Wednesday, December 4, 1985
Pago 2
Daily Ncbraskan
NewsDig
Bv The Associated Press
6Cairg) of promise'
Shuttle lands carrying videos, film
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.
The space shuttle Atlantis landed
safely Tuesday with a cargo of prom
ise: video tapes to help design a U.S.
space station, a purified hormone for
tests of a new medical treatment, and
film that may locate hidden water in
drought-ridden Africa
With mission commander Brewster
Shaw at the controls, the shuttle
dropped through wispy clouds and
landed smoothly on a concrete run
way at this desert air base at 3:33
p.m. CST in front of about 6,700
spectators.
It rolled smoothly down the runway
before stopping on the center line.
The shuttle's plunge from orbit
started when Shaw fired rockets at
3:27 p.m. to slow the craft and drop it
from its 218-mile-high orbit in a long
blazing glide over the Pacific Ocean.
The seven-member crew's 2.8
million-mile voyage started Nov. 26
with a night launch from the Kenned)
Space Center in Florida.
Others on the crew were astronauts
Bryan O'Connor, Mary Cleave, Sher
wood Spring and Jerry Ross, McDon
nel Douglas engineer Charles Walker,
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and Mexican astronaut Rodolfo Neri,
the first of his nation to fly in space.
Stored aboard Atlantis were miles
of video tapes of Ross and Spring as
they built large structures of spindly
metal struts in the shuttle's open
cargo bay during two spacewalks.
Scientists believe the construction
demonstration will make a major con
tribution in the design of an Ameri
can space station planned for the
1990s.
Atlantis also carried samples of a
purified hormone that can be used to
treat red-blood cell deficiencies, such
as anemia. The samples, purified in
an electrical process that is more
efficient in zero gravity, will be used
in animal tests, the first step in win
ning Food and Drug Administration
approval for clinical use.
Walker, on his third spaceflight for
McDonnell Douglas, operated the
hormone purification device, which
he helped design, and said at a news
conference from orbit Monday that he
achieved "good results."
Shaw said at Monday's news con
ference that the astronauts took "a
whole string" of photographs with a
variety of cameras of Africa's drought
stricken Ethiopia and Somalia.
Experts plan to examine the photos
for surface evidence of water that
may be hidden beneath those desert
lands, where famine continues to kill.
The astronauts also launched three
communications satellites, conducted
a variety of crystal-growth experi
ments, and tested a new auto-pilot
system that will enable shuttles to
automatically hold position in orbit
next to a space station or satellite.
Neri was on board to witness the
launch of his country's second com
munications satellite, the Morelos 8,
and to conduct several experiments
of Mexican design.
The other satellites were launched
for RCA and for the Australian
government. NASA was paid $30 mil
lion for the launch services.
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City Council approves bond issue
LINCOLN The Lincoln City Council voted C O to issue $12 million in
bonds before the end of the year for a proposed downtown redevelopment
project.
The bonds will be issued as soon as possible, without a bond rating, to
ensure they are placed on the market before Dec. 31, an aide to Mayor
Roland Luedtke said Monday.
Luedtke had urged the council to issue the bond3 quickly because
Congress is considering tax changes that could end tax-exempt status for
the bonds. . '
If the tax change is approved, the city would save $3 million in interest
over 20 years by Issuing the bonds immediately rather than waiting, said
Lincoln Finance Director Jack Vavra. ,
Developers hive presented plans to redevelop a six-block area of
downtown at a cost that could exceed $100 million.
Rulo defendants file ins anity motions
FALLS CITY Three men charged in the murders cf two people at a
survlvalist farm near Rulo will rely on the defense cf insanity or dimin- .
ished capacity, according to court notions Hied in Richardson County
District Court.
Because of the motions the court may order up to three psychiatric
examinations of each defendant. Results will be submitted to prosecution
and defense attorneys.
One of the defendants, Michael Ryan, 37, is charged with two counts of
first-degree murder in the deaths of James Thimm, 28, and 5-year-old Luke
Stice. Ryan's son, Dennis, 16, and Timothy Haverkamp, 23, are charged
with one count each of first-degree murder in Thimm's death.
The defendants have pleaded innocent. All three are undergoing psy
chiatric examinations, defense attorney Rodney Rehm of Lincoln said
Tuesday.
The bodies of Thimm and young Stice were found in unmarked graves
on the farm Aug. 18. Authorities said Thimm was killed April 30 and the
boy on March 25. Michael Ryan is the reputed leader of a survivalist group
that lived on the farm.
Suspension looms for Gen. Dynamics
WASHINGTON The General Dportics Ccr?., th? ration's third
largest defense contractor indicted Lsndoy cm ttzzi d.arcaaticd to the
ill fated t. York anti-aircraft fan, will likely ta sr.-; ;r.d:d ten receiv
ing my defense contracts, a ranking Navy cfUcial c".: :!:::! Tuesday.
The encial, who asked not to be named, said Pcr.t::n tttcrr.r3 began
working on a suspension order early Tuesday morning, lis cUcisl said
decisions were required on a number cf points before the order could be
released, including the length of ths suspension and its precise scope.
At the Wnite House, meanwhile, spokesman Larry fpc-aics said Presi
dent believes NASA administroicrJiir.es Id. IzcZh indicted along
with the company, his former employer, "will do the ri.t tr.d prcper thing
as far fcis government service."
The 39-page indictment said $7.5 million was raischoxged, resulting in a
$3.2 million net loss to the government
The indictment was the latest in more than a year cf government
accusations of improper billings and bribery by the nation's third-largest
defense contractor.
Senators continue Commonwealth lobby
OMAIIA Sen. Don Wesely said Tuesday that he and ether Lincoln
legislators will push ahead with a proposal to give Commonwealth Savings
Co. depositors an extra $12 million.
Wesely said he and his colleagues would continue to lobby for the $12
million plan because they believe the state has a moral obligation to pay
it.
However, Wesely and Sen. Rex Haberman of Imperial said there was
virtually no chance that the Legislature would approve spending that
amount because of depressed state revenues.
Wesely, Haberman and Sen. Vard Jchnson of Omaha said they consi
dered a proposal to merge Commonwealth into Occidental Nebraska
Federal Savings Co. the best deal for the depositors.
Commonwealth, a Lincoln industrial sr.ln.sS company, was closed on
Nov. 1,1083.
Wesely supported a bill in the ISS5 Legislature that would have paid
Commonwealth depositors the $12 million as a settlement for a claim
against the state. That plan failed, but senators ?prcved a separate $3.5
million payment for depositors.
Ilihcrmon said the Occidental proposal Hied Monday "steps" the $12
ion proposal backed by Wesely,
Strike, protests paralyze Bhopal
EIIGPAL, India A general strike paralyzed this central Indian city
Tuesday and thousands cf angry protesters filled the stre ets on the second
day cf demonstrations marking the first anniversary cf the Union Carbide
gas leak that killed more than 2,CCD people.
Hundreds of effigies cf the American chemical company's chairman
s;were set ablaze-Tuesday nig&;v4-y-X'; ; . ; :
xj. Marches and rallies were conducted in at least five other Indian cities,
inluding New Delhi and Calcutta, commemorating the leak of methyl
isocyanate gas that killed more than 2,000 people in Ehopol most of
' them slum dwellers and injured 300,000 others.
About 4,000 demonstrators swarmed outside the Union Carbide pesti
cide plant in Ehopal, demanding that the plant be permanently closed
before another disaster occurs. More than 1,000 riot police guarded the
plant.
"Our struggle will be alive as long as we have life in our bodies and
sensation in our toes," Abid Rizvi, a textile union leader, told protesters
outside the plant. Many in the crowd were crying.
Security was tightened at ail Union Carbide plants in India.