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Astronauts test
Star Wars’ gear
□ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Discovery’s astronauts aimed a
Wars” research satellite at
fuel spewed in space
Ttiursday as the shuttle, satellite
fuel canister zipped around
the world information.
The seven astronauts also
planned to snag the satellite and
put it back in the cargo bay after
the elaborate experiments, in
tended to help the Pentagon de
sign a space defense system.
Groups rally
for, against bill
Q WASHINGTON — A leading
Hispanic rights group says it will
support a free-trade agreement
with Mexico, but a coalition of
consumer, farm and labor orga
nizations rallied Thursday to de
nounce negotiations to lift trade
barriers along the Rio Grande.
While the Economic Policy In
stitute said a free trade
agreement with Mexico could
cause massive losses of high-
paying U.S. jobs, the National
Council of La Raza said it believes
ttie accord could result in better
jobs for both countries.
Bodies surface
after cyclone
□ DHAKA, Bangladesh — The
bodies of thousands of victims
killed in a devastating cyclone
washed up Thursday on the
shores of Bangladesh, as the
government struggled to provide
relief to millions of survivors.
The official death toll for Tues
day’s cyclone, the most powerful
to hit this impoverished nation, is
37,543. But thousands are miss
ing on islands and coastal deltas.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia es
timated at least 100,000 people
were killed.
Police jail,
charge man
in poisoning
of colleague
Report shows no contamination
Explosion kills eight
STERLINGTON, La. (AP) — Eight employees
died in the fertilizer plant explosion that also in
jured more than 100 others, a company official
said Thursday. Between 500 to 600 evacuees be
gan returning to their homes Thursday night.
The bodies of all eight workers — seven men
and one woman — were recovered from the site
of Wednesday's explosion and fires, said Bill Pat
terson, operations manager of the IMC Fertilizer
plant. Among the dead was the plant's manager.
The explosion occurred about 1:30 p.m. CDT
Wednesday and it wasn't until 24 hours later that
firefighters were able to extinguish the last of the
smallfires that were still burning.
City officials finally signaled the all-clear and
began letting residents return at 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day.
Only people with drivers' licenses or similar
identification were allowed past roadblocks, said
Police Chief Walter Kemper. Sightseers and the
curious were being turned away, Kemper said.
Highways on both sides of the town began
backing up with traffic in anticipation of a state
Department of Environmental Quality report that
showed no serious contamination, Kemper said.
State environmental officials also were checking
for pollution or chemical contamination at the
plant, Sterlington's largest employer with be
tween 400 to 450 workers.
Patterson said damage assessment experts had
been hired by the company, Sterlington's largest
employer, to investigate the cause of the explo
sion and amount of damage.
Between 500 and 600 of the town's estimated
1,200 people were evacuated immediately after
the blast, emptying the community. Other resi
dents had left earlier because of floods that fol
lowed heavy weekend rain.
Although the state police evacuation order re
mained in effect Thursday afternoon, a few busi
ness owners were allowed back into town to as
sess damage.
Pope calls for social justice
John Paul II pronounces new world vision in ninth encyclical
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope
John Paul II on Thursday spelled
out his vision
of a post-
Communist
world of eco
nomic and so
cial justice,
leaving room
for capitalism
— with a
moral core —
but no place Pops John Paul
for "consumer |t as k s i| capital-
snriptips " 'sm should be the
His views Q°al Eastern
were p r e ^ uro P e -
sented in his ninth encyclical,
the Roman Catholic church's
first major pronouncement of so
cial doctrine since the fall of East
bloc Communist governments.
"Western countries ... run the
risk of seeing this collapse as a
one-sided victory of their own
economic system, and thereby
failing to make necessary correc
tions in that system," John Paul
said.
The views should be especially
applied in Eastern Europe,
which is "experiencing a serious
lack of direction in the work of
rebuilding," said the Polish-bom
pontiff.
Church-linked and labor
groups in the United States and
Europe hailed the document for
its emphasis on social justice and
workers' rights. Conservative
groups rejoiced in what they
called the Vatican's most forth
right endorsement of the free
market in a century.
John Paul acknowledged capi
talism's successes out de
nounced the system for some
times achieving them at the
CONROE (AP) — A Univer-
of Texas scientist remained
ed Thursday, accused of try-
rig to kill a colleague by tainting
nose spray with a cancer-caus-
ig poison.
John Gunnar Linner, 47, a cell
iologist at Cryobiology Re-
*arch Center in The Woodlands
orth of Houston, has been
harged with attempted murder
pd is being held without bond
hhe Montgomery County Jail.
Ie was arrested at his home
lortly before midnight Tues-
fay.
Wallace Barry Van Winkle, 46,
mner's co-worker, told police
;ehad a "terrible burning reac-
ion" about two weeks ago after
singAfrin Nasal Spray. The sci-
ntist had the spray analyzed
Jid found it was contaminated
fith a potentially lethal dose of
feta-Propiolactone, police said,
iie colorless liquid is used as a
kemical intermediate in the
Jnthesis of acrylate plastics, as
vapor sterilant and as a disin-
fctant.
Authorities believe Linner, a
dentist credited with revolu-
onizing biological tissue re-
larch, may have planned the
cident because he was angered
tout losing his job.
"All I can tell you at this point
that he is not guilty of any of-
Jise," Linner's attorney, Robert
Bennett of Houston, said.
Montgomery County District
fttomey Peter Speers said an
ther bond hearing for Linner
lay be held Friday. State Dis-
tot Judge James Keeshan ini-
ally denied bond,
linner was director of the lab
’ The Woodlands, about 25
% north of Houston and affil
ed with the University of
f xas Health Science Center at
iouston. He and Van Winkle
( ere involved in research re-
W to the preparation and
Nervation of biological tissue,
linner had been notified his
anarch contract would not be
Jiewed after Aug. 31. But Van
inkle was to be transferred to
l medical school's pathology
apartment in Houston.
IT Health Science Center
^keswoman Ina Fried said the
>earch office was shut down
^nanently Wednesday, seve-
imonths earlier than planned.
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capitalism should be the goal of
Eastern Europe as well as a
model for Third World countries
"searching for the path to true
economic and dvil progress."
"The answer is obviously com
plex," the pope wrote, saying
capitalism could only be accepta
ble if it had an ethical and reli
gious core.
"It is unacceptable to say" that
capitalism is now "the only
model of economic organiza
tion," he said. "It is necessary to
break down the barriers and mo
nopolies which leave so many
countries on the margins of de
velopment, and to provide all in
dividuals and nations with the
basic conditions which will en
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