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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 6, 1990
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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 data 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 eclipse news of the Persian Gulf crisis here yesterday, featuring accusations of usurpation by Iran and the propriety of wiretapping under Jewish law.
It rattled nerves in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's narrow-based coalition Cabinet and renewed tension between Israel's two main communities — Sepharadic 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 hugging the telephone of investigative reporter Mordechai Glat of the newspaper Yediol Ahronot.
A recorder was found on a motorcycle outside Galat's home, with wires running through his pants.
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.
The Associated Press
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 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
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 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 Nations enter to enter the United Nations separately, saying that to do so would perpetuate national division.
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.
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
"I'm happy to be home," said Taleb Subh, 15, of Davenport, Iowa, who had been aunts and aids.
"We welcome these people home." Lucinda Flora, wife of Gov. Jim Fiori, said while present. "We're very happy with you."
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Thursday, September 6, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
At least, that's how Howard Rowland imagines it. He also imagines a meeting between Lang and Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. They're sitting in Goebbels' office, parallelogram of lights on shining on a dauparquet floor. As the propria minister speaks, Llangarst at a large municipal clock outside, a ray of sunlight inching towards his shoe.
NEW YORK — When director Fritz Lang fled Nazi Germany in 1938, he wore a white shirt and brushed the hair out of his eyes, the wind sweeping across his face. He then watched the tracks join each other in two and join together again.
Rodman, who always loved films of the 1940s and '50s, said the Lang film was one of those movies that changed your life.
"Destiny Express" ($17.96, The Atheum) is Rodman's first published novel. It was inspired, appropriately, by one of Lang's movies, during an afternoon in 1982 when Rodman took off from his Manhattan job as a musician to work through the director's classic thriller, "The Testament of Dr. Mabus."
Lang was one of Germany's most celebrated directors until the Nazis
came to power and, Rodman, who had completed a novel about "sex, drugs and politics" in New York, tracked down his other films. He also read books and contemporary reviews.
"Destiny Express," named after Lang's 1921 film, "Destiny," takes place during the director's last days in Germany Fellow artists Bertolt Brecht, Billy Wilder and Max Ophuls are leaving the country, and Goebbels has offered Lang the chance to make propaganda films.
Adapting "Destiny Express" to film is the next step for Rodman. All he had to do was prepare a screenplay, a process painful enough to give him nightmares about parallelograms of light.
"It was the hardest thing I ever had to write," he said. "I had to turn the book inside out in order to do it, find some external equivalent for every literary thing in this book. The book has a cinematic picture. You had to reinvent it from the details. I did it but I never will again."
This is Rodman's equivalent to motivational light, a novel so visual that shadows come to streak across the words stand out like individual frames.