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Busey formed the task force last month, citing the July 19 crash of a United Airlines DC-10 that killed 111 people in Sioux City, Iowa, and damaging engine failures that in volved a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 in 1985 and an Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-101 1 in 1981. Investigators said the United DC- 10’s rear engine apparently disinte grated in flight, knocking out critical hydraulic flight controls that meet in the plane’s tail section. Busey, who has been FAA admin istrator for six weeks, said it was too early to make comparisons between the Sioux City crash and the Denver landing, which he said showed “the way the system is supposed to work.” The United plane carried General Electric engines while the Northwest plane had Pratt and Whitney en gines. WASHINGTON (AP) — The mood at Mickey Ice land's congressional office turned somber Thursday as aides clung to a faint hope resting on an elusive emer gency signal transmitted from the rugged Ethiopian mountain countryside. As searchers trekked in darkness toward the source of an airplane’s distress beacon, the vigil continued for Leland, whose airplane vanished in turbulent weather Monday morning after taking off from Addis Ababa en route to a refugee camp 480 miles away. As the search entered its third day, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite picked up a faint emergency signal 84 miles southeast of Addis, far off the flight plan of the plane carrying Leland and 13 others. “We have some news; it’s not definitive news. Ob viously that news is a little sobering, that the possibility that they could have gone down in the mountains is so bering,” said Leland’s spokesman, Alma Newsom. Leland’s wife, Alison, who is six weeks’ pregnant, their home in Houston. The faint satellite signal was coming from and lion of about 12,400 feet, which also was disheaneit for those awaiting word of Leland, chairman of House Select Committee on Hunger. “The area where the signal was detected is in mountains. That is not terrific news,” Newsom said Searchers were sent into the mountains toward source of the signal, but Newsom said it would them four or five hours to reach the distress beacon “They are in the mountains, they are on their. They are climbing,” she said. Aerial reconnaissas: however, would have to wait until daylight. 2 ©f Bus Newsom said the area is not where Leland’sItcBollegi would have been expected to be, well away from km they were traveling. Yet, she said, “if in fact it is the congressman'sptj the best speculation would be . . . that they did tryloi The ateapf jlhangt turn to Addis w hen the\ could not land at therefiijjBidmin “But until we get more definition, certainly we’re still . . . positive,” she said after being briefed by the State Department. She also questioned whether Leland’s plane could have been in that location, and whether the signal could have come from his plane. “It’s just an odd place for the congressman’s plane to be considering what their destination was,” sne said. “The location just seems so strange that we’re not draw ing any conclusions. We are not going to let it get us down.” Also, the signal was not on the frequency that would have been expected for the beacon on Leland’s Twin- Otter turboprop plane, “which again is additional cause for skepticism.” camp and simply kept going farther south, hoping!’ they could get out of the turbulent weather ihaiisl were in. Two U.S. Air Force C-130 Hei< ules cargo planed rived Thursday and spent three hours flying overs path that Leland’s plane was supposed to havetakec A U-2 aircraft also joined the search. U-2sarea; t ble of taking high-resolution photographs overa d f Nevertheless, Leland’s younger brother, Gaston, was in Washington making contingency plans to go to Ethiopia, and his close friend, Houston City Coun cilman Ben Reyes, had flown into the city Wednesday night to get his papers in order for a flight to Ethiopia. Reyes, however, had not left by Thursday afternoon. Family members “are under a great deal of stress,” Newsom told a crowded Capitol news conference, asking reporters to “back off’ the family. sions. Four U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters were. peeled to arrive Friday. Four Ethiopian Air Force helicopters also added, joining the U.S. fleet and more than a d light planes under the direction of the Ethiopian C l Aviation Authority. 1 Two of Leland’s congressional colleagues, Re?| Gary Ackerman and A1 Wheat, flew to Addis Ababa:| take part in the search. Speaker Thomas S. Foley asked Ackerman, a me:| her of Leland’s select committee, and Wheat, a memsf of the Congressional Black Caucus, would reprexl but the the House in the search. Also making the trip wasli ftrease sergeant-at-arms of the I louse. Jack Russ. |lrograi 600 University Oaks 696-3391 NEAR CORNER OF HARVEY RD & STALLINGS DR-BEHIND POST OAK BANK Government moves to financing woes surrounding landmark thrift bailout ClNEPLEX ODEON ! $3.00 BARGAIN matinee daily \ THEATRES all shows before6:00 pm j AT s £ t ECTE0THMTR£S . 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The Resolution Trust Corp., formed Wednesday when President Bush signed landmark thrift legis lation, planned to announce the res cue of three small institutions, re solving the first of 262 problem cases on its list. Meanwhile, printing presses churned out brand new signs for S&Ls across the country, reassuring depositors that their money is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government. That promise, once implicit in the government’s deposit insurance pro gram, is now explicit under the new legislation. For years. Congress has passed resolutions affirming the govern ment’s full backing of savers’ ac counts up to $100,000. But, techni cally, that promise was only as good as the industry-funded insurance program guaranteeing the accounts. The law signed by Bush autho rizes the government to borrow $50 billion over the next 26 months, for the first time putting taxpayers’ money where politicians’ mouths were. The Treasury Department in tended to raise the first $5 billion in stallment of the bailout, as part of its regular quarterly sale of debt. One third of $15 billion in 247-day cash management bills sold Thursday will be earmarked for the RTC. Money from the cash-manage ment bills won’t be available until Tuesday. In the meantime, the Treasury Deparment has made $215 million available to the RTC to cover Thursday’s transactions. The three are on a list of 262 failed institutions in 33 states taken over by regulators in anticipation of enactment of the bailout law. By the time it finishes its work, the RTC will have dealt with about 500 ailing in stitutions. Analysts expect the bill, the larg est financial bailout in the nation’s history, to begin restoring public confidence that eroded in the months that Congress and the ad ministration debated how to solve the crisis. In the six months from November through April, S&L customers with drew their money at a record rate, taking out an average of $8 billion a month more than they deposited. The latest deposit data, due out Thursday from the newly renamed Office of Thrift Supervision, were expected to show higher withdra wals in June as institutions antic ipated the new rules. Public shows mixed reactions after $285 billion S&L bailout ASSOCIATED PRESS The costly federal bailout of the beleaguered thrift industry has pro voked everything from anger to am bivalence from the American public, although many depositors say their confidence in the soundness of the nation’s banking system remains vir tually unshaken. “Every individual who has money in a savings and loan has to be aware that (the government) insures the money . . . and the comfort level that the savers should have is directly re lated to the comfort they have with the federal government,” said Ron ald Hyde, who keeps checking and savings accounts with thrifts in the Phoenix area. Echoing the sentiments of a num ber of Americans, Hyde said he ap proved of the long-awaited thrift in dustry rescue plan that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday, but called the cost for carrying it out “shocking at the very least.” The landmark legislation will re quire the government to spend a whopping $285 billion over the next 30 years, more than half of that from taxpayers, to close or dispose of money-losing thrifts. It is the most expensive industry rescue in history and some experts say it will cost each American tax payer at least $ 1,500. A spot check by the Associated Press of depositors in cities nation wide suggested widespread resent ment that taxpayers must pay for the industry’s problems. Most of the thrifts’ problems can be traced to the early 1980s when the industry was deregulated, permitting S&Ls to en ter a broad array of new, riskier businesses. “I think it stinks,” said Ramiro Sa lazar, a 55-year-old mail carrier from the Los Angeles area. State taxes rose in 1988 report says WASHINGTON (AP)-Tax payers paid seven percent moie seven in state taxes in fiscal 1988 than they did in the previous year,tilt government reported Thursdav The Commerce Departmem reported that state tax revenue totaled $264 billion in the yen ending June 30, 1988, comparfi to $246 billion in the previousfis cal year. Tax collections in Hawaii Montana and Oklahoma posied 20 percent gains each, the depan merit said. Other states regisier ing big gains included Texas, 1? percent; Alaska, 18 percent; sas and Maine, 17 percent each Florida, 16 percent, and Dakota, 15 percent. Alaskans also paid more state taxes on a per capita basis $2,439 each — than residentsol the other 49 states, the depart merit said. New Hampshire had the lowest per capita state tax $532. The national per capitata.t average was $ 1,077. Three states had decreases 1988 overall tax collections- Wyoming, down by nine percent and Oregon and West Virginia falling six percent each, thedc partment said. California had the largesttoial state tax revenue, $36 billion,fol - lowed by New York, $26 billion! Texas, $13 billion; Pennsylvania $12 billion; Illinois, Michiganatid Florida, $11 billion each; and Ohio, $10 billion. Tax collection! in these eight states totalednearh half of the taxes collected nation ally. In oi .approvi he Aca nvolvir rograr endec • tha tudent mere |ty of co • tha nterdis ommit ;stablisl (ram. • tha (ram bi •egular ion. The ee of tl oming structor yllabi. Conn informa tire Sen maki tions or The aroposa nstructi cause tl ment no m JNIVERSI Glasnost affects more than politics: Soviet press flocks to sensationalist Constr as pron ew traff ounding "omplex [he Texas Work ( ewer-dn Houston from just ith Joe north of tea 60 dm Wil ransit an c/ APARTMENTS Free Microwave with a 9 month lease • 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! MOSCOW (AP) — Headless aliens from space invade Russia! “Huge hairy creature” terrifies villagers in the Volga valley! Possible UFO lands in Moscow! Although President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s re forms haven’t spawned U.S.-style supermarket tabloids, glasnost has changed the Soviet media, as evidenced by these recent stories. The change is evident on state-run television, once a showcase for morally uplifting and dull “Boy-Loves-Tractor” movies about building com munism. Now, six days a week as part of the breakfast TV program “120 Minutes,” gray haired mystic Alan Chumak waves his hands on camera to cure viewers from Minsk to Vladivos tok of what ails them. Soviets with heart disease are requested to watch the self-described journalist on Tuesdays. On Fridays, Chumak will help viewers get rid of allergies. People with stomach bugs or bone and muscle aches should tune in on other days. The inability to watch the program is not a problem. Leave the set on, and a jar of water, juice or massage cream placed by the TV screen supposedly will be “charged” by Chumak’s ges tures and can be used later for treatment. Since the days of the wild-eyed monk Raspu tin, hypnotist and confidant at the court of the last czar, Russians have been intrigued by the oc cult and fantastic, and stories about UFOs, van ished planets and ESP have always had an eager audience. With glasnost, or greater openness, such topics are getting more exposure than ever in the once stuffy official Soviet media, despite the firmly materialistic and rationalist ideology of the ruling Communist Party. In fact, the unlikely organ in the forefront of the weirdness campaign belongs to the party it self. The one million-circulation daily newspaper Socialist Industry, an organ of the party’s Central Committee, has a mandate to report on the So viet economy, but often makes space for news items that have nothing to do with either social ism or industry. On Tuesday, there was an intriguing account of invaders from space landing in Central Rus sia’s Perm region: milkmaid Lyubov Medvedev told the newspaper, “At about 4:30 in theniort ing, I was going to the farm when I saw a figure seemingly riding a motorcycle. . . when I looked closely at the figure, I notitf 1 there was no motorcycle, but just something^ WASH sembling a man, but taller than average h a short legs.” The creature had “only a small knob instead a head,” Medvedev said. “I was frightened death, . . . then it became fluorescent and disi peared.” Beekeeper G. Sharoglazov saw two egg-shap* “fluorescent objects” as big as aircraft hovering a height of 600-1,000 feet. Others in mid) also saw aliens with no heads, the paper said. It quoted V. Kopylov, Communist Party in the Chernushinsky region, as acknowledgi 1 that “something unusual is going on the terriw- of our two collective farms.” It was Socialist Industry as well that inform? Soviets on Thursday of the huge, fleet-footed It- ^ er 1 f: iry creature that terrified residents of the Kirn , ut J settlement in the Volga basin. an a bil ents ma] Vednesdj; ffioon pa: hadow at ppearanc tig in the 1 In the Vednesda 'ear to be ,, Jng from "ished co _erhaps [ether. The she