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University Daily Kansan, November 13, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Saturn photos ring up astonishment
PASADENA, Calif. —Voyager 1, climbing a three-year journey from Earth, sped to within 77,200 miles of Saturn yesterday and stunned scientists by revealing that of the planet's bizarre rings appear kinked and braided in defiance of the known laws of nature.
Abandoning professional language, amazed scientists described the twisting formation as "weird," "mind-bogging" and "raving mad."
The spacecraft drew nearest to Saturn at 5:48 CST, giving scientists their closest look ever at the second largest planet in the solar system, a giant ball of gas.
After scanning the planet's cloud deck and gathering other data with a number of scientific instruments, the spacecraft was programmed to look at more of the planet's frozen moons and then head on a course that eventually will take it out of the solar system.
The bizarre brading in the icy debris rings, which whirl around Saturn to form one of the most striking features in the solar system, was discovered within the planet's "F" ring, which was discovered by the Pioneer 11 space probe last year.
Bradford Smith, head of the jet propulsion laboratory's Voyager photographic team, said such braiding should be impossible under Newton's laws of mechanics, a foundation of scientific understanding that says gravity should flatten out the kinks and spirals by acting equally on all their
At the meeting, which still could collapse because there is no agreed upon agenda, Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez warned against a trade deal with Iran.
Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada blamed Moscow for jeopardizing detente. Belgium set the tone of the meeting in its opening statement by attacking Moscow's massive arms program, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and 'abuses and violations of human rights and individual
The Soviet Union replied that it sought only to "deepen detente" and accused the West of using the conference as a "new stage in the sharpening of world tension." Chief Soviet delegate Leonei Lijychev added, "Our only objective is to achieve peace between peoples and good will between states."
The third session was adjourned after five minutes so that wrangling over the agenda could continue, but a top U.S. official said there was no progress.
The conference opened late Tuesday despite the lack of an agenda and a bitter struggle over the discussion of human rights.
In Washington, State Department spokesman John Trattner said the Soviet Union stood almost alone in blocking a review of human rights laws.
NRC says defects not from radiation
HARRISEBURG, Pa.-A federal study of reported animal deformities, barnyard stilbiths and slowing fish wavers in three Mile Island concluded that the rate of stilt growth is higher than the rate of slowing fish.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission report reviewed animal health problems reported at 22 farms and the alleged stunted growth of vegetation in these farms. The study was published in *Biology*.
The report concluded that nutritional deficiencies and infectious diseases, not radiation from the plant, were the most likely causes of animal health
The worst cases of radiation exposure examined by health officials after the accident were less than one-thousandth of the amount of radiation that could cause clinically detectable effects in the animal population within 20 miles of the reactor, the report said.
Even if radiation releases were greater, the NRC said, reports of animal health problems would have occurred in a different pattern.
Meanwhile, operators of the nuclear plant began venting a small amount of radioactive cryotrap gas to prepare for the scheduled 13-man entry into the facility.
Metropolitan Edison Co. spokesman John Filder said the release would have no adverse health effect on the general public or on people working at
The 13-mission mission, aimed at getting color videotape footage of the inside of the crippled reactor building, is the most ambitious of four human entries in the mission.
WASHINGTON—Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, introduced a bill yesterday to forbid broadcasters from announcing results of presidential elections before nolls are closed across the nation.
McClure expressed anger that the television networks first projected and then announced Ronald Reagan's victory over President Carter last week long before polling places closed in his state and others in western time zones.
He said his measure would prohibit broadcasting results or projections of presidential voting until all polls across the nation were closed.
The bill does not actually mention the television networks but would fine any radio or television station $10,000 for announcing presidential election results.
in the House. Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., introduced two similar bills.
One would set a simultaneous closing time for all polling places. The second would retain current voting hours but would require that all ballot boxes and machines be sealed until voting was completed throughout the nation.
McClure said his bill "touches on the Constitutional guarantees of free press and free speech, but I believe the proposal will pass constitutional grounds."
Vietnam pondering airlift of refugees
BANKOK, Thailand—An American U.N. employee is in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, preparing for what may be the largest airlift of Vietnamese refugees to the United States since the Communist takeover of Vietnam, officials said yesterday.
The airtiff would involve 1,745 refugees who have applied to leave to the Vietnamese government. They are seeking asylum in the United States.
Thomas Malia, a member of the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, arrived Tuesday in Ho Chi Minh City. It was the first visit by an American official to the city, formerly Saigon, since the Vietnamese Communist takeover in April 1975.
Malia first visited the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where he was authorized to compare a list of names submitted by the Hanoi government to those listed in the U.S. Army Base List.
The eligible refugees are to be airlifted from Vietnam to the United States, with a short stop in Bangkok for visa stamping.
Most of the applicants are from southern Vietnam and used to live under the U.S.-supported South Vietnam government.
Wary of being overly optimistic, U.E. Embassays sources said no progress had been made. But one embassy source said, "The fact the Vietnamese let it go is too much."
Couple say divorce was an accident
SALINA—A couple who claim they were divorced by mistake have filed a legal malfunction lawsuit against their lawyer for allegedly not dismissing the
Carl and Sonja are seeking more than $40,000, including $20,000 in both palliative and actual damages, in their suit against Salina lawyer Robert
The suit filed by the Burnses contends that they had reconciled after filing a divorce suit in June. The court states that she had directed Mariatta to send the suit to the state's attorney office.
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