University Daily Kansan
Mondav, June 12, 1978
Skylab rescue successful
HOUSTON (UPI)—The space agency has succeeded in an unprecedented attempt to save the Skylab space station from an unscheduled and destructive return to Earth, the team of weary flight controllers who directed the week-long operation says.
"Everything went the way we planned it," said Chuck Wagner. "All is well about airport station Skylab."
Skylab received an extra lease on life yesterday when engineers put the 84-ton station on a streamlined orbital course and drove it gradually dragging it back toward Earth.
The predawn exercise ended an effort that began in March when it appeared that the local police were not responding.
destroyed in the atmosphere as early as
airstater or scattering debris over
3.0mile per hour Exposure.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR Eugene Kranz said yesterday's operation attempted to reduce to a minimum the drag of the relatively few aircraft that exist at $873b's 324 mile altitude in orbit.
"We are where we expected to be and it's looking very good," he said five hours after the ceremony.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space agency scientists have estimated that the operation would add six to 12 months to SkyAirb's stay in orbit, but it could also shorten his career, a spokesman, said it would take six weeks of tracking to verify that prediction.
Rhodesia reports deaths in battle against guerrillas
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP)—Rhodesia's military command reported yesterday that 22 blacks, including nine women and two children, were killed during a battle between security forces and black nationalist guerrillas.
Villagers said: three men, 10 women and nine children were slain.
The action occurred Saturday about 12 miles north of the center of Salisbury when security units who were patrolling a village in a tribal reservation spotted the militant group and communicated said. It did not say whether any Rohdean soldiers were killed or wounded.
The communique said that the guerrillas opened fire first and that in the ensuing action two men, nine women and two juveniles were killed.
"A HUT caught fire and ammunition was heard to explode within the hut," the statement said. "Nine unidentified bodies were later recovered from the hut."
Jairo Nyakudya, a 40-year-old resident of the village, said, "White soldiers dropped from four helicopters and stormed this house from the outside." He pointed to a brick bungalow. Thirteen bodies were laid out in front of it.
"These people ran from outside the house and the soldiers shot them from the yard."
Behind the bungalow, two burned-out mud huts still smouldered.
THE MILITARY communique said Communist-made weapons, loaded magazines and a mortar shell were found in the village after the fight.
That extra time is expected to give space shuttle astronauts a chance to rendezvous with Skyla long after next year and use a nine-foot-long rocket unit to either boost the station into a higher, longer-lasting orbit or controlled dive toward an ocean area.
IN WASHINGTON, John Yardley, associate NASA administrator for space flight, said that agency officials planned to meet with a House appropriations subcommittee late this week to seek the restoration of $20.5 million to the agency's budget to build the 24-nosecraft assembly that would change Skylab's orbit.
He said NASA would continue to watch Skylab's orbit and if it appears that the space shuttle could not be ready in time to save the 118-foot station, the Skylab effort will be halted. The shuttle is temporarily added to make its first space flight next June.
"The SPACE station executed the commands and during about 12 minutes of tracking from our Bermuda and Madrid stations we were able to determine that the station is in good shape," the spokesman said.
Skylab was last manned in early 1974 and it had since been wobbling on orbit until it was stabilized Friday. Radio commands were sent to Skylab at 28 a.m. yesterday completed the operation.
Right controllers continued to watch the spacecraft as it passed within radio range of ground stations to make sure it was performing well in its new position.
"We have no reason to believe it won't do well with this new command," he told reporters.
PRYOR, Okla. (AP) — Almost a year after three young Girl Scouts were bludgeoned to death in their camp tent, prosecutors return to court today to try to prove that Gene Leroy Hart should face trial for the murders.
Hart, 34, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the killings of the three Tulsa-area girls; Lori Lee Farmer, B. Michelle Guse, 9, and Doris Denis Milner, 19. The girls were beaten to death and killed by members of a 19, 1777, while on a two-week encampment.
Scout slaying hearing continues
THE PARENTS of the Farmer and Milner girls have filed lawsuits totaling $3 million against the Magic Empire Council of the Girls Scouts of America.
During the first three days of Hart's preliminary hearing last week, dozens of witnesses were heard. But throughout the often repetitive testimony, Hart's name was seldom mentioned, and there was no sign of a connected linking him directly to the slavings.
It was not until April 6 that Hart was arrested, at a cabin 50 miles from Camp
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someone crept into tent no. 7 and bludgeoned the three girls, then dragged them in their sleeping bags several yards away. A bloody tent and molested them sexually.
So far, testimony has focused on what occurred—rather than who was responsible.
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Knotted cords were found around the necks of two of the girls, one of whom died by strangulation. Two girls had their hands bound behind their backs, one with cord and the other with tape. One of the victims had a gag tied around her head.
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