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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.
JERUSALEM — A scandal dubbed Israel's Watergate epeded news of the Persian Gulf crisis here yesterday, featuring accusations of the government of Iran, 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 Glat of the newsman Yodil Alhotro.
A recorder was found on a motorcycle outside Giatt's home, with wires running through his phone.
Koreas in meetings
The Associated Press
South Korea thinks mutual recognition would be practical and would allow both nations to coexist until unification of the peninsula could be achieved.
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.
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.
Their final 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.
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.
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.
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 representation of the rival communist North government, 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, sayting 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.
The Associated Press
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 present.
"I'm happy to be home," said Taleb Subh, 15, of
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EXCURSIONS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SEPTEMBER 6, 1990
KU vital to theaters
By Jamie Elliott
Movies are big business in Lawrence, and for the city's five theaters, students play an important role in the big picture.
Kansan staff writer
Sixty-eight percent of KU students attend a movie at least once a month and four out of 10 to market study commission last year by the University Dandy Kanari conducted by Belden Associates.
These numbers mean big bucks to Lawrence theaters — at least $60,000 a month and more than half a million dollars a year.
"Students are our bread-and-batter customers," said Rance Blam, manager of the Varsity Theater, 101 Massachusetts St. The 16-21 age group makes up 75 percent of our audience, on average."
Tim Griffith, manager of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., estimated that students made up
Even though KU students are steady customers, theaters still have trouble predicting which movies will interest them.
Student admission at Liberty Hall is $4
"I varies with the films," Griffif said. "But the 18-24 age group is a pretty heavy movie-going crowd."
40 to 60 percent of Liberty Hall's movie business.
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