4 Page 2-- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 2, 1986 Fires rampage in dry weather From AP and UPI Weary firefighters chased wildfires across the rugged foothills of Ten- nessee and Georgia for the second straight day yesterday, and scattered blazes charred parched timber from Mississippi to Ohio. Forestry officials desperate for rain saw some hope in Ohio, where there was a 50 percent chance of rain last night, but little across the tinder-dry southeast. Officials said at least 70,000 acres of woodlands have burned in 13 states in the past two weeks, claiming the lives of three firefighters. "IF WE don't get some rain soon, those figures are going to start clim- bing," Georgia Forestry Commission spokesman Jack Long said. In the mountains of east Tennessee, a fire believed to be set by an arsonist burned out of control for the second day Tuesday, destroying up to 1,000 acres, state forestry officials said. "Everyday it gets a little drier, with the fires burning with a little more in- tensity. It hasn't taken any spec- tacular leap, just a slow gradual buildup in a situation that's already pretty bad," said Bruce Jewell, spokesman for the regional office of the U.S. Forest Service in Atlant. Hundreds of fires have broken out in the past week in parts of Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken- tucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio., Outbreaks of grass and brush fires were reported over the weekend and Monday in parts of Michigan, western Pennsylvania, new Jersey and Missouri. "THE WOODS are drier than they've been in 100 years at least. The vegetation, the soil and the logs in the forest are all drier than they've been since records were kept since 1871," said Dwight Barnett, spokesman for the Tennessee Division of Forestry. Nine Kentucky fires totaling about. 2,200 acres burned out of control Tuesday, after state crews ex- tinguished 97 fires Monday that charred about 5,100 acres. U.S. Forest Service crews battled a 200-to-300- acre fire in the Daniel Boone National Forest, where 65 fires raged Monday. Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste ordered a moratorium on permits for open trash fires Tuesday in the southen and southeastern parts of the state. An out-of-control, 150 acre fire in Scioto County destroyed two houses, threatened others and injured two firefighters. Ohio has had an estimated 10,000 acres of state forest land burned in the past week by 600 fires. "It's well on its way to becoming the worst spring we've ever had," said David Bergman, chief of the state Division of Forestry. Russians twist and shout for the Fab Four MOSCOW (UPI) - A new wave of "Beatlemania" is sweeping the Soviet Union - But this time it is officially sanctioned and has sent Soviets twisting and shouting into government stores in search of records by the Fab Four. The Soviet Union's state recording agency, Melodiya, has produced 200,000 copies of two Beatles records through a licensing agreement with the British recording company EMI, a Soviet official said yesterday. Customers pushed and shoved in the main Melodiya store in Moscow on Monday when the records, packaged as a double album titled "Hard Day's Night," went on sale - and quickly sold out. THE CROWD, waiting in the late afternoon to pay the equivalent of $10 for the album, groaned. loudly and the store quickly emptied, leaving behind a few classical music fans. The brown album, picturing the four clean-cut Beatles in the early 1960s, also was available with a plastic cover for an extra ruble, or $1.40. Because of the quick sell-out at stores across the nation, the All-Union International Trade Association, which negotiated the deal, asked EMI for the right to produce another 200,000 records, a spokesman for the Soviet company said yester- day. Soviet record stores are usually well-stocked with classical music and recordings of official speeches, but Western rock music is virtually non- existent. Soviet officials say many Western rock stars are "tools of capitalism." BEFORE Beatlemania swept the Soviet Union in the 1960s, a former foreign minister set the of- ficial tone toward rock music by saying, "All this nervous and insane boogie-woogie and rock and roll are some kind of wild caveman's orgy.,, The pendulum of state tolerance began swinging in favor of the English group about three years ago when an official of the Communist Youth League called them "solid." Oil prices swing wildly on world markets From AP and UPI NEW YORK - Oil prices swung yesterday, plunging into the single- digit range for the first time since the mid-1970s before rebounding on news that the United States will press Saudi Arabia to help stabilize the market. Prices for May delivery of West Texas Intermediate, the main U.S. crude and an important market in- dicator, dropped as low as $9.75 per 42-gallon barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, compared with Monday's price of $10.42. Prices for that grade have not been that low sin- ce 1977. The slide spilled over to Europe, where the cost of Britain's benchmark Brent crude from its North Sea fields fell up to $1.90 a barrel on the spot market to $9.70, the lowest level for that oil since 1973. IT WAS the first time North Sea oil had cracked the $10 level and inten- sified pressure on Britain, the key in- dependent producer, to abandon its hardline stand against cooperating with OPEC in a bilateral effort to salvage prices. Analysts said European traders were reacting to a warning Sunday by United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Nana Saeed Otaiba that oil prices could fall to $5 a barrel unless OPEC and non-OPEC producers take "urgent action" to stabilize prices by curbing production. Later the New York futures market rallied strongly, sending prices up to $11.27, after Vice President George Bush said he would tell the Saudi government on his upcoming middle NOW ACCEPTING PETITIONS FOR DIRECTORS for the 1987 production of KISMET Please apply to: THE COMIC OPERA GUILD 423 S. 4th Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 761-5264 East trip that the price slide is hurting the domestic U.S. oil industry. Saudi Arabia is widely blamed for the current supply glut and depends heavily on Washington's strategic support. "This is a major change for the Reagan administration," said William Randol, an analyst for First Boston Corp., a New York investment firm. "The policy has been that lower is better, period. Now they're starting to realize that the euphoria of lower oil prices is like a party followed by a hangover.'' UNIVERSITY RECORD The University Record inserted in today's paper is a paid advertisement and does not reflect the views of The Michigan Daily. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Union Carbide fined for safety violations at Virginia plant WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Ad- ministration,in the largest enforcement since its creation 15 years ago, fined Union Carbide Corp. almost $1.4 million yesterday for 221 alleged violations at a West Virginia Plant, including making workers sniff for leaks of deadly gases. "They used to use canaries for that," labor Secretary William Brock said, assailing the giant chemical company for what he called a "willful disregard of health and safety," at its Institute, W. Va., plant over the past three years. The alleged violations ranged from failing to keep proper records and making employees detect leaks of deadly gases to inadequate safety management systems for recognizing and correcting hazards. Brock said the Labor Department last week sent the results of an inten- sive six-months investigation of the Institute plant to the Justice Depar- tment for pursuing possible criminal violations. Union Carbide has 15 days to appeal the civil fines, which total $1,377, 700 the largest ever proposed. The case then would be litigated, first before an administrative law judge and then the three-member federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. The largest previous proposed fine levied by OSHA was $786,190 in 1979 against the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. in Virginia. In a settlement reached in 1981, the penalties were reduced to $96,580. France pulls out of Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon - France, saying its peace-keeping mission in Beirut has become impossible, withdrew its 45 cease-fire observers yesterday in a move tht marked the end of Western peace-keeping efforts in the battered capital. The French pullout after two years on the Green Line battle zone came two weeks after the kidnappers of four Frenchmen demanded the with- drawal and three weeks after a sniper killed a French observer, the ninth to die in Lebanon. It also coincided with sporadic clashes and sniper fire between Moslem and Christian forces on the Green Line, and between Palestinian and Shiite Moslem gunmen in two Palestinian refugee camps on the southern outskirts of Beirut. The fighting later escalated into mortar battles around one of the for- mer French posts, wounding a man and a woman. Another woman and a militiaman were killed and five wounded in a fourth straight day of con- flict in the camps, police said. Aquino dismisses 39 officers MANILA, Philippines - President Corazon Aquino yesterday dismissed 39 generals and colonels in her first major move to appease younger military officers who helped topple the Ferdinand Marcos regime. Aquino, however, extended the terms of eight generals and three colonels who assumed what armed forces chief Gen. Fidel Ramos described as "sensitive" positions after the Feb. 22-25 civilian-backed military revolt. The retirement of overstaying generals had been a repeated demand by Washington during the final years of the 20-year Marcos regime as part of a program to reform the 250,000-strong military to combat a growing communist insurgency. Also yesterday, thousands of Filipino picketers angrily rejected a call to end their 11-day-old stike against U.S. military bases but others dismantled union barricades that had blocked access to the installations. Britain urges talks in Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Britain urged Protestants yesterday to halt a campaign of violence and discuss solutions to the crisis resulting from an accord that gives the Irish Republic a voice in this troubled province. The appeal followed a night of clashes between Protestant mobs and police, most of whom are also Protestants, and fire-bomb attacks on Catholic targets. Police said 38 officers and 39 civilians were injured and 88 homes, shops and vehicles were damaged. Riot squads fired 148 plastic bullets and came under 23 separate assaults, and the homes of nine policemen were attacked, the report said. A march yesterday by 2,500 Protestants to Larne, north of Belfast, went off peacefully, as did ceremonies attended by Roman Catholics at two cemeteries in which fighters for Irish independence are buried. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's offer of last week to meet with Protestant leaders must be taken up "sooner or later, and my great hope is that it will happen sooner, rather than later," said Tom King, the Nor- thern Ireland secretary, who is responsible for the province. King's deputy, Nicholas Scott, said: "The prime minister is prepared to sit down and talk with them. That is much better than confrontation." Americans recovered in crash SAN MIGUEL EL ALTO, Mexico - Searchers yesterday pulled more bodies from the dusty slopes of a mountain where a Mexicana Airlines jetliner crashed, killing all 166 people aboard in the worst disaster in Mexican aviation history. Three of the passengers were identified as Americans, and officials said two others were probably Americans. None of the victims' names were released pending notification of next of kin. Hundreds of rescue workers stumbling in ankle-deep red dust spread out at dawn to resume their search for bodies in the wreckage of the Boeing 727 jet, which covered a 500-square-foot area on both slopes of the mountain. The cause of the crash was unknown yesterday. The pilot radioed that he was losing altitude and asked permission to to return to Mexico City minutes before the disaster. 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