Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:07:21 EST Message-ID: Lines: 163 \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;NATION \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Hemophiliacs seek AIDS compensation ATLANTA - The National Hemophilia Foundation plans to push for the government and private companies to pay compensation to hemophiliacs who were infected with the AIDS virus by contaminated blood. "The financial burden makes the emotional burden of HIV even harder," NHF member Jill La Fon said Friday. The advocacy group said it is preparing a compensation plan after being besieged by protests from HIV-infected hemophiliacs at its annual meeting here. The protesters also want a congressional investigation into charges that producers of blood-clotting agents knowingly distributed a dangerous product. Less than a month ago, prominent French doctors were jailed on the same charges. S=NEW STORY NASA launches SDI research satellite VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A small satellite was launched Saturday on a $19 million mission to help the Pentagon develop its strategic missile detection system. A Scout rocket lifted the Miniature Seeker Technology Integration-1 satellite into orbit, said Jan Cooksey, spokeswoman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The satellite carries miniaturized cameras and sensors designed to detect an attack by medium- and short-range ballistic missiles. S=NEW STORY Russian rocket lands in Pacific SEATTLE - A sputnik space capsule containing a cut-glass replica of the Statue of Liberty and greetings from Russian President Boris Yelstin splashed down yesterday in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state, Russian officials said. The Resource 500 satellite, which circled the Earth for six days, was billed as Russia's first private space launch and was targeted at the United States as a peaceful promotion marking the end of the Cold War. Two helicopters from a Russian naval vessel tracked the capsule as its wind-swept descent was slowed by a parachute and prepared to help recover the sputnik from Pacific Ocean waters about 200 miles off the coast. Sponsors of the Europe America Space Flight 500 have said the mission honors the 500th anniversary of Columbus' pioneering first trip to America in 1492. The mission, estimated to cost more than $200 million, was funded entirely by Russian private businesses and also marks that country's effort to convert military industries into commercial enterprises. S=NEW STORY Police officers join racial inequity protests DALLAS - Ten off-duty police officers joined with more than 60 other demonstrators to protest alleged racial inequities in the Dallas police department. The protesters say Police Chief Bill Rathburn has not done enough to correct the problems that plague promotion and discipline policies. The officers who joined Saturday's demonstration are board members of the Texas Peace Officers Association, a group of black police officers. The group also picketed downtown police headquarters Thursday. Chief Rathburn said Thursday that the officers have a right to protest, but added: "I resent them for taking to the streets to protest. We cannot allow a few employees to drive this department." Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and others have taken part in the protests on Saturdays since Labor Day. S=NEW STORY Solti given concerto for 80th birthday CHICAGO - Legendary conductor Sir Georg Solti received a fitting 80th birthday present, a concerto written especially for him. Mr. Solti, music director laureate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, stepped on stage Saturday night at Orchestra Hall expecting to conduct. Instead, composer Pierre Boulez seated the maestro an conducted a four-minute piece titled "Derive 3." The orchestra commissioned Mr. Boulez to write the piece, which ended with eight chimes, one for every decade of Mr. Solti's life. The celebration actually came a month late. Mr. Solti was born in Hungary on Oct. 21, 1912. He was full-time conductor of the orchestra from 1969 to 1991 and has won 29 Grammys. S=NEW STORY Santa Train pulled by giant locomotive ELKHORN CITY, Ky. - The Santa Train has made its 50th run, distributing more than 12 tons of candy and toys through coal-mining communities in the heart of Appalachia. The train follows a 110-mile route from Pikeville, Ky., through southwest Virginia's coal mining country to Kingsport, Tenn. It is sponsored by CSX Transportation and the Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce. Kingsport merchants started the train in an era when poverty was widespread in the area. This year's run on Saturday had an extra feature that attracted railroad fans from Ohio to Florida: Union Pacific Railroad's Challenger No. 3985, billed as the world's largest operating steam locomotive. The 122-foot-long, million-pound locomotive was built in 1943 but retired in 1959 when most railroads switched to diesel. S=NEW STORY Woody Allen fears his reputation's lost NEW YORK - Woody Allen appeared on "60 Minutes" last night and said he thinks he'll never get his good name back after child molestation allegations arose amid a custody battle with longtime lover Mia Farrow. But the filmmaker said he doesn't care. "It's irrelevant to me that if I walk down the street and someone thinks, 'Hey, wasn't that the guy who was once accused of child molestation? . . .' " he told correspondent Steve Kroft. "You know, that doesn't bother me, . . . I care - if you tell me that I can see my children and be with them, and all of that, that's all that I care about." Police in Connecticut are investigating allegations that Mr. Allen molested 7-year-old adopted daughter Dylan at Miss Farrow's country home. He denies it. "A gigantic industry has been built on a total nonevent," he said. "I mean, I went up and played with the kids, read them stories, did my usual things. And out of this has grown lawyers and psychologists and district attorneys and private investigators. . . . It's a multimillion-dollar industry that has sprouted up over a total nonevent." Miss Farrow's spokesman, John Springer, said she would not comment. They are fighting over custody of Dylan; their biological son, Satchel, 4, and adopted son Moses, 14. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM