University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 17, 1989
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Courts allow NASA to launch Atlantis
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Atlantis, freed from technical and legal barriers, was declared ready for a launch scheduled for today with its nuclear-powered cargo. NASA said it expected neither weather nor demonstrators to interfere.
"The vehicle is in good shape, the crew is ready to go fly and the weather looks like we'll have a good chance to get airborne." NASA
administrator Richard H. Truly said yesterday. "It's been a long haul for this mission."
The Launch from the seaside pad at the Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 11:57 a.m.
Environmental activists, concerned that an accident could spread nuclear poison into the atmosphere, demonstrated at a gate leading to the Kennedy Space Center headquarters. Eight were arrested.
"This is just only the beginning of the government's plan to use nuclear
power and weapons in space, including in the Star Wars program," said Jane Brown of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice.
The coalition is one of three groups that lost a suit to stop the launch in U.S. District Court last week. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington upheld the ruling yesterday.
The protesters vowed to infiltrate a 30-by-10 mile security zone and stop the launch. NASA had 200 armed security guards in the area, and
there were sea and airborne patrols
Gallileo, weighing 6,700 pounds, will be released from Atlantia' cargo bay $6\frac{1}{2}$ hours after the ship is in orbit, the start of a six-year, 2.4 billion-mile journey to Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
Electricity to run the space probe will come from two nuclear power packs, each loaded with 24.7 pounds of plutonium-238. NASA has used such radioactive fuel on 22 previous flights. Three have been involved in accidents.
Soviets must stop fueling conflicts, Baker says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State James A. Baker III called yesterday for the reunification of Germany and criticized the Soviet Union for "disturbing actions" around the world.
But Baker, in a foreign policy speech, also praised the perestroika, or reconstruction, policy of Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and spoke optimistically of improved U.S. relations with Moscow.
"We are in a time of rising promise," Baker told the private Foreign Policy Association. He cited Gorbala's promises to turn tanks into tractors.
"The prospects for a lasting improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations are better than ever before," Baker said.
Gorbachev's pursuit of perestroika is an admission that "freedom works, communism doesn't," Baker said.
And yet, mixing criticism in with praise, Baker said the Soviets were reluctant to withdraw from regional conflicts.
He said Soviet arm shipsments to Afghanistan and Ethiopia were surging and had doubled in Cambodia since last year.
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"These disturbing actions, this seeming preference for military solutions, may work in the short run to keep a Najibullah or a Hun Sen or a Mengtusu in power," Baker said, referring to the Soviet-back leaders of Afghanistan, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
"In the long run, however, only political solutions based on national reconciliation can settle these conflicts," he added.
BUSH DROPS AX: President Bush signed an order last night cutting federal programs by $1.1 billion after giving up hopes for a last-minute compromise with Congress.
“It’s the law. We're ready to implement it,” said White House press secretary Marlin Flitwater. He said that although the administration had sought to avoid the almost across-the-board cuts triggered by the nation's Gramm-Rudman budget-cutting law, “it might even be good” if the budget ax did fall.
The order Bush signed shortly before 7 p.m., to take effect at midnight, was largely procedural and when the president were automatic under the law.
TRUMP REVAMPS: Donald Trump scrapped his proposed $7 billion offer for AMR Corp. yesterday but said he was still considering making a lower bid for the parent of American Airlines.
"I am currently reviewing all my options with respect to AMR including making another offer at a lower price," the New York-based developer said in a letter to AMR Chairman Robert L. Crandall. Trump had offered to buy AMR for $120 a share.
PROTESTERS ARRESTED: Capitol police arrested 55 protesters yesterday after they blocked the entrance to a House office building, disrupted a House session and staged demonstrations in two congressional offices to protest U.S. military aid to El Salvador.
About 200 demonstrators rallied outside the Capitol, then marched to the Rayburn House Office Building carrying banners denouncing right-wing death squalls and U.S. aid to El Salvador.
One protester suffered a bloody nose during the arrests, but there were no other injuries. Capitol Police spokesman Dan Nichols
EAST GERMANS MARCH: At least 100,000 pro-democracy demonstrators marched peacefully through downtown Leipzig last night during the largest protest in communist East Germany's 40-year history.
For the first time, state-run East German media promptly reported such a protest, saying that "tens of thousands of citizens" had joined the march.
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