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Armed bands of Abkhazians and Georgians kept shooting at each other for a sixth day in the Black Sea resort region, Soviet media said. Violence spread to Poti in western Georgia, where men seeking firearms at tacked a factory and a gun shop. “The situation is very, very serious,” Gizo Grzeledze of the Georgian Foreign Ministry said. State-run TV showed tourists eating ice cream at an outdoor cafe in Sukhumi, 870 miles south of Moscow, and said clashes had subsided. About 4,500 Interior Ministry troops were in the re gion, and a state of emergency was in effect. Saboteurs “forced the workers of the Inguli Hydro electric Station to start letting the waters out of the Ing uli Reservoir, and they virtually forced a halt in the op eration of the power plant,” reported the Georgian newspaper Zarya Vostoka. The dam provides more than half of Georgia’s elec tricity, and factories in cities throughout the republic suffered blackouts until power could be patched in from Russia, the newspaper said. The story did not clearly state how much water was released from the dam. It said the water loss will lead to less electricity and predicted a power shortage in Georgia next winter. It said the republic’s energy supplies already have been restricted by the closure of the nuclear power sta tion in nearby Armenia. The nuclear plant was closed because of fears of earthquakes. Shooting was reported on highways near Ocham- chira and Ciudauta, Zarya Vostoka said. Tass reported clashes between armed groups in the regions around Gulripsh, Ochamchira and Sukhumi. The violence has claimed at least 18 lives since it be gan Saturday in Abkhazia, a 3,320-mile autonomous re gion in Georgia. Komsomolskaya Pravda reported T hursday that 339 people have been injured, including 30 policemen and seven internal security troops. Congressmen l spray effigy of flag-burner 66 The situation is very, very serious.” — Gizo Grzeledze, Georgian Foreign Ministry At least 132 people have died in ethnic unrest in the past month in the southern Soviet republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan and Tadzhi kistan. Georgians outnumber Abkhazians 240,000 to 90,000 in Abkhazia and both sides claim discrimination by the other. Many Abkhazians demand that it be designated a 16th Soviet republic. Spreading strikes and ethnic violence have convulsed a dozen areas of the Soviet Union in the past month and may endanger President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reform program by damaging an already shaky economy. A few trainloads of scarce treasures like soap, meat and shoes may soothe some mining towns, but the gov ernment does not pretend there is enough to placate everyone. 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Some of the cases did not cause heavy loss of life, but each has added to concern among government and aviation authorities over design of the DC-10, which the government grounded for more than a month in 1979. McDonnell Douglas spokesman David Eastman said Thursday the out-of-production DC-10 is “as fit as any other” airliner and has flown 745 million passengers safely more than 7 billion miles. Eastman de clined to comment on the Sioux City crash, except to say the manufac turer was cooperating in the federal investigation to determine cause. Although investigators were WASHINGTON (AP) -J: publican congressmen onTyj day sprayed with wateranelij of a Texas flag-burner, and: ans groups urged lawmakeril undo the Supreme Court m.'|- that allows flag burning. H _ 7 _ Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa lw | more than a dozen GOP Htfe mcmlx-i s. .limed wii h lire r guishers and a bucket of wattr^j the steps of the Supreme Ccffll^- where television cameras .|tL 0 gathered to record a ruiJ| fiag-hurning bv Greeon ipr ^ |. 11 toriii “You’re not going to coir I Capitol Hill and burn the States flag,” warned Rep. L hum' Smith, R-Miss. md tl The flag burning neve Aterla curred, so the lawmakersspr |CVelc and doused with water a stiiBila dummy they called Johnson:JPre\ was held aloft by some anti ^powr burning protesters. Mtat, Johnson, whose 1984 flag flu; E-i ning conviction was thrown y ar( by the Supreme Court ^ month, held a news confertig ac j ( across the street and said: never intended to burn a flat:] day. “I’m not going to fall into I silly trap,” he said. Earlier today, veterans p r testified in support of congres f acc nal action to restore penaltiP':P® m 5 desecrating the flag. Two of he be groups said a constitutioi c amendment was the oniv cocrlThes of action, but one said it Jrltlsf also supp>ort regular legislan 83, T that would work. ■Sch is the liphgL icwtc Hee he fir looking at explosive failure of the plane’s tail engine as the initial inci dent in the crash of United Flight 232 in Sioux City, they also were concerned about apparent collapse of the plane’s hydraulic systems as its E ilot was attempting an emergency aiding on a Denver-Philadelphia flight. The hydraulic systems link the pi lot with wing flaps, tail elevators, rudders, brakes, and other devices that guide the airliner in takeoff, during flight, in landing and on the runway. Federal Aviation Administration authorities said the DC-lO’s pilot first reported “uncontained engine failure,” which means parts shot out of the engine, possibly damaging other systems and causing what the pilot later described as “complete hy draulic failure.” In 1974, loss of a cargo door caused decompression in a Turkish Airlines DC-10 over France. The plane’s floor buckled, snapping hy draulic cables, and the airliner went out of control, killing 346 people. Previous incidents in the United States and Canada had pointed to a cargo door problem, but it and other problems were not corrected until after the Turkish crash. On May 25, 1979, in Chicago, the engine of an American Airlines DC- 10 broke loose and catapulted over the wing during takeoff, breaking hydraulic cables and causing a crash that killed 275 people. Investigators blamed faulty maintenance but also recommended design corrections. Eastman said he knew of only one design change that had occurred in the DC-10 since the Chicago crash, involving instrumentation that would warn the pilot when wing slats were improperly positioned. The two incidents and the latest crash point to serious problems with design of the DC-10, said John Gal- ipault of the Aviation Safety Insti tute, a nonprofit group that pushes for safer planes. “Choose whatever courseofii It Wc lion is best for our nation am: Jnlted flag and you will have the sup hg ne of the Disabled American ans,” John Heilman, the DM’B we national legislative director,saisEj ca Heilman’s openness to a a lar statute to address the ruling was at odds with reprK'BP tatives of the American LegiB and the Veterans of ForeiiB&SS Wars, who told a House Judicia'B subcommittee that nothing than amendment to theConsiinl tion would he satisfactory. After four days of hearings,® lay's eluding tvyo days of testimorlgl the from legal scholars, the Hoiivjpns. panel remained divided overtorahis to overcome a Supreme CourtdiB^las Vlas cision on flag burning. Tests show AIDS virus affects more blood cells than scientists believed 0 !'? Federal Reserve shifts to avoid recession risk CDEC SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION FOR r ncc STUDENTS WHO NEED MONEY FOR COLLEGE "1 I Every Student is Eligible for Some Type of Financial Aid Regardless of Grades or Parental Income. 1 We have a data bank of over 200,000 listings of scholarships, fellow ships, grants, and loans, representing over $10 billion in private sector funding. Many scholarships are given to students based on their academic interests, career plans, family heritage and place of residence. There’s money available for students who have been newspaper carriers, grocery clerks, cheerleaders, non-smokers. . .etc. Results GUARANTEED. 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Greenspan said the Fed loosened its grip on credit twice — once in early June and again early in July — and that the stimulating effects of lower interest rates werejust now be ginning to be felt. Private economists interpreted the central bank chairman’s remarks as a clear sign that monetary poli cymakers, with caution, would con tinue to allow interest rates to fall as a stimulant to economic activity. APARTMENTS • 2 Pools • 2 Exercise Rooms • Tennis Courts • Basketball Court • Hot Tub • 2 Shuttle Bus Stops • Volleyball Court • Covered Parking 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms available Briarwood Apartments 1201 Harvey Rd. (‘across from Post Oak Mall) (409) 693-3014 Welcome Aggies! He said he did not see signs of a recession “at the moment,” but con ceded that “some day, some event will end the extraordinary string of economic advances that has pre vailed since late 1982.” He added that he did not want a mistake by the Federal Reserve to be the cause. The central bank chairman would not respond directly when asked by panel members whether interest rates would continue to decline, but he indicated he did not soon forsee another shift in policy. “My feeling is . . . he’s willing to ease further, particularly if there’s further sign of softness in the indus trial sector,” economist David Jones of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., a gov ernment securities dealer, said. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Mi chael Boskin, President Bush’s chief economic adviser, praised the Fed’s recent action to lower interest rates, but declined to say what he thought the bank’s next move should be. “I don’t like to preach to the Fed in public,” he told the Joint Eco nomic Committee. WASHINGTON (AP) — A sensi tive new test shows that AIDS pa tients develop a reservoir of at least 1,000 times more diseased blood cells than previously believed, according to researchers at the Na tional Institutes of Health. Steven M. Schnittman, a re searcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of the NIH, said the study showed that in patients with AIDS, the virus infects up to 1 percent — one of every 100 — of a type of blood cell called the T4 lymphocyte. Previous studies, which made in direct measurements of the rate of infection, had determined that only one in every 10,000 to 100,000 of the T4 lymphocytes were infected with the virus in a patient with active AIDS, or acquired immune defi ciency syndrome. “The quantity of the virus (found in the study) was a lot higher than previously expected,” Schnittman in an interview. “There are more cells infected, a greater proportion, than we knew before.” enlists understand the life cycle the highly complex AIDS virus,® perhaps find a weak point wheret killer disease could be attacked*! drugs. Patients infected with theHlVi ace nt t rus can sometimes go years vvitlijUtfield developing the active AIDSdiseasejIfils ft Scientists don’t yet under' in why the virus has such a long per jl half 1 of inactivity in some people. itet toe AIDS is a contagious diseaseI'lprega attacks immune cells in thebodya® renders them unable to resist ifipf q ease. However, earlier this year, when the Fed was pushing interest rates higher, both Bush and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady didn’t hesitate to say they thought Greens pan and his colleagues were overly concerned with inflation. Schnittman said the PCR studies will enable scientists to plot the level of AIDS infection as a patient pro gresses from a point of showing no symptoms to where the disease be comes life-threatening. In this way, he said, researchers could measure precisely the effects of drugs being tested to control or kill the AIDS virus. A research report authored by Schnittman and eight other scientists is to be published Friday in the jour nal Science. The PCR survey, which was devel oped only about a year ago, he said, is an important new tool to help sci- Eastern threat to sell routes attracts carrier, MIAMI (AP) — A threat bankrupt Eastern Airlines to s< its Latin American routes and )| portion of its Miami operation has attracted interest from at leas! | one major carrier, but represen i tatives of striking pilots saythertj are many obstacles to the deal, j Air Line Pilots Association j spokesman Hank Weber on Thursday said any sale of inter national routes would have to go through a series of reviews i»i U.S. Bankruptcy Court and btf federal transportation officials. Recently, U.S. Transportation | Secretary Samuel Skinner said hr will take a close look at any saleof foreign routes to another U.S carrier. ■f? 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