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Shuttle launch delayed again after fuel leaks found on ship
NASA scrubbed the launch of space shuttle Columbia yesterday after discovering a leak as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were being pumped into the fuel tank.
The decision was made after unacceptably high concentrations of hydrogen were found in the shuttle's aft compartment, said space agency spokesperson Lisa Malone.
The launch crew immediately began trying to isolate the leak. No new launch date was set.
The shuttle's launch was scrubbed in May because of a hydrogen leak and again last week because of communication problems with one of the shuttle's instruments.
Israeli wiretapping scandal rocks government and media
JERUSALEM — A scandal dubbed Israel's Watergate edhoped news of the Persian Gulf crisis here yesterday, featuring accusations of a plot to seize control of the propriety of wristapping under Jewish law.
It rattled nerves in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's narrow-based cabinet Cabinet and renewed tension between Israel's two main communities — Sephardic Jews from Africa and the Middle East and Ashkanazim of European origin.
The scandal began last week with reports that five people were held on suspicion of bugging the telephone of investigative reporter Mordechai Glat of the newspaper Yediot Ahronom.
A recorder was found on a motorcycle outside ollat's home, with wires running through his head.
Gorbachev, Bush plan meeting at former site of Berlin Wall
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will travel to Berlin for next month's German unification ceremonies, East German radio reported yesterday.
DDR-Rundunk, in a report from Moscow, gave Gorbachev hoped to shake President Bush's hand at the Brandeburg gate near the former site of the Berlin Wall. The Oct. 3 meeting would signify an "end of the postwar era," and the ado report, it cited "well-informed sources."
Caroline Meirs-Ostering, spokesperson for the U.S. diplomatic mission in West Berlin, said she was aware of speculation Bush that would attend the ceremony.
- From The Associated Press
Koreas in meetings
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea today proposed that the two Koreas officially recognize each other's governments, but the communist North was not likely to accept.
South Korean Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon initially made the offer yesterday at the first talks ever between prime ministers of the hostile nations, but the proposal was not acted upon.
The Associated Press
Their final closed-door session started today with the seven official delegates of both sides sitting across from one another at a conference table in a hotel ballroom.
North Korea has steadfastly refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Seoul government, maintaining that such a policy would perpetuate the division of the peninsula, split in 1945.
South Korea thinks mutual recognition would be practical and would allow both nations to coexist until unification of the peninsula could be achieved.
Moreover, the South says the North has given tacit recognition by agreeing to hold the historic talks, the highest-level contact ever held between the nations.
South Korean spokesperson Kim Hyung-ki said in a briefing that mutual recognition is "necessary"
He also said that 10 North Korea, including Prime Minister Von Hyon Muk, would visit South Korean President Roh Tae-woo later today at the presidential mansion.
to ease mutual distrust and improve relations" between the countries.
That meeting would mark the first time the leader of South Korea has received an official representative of the rival communist North Korea, since separate governments were formed in 1948.
Riot police fired tear gas to block the students from marching off campus. Several students and police were injured, and at least five students were arrested.
During yesterday's meeting, about 1,000 radical students marched through Seoul, shouting anti-U.S., anti-government slogans and hurling rocks and firebombs at riot police.
During yesterday's meeting, North Korea demanded that South Korea release jailed dissidents and stop joint military exercises with the United States. The North also demanded that the United Nations enter to enter the United Nations separately, sayting that to do so would perpetuate national division.
The Associated Press
U.S. hostages come home
NEWARK, N.J. — Twenty four Americans held hostage in the Persian Gulf arrived in the United States yesterday, weary from a 20-hour flight but thrilled to be back.
"I'm happy to be home," said Taleb Subb, 15, of Davenport, Iowa, who had been visitants and uncles in Kuwait when Iraq invaded the country Aug. 2.
He said he went to the U.S. Embassy, where officials "snuck" him to Bahdad.
"they took care of me," Subb said. He was among five men, nine women and 10 children who flew home aboard a Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 747
The group was among 29 Americans who began the journey to freedom Tuesday in Jordan, said Lori Levin, an airline spokesperson. She said she did not know why five of the Americans decided to stop in London rather than make the flight to Newark.
Norik Checkosky of Middletown, N.J., came to the airport to meet her mother. Zachary Gibbon in Gainesville, Fla., followed him.
"Right now, she seems physically ill." Checko-
ky said. "She looks very bad."
her she learned in a telephone call from her mother Tuesday that the freedom plane would arrive.
"She said she was just fine, tired but fine."
Cheeked said
The plane landed about 3:20 p.m. at Newark
International Airport, and passengers had to spend at least an hour passing through U.S. Customs before they could leave the airport or catch connecting flights.
"We welcome these people home," Lucinda Florio, wife of Gov. Jim Florio, said while presenting yellow roses to Nithal Mengo, who was an assistant teacher in children, ages 11 and 7, and en route to San Jose, California.
Representatives of the American Red Cross met the former hostages at the airport to smooth their
"We'll make flight arrangements," said Jane Frotten, director of emergency services for the Institute of Emergency Medicine.
The Americans, who were among 11,000 Western thought to be stranded in Kuwait and Iraq, traveled through Amman, Jordan, and London before arriving in Newark.
The plane, loaded with medical supplies and food, had flown to Jordan on Monday and had clearance to land in Baghdad but was unable to do so because the supplies would have violated the trade embargo against Iraq. Levin said the supplies, 2½ tons of flour, 25,000 blankets, and 2½ tons of medical supplies, were requested by Jordan's King Hussein.
The hostages, freed by Iraq, made their way to Jordan for the flight home
Though hundreds of Westerners were allowed to leave Baghdad yesterday and Tuesday, Iraq irradiated the city.
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 6, 1990
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