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Show The Sunnier Chronicle - Wednesday, Jane 28, 199; Atlantis from pap h ed time and at a creep of of a foot per second. .Such large objects have never docked before in orbiu Mir has a mass of 123 tons in orbit, Atlantis 100 tons. The two spacecraft will be joined for five days. "The specialists from the two countries have a lot to learn from each other," said Yuri Semenov, president of the Russian aerospace company RSC Energia. "Together, we can do much more than individually, and we hope that politicians will not interfere with our work and will actually assist us rather than be in our way." one-tent- 2 Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. "If you look at this program, I think it's one of the shining lights in the very difficult relationship between the United States and Russia." Atlantis will spend nearly two days catching up to Mir and dock with it on Thursday, 245 miles above Earth. Thagard and his Russian crewmates will immediately swap places with the two Russians who flew up on the Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strckalov have been aboard Mir since March 16. Atlantis will bring eight people back the first time a U.S. spacecraft will return with more people MARCIA DUNN Associated Press Pakistan deaths from pajc 2 members of a rival group, which militants say is backed by the government. Police accuse the leading faction of the MQM, led by Altaf Hussein, for most of the killings. Hussein's forces have targeted security forces and government institutions, burning down several government offices and a municipal corporation garage and firebombing the Financial Trade Center, a Karachi landmark. Thousands of residents in the hardest-hi- t area of central Karachi have been without electricity since Sunday, when gunmen shot out several transformers. By Tuesday police could still not penetrate some neighborhoods in central and east Karachi. In the Liaqatabad and Nazimabad districts, residents said burned out vehicles lay in the middle of streets covered with thousands of spent shells and garbage was piled high. In some neighborhoods militants have dug trenches and police patrol at " ' " ' - ' " a distance. Nearly 200 members of the security forces have been killed by militants this year. Few residents sympathize' with the law enforcement agencies, which they accuse of corruption and extortion. On Tuesday Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto formed a commission to negotiate with the MQM but she refused to negotiate with MQM leaders facing criminal charges. That will exclude most of the top leadership of Hussein's MQM, most of whom are facing dozens of charges ranging from murder to extortion. Few people expect this new commission to meet with much success. Hussein's group has refused to talk to Ms. Bhutto's government until she agrees to talk to Hussein, who faces several criminal charges. GHULAM HASNAIN than it left with. Thagard is the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket ship. If Atlantis returns to Earth as planned on July 7, he and his comrades will have been in orbit 115 days, a U.S. endurance record. A Russian cosmonaut holds the world record 439 days. Many space officials, including Goldin, consider the docking the most challenging task since landing men on the moon. Atlantis' commander, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, will have to steer the shuttle to within a few inches and degrees of the docking ring on the huge Mir station as the two spacecraft zoom around Earth at 17,500 mph. He will have to do this within two minutes of the appoint- - shocking from page 2 "It has nothing to do with the lock whatsoever. Electricity must have come through the door," Aasen said. Such cards are in use at about 30 percent of the nation's hotels and motels nationwide because, being reprogrammable after each use, they cut down on thefts from rooms and provide guests with greater security, Aasen said. Industry officials said this was the first time they had ever heard of anyone being electrocuted while using one. "This appears to be a freakish, isolated but very tragic incident," said Maura Nelson, a spokeswoman for the American Hotel & Motel Association in Washington. Anthony G. Marshall, who writes a column on safety and security for Hotel & Motel Management magazine, said he has heard of such freak accidents as a hotel guest bitten by a rabid mongoose and a young man who got a body part stuck in a swimming pool's suction pipe. "This is the first time I have ever of a guest being electrocuted by using a sophisticated electronic lock," he said. "This certainly takes its place in Believe It or Not.'" At the 237-beRamada, managey ment moved guests from the the overlooking courtyard pool to the tower, which has no direct outside access. "It is an unfortunate accident," said Thomas Harris, the hotel's general manager. 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