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NEWS SUMMARY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1986

Date: 01 February 1986

The Shuttle Tragedy The Challenger explosion theories focus on the space shuttle's right-hand booster rocket, according to a source close to the inquiry into the accident. The solid-fuel rocket suddenly lost power 10 seconds before the shuttle exploded, the source said, and officials are inclined to believe that this indicates flame burned through the rocket's side and then through the skin of the external fuel tank. [ Page 1, Column 6. ] President Reagan mourned the loss of ''our seven Challenger heroes'' at a memorial ceremony at Houston's Johnson Space Center. Paying tribute to their ''brave sacrifice,'' Mr. Reagan pledged to honor them with a renewed national commitment to the conquest of space. Thousands of people attended the ceremony, including relatives and friends of the space shuttle's crew. [ 1:3. ] Cameras on the ocean floor were photographing and videotaping a sunken object to determine whether it came from the space shuttle Challenger. The search was made 40 miles east of Daytona Beach, in the same area where the Coast Guard Thursday found five large floating pieces of the shuttle. One fragment was a clearly identifiable section of the right side of the fuselage, adjacent to the crew compartment. [ 10:1. ] International A state of siege in Haiti was declared by President Jean-Claude Duvalier, who went on national radio to refute widespread rumors - and an erroneous White House report - that his 15-year-old Government had fallen and that he had fled the country. The erroneous information that the 34-year-old President had fled followed a week of tumultuous anti-Government demonstrations.

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PROGRESS IS MADE IN FILM DISPUTE

Date: 01 February 1986

The New York Times said last night that it had reached an understanding with the National Aeronautics and Space Administation concerning the impounding of film in remote-controlled cameras at Cape Canaveral Tuesday. Twelve news organizations had remote cameras at the launching site to photograph the Challenger liftoff, and NASA ordered the impounding of the undeveloped film after the craft exploded.

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WHITHER OSRIC?

Date: 02 February 1986

By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr

Wayne King

Stand by for the Osric Dining Society, a new Washington group created to bestow a highly specialized journalism award. Named for the foppish courtier in ''Hamlet,'' the organization has announced that it will present an annual prize for ''the most fawning, toadying piece of writing'' to appear in magazines or newspapers in the preceding year.

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SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ

Date: 01 February 1986

By Linda Amster

Linda Amster

Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 51. 1. This unexpected side effect of a corruption scandal is piling up. Identify it and explain. 2. Two pieces of evidence were deliberately destroyed that might have helped solve the puzzle of why the space shuttle Challenger exploded. What were they and what was the reason for the action? 3. ''I am sailing out along parallel 32.5,'' said a national leader. Who is he and what were the circumstances? 4. Two point records were set in the Chicago Bears' Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots. What were they? 5. Forty years after its introduction as a stopgap in World War II, a material that was once equated with flimsy products is winning a reputation for durability and quality. What material is it? 6. Two rebel leaders were in the news: Jonas Savimbi, who met in the United States with top officials of the Reagan Administration, and Yoweri Museveni, who was sworn in as President of his nation. What countries are they from? 7. At a time when Republicans are challenging Democrats nationally as the majority party for the first time since the Depression, a state that has for many years been one of the most heavily Republican states in the country has been moving leftward. What state is it and what is the reason for the political shift? 8. Mayor Koch asserted that the Bronx Democratic leader, Stanley M. Friedman, had exercised a virtual veto power in the City Council over legislation affecting an industry he represents as a lawyer and registered lobbyist.

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Fearing AIDS, Army Rejects 400 Recruits

Date: 02 February 1986

AP

The Army has rejected about 400 recruits because tests indicated they had been exposed to the virus that sometimes causes AIDS, an Army officer says. The officer, Lieut. Col. Gary Quay, assigned to oversee the new blood screening program for the Army, said Friday that the 400 had been rejected out of 270,000 recruits tested from Oct. 15 to Jan. 17. Colonel Quay said the Army planned to start testing active-duty soldiers in February, initially at the rate of about 25,000 soldiers a month.

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MARCOS DENIES CHARGES OF CORRUPTION

Date: 02 February 1986

By Francis X. Clines, Special To the New York Times

Francis Clines

The campaign for the presidency of the Philippines sharpened in its final week as Ferdinand E. Marcos denied opposition charges that his two decades of rule had been rife with corruption and deceit. At a news conference, he said critical disclosures and allegations about his war exploits and personal wealth were being orchestrated through the foreign press by aides to his opponent, Corazon C. Aquino. ''What do you call it in the United States?'' he said, seated in a gilded chair at the presidential palace. ''Part of the dirty tricks department.''

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ANSWERS TO QUIZ

Date: 01 February 1986

1. More than 315,000 unprocessed parking tickets have piled up in the New York City Parking Violations Bureau because when the city canceled its contract with Citisource Inc., the company that was reportedly developing a hand-held device to issue summonses, it also lost the services of the subcontractor key-punching the daily flow of summonses for the bureau's computers. 2. Officers at Cape Canaveral destroyed the shuttle's two solid-fuel booster rockets by remote control after the explosion because they were flying wildly, threatening to strike populated areas. 3. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya sailed into the Gulf of Sidra in a symbolic confrontation with United States air and naval forces that were holding maneuvers inside the limit of 32.5 degrees north latitude that Libya says defines her waters. 4. In their 46-10 triumph, the Bears set records for most points scored and largest margin of victory. 5. Plastic. 6. Mr. Savimbi is from Angola. Mr. Museveni is President of Uganda. 7. Vermont. According to scholars, the political change resulted from the influx of newcomers to the state in the last 20 years. 8. The taxi industry. 9. Kitchen. 10. In China, posters for the public detail the crimes for which criminals are sentenced to death. The check mark means the sentence has been carried out. 11. A tax amnesty program. 12. A major moon of Uranus. 13. Would not alter. 14. Sommeliers, or wine stewards. 15. A resettlement program for famine victims. 16.

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SOVIET UNION TO NAME 2 VENUS CRATERS FOR SHUTTLE'S WOMEN

Date: 02 February 1986

By Serge Schmemann, Special To the New York Times

Serge Schmemann

The Soviet Union announced today that it would name two craters on Venus for the two women among the seven astronauts who died Tuesday when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Tass, the official Soviet press agency, said the decision had been made by Soviet cartographers who have made the first maps of the planet. Soviet citizens have been especially struck by the deaths of the two women, Christa McAuliffe, the 37-year-old high school teacher who would have been the first ordinary citizen in space, and Judith Resnik, 36, who had made a previous space flight. According to The Associated Press, the Soviet newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya said the mappers of the planet had decided to name its features only for women, in keeping with the myth of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The Soviet Union has given special emphasis to exploration of Venus with unmanned space vehicles.

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A KENNEDY'S RIVALS FACE BIG PROBLEM

Date: 02 February 1986

By Fox Butterfield, Special To the New York Times

Fox Butterfield

With eight months to go before the Democratic primary, most of the candidates for the Congressional seat to be vacated by Representative Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. face a common problem: how to overcome the celebrity status of a rival, Joseph P. Kennedy 2d. In a district once represented in Congress by the 33-year-old Mr. Kennedy's uncle, John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy name commands instant recognition from voters. Equally important, it has provided Mr. Kennedy, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, with extra attention in the press and on television. This situation has made Mr. Kennedy, a Democrat, the front-runner, according to virtually all political analysts here. It has also led the nine other candidates to criticize the press for what they say is focusing on Mr. Kennedy, and it has forced each to try and depict himself as the second leading contender.

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NEW SUMMARY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1986

Date: 02 February 1986

The Shuttle Inquiry The computers and sensors guiding the space shuttle Challenger's flight appear not to have been programmed to detect flames burning through the side of a solid-fuel booster rocket, experts said. There were further indications that the booster was beginning to fail as long as 10 seconds before the shuttle exploded. Even if sensors had picked up the first signs of fire, safety measures built into the system to protect the astronauts would have prevented an automatic shedding of the giant fuel tanks that exploded. That command, the only step that investigators say might have saved the crew, could have come only from the pilot. [ Page 1, Column 6. ] Many children want to travel in space and seem resiliently enthusiastic about the space program, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll. Though they were pained by the space shuttle explosion that killed a teacher who reminded them of one of their own, two-thirds of the children said they would like to travel in space, as against only half their parents. Adult enthusiasm was also clear; four-fifths said the shuttle program should continue. [ 1:5. ] International Demonstrations in Haiti were reported continuing and medical workers declared that 14 people had been killed and more than 70 wounded in the last two days of anti-Government protests. Seven of the deaths and most of the injuries occurred in Port-au-Prince, the capital, in demonstrations after unfounded reports that President Jean-Claude Duvalier had fled the country.

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