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Show 2A The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, January 27, 986 1 Spotlight Mother Nature Tricks 0 o NASA; Space Shuttle Sunned OuC CAPE CANAVERAL, FlatUPIj Next to a disaster, blue skies were what NASA feared most when it figured bad weather was imminent, derided school was out and scrubbed Sunday's launch of the shuttle Challenger. Blue skies were what NASA got. At the 9 36 am. EST Sunday, when launch had been scheduled, Challenger stood silently secure on launch pad 39B without New Hampshire teacher Christa McAu-liff- e or her six crewmates and the sun over the Kennedy Space Center shone brightly. The weather had played a trick on forecasters, prompting jokes the shuttle had been "sunned out. Marvin Young, standing next to his camper on the bank of the Indian River across from the shuttleport, looked at his watch and then squinted into the sun. "Well," said the tourist from Roanoke, Va , "I guess that's life weather, a familiar nemesis to the nation's shuttle program, has taken on epic proportions, throwing a wrench into an already tight shuttle schedule with a record 15 missions on the books for 1986. Challengers launch, once scheduled for Saturday afternoon, was delayed to Sunday because of bad weather at an emergency landing field in Africa. But an approaching cold front threw a blanket on launch preparations and late Saturday, mission managers rescheduled blastoff for Monday because of the threat of low clouds and heavy rain. The approaching front was slowed overnight by an unexpected low pressure system and as dawn broke over the with NASA cringing shuttleport Sunday relatively clear skies were the rule. Clouds and rain finally showed up, but later than expected. Admitted launch director Gene Thomas: "It looks like we could have gone this morning. The postponement disappointed hundreds of tourists who lined the banks of the Indian River to watch Chalmission with McAuliffe, lenger blast off on its the first private citizen chosen as an astronaut. Hundreds of school teachers from around the nation also descended on Florida this week to celebrate the selection of one of their own, McAuliffe, to open the door to space for mainstream America. g While the educators stay on to see the launch, Monday could be a banner day for substitute teachers around the nation. Good conditions were expected Monday but a secondary front expected to move into the area Tuesday promises to bring temperatures to the shuttleport that would be a launch factor if another snag blocks Challenger's blastoff try Monday. red-lett- shuttle-watchin- Miranda is the innermost of Uranus large satellites. Voyager 2 passed within about 22,000 miles of the moon, capturing a view of two terrain types. Gov. Thomas II. Kean played straight man to Joe Piscopo Jersey theme. in the scene, shot on a cold Saturday, in a spool ol NBC-TV- 's popular with a New for a comedy special The New Jersev leader "Miami Vice" police show. cop, stops the goverIn the scene, "Sonny" Piscopo. the super-coo- l and then beg his him on check nor's limousine, only to run an ID forgiveness. special starring Piscopo, himself a The episode is part of an ABC-TEddie Murphy. The show is to be New Jerseyan, and fellow comic had to bulk up for the role of Shug in The Color Steven Spielberg asked her to gain 25 pounds. Purple" women had the "In those days white women had the legs and black Ma Rainey and other Bessie Smith, like said. she "Singers hips. were big women who could outdrink any man. Plump Margaret Avery gut-buck- et singers women were considered sexy." To prepare for the part she increased her food intake and lifted and hips. Now s she s trying to weights to build up her neck, chest, arms 5 but pounds since we wrapped the reverse the process. "Ive lost all said. been hasn't it but Avery easy, picture Gary Coleman doesnt like Los Angeles and isnt all that pleased with his social life. Tve hardly got anybody here at his private school I can call a to friend," the "Diff'rent Strokes" star says. "Unless youre prepared or from childhood, memorable of your 30 have only something percent no childhood at all, you shouldn't be in this business. . . . Sometimes I no s get depressed and think, 'Hey, it's all over. There nothing else, childhood. As for Los Angeles, he says in TV Guide that its filled with money-craze- d like. The manipulators who don't understand what children are Beaver to It 'Leave of that out to have writers and producers got get thinking, he says. "They think kids just go around the house saying jokes all the time." Tribune Wire Services Rebels Say Theyve Overthrown Ugandas Military Government Voyager Finds Dust Cloud Circles Uranus Continued From l British Broadcasting Corp. that the guerrillas would hold power until a new constitution was put into place. The spokesman said the new governments first priority would be the rehabilitation of essential services, including schools and hospitals, and that there would be no recriminations. The attack on Kampala on Friday culminated a weeklong offensive, one month after Museveni and Major General Okello signed a peace accord in Nairobi that was designed to end years of bloodshed. After more than two days of combat, fighting in the capital reportedly eased dramatically Sunday after government troops retreated overnight. Crowds of cheering Ugandans took to the streets for the first time in days to show their support for the rebels, according to diplomatic sources. The sources said that hundreds of soldiers and some civilians had been killed and that the streets of Kampala, which is without water, electricity A-- Continued From l Carolyn Porco. Thats a very surprising result. An instrument aboard Voyager when it was outside the rings recorded 30 dust impacts a second. The joy of the JPL scientists over the lantastically successful mission to the most distant object in the solar system ever visited by a manmade robdt, however, was saddened somewhat by the realization that Uranus may not again be visited in many A-- "Voyager has given us our knowledge about Uranus for the next two centuries, said Burton Edelson, associate administrator for space science and application for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-tior- hand-to-han- d v' Jhere will most likely not be another mission to Uranus for a couple hudjlred years, he said. So this is it. Vjpyager 2 and a sister ship, Voyager iyere launched in the summer of 197T'to take advantage of a rare alignment of the four giant outer planets gravitational fields to fling thefobots from one planet to another. and telecommunications, were strewn with bodies. Voyager 2 passed Jupiter in 1979 and $aturn in 1981 before heading on to JJranus. The spacecraft is now headed for Neptune, which it will reach in August 1989. Voyager 1 parted company with its companion ship after passing Jupiter and took a couTse upward out of the plane of the eliptic. It will not visit any more planets. (Jttier planetary expeditions in the wo0is include the Galileo mission to Jupiter, which is scheduled to be launched in May, the Magellan mission to Venus in 1988 and a Mars mis sion in 1990. Oespite these missions, however, mapy scientists believe that Americas jgolden age of space exploration maybe over because of the shortage e missions. Voyager's odof was two decades in Uranus to yssey the'making, including 10 years of planning. Afthur Lane of JIL said that radio measurements taken when Voyager flesy- - behind Uranus revealed evident? of 10 more extremely thin rings.. These rings appear to be only l2yio 150 feet wide and may be only partial rings, he said Sbderblom said Uranus' five large mopns are unique in the solar system bebatise their degree of strangeness vafles from the relatively normal outermost moon, Oberon, to the completely puzzling innermost Miranda. fAs we move closer to Uranus we in the way seen increasing ferocity been have tectonically thJnoons shdlfled, he said. iron, 1,010 miles in diameter, irs more like the Earth's moon, ed with many craters and little gical activity. diame-Isania, about 995 miles in but cratered, appears miles wide, is the darkest of ioons and consequently little is lown about it. muon el, the st Miranda, however, shows rious fracture patterns, deep s, crustal movements, valleys aults, Soderblom said. long-rang- o Um-69- Joe Piscopo Gov. Kean Gary Coleman 0 No foreigners appear to have been harmed, diplomats said, and Western missions were still advising foreigners to stay indoors or to leave if the roads seemed safe. The rebel movement earlier seized control of Entebbe, the site of the international airport about 18 miles southwest of Kampala, after stiff battles with government troops. The heavy fighting over the last few days represented the second major unheaval in six months in Uganda, which has long been torn by religious and ethnic strife, political chaos and untold atrocities. The Okello military government came to power last July 27 in a coup that overthrew President Milton Obote, whose rule was marked by extensive reports of human rights violations, bloodshed and insurgencies. Museveni and his followers, who are considered highly disciplined and politicized, took to the bush after charging that the elections in 1980 that returned Obote to power were rigged. Museveni signed the peace accord with the Okello government on Dec. 17 after months of difficult negotiations, but never went to Kampala to join the military government. He charged that the government was powerless to stop attacks by its undisciplined troops on civilians and that he feared for his safety and the safety of his guerrillas. The government said Museveni, who characterizes his movement as nationalist and opposed to tribalism, was looking for a military victory. Diplomatic sources have theorized that Museveni, a charismatic but enigmatic figure, moved on the capital because he could no longer control his field commanders, who were strongly opposed to the peace accord, or because he had planned to seize Kampala all along and merely waited for conditions to deteriorate as the military government lost control over its troops. The rebel leader, who says he is not a Marxist, Maoist or communist, says he is contemptuous of most African governments because of what he considers their corruption and failure to address the basic interests of their citizens. Museveni, who was born in 1944 or 1945, has also said he favors a mixed economy. Rebel army spokesman Eriya Kategaya tells reporters that insurgents had captured Ugandan capital by late Saturday. State of Union Speech to Cover Broad Themes By Ira R. Allen United Press International The Constitution requires WASHINGTON the president "from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union" but it is up to each chief executive to determine the time and format. White House officials say President Reagan, who will have gotten exposure to perhaps 120 million Americans in a televised interview just before the Super Bow-- l two days before, will shorten what has become an annual address to Congress, broadcast by all networks, when he speaks Tuesday night. In doing so, Reagan will focus on broad themes and leave the details for a written message to Congress on Wednesday. It will the 199th State of the Union address. Most of the speeches have been delivered before an audience in the House chamber, but unlike previous ones, Reagan's address Tuesday will mention only broad visions and bypass an annual laundry list of legislative programs the administration will seek. Reagan noted in his radio address Saturday that since Thomas Jefferson delivered the State of the Union in person, followed by more than a century of written messages, it wasn't until Woodrow Wilson in 1913 that a president returned to the House chamber. Reagan seemed to be thanking Wilson for giving him the chance to display his speaking skills, saying the 28th president felt he could do a better job reading his message than a clerk could." He quoted Wilson as telling Congress he wanted to verify for myself that a president is a person, not a mere department of government hailing Congress from some isolated island of jealous power. The president previewed a likely domestic theme of bipartisan cooperation to make 1986 "a year of opportunities to create a future of unlimited opportunities" and a foreign policy theme of world championing freedom in a storm-tosseof terrorists and totalitarians. d Reagan was working on the speech this weekcrafting rhetoric to live through the ages was made easier by the decision to forego the program-by-prograwish list. Every year in the past, government agencies and special interest groups work for two months to get a paragraph written into the speech showing the presidents concern for their project, be it space, welfare, crime, education, welfare, health or trade. This years speech, estimated at only 20 minutes is intended about half the usual length to be "future oriented, says a White House offiend and the task cial. If the speech follows past pattern, Reagan will spend some time reviewing and boasting of the past three years of economic recovery. It is likely, although no one in the White House would say so, that Reagan would continue his practice of displaying ordinary Americans as heroes, inviting one or two to the first ladys box in the House gallery to take a bow. Coast Guard Saves Haitians on Sinking Boat MIAMI (1T1) The ('oast Guard used three helicopters and two cutters Sunday to pluck 67 Haitians from a crowded sailboat foundering in a stormy Atlantic and threatening to capsize, authorities said Three helicopters struggled in howling winds to remove 28 Haitians from the disabled sailboat bobbing in t waves, but the air rescue was suspended when the two cutters arrived about 9 p in EST and began a less risky ship to ship lescue, Coast Guard I.t Cmdr Jim Simpson said Rescue winkers passed out hie jackets and transported the remaining 39 Haitians in small boats from the sinking vessel m the 210 foot Dauntless, which arrived at the scene 20 miles east of Miami along with the Cape Knox, Simpson said. All 67 passengers were off the vessel by 11 30 p nv, he said. The helicopters arrived on the scene first and used baskets to transfer passengers to the civilian ship Minerva, which had relayed the sailboat's distress call to the Coast Guard at about 5 pm., one-ma- 300-fo- Simpson said. One woman passenger injured a leg during the rescue and was taktn to a Miami hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, Simpson said The remaining passengers were not injured Haitians aboard the Minerva will be transported early Monday morning to the cutter Duantless, Simpson said. "The Dauntless reported it would spend the night where it is and wait out the storm for daylight," he said. Simpson said Immigration and Naturalization Service officials will interview the Haitians Monday to determine if they were trying to enter the country illegally. Simpson said the Haitian bom was overcrowded and began taking on water in the storm. He said a sailboat usually can hold no more than 30 passengers safely. The 28 40-fo- Japanese Avalanche Kills 1,5 Villagers TOKYO (AIJ An avalanche of snow crushed 11 houses in the mountain village of Nomachi late Sunday, killing 13 people, police reported. The spokesman, Kenzo Tomisawa, said Monday that search teams had rescued 23 people and 13 bodies were recovered, accounting for all of the 36 people in the buildings when the avalanche struck. Some 800 policemen and fire fighters were involved in the rescue effort at Nomachi, about 90 miles northwest of Tokyo, he said. Heavy snowfalls had blanketed the area in recent days, and the depth Sunday was more than 13 feet Koch Says Chief Of Borough Should Resign New York Times Service NEW YORK Mayor Edward I. Koch Saturday called on Donald R. Manes to resign as Queens borough president, saying that allegations that Manes took bribes to influence city contracts made it impossible for him to continue as a city official. If Manes refuses to step down, the mayor said in an interview, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo should initiate the process specified in state and city law for removing a local official from office. But the governo- -, while saying he would help the mayor if necessary, said such an effort might interfere with prosecutions in the burgeoning scandal, the most serious revelations of corruption in New York Citys government in years. Even as the mayor spoke, politicians in Queens were organizing an effort to remove Manes from his post as leader of the Queens Democratic Party, which, under Manes, has been considered the strongest and most unified county organization in the city. That organization has been badly shaken by federal investigations into corruption at the Parking Violations Bureau, a city agency largely run by appointees of the Queens Democratic organization. A Queens lawyer, Michael G. Dowd, has reportedly told federal investigators that Manes solicited bribes in connection with the granting of contracts to companies that collect overdue parking fines. The county's 64 district leaders, many of whom have been intensely llJr ams' scheduled a meeting for Thursday to discuss a possible succession. A f |
