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SALE!
Starts 10 a.m. Thursday at
Rock Bottom Jean Co.
Thousands of pairs of seconds and
factory close-out jeans have been
transferred from our other stores to
our Eugene store.
Every pair of jeans
in stock for guys
and gals priced
from
$6"to$14"
Both Stores
Remember Sale Starts Thursday
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Sale ends Sunday
339 E. 11th (near 11th & High)
Springfield In The Springfield Mall
Special Hours
Thursday 10-6
Friday 10-9
Saturday 10-6
Sunday 12-5
VISA
Radioactive Soviet spy satellite
due to fall into the atmosphere
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Soviet spy satellite
equipped with nuclear-powered radar is tumbling
in orbit and may fall into the Earth's atmosphere
late this month, U S. intelligence sources said
Wednesday.
It may not be possible to determine where the
ocean surveillance satellite will come down until
perhaps a dozen hours before it happens, said the
sources, who declined to be identified.
It would be the first such incident since a
similar Soviet spy satellite disintegrated five years
ago over northern Canada, dropping radioactive
debris in a thinly populated area near Great Slave
Lake.
That episode led Pres. Jimmy Carter to
propose a ban on satellites using nuclear reactors
as power sources
Cosmos 1402, launched from the Soviet
Union Aug 30, is traveling in a relatively low orbit
about 160 miles above Earth, said the intelligence
sources
They have reported strong evidence the
satellite has been having difficulties and that,
because of what they described as its erratic
behavior, the Soviets probably cannot boost it
into a higher orbit.
The Soviets usually send such satellites into a
higher orbit after they have finished their spy
mission so they will not fall back to Earth. Such a
practice is intended to keep the satellites and their
radioactive materials in space for 500 years or
longer, experts said
The ocean surveillance satellites, which
locate ships and chart their movements, normally
stay in operation for about six months before they
are replaced by others, officials said
The Soviets usually keep two or three such
satellites in orbit to provide wide coverage, par
ticularly of U S fleet movements.
Such ocean surveillance satellites carry
about 100 pounds of enriched uranium to power
their radar devices, which scan ocean surfaces,
according to U S experts
After the protests caused by the disintegra
tion of Cosmos 954 over Canada in January 1978,
the Soviet Union waited a little more than two
years before sending up a another one
Like the Soviet Union, the United States
maintains a wide variety of reconnaissance and
other satellites, but U S. sources said no active
U S satellites carry nuclear materials
In Kettering, England, private astronomer
Geoffrey Perry, known for his hobby of tracking
satellites, said "The Cosmos malfunctioned on
Dec 28. It split into its three component parts as
normal, but instead of the nuclear reactor being
raised to the safe' orbit at 950 kilometers (595
miles), on this occasion it remained in the low
orbit at 250 kilometers (155 miles), from where it
will decay naturally in the next few weeks unless
the Russians are able to remedy the fault."
Perry, head of physics at Kettering Boys
School in the English Midlands, told The As
sociated Press via telephone that "If it lands in an
inhabited area, it could prove very dangerous. But
I don't want to speculate too much on that.”
Perry said his analysis was based on unclas
sified orbital data which he received from the
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Flood may have spread toxic chemical
TIMES BEACH, Mo. (AP) -
Technicians in silver protective
suits began testing piles of de
bris Wednesday to see if flood
waters have spread highly toxic
dioxin through this mostly de
serted town
The new testing began as one
federal agency proposed aban
doning the town and building a
replacement for its 2,4000 res
idents Health officials warned
everybody to stay out
Bill Keffer of the regional En
vironmental Protection Agency
office in Kansas City said seven
technicians were testing silt
covered debris left by flood
waters a month ago in the com
munity 25 miles southwest of St
Louis
The tests are intended to
determine whether the dioxin,
which had been discovered in
heavy concentrations just
before the floods, had been
moved around by the water
"This team will be here two
weeks to test the sites that the
local people consider priority
areas," Ketfer said The results
of the tests, he said, should be
known within four to eight
weeks
Ten additional technicians
are due in Times Beach this
weekend to begin making tests
in 10 sample blocks in the town,
he said Eighty to 100 homes
would be involved
As the tests began, officials
announced plans to remove the
flood debris to a hazardous
waste site in Warren County
about 40 miles west of St. Louis.
The Center for Disease Con
trol in Atlanta has re-empha
sized its recommendation that
people without protective cloth
ing — particularly the news
media — stay out of Times
Beach
Former county narcotics agent
fired after missing 'coke* hearing
EUGENE (AP) — A former narcotics investigator for the Lane
County district attorney has been fired following a hearing into his
possible involvement in the theft of 1 '/a pounds of cocaine from
police custody, authorities said Wednesday
Meyers, 32, was suspended without pay from the district
attorney's office Dec 6 after he was indicted by a Lane County
grand jury on a charge of perjury Meyers was accused of lying to
the grand jury when he denied that he had access to a safe deposit
box considered a material issue” in the cocaine theft investiga
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