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MOSCOW (AP) — Saboteurs in ethnically torn areas
of Abkhazia damaged a dam that provides more than
half of Soviet Georgia’s electricity, a newspaper re
ported Thursday.
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.
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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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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
crash of a United wide-bodied jet in
Sioux City, Iowa, demonstrates a
problem already highlighted in two
other major DC-10 accidents: the
lack of an effective backup when the
hydraulic system fails.
Other incidents prior to Wednes
day’s DC-10 crash, in which 119 peo
ple were either dead or missing,
have a common thread in the loss of
pilot control after a failure that
would not ordinarily affect flight
controls, such as loss of an engine or
a cargo door.
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|
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“You’re not going to coir I
Capitol Hill and burn the
States flag,” warned Rep. L hum'
Smith, R-Miss. md tl
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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
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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
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cision on flag burning.
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Federal Reserve shifts
to avoid recession risk
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man Alan Greenspan said Thursday
the Federal Reserve has shifted its
emphasis from fighting inflation to
avoiding a recession, a signal that the
central bank likely will continue to
cautiously push down interest rates.
“Recent developments suggest
that the balance of risks may have
shifted somewhat away from greater
inflation,” Greenspan told the
House Banking subcommittee on
domestic monetary policy. “What we
seek to avoid is an unnecessary and
destructive recession.”
Greenspan, in his semiannual re
port to Congress, confirmed that af
ter a yearlong campaign of trying to
curb inflationary pressures by nudg
ing up interest rates, the central
bank has reversed course in re
sponse to widespread evidence of
economic softness.
“It is not desirable to do too many
wiggles',” he said.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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could measure precisely the effects
of drugs being tested to control or
kill the AIDS virus.
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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-
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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
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are many obstacles to the deal, j
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Thursday said any sale of inter
national routes would have to go
through a series of reviews i»i
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