NATION/WORLD
Friday, October 20, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Evidence suggests another planet
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two independent teams of astronomers have discovered evidence of a planet orbiting a sun-like star outside the solar system.
Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Dider Queloz first announced Oct. 6 that they had found a planet half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a star named 51 Pegasus about 40 light-years from Earth.
San Francisco State University astronomer Geoffrey Marcy said Tuesday that he had found evidence to support the Swiss scientists' discovery.
The planet cannot be seen because the nearby star's light obscures it. After spending four nights using a powerful telescope at Lick Observatory in the mountains east of San Jose, Marcy detected a slight wobble in the star's movement. That would suggest the gravitational
tug of a planet.
"We've explored all sorts of alternative explanations, and we've had the greatest minds in astronomy chiming in," he said. "The bottom line is, nothing explains what we see."
Some scientists remain skeptical of the discovery.
Astronomers previously had used similar evidence to show that at least two planets orbit a collapsed star known as a Pulsar.
"I'd like to yell, 'Yes!' But I've seen these things fall by the wayside," George Gatewood of the University of Pittsburgh told the San Jose Mercury News. "The byways are littered with the corpses of (alleged) planetary systems."
The Swiss astronomers said the planet's surface temperatures probably were about 1,800 degrees because the planet was only about 5 million miles from its star. Earth is 93 million miles from the sun.
Chapman police chief, wife found dead
The Associated Press
CHAPMAN — The police chief in this small northeast Kansas town and his wife were found shot to death in their home yesterday in an apparent murder suicide.
Authorities had not released the identities of the victims by yesterday afternoon. But residents and sources close to the investigation identified the dead as Donald J. Jones, 54, and his wife, Sharon L. Jones. 55.
Sharon Jones' mother, who lived at the home, heard the shooting and called police about 6:30 a.m. yesterday, Dickinson County Sheriff Curt Bennett said.
Dickinson County Coroner Steve Schwarting's preliminary finding was that the deaths were
Jon Londeen Chapman businessman
what kind of gun was used.
a murder-suicide.
"The finding of the coroner was the man was shot by her, and then she took her own life," Bennett said.
Chapman businessman Jon
Londeen said residents in the
town of 1,260 people, about 70
miles west of Topeka, were
shocked by the shootings.
Authorities declined to say
"You don't think of something like that happening in our little town," he said. "Chapman is like a lot of towns. They think they are immune from the shootings and gang activities."
Jones had been chief of Chapman's two-person police department since April 1992. He had been an officer in the Abilene and Herington police departments.
Londeen, who is also a city councilman, said Jones had been a thorough, organized chief who had seemed to enjoy his job.
"He was a terrible worrier," Loudene said. "He seemed a little
more uptight in the past week or so."
Abilene assistant police chief Terry Payne, a longtime friend of the Joneses, also was stunned by the deaths.
"They always seemed well-liked wherever they went," Payne said. "They'd help you if they could. He enjoyed law enforcement work."
Sharon Jones had been suffering from failing health in recent years, but Payne said he had not known of any problems the couple had. The Joneses had been married about 30 years.
"I was shocked," Payne said.
"He worked with a lot of officers in Abilene. ... He treated everyone as fair as he could. He had never had any problems here that I knew of."
The Joneses are survived by a daughter and a son.
De Klerk kept arsenal secret, new book says
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa's nuclear arsenal during the apartheid era was far larger and more sophisticated than has been revealed, according to a new book.
"The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: Mandela's Nuclear Nightmare" also says that some of the weapons may have ended up in the hands of right-wing extremists.
The book, written by Peter Hounam, a veteran British investigative reporter, and South African journalist Steve McQuillan, went on sale in South Africa yesterday. It will be released in the United States today.
Dave Steward, former President F.W. de Klerk's chief of staff, said the allegations were complete rubbish. The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, wouldn't comment on the size of South Africa's arsenal but said it was convinced the nuclear weapons program was dismantled in the final years of white minority rule.
De Klerk acknowledged in 1993 during his last year in office that South Africa had an atomic arsenal. But he said that it never consisted of more than six small atomic bombs and a seventh in development.
De Klerk said that the nuclear weapons were developed as a deterrent to hostile Black-ruled neighbors and were destroyed when those countries no longer posed a threat.
"The story of the 6 1/2 bombs produced and then destroyed in the early 1990s just doesn't hold water," Hounan told a news conference yesterday.
Hounam and McQuillan said that the nuclear arsenal
included at least 24 bombs, hundreds of shells, intercontinental missiles and television-guided glide bombs.
Most of the weapons were shipped out of South Africa for storage or dismantlement in friendly countries — mostly in Israel but also the United States, the authors said.
But they said that five weapons may remain in the country, possibly under the control of white right-wing extremists who might want to pressure President Nelson Mandela's Black-led government to carve out a white homeland sought by some Afrikaners.
Mandela became South Africa's first Black president in April 1994, when the nation held its first all-race elections. De Klerk now is deputy president.
"As far as Mr. de Klerk is concerned, the statement he made in 1993 was the full and final statement on this," Steward said. "There were seven weapons, and they were all destroyed."
Hans-Friederich Meyer, a representative for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, would not comment on how many nuclear weapons South Africa had.
But he said that IAEA inspectors concluded in 1993 that South Africa's nuclear production and test sites had been destroyed or rendered harmless.
Hounam and McQuillan spent one year researching South Africa's nuclear weapons program. The authors interviewed South African nuclear scientists and senior military officers and strategists and pored over documents belonging to the former Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB.
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