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International
Troops withdraw
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
(AP) — Remnants of a
Nicaraguan force that crossed
into Honduras began withdraw
ing Tuesday, a source at the
Honduran armed forces high
command said. There were no
reports of further fighting.
The source identified the
villages as Matingale, Las
Mieles, Bella Vista and la
Esperanza.
About 2,500 Nicaraguan
soldiers had entered the border
area in incursions on Thursday
and Saturday, the source said,
triggering heavy fighting with
Honduran troops.
Truce scheduled
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
The government and rebels
resolved a dispute over
weapons Thursday, removing
the last obstacle to a truce in the
Communist insurgency that has
plagued the archipelago since
1969.
Spokesmen for President Cor
azon Aquino and the rebel Na
tional Democratic Front said the
60-dav cease-fire would begin at
noon today (11 p.m. Tuesday
EST) as scheduled.
Both sides said the agreement
provides that armed guerrillas
will not enter “population
centers” and soldiers will not
confiscate rebel weapons dur
ing security patrols.
National
Building explodes
BOSTON (AP) — An explo
sion and fire struck a 40-story
office building in downtown
Boston on Tuesday, injuring
five people and forcing hun
dreds of workers to evacuate the
smoky skyscraper, police said.
An unknown number of peo
ple were trapped in elevators
and on upper floors when the
5:40 p.m. blast in the basement
of One Post Office Square
knocked out power, said police
Sgt. Thomas Kelley. Greg Alex
ander. the building's property
manager, said all but two peo
ple were rescued from stuck
elevators.
Shuttle booster tested
BRIGHAM CITY. Utah (AP)
— Morton Thiokol on Tuesday
test-fired a section of its
redesigned space shuttle
booster, measuring the strain of
launch conditions on new
rocket joint configurations. O
ring materials and insulation.
The two-and-a-half-minute
test was the third in a series of
10. but the last will be schedul
ed under conditions simulating
those that existed on |an 28
when the space shuttle
Challenger exploded shortly
after launch, company officials
said.
Allan McDonald, engineer
in-charge of the booster
redesign team, said then* was
no indication of gas leakage,
unlike the last two tests which
used the same or only slightly
modified configurations of the
Challenger booster joints.
Fumes leak at plant
AIKEN. S.C. (AH) — Fumes
from a fire-extinguishing
system leaked Tuesday during a
test at a federal plant that
manufactures plutonium for
nuclear weapons, injuring four
employees and forcing about
2.1MH) workers to evacuate tem
porarily, authorities said.
No radiation was involved in
the 10:50 a m. accident at the
Savannah River Plant, said C.arl
Nandrasy of the U.S. Depart
ment of Energy, which owns the
plant.
Halon gas. which is used to
smother fires, escaped and was
inhaled by four workers, forcing
the hour-long evacuation at the
plant. Nandrasy said. The facili
ty is located on a 300-square
mile site and is operated for the
DOE by Du Pont.
Regional
Man breaks fast
PORTLAND (AP) — A 38-year
old Vietnam veteran broke a
four-week fast on Tuesday after
receiving a call from Texas
billionaire H. Ross Perot, who
promised a meeting about U.S.
soldiers missing in action in
Southeast Asia.
‘Insiders’ aided in theft
EUGENE (AP) — People •’in
side" the University assisted in
the Oct. 26 theft of laboratory
animals, the Animal Liberation
Front claimed in a statement
mailed this week to University
officials and local news media.
The letter, with a Eugene
postmark, called the animal
thefts "a mission of mercy" to
free the animals "from lives of
forced confinement in steel
cages inside sterile
laboratories."
On Oct. 26, vandals entered
labs in two science buildings on
campus, destroyed laboratory
equipment and stole rats,
hamsters, cats and rabbits.
"We now have people on the
inside, not only here, but in
other places as well. This is
how we were able to gain
unrestricted access to the
buildings and labs We intend
to use these individuals to our
advantage, insofar as they are
willing to cooperate with us.
whenever the opportunity ex
ists," the letter slates.
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