Lebanon's prime
By TERRY A. ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon Prime Minister
Shafik Wazzan and his eight-man Cabinet
resigned yesterday, and President Amin
Gemayel said he might scrap the May 17
troop withdrawal agreement with Israel as
demanded by his opponents.
Wazzan, a Sunni Moslem; said he was
stepping down to allow formation of a
national coalition government that might
help • end Lebanon's factional bloodshed.
After accepting the resignations,
Gemayel, a Maronite Christian, called for a
cease-fire and said he was inviting
Lebanon's warring Moslem and Christian
factions to Geneva for reconciliation talks
Feb. 27.
"The agreement (with Israel) has put us
in an embarassing impasse that led me to
refrain from ratifying it," Gemayel said in a
speech broadcast on nationwide television.
"I see it necessary to continue all efforts to
find a formula that would guarantee the
complete withdrawals (of foreign troops)
from all Lebanese territories to safeguard
Lebanon's independence and sovereignty."
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By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —The
Westar VI satellite, which was lost
after being launched from the space
shuttle Challenger, was found
yesterday, "completely healthy"
but in the wrong orbit, leading
officials to call it "a total loss."
A ground station in California
succeeded in changing the
satellite's attitude so that its
batteries could charge from the
sun's energy, said Bill Ziegler, a
spokesman for Western Union,
which owns Wester VI.
"As far as we know, we have a
spacecraft (satellite) that's in the
wrong orbit that's completely
healthy," he said.
However, there was no hope of
raising the satellite to its planned
22,300-mile-high orbit where it
would be stationary above Earth, he
said. The most that can be hoped for
is that "we might get a few hours
twice a day," he said. "In the
parlance of cars, I think it's a total
loss."
The satellite, representing a $75
million investment by Western
Union, was ejected from the
shuttle's cargo bay Friday. The loss
was insured, the company said.
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damage to the spacecraft" and the
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pace shuttle satellite located
Wes:tar VI functioning properly but in wrong orbit
failure apparently was in the rocket
that was to carry it to
geosynchronous orbit, he said. The
satellite had separated from the
rocket, called a Payload Assist
Module, he said.
In early ground testing of the
booster rocket, it had failed when a
nozzle came apart, allowing the
rocket plume to surround and
overheat the rest of the engine,
Ziegler said. This caused an
undirected firing and eventually
snuffed out the flame.
Based on radar data, the failure
in space was consistent with the one
experienced during ground testing,
'he said. The orbit that Westar. VI
achieved and a second large object
seen on radar bolstered that theory,
he said.
Ziegler said that Westar VI could
stay in orbit for years but he
doubted whether any rescue was
possible. "This satellite wasn't
designed for that purpose with that
possibility in mind, because it was
intended to go up to geosynchronous
orbit," he said. "Maybe at some
point we could bring in another
PAM engine up there, attach it and
go on from there. But that's pretty
far-out thinking."
Meanwhile, the shuttle was
dogged again by bad luck this
time by a burst balloon but the
government of Indonesia gave the
the
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A few minutes after his 15-minute speech,
artillery shells and rockets could be heard
crashing into Beirut's embattled southern
suburbs.
Earlier, Shiite Moslem militiamen seized
control of much of the road to the Beirut
airport, where U.S. Marines are based,
leaving the Lebanese army in control of a
single checkpoint.
Twelve people were killed in heavy
fighting yesterday between the army and
the Shiite Amal militia at the Galerie
Semaan crossing in Beirut, bringing the toll
from the four-day battle to at least 70 slain
and more than 250 wounded, police
reported.
Gemayel accepted the resignation of the
Cabinet the day after a top Shiite Moslem
leader called on all Moslem ministers to
resign from the government. Wazzan and
three other Cabinet members are Moslems
Five are Christian.
"I hope, rather I insist you immediately
accept it," Wazzan said he told Gemayel.
The presidential palace said Gemayel
asked Wazzan to stay on as a caretaker until
a new Cabinet could be formed, then
immediately called in the speaker of
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minister, Cabinet
Parliament, Kamel Assad, to begin
discussions on formation of a new
government.
Wazzan, prime minister since 1980, had
submitted his resignation twice since Sept
26, but Gemayel refused to accept it.
Wazzan and his Cabinet have been under
fire from Lebanese opposition groups of all
religious factions, who accuse them of being
puppets of Gemayel. The opposition
maintains the government is in the hands of
rightist Christians of the Phalange Party,
headed by Gemayel's father, Pierre.
On Saturday, Nabih Berri, the leader of
Amal, urged Moslem Cabinet members to
leave the government and asked Moslems in
the Lebanese army to lay down their arms.
Under the unwritten "national covenant"
made in 1993, the prime minister must be a
Sunni Moslem, while the president is a
Maronite Christian. Five of the Cabinet
seats are allotted to Christians, four go to
Moslems, and one to a Druse.
The Druse finance minister, Adel
Hamieh, resigned last September to protest
the Lebanese army's shelling of Druse
villages in the hills. Hamieh was never
replaced. The Druse are members of a
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go-ahead anyway for the launch
today of a second communications
satellite, the twin of Westar VI.
The second satellite was to have
been ejected from the shuttle's
cargo bay Saturday. But because of
Westar's failure, the Indonesians
debated whether to risk their
expensive satellite when the
problem was not understood. They
had the option of having the satellite
brought back when the shuttle lands
next Saturday.
Meanwhile, a celestial game of
cat and mouse with a 6-foot plastic
balloon ended early yesterday
before it began when the balloon
exploded.
The balloon, made of mylar and
carrying a 200-pound weight to give
it balance, was to have been a
rendezvous target for the shuttle
a rehearsal for the next mission,
when the target will be a broken
satellite to be captured for repair.
"John, it looks like the balloon
blew up," said Bruce McCandless,
one of the two astronauts who will
take untethered space walks
tomorrow and Thursday. That
caused some temporary confusion.
"There's still quite a bit of
uncertainty in the control center as
to the nature and condition of the
balloon, whether it is inflated,
partially inflated, or, in fact,
whether it's blown up," said a
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public affairs officer at mission
control.
But a few minutes later,
Commander Vance Brand radioed
"It's not a blown-up balloon. It's
something in between. Matter of
fact, we're not real sure the weight
is still attached to the balloon
itself."
A canister containing the balloon
left the cargo bay properly. The
sides of the can were supposed to
blow off, but didn't and the
expanding balloon flowed over the
top, like a cake rising out of a pan
Finally, it burst.
"The only thing we know for
certain is that the nitrogen tried to
expand; the balloon tried to expand
with stays still around it, (and) it
squirted out of the top," said Stone.
"We tried to lowball it, to make
something as cheaply as we could,
to use in this rendezvous
demonstration and not spend any
more money than we had to for
that," said chief flight director
Harold Draughon. The device cost
$450,000.
In, addition, another failure
prevented experts on the ground
from seeing the balloon burst. A
television camera in the cargo bay
has refused to move since launch,
and a "color wheel" blocks off the
top half of the picture. That's where
the action was.
secretive sect that is an offshoot of Islam
About 60 percent of the country's
population is believed to be Moslem, about 7
percent Druse, and the remainder
Christian.
At Vatican City, Pope John Paul II
urgently called for a truce in Lebanon,
saying that "bloody clashes and intense
bombardments" have reached
unprecedented levels. The pontiff asked the
more than 25,000 faithful gathered in St.
Peter's Square to pray so "hope in a future
of peace and respect can survive within the
hearts of all the Lebanese who sincerely
love their country."
The Lebanese army abandoned one major
checkpoint, several sentry posts and two
training camps on the airport road
yesterday. Only one small army checkpoint
remained on the highway, and Shiite
gunmen of the "Amal " militia were seen
walking freely up and down the road.
U.S. Marine spokesman Maj. Dennis
Brooks said the Marines at the airport had
not been involved in the conflict yesterday.
The Marines went on their highest stage of
alert for about a half-hour.
The surrender of the airport road raised
Union members vote
to OK CATA contract
By TERI WELLS
Collegian Staff Writer
The union representing Centre
Line bus drivers and shop
personnel voted 29-2 yesterday to
ratify a new two-year contract
with the Centre Area
Transportation Authority, the
local union president said last
night.
Frank .J. Finsinger said the
union, the American Federation'of
State, County and Municipal
Employees Local 1203-B, voted
"overwhelmingly" to ratify the
contract package, which
represented the fifth such contract
in the union's history.
CATA must now approve the
contract.
CATA Chairman James H.
Miller said the board will consider
the contract no later than Feb. 20,
but he will suggest that the
contract be considered by the end
of the week.
The previous contract, which
expired on Jan. 31, was extended
by seven days.
The dispute during the six weeks
of contract negotiations focused on
section 13(c), a federal employee
protection agreement in the Urban
Mass Transportation Act of 1964.
Under section 13(c), CATA
cannot receive federal operating
grants for fuel and wages, or
capital grants for buildings and
new equipment, without the local
union's approval. The union had
been concerned that federal
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funding might be used in a way
harmful to its employees, both
union and non-union.
The union wanted to separate
section 13(c) from the contract
negotiating process. CATA and the
union agreed to adhere to a 13(c)
agreement used by two of the
largest transit unions in the nation
the Amalgamated Transit
Union and the Transportation
Worker's Union.
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Local 1203-B agreed to an
resign
fears that the army was beginning to split
apart along factional lines, as it did in the
1975-76 civil war. About 60 percent of the
army is Moslem, and Shiites make up the
largest single group of enlisted men. Most of
the officers are Christians. About 1,000 of
the 1,500 Druse in the 37,000-man army have
defected since the September fighting,
unwilling to fight against Druse militiamen
in their battles with the army.
Lebanese army spokesman Maj. Michel
Lahoud denied there had been any
defections from the army following Berri's
call to Moslem soldiers to lay down their
arms. Berri said Saturday that two brigades
had defected.
Army units at the Galerie Semaan
entrance to Beirut, about two miles east of
the airport road, exchanged heavy barrages
of tank, artillery and small arnis fire with
Amal forces.
The army moved forward several
hundred yards Saturday night, taking back
positions captured by Amal last Thursday.
But the battle around St. Michael's church
on the Galerie Semaan road appeared
stalemated yesterday.
interim agreement on section
13(c) with CATA, with
negotfations to begin within 60
days.
If the union and CATA are
unable to negotiate a new 13(c) •
agreement after that time, the .
U.S. Department of Labor may
intervene to resolve it, Finsinger
said.
Finsinger said the contract
package includes an employee
pension plan, an increase in life
insurance benefits, and Blue Cross
insurance coverage for sonie bus
drivers whose routes are
eliminated over the summer when
demand decreases. In addition,
the contract permits shop
personnel an allowance for tools
and other maintenance items, he
said.
Finsinger said bus drivers will
receive a wage increase of 55 cents
per hour each year under the new
contract. Drivers will receive a 35
cent per hour raise effective Feb.
1, and an additional 20 cent per
hour increase on Aug. 1. Centre
Line bus drivers, as of Feb. 1,
receive $7.80 per hour.
Shop personnel will receive an
equal percentage wage increase
based on varying pay grades,
Finsinger said.
The local union members have
been the lowest-paid transit
drivers in the state for the past
eight years, and may still receive
the lowest wages, he said.
In addition, the union members
traded in a personal day in
exchange for a Martin Luther
King day, Finsinger said.
The union "lost in some areas,
yet gained in some areas" of the
contract, he said.
"On balance, considering the
state of the economy in the State
College area, we got about as
much as we think we could get
without a strike," he said.
CATA Managing Director Paul
Oversier could not be reached for
comment.