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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 30.1990
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Discovery ends successful mission
The Associated Press
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Discovery glided safely back to Earth yesterday, landing with new brakes after successfully launching the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope to search for clues to the universe's creation.
The shuttle touched down on a 15,000-foot concrete runway at the Mojave military base at 6:49 a.m. after a slackening of 40 mph winds that threatened to delay the landing.
The spacecraft rolled to a stop 63 seconds later.
'Welcome back. Congratulations
on a super mission," ground communicator Steve Oswald told the shuttle's crew. "The world is waiting to reap the benefits of your work over the next 15 years."
"We sure enjoyed it also. It was great fun," replied Loren J. Shriver, Discovery's commander.
About 20,000 people cheered Discovery's return as the national anthem blared through loudspeakers.
The astronauts emerged from the shuttle about 50 minutes after landing. Shrive was accompanied by mission specialists Steven A. Hawley, a mission specialist Steven A. Hawley, a
1973 KU graduate, Bruce McCandless II and Kathryn D. Sullivan
A cheering crowd of several hundred people gave the astronauts a rousing send-off before they boarded two jets to take them back to Houston four hours after the landing.
"The Hubble Space Telescope is going to be a facility second to none." Hawley said. "Over the next 10, 15 and 20 years it will revolutionize the way we look at our universe and the way we understand where we came from and where we're going."
ing out the 43-foot-long telescope and its sophisticated instruments.
Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., continued the process of check-
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"Our hope is that we'll be fully operational within a week," said deputy project manager Jean Olivier."
To place the telescope in the proper orbit on Wednesday, Discovery flew to an altitude of 380 miles.
Discovery is scheduled to leave Friday for its piggyback jet ride back to Cane Canaveral.
The next shuttle launch is scheduled for May 16, when Columbia and seven astronauts will carry a $100 million observatory named Astro into orbit.
KOREAN WORKERS RIOT: Thousands of workers and students fought in the streets with riot police yesterday, and a dissident labor group called for sympathies strike to protest a police raid on a strike-bound shipyard.
In Seoul, Korea, and elsewhere, radical students staged violent street demonstrations in protest against the raid Saturday that crushed a three-day strike at the world's largest shipyard, the Fiyundai Heavy Industries Co. complex in this port city 200 miles southeast of Seoul.
Groups of up to 200 workers attacked police with firebombs, rocks and other objects after grouping in alleyways near the shipyard. Some workers used slingshots to shoot rocks at the police, who retaliated with tear gas.
Bush associate set up firm while ambassador
WASHINGTON — Fred M. Zeder II, a close friend of President Bush and the head of a government agency, secretly set up a private company to do business in the Pacific islands in 1986 while serving as U.S. ambassador to the region, according to records and interviews.
The Associated Press
Zeder did not notify the State Department that he had created the company and did not disqualify himself from making decisions as ambassador that could have affected his business.
In an interview, Zeder said there was no legal requirement to notify the State Department about his company, Island Development Foundation, or excuse himself from any government decisions.
Zeder left the State Department in January 1897, three months after setting up his private company based in Honolulu.
A close friend of the president, Zeder was the No. 2 official in the transition to the Bush administration and later was appointed by the president to head the federal Overseas Private Investment Corp.
His firm, Island Development, was set up to solicit participation in development efforts in those areas and elsewhere in the Pacific rim, according to the company's incorporation papers.
Zeder said that Island Development advised private firms on how to do business in the Pacific. He said that it never received any government money.
George F. Jones, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, said the case posed problems because Zeder failed to notify the State Department's legal office about the company.
"There is basis for investigation, at the very least," Jones said.
De Klerk to meet Mandela for power-sharing council
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The white government will meet with the African National Congress for the first time Wednesday, in search of ways to share power with South Africa's Black majority.
majority
President F.W. de Klerk and ANC leader Nelson Mandela are expected to make progress and clear the way for constitutional talks later this year.
The two sides face enormous challenges in seeking a peaceful, workable solution to South Africa's racial divisions. Violence is leading and elemenlts in racial groups oppose any settlement.
De Klerk's government expresses support for a democratic system and ending apartheld but opposes majority rule, contending that would lead to
"While we are honest and genuine in our quest to create equal opportunities for all, we are not prepared to destroy existing rights or allow them to be destroyed," de Klerk said.
The ANC remains committed to a one-person, one-vote system and refuses to renounce its guerrilla campaign.
"The armed struggle must be intensified, but in a disciplined way, to ensure that the government does not backtrack from the path of negotiation," Mandela said.
Other problems include ANC demands that the economy be nationalized to help poor Blacks catch up with whites. The government and white businessmen oppose any plans for nationalization or compulsory redistribution of wealth.
ATTORNEY INVESTIGATED: The Justice Department is conducting an internal inquiry into allegations of misconduct by the acting U.S. attorney in Miami whose office is prosecuting Manuel Noriaga, sources said.
Sources, who are familiar with the inquiry and ask to remain anonymous, said the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility recently sent investigators to Miami to interview interviews into allegations that include:
spokesman, Diane Cassin, to the Miami Herald may have violated federal privacy law. The letter said Lehlin once almost fired a former prosecutor for egregious misconduct.
**Note:** That Leitinen pressured his staff to inflate overtime reports to prompt Washington to boost the size of his office, which is one of the Justice Department's largest.
The investigation of Dexter Lehi ten comes as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers his nomination by President Bush to a full term as the chief federal prosecutor in south Florida.
■ That Lehtinen tried to participate in a public corruption investigation after excusing himself from a case that involved a potential political rival of his wife, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.
Lehtinen. N. 44.
That a letter written by Lehtinen's
FIRE SHEEPS THROUGH FOREST:
Undermanned crews yesterday battled a wind-whipped forest fire that had burned more than 10,000 acres in the isolated mountains of central Pennsylvania.
The fire in the Spruel State Forest in Clinton County was rapidly moving north through the Beech Creek mountains toward the Susquehanna River, officials said. It started Saturday morning.
About 200 firefighters aided by helicopters were at work yesterday, and authorities asked for help from other towns and cities in the region, said Susan Woods, a spokesman for the Environmental Resources.
"It's out of control." Woods said. "They're hoping that the Susquehanna River will stop it, but it is only about 100 yards wide."
SOVET ARMY REVEALS SECRET:
The Soviet army newspaper disclosed for the first time yesterday that when the Sovetski downed a spy plane in Syria, it also took one of their own fighters that was pursuing the U.S. spy plane.
The U-2, plotted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down on May 1, 1960, disrupting a summit meeting 19 days later in Paris between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader S. Khrushchev and forcing the cancellation of another summit planned for later that year.
The paper also disclosed for the first time that the Soviets sent up a new fighter plane and ordered its pilot to ram the U-2 in a suicide mission. The new fighter reached the U-2's altitude but failed to ram it.
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