Page 2-Sunday, April 10, 1983-The Michigan Daily Tne rain stopped, but the damage is done, as this truck contends with near-record flooding in Slidell, La., where the Pearl River waters are expected to crest at 10-feet above flood stage today. Thousands of residents in Louisiana and Mississippi have been forced to evacuate their homes since Thursday. Storms abate in southern states From the Associated Press Thunderous rains ended yesterday after claiming 10 lives and forcing 27,000 people to flee flood waters in Louisiana and Mississippi, but the storm moved into Florida and spawned a tornado that killed three people. President Reagan pledged financial aid for areas awash after four days of rain. Many towns remained under threat of more flooding from up to 2 feet of rain. The 20,000 evacuees in Louisiana and 7,000 in Mississippi have begun retur- ning home. Residents of Slidell, La., a New Orleans suburb and one of the fastest- growing areas of the state, were asked to leave Saturday because their turn had come to fight the waters of the raging Pearl River. Nevertheless, the sun broke out in the afternoon for the first time in days. And Jim Thornhill, the Civil Defense direc- tor of Columbia, Miss., where the wild Pearl consumed a levee, said, "We're definitely on the road to recovery." At Inverness, Fla., north of Tampa, a car "was picked up and slung to the ground about 200 to 300 feet from the roadway" by a tornado Saturday and three occupants were killed, Citrus County sheriff's Capt. Jim Hill said. Nolan Duke of the National Severe Storms Forecasting Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the storm was "pretty much breaking up" after reaching the Atlantic. Duke said the storm was pushed ashore by a "big jet stream system" that barely budged for four days and relentlessly pounded the coastal flatlands day and night. Success of shuttle spurs future space plans SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Two years ago space officials held their breath as they tested a radical concept that some thought impractical - a reusable shuttle. Now, with two of the ships in operation, NASA is boldly moving forward with plans to expand America's presence in space. From launch last Monday to landing Saturday, Challenger, second in the shuttle fleet, performed with a precision that impressed the experts. The only blemish - a problem with the $10 million communications satellite - apparently had nothing to do with Challenger, but was caused by a faulty rocket stage. "It was kind of a proof flight," said Gary Coen, a flight director. "We're proving that it works the way it was built to work." In two years, NASA has come from having no proven shuttles to having two of the world's most advanced spacecraft. When Columbia was poised for laun- ch in April 1981, space agency experts still had a timid uncertainty about the wisdom of trying to fly a winged craft into and out of space. Aerodynamically and scientifically, there were unknowns that caused sleepless nights and gray hair. Now, after six flights - five by Columbia and one by Challenger - the shuttle system has accomplished these important milestones: " Proven the practicality of a reusable craft that can land like an air- plane. That accomplishment will be enhanced even further on the seventh flight when Challenger lands on a limited concrete runway at the Ken- nedy Space Center. " Proven a spacesuit design that is more flexible, more easily put on and less expensive. A pair of malfunctions on the fifth flight helped to iron out small design and application flaws and helped make possible the highly suc- cessful 31/-hour spacewalk by Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson. Astronauts say they now have full con- fidence in the new suits. " Proven the design and use of a robot arm that can be used to move large ob- jects in space. The arm was tested on flights of Columbia and is ready for a major application, such as launching or recovering satellites. * Proven the reliability and cost- effectiveness of using the shuttle to ferry satellites into orbit. The fifth flight successfully launched two satellites. Challenger returns from space flight on time, and on target (Continued from Page 1) is one more ship, the Enterprise, which never had space engines and was used only for landing tests. The crowd, which braved heavy traf- fic and stinging desert dust, was rewarded on a cloudless day with a vivid experience they could not get by watching the landing on television. "I heard we would be a long way away and we were," said Jim Marek of Los Angeles. "But there is always the fear that it's not going to come down and in seeing it, it's like you are part of the success in a history-making event." "We've been here for each landing," said Marty Holyfield of Los Angeles. "You can't beat it. It's just for that fleeting few moments of glory for the U.S. It really puts us out front." Much of the crowd gathered around more than a mile of makeshift wooden fencing surrounding the landing site at Edwards Air Force Base. En- trepreneurs did a brisk business in "E.T." dolls wearing space shuttle T- shirts as well as the usual baseball caps, decals and buttons com- memorating the mission. IN BRIEF Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Bishops still find fault in Reagan's nuclear arms policies WASHINGTON-Two leading Roman Catholic bishops took the unusual step yesterday of denying that a bishop's committee yielded to White House pressure in softening a proposed church statement that originally denounced use of nuclear weapons. Following Reagan administration praise for the new version of the proposed pastoral letter, the two churchmen stressed that the document still finds much to fault in President Reagan's policies. Archbishop John Roach of Minneapolis, president of the National Con- ference of Catholic Bishops, and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, chairman of the committee that drafted the letter, said they "could not ac- cept any suggestion that there are relatively few and insignificant differen- ces between U.S. policies and the policies advocated in the pastoral. "In the final analysis, the third draft is far more the product of reflection and dialogue within the Catholic community than of the dialogue between the drafting committee and the administration," Roach and Bernardin said. Hawaiian volcano falls silent VOLCANO, Hawaii-Kilauea volcano fell silent yesterday, but lava from its latest eruption continued flowing through a remote hillside community where it destroyed several homes. "We can't really say the eruption is over," said Jon Erickson, spokesman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. "When it stops it stops." About 150 residents of the Royal Gardens subdivision, routed Friday and yesterday for the third time since the volcano began its eruption Jan. 3, were ordered evacuated Friday as an 18-foot-high, 900-foot-wide wall of lava ap- proached their homes on the volcano's slopes. But a vent in the volcano fell silent yesterday morning and the level of ac- tivity dropped to its lowest point since Jan. 3, Erickson said. Roadblocks were lifted and residents were allowed back home. , Five structures were destroyed overnight by lava, Erickson said, and a sixth-a model home for the subdivision-was "totally isolated, surrounded by lava, there is no way to get to it." PLO tries to block American efforts to find negotiator ALMAN, Jordan - Palestine Liberation Organization officials said yesterday they had "no confidence" in a U.S. pledge to pressure Israel on Jewish set- tlements if King Hussein enters the Middle East peace talks. The comments by two high level emissaries of PLO chief Yasser Arafat threw new obstacles into the path of American efforts to persuade Hussein to negotiate with Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. In Lebanon, police said two rocket-propelled grenades exploded in the air over French peace-keeping troops stationed along the West Beirut water- front and in an East Beirut suburb. No casualties were reported. The PLO officials, Khalil Wazir and Hanni Hassan, held discussions with Jordanian leaders in Amman to follow up on inconclusive talks last weekend between Arafat and Hussein on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan. Wazir, the PLO's deputy military chief, reiterated that the PLO opposed Hussein's entry into the Middle East peace process and dismissed the State Department's pledge "to do our best" to secure an end to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. British families visit Falklands 'STANLEY, Falkland Islands-More than 500 wives and children of the British soldiers and sailors killed in the Falklands war arrived within sight of the islands Saturday on an emotional first visit to the battlegrounds where the men fell. "I think they will find that they may feel a little closer once they've seen the territory which their menfolk came and fought for and gave their lives for," said Sir Edwin Bramall, chief of defense staff. Bramall spoke before setting off from Stanley to welcome the relatives as they sailed within sight of the bleak South Atlantic islands aboard the Carib- bean liner Cunard Countess. The trip, which began on the April 2 anniversary of last year's 74-day war with Argentina, was organzied by Britain's Defense Ministry. U.S. sends weapons to Thailand BANGKOK, Thailand-The United States rushed heat-seeking "Red Eye" antiaircraft rockets and other weapons to Thailand yesterday in what U.S. officials called a show of support for Thai forces fighting Vietnamese troops deployed along the rim of western Cambodia. Thailand claimed its forces had killed at least 250 Vietnamese soldiers who it said had crossed the Cambodian border over the past nine days. The Viet- namese are part of Vietnam's Cambodian occupation force, which has been sweeping the Thai-Cambodian frontier for Cambodian rebels since March 31. Visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz said the American weapons were expedited deliveries of arms already ordered by Thailand, through direct purchase and under credits provided by the Foreign Military Sales Program. The hand-held "Red-Eye" surface-to-air rockets, which use heat detectors to find targets, were flown into Bangkok's military airport in a 1-day operation which also will include delivery of long-range 155mm howitzers and ammunition, U.S. Embassy officials said. - Vol. XCIII, No. 151 Sunday, April10, 1983 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $13 September through April (2 semesters); $14 by mail out- side Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mor- nings. Subscription rates: $7.50 in.Ann Arbor; $8 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Ar- bor, MI 48109. 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