daily nebraskan
monday, december 11, 1978
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Venus probe crashes but still transmits information
Mountain View, Calif.-Five probes plunged through
Venus' atmosphere Saturday, transmitting data to elated
scientists monitoring the first comprehensive U.S. effort
to study Earth's nearest planetary neighbor.
In an unexpected development, one of the four probes
that hit the surface continued to transmit after impact.
The last gave out after an hour.
"This is a very successful mission," said spokesman
Larry King at Ames Research Center. "We are receiving
excellent, beautiful data. This is an accomplishment
of a magnitude beyond that which has ever been accom
plished before."
The four probes made the hour-long descent within
minutes of each other, while the fifth, the cylindrical
"bus" that carried the probes from Earth, plunged into
the venusian atmosphere an hour later. It burned up
within two minutes after sending back its share of data.
American scientists plan to swap information about
this mission with Soviet researchers, who hope to gather
data from two Soviet probes, Venera 1 1 and 12, which are
to land on Venus later this month.
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Washington-With gasoline prices already moving up,
the Carter administration is considering a delay in its
plan to abolish price ceilings for gasoline early next year,
administration officials say.
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The officials said Carter still is convinced that gasoline
deregulation is the right move. But, they said, there is
concern the timing may not be right because of the poss
ible impact on inflation.
"It isn't a question of whether there will be decontrol.
The question is when," said Energy Department spokes
woman Gail Bradshaw.
Th White House said Friday that President Carter has
made no decision on whether to go ahead with ending the
controls.
Pension cutbacks planned
Washington-As part of its anti-inflation program,
the Carter Administration is considering a proposal to
cut back automatic cost-of-living adjustments in military
and civil service pensions.
The proposal would scrap the current twice-a-year
boosts in the federal pension, substituting a single yearly
increase parallel to the annual inflation adjustments made
in Social Security benefits.
The proposal could save taxpayers-and cost the pen-sioners-as
much as $400 to $500 million a year depend
ing on the rate of inflation, officials estimate. Approxi
mately 2.5 million pensioners, including military and
civil service retirees and survivors, would be affected by
the proposal.
It could thus give further impetus to President Carter's
pledge to trim the government's $39 billion deficit to less
than $30 billion in the fiscal 1980 budget that he will
submit to Congress next month.
But the move also is sure to infuriate pensioners and
their various lobbying organizations, who fought bitterly
against the adoption of the present cost-of-living
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adjustment formula in place of a more generous one con
sidered earlier.
The administration officials, who asked not to be
named, said President Carter has not made a final
decision on whether to seek the cutback.
But they pointed out that the move would be consis
tent with anti-inflation pronouncements calling on all
groups in America to make sacrifices in the interest of
combatting rising prices.
Toy accidents
Hawthorne, Calif-Mattel Inc. says it has begun
attaching warning labels to its "Battlestar Galactica"
toys because of reports of three accidents involving the
products.
Company officials said Friday that label will be
attached to Mattel's "Colonial Scarab," "Colonial Stellar
probe" and "Cyclon Raider," toy space vehicles equipped
to launch "missiles."
Underground water shortage
Washington-A government report about the depletion
of underground water supplies in the United States is
being prepared for President Carter that includes criti
cisms of some of the most sensitive agricultural policy
areas.
For example, a draft of the report says that the entire
system of government price supports for wheat, corn
and many other crops may be contributing directly to
shortages of underground water reserves.
"Support levels and acreage allotments, where applic
able, may make it profitable to grow crops irrespective
of the water situation in the area," the report said.
"This leads to overextension in water-short areas. Also,
removal of some cropland from production may create
an incentive to maximize yields on the remaining land."
One way to solve this is to reduce the federal price
supports on crops, thus making it less profitable for
farmers to drill more irrigation wells and pump more
water for their fields, the report said.
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