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Show 4A The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunda), February lUMb Astronomers Observe Possible Planet Orbiting Distant Star By Linda Roach Monroe Newhouse News Service - EUGENE, Ore. Oregon astronomers have observed what could be a huge planet orbiting a star 36 light years from Earth. If confirmed, the find would corroborate what astronothat solar mers have long believed systems exist elsewhere in the galaxy The first clear evidence of planets outside our solar system emerged in 1984 when University of Arizona astronomers announced finding a gaseous "brown dwarf orbiting around a star called Van Biesbroeck 8 James C. Kemp, a University of Oregon astronomy professor who led the Oregon research team, describes the object it observed as similar to a huge "blob the Arizona discovery gas" at least twice the size of ter and perhaps bigger of Jupi- "If this really is a planet-likbody, it s an enormous body," Kemp said It s something like 10 times the size of Jupiter Otherwise, it wouldn't be " big enough for us to detect e Using 24- - and the University h of telescopes at Oregon's Pine Mountain Observatory, Kemp's group measured the amount of polarized light coming from Arcturus, the star in the heavens One of the main sources of polarized light is reflection, as in the sunlight reflected from a planet A special polarimeter attached to the telescopes found that the amount of polarized light from Arcturus varied over a period After ruling out pulsation of the fourth-brighte- y star as the cause, the group was left with two possibilities a planet with a orbit around the star, or polarized light variations caused by a y e "starspot" as the star itself rotates every 50 days Kemp cautioned that rotation cannot be ruled out as a cause of the cycle Periodic changes in the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation from Arcturus would confirm that as a cause, but the star flares so much that such variations if they exist are obscured, he said He said scientists at Mount Wilson Observatory in California planned to do other measurements w the next year to try to resolve the puzzle "We'll either find it a planet or rule it out, Kemp said. If the star-spo- t is correct, it would show up as a change. Whereas if its light-intensit- y Low said he welcomed the Pine Mountain study, which was published l in the Feb 15 issue of The Astrophysi-ca- a planet, you probably would not see any brightness change because a planet s too faint A huge ball of gas orbiting Arcturus would support the theory of solar system evolution that has stars and planets condensing out of huge clouds of gas left over after a cataclysmic explosion referred to as the "Big " Bang A gaseous planet such as Jupiter and such as the brown dwarf found in 1984 is considered to be a cloud of Journal "One of the fundamental issues of nature is whether planets always form when stars form or w hether the solar system is quite rare," Low said that adds more informa- "Anything tion to a meager set of observational facts is quite important "Certainly the discovery of a planet around a star other than our sun would be a significant astronomical a discovery." said Harry Shipman, the Univerat of astronomy professor with sity of Delaware, who is familiar "The Kemp's polarimetry work interproblem is that the data can be his To preted in more than one way. these out laid has Jim credit, Kemp front interpretations up condensing gas that never quite made it to being a star, said Frank J Low, one of the Arizona astronomers who detected the brown dwarf "These are objects that could have become stars if they were just a little bit heavier," Low said. "Lacking the mass, they didnt turn on their nuclear furnace." Associated Press Writer HAVANA Cuban officials have instituted a number of changes over the past decade, backing away from doctrinaire Marxism in favor of a more pragmatic approach and injecting far more variety into what was once a lean cultural menu. Today's Cuba seems more prosperous and relaxed, particularly in contrast to the early 1970s, when the country existed in angry isolation. While essentially still socialist, Cuba has introduced a number of innovations aimed at raising production and public morale. Private farming has been reintroduced on a modest scale as part of an accelerating emphasis on providing material rewards for hard work as the And after operating for a quarter-centur- y nations landlord, the government last summer began granting home ownership to residents. At a recent Communist Party Congress, President Fidel Castro said the countrys economic growth averaged 7.3 percent over the past five "perhaps one of our most prolific and years successful periods. He said caloric intake is 2,900 per capita daily. For each 100 homes with electricity, 91 have television sets. Nowadays, tourism is back in vogue, with visitors from South America and Europe swarming the citys hotels. At the resort city of Varadero, a two-hodrive from the capital, nine hotels are said to be on the drawing board. However, only a small number of Americans are permitted to visit the island because of U.S. restrictions. By welcoming tourists once again, the government is getting sorely needed foreign exchange and also is able to show off what it considers its accomplishments. Cubas tourism earnings last year reached $87.3 million, more than double the figure five years ago. And in a sign of the changing times, tipping, once discouraged, is now a widely accepted practice. Last month, Cubans for the first time were allowed to patronize stores previously reserved for foreigners with dollars. The only condition is that the Cuban have a friend or relative abroad willing to open a dollar account" for him at a local bank. The stores frequently are stocked with consumer items not always available to the average Cuban. The U.S. government has few fans here, but American singers such as Stevie Wonder, Lionel locally. American artists frequently dominate Cuba's "supertope" or top 10 charts. Another indicator of the emphasis on culture is the existence of 50 theater groups and 59 art schools. Average yearly output of books is 40 million, with an increasing percentage devoid of political content. The television fare has been upgraded with morning programming instituted for the first time a few years ago and with a far more lenient government attitude towards the number and variety of American movies allowed on television and at theaters. Several Cubans said they believe Radio Marti, the Voice of America station tailored for Cuban listeners, induced authorities to adopt more varied programming. Radio Marti went on the air last May; there are no reliable estimates on the size of its audience. Although Cuba has eased up in many ways, it remains a highly paternalistic society in which basic freedoms are sharply proscribed. Individualism is discouraged and there is an absence of independent inquiry. One Cuban woman, resentful of the curbs on foreign travel said, "This is a totalitarian state. Cubans have little choice but to accept the governments world view, the basic tenet of which is that the United States is an aggressive, expansionist power. Citizens can question the way in which government policies are implemented but never the policies themselves. Cuba has sent tens of thousands of its forces to Angola, starting more than a decade ago, but there has never been a public debate over whether that commitment, now estimated at 35,000, serves the national interest. Proportionately, there are more Cubans serving in Angola than there were Americans serving in Vietnam at the height of the U.S. commitment to that country. Thousands of other Cubans are deployed elsewhere in the Third World as part of the governments "internationalist" policy, which also includes the stationing of Cuban doctors in two dozen countries. Castro said recently that capitalist countries live off wars "like vampires and buzzards, but the number of Americans who have died in international conflicts over the past 10 years is infinitesimally small compared with the number of Cubans. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union is portrayed in heroic terms. Reflecting its immense political Alaska ANCHORAGE. The Iditarod is a punishing value to the Kremlin, the Cuban government receives more than $4 billion a year in Soviet subsidies, enabling it to push ahead with medical and educational programs on a scale well beyond the reach of other developing countries. Cuba has been one of Moscows most reliable supporters for almost two decades. In 27 years of revolution, Cubans have learned that the way to get ahead is to go along with the government's agenda Castro said recently that 83.9 percent of all Cubans above the age of 14 belong to the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. These are neighborhood watchdog groups whose main task is "revolutionary vigilance " In a speech last month, Interior Minister Jose Abrantes exhorted policemen "to watch and control potential Indoctrination is part of the student curriculum in Cuba. Over the past five years. Castro said more than 400,000 students graduated from schools for political and ideological training. Virtually all elementary and secondary schoolchildren belong to the Young Pioneers, who engage in patriotic activities aimed at giving them the purest socialist feelings and ideals, as Castro described it. Similarly, at the junior high and high school d level, most youths are expected to perform farm labor. Last year, students 14 and 15 years old began training. Castro has estireceiving mated that 80 percent of all Cubans capable of fighting are organized in defense units. By his public statements, Castro has suggested he looks to the future with heady optimism, but Western analysts believe the situation here is less favorable than he portrays it. They say the indoctrination in schools has not taken hold and that many youths are afflicted with cynicism and lack of purpose. Some youths are said to look on military duty more as punishment than as service to the nation. In one remote area of western Cuba, the high school dropout rate is reported at 45 to 50 percent. But there is widespread agreement that tod than it was days Cuba is far more in the 1960s when hundreds of priests were expelled or fled and university students who were practicing Catholics ran the risk of expulsion Castro, who once looked on Christians as a potential counterrevolutionary force, had several meetings with church leaders last year as part of what appears to be a process of detente after a generation of hostility. (UPI) trek through mountain passes, over frozen rivers and across tundra, but 73 sled-doracers have volunteered for the pain and suffering just for the fun of it Billed as "the last great race on earth," the Iditarod starts in Anchorage and ends in Nome, where the winner gets $50,000 But more than that, it is a race between the mushers, as the racers are called, and nature. With mushers battling blizzards and frostbite in temperatures that dip to 50 degrees below zero, it is a race that nature often wins, and it is expected to be no different in the race that starts March The weather is not the racers only foe. Often, a moose will block the way, refusing to budge, and an especially ornery beast might attack, as one did last year, killing or injuring most of the dogs in Susan Butcher's team. Butcher, who had been a race favorite, was forced to drop out "I don't really think anybody runs it for the money," said Jerry Austin, 38, who has finished in the top 10 four times. "Its a lot of fun. It doesn't matter whether you're first or last." Austin, a fuel distributor, guide, ivory dealer and fisherman from Saint Michael, Alaska, said last year's race was the least fun of his seven Iditarods. He broke his hand but continued anyway and finished g ." 1 able-bodie- e open-minde- for Frank Carman, manager. If didn't rub elbows with. I wrote copy for or talked to the great and near at the There was a large conference table in Mr. Carpenter's office - glass topped and completely adorned with Christmas cards. Each January we d call Dan Hudson from Maintenance to lift and carefully clean the glass while Don I'tley. Jim Durbin and I arranged a new set of cards under . Bunk complete with wood parts and rails Bunk complete with wood parts, rails and two bunk pallets mattress sets 0095 Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage out into Alaska's wilderness. The teams of hardy animals and their drivers will stop only to eat and and for a little sleep. To prevent mushers and dogs from driving themselves into the ground, one mandatory stop is required The musher chooses where. Otherwise, the teams drive on relentlessly, camping off to the side of trails, sometimes in a group, sometimes alone. Checkpoints offer a brief respite from the biting cold and maybe a cup of coffee. Some mushers use the checkpoints for catnaps. 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Injuries knock a handful of mushers and dogs out of the running every year, and for some, just reaching that distant finish line is accomplishment enough. It is a sure bet that not all who signed up will make it. But quitting in the middle of Alaskas vast stretches of emptiness can be tough. A musher who quits has to be pulled to one of the 26 checkpoints along the route, most of them tiny Eskimo or Indian villages. Some checkpoints are old roadhouses or ghost towns from gold rush days. 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Tapes from MTV, the U.S. cable television channel, can be seen - - d Dog-Sle- Material KearIw Imprint Production, Morale By George Gedda Kemp has been using polarized to observe binalight measurements one star orbiting another ry stars for years He sees the Arcturus finding, because it came after only a a year of observation, as lucky break But it also confirms polarimetry as a wav to find other solar systems, he said (Infrared radiation measurements are used more widely ) i . Those inexpensive module units can be arranged and rearranged in orvdless combinations to suit all ot your storage needs Paint or stain those versatile units to match any decor Saturday, March 1, 1986 8:00 a.m. $5.00 FEE ilVl MURRAY 5501 So. 320 West (East Frontaga Road ott 763 3666 ' OREM 464 South State St. 225-766- 3 Vila A u Call school for appointment 363-889- 5 (Appointments not required fur students in Catholic elementary schools) Pfaff Creative Computer Machines Vi PRICE! Floor Models. 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