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Show National Thursday, August 2, 1990 Utah The Daily Herald, Provo, Feds set S&L 'clearance sale' Bnefs i Do! ta WASHINGTON rocket takes sato Hi to into orbit I ST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A Delta rocket lifted into orbit j--i today a navigation satellite capable pt telling U.S. military units their position to within SO feet anywhere In the world. Tfhe unmanned rocket thundered pita a clear sky on time at 1:39 a.m., trailing fire as it headed out Jovir the Atlantic. J The $65 million Navstar satellite separated from the booster on schedule about 25 minutes into the flight and settled into an orbit. 10,898 miles high. The satellite is the eighth in a series of advanced Global Position-in- g System spacecraft that guide iU.S. and allied warplanes, ships, submarines and troops. In some cases, it is accurate to within 10 J " eL,Jk S ifeet. The Air Force plans to send up 16 more satellites by early 1993, three Kf . them spares, under the $8.5 billion Global Positioning System program. The first Navstar spacecraft was launched in February - 19(B. J The 3,675-poun- d Navstar British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hurries to her vehicle as rain falls at the Aspen, Colo., airport Wednesday evening upon her arrival for talks with President Bush and to speak to the Aspen Institute. House OKs bill on housing programs pro-grg- er , S sions. Rep. Chalmers Wylie, ranking Republican on the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Commit-tesaid President Bush and Jack Kemp, the secretary of housing and urban development, got 90 percent ofheir proposal to encourage pub-- j lie housing residents to purchase their homes in some cases. e, Jurors find cult leader's wife guilty - A PAINESVTLLE, Ohio (AP) as the cool, calculating mother figure of a cult run b her husband could draw a life sentence for her part in the ritual slgying of a family of five. Alice Lundgren, 39, was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping, complicity and conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. She was the first to be convicted in the case. Eight people await trial, including her husband, Jeffrey Lundgren, and their son, Damon. Defense attorney Joseph Gibson said he will appeal. No sentencing date was set. Lundgren was defrocked in 1988 as a lay minister of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for inappropriate conduct. He formed a splinter sect wfcose members lived commune-stjjl- e with the Lundgrens on a farm. JArs. Lundgren was among 13 cult members arrested last January in the 1989 shootings of Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their three daughters. w&man described 2 vets groups file Agent Orange suit - Two vet(AP) erans groups asked a federal court today to force the government to conduct a study mandated by in 1979 on the health effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veter-8and their children. 3h a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, the American Legion and the Vietnam Veterans of America, along with several veterans and their surviving spouses, say federal scientists canceled the study in 1987 because of White House pressure. The lawsuit says that without the study, it is Impossible to convince the Veterans Affairs Department to award disability and death payments to thousands of veterans who were exposed to the defoliant. The herbicide, used to destroy gtflund cover and crops, has been Warned by veterans groups for a s, variety of cancers and other including birth defects In the veterans' offspring. "The Veterans Affairs Department this year decided to award compensation for two of the listed cancers . WASHINGTON Con-gffc- ss ail-nnt- - The par(AP) ents of a young woman who died from a back-alle- y abortion are joining forces with a national women's rights group to overturn state laws requiring minors to get parental consent for abortions. Karen and Bill Bell of Indianapolis appeared Wednesday with the Feminist Majority at a news conference announcing the "Becky Bell Campaign," which the group plans to take to high schools and college campuses around the country. The Bell's daughter, Becky, died in 1988 from a massive infection after receiving an abortion from an unqualified practitioner. The states that currently enforce WASHINGTON low-inco- ! - to determine over insolvent institutions. "The bottom line is the better job we do, the less the taxpayer has to pay," Seidman said. if the effort will be enough. The GAO said the Justice Department needs to devise a better system to allow top officials in Washington to track the progress of the fraud fight in regional U.S. attorney and FBI offices. What Seidman dubbed "the great his agency's cleanup effort. In the first Among the sales techniques employed will be an international satellite auction of 71 major properties, "bulk sales" of packages of similar properties and the use of 15 special sales offices stretching from King of Prussia, Pa., to Costa Mesa, Calif. Sweep," the RTC concentrated on selling the failed institutions and their deposits. But it ended up keeping a large share of the failed thrifts' sour loans, problem real estate, junk bonds and other assets. Vento and other Democrats in Congress had complained that selling institution The satellite auction is scheduled for Nov. 15 in Dallas. Bidders in nine other U.S. cities and London and Tokyo will be able to participate via satellite television hookup. The other U.S. cities are Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Phoenix and San Antonio, Texas; fall inventory clearance marks the second phase sale" of phase, called "Operation Clean parental consent or notification laws are: Alabama, Arkansas, Indi- ana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming. The Bells said they had a good relationship with their daughter and had openly discussed sex and birth control. They said that although they had never talked about abortion with Becky, they would have left the decision up to her. But her father said Becky confided to a friend: "I can't tell Mom and Dad, I love them too much." "The parental consent law sounds wonderful," Mrs. Bell said. "What Study links gene to early cancer in some smokers WASHINGTON (AP) - Smokers gene carrying a are more likely to develop lung cancer at an early age, according to a study that traced smoking and lung cancer histories in 337 Louis- parent wouldn't want to know? I would. I'd say, 'My girl will tell me because she tells me everything.' Becky told me every single thing until she fell in love." she did Becky's story is the subject of a video, "Abortion Denied: Shattering Young Women's Lives," that the Feminist Majority plans to take to schools throughout the country. "This is one of the toughest areas for us in public opinion, this is one of the reasons we decided to launch this major campaign," said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. "A lot of people just knee-jer-k think, 'Well, sure parents should be involved.' 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De la But in Sellers' study of lung Garza said he believed they would cancer and smoking in the Louis- be retained by the joint conference iana families there was a clear committee that will create a final indication that some were more version of the legislation. likely to get lung cancer at an early age. The pattern, he said, was suggestive of an Inherited gene that leads to an earlier onset of the disease. The study involved white families of about the same economic status, Sellers said. The study gathered data through Interviews of family members and took into account the amount of smoking of those with lung cancer. 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"The main problem is going to be numbers, with the budget Digital-Tunin- Stereo System Save $150 Save $100 Parents join group against state abortion consent laws - WASHINGTON , (AP) The House has approved $28 billion for i a series of revamped housing by an overwhelming vote that could make moot a presidential veto threat. i The vote Wednesday was 37843. The bill includes most of the Bush initiative for enj administration's couraging housing ten- ants to purchase their homes, as i well as provisions sought by housing advocates to of-frental assistance, to help first-itim-e home buyers and to encourage ! construction of new rental housing. j House Republicans joined Demo- icrats in supporting the bill, but key Republicans said they were doing so in hopes the bill would be changed when it goes to House and Sehate conferees to work out cliff in the two chambers' ver- cy wants America to know it's ready to deal. Under mounting political pressure to speed the pace of the thrift cleanup, the Resolution Trust Corp. announced a "clearance sale" Wednesday, aimed at unloading $50 billion in assets from failed S&Ls, L. William Seidman, chairman of the agency, called it an ambitious goal mat, if met, would "move the process along in a really expeditious way." But Rep. Bruce Vento, chairman of a House Banking task force on the bailout, said he wasn't impressed by the sales push, given the huge task ahead. "If you set low expectations, maybe you'll achieve them," Vento said. "It seems to me they're drowning in the job." However, Seidman said, "The RTC operation is a complicated and difficult job. It has taken us a little time to get organized. We are organized now and we are under way." In another S&L development, the franchises represented scant General Accounting Office, Con- progress unless accompanied by gress' auditing and investigative substantial asset sales. 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