Show 4A Standard-Examin- Wednesday Sept 26 1990 er National Pictures show Venus’ city - sized craters volcanoes PASADENA Calif (AP) — Magellan’s latest pictures of Venus show meteorite craters the size of Los Angeles a river of solidified lava 200 miles long and a collapsed volcano twice as deep as the Grand Canyon “These are extremely jazzy images" said Gordon Pcttengill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who leads the spacecraft’s radar science team NASA displayed the pictures d of the planet at the cloud-covere- Jet Propulsion Laboratory on T uesday “Believe me it’s giving us a revolutionary new view of Venus" said Brown University geologist Jim Head a Magellan scientist With Magellan only 10 days y mission to map into its the planet Head advised: “Don’t touch your dial We think we have a blockbuster fall season" Steve Saunders Magellan’s chief scientist displayed a com 243-da- videotape of shows two volcanoes each with a windblown fan of debris extendimages showing Venus from the perspective ing about six miles from the of someone swooping down to mountain’s summit crater NASA and around a crater on its sursaid the fans look like “fallout face from volcanic explosion plumes” puter-generate- d three-dimension- al Magellan started its $744 million picture- - and mission Sept 5 two weeks later than planned because engineers temporarily lost radio contact with the spacecraft twice in Aumap-maki- 1 gust One picture displayed Tuesday While Magellan hasn’t seen a volcano actually erupting it has made pictures of so many volcanic features that “there is an excellent possibility there is active volcanism somewhere on the planet” Head said Magellan also spotted a calde Big cities battle rise in violent crimes Emergency gun control measures sought to reduce surge of random killings MILWAUKEE (AP) — A high school dropout’s dream of putting to use his new college diploma was shattered by a random gang attack A girl’s ninth birthday ended with a stray bullet as she lay on her mother’s bed From New York to Chicago to Milwaukee big cities are seeking emergency gun control measures as they battle a dramatic rise in violent crimes many involving random killings of innocent victims “It doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing the lives of people in the inace are at stake” said ner city tivist Ruth Varnado whose Reclaiming the Streets movement has won high praise “We said in 1989 if you don’t help us on the front side then you'll have to pay for it on the back side” Varnado said “The back anti-crim- side is that our babies are dying” Milwaukee a city of 600000 has seen its murder rate jump by more than half to 187 per 100000 residents between 1988 and 1989 That translated into a record 116 homicides in 1989 Already this year 115 killings have been recorded Of even greater concern is the randomness of three recent Milwaukee killings where where I would be safe” was accused A week earlier a 1 selecting and executing 19 to prove that he knew how to kill in a street gang initiation rite Davis a high school dropout had recently earned a degree from Milwaukee Area of randomly Charles Davis Technical College In the same neighborhood Tammy Reilly 17 was killed Saturday by an errant blast from a sawed-of- f shotgun as she listened to music in a relative’s apartment “It’s going to take a long time for this community to ever heal There are just too many scars” said Queen Hyler founder of Stop the Violence a citizen group “I’m not going to sit here and watch them bury an- Shereker Wilkins whose family recently fled a Chicago housing project was lying on her mother’s bed Saturday night after celebrating her ninth birthday when a stray bullet pierced the bedroom wall and struck her in the head She died 10 hours later “1 wanted to get away from the drug dealers gangs shootings the projects and make a new start for my kids” said Ruby Wilkins “I thought I had moved some without shaking this city other up” sales up as inmates released to ease overcrowding Gun HOUSTON (AP) — Sales of guns and burglary alarms have picked up in the nation’s fourth-iargecity since the courts ordered the release of more than 270 inmates to relieve over- crowding at the Harris County i Jail st All the freed inmates had been jailed on misdemeanors But for some Houston-are- a residents that’s no more reassuring than hearing Houston trails Miami New York Los Angeles Dallas and Detroit in crime At least 31 of the 276 inmates freed on personal recognizance bond since Sept 14 are already back behind bars police said Seven have been charged with felonies including armed robbery in one case police said “We're just arresting the same people We’re letting them out and arresting them again” said Sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen “The citizens of Harris County have again been victimized by the system” The jail designed for 4200 inmates now has about 6300 down from a peak of 8800 ra or crater caused by the collapse of a volcano’s summit almost two miles deep — roughly twice the depth of the Grand Canyon and deeper than any other caldera seen in the solar system scientists said A hardened lava river eight-tentof a mile wide and about 200 miles long was mapped by Magellan as well NASA also showed a picture of a meteorite impact crater about 28 miles wide “Greater Los An hs geles would fit approximately in the floor of this crater” Head said Another picture showed three big impact craters one of them even larger with a width of about 30 miles Magellan was launched from the space shuttle Atlantis in May 1989 and arrived at Venus after traveling a looping path of 948 million miles Gang beats tourists trying to help woman NEW YORK (AP) — Two Canadians tourists beaten by a gang that mistook their help for an elderly woman as a mugging got some help from neighborhood merchants — including $100 in cash auto repairs and a free lunch Merchants in Bensonhurst the predominantly white Brooklyn neighborhood where black teenager Yusef Hawkins was killed by a mob in August 1989 took up a collection for the tourists Tuesday “With all the bad with the Hawkins killing last year I’m glad something good came out of instead of the neighborhood something negative” said Vinny Pinello owner of Reliable Auto Repair Eric Plourde 19 and Patrick Chartrand 20 both of Quebec were beaten with baseball bats and pipes Monday afternoon while assisting an elderly woman who fell police Detective Joseph McConville said “Apparently these kids thought these two guys were mugging the old lady” McConville said The group numbered between 10 and members he said The Canadian men were treated at Coney Island Hospital for bruises after the beating and released spokesman Daniel Arm12 strong said Gang members also smashed their car’s windshield and two other windows police said Pinello said he began organizing assistance after officers asked him for some plastic to cover the shattered windows No arrests were made in the case and authorities were search- ing for the youths and the woman who left the scene before police arrived Tourists have suffered notable crimes in New York this summer with a Utah tourist stabbed to death while protecting his mother during a Manhattan subway mugging and a Soviet visitor slain by thieves who snatched his wife’s purse After learning that Plourde and Chartrand only had $25 between them merchants “got up $100 in maybe 90 seconds” Pinello said: “I'm sorry we didn't give them more” 'Hispanic leaders are working toward ' achieving united political voice in ’92 WASHINGTON (AP) — His-- t panic leaders are planning ways ? to present a united political voice Hn the 1992 presidential election About 100 Hispanic leaders met Tuesday and resolved not to let divisions within the community sap their political strength as some say occurred during the presidential campaign two years ago Led by former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros NY Borough President T Bronx Fernan-d- o Ferrer and Denver Mayor Federico Pena the leaders adopt-ed a blueprint for 1992 and took stands on five pressing Hispanic Z issues The leaders plan to establish the National Hispanic Agenda as an organization that can speak on political issues all Hispanics - share a a: “The Hispanic subgroups are now agreeing and supporting issues in a real call for unity” said Robert Calderin director of a conference of New York legislators called Somos Uno Spanish for “We Are One” Governor to appeal ruling on schools Texas (AP) — Gov l- BillAUSTIN he will Clements appeal a ruling that the state’s method of financing its schools remains unconstitutional says ’ “It represents an attempt to speak with one voice across the differences that divide the Hispanic community — Cubans Puerto Ricans Mexicans Republicans Democrats New Yorkers Floridians Texans Californians” Cisneros said As a First step the leaders urged an adjustment of the 1990 census that appears to have undercounted minorities They also pressed for passage of the civil rights bill and repeal of the employer sanctions provision in the 1986 immigration law State District Judge Scott McCown ruled Tuesday that the $ 4 billion overhaul adopted ear--' lier this year in response to a Texas Supreme Court decision still doesn't give schools “substantially equal” access to funds Instead “the rich districts are left rich the poor districts poor” he said 1 McCown gave legislators until 1991 to again reform the Sept 1 system which relies on state and federal aid and local property taxes If a suitable plan is not devised McCown said he may the spending of tax money stop on schools or order how the money can be spent “I don’t agree with his judgment at all” the governor srid “He’s a young judge Perhaps the Supreme Court in its review will reconsider that opinion" by then The judge ruled that financial inequities between schools are caused by the wide range in property values across the state Rick Gray a lawyer for poor districts that challenged the new system was jubilant “We 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