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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 6, 1990
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 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.
The launch crew immediately began trying to isolate the leak. No new launch date was set.
Israeli wiretapping scandal rocks government and media
JERUSALEM — A scandal rubbed Israel's Watergate eclipse news of the Persian Gulf crisis here yesterday, featuring accusations of insider trading and the propriety of wiretapping 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 Gilat of the newsman Yediot Ahronot.
A recorder was found on a motorcycle outside Gatl's home, with wires running through his wrist.
Koreas in meetings
The Associated Press
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.
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 steadily 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
to ease mutual distrust and improve relations" between the countries.
He also said that 10 North Koreans, including Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk, would visit South Korean President Roh Tae-woo later today at the presidential mansion.
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.
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.
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, 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 States enter to enter the United Nations separately, saying that to do so would perpetuate national division.
U.S. hostages come home
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.
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.
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"We welcome these people home," Lucinda Florio wife of Gov Jim Florio, said while presenting yellow roses to Nital George, who was
"I'm happy to be home," said Taleb Sabch, 15, of Davenport, Iowa, who had been visiting aunts and
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Conductor to include more recent works
By Jamie Elliott
Gregory Fried doesn't want to scare anybody.
As the new conductor of the KU Symphony Orchestra, Fried has announced his intention to include many maskers in the orchestra's repertoire.
"Some people hear that and are scared," he said "They grean. But they don't outland in any way. These will be works that the audience will love immediately. And I like doing works that the audience and students will enjoy.
Though traditionalists may be skeptical, Fried insists that it is his duty to expose students to a repertoire that includes latter-day composers.
"There is a lot of standard repertoire that is maybe not as familiar, but they are very important to some of the old warhorses," he said. "Many of these newer pieces have been written."
One 20th-century piece that will be performed at the orchestra's first concert is Leonard Bernstein's "On the Waterfront."
"The effects in it range from romantic to chilling." Fried said. "But it's not performed as much as, say, 'West Side Story.'"
Fred Souder, a bass player with the orchestra, said the players were reaching favorably to the new music and the new conductor.
Greg Fried is the new director of the KU Symphony Orchestra.
Fried was hired as a replacement for Jorge Perez-Gomez, who left last spring for the University of New Mexico.
An Omaha, Neb. native, Fried did not begin his musical career as a conductor. Instead, he began as a violinist and later studied while still in high school. After Fried earned a degree in violin performance from Indiana University, he began graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he became interested in conducting.
"Everyone likes it, as far as I know," he said. "He's really good-humored and enthusiastic, and he's given many ways to make the orchestra more fun."
"I decided that I would be much more marketable if I could conduct and play," he said. "My first two jobs involved conducting, and I realized
that I was going in the direction of conducting."
Fried completed his master degree in violin and orchestral conducting and became a teacher/conductor at the University of Wisconsin, where he served as the director of orchestral activities at Trinity University and the University of Wisconsin/Stevensville. He earned a doctorate in orchestral conducting in 1898, while at Wisconsin.
Fried said that the performers were not the only ones in for a positive experience.
"People who don't come to the concerts are going to be missing a thrilling experience, with a capital K." said it. "It's going to be a great year."
The orchestra's first concert will be 8 p.m. Oct. 21 at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Reggae band together again
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
It has been 10 years since the original three members of Black Ubaru, an internationally acclaimed group, went their separate ways.
But the members have come full circle, reunning in 1990 to release a new album and start a tour that will bring them to Lawrence Sept. 11.
The group will perform at Liberty Hall as part of its second U.S. tour this year.
Tickets for the Black Uhuru concert are on sale at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. The tickets are $16 for general admission. People must drink the show will begin at 8 p.m. with an opening act to be announced.
Black Uhuru was formed in the mid-'70s by Duckie Simpson, Don Carlos and Garth Dennis. When Carles and Dennis went their separate ways before the end of the decade, Simpson remained to recruit Michael (Dunbar) and Robbie (Shakespeare) and female vocalist Puma Jones.
It was this incarnation of Black History Month, called "Red" in June 1981. The album was named in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Great Albums of the '80s."
Black Uhuru's new album, "Now," which was released earlier this year.
is still hovering on the Billboard World Chart at No. 6, and a new dub release, which came out Aug. 21, is expected to appear on the charts next week, said Lise LaFonte, marketing manager for Meca Records in Los Angeles.
The members of Black Uhuru.
"We played a show in D.C. for all ages, and even the crippled, blind and deaf outed out," said Ras Jr., a member of the band.
Though the band's lineup has changed considerably since its original formation, Ras said the band still performed some of its old music in
Black Hurun is touring the United States for the second time this year in support of the new dub release, and is welcoming out crowds all over the United States.
"We do some of the old stuff," he said. "The same vibration was there at the beginning, and it's still there
now. The group is much stronger. We are all one family, and our unity is strong."
The dub release features an acid house remix of "Reggae Rock" by a disco jacket in Manchester, England. Bli McNally, retail marketing coordinator at Reggae Rock, will soon released together as a 12-inch single.
"I think it will really go over big in the dance clubs." McNally said, adding that the académie rosaux will be one of thechester scene is a whole different sound. They've been playing it in the theater and Washington, and it's a big success.
"Take Heed," a track from the "Now' album, is also featured on the soundtrack album from "Men at Maceen" and Sheen Estevez and Sheen Shieen.
While Black Unuru may be enjoying success in the present with its current album and sold out tour, Ras's greater ground in the United States.
"No Black reggae group has made it big in America," he said. "Eric McCormack and his friends listens 'Same with UH40. But unless the music spreads, it will go."
The "Now" album was released the same week Nelson Mandela was freed.