University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1985
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Shuttle to activate satellite
By United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Astronauts and engineers at the Johnson Space Center worked at all hours of the night and day designing practical ways for the Discovery space crew to activate a lifesaving satellite
"We're just doing the best we can we've got." we飞招 director John W. Bracken
Space agency and Hughes Communications Inc. officials originally planned to put an astronaut on the end of the shuttle's robot arm to snaag on the 9-foot-tall, 15,200-pound S-yncom communications satellite.
Dressed in space suits Sunday, astronauts Bruce McCandless and George Nelson easily grabbed the lever and pulled it out as a wood and Styrofoam mock-up of the 14-foot statue turned twice every minute.
ALTHOUGH THE MODEL al-
ready was at the space center,
Hughes had to fly in a duplicate lever
to be added. Modifications also had to
be made to suspend the dummy satellite. An employee kept it spinning by milling on a rope.
Earlier Sunday, astronauts Jerry Ross and Woodward "Woody" Spring worked underwater in space suits to the end of the strait to the end of the robot arm.
If the shuttle astronaut on the end of the arm, who would have been Jeffrey Hoffman or David Griggs, had been pushed into the massive satellite or his space suit was torn, he wouldn't say that guy could be saved." Cox said.
But during the afternoon, officials decided that placing an astronaut close to the spinning and fuel-laden satellite was too dangerous.
THOUGHTS HITS THENURNED to developing a tool to be attached to the end of the shuttle's robot arm that could be used to snare the lever, which is supposed to stick out about 1 inch from the side of the satellite.
Working within the constraint that whatever they developed had to be made with items available on the shuttle, members of the "in-flight maintenance team" started brainstorming.
Robbie Robbins, Jerry Johnson and Tom Pierson hit on the idea late Sunday to devise a "fly swatter" made from the flexible white plastic covers on the crew's instruction manuals. One cover was rolled into a cone shape and taped with ordinary gray duck tape. Three holes were cut in another cover, leaving a laddershaded outline.
The two pieces of plastic were taped together and attached to an expandable rod the astronaut uses on off to reach out-of-the-way switches.
Astronauts Sally Ride, who is one of the most experienced operators of the robot arm, and Mary Cleave, who has yet to fly on her first mission, were called in late Sunday night to test the idea in the shuttle simulator.
Ride and Cleave worked into the pre-dawn hours yesterday successfully dragging the plastic snare along the side of the satellite.
Meanwhile, space center employees continued work on an alternate fly swatter and Ross and astronaut-candidate Mark Lee practiced attaching the fly swatter to the end of the robot arm in the water tank.
UNICEF head cites U.N. progress
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. health programs saved the lives of 1 million children in 1984, the executive director for the United Nations Children's Fund said yesterday, but Africa was still confronted with "immense" problems.
James Grant, the director, said. "Lives are being saved."
"The World Health Organization calculates that 500,000 children did not die of dehydration due to diarrhea in 1984 who would have died they not been treated with the revolutionary oral dehydration therapy."
Grant said WHO also estimated that "at least another 500,000 child deaths were prevented in 1984 by immunization against communicable
GRANT TOLD THE agency's executive board that progress had been made to ensure that deaths
among children would be cut by two-thirds by 1990 from the current monthly toll of 1.000.
UNICEF had to increase its staff in Africa by 100 last year to meet emergency demands from the drought and severe famine plagues more than 20 African countries, Grant said.
He said the staff increase was in line with an increase of UNICEF's total program expenditure in Africa for 2017, and that it outpaced our expanding capacity to deliver.
In Ethiopia, where the famine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, UNICEF has been carrying out extensive immunization programs of children and. Grant said, virtually all of them would be immunized by July.
"By 1990, the health of children should be so improved that the 1984 death toll of 1,000 per month should be reduced by two-thirds," he said.
Grant said the Nigerian government had launched a nationwide
He said debt problems may have slowed governmental efforts to save their children and quoted Kenyan President Julius Nyerere's haunting question, " must we starve our children to pay our debts?"
"But I dare not end on too positive a note," Grant said. "Africa's problems remain immense and multi-faceted."
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Officials tour Nicaraguan base
after a meeting with a separate delegation of U.S. senators, said the visit would enable the congressmen "to inform themselves if there was an opportunity to offensive nature or threaten the security of the United States."
By United Press International
Managua on the shores of Lake Managua.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Two members of the House Intelligence Committee visited a recently finished air base yesterday, the first time U.S. congressmen have ever been permitted to visit a restricted Nicaraguan military base.
At the same time, President Daniel Ortega said he would ease political restrictions if a $14 million aid bill to U.S.-backed guerrillas was voted down in Congress.
House Intelligence Committee members Rep. Bob Stump, R-Ariz. and Rep. Dave McCurdy, D-Dakla. made a five-hour visit to Punta Hueta, Nicaragua's new air force base 12 miles west of
The visit was arranged in a two-hour meeting with Ortega Sunday night.
"THAT'S an awfully permanent facility if you're talking about the demilitarized of Central America." Curdy told UPI after he returned.
ORTEGA SAID HE would be "morally obligated" to make political concessions if Congress voted against the $14 million deal with the Contra rebels fighting the leftist Nicaraguan government.
Ortega declined to say what the concessions might entail.
The congressmen said the airport, which was completed two months ago, was not yet operational.
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The Reagan administration has attacked the Sandinistas for building the air base, which has the longest runway in Central America and will be able to accommodate any fighter jet in either the American or Soviet arsenal.
Ortega, speaking to reporters
The meeting with the senators — Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Carl Levin, D-Mich, and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. — was described by Ortega as "clear, frank and direct."
Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman also told a seminar of conservative tax experts that he considered Internal Revenue Service rules for keeping track of business vehicles ridiculous, an unusually blunt statement for the man nominally in charge of the IRS.
Treasury official predicts reform
WASHINGTON — The No. 2 man at the Treasury Department said yesterday that frustrated his collar workers, resentful of tax breaks they do not enjoy, will be a moving force of tax passage of tax reform legislation.
By United Press International
Darman, a top presidential assistant who moved to the Treasury Department with his boss, Treasury
"Many have worked their way up from blue-collar backgrounds; they have changed clothes," he said, "yet they still have not significantly changed their place.
White collar workers, now almost 55 percent of the work force, are caught up in what might seem a quiet con game, Darman said.
Intellectual arguments are not enough to push tax reform through Congress, he said.
Secretary James Baker, said the emotions of resentment and frustration among millions of make-believe capitalists would fuel a historic change to a tax system that was less progressive.
tration's tax program, which he implied is less generous to corporate executives, because they sense that the government's operational operation is often not progressive.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood, in a statement of reassurance yesterday to an FIAC-COI Building and Construction Trustee, that he would oppose any tax reform plan, which tried to tax fringe benefits.
Darman said the more than 50 million white collar workers constituted legions of quiet populists, many who were living out lives of frustrated hopes.
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