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Tuesday, April 30, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Mission continues despite problems
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts aboard Discovery observed eerie waves of light above the horizon in a "Star Wars" experience and found control recorders struggled to fix data recorders needed for other tests.
Six experiments were canceled as a result of the recorder trouble. The Defense Department expects to lose more data if the problem is not resolved by the end of the eight day flight.
NASA flight directors and Pentagon officials insisted the mission would not be harmed by the loss of what they termed secondary experiments. Nonetheless, there was dispairment. One space policy analyst said that the problem of trouble on the seven previous military shuttle flights, all secret
The seven astronauts tried four times Sunday night to activate the two recorders before turning their attention to instruments unaffected
by the failure Engineers on the continued to work on the problem
A fifth repair attempt was made yesterday afternoon following a break in the obstacle.
Three of five scientific instruments that constitute one of Discovery's primary payloads  valued in the billions of million hampered by the recorder problem
The instrument considered most important by the military has its own recorders, which successfully coloured images on atmospheric light, or aurora.
The crew also took pictures of a rapid-fire sequence of steering jet blasts. They captured that on film and were unfaithfully unaffected by the record problem.
Officials of the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as "Star Wars," said they needed information about naturally occurring phenomena to develop sensors that could detect enemy missiles amid such clutter.
Fans for all seasons
Carolyn Winger, Clay Center senior (far left), and Jennifer Bernaldi, Scottsdale, Ariz., junior (far right), cheer on the Kansas baseball team as Kathy Riesenberg, Carroll, Iowa, junior, and
Juhe Jacobson/KANSAN
Becky Overly, Overland Park junior, huddle against the wind. The four said that this season they had attended every home game and several away games.
Star Wars experiments
Shuttle crew will test instruments for detecting missile launches. Sensors might be used in a future space-based anti-missile system
Sensor satellite
Sensor satellite
■ Launched from shuttle
■ Telescope detects infrared light, is supercooled to improve its sensitivity
■ Positioned 1.5 to 6.5 miles from chemical release satellite
Chemical release satellite
Battery
- Launched from shuttle
- Releases gases similar to those in the exhaust of a ballistic missile launched from ground
Ground observers Control and data collection from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Other experiments: Sensor satellite will observe,
■ Gases from shuttle engine exhaust.
■ Gases ejected from canisters in the
shuttle's cargo bay.
Observation plane from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
Jury selection begins in car-seat case
SOURCE: NASA
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of a man charged with vehicular homicide in his 3-year-old daughter's death because she was not in a seat restraint.
A defense lawyer said 30-year-old Ramiro de Jesus Rodriguez was singled out for prosecution to teach other parents a lesson.
It is rare for a parent to be held legally responsible for failing to restrain a child killed in an auto accident. In 1863, a Cincinnati man was acquitted of vehicular homicide in the death of his 2-year-old son in a crash five days after an Ohio law took effect requiring child restraints.
A prosecutor said Rodriguez's data was to blame for the fatal accident.
Attorneys screened more than half of 40 prospective jurors in the courtroom of Circuit Judge Sidney B.Shapiro. Allmight all said they were familiar with the case. Selection of the six-member jury was set to
Florida man faces homicide charges for neglecting to restrain his child
Rodriguez said he was still grieving for his daughter Veronica, who flew out of her mother's arms when Rodriguez made a left turn and his car collided with a van Aug. 3 as they drove to their Hiahate home from a store.
resume tomorrow and the trial was expected to last a week.
The vehicular homicide charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but prosecutors said they would seek probation.
Florida law requires motorists to use seat belts or a secure safety seat for children younger than six years old.
the penalty for failing to use a child-restraint seat for children 5 and under from $7 to $100 starting in August. The ban was not yet gone before the governor
Defense attorney Reemberto Díaz questioned why prosecutors were pursuing the case of Rodriguez, an immigrant from Nicaragua.
Because of the case, state legislators approved a bill that would raise
"You have a poor Hispanic immigrant who has been selected for this prosecution, and I think that's what Diaz said outside the courtroom."
Rodriguez did not receive a ticket at the time of the accident. He was arrested nearly three months later at a police station where he worked as a cook
Atlantic City dispute yields closure of services
The Associated Press
Knight-Ridder. Tribune News/BILL BAKER
'This city is not broke. This is not Philadelphia. The politicizing has got to stop.'
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Libraries closed and trash went uncollected yesterday in this casino resort as a fight between the mayor and the city council over layoffs came to a head.
Luke Witherspoon
"Oh, it's a holiday," Donna Williams said as she tugged at the locked door of the city's Free Public Library.
Told it was part of a closing ordered last week by Mayor Jim Whelan, Williams said, "I think it stinks."
Luke Witherspoon Atlantic City municipal employee
Gamblers visiting the city professed little or no knowledge of the partial shutdown of non-essential municipal services.
bus and by car and that they rarely ventured outside.
forced him to hold the line.
"I haven't noticed anything," said Joe Manney of Downsville, N.Y., as he stood in the lobby of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort. "We walk across the boardwalk a little, but we really don't see anything else."
Whelan ordered the shutdown Friday in a struggle with a city council angered by the layoff of 100 of the city's 1,700 employees.
Police and fire departments remained on the job, and tax, welfare and communications offices remained open. One health clinic also stayed open. In addition to library closures, there was no trash collection, municipal court or rides for senior citizens.
deserve this," said Luke Witheros-
op, a shop steward for Local 331
and a clerk in the Atlantic City health
department.
About 20 municipal employees protested peacefully in front of city hall to call for an end to the dispute.
"This city is not broke. This is not Philadelphia," he said. "The politicizing has got to stop."
can for an end to the impala
"Taxpayers of this city don't
Donald Jones of the National League of Cities in Washington said he could not recall a similar government shutdown in his 32 years in government.
"Interruptions have come sometimes as a result of labor-management disputes and strikes by employees." Jones said. "But I don't recall where a city council-mayor dispute shut down a government."
Whelan said budget pressures had
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