'" ... t" , : the i ' Daily Herald . - ' , ; : Sunday, January 21. 1996 . ' i xs e ' f Pinion: Jordan passionate' ' HOUSTON (AP) President Clinjon eulogized former Barbara Jordan y as a tower of spiritual and portical strength who fought for her race and her ;: : ly sna&iin. Wherever she could and whenever she stood to speak, she jolted the nation's attention with her artful and articulate defense of theonstitution, the American dream, and the common heritage 5and.destiny we share, whether we Siike'i't or not," Clinton said. Jordan, a former Democratic representative from Texas, died jiastweek at age 59 of pneumonia iand"complications of leukemia. J him. I S&ASHINGTON (AP) Yielding to pressure from the I Clinton administration, Cuba has S agreed to cut in half the $600 fee it s charges Cubans who receive U.S. immigrant visas, U.S. Rep. Bill Richardson said Saturday. IRjchardson, spoke in a telephone interview from Havana, session whfife he had a Friday night with President Fidel ' The six astronauts were elated by their triumphs: capturing a Japanese satellite that had been in orbit for nearly one year, releasing and retrieving a U.S. science satellite and performing two spacewalks to help international space station designers. "We feel like we got 1996 off to a great start," Duffy said. "We also feel that we took another step in the international cooperation in space exploration." The No. objective of Endeav3.7 million-mil- e our's nine-dawas voyage snaring the Japanese satellite. The spacecraft was launched from Japan last March with an infrared telescope, crystal-growt- h furnaces, female newts and newt eggs. (The newts died as planned after 1 12 months in orbit.) Before Wakata could snare the satellite with the shuttle robot arm last weekend, ground con- trailers had to sever its two fold ed solar panels, which would not latch into place for the trip home. Each day brought a new challenge, and as each objective was accomplished, Duffy said, "we felt a lot of satisfaction and we would revel in .it a little bit among ourselves, saying, "We did it and we did it right.' And then we would look forward to the next hurdle. We could never get too comfortable w ith what we were doing." The final hurdle was the 2:42 a.m. touchdown on a floodlit run- Castro. About 1,000 Cubans eligible to iwttle in the U.S. have been ufiSble to do so because they the service charge. . , way, at Kennedy Space Center. It was the eighth time in 74 missions that NASA shuttles landed in the dark. Duffy, an Air Force colonel, said it turned out to be just as he had expected, despite some slight turbulence. "I would like to celebrate the successful mission in the near future with all the crew members over Japanese sake," Wakata told reporters six hours after touchdown. "I want to go to my apartment in Houston and sleep," he added. Shuttle manager Tommy said the two spacewalks by three Endeavour astronauts to President Clinton introduces Japanese astronaut test construction tools and tech- Koichi Wakata, center, just after the space shuttle 1 Hol-low- ay niques and heated spacesuits orbiting complex late next year. greatly contributed to the internaOverall, Holloway said he was tional space station program. NASA and the space agencies of pleased with how well the mis- Japan, Europe, Canada and Rus- sion went "in spite of a three- sia plan to start building the giant week (government) furlough and GOP contenders give Christians cold shoulder By TOM RAUM people are speaking gibberish," the Indiana senator told the conference of conservative activists, Associated Press Writer JIs pfnlf y, ur Sen. HANOVER, N.H.(AP) s Bob Dole reached across the gens erational divide Saturday, appear- i'ing at the original "Animal Hbu&e" and taking a magical mystery tour of sorts aboard MTV's f 'Phpose or Lose" campaign bus. : Jit's not the age of the man. It's the"man for the age," Dole, at 72 the" oldest presidential candidate, an t$3 MTV's Tabitha Soren-ii&rview on the bus. "I find age not been an issue." after a long and tiring, but successful space shuttle mission. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata was looking forward to both following Endeavour's landing Saturday.' "You can take tomorrow off," commander Brian Duffy assured early-mo- iduba to cut fee ."far U.S. visas Sale interviewed on MTV bus sake rning - five-ho- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. There's nothing like a good and some good pights sleep Sat-urr- I" By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer ,:. . , i Sen. Phil MEMPHIS, Tenn. Gramm brought down the houe speaking Friday night. have changed notably Saturday as he sang conservative '"'Things since last fall, when one GOP candia choir Christian to of gospel activists: But other GOPpresiden-tia- l date after another paid homage to the Christian Coalition and took requisite contenders have begun disvows to support its social agenda. relifrom themselves the tancing Although most of the coh- a gious rights significant change ; tenders continue to assert such from just a few months ago. usual in his white outlaw abortions, enforce views crisp "I don't know why they did not pressed snwfand dark suit. Dole sat for an come," Gramm said of his GOP the right to, bear arms and tame an hour in the leopard-patterne- d they rivals after an exuberant address to overreaching bureaucracy the bus as it rolled across the "National Affairs seem less inclined to kowtow to Briefing" the New Hampshire countryside: conference. "But I know why I the pressure group. Hard-cor- e social conservatives did. I came here because I'm lookGramm and Buchanan have like a for ing job." ; failed to emerge as serious threats Texas senator and former comPat mentator ; Buchanan, who to Dole. Instead the threat has come here on I- Friday,. told the appeared --SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. froirt Forbes, bearing an economic audience what it wanted to hear, A barge carrying 4 million ( AP) than a social message. rather round of t gallons of heating oil leaked a prompting" round after also has declined to support Forbes ovations. But other standing major small amount Saturday, a day after contenders a constitutional amendment to ban skipped the two-da- y idan aground in a storm. Officials session designed to scrutinize the ; most abortions. Ifilieved an environmental disaster has taken ; Forbes' emergence 'Republican's presidential con. some of the heat off Dole to cater rg$ been averted. tenders. f ' to the Christian activists and put jjjAided by clear skies and weak-et- $ included front-runnThe winds, the Coast Guard preSen. Bob Dole, wealthy more pressure on him and other pared to pump oil from the 340-fopublisher Steve Forbes and even ' GOP contenders to deal with Gov. Lamar Forbes' central campaign issue: barge and refloat it Sunday. A former host-stat- e sheen of oil about 3 miles long and Alexander. advocacy of a flat tax. several hundred yards wide was Dole had actively wooed the Sen. Richard Lugar turned out moving southeast from Rhode to urge less rhetorical excess and religious right for most of 1995. Island's southern coast into the more careful use of words by Now Christian right activists are A4ntic Ocean. and those seeking to mad at him for appearing to waver politicians "The oil was too thin to be skimmed on an earlier commitment on a influence them. or .dispersed with chemicals, so offi-a$- K "In the worst instance, we've constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion. become a Tower of Babel in which planned to let it evaporate. AP Photo Endeavour astronauts arrived in Houston after a nine-da- y mission in space Saturday. " But the following flight, to the. Russian space station Mir in March, could be delayed unless the Nation-- ; 'i, al Aeronautics and Space Adminis- - " tration receives funds, he said. a threat of closing our shuttle pro- gram down for lack of budget." 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