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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Aug. 29, 1985
Shuttle prepares to rescue satellite
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two space mechanics gave their approval to electronic repair gear aboard the space shuttle Discovery yesterday, setting the stage for Saturday's attempt to salvage an $85 million satellite marooned in orbit since April.
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Discovery slowly closed in on the disabled Syncom 3 military communications station, and by yes, the equipment was less than 4,600 miles apart.
Jay Greene, flight director, said he was optimistic that spacewalkers William Fisher and James van Hoffen would be able to wrestle the 7.5-ton satellite out of the spacecraft for the necessary repair operations.
Commander Joe Engle and the Discovery crew planned to launch their third and final satellite this morning and then turn their full attention to the rescue operation. The last satellite was another Syncom, this one modified to prevent the starting-system malfunction that crippled its predecessor.
"As I get closer to it, my level of optimism is going up," he said. "I think we're going to do all this."
Van Hoffen, a veteran spacewalker who helped fix the Solar Max sun-watching satellite last year, will stand on the end of Discovery's mechanical arm to grab the broken Syncom 3 satellite. John Lounge will operate the arm while co-plot Richard Covey and Engo maneuver Discovery.
Fisher, a medical doctor, and van Hoften, an engineer with a
Ph.D., have two electronic boxes aboard to bypass the failed electronics aboard Syncm 3. Only one will be used. The other is a spare. Fisher said both passed their tests yesterday.
The two repairmen also charged batteries and checked out primary and backup units that will be installed temporarily on Syncom 3 to supply power to activate some systems aboard the Syncom.
"The finding is, we've got a good complete set of salvage equipment," reported Brian Welsh in mission control after the test results were evaluated. "All the equipment checked out and is for EVA." EVA stands for "extra-active activity," or a spacewalk.
A power unit in the triple-tipped robot arm failed shortly after Discovery's blastoff Tuesday, and Lounge will have to operate the arm using a slower backup system. This may delay the spacewalk, and Greene said it was possible that the repair would have to be completed during a second spacewalk on Sunday.
If the job can complete just one walk in space, Discovery will land Monday after sunrise in California's desert. A second spacewalk would delay the landing until before dawn Tuesday.
The crew slept late yesterday after their launch day. They were awakened to the tune of 'Waltzing Matilda' as they passed over Australia. On their next pass over the island continent, Engle reported he could see the lights of Perth and the Western Australian city of Geraldton.
Phone tip leads police to car
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LOS ANGELES — An anonymous telephone tip to police yesterday led investigators to an orange Toyota station wagon thought to be used by the so-called "Night Stalker" in his latest attack.
"This morning at 7 a.m. the LAPD took into custody an orange Toyota with license plates 482-RTS that ended for," Cndr. William Booth said.
Booth said the car was found abandoned in the Ramparts area of Los Angeles, a rundown area near downtown, heavily populated by immigrants and torn by street gang warfare.
He said a helpful citizen tipped police to the car's location.
The car was stolen in Chinatown on Aug. 24 and was seen in suburban Orange County near the scene of the host attack on a Mission Viejo couple.
Hollywood man, Bill Gregory, 56, a member of the West Hollywood Vineyard Christian Fellowship church. Gregory said that he had left his job to work in the car and that the church has been receiving crank calls ever since.
The car was registered to a West
The Rev. Johnathan Smith, pastor of the church, said he had received a half-dozen telephone calls from someone who refused to speak but did listen for a time before hanging up.
"Maybe he's calling up and really wants to talk to someone." Smith said. "I just sort of talk to the oerson."
Investigators have launched the largest statewide manhunt in a decade for the killer. San Francisco homicide inspectors were expected to meet yesterday with Orange County and Los Angeles detectives to discuss the attacks by the curly haired man who is thought to have murdered 14 people and brutally
attacked dozens of others.
The killer's last victim, Bill Carrns, 29, who recently moved to California from North Dakota, was shot several times in the head as he slept early Sunday, and his fiancée was tied, beaten and raped. Carns remained in critical condition yesterday at Mission Community Hospital.
Authorities in Los Angeles said they had been deluged by telephone calls from citizens reporting sightings of the serial killer, named the Night Stalker because of his penchant for creeping into darkened homes through unlocked doors and windows and attacking his victims as they sleep.
"We've gotten millions of calls," Deputy Mark Morris said. "I'm not kidding. We have seven lines here and they're lit up all the time. Within 10 minutes this morning, he was seen in Fontana, Ontario, Malibu and Lennox. It's crazy."
Study shows caffeine's benefits
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BOSTON — Caffeine, under continual scrutiny for possible links with heart disease and cancer, may be beneficial for people who have chronically low blood pressure, doctors said yesterday.
coffee is drunk regularly.
A study of 12 patients with autonomic failure, a disorder of the nervous system that causes blood pressure so low that patients faint when they stand up, found that two cups of coffee before breakfast alleviated the condition.
"We now advise our patients with autonomic failure to drink two cups of coffee with breakfast and to abstain for the rest of the day," the report in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded.
Caffeine has been known to raise blood pressure in normal volunteers, the elderly and people with high blood pressure if they have not had any coffee in several days. But usually this effect wears off when
Approximately one in 5,000 Americans has autonomic failure, although the condition is often not properly diagnosed because blood pressure must be measured when a patient is standing up.
Heavy caffeine consumption has been blamed for increasing the effects of stress and causing nervousness and sleeplessness. It has also been linked in some studies with increased heartbeat of bladder cancer, irregular heartbeat and heart attack.
although other studies have found no ink with these disorders.
David Robertson, a physician and one of the report's authors, said the positive effects of coffee outweigh the negative effects.
"I don't think a cup of coffee is likely to harm anne," he said.
Robertson, associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said that although he was not an expert on the possibly carcinogenic effects of caffeine, he was familiar with its effects on the circulatory system.
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