University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 19, 1989
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Atlantis lifts off successfully
By the Associated Press
Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis finally lifted off yesterday on its controversial mission to send the nuclear-powered Galileo probe to Jupiter for the closest look yet at the colossus of the solar system.
"You looked marvelous going up." Mission Control told commander Don Williams as the winged spacecraft reached orbit after two launch postponements.
"I feel a lot better." Williams said.
for a new buyer. Williams said,
The Gallileo's troubles - including
money problems during the years and
recent protests over its nuclear power
supply - were left behind, and the
probe was ready to begin its six-year,
2. 4 billion-mile roundabout journey to Jupiter.
The astronauts were to release the probe from Atlantis' cargo bay later in the day. The shuttle circled Earth at an altitude of 184 miles.
Although concern over the Galileo's 449.4-pound plutonium power supply was argued in court, it drew no protesters at the Kennedy Space Center on launch day. Environmentalists had argued that a Challenger-like accident could scatter deadly plutonium-238 over Florida.
Nothing like that happened yesterday, and even the weather cooperated. Clouds and rain threatened to halt the launch until the last minutes of the countdown, but the clouds suddenly
fissipated and the shuttle darted into a bright blue sky, trailing a 700-foot geyser of fire.
The 132-ton Atlantis has a crew of five for the mission that ends Monday with a landing at Dewares Air Force Base in California at 2:38 p.m. EDT.
The $1.5 billion mission already was seven years behind schedule when Atlantis was grounded by rain at the last minute Tuesday and by a faulty engine computer last week.
"It feels great," said NASA chief scientist Lennard Fisk after liftoff. "It's been a long time."
Williams' crew consists of pilot Mike McCulley and mission specialists Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz and Shannon Lucid.
Market selloff highlights volatility
New York - As Wall Street marks the second anniversary of Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, investors big and small have just gotten a refresher course in the hazards of "playing the market."
After last week's Friday-the-13th selloff that drove the Dow Jones industrial average down 190 points, it looked as if stocks were heading for something similar to the record 508-point crash that occurred two years ago.
The market has since settled down.
By the Associated Press
gradually allaying those fears. In yesterday's trading, Dow Jones's average of 30 big-name stocks rose 4.92 to 2,643.65, bringing its net gain during the past three days to 74.39 points.
But if the steady showing came as a relief, it did not necessarily provide much reassurance for anyone who follows the ups and downs of stock prices.
Indeed, the image of Wall Street as a sort of upscale gambling den has been reinforced in many minds by the latest fluctuations. To individual investors, who have been withdrawing more
money than they put into direct stock holdings for the past two decades, stocks are widely seen as "too risky" and "to too volatile."
While nobody disputes that risk and volatility are facts of life in stock investing, long-time students of the market say the perils are often viewed in a distorted light.
Volatility - the tendency of stock prices to rise and fall dramatically in short periods of time- has drawn more and more attention in recent years with advances in technology and the concentration of large amounts of capital.
Pair of earthquakes rattle China
By the Associated Press
Beijing - A series of earthquakes rattled northern China late yesterday and early today, killing at least 18 people and flattening about 8,000 homes in a largely rural area, authorities said.
The quakes struck less than 24 hours after a major temblor hit the San Francisco Bay area. Officials of the State Seismological Bureau said the quakes were not related to the California tremor.
Most homes and other buildings in rural China are of flimsy construction and could be topped easily by strong quakes. However, it was thought the quakes affected sparsely populated areas.
The bureau said the five tremors -
registering up to 6.0 on the Richter scale - shook an area along the Shanxi Habei provincial border and that at least 28 people had been injured. It was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency on the deaths and damage.
The firstquake, measuring 5.7, shook areas of the two provinces about 135 miles west of Beijing late yesterday.
The quake was felt in the capital, but there were no reports of damage and the bureau said there was no need to take safety measures in the city.
populated area.
A second trembler of 6.0 struck the same region about two hours later, and another earthquake measuring 5.4 was recorded just before dawn today. Seismologists recorded two other quakes at least 5.0, tremors capable of doing considerable damage in a
Xinhua earlier quoted Seismological Bureau sources as reporting another earthquake early today in China's far west region of Xinjiang and Gansu.
Earthquakes are frequent in China, with the most recent serious tremor injuring 54 people and destroying 4,000 homes in southwest China's Sichuan province last month.
However, bureau officials later said they had not confirmed any tremors in the sparsely populated desert area.
Five earthquake, measuring up to 6.7 on the Richter scale, struck western Sichuan in a three-week period in June and July, killing 11 people.
China's worst earthquake in recent history leveled the northeast city of Tangshan in 1976, leaving 240,000 dead by official count.
Flag amendment burns Democrats
By the Associated Press
Washington - Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell, gaining confidence that a constitutional amendment to ban burning the U.S. flag will be defeated, said Tuesday that it was tragic that President Bush had championed the measure.
"The Bill of Rights has never been amended or tampered with in 200 years of our nation's history and now, tragically, the president of the United States himself . . . is leading the effort
to change the Bill of Rights," Mitchell, the Senate majority leader from Maine, told a group of reporters.
"Just a minute, I'm just getting warmed up," a broadly grinning Mitchell declared when a reporter tried to ask a question about an unrelated issue.
Mitchell said it was "most unfortunate" that Bush had campaigned for the amendment and said the measure sought "to force Americans to choose between the flag and the Constitution."
they do revere the Constitution and they can do both," Mitchell said.
The Senate planned to vote on the amendment this morning.
Critics say it would curb freedom of speech. Proponents call it the only way to prevent recurrence of the Supreme Court ruling in June that held existing law against flag burning unconstitutional.
Bush has been the most visible champion of the measure while Senate Democrats have provided the bulk of the opposition.
"Americans do revere the flag and
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