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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.
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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
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■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.
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(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
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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.
Lightning
sparks fires
in 3 states
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More
than 370 lightning-sparked Fires
blazed across rangeland and for
est Monday from eastern Oregon
across Idaho and into Montana,
consuming more than 175,000
acres of grazing land.
Heavy smoke and the smell of
burning grass choked much of
the district’s Treasure Valley re
gion.
“Everything between here and
Missoula (Mont.) got hit pretty
hard,” said Dale Dufour of Ida
ho’s Boise National Forest, where
crews fought 16 Fires while 85
others burned unmanned.
Twenty-one fires in remote
Malheur County ranged in size
from 1,000 acres to about 50,000
acres, the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management and Forest Service
reported.
Pentagon: Missing papers
probably not with Soviets
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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
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Hicks’ testimony came as part of a
probe by the Energy and Commerce
investigations subcommittee.
The investigation has focused on
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The plant is the site of Lockheed’s
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dars, said sources speaking on condi
tion of anonymity.
The Pentagon has never officially
acknowledged the existence of the
“stealth” fighter, although it does
admit it is building a “stealth”
bomber.
While the Pentagon won’t talk
about the stealth, Rep. John Dingell,
D-Mich., chairman of the panel, said
some of the documents involved de
tail “the structure and some of the
sensitive technology of the stealth
fighter.”
Dingell’s comment came as he
talked about how investigators had
discovered that some of the docu
ments were taken outside the plant
by a Lockheed employee who was
trying to impress his girlfriend.
At a subcommittee hearing three
weeks ago, Lockheed ofFicials ad
mitted their security procedures
were sloppy, but said they had no in
formation that the papers had been
turned over to any other countries.
Hicks had been scheduled to tes
tify at the July 24 hearing, but did
not appear.
On Monday, he buttressed the as
sertion by Lockheed officials that the
documents have been not been lost
to an enemy, saying “there is no sign
that this thing has gotten out.” At
the same time, Hicks admitted that
he cannot rule out that possibility.
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