Tuesday, April 15, 1986
Page 2
Daily Nebraskan
By The Associated Press
LIBYA from Page 1
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Dole said during an approximately
two hour long briefing for congressional
leaders from the president and top
administrat ion officials, lawmakers were
in agreement that action had been
necessary against Libya.
"I just believe the president did
what the American people would have
wanted him to do, a proportionate
response to an act ofterrorism where
CArF CANAVERAL. Fla. A sal
vage ship has recovered a two-ton piece
of Challenger rocket debris with a 2
foot -square hole burned through the
steel casing at the joint blamed for the
explosion of the space shuttle, the
Navy said Monday.
The 1 0-foot -by-20-foot piece, which
could be vital to the investigation, was
pulled from the floor of the Atlantic
Ocean about 40 miles northeast of here
by the Stena Workhorse after a robot
submarine attached lift lines to it.
The retrieval was made at 5 a.m.
Sunday in 5li0 feet of water, the Navy
said.
Lt. Cmdr. Deborah Burnette, a Navy
.spokeswoman, said the hole burned in
Taxdeadline
at midnight
WASHINGTON - The Postal Ser
vice and the Internal Revenue Ser
vice are gearing up to handle, an
estimated 10 million federal tax
ret urns that are expected to be filed
in the last few hours before tonight's
midnight deadline.
Most of the 104 million couples
and individuals who will file this
year already have done so. Nearly 40
million of them already are enjoying
lefunds averaging nearly $800 a
piece. The average American will have
to work another 15 days until
May 1 to pay his or her federal,
state and local taxes for the year,
the Tax Foundation estimated Mon
day. That is what the foundation, a
nonpartisan research organization,
calls "Tax Freedom Day."
Viewed another way, the founda
tion estimated the average worker
will put in 2 hours and 39 minutes
each day this year to pay a share of
all taxes.
Setting it Straight
A typographical error in Chris
Welsch s column ("Fad makes men
primp, preen," Daily Nebraskan, April
14) incorrectly stated the number of
words allowed for special essay.
Welsch asked readers to explain why
they would or wouldn't be willing to die
in a war with Libya in 50 words or less,
not five. Send responses to Welsch at
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there's no doubt about Libya's finger
prints being all over the disco bombing
in West Berlin," Dole said.
Dole said he did not believe there
had been major problems with War
Powers Act compliance, but added that
if future action of this sort is needed,
"I hope the next time, if it happens. . .
it will be done quickly and without
three or four days of rhetoric and eve
rybody guessing, including the media,
what will happen next."
Showing support for the I'.S. action.
the joint and casing by a plume of
escaping flame measured 1-foot -by-2-feet.
The surrounding area was badly
scorched.
The recovery was announced earlier
by the presidential shuttle commis
sion, and a member of the commission
was coming here to inspect the piece.
A statement by commission Chair
man William I Rogers said, "One of
the two sections of critical interest"
was recovered and that it was from the
joint area where a leak in the right
booster rocket is thought to have
occurred, causing the shuttle's explo
sion on Jan. 28.
"A burnt out area of thejoint tang at
Author Beauvoir dead at 78
PARIS Simone tie Beauvoir. 78,
one of France's leading literary figures
and lifelong companion of the late
existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul
Sartre, died Monday at a Paris hospital.
She wrote the international best
seller "The Second Sex," published in
11)4!) and now regarded as a foundation
stone of the women's liberation move
ment worldwide. De Beauvoir was an
ardent champion of women's rights and
a fundamental philosopher oft he move
ment. Constantly at Sartre's side during
his leftist crusades, de Beauvoir never
lost sight of her commitment to women's
liberation. It was the main theme of her
Pianist Horowitz returns
MOSCOW Vladimir Horowitz, the
patriarch of classical pianists who left
his homeland 61 years ago saying he
wouldn't return, had a flower-filled
reunion with Russia on Monday and
declared he wants to be an ambassador
of peace.
He said he had a message for his
former countrymen "that I will deliver
with my piano."
"I am very glad to be here," Horowitz
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the brother of an American soldier
killed in the bombing of a West Berlin
club said Monday that U.S. military
retaliation against Libya was long
overdue.
"I think we did the right thing. The
president did what he had to do," said
Robin Beecham.
Beecham's brother, Army Sgt. Ken
neth Ford, 21, died in the April 5 explo
sion at the La Belle nightclub a week
before he was scheduled to return to
Detroit for the first time in 2' i years.
about the 300 degree position is evi
dent," the statement said.
The other key piece, the bottom of
the joint, has not been located but is
believed to be in the same area.
Investigators have said the accident
that killed seven astronauts was caused
by a failure in this joint. But they don't
know exactly how it failed, and they
feel that by recovering the part con
taining the joint they may find out.
Experts believe a leak in the joint
allowed flame to escape, eventually
severing the bottom rocket attachment
and causing the top of the booster to
swivel into the large external fuel tank,
setting off the explosion.
prolific and mostly autobiographical
writing, and it shaped her life from
early childhood to her death.
In "The Second Sex," de Beauvoir
described marriage as an "obscene
bourgeois institution" because it re
duced to a litany of rights and duties
what she felt should be a partnership of
equals based on mutual and spontane
ous attraction.
De Beauvoir's critics accused her of
being remote, cerebral, and humorless
in her treatment of women's issues. Her
books, especially when she addressed
the question of sex, showed a certain
prudishness inherited from her upper
middle class upbringing and convent
education.
said in fluent Russian at a short airport
news conference. "There are no ene
mies here, only friends."
His two concerts in the Soviet Union
will lend glitter to the U.S.-Soviet cul
tural exchange agreement signed at
the Geneva summit last November.
He told reporters at the airport he
changed his mind about returning home
because "there is a cultural exchange
now."
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Weather deaths
Six people were killed Monday in
accidents that occured in blizzard
like weather that struck northeast
and north-central Nebraska.
Five people died when a twin
engine plane crashed shortly after
takeoff near Norfolk. The victims
were not identified. A woman was
killed when the car she was driving
slid off an icy street in Norfolk.
Cindy Burgel, 20, of rural Norfolk
was driving northbound on U.S.
Highway 81 when her car went off
I he road and landed in a cemetery, a
Norfolk police official said.
Tractor testing
LINCOLN The NU tractor
testing site would assume interna
tional responsibilities under a mea
sure passed Monday by the Legis
lature. The bill, LB 70S, introduced by
Sen. Rex Haberman of Imperial, was
advanced to Gov. Bob Kerrey on a
44 1 vote.
Agriculture Commit tee chairman
Rod Johnson of Sutton has said NU's
tractor-testing site would become
the only test station in North Amer
ica for the Organization for Eco
nomic Cooperation and Develop
ment. Before tractors can be sold legally
in many count ries, a model of each
type of tractor must be tested at an
OECD station.
The university's tractor testing
site has been in operation for more
than 60 years, and tests an average
of 30 models of tractors each year.
Public radio
LINCOLN - The Legislature,
moving to broaden the listening
opportunities of most Nebraskans,
passed LB 461 Monday, a bill author
izing creation of a statewide public
radio network.
The bill was sent to Gov. Bob
Kerrey on a 28-18 vote.
to Russia after 61 years
Horowitz will play at Moscow's
Tchaikovsky Conservatory next Sunday
and on April 27 in Shostakovich Phil
harmonic Hall at Leningrad, where he
performed before he left his country
at age 21 to become one of t he great
expatriate Soviet artists.
His elaborate entrouge includes a
43-member television crew to beam his
Moscow concert back to the United
States.
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Supporters say all Nebraskans
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listen to public radio broadcasts.
Currently, only residents in the
Omaha and Lincoln area can tune
into public radio.
No state funds will be approp
riated in the upcoming fiscal year,
which begins July 1, to help set up
the statewide network. Public radio
supporters could seek state finan
cial support in later years, which is
a sore point wit h opponents.
National Guard
bill advances
LINCOLN A bill curtailing a
tuition credit program for members
of the Nebraska National Guard
picked up final approval, 40-"), Mon
day in the Legislature.
The measure, estimated to save
the state .$100,000 annually, sets up
criteria limiting the tuition pro
gram to 1,200 people.
The tuition assistance would be
available to members of Nebraska's
Guard for up to 10 years, beginning
with a person's admission into the
Guard. The criteria also would ex
clude officers with bachelor's de
grees and those eligible for equival
ent federal benefits from participat
ing in the state program.
Tutu elected
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -Bishop
Desmond Tutu, winner of
the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his
anti-apartheid campaign, on Mon
day was elected leader of t he Angli
can Church for all of southern
Africa,
The announcement came after a
day-long meeting of some 500 Angli
can clergy and lay people who con
vened to choose a new archbishop
of Cape Town, the highest Anglican
position in the region.
Archbishop Phillip Russell is re
tiring in August after five years in
the job, and Tutu will take over
Sept. 1.
Horowitz, accompanied by his wife
Wanda, daughter of the late Italian
conductor Arturo Toscanini, was met
by U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman
and Oleg Smolensky, head of the Soviet
concert agency.
Horowitz then walked into an em
brace with Yelena Dolberg, 67, a niece
he last saw in 1 925 before he emigrated
from the Soviet Union.
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