October 8, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily KANSAN
East Germans seek refuge in West German embassy
BONN, West Germany — About 50 East Germans have slipped into the West German Embassy in Prague since it was closed Thursday, bringing to 140 the number of refugees holed up in the mission. The embassy is to the West, news reports said yesterday.
The refugees sleep on chairs and floors and share four toilets with the embassy's 10 diplomats, the West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.
The incident is an embarrassment for East Berlin, whose communist leadership this weekend was celebrated the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the East German state.
Teacher's credentials restored
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Friday restored the credentials of a teacher fired for writing passionate homosexual letters to a 17-year-old male student.
Robin R. Heil, who was a high school teacher in the Kern County community of Ridgecrest, was fired in 1979 by the local school district after the boy's mother gave the letters to the district. Some of the letters reportedly threatened suicide if the boy did not return Heil's affection.
Beached pilot whales buried
EASTHAM, Mass. — Ninety-four pilot whales that mysteriously beached themselves in a marshy inlet on Cape Cod were towed to a nearby beach yesterday for a research expedition.
The landing was one of the biggest in recent years, said a spokeswoman for the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn.
Many of the whales, 15 to 20 feet long and weighing up to 2,000 pounds, died overnight in the tidal inlet. Those still alive were injected with a lethal substance.
Yoko to air tribute to Lennons
NEW YORK - Yoko Ono said yesterday she will pay tribute to her slain husband, ex-Beatle John Lennon, and their 8-year-old son in a national radio broadcast celebrating the father's and son's birthday.
Sean Ono Lennon was born on Oct. 9, 1975. John Lennon's 35th birthday. Five years later, the elder Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman.
Ono, 51, said the upbeat radio show Tuesday night was expected to reach more than 10 million listeners on 50 stations across the country.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Shuttle sends back radar pictures
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ace commander Robert Crippen salvaged Challenger's radar explorations yesterday, allowing the shuttle to beam back unmatched radar pictures of scientific targets around the globe.
Like a searchlight seeking out an airplane, the shuttle was maneuvered until the radio beam from its jammed dish antenna hit a relay satellite 22,000 miles higher. The satellite in turn transmitted the radar results to scientists on Earth.
It meant scientists should be able to receive many hours of data produced by radar waves bouncing off deserts, rain forests, oceans, mountains and ice packs despite the radar problem.
TO GATHER MORE radar information, flight controllers delayed until Thursday a spacewalk that had been planned for tomorrow would practice in refuelling operations.
the dish antenna so it won't fly about during the trip back to Earth, but the radar antenna must be folded up first and that would end its observations.
Officials want the spacewalkers to tie down
Crippen, Jon McBride, David Leestma, Kathryn Sullivan, Sally Ride, Marc Gareau and Paul Scully-Power remain scheduled to land saturation at the Kennedy Space Center, only a few miles from their oceanside launch pad.
Controllers in Houston planned to operate the radar on and off while the astronauts slept last night. One target was the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya where anthropologists are looking for clues to settlements by early man.
THE ASTRONAUTS transmitted three batches of radar information totaling an hour's worth of observations before they were launched. The aircraft overlaps 5-mile strips of the Earth in one second.
The radar results can only be transmitted by using the dish antenna. Its ability to automatically seek out the relay satellite quit automatically after the Challenger blasted away from Florida.
NASA SPOKESMAN Henry Fuhmann said the modified radar transmission system meant that only 12 to 15 hours of the originally planned 50 hours of radar data would be obtained, but he said that would cover 70 percent of the key targets.
The initial radar data sent back yesterday contained images made Saturday of targets in the Sahara Desert in Egypt, in cloudshrouded eastern Peru, in Europe and in a swab of the Indian Ocean off South Africa.
Yesterday's radar targets included Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States.
THE ASTRONAUTS EARLIER yesterday lowered the ship's orbit by 139 miles to improve the radar observations. This produced a spectacular show for the crew as the ship swept through the very thin fringes of atmosphere south of Australia.
Ride said that when the ship's big maneuvering dockets fired, "We saw a real bright red glow show up on the vertical tail. It was really pretty."
SPACE CENTER HOUSTON - Blindfolded Canadian Experiment Studies to measure Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex on astronaut Marc Gurrene does a Space Adaptation Syndrome the middeck of the Challenger.
U.S. airline denies plane neared base
By United Press International
A U.S. airline denied yesterday that one of its planes carrying 200 people strayed dangerously close to a sensitive Soviet military area, but Norwegian aviation authorities stuck to their story and said they were investigating.
"They were not heading toward the area," said Grace Wray, president of South Pacific Island Airways at the airline's headquarters in Honolulu. "The plane was receiving guidance from Norwegian radar controllers."
Norwegian military spokesmen said the chartered jetliner on a flight from Anchorage to Amsterdam and Tel Aviv veered directly toward the sensitive Kola Peninsula Sept. 30 with 200 people aboard, including 110 Fiji men for the U.N. force in southern Lebanon.
Wray said the captain and crew of the plane were never told anything was amiss, even when Norwegian jet fighters were flying over them and escort the airliner away from the area.
"They did not tell us the plane was headed toward any other area than they were supposed to be headed toward." Wray said. "We were under positive guidance radar, and they tell you to take this direction here, then change to that direction there, and so forth."
But a Norwegian military spokesman said, "Flying east of Greenland, south of Svalbard, and 200 miles north of Norway, the navy directly headed for the Kola Peninsula."
In Washington, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Edmund Pinto said he did not know of the incident.
The Kola peninsula has an extensive network of naval, submarine and strategic nuclear weapons bases and is considered one of the Soviet Union's most strategic areas.
On Sept. 1, 1983, all 269 passengers of a Korean Airlines LBOeing 747 perished when Soviet fighters shot the aircraft down after it landed near Seoul during a flight from Anchorage to Seoul
A spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Timor Goksel, said the plane was carrying 110 Fijian troops for the U.N. force in southern Lebanon and later arrived safely in Tel Aviv after stops in Copenhagen and Amsterdam.
"If there had been any real serious problems, we would have heard about it from the State Department proton," said Wray.
ATTENTION VOLLEYBALL AND INDOOR SOCCER MANAGERS
1. All individuals who are football or softball managers or those who don't have a team to play on must attend a manager's meeting as follows:
Tue.Oct.9,6:15 p.m.Volleyball
Tue.Oct.9,7:15 p.m.Indoor Soccer
Held in North Gym, Robinson Center Must have a KU ID to enter Robinson
2. Recreation Services will be using instant scheduling for all activities for this school year. 1984-85. On the night of the manager's meeting, all team managers and interested individuals will be given entry forms and rosters. No rosters will be turned in and no entry fees will be paid on Oct. 9. Beginning Wed. Oct. 10-Thur. Oct. 11 from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. individuals will come to Robinson 208 to sign up their teams on a master schedule. First come, first serve basis. Entry fees must be paid at this time. Individuals who do not enter a team after the Oct. 11, 5 p.m. deadline will be put on a waiting list. Schedules will be posted after 3 p.m. Fri., Oct. 12 outside 208 Robinson.
3. All intramural volleyball and indoor soccer leagues will begin Mon., Oct. 15. Volleyball will be played in the new Robinson Gymnasiums, and Indoor Soccer will be played in Old North Gym, Robinson Center.
4. Recreation Services Staff appreciates your cooperation with the scheduling changes. For more information, contact 208 Robinson or call 864-3546.