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Wednesday Weather Gaudy, chance of rain; Cool with lows 40 to tops good workout wins 2 events at sectional Vol. 142, No. 120 Logansport, Indiana, May 21,1986 Founded 1844 A Pause For Refreshment Minnesota state troopers unloaded cartons of Coca-Cola Tuesday after a semi truck filled with the soft drink overturned on Interstate United Press International 35 in downtown Minneapolis. The overturned truck caused a four-hour delay for motorists irv the northbound lane of the highway. Inside Today Sox Hot The Chicago White Sox won their sixth straight game Tuesday over Toronto.

PAGE 14 Daylight Time Senate agrees to extend Daylight for the rest of the country. Indiana will only be affected by the time of television shows. PAGE 8 Soviets' Ambassador To U.S. Is Surprise Logan llth Logansport's baseball team is ranked 11th in the latest state poll. PAGE 15 Dent, Bears Richard Dent and the Chicago Bears are at a standstill in their contract negotiations.

PAGE 17 Index Agriculture 18 Ann Landers 21 Classified 22 Comics 20 Dr. Gott 21 Faces 12 Food 13 Opinion 4 People 10 Sports 14 TV Guide 21 Weather 12 MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union, in a surprise move that left Western diplomats agog, named its recently appointed ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, ambassador to the United States. The 56-year-old career diplomat is a European expert and reportedly does not speak English. He also has little experience in dealing with the United States. The Tass news agency announced Tuesday that Dubinin would succeed Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime ambassador to Washington who returned to Moscow more than a month ago to become a key adviser to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a secretary on the powerful Central Committee.

"It's a very big surprise," a European diplomat said. "To put it bluntly, no one expected this, especially as he's not even a candidate member on the Central Committee." At the last Communist Party congress in March, Dubinin was appointed to the Central Auditing Commission, a lower body considered to be a stepping stone to the Central Committee. "This comes as a huge surprise," a Western diplomat said. "After all, he was only appointed ambassador to the United Nations a few months ago. "I've never heard of an ambassador to Washington not being at least a candidate member of the Central Committee," he said.

Atlantic Ocean Nuclear Waste Center Accident UPI Graphic Nuclear Accident Exposes Workers At French Plant PARIS (UPI) Five workers suffered radiation exposure in an accident at a nuclear reprocessing plant on the northern coast of France, company officials said today. The workers were examined by a doctor and sent home, company spokesman Jean Claude Magnac said in a telephone interview from the plant near Cherbourg, 215 miles northwest of the French capital. None was seriously injured. The accident occurred Tuesday in an annex building of the main plant at La Hague center, operated by the Compagnie Generate des Matieres Nucleaires, known as COGEMA. The company is a branch of the French government's Commission of Atomic Energy and did not announce the accident until today.

Magnac said the five men two COGEMA employees and three welders who were working on the site suffered radiation exposure when they vented an unused pipe containing a radioactive liquid. "They were going to weld shut the pipe, which was not in use," Magnac said. "Before sealing it they vented the pipe to make sure there was no hydrogen gas in it because that would explode if it is exposed to fire." The three welders continued their -work until two COGEMA employees realized the solution was radioactive, another spokesman said. The five then went for medical examinations. The two COGEMA employees received radiation doses of 1.6 and 0.7 rems and the three welders doses of 18, 11 and 0.7 rems.

The company spokesman said all five would have been 'more seriously exposed if they had not been wearing protective clothing and masks. Five rems, a unit for measuring the biological effect of radiation on a human, is the international limit of radiation to which nuclear power plant employees are allowed to be exposed each year and continue working. Radiation poisoning occurs at 100 rems and a dose of 600 rems is fatal. A chest X-ray equals about .003 rem. It was the third time in the plant's history that workers have been exposed to radiation.

In the last incident three years ago an employee received a dose of 25 rems. The earlier exposure was negligible, a spokesman said. A company statement called the incident "unfortunate and regrettable but without any serious consequences." The La Hague plant is a main reprocessing center for used nuclear fuel from around the world. Spent fuel is shipped there from as far away as Japan. The plant processes the fuel to retrieve the percentage that is reusable, estimated at 97 percent, one percent of which is deadly plutonium.

The reusable portion and the three percent waste are then shipped back to the original reactor. NASA Chief Wants Four Shuttles, Space Station In Program WASHINGTON (UPI) New NASA chief James Fletcher says he would rather slice his budget to the bone than give up hope of getting a replacement shuttle and a manned space station in the next decade. Fletcher, in a daylong appearance before a House Appropriations subcommittee, said the space station and space shuttle share top priority, and it would be "pretty frightening" to try to operate with just three shuttles. The fourth shuttle, Challenger, was lost in the Jan. 28 explosion that killed its seven-member crew.

"Three is not enough to have a viable fleet," he told Rep. Edward Boland, chairman of the panel that approves spending for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Three orbiters is pretty frightening to me." White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan will receive the additional information he requested concerning a shuttle replacement and will make a decision "in the next few days." Speakes, responding to questions, said Reagan could make a decision before he receives a report from the Rogers commission on the Challenger disaster. Fletcher, who has submitted reworked budgets in the wake of the Challenger disaster, said NASA estimates a replacement shuttle would cost $1.9 billion. The manufacturer has estimated it can build a replacement for about $1.5 billion with existing spare parts, but Fletcher said his higher estimate includes new main engines, space suits and a robot arm.

Yeager can't sign LOS ANGELES (UPI) Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first man to fly through the sound barrier, will not be allowed to sign the report on the shuttle disaster because he has done little in the investigation, it was reported today. Sources told the Los Angeles Times that commission Chairman William P. Rogers notified the retired Air Force general that his name will not be included on the accident report because he has taken virtually no part in the investigation over the last months. Yeager confirmed that his name was being dropped from the final report. "Yep," he said.

When asked if it bothered him, he said, "Nope." When asked if his failure to participate had been due to previous commitments, he said, "You got it." Yeager is an aerospace consultant in Cedar Ridge, and does televison commercials. The shuttle disaster has caused delays in sending up payloads that will be hard to overcome with three shuttles, he said, adding the disaster also would make it hard to send up equipment for a permanently manned space station. Asked if be could choose between expenses for a space station or for a new shuttle, "I don't see I can," replied Fletcher. United Press International Discovery and Atlantis were moved at Kennedy Space Center Tuesday.