World Beat International Aussies celebrate SYDNEY. Australia (AP) - Two million Australians threw a party around Sydney's harbor to wish their country a happy 200th birthday today in a wild celebration attended by the heir to the British throne. Thousands of aborigines, mean while. staged their biggest demonstration in the nation's history to protest past wrongs by Australians of European ancestry and what they claim is ongoing discrimination. In his bicentennial message. Prime Minister Bob Hawke call ed on Australians to reflect on the country's heritage and said the nation should not feel col lective guilt about past wrongs done to aborigines. About 11,000 aborigines converged on Sydney from across Australia's outback and staged a peaceful march through the city of 3.3 million, waving banners, demanding land rights and shouting "Shame! Shame!” National Reagan, Demos speak WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan and congressional Democrats have changed tunes: He is acting conciliatory, trying to make a mark in history, and they are talking tough, saying his presidency is over and ir relevant to setting the national agenda. In his final State of the Union address Monday night, Reagan asked Congress to forget the political calendar and keep marching to his drumbeat. “Let’s make this the best of eight. And that means it's all out, right to the finish line. 1 don't buy the idea that this is the last year of anything,” Reagan said. “We’ve come to the end of an era,” countered Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. "The feel-good slogans have gone flat with time. We’ve learned that. . . ideology is no substitute for common sense." Problem found WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA engineers, investigating cracks in a critical shuttle main MWdO SrPMlLl -Pr m CHINESE ^ RESTAURANT f£#f & Oriental Buffet Lunch Downstairs & Try Our Dinner Upstairs Hours: Downstairs M Th 11 00 7 00: F-Sa 11 00 4 3C Closed Sundays Hours: Upstairs Su Th 4 30 10:00 F Sa 5:00 10:30 — engine part, discovered an unrelated problem in which two seals were not properly welded together, the space agency disclosed today. The problem may cause further delay in the first post-Challenger flight. “It is not known to what degree the condition of the seal might limit its acceptability for flight." said Jerry Berg, a spokesman for NASA. “All of the high pressure fuel pumps currently are being examined." Top NASA officials met on Monday and decided later in the week to set a flight date. David L. Winterhalter, the agency’s director of systems engineering and analysis, claimed that there were no new problems with the shuttle's pro pulsion system. Regional Teenagers arrested VENETA (AF) - Three Florence teenagers were ar rested early Tuesday in a shootout with two Lane County deputies who caught up with them after the hold-up of a Florence grocery store, authorities said. The boys, aged 14, 15 and 16, walked into the Circle K grocery store in Florence shortly after midnight wearing bandannas over their faces, two of them armed with rifles, Florence police said. After threatening the clerk, the youths made off with about $100 in cash and the clerk’s pickup truck, police said. The youths fired three shots at a Lane County deputy who was chasing them, hitting the patrol car windshield but not injuring the officer, deputies said. A second deputy headed them off at an intersection and after more gunfire, the boys surrendered, authorities said. Suit continues SALEM (AP) — A Marion County judge today continued proceedings indefinitely in a lawsuit challenging the process used to pick the design for a new state license plate. Michael Swaiin, a lawyer representing the Salem man who brought the lawsuit, asked for more time to obtain evidence in the case. Richard Breen, who submit ted a losing entry in the statewide license plate contest. filed the lawsuit }an. 19. Circuit judge Duane Ertsgaard rejected Breen's request that he order the state Transportation Commis sion to delay its announcement of the winning plate design, and the selection was disclosed the next day. Breen contends judges didn’t comply with the law because they didn't view all of the more than 5.000 entries. Burglars trapped PORTLAND (AP) - Police of ficers hiding in the home of an elderly couple arrested two in truders while the occupants waited at a nearby precinct sta tion. About 5 a m. Monday, five police officers appeared on the doorstep at the north Portland home of Ted and Olive Wittren, who have endured three burglaries in the past six years. At the house in north Portland, the officers set their trap. An officer pulled Wittren's bathrobe on over her bulletproof vest. Other officers hid inside the house and in the street. At 7:20 a.m.. officers heard a noise. A man wielding a but cher knife and a woman entered. A police spokesman identified the arrested suspects as james A. l^ffin, 23. and Tara J. Dobizo. 19, both of north Portland. They are charged with conspiracy to commit first degree robbery. Simpson said. Rail center housed OMAHA (AP) - The Union Pacific Railroad will put its new $55 million high-tech dis patching center in the old freight house where the com pany started its modern era 90 years ago. An estimated 400 people will he employed in the long brick building. Dispat chers will use computers and video screens to monitor and control operations through the railroad’s 21.500-mile system in 20 states. A computer center will be built along the south side of the existing structure. Laser-generated control screens about 900 linear feet long will line the control room. 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