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The B G News Friday Bowling Green State University November 6, 1981 Angry Swedes surrender Soviet submarine STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - especially since the Soviets ignored But heavy weather with 45 mph Uranium-238. weapon, but he could not understand to have at least six nuclear missile- Nuclear-tipped torpedos probably are his demand for more information on wind gusts prevented the departure Sweden's commander in chief, Gen. why. armed Golf class subs in the Baltic, aboard the Soviet submarine that the sub's armaments, refused an in- and Swedish officers said it would be Lennart Ljung, told reporters there Gylden said there probably were along with 60 torpedo-equipped subs went aground while prowling in a spection of the torpedo hold and delayed at least until daytime today. was as much as 22 pounds of U-238 other types of uranium aboard the sub of the Whiskey and other classes but restricted zone near a major Swedish claimed the sub was armed only with Eleven Soviet ships including two aboard and that it could have been us- than the U-238 mentioned by Falldin. there had been no evidence to date naval base 10 days ago, outraged "the necessary weapons and destroyers, two frigates and two ed as a protective shield around He said there probably was no risk of they also might be carrying nuclear Swedish officials said yesterday. ammunition." missile-armed corvettes, hovered in U-235, a main ingredient in nuclear accidental explosion aboard the arms. They said the Soviets can have their Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin the area. arms. But he said the presence of storm-rocked sub. The submarine skippered by LA. sub back but that storm-tossed seas said at a news conference that the in- Fallidin, who opposes even peaceful U-235 could not be proved because the The deffense staff expert said the Cmdr. Pyotr Gushin and carrying a likely will delay departure of the cident was "the most blatant violation use of nuclear energy, scoffed at Soviets would not allow an inspection nuclear arms aboard the Whisky crew of about 56, ran aground on vessel until today. in Sweden in the postwar era," and Soviet references to the Baltic as a of the hold. class sub, built in the mid-50s but rocks in a restricted zone near the Foreign Minister Ola Ullsten told that the sub would be escorted to a "sea of peace," and said Swedish ex- Nils Gylden, a nuclear arms expert modified, most likely were to be used Karlskrona naval base 300 miles the Kremlin Sweden regarded the in- Soviet flotilla outside Sweden's perts recorded radiation from the out- on the Swedish defense staff, said it for fighting large surface vessels like south of Stockholm on Oct. 27 while cident with the "utmost gravity" and waters" as soon as the weather side of the sub's hull for three nights appeared the Soviet sub was carrying carriers. the Swedish navy was conducting would tolerate no repetition of it, permits." and concluded that the sub carried nuclear-tipped torpedos, a secret The Soviets were previously known anti-submarine exercises. Problems postpone shuttle launch CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP) wing surfaces on landing. The decision on whether to install Space Administration experts quickly Specialists were to examine Colum- new units will be made Saturday. decided this problem was insignifi- bia's contaminated hydraulic IF ALL had gone well Wednesday, Rockwell International, the prime cant and prepared to go. system yesterday and space agency astronauts Joe Engle and Richard contractor, said it has one of the But at another launch control con- officials said the shuttle could be laun- Truly would have turned on Colum- APUs on hand, and one that can be sole, monitors noticed that the ched next Wednesday, at the earliest. bia's scientific experiments, looked gotten to the launch pad quickly. pressure of two auxiliary power units Launch director George Page for opportunities to photograph were higher than the third, and first scrubbed the first launch attempt lighting and Earth and excercised the A SWAP would take 32 hours plus inside the permissible range. after two filters clogged just before craft's new robot arm..its orbital time for testing. liftoff Wednesday. crane. Overpressure in two of the shuttle's ENGINEERS SPECULATED a It will take about two days to Instead, they accepted the disap- APU's, apparently caused by con- fuel called hydrazine leaked through analyze troubled APUs or Auxiliary pointment, arose early yesterday to taminants that clogged an easily- APU seals to mix with lubricating oil. Power Units, Page said yesterday, tt make emergency landings at the changed filter, caused Page to order The result would have been buildup of all they need is a flush and fill, a mid- Cape and then flew to their home base the launch attempt scrubbed. Yester- a waxy substance that clogged inlets, week launch is possible, but if they in Houston to wait out the delay. day Columbia's volatile fuels were creating heat and pressure. must be replaced, launch won't be un- Page said next Wednesday is the drained and stored, and a complete "What would be the end effect of til the following week. earliest possible launch date, but it review began to determine what went that I don't know," Page said. The APUs act on the shuttle as a could easily be later. After a new date wrong inside the billion-dollor The APUs do not operate in orbit, power steering unit works on a car. is chosen, Columbia's second count- spacecraft. but they are critical for the glide to They power hydraulic systems that down will pick up with 35 work hours A problem unconnected with the earth. Page said the units probably swivel the ship's three engines on lif- to go, about 58 hours before actual APUs caused the computer to stop the would have operated on liftoff, but he toff and lower the wheels and control ignition. countdown. National Aeronautics and was less sure about the landing. Republicans have tenative agreement Ohio Senate may increase school funding Columbus, Ohio (AP) - Republicans sion of the budget. for bus purchases, $8 million for voca- Speaker Vernal Riffe Jr. (D-New in the Ohio Senate said yesterday they Although the lower chamber added tional education and $18 million for Boston) had not reached agreement tentatively have agreed to increase $750 million in state aid for local aid to districts under a program for on the size of the tax increase the spending on schools in the pending school districts, the Senate cut the disadvantaged pupils. budget bill will include. state government budget. figure to $630 million. Word of the higher spending level "We're still on the expenditure level But the amount of money to be "We're recommending they go with for education came as House and side. You have to get that set before authorized depends on the size of a the House level (of $750 million). Senate leaders and a six-member you talk about taxes," Gillmor said. proposed tax increase and spending That's what the House is holding out joint conference committee continued Conference committee members levels for other stateprograms. for," Collins said. "(But) it's all to meet. They were trying to hammer waded through a long list of dif- Senate Education Chairman Oakley tentative." out differences in each chamber's ferences between the two versions of staff photos by Dale Omorl Collins (R-Iron ton i said the plan He said the Senate revision would version of the budget and tax increase the budget bill. They agreed on some would bring spending for primary and add $60 million to basic school aid, $16 bill. minor issues but left the big problems The country-rock band McGufly Lane performed last night in the Union secondary education up to the higher million to special education, $8 Senate President Paul Gillmor (R- to be resolved by House and Senate Grand Ballroom before a crowd of 900. levels the House approved in its ver- million for transportation, $5 million Port Clinton) said he and House leaders. Society must supress evil, Reagan says EDITOR'S NOTE: President signal the launching of a socially con- tected from them." any man's nature." Reagan's views on criminal justice, servative program which many of his LIKE HIS Moral Majority sup- Yet In his philosophical attack on spelled out at last month's conference fundamentalist New Right supporters porters and the fundamentalist the notion that crime results from of police chiefs in New Orleans, repre- had feared was being neglected. adherents of the biblical version of social causes (and the consequent sent a sharp departure from almost FOR REAGAN'S criminal justice creation, the president was arguing belief that social justice is the only two centuries of American policy objective is not merely to strengthen that crime-evil made manifest-is a real solution to public crime) toward crime.