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Show t)RLB A4 SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1999 THE DAILY HERALD delivers telescope saffely CL02AL Sfoimffle Morocco's king dead at 70 RABAT, Morocco (AP) King r Hassan II, who helped forge Mideast peace and ruled his North African country for 38 years, died Friday of a heart attack at age 70. He was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohamed. The new monarch, who announced his father's death on state television, described Hassan as "a great leader and one of this world's great men." Morocco's new leader, 35, will be known as King Mohamed VI. He is unmarried and has an interest in liter- " . . ' . f"meTY Hal By MARCIA DUNN Press ,tm II .1 f The Associated I J Iff j: 2 ature and art. U.S. Army plane missing A U.S. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Army reconnaissance plane on an antidrug mission in Colombia was missing Friday with five American soldiers and two Colombians aboard, the U.S. military said. The Dehaviland RC-- 7 was missing most of Friday. It took off at 1:30 a.m. and was expected to return 7 2 hours later, said U.S. army Capt. Chris Yates, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command in Miami. The U.S. embassy said in a statement that contact had been lost with g the plane during its flight. four-engin- early-mornin- 2 beheaded on drug charges A RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) beheadwere and Pakistani a Nigerian ed Friday in Saudi Arabia for smuggling heroin into the kingdom, according to the Interior Ministry. Idrees Issa Mohammed of Nigeria was executed in the port city of Jiddah, and Taj Khan Gul Akbar Khan, a Pakistani, was beheaded in the capital, Riyadh. The ministry did not specify the amount of drugs involved in either conviction. Fifty-fiv- e people have been executed in the kingdom so far this year, compared to 29 in all of 1998. Fire guts Riviera forest MARSEILLE, France (AP) than More firefighters using land vehicles and aircraft contained a fire Friday that has swallowed up large swaths of 1,000 Riviera pine forests, fire officials said. Fanned by winds up to 60 mph, the fire that started Thursday night spread quickly through the Alpilles hills of the Bouche-du-Rhon- e region, where Marseille is located. The Departmental Fire and Rescue Center said the blaze devastated nearly 6,000 acres of pine forest and scrubland and destroyed two homes. Newspaper banned Tanzania (AP) The government has imposed a seven-daban on Tanzania's leading tabloid for publishing a story on government salary increases, an official said Friday. Senior Information Officer Raphael Hokororo said the offending article in Majira was, "aimed at fanning discontent and hatred among the people towards the government." In a leading story Thursday, the newspaper reported on what it said were proposals to raise the monthly salaries of government ministers and appeals court judges to $11,250, and the salaries of members of parliament DAR ES SALAAM, y to $8,250. Warlord killed in Somalia A MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) senior associate of Somali warlord Hussein Aidid was killed Friday when at least five gunmen opened fire on his vehicle as he left his south Mogadishu home, witnesses said. The gunmen shot and killed Hirsi Mohamed Barkhadleh, known as Hirsi Aweyeh, dragged his body from the car and sped off in the vehicle, the witnesses said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Hirsi Aweyeh, who lived in a south Mogadishu neighborhood controlled by Aidid, was alone in the vehicle. Witnesses said the assailants took the car into north Mogadishu, which is controlled by faction leader Ali Mahdi Mohamed, Aidid's former rival. "'1' f ( u, TSUVOSHI WATANABEThe Associated Press Canceled: Ambulances are parked by an jumbo at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Friday after it was hijacked by a passenger. The jumbo jet, with 517 people aboard, was hijacked on a flight to the northern city of Sapporo and returned to the Tokyo airport. The pilot was stabbed to death by the hijacker in a cockpit brawl. No one else aboard the plane was injured. All Nippon Airways CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts flawlessly released the world's most powerful y telescope into orbit Friday on the first U.S. space flight commanded by a woman. Air Force Col. Eileen Collins announced the news seven hours into the shuttle journey: "Chandra's on its way to open the eyes of y astronomy to the world." Unlike the shuttle launch, which was marred by a short circuit and a premature engine cutoff, the release of the $1.5 billion Chandra y Observatory went smoothly. Suspect just wanted to fly TOKYO (AP) One woman noticed the fidgety man across the aisle and wondered why he was wearing gloves when the temperature outside was 91 degrees. Another passenger saw him get up from his seat aboard All Nippon Airways Flight 61 and figured he had a complaint. Then the man pulled an knife on a flight attendant on the upper deck of the Boeing 747, stormed the cock- pit and slashed the pilot to death in Japan's first deadly Norio Chichi, deputy police chief at Haneda Airport. The Naoyuki pilot, Nagashima, 51, was pronounced dead by a doctor on board shortly after Flight 61 landed, Transportation Ministry official Satoshi Iwamura said. The government tightened security at airports across Japan and launched an investigation into how the suspect got a knife aboard. Accounts from the cabin depict a flight thrown into quiet terror once the hijacker pulled out his knife. "Take me to the cockpit," Chichi quoted Nishizawa as saying to the flight attendant minutes after takeoff for Sapporo, in northern CHINA RUSSIA Sapporo , ! mitm KORU IpSlfu i IAMM . SOUTH KOREA zoo mUM 200 (cm "" Ajumbo Jet carrying 517 people was hljaoked shortly after take off from Haneda airport in Tokyo. - hijacking. minutes later, the jumbo jet returned to Tokyo's Haneda Airport and landed safely with the 516 other people aboard uninjured. The hijacker, an unemployed man, told police he was a fan of computer games and wanted to fly a real plane, a Haneda police official said on of condition customary Forty-nin- e flight-simulatio- n anonymity. When the man hustled the attendant down the aisle, "I was afraid to look at his face because he might say, 'What are you looking at?' and take a stab at me," said a passenger who only identified himself by his last name, Okawa. Once inside the cockpit, the hijacker forced the copilot out and ordered the pilot to steer toward the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, the police offi- - cial said. When the pilot refused, the hijacker stabbed him in the neck and seized the controls. The plane suddenly lost altitude after the hijacker burst into the cockpit, passengers said. At one point, the plane descended 2,000 feet in five minutes, to 1,000 feet above the ground, the Ministry Transportation Japan. The crew told passengers the plane had been hijacked and urged them to remain said. really thought this was it," said Yasuhiro Fukuda, a musician. Unnerved by the drop in and altitude, the another ANA pilot who happened to be aboard burst into the cockpit and pounced on the hijacker. Others helped tie him up with neckties and belts while the pilot took the "I co-pil- off-dut- y controls. The hijacker, Yuji Nishizawa, was arrested after the plane landed, said quiet. They showed videos the popular "Pokemon" cartoon to keep children from panicking, passengers said. A home video shot in the cabin during the hijacking showed people sitting quietly. Passengers later praised the crew's efforts to reassure them. "1 was shocked when I learned that the pilot was killed," said Miharu Hondo, who was on vacation. The hijacker apparently just wanted to try some aerial tricks involving the majestic span across Tokyo Bay. of ( The and gold- - silver-colore- telescope 45-fo- gleamed as it drifted off into the sunset on a five-yea- r voyage to search for signs of black holes and dark matter, and to survey galaxies, quasars and erupting stars. "There is nothing as beautiful as Chandra sailing off on its way to work," observed astronaut Cady Coleman, who flipped the ejection switch. An hour later, a rocket motor propelled the telescope into a deliberately lopsided orbit that will eventually have a high point of 87,000 of the way miles, or to the moon. It will take 10 days for the telescope to reach its intended orbit. five The astronauts cheered when notified the motor had worked; a similar motor malfunctioned on a military satellite in April, and everyone was anxious even though Chandra's motor had been altered and one-thir- d triple-checke- d. The first images are expected in three to four weeks. "This is an absolutely tremendous day for science," said Roger Brissenden, science flight director at the Chandra control center in Cambridge, Mass. NASA's space shuttles had never carried such a massive load before. Chandra checked in at launch at 50,000 pounds. Once the motor peeled away, the telescope was down to its working weight of 13,000 pounds. Collins' debut as the first Ted Kennedy called upon to hold family World War II bombing mission. His sister Kathleen died in 1948 in a plane wreck. His sister Rosemary is retarded and is in an institution. Three other sisters are living: The Associated Press BOSTON After tragedy claimed the lives of all three of his brothers, Ted Kennedy became, at just 36, the patriarch of the Kennedy family and the one to hold them together in times of grief. He was thrust into that role once more this week, after his nephew John Eunice Kennedy founder of the f F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash along with his wife and Shriver, Special Jean Kennedy Olympics; Smith, former ambassador to Ireland, and Patricia Kennedy V y Lawford. sister-in-la- The Massa- LYNSEV ADDARIOThe Associated Press chusetts senator, who had Saudamini mourns outside a memorial Mass Impact: Siegrist been especially close to JFK F. Jr., insisted on being on the Navy salvage ship when the bodies were retrieved from the ocean floor. And on Friday, Kennedy delivered the main eulogy for his nephew. His family's history of loss was a major theme. "We dared to think ... that this John Kennedy would live for John Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in New York Friday. to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side," Kennedy told mourners at a Mass in New York. "But like his father, he had every gift but length of years." Teddy, as the family calls him, has had many detrac tors since his own tragedy at Chappaquiddick. But he has proved his strength in family crisis. He is the sole surviving son of Joseph and Rose's four boys brothers John and Robert and were assassinated, Associated Press woman to command a U.S. space flight since Alan Shepard rocketed away in 1961 was postponed twice this week, first by faulty measurements, hydrogen then by lightning. The 42- former test pilot flew year-oltwice before as a shuttle co- - ' J d ; pilot. Columbia's 8 12 minute climb to orbit was more than usual. s Collins was barely into her flight when'-shradioed down that she had a problem with one of the shuttle's fuel cells, which use hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity. Twenty-eigh- t seconds later, after scrutinizing the; Mission Control data, informed Collins the problem appeared to be a short circuit. I The drop in voltage caused , the electronic controller fail on two of Columbia's?; three main engines. But each-- ; engine has a backup cont' roller. nerve-rackin- g nine"-second- e -- t; In addition, Columbia;!, ended up seven miles short of "! its intended orbit when the engines cut off one second early because of an insuffi.; cient supply of liquid oxygen. But the gap didn't matter for Chandra's release. : ; together Joseph Jr. was killed on a By ROBIN ESTRIN CHRIS O'MEARAThe Another first: STS-9- 3 Commander Eileen Collins, of Elmira, N.Y., waves as she leaves the Operations and Checkout Building with Mission Specialist Steve Hawley of Ottawa, Kan., Thursday, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Collins is the first female shuttle commander. At first, Ted had no interest in politics. He wanted to be a newspaper publisher, but his father told him he had to run in 1962 for the Senate seat that JFK vacated to become president. When President Kennedy was killed in 1963, Robert stayed with the body on the trip from Dallas back to Washington. When Robert was shot in Los Angeles in 1968, it was Ted who accompanied the casket to New York. From then on, Ted took on the role of family patriarch, in part because his father had.; been incapacitated by ai stroke. When Joseph1 Kennedy died the next yearf Ted stayed alongside the casi; ket in a sleeping bag at compound until the? funeral. t Ted's new role as was marked by a powerful eulogy for Robert that , has been replayed often: thai-famil- family-ancho- -- ! "He should be remembered simply as a good and decent ; man, who saw wrong and tried ; to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. As he said many-- ; times, 'Some men see things as"' they are and say, "Why?' things that never were, and say, "Why not?"" H ! " Ted would later deliver the eulogies for Jacqueline ! Kennedy Onassis in 1994; for his mother, Rose, in 1995; ;! and for his nephew on? Friday. , POOR |