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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, May 1, 1990
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NASA repairs telescope investigates malfunction
The Associated Press
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Md. — NASA engineers got the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope working again yesterday after freeing a movable telescope and jammed after brushing against an electrical cable.
"We are still investigating it to understand how this really happen, why did it happen, why didn't we catch it?" said Jean Olivier, one of the top NASA officials on the project. "We're not through with that investigation."
By this evening, the telescope should be in a condition where calibration and other normal start-up work can begin, said Mike Harrington, director of the troubleshooting team.
The antenna jammed Friday when engineers were running it through its paces. Sensing something wrong and trying to prevent damage, the telescope's computer shut down the whole system. The telescope's two high-frequency antennas worked together, two orbiting relay satellites at high speeds — up to the equivalent of transmitting a 30-value encyclopedia in 42
"For a while we were puzzled as to the data we were receiving from the spacecraft and therefore lacked a clear understanding physically of what the problem was with the high gains." Olivier said. "All that has significance."
minutes.
Detective work by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its contractor teams led to an investigation.
While studying pre-launch photographs of the telescope nested in the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery, an engineer noticed that an inch-thick electrical cable on the back of the antenna was slightly out of position.
Olivier said the length of the cable was determined by computer simulations and turned out to be an inch or so too long. The antenna movement could not be tested on the same equipment, but it is enough to move the antenna in the presence of gravity.
"We determined that there was a proper motion that we should carry this antenna through to bring it carefully away, in the right direction so it wouldn't upset the control system," Olivier said.
Former HUD official disputes Pierce
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development was a "domestic political machine" under Samuel R. Pierce Jr., handing out grants to the well-connected, a long-time donor later joined bribery told a House subcommittee yesterday.
Dubois L. Gilliam, a former deputy assistant secretary under Pierce, also disputed the former housing department's decision to decide who received federal grants.
Pierce himself ordered federal grants in some cases, Gilliam said.
He linked the Reagan White House to the HUD controversy in at least one specific instance, saying the administration ordered federal money for a New Mexico project that had encountered problems.
"We dealt strictly with politics," he told the panel, which has spent more than a year investigating allegations of fraud, mismanagement, influence pedding and political favoritism at HUD.
"During the period I was there . .
the department of Housing and Urban Development was the best domestic political machine I have ever seen." Gilliam said.
Gilliam's testimony was the first the panel has heard from a former top HUD insider about Pierce's eight years as secretary.
Pierce testified before the panel in May 1989, later invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid further testimony. Three former top aides also refused to testify.
Latvians rally nation to follow Lithuanian lead
MOSCOW — A Latvian citizen's group claiming to represent hundreds of thousands of Latvians demanded yesterday that the republic renounce its international declaration independence from the Soviet Union, a spokesman said.
The Associated Press
In Lithuania, residents prepared a martyr's farewell yesterday for a man who burned himself to death last week to protest the Kremlin's efforts to end Lithuania's independence drive.
The Latvian spokesman, 'voicing sentiments identical to those heard in Lithuania, said, "This is an occupied country," he added. "We are here, under an occupying army."
The Latviian Citizens' Congress, elected mainly from among ethnic Latvians, convened yesterday and called for restoration of Latvian independence, spokesman Iveeta Buchela said.
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were independent countries between World War I and World War II but were forced annexed by the Soviet Union.
Ethnic Latvians make up just more than half of Latvia's population of 2.7 million, and a poll published yesterday by the Soviet government newspaper Izvesta reported that 92 per cent of Latvians are Non-Latvin residents make up 46 percent of the republic, and 45 percent were for independence.
The Latvian congress claims the right to replace the republic's Supreme Soviet
SAVINGS RATE RISES: U.S. residents' savings rate roses to 5.8 percent of their disposable income in March as consumer spending the increase in personal income, the government reported yesterday.
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But analysts cited rising prices for the subdued spending and not consumer intent to increase their savings rate.
Consumer spending totaled a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $3.66 trillion, slowing to a 0.4 percent gain after a 0.6 percent advance in February, the Commerce Department reported. It was the lowest since a 0.3 percent increase in October.
The department reported that personal incomes grew 0.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $4.67 trillion on top of 0.8 percent jumps in both January and February. The department were reported to have been 0.7 percent in January and 0.9 percent in February.
Former President Constantine Caramanis, who has the support of the governing New Democracy to be elected to a five-year term.
**GREEK ELECTION:** The Greek Parliament failed to elect a new president yesterday when none of the three candidates received the required three-fifths majority of votes.
In the first round of voting, Caramanis received 149 of the 294 votes cast. He needed 180 votes in the 300-member Parliament to win election to the largely ceremonial post.
Yannis Alevras, the candidate of
the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, received 123 votes, and the Communists' candidate, Constantine Giorgioulis, got 21 votes. One deputy obtained, and six were absent.
BOMB KILLS FOUR: A bomb exploded on a crowded bus on the outskirts of New Delhi last night, killing four people and seriously injuring 28, the United News of India reported.
ronce suspected the bomb was planted by Silkh extremists, the news agency stated.
United News said that about 60 people were aboard the bus when the bomb went off at 7:40 p.m. The news agency reported that the bomb was planted in the rear of the bus.
It was the third attack on a bus in the Indian capital in less than three weeks.
U. S. RESUMES RELATIONS: The United States and the leftist government of South Yemen resumed diplomatic relations yesterday after a break of nearly 21 years.
South Yemen has had close ties with the Soviet Union and is the only Arab nation that has pursued Marxist policies. It also has been accused by the United States of engaging in state-sponsored terrorism.
South Yemen continues to be on a U.S. list of countries that engage in international terrorism because terrorist organizations have been allowed to maintain operations there and South Yemen officials have provided refuge for airline hijackers.
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