies to about 2,500 sanitation workers. Sfock prices fall amid brisk trading NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices tumbled across a broad front in brisk trading Tuesday in a continuation of the market’s re cent retreat. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials sank 24.75 to 1768.70 after a volatile session for the blue chips that featured several unsuc cessful rally attempts. Losing issues outnumbered gainers by about 3 to 1 in the overall tally on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volume on the ex change surged to 183.98 million shares from 123.17 million on Monday. Oil prices up slightly but plunge predicted NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices re bounded Tuesday and erased de clines of the previous session after Saudi Arabian King Fahd’s public plea for OPEC production re straints, but many U.S. analysts ex pressed doubt the rally would last and some predicted a plunge to the $8-a-barrel level. “I would say this was a technical correction that doesn’t have any strong underpinnings,” said William Randol, oil-industry analyst at the New York investment firm First Bos ton Corp. John Hill, a trader at Merrill Lynch Energy Futures in New York, said: “I have to say that most people are still a little skeptical over whether or not we’ve seen the lows.” The price for Britain’s benchmark North Sea Brent Crude, which hit a record low of $8.75 per 42-gallon barrel in Europe on Monday be cause of fears about a market glut, was trading in the $9.30-$9.40 range by late Tuesday. On the New York Mercantile Ex change, the price of West Texas In termediate, the best-known U.S. crude, soared more than $ 1 a barrel to $12.12 by midafternoon in heavy trading, then closed later at $12.11. Unleaded gasoline jumped more than 2 cents a gallon to 34.10 cents, closing at 34.11 cents, and home heating oil rose more than 2 cents a gallon to 33.45 cents, closing at 32.92 cents. “This is a very strong rally, but the jury is still out on what it means,” said Peter C. Beutel, assistant direc tor of Elders Futures Inc. in New York. “Everybody’s asking why is it going higher, then they turn around and buy because they think, ‘maybe there’s something we don’t know.’” Many analysts said the market ral lied because traders bought oil to re- f >ay borrowed oil they had sold ear- ier at higher prices, known as short covering, which can create tempo rary supply shortages and drive the price up. Others attributed the rally to Fahd, who on Monday exhorted his oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani to seek stability in world oil markets when the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries con venes an emergency session July 28 aimed at reaching a pact to restrain output. 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College Skaggs Center WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production plunged 0.5 percent in June, the fourth decline in the past five months, while retail sales inched upward only slightly, the government said Tuesday in separate reports that underscored how weak the econ omy has become. The Commerce Department report on retail sales showed they rose a slight 0.2 percent in June, the weakest showing since March. While the Reagan administra tion is forecasting economic growth of 4 percent in the second half of 1986, many analysts con tend the economy will show little pickup from the weak growth of the past two years. COOL Nuclear weapons cause dispute Pakistan aid cutoff threatened WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reagan administration is sticking to its pledge to help Pakistan against outside aggression, but will cancel a multibillion-dollar aid program if that country builds atomic weapons, a senior official said Tuesday. The administration also is seeking a crackdown on Pakistani opium production — the source of a sub stantial amount of the heroin used in the United States. “The United States has on many occasions assured the government of Pakistan that the United States re mains fully committed to Pakistan’s security in the face of continuing military threat from the Soviet Union and the Afghan regime,” State Department spokesman Ber nard Kalb said. At the same time, the official, speaking on condition he not be identified, said that if Pakistan pro duces an atomic bomb, the commit ment —first made in 1959 by Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower—would be canceled. A portion of the U.S. support con sists of economic and military aid, which under administration propo sals will climb to $4.2 billion aid dur ing the six years beginning October 1987. “There’s never been any misun derstanding, and it’s discussed with great frankness, that the programs will be stopped if there is evidence they have acquired a nuclear de vice,” the official said. Attention focused on Pakistan’s nuclear program and the drug situa tion there on the eve of a visit here by Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo. He’s making his first official visit to the United States since taking office Dec. 30. Senator says tax plan will help middle class GIVE BLOOD! 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