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sue liatCOl STREET ED1T10U Fort Lauderdale News, Friday. Dec. 3. 1982 3A ffarffi MX 1F Gas Last 2 bodies pulled from shaft Tbe AaorittH Press TULLAHOMA, Tenn. Firefighters equipped with masks and air tanks Thursday recovered the last two bodies of four men killed in a a flash fire in an MX missile test shaft.

Four firemen were lowered into the 250-foot vertical shaft by crane after heavy duty pumps had removed all but several inches of water at the bottom of the pit, officials said. Maj. Thomas Koch, an Air Force spokesman at Arnold Engineering Development Center, said the bodies were loaded in bags and lifted out by crane. Workers had pumped out more than 600,000 gallons of water that poured into the shaft as firefighters fought the blaze that erupted Saturday night, Koch said. Rescuers on Sunday night found the body of one victim who had been standing in an elevator shaft 70 feet above the silo's floor.

Two civilian divers Monday night found the body of one of the three rocket specialists who were at the bottom of the shaft when the fire erupted. The House Public Works Investigations subcorrf-mittee voted 9-2 to cite Anne M. Corsuch, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, for contempt of Congress for withholding documents dealing with the toxic waste cleanup program. Acting on Reagan's orders, Mrs. Gorsuch invokejl executive privilege in refusing to turn over what she called "sensitive documents found in open law enforcement files." I The contempt citation goes to the Public Worki Committee.

Approval there would send it to the floor. If approved by the House, Mrs. Corsuch could face prosecution. The House, by voice vote, approved a plan for permanently disposing of highly radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants. The bill envisions an underground repository to bury the wastes 2,000 to 3,000 feet underground for 10,000 years.

The proposal was sent to a House-Senate conference committee. The House refused, 241-168, to accept a Senate proposal to ban imports of uranium for the nation's utilities if the imports rise substantially. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $11.5 billion foreign aid bill that provides million more than the $1.3 billion the administration requested for direct military assistance to Israel. The AnocUlH Press WASHINGTON President Reagan's proposal to increase the federal gasoline tax is moving easily through the House, but his controversial MX missile plan appears headed for a tough House floor fight next week. Lobbied hard by Reagan and top administration officials, the MX barely survived a move Thursday in the House Appropriations Committee to deny a request for $988 million to produce the first five of 100 proposed missiles.

A motion to cut the money from the fiscal 1983 defense spending bill failed on a 26-26 vote. -The attempt was spearheaded by Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo, who said afterward: "It's going to be tight, but I think I'll be successful on the floor." "The floor vote will be just as tough," said Rep. Jack Edwards, a leading MX supporter on the committee.

"We're not out of the woods yet." Reagan, on a visit to Latin America, said the decision was "a vote for a stronger, more secure America." But he added: "We're not jumping up and down and claiming a victory, because we know it's going to be a very tough battle on the floor." After Addabbo's move failed, the panel gave voice vote approval to the $231.6 billion defense bill that includes two aircraft carriers, the B-l bomber and other major new weapons systems Reagan wants as part of his defense build-up. The president had a far easier time Thursday with the House Ways and Means Committee, which gave voice-vote approval to his plan to boost the gasoline tax from 4 cents a gallon to 9 cents to finance highway, bridge and mass transit repairs. The panel also backed a proposal that would force owners of big trucks to pay more highway user taxes in exchange for liberalized restrictions on truck sizes and weights. The tax increase, which has the support of leaders of both parties in Congress, would raise an estimated $5.5 billion a year at an annual cost to the average motorist ef about $30 a year, according to administration officials. In other congressional business Thursday: Missing plastic thwarted space suit Freak twisters kill 7, hurt 140 i -far-'.

-'-X b- News wire service) A freak December wave of tornadoes tore through three states in the Missisippi Valley, killing seven people, injuring more than 140 and leaving hundreds homeless today from wind damage or floods caused by thunderstorms. Heavy rain from the thunderstorms and twisters in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois also swelled rivers to flood stage, leaving water waist-high in some homes and 3V2 feet deep in streets. The violent storms were touched flit Thursday when a cold front moving east bumped into unseasonably warm air that was setting record temperatures across the Ohio Valley, forecasters said. The twisters were "very unusual fqr this time of said Hugh C'rowlhcr of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. But the West got a break when skies cleared after a storm that killed 18 people as it marched from the Pacific to the Dakotas headed into Canada.

And most of the nation enjoyed balmy days that set records for the date. At least four people were killed in New Baden, 111., dozens were injured and hundreds left homeless by a tornado that roared out of Missouri and leveled a mobile home park and small apartment complex. At least two other tornadoes accompanied severe thunderstorms that peppered the state with torrential rains, setting off mudslides in a southern Illinois county late Thursday. Diane Spriggs calls for more lipstick as she attempts to scrawl a message to ber son on a piece of plywood in front of her baby sitter's destroyed home in southwest Little Rock, Ark. Her son's school was bit by the tornado.

Tbe Associated Press SPACE CENTER, Houston Two missing pieces of plastic worth only pennies and a few drops of moisture in the wrong place caused two $2 million space suits to fail during the fifth flight of the space shuttle. Richard A. Colonna, head of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration team that investigated the failures, said Thursday that the findings, after a two-week study, cleared the way for a space walk on the next shuttle flight. "We will be able to recover and perform the (space) walk on (shuttle flight) six," said Colonna. The unproven suits are essential for some future shuttle missions.

The two suits were to have been worn by Bill Lenoir and Joe Allen during their flight aboard the shuttle last month. Their planned Vz-hour spacewalk was cancelled when the problems developed. A regulator was unable to maintain proper oxygen pressure in Lenoir's suit and a fan motor stopped in Allen's suit. Colonna said the regulator failed because workers at the East Aurora, N. plant of Carleton Controls Inc.

did not insert two pinhead-sized pieces of plastic in a retaining ring. The plastic pieces, he said, acted as locking devices to keep the retaining ring from loosening. The regulator was disassembled for modification at Carleton last summer, Colonna said, and the plastic pieces were left out when the unit was reassembled. Absence of the pieces, he said, allowed the retaining ring to "back off," pr loosen, and lower the pressure. He said he has been told that the quality control engineer at Carleton responsible for the error has befen relieved and will no longer be permitted to work on government contracts.

Colonna could not identify the inspector. Carleton is a subcontractor to Hamilton Standard Windsor Locks. which holds a space suit contract with a total value of $236.4 million. i Colonna said the fan motor failure in Allen's suit was caused by moisture in a magnetic sensor that controlled the flow of electrical current to the motor. The moisture caused a silicone surface to degrade, eventually shutting Off power to the motor.

Guardsmen patrolled a tornado- Rock area was hardest hit. Z'Z New Baden, about 25 miles east of St. Louis, was "just about wiped ravaged suburb today to prevent Preston Bynum, an aide to Gov. nn AunfAin nmo nlimnni An (ha Allin out" by a tornado that went looting in the worst of six twisters Frank White, Thursday night ''ri(inT i.i. i i i ij that ripped across the state, kill- lourea ine mosi neavuy uduidgcu I nlrA fnink through the town about 8:45 p.m., a Lebanon.

111.. Dolice snokes- inn throo nonnlo ininpina ArvrDne Mo e.thnrhan AlovanHpr iwtoicia aiau miuu." wjh, "rv; rrru about 10 miles east of Fort smith woman said. "Phone lines were and destroying scores of homes. southwest of Little Rock and in western Arkansas; the area n-vr Pnniiilii Ofi miloc MAI-r Uioct said White would declare it a down in the town of 2,000 but officials feared heavy rains police in nearby Lebanon were forecast for today could add to the monitoring radio communications damage from the tornadoes that disaster area loaay. 0f Little Rock; the Rosebud com- Sixteen people from the town of munitv in the north-central Dart of in New Baden plowed through nine Arkansas 300 were hospitalized.

the state; and the Highland corn- In Little Rock, Ark, National counties Thursday. The Little About 30 Arkansas National munity in northern Arkansas. Aspirin, other drugs to bear warning 4 mothers that drug products may damage their fetuses or developing children. "Our advice has been for a long time that people should avoid drugs during pregnancy both prescription and over-the-counter unless on advice from their doctor," FDA spokesman Bill Grigg said. "This just puts it on the label." The label will apply to drugs absorbed through the body, the FDA said.

They include aspirin, cough medicine and sleeping pills. It will not apply to products used on the skin, such as liniments and salves, to drugs intended to benefit the developing child or nursing infant or to products labeled exclusively for infant use. tember and was subject to a 30-day public comment period. The Food and Drug Administration already requires certain types of nonprescription drugs to carry specific label warnings about their use by pregnant or nursing women. These special warnings are based on scientific data that suggests the specific drug may pose a potential hazard for developing or newborn children.

These older drug warnings will not be affected by the new requirement. As many as 300,000 products may be affected by the new standard warning. FDA officials said the rule puts into writing standard advice to pregnant women and nursing News wire services WASHINGTON Aspirin and hundreds of thousands of other over-the-counter drugs will have to carry labels warning pregnant and nursing women not to use them without medical advice, the government said Thursday. The warning will read: "As with any drug, if you are pregnant or nursing a baby, seek the advice of a health professional before using this product." Health and Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schwciker said the final regulations are to be published in the Federal Register today and will take effect in one year Dec.

3, 1983. A tentative version was published last Sep Richard Schwciker i iTvlenol case i fieure free on )) 1,000 bond Jill Girl seeking I Reagan's help to keep deer Uaited Press International BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minn. A 13-year-old girl has taken her case to the top asking President Reagan to intervene and allow her to keep a deer for a pet, despite a state law forbidding it, "I thought I was living in America, not Russia," Peggy Pogones wrote the president Nov. 24, after a game warden took "Bambi" from her family's farm and placed it in a park. Peggy's father, Lovirn, said Thursday the president had not answered the letter.

The game warden, Gary Westby, said he removed the 60 pound doe because the deer should be allowed to roam free instead of being penned up in the family's house or barn. "I need your help," Peggy wrote Reagan. "I thought was doing the right thing by saving a baby fawn from dying." She said she found the doc last May after a tractor bumped It. The animal, apparently abandoned by its mother, was kept In Peggy's room, Westby said the Pogones could have kept the deer lor a short time if they had told him they were trying to save the animal. But he said keeping it penned for five months was not htimune.

1 Uiited Press International CHICAGO Kevin Masterson, a former mental patient who claimed he had a role in the cyanide poisonings of seven people, is free on bond after questioning by authorities. A DuPage County Sheriff's Department spokesman said Masterson, 35, posted $1,000 of a $10,000 bond Thursday on charges of marijuana possession and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The Lombard, 111., resident had been sought for a month by the FBI and members of a task force Investigating the deaths. However, authorities have maintained Masterson is not considered a suspect In the deaths. Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner said Masterson had to be questioned because he had "made statements to various people that he had a role in the poisoning." He reportedly boasted to friends ho had a hand In poisoning capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol taken by all the victims.

He also had a long-standing grudge against the Jewel Food Stores, where some victims purchased tainted capsules, Authorities questioned Masterson at their headquarters In suburban tK'S Plalnes for about two hours. V.V.V.... W- 'Lm AP pbiila Double cross? Greg Smith of the Trenton, N.J., Library holds a Beside him is the 1893 William Evcritte Pcdrick reproduction of the famous Emanuel Lcutze version of the event. Library officials say painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Leutze's painting is historically.