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Shuttle launch delayed again after fuel leaks found on ship
University Daily Kansan / Thursday September 6,1990
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.
JERUSALEM — A scandal dubbed Israel's Watergate eclipse news of the Persian Gulf crisis here yesterday, featuring accusations of insider involvement. The propriety of wristapping under Jewish law
Israeli wiretapping scandal rocks government and media
It rattled nerves in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's narrow-based coalition 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 Gilat of the newsaper Yediot Ahronot.
A recorder was found on a motorcycle outside Gilat's home, with wires running through his phone. A camera was attached.
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 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.
South Korean spokesperson Kim Hyung-ki said in a briefing that mutual recognition is "necessary
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.
to ease mutual distrust and improve relations" between the countries.
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.
He also said that 10 North Koreans, including Prime Minister Yon Hoyng Muk, would visit South Korean President Roh Tae-woo later today at the presidential mansion.
Koreas in meetings
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.
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.
The Associated Press
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, saying that to do so would perpetuate national division.
U.S. hostages come home
"We welcome these people home." Lucinda Florio, wife of Gov. Jim Florio, said while presenting yellow roses to Nithal Geo, who was traveling from Iraq with her three children, ages 14 and 9.
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.
The Associated Press
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 visiting aunts and uncles in Kuwait when Iraq invaded the country Aug. 2.
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