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12A Janaary 25, 1978 ST.LDU1S POST-DISPATCH NORTHWEST TERRITORIES metro report Smith Attacks British On Rhodesian Stance DISINTEGRATED OVER THIS AREA Slave FT. PROVIDENCE FT. RESOLUTION A bill that would give the elected officials of WOODSON TERRACE their first pay increase in 14 years was introduced at a Board of Aldermen meeting Monday night. The mayor's salary would go to $300 from $215 per month, and an alderman's to $100 from $50 per month. Other bills were introduced to give the city's full-time employees a 6.5 percent cost-of-living pay hike.

In other action, the board gave a second reading to a bill rezoning a tract at 4500 Woodson Road from a commercial to an industrial category for use as a warehouse. A bill providing for a merger with the village of SCHUERMANN HEIGHTS was also introduced. BRIDCETON City Councilman Andrew M. Kasprzyk asked the PATTONVILLE Board of Education Tuesday night to reconsider its decision to close two elementary schools in Bridgeton. Both schools Bridgeton Elementary and Pattonville Elementary are in Kas-przyk's ward.

Kasprzyk said the closings, which the board approved last month, would destroy the concept of neighborhood schools. "The people I represent are not going to stand for it," he said. He suggested that the board hike taxes or look for other sources of revenue. The board voted to close a total of three elementary schools effective next fall because of declining enrollment and a projected $600,000 deficit this year. BRITISH Ty COLUMBIA Jy CANADA wit tCy INATION I RUSSIA I orbit INCL acceptable "even to the British government." "I believe we will be able to produce the genuine article," he said.

After the news conference he met again with the three black leaders. Smith's internal pain has been criticized by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the guerrilla-backed Patriotic Front who are scheduled to meet Owen in Malta Jan. 30 for discussions on the Rhodesian problem. "Dr. Owen is aware that the internally based black leaders command the support of the overwhelming majority of black Rhodesians," Smith said.

"But for his own motives, he will join an unholy alliacne with the Front in order to discredit the internal leadders in any agreement they may reach." Sources close to the negotiations said earlier that Smith had reached agreement in broad principle to hand over power to a black government. The sources said it appeared agreement had also been reached on the controversial issue of the future of the Rhodesian security forces after the black majority has come to power. The approximately 270,000 Rhodesian whites are outnumbered 23-1 by more than 6 million blacks. SALISBURY, Rhodesia (UPI) Prime Minister Ian D. Smith said today British Foreign Secretary David Owen was willing to join an "unholy alliance" with militant Rhodesian nationalists to try to wreck the internal settlement he is seeking with moderate blacks.

But Smith would not say if he had already reached agreement in broad principle on the major issues of the internal plan. He told a news conference his discussions with chief Jeremiah Chirau, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Bishop Abel Muzorewa could go on "for another few weeks, but on the other hand it might be less." Sources close to the internal talks had said earlier Wednesday Smith was expected to sign a broad agreement with the three black leaders in the morning and announce it during the televised meeting with foreign and local journalists. Asked how close a settlement was, Smith said, "I doubt whether this is of much use as we are as near now as we have been for about two weeks." He refused to give any details but said he was confident that if there was an agreement it would be internationally ALBERTA 15 Are Injured At Rock Concert Vy Edmonton ks' USSR COSMOS 954 About 15 persons were treated for injuries suffered before and during a rock concert Tuesday night at the Checkerdome, Charley Mancuso, manager of the arena, said. Some of the injuries were the result of pushing by a crowd seeking tickets outside the facility.

A witness said other persons were injured in fights inside the arena at 5700 Oakland Avenue. The most severe injury was suffered by a young woman who slipped and fell in a concession area inside, Mancuso said. Several stitches were required to close her head wound, he said. Before the doors to the Checkerdome were opened at 6 p.m., an unruly crowd of about 3,000 had gathered seeking general admission tickets for the Ted Nugent concert, police said. Some began shoving and shouting obscenities when the doors remained closed, police said.

One young man was arrested outside the building and booked on suspicion of peace disturbance. Police said he had attempted to break into the building. FROM OUT OF THE SKY: Map showing the approximate ipath of the Soviet spy satellite that fell Tuesday over Canada. JUPI Telephoto) Satellite Cosmos 954 was the first to drop from orbit. The United States is reported to have launched only one uranium-powered satellite, in 1965, and it is still in orbit.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union launched a new Cosmos satellite Tuesday, minutes after Cosmos 954 burned up. The latest satellite was as much a mystery as its predecessors. The Tass news agency said in Moscow only that the latest Cosmos No. 986 would "continue exploration of outer space" and will circle Earth every 89.4 minutes. Trudeau said he did not warn the Canadian people in advance because an hour before the satellite broke up, "it was still possible it might have landed in the Southern Hemisphere rather than in the Northern Hemisphere Obviously we did not want to alert every square inch of territory in Canada that something might land." Another Canadian official said no advance warning was given to avoid "unnecessary hysteria." In Washington, White House adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said the flame-out had caused no international crisis and However, on Dec.

19, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin informed the White House that the enriched uranium in the satellite could not reach a critical mass and explode. The satellite was launched into an east-west orbit 150 miles above Earth. Its track changed on every circuit so that it passed over every land mass in the world. In the last few days it had dropped to about a 100-mile-high orbit.

Informed sources said the Russians have launched at least 10 satellites powered by nuclear reactors but that had brought admirable Soviet cooperation. Brzezinski said U.S. intelligence had learned in December that the Cosmos was in trouble and obtained information from the Russians on the satellite. The chief concern was the satellite's nuclear reactor, which was supposed to separate after the satellite's useful life was over and go into a high, safe orbit that would keep it circling in space for hundreds of years. But Cosmos 954 failed to come apart on radio command.

0 FROM PAGE ONE miles east of the eastern tip of Great Slave Lake and about 200 miles east of Yellowknife, a community of 6,000 about 650 miles north of the U.S. border. Under international agreement, the Soviet Union is responsible for any damage caused by the satellite. Canada's external affairs minister, Don Jamieson, said he would pursue with the Russians "the question of financial liability for any costs of search or any other activities that may be required." Jamieson also said his government is looking into international legal requirements for cleaning up space debris and trying to determine what the next step hould be. "It appears that destruction did occur in the re-entry process and that the likelihood of any negative effects are minimal," he said.

"But we do not want to underestimate that, and all necessary coordination is going on with the United States and the Soviet Union." Launched Sept. 18 as Cosmos 954 to keep track of U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines, the satellite's radar was powered by 100 pounds of enriched Uranium-235. U.S. satellite trackers detected last month that it was slowing down and might crash, and fee U.S.

and Soviet governments had been consulting about it for the last two weeks. Canada was informed a week ago. The public was not told, however, apparently because mass hysteria was feared. Moscow newspapers carried a 120-word report today of the satellite's fall. It emphasized that it had been designed to self-destruct and assured the public that the mechanism worked.

The North American Air Defense Command said the satellite probably began disintegrating somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, traveling to Earth along a course over Queen Charlotte Island off British Columbia and northeasterly toward Great Slave Lake. American officials said the satellite entered the atmosphere at 4:53 a.m. Tuesday 5:53 a.m. St. Louis time and that President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau were discussing the situation by telephone within minutes.

The public was not informed until three hours later. Escapes From Fire Michael Nelson, his wife and their 214-year-old child escaped from their burning home on the North Side in night clothes early day. The one-story building at 4229 Cote Brilliante Avenue was destroyed on the one-alarm blaze. ixid Bfi MW1 si Suite 1 VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER FROM PAGE ONE expensive cabinet makers. Loughman was chosen without bid, sources said.

1 Custom-made furnishings will include Dougherty's I desk, a huge, banana-shaped conference table of Brazilian rosewood and bronze and a smaller, eliptical table the same materials. Much of thefurniture, ranging from leather-topped, metal-accented desks costing as much as $1,800 each I down to secretarial chairs for $300 each, is being ordered from blue-ribbon firms like Kittinger Stow Davis Furniture Co. and Knoll International. Materials include rosewood, mahogany, teak and elm. Some of the furniture will be recycled from the company's present executive offices at the Gateway Tower Building, 1 Memorial Drive, but even this will be expensive, sources said.

The total cost of repairing, refinishing and reupholstering furniture currently in use has been estimated at more than $10,000. The recycling agenda includes items like recovering a two-seat sofa in a subdued organic fabric from Knoll at a cost of $900, and two lounge chairs in the same material for more than $1,000. The entire redecorating project was originally esti-' mated to cost about $500 jOO but has increased, about 60 percent, largely became of changes ordered by Union Electric, sources said. A source said that one of the executives decided that it would be, in his words, "neat" to have a skylight in his office. So a skylight was added to the plans.

Skylights then spread like a minor epidemic though the executive ranks and there are now several on the blueprints. When a desk selected by one of the officers turned out to be no longer in production, he chose a substitute, which was more expensive, a source said. According to persons versed in the current standards of corporate decor in the St. Louis area, Union Electric's executive suite will be in a category of opulence occupied by only a few other firms. Many firms, including Mallinckrodt Corp.

and McDonnell-Douglas Corp. have far more unassuming offices for their top personnel, sources said. Several of the sources with information about the project expressed indignation that the utility would feel free to be so generous with itself. Although competitive, unregulated firms such as Emerson have an unquestioned right to house their officers in as much luxury as they choose. Union Electric is in a different situation, they said.

But Union Electric is, by law, guaranteed a fair rate of return from its customers of all the expenses on its rate base including the costs of decorating its offices. This fact makes extravagance unbecomming, they said. Curtis Ittner, a principal in the architectural firm of Ittner Bowersox, which is designing UE's executive decor, said he did not believe that it would be any more lavish than those at most other major corporations. In any case, he said, it would be no more lavish than the offices Dougherty and his lieutenants now occupy at 1 Memorial Drive. Considering that the cost includes new furniture and refurbishing some old items "we don't think that it's unreasonably posh," said UE's Cerullo.

"It's going to provide a more functional and economic location for our executive offices," he said. Jr 1 It At I 12 U.S. Craft Disintegrated You'll never have to miss the good things on TV again, See any program whenever you want. SelectaVision nrnnram vnn'ro Aatrhinn nlavc hark nn ami See any program whenever you want. SelectaVision program you're watching plays back on TV.

records the any By WALTER SULLIVAN 1 'flt. New Yort Tlmtt Niwt Service NEW YORK On two occasions in 1964 and 1970 American spacecraft bearing radioactive power sources have disintegrated in accidental re-entry into ihe atmosphere. If, in the past, such accidents befell Soviet craft, they were not publicized. Nine American craft bearing nuclear power sources iare now orbiting Earth, all so high that they should not into the atmosphere for centuries, according to federal officials. Long before then, the space shuttle will have made it possible to retrieve such vehicles when a plunge into the atmosphere threatens.

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The jettisoned lunar module went into orbit around Earth and plunged into the atmosphere on April 11, 1970, Rock said Tuesday in a telephone interview. Whatever survived the fall, he noted, plunged to the bottom of the Tonga Trench, several miles deep, in the Southwest Pacific. All American spacecraft sent aloft with nuclear-power sources carry their plutonium in an armored capsule designed to survive re-entry in case of accident. When, a few years ago, an effort was made to launch a weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast something went amiss and the "destruct button" was activated. The debris fell into Santa Barbara Channel and a minisubmarine with side-scanning sonar had no difficulty locating the device which, Rock, said, was sufficiently intact to identify.

There was no leakage of plutonium. The most recent launchings with such devices aboard were those of the two Voyager spacecraft sent toward the outer planets last August and September. The vehicles are headed into a region in which sunlight becomes so faint that it is no longer an adequate power source. Most vehicles in Earth orbit derive their power from panels of photovoltaic cells. The only American craft carrying uranium in orbit is SNAP-10A, a mission designed to demonstrate a new communications system for the Defense Department.

Its reactor is reported to generate 500 watts. SNAP is the acronym for Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power. Those with plutonium aboard includ tour ot tne Navy's Transit navigational satellites, launched between 1961 and 1963, one Nimbus weather satellite sent up in 1969 with two RTGs and an advanced Transit satellite launched in 1972. In 1976 Lincoln Experimental Satellites 8 and 9 were orbited for the Defense Department, each with twin RTGs and equipment from the Lincoln Laboratories in Massachusetts. Other radioactive isotopes have been used as power sources, such as polonium 210 (experimentally), strontium 90 (for navigation aids and automatic weather stations) and curium 242 (for short space missions).

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The uranium-based power sources depend on a chain reaction in the uranium. Such reactions are achieved at purity levels far below those needed for an explosive reaction so that the power source should be incapable of detonating. the first American accident occurred on April 21, 1964, in an attempt to orbit a Navy navigation satellite, SNAPA, powered by a plutonium source. The booster failed before entry into orbit and the vehicle disintegrated upon entry into the atmosphere over Madagascar, according to Bernard Rock, chief of space applications for nuclear energy in the Department of Energy. The second episode was a by-product of the explosion that turned the Apollo 13 mission, en route to the moon, in 1970, into a life-or-death struggle for survival.

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