Spy satellite
sent into orbit
by space shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— Atlantis’ six astronauts launched
into more than a week of military
observations and medical tests Mon
day after accomplishing their main
task — dispatching a spy satellite for
the Pentagon.
“We had a really good deploy. It
was great,” spaceman James Voss
told Mission Control.
Voss released the $300 million
missile-warning satellite early Mon
day, just six hours into the flight. The
blue, gold and white spacecraft floated
gracefully from the cargo bay as At
lantis circled the world for the fifth
time.
“DSP Liberty’s on its way,” Voss
said.
The crew nicknamed the Defense
Support Program satellite “Liberty”
in honor of its job for the next five
years. DSP satellites in orbit during
the Persian Gulf War provided five
minute warnings of Iraqi Scud mis
sile launches.
An attached rocket lifted the satel
lite to an orbit 22,300 miles above the
equator and then separated from the
craft. Six thousand infrared sensors
continuously staring down at Earth
will be able to detect heat from mis
sile exhaust.
The satellite passed its initial check
outs, military officials said. It will
take about a month, however, to
completely test all systems.
Hostage
arrives
in Texas
Sutherland says
he would go back
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) —
Thomas Sutherland arrived in the
United States on Monday after 6 1/2
years as a hostage in Lebanon and
said he would go back some day if his
family and the government let him.
“Beirut is a different place from
what it was,” said Sutherland, accom
panied by family members after a
flight from Germany.
The American University in Beirut,
where Sutherland was dean of agri
culture when he was abducted June 9,
1985, was shattered by a bomb re
cently and needs rebuilding. “I would
like to be part of that if it’s possible,”
he said.
Sutherland spoke to reporters at
Dallas-Fort Worth International Air
port before going on to Berkeley,
Calif., for Thanksgiving at the home
of a daughter who is nearly nine months
pregnant and couldn’t fly.
“It’s going to be absolutely won
derful,” Sutherland said. “There just
isn’t enough time in the day to catch
up on everything that’s happened.”
His wife, Jean, said she had no fear
about going back to the Middle East,
where she felt “very comfortable.”
Sutherland said it would oe monins
before he made such a decision, and
he would first listen to what his fam
ily and the Stale Department tell him.
Sutherland, 60, and Terry Waite
of Britain were released Nov. 18.
Sutherland’s captors told him two
of the three remaining U.S. hostages
would be freed in a few days. Ameri
can Terry Anderson, the longest-held
Western hostage, would be released
by the end of the month, Sutherland
said.
“They’re running a little late,” he
said. “That’s not unusual for that
particular organization.^’m still very
hopeful.”
Sutherland said his captors are
“committed to finishing it up once
and for all.”
After his release, Sutherland spent
six days at the U.S. military hospital
in Wiesbaden, Germany, where doc
tors treated him for gastritis and an
ulcer. Air Force spokesman Capt. Ray
Cornelius said Sunday that Suther
land was in “very good condition.”
Atlantis
mission
schedule
LAUNCHED
Space shuttle Atlantis
lifted-off on the 44th
space shuttle flight
and ninth devoted to
the Pentagon at 6:44
D.m. EST Sunday.
r ASTRONAUTS
Air Force Col.
Frederick Gregory,
mission specialist
Story Musgrave,
Army imagery
analyst Thomas Hennen, pilot
Air Force Col. Terence Tom"
Henricks, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mario
Runco Jr. and Army Lt. Col.
James Voss.
MISSION
Propel a 5,200
pound military
satellite 22,300 miles
above the equator conduct
medical and radiation-monitoring
experiments and use a tele
scope, cameras and binoculars
to observe U.S. military
installations.
[*—~n DURATION
10 days, landing
Dec. 4 at Kennedy
Space Center.
AF
White House backs Sununu
as job speculation persists
WASHINGTON (AP) — John
Sununu’s job as President Bush’s chief
of staff seems safe for now, with even
Barbara Bush weighing in Monday
with a vote of confidence for him.
“It isn’t true and it’s ugly and I
don’t like it,” she said of published
accounts suggesting she believed
Sununu should be replaced.
“He knows it isn’t true,” she told
reporters.
And, while speculation persisted
that Sununu mighrbe gone by year’s
end, the White House made a sepa
rate public show on Monday of rally
ing to his defense.
Spokesman Marlin Fitzwatcr de
nied that Sununu’s job was in jeop
ardy, despite criticism from some Bush
advisers that he had become a liabil
ity at a time when Bush suffers from
an image of White House disarray on
domestic issues.
“I don’t think it’s ever been in
danger,” Fitzwatcr said of Sununu’s
tenure.
A day earlier, Bush flashed a
thumbs-up sign when asked by re
porters whether he intended to keep
the former New Hampshire governor.
And Sununu was close at Bush’s side
Monday as the president walked past
a phalanx of cameras to his helicopter
i on the South Lawn of the White House.
Sununu, in fact, did not make the
trip to Columbus, Ohio, with. Bush
and returned to the White House after
the short walk with his boss.
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It isn’t true and it’s
ugly and I don’t like it
Barbara Bush
-ft -
Offering a more verbal demon
stration of support for Sununu, Mrs.
Bush told reporters who had turned
out to a White House Christmas tree
presentation ceremony that she was
appalled at news accounts suggesting
she had counseled Sununu’s replace
ment.
“They can’t be quoting me,” she
said.
Newsweek, in this week’s issue,
said it had learned that Mrs. Bush told
friends that she was “disgusted” with
Sununu’s confrontational style and
no longer feels comfortable with him.
The Wall Street Journal reported
Friday that the first lady was said to
be convinced that Suminu’s “flaws
are fatal.”
When the conversation turned to
Christmas presents, she was asked
whether the Bushes plan to give one
to Sununu. “If we were giving pres
ents, I’d give him one,” she said.
Sununu, who earlier survived a
controversy over his use of govern
ment transportation, has been the target
of attacks recently from many Re
publican officials for his heavy-handed
management style — and for a role in
the White House’s mixed signals on
the economy and domestic issues.
Even some Bush Cabinet members
have criticized Sununu privately.
The confusion has included White
House waffling on the issue of lower
credit-card interest rates, last week’s
about-face on a controversial civil
rights directive and Bush’s on-again,
off-again trip to Asia and Australia.
Sununu has been blamed in some
quarters for nearly all Bush’s appar
ent missteps. And some GOP advis
ers have suggested that Bush dump
him as part of a dramatic staff shakeup
to reassert control of the administra
tion s domestic agenda.
Bush’s standing in public opinion
polls has slumped as the economy has
failed to bounce back, as he insisted it
would, from the recession that began
last year.
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