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2The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, October 5, 1988 World and Nation Former Ihosltage discusses oirdlea From Associated Press reports DAMASCUS, Syria Indian professor Mithileshwan Singh said Tuesday his kidnappers treated him well during 20 months as a hostage in Lebanon, but "there is no substi tute for freedom" and he grieves for those still held. His release Monday leaves nine Americans and seven other foreigners still in the hands of extremist Moslem kidnappers in Lebanon. Held longest is Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, who was abducted March 16, 1985. Singh, a 60-year-old resident alien of the United States, was reunited with his wife, Lalmani, at the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday afternoon. He was freed Monday night in Beirut and driven to Damascus by Syrian army officers, then turned over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerjian. A special U.S. Air Force plane arrived to take him to an American military hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, for a medical checkup. "Our plans, depending on logistical arrangements, are to transport him to Wiesbaden for further medical checks and then on to the U.S.," Djerjian said. He said Singh had asked to be allowed to rest, and "given the circumstances, he is feeling relatively well." A Syrian doctor pronounced him fit to travel. In New Delhi, the Foreign Ministry said India had worked for Singh's release through contacts "with the Syrian government" and others. The captive was released to the U.S. ambassador "because of the confusion that still existed" in the Middle East about his nationality, a spokesman said. India had maintained Singh was kidnapped because his abductors thought he was an American. Armed men dressed as policemen took Singh hostage Jan. 24, 1987, on the Beirut University College campus in Moslem west Beirut, along with ' Americans Alann Steen, Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner. A group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility, and said it freed Singh as a goodwill gesture to the United States. Nearly all the foreign hostages in Lebanon are believed held by Shiite Moslem groups loyal to Iran. A U.S. official in Damascus said the Americans decided to accept custody because Singh had applied for citizenship before his abduction. Singh said Tuesday he felt "won derful" and added: "Thank God I'm free, but I'm very sorry that my colleagues and friends are still in captivity. I hope theyll be free soon." He was clean-shaven, dressed in a gray suit, and appeared before dozens of reporters at the .Syrian Foreign Ministry after a brief chat with Djerjian. He was brought in through a back door at about 11 a.m. Steen, Polhill and Turner were the only hostages he saw while in cap tivity, Singh said. Shuttle in' good post-flight shape, NASA says From Associated Press reports EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. After nearly 65 Earth orbits, Discovery's post-flight condition was as good or better than any space shuttle, although debris gouged six heat-shield tiles, apparently during liftoff, a NASA official said Tuesday. There was no damage to the orbiter's brakes, landing gear or tires, John "Tip" Talone said. Discovery sat inside the 100-foot-tall "mate-demate device," a frame work where it gets serviced for a piggy-back jet ride home Saturday to Florida. "The crews are working, and they will work 'round the clock until the orbiter leaves," said Ted Ayers, deputy site manager for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion's Dryden Flight Research Facil ity here. Discovery landed Monday on the hard clay bed of Rogers Dry Lake at this Mojave Desert air base, capping a nearly flawless flight that was America's first manned space mission since the Challenger tragedy in 1986. "The vehicle looks beautiful," Talone, the shuttle processing direc tor, said during a news conference. "It looks probably as good or better than any vehicle weVe brought in here." Six tiles near the right wing must be replaced because of a 12-inch-long, 6-inch-wide, 12-inch-deep gouge apparently caused by debris during the shuttle's launch last Thursday, Talone said. He added that the tiles weren't missing, as Ayers said earlier. Talone said officials weren't yet sure if the debris was ice that formed on the outside of the shuttle's external tank, which contains supercold liquid fuel. "There's a minor number of tra ditional dings" on some other tiles, caused by the impact of tiny particles during liftoff and landing, he added. After preliminary inspection found no damage, the shuttle's brakes were shipped to B.F. Goodrich in Ohio for a closer look, he said. The brakes were improved because of brake and tire damage during previous missions. Talone said NASA workers haven't identified the cause of the trouble with Discovery's cooling system flash evaporators, a problem that made the astronauts endure temperatures in the 80s during their flight. NASA plans for Discovery to leave Edwards early Saturday, arriving at Kennedy Space Center before dark following a single stop near San Antonio, Texas, Talone said. The mate-demate device is a red painted steel trusswork structure, in which the 193,000-pound orbiter is serviced, then hoisted 60 feet and placed atop a modified Boeing 747 jet that will fly it back to Cape Canaveral, Fla. Officials explain secrecy "of reactor incidents House backs Reagan's veto of more textile import curbs From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON The House on Tuesday narrowly sustained President Reagan's veto of tight ened textile and apparel import curbs, bowing to claims that the legislation would mean price increases amounting to a fresh tax on consumers. The total in favor was 11 votes short of the support that textile industry supporters had needed from two-thirds of the lawmakers present and voting. Textile and apparel workers bused in from various points along the East Coast watched grim-faced from the galleries as the House, with at most two weeks before congressional adjournment, appeared to end the battle for textile import legislation for the rest of the year. House bans sewage dumping WASHINGTON .The House on Tuesday passed a much debated bill that bans the dumping of sewage sludge in the ocean after 1992. The measure, adopted by a 416 0 vote, sets a Dec. 31, 1992 deadline on sludge dumping by the nation's only remaining practi tioners: nine sewage authorities in New York and New Jersey. The compromise bill, climaxing a 10-year legislative effort, must now be reconciled with a differing version passed by the Senate in August. 18 killed in Burma RANGOON, Burma Secur ity force killed 18 people caught looting or stealing Tuesday, News in Brief government radio said, and an-,, opposition leader appealed to , Amnesty International to help bring democracy to Burma. State-run Radio Rangoon said soldiers opened fire on a group of -people looting a food warehouse,..' in Rangoon and killed 10. Soldiers- . killed two more people caught , stealing iron roofing in another... part of the capital, the report said. .. Soviet rail cars crash MOSCOW Runaway rail; :. cars filled with explosives crashed , into a coal train in central Russia, on Tuesday, causing an explosion - . that killed four people, injured 280 . , and left hundreds homeless, Soviet . . media said. The government newspaper Izvestia said the blast at 4:30 a.m, in a switching yard at Sverdlovsk.-" sent a column of flames shooting' into the sky over the city. Sverd lovsk is 850 miles east of Moscow. Defendant gets new trial RICHMOND, Va. An N.C. man who was convicted of murder ; and sentenced to death for the July : 1979 slaying of a 4-year-old girl in Sanford won a new trial : Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Robert Henry McDowell was' denied due process by the prose cution's failure to reveal evidence that could have raised questions in jurors minds about the charges against the defendant. From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Serious mishaps over 20 years at a govern ment plant in South Carolina that produces materials for nuclear wea pons were kept secret for national security reasons, federal officials said Tuesday. But the situation is changing, in part due to pressure from Congress, they said. One senior Energy Department official has compared the attitude toward safety at the Savannah River facility near Aiken, S.C:, to that which led to the explosion blithe shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986. "There has always been a mind set, a culture, that we are doing work that is important for national security and perhaps that may override any obligation toward public account ability," Will Callicott, a spokesman for the Department of Energy, said Tuesday. Since taking office in 1985, Energy Secretary John Herrington "has given heightened attention to the area of environmental safety and health," for the first time placing these issues in the. hands of an assistant secretary, ; Callicott said. ." ' ; :' "PZIUM Pont :de:Nemduis:&:X(i:;: runs the Savannah River facility- under contract for the Energy Department. The plant, which has five reactors, produces plutonium and tritium, which are used in making nuclear weapons. According to a 1985 memoran dum, 30 "reactor incidents of the greatest significance" occurred there and were not disclosed to the public. One of the most serious was the melting in November 1970 of a rod used to start an atomic chain reaction, causing radioactive contamination of senior department spokesman C. Anson Franklin said those statements were incorrect and that the incidents had been reported to the department's regional office in Aiken. ' . He said the information apparently had not been relayed to headquarters from the regional office. The reactors at Savannah River were closed after the most recent incident in August, and had been scheduled to reopen on Tuesday. But Energy Department officials assured Police from page i an adjacent room. . - . members of Congress last week that ; Energy 'Department officials said : production would riot resume until " v .of; the incidents,; J?ut on Monday . to 45, days;. . .VW.ikV-V" system, he will work with others to make necessary changes to do "what is right." Bowler, who is white, said he felt the same way about the meeting. "He (Hardin) comes across as a very, very fair man," Bowler said. "He didnt push us out the door when our time was up. I feel that he is going to help us." Bowler said he and Edwards told Hardin that morale within the depart ment has gotten worse since the grievance process began last year and that aministrators have not attemp ted to alleviate the problem. 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