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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
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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.
The center will replace regional
train dispatching centers in
Portland; Sacramento. Calif.;
Salt Lake City; Cheyenne,
VVyo.; North Platte, Neb,; Kan
sas City, Mo.; Kansas City,
Kan.; North Little Rock, Ark.;
and Houston.
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