- Tuesday, August 12, 1986TThe Battalion/Page 5 : ishermen let escort liter chase ig]' iroiJkNCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — roifishing boats escorted by a Coast :orrDuard cutter and aircraft entered a disputed area of the Bering Sea on j Monday and began retrieving crab , pots abandoned when one vessel was pursued by Soviet craft. ■Two Soviet vessels were sighted Monday, but neither interfereci with avil the recovery operation, said Coast «I Guard spokesman Glenn Rosen- holm in Juneau. jjjjirhe 378-foot cutter Midgett, lo armed with a 5-inch gun and .50-cal- ibei machine guns, escorted the Fish ing vessels Katie K, Arctic Wind and B^Aleutian Mariner through rain and fog to the area 160 miles west of St. Matthew Island, where more than A150 pots were dropped. A Coast Cj Guard surveillance plane flew over- head. Shuttle engineers pick new solid rocket design i ■The 108-foot Katie K was among about 60 boats Fishing for tanner crab west and northwest of St. Mat- Hew Island when it was approached ^ Wednesday by two Soviet vessels, the f ;Cknwt Guard said. ■ One Soviet ship warned the Katie K it was Fishing in Soviet waters and tried to come alongside. pjThe Katie K headed for Alaska ijv and the two Soviet boats pursued it for an hour and 40 minutes. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — Engineers have developed a new solid rocket engine design that will prevent a failure like the one that caused the explosion aboard the space shuttle Challenger, a NASA source said Monday. A NASA engineer, speaking on condition that he not be identiFied, said that a team at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama has settled on a new, fun damental design for the rocket en gine, a major step toward returning the shuttle to flight. Challenger exploded Jan. 28, kill ing all seven crewmembers, after a joint in its solid rocket booster failed. The shuttle fleet was grounded until the rocket design flaw could be cor rected. The Rogers commission, which investigated the accident, said that two O-rings in the rocket engine joint failed to seal, allowing super heated gases to burn through the wall of a propellant tank. Fuel and oxidizer from the tank ignited, caus ing the explosion. The Marshall center has an nounced a news conference on the solid rocket booster for this morn- ing. The NASA engineer said the new solid rocket design will include a third O-ring and feature a metal lip that will force the joint to remain sealed. He said the new rocket engine would have interlocking insulation that would prevent hot gases from touching the rubberized O-ring seals. Another change, he said, would add a bolt assembly attaching the rocket nozzle to the engine. This will provide an additional seal for the rocket nozzlejoint, he said. The Rogers commission deter mined that Challenger’s solid rocket engine failed when pressure within the engine forced a joint to open slightly, permitting the heated gas to escape past the two O-ring seals. The source said that the metal lip, called a “capture device,” will pre vent the joint from opening under pressure. If the joint does move, he said, the additional O-ring will cause the joint to seal even more tightly. Solid rocket engine seals on Chal lenger were designed to be activated when pressure surged against them at rocket ignition. Under the new design, the engineer said, the joint is sealed without the pressure surge. The Rogers commission also con cluded that below-freezing tempera tures on the morning of Challeng er’s launch may have caused the O- rings to lose flexibility, which may have contributed to the rocket fail- The engineer said the NASA de sign team has developed heaters for the rocket joint that will keep it at a constant temperature even in frigid weather conditions. Morton Thiokol Inc., builder of the solid rocket booster, is preparing to manufacture test models of the new design. If it passes early tests, there will be full-scale firings some time next year. The engineer said NASA has not decided if the full-scale Firings will be in a horizontal position, the way in which the old designs were tested, or in a vertical position, which would closely approximate launch condi tions. Vertical tests would require build ing new facilties and could delay the shuttle program for months. World Briefs d 150 rescued from ocean by fishing boafs !XKu ias da io dK Wtdi David idy Pi nit iswomii. M Ifll nissut loti nap-i KVt!,i irsily s in im Mayoij MCaBXl l bcci ;ssioa l j girt Ericsotl ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — Three Canadian Fishing vessels rescued about 150 men, women and children who were found Monday afternoon adrift in two lifeboats in the Atlantic Ocean, a Coastguard spokeaman reported. The spokesman, Bruce Reid, reported the victims were be lieved to be from Sri Lanka, and said they told their rescuers they had spent Five days in the life boats after being let off a ship. The name of the mystery ship was not immediately known. Ca nadian ofFicials said initial reports indicated the people in the life boats had been forced to abandon the ship, but there were language problems and it was not known why. Sri Lanka, an island off India’s southern tip, has been torn by a separatist revolt, and thousands of citizens have sought refuge abroad. A spokesman for the Sri Lanka Consulate in Ottawa declined comment, saying a statement might be issued later. Dow Jones sees biggest gain since June NEW YORK (AP) —Optimism that interest rates will keep going down boosted the stock market Monday, as Wall Street pumped more life into last week’s advance. The Dow Jones average rose 28,54 to 1,811.16, the oiggest ain since a 36.06-point rise on une13. Shaking the months-long string of “Blue Monday” sessions that have begun recent weeks with selloffs or lackluster perfor mances, stocks responded strongly to the rally in the bond market. Bonds began rallying last week f ollowing completion of the three-day, $28 billion Treasury refunding. The rally continued Monday in anticipation that retail sales and industrial production statistics due out later in the week would show the U.S. economy remained in the doldrums, and the Federal Reserve Board would push inter est rates lower to spark it. Telephone workers’ talks show progress NEW YORK (AP) — Progress was reported Monday in talks to end a strike by 40,000 phone workers in New York, the last part of the coun try where large numbers of local phone company employees re mained off the job. The phone workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America, walked out Saturday at midnight when their old contracts expired. Customers experienced no prob lems putting calls through Monday because the phone network is highly automated, but outside experts said the strike could cause delays in in stallation of new equipment. The seven regional Bell compa nies, or “Baby Bells," employing 310,000 CWA members nationwide, negotiated on their own this year for the first time since they were formed in the breakup of American Tele phone & Telegraph Co. in 1984, CWA says it represents 40,000 Nynex operators, installers, clerical and maintenance workers, although the company gives it credit for a membership of only 37,600. Most of the workers are in New York state, but about 1,000 work in New En gland. CW’A spokeswoman Francine Zucker in Washington described the atmosphere of the talks as “tough.” She said there was still a chance the union might call more strikes, partic ularly at Michigan Bell and Ohio Bell. However, the companies were more optimistic. John Bruce, an as sistant vice president of personnel for Ohio Bell, said, “I see no reason why we can’t wrap things up quick- •y” Within Nynex, bargaining cover ing about 50 CWA locals was taking place at 11 separate tables: three in Albany, Five in New England and Five in New York City. Noble said many of the issues in contention were local ones. In addition to the IBEW and the CWA, a third union, the Telephone Employees Organization, represents about 2,200 Nynex accountants in the metropolitan area. Talks be tween that union and Nynex broke off Monday morning, according to union lawyer Paul M. Levinson. Study says foreigners favored Kidney allocation questioned >n eizedi»| iartjs dhisnjj imeaitj prostij ie wiiij n $ei#| id. vas irneystfl alker's' ions q ivac)® xinuitj id finest said.'! arresi iy : con' ti: WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign- lers receive nearly a fourth of the kidneys transplanted at District of IColumbia hospitals while U.S. mili- jtary dependents needing kidneys |are turned away, a government study said Monday. Calling for an Americans-first Itransplant policy, the report by the Health and Human Services Depart- iment said a “heavy . . . orientation to jforeign nationals” exists in Washing ton hospitals that tends to jump for- leigners ahead of U.S. citizens on Iwaiting lists. Reviews on organ transplant pro- Igrams in 17 other cities showed that jforeign citizens nationwide tend to [receive kidneys more quickly than [U.S. citizens. In addition, the report said, more than 200 kidneys are shipped abroad each year although nearly 10,000 Americans are on waiting lists. The favoritism may not be in tended, the department said. Trans plant surgeons say it is due in part to the fact that foreigners often are less “sensitized” to transplant tissue, so tissue matching need not be as pre cise. But the result still is favoritism, which could undermine people’s willingness to sign organ donor cards, the report said. The report said Washington has twice the national rate of local citi zens with failed kidneys who could benefit from transplants. And one major military hospital — identified by sources as Walter Reed Army Medical Center — is turning away military dependents needing kid neys because its waiting list is full. Transplants for foreigners dis courage organ sharing among U.S. hospitals, the study said. Doctors are unlikely to send a kidney to another hospital if a foreigner needing a kid ney is waiting down the hall. And the taxpayer indirectly subsi dizes many tranplants for foreign ers, the study said. Medicare pays for the surgery needed to remove kidneys from the bodies of people who have just died, but is not reimbursed by the over seas hospital that receives an ex ported kidney, the study said. In addition, the kidneys trans planted into foreigners could have allowed a U.S. citizen to discontinue government-paid dialysis treat ments. Kidneys should not be offered to foreigners or exported to foreign hospitals until it is clear no suitable U.S. recipients are available, the re port said. The report said foreign citizens seeking transplants converge on the United States from all over the world, but with significant concen trations recently from Greece and Saudi Arabia. Most come because medical technology in their home countries lags behind U.S. stan dards, the report said. Others escape religious taboos against use of ca daver organs. 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For Tough Assignments WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon told Congress Monday it does not believe any secret docu ments missing from an aircraft plant have, fallen into Soviet hands, but that it still can’t account for the 1,400 papers. The documents from a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in California re portedly relate to the “stealth” Fighter plane, a project supposedly so secret the Pentagon does not ac knowledge its existence. “We have no information to sug gest that the information has been compromised in the sense of being lost to someone on the outside,” Donald Hicks, undersecretary of de fense, told a House investigating committee. Hicks’ testimony came as part of a probe by the Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee. The investigation has focused on what Hicks and Lockheed officials have admitted was slack security at the company’s famed “skunk” works in Burbank, Calif. That is the plant that developed the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. 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