European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday aprill 0,1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 astronaut Mary Cloate lop left finds something Ohio song while mining in the emergency escape Basket Al the Kenned space Center at Cap canaveral Fla. With her in the Basket is fellow Astro a laughing matter naut Kontian taif Laid. A countdown its involving the Crew of five the others arc not identified went As scheduled. The space shuttle s next launch is planned for april 28. Film critical of Khomeini dropped from festival Hollywood Calif. Not veiled threat a Low budget american film critical or the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has lost is theatrical distribution in three countries and has been dropped from the forthcoming los an. A Clos International film festival sponsored by the american film Institute the rim s production executives said. The producer Bob Graham and the iranian born executive producer Taghi Afrakhan said that their movie had be come a target in the aftermath of Hie iranian Leader s Call for Lite slaying of Salman Rushdie author of the satanic verses a novel Many muslims consider blasphemous. On March 8, the Day that veiled threat was to be screened for the press the film Institute received a telephoned bomb threat but no bomb was found and the screening tools place. When the final schedule for the festival starting thursday was released veiled threat was not listed. Graham a former Fello at the film Institute said he had decided to speak out after distributors in England France and Italy had backed out of their agreements to show the movie. It has now been sold in 50 countries. It was shown at the recent american film Market held in los Angeles but did not find an american distributor. In a March to left or to the movie s sales agent Virgin vision which had Al ready paid a $50.000 Advance for British theatrical and Home video rights asked for its Money Back. " the letter read in part both the Brit ish Board of film classification and the foreign office have advised us  release the film in the current political climate would be at the very least dangerous and inflammatory veiled threat is a thriller loosely based on an incident a few years ago in which an iranian journalist living in Southern California was murdered. Recovered Oil May be used Valdez. Alaska a thousands of Gallons of crude Oil scooped up from Prince William sound arc being loaded onto barges and could eventually be sold and even used to pave highways Exxon said. As operations enter their third week workers have recovered More than16,000  the 240,000 barrels spilled from inc Exxon Valdez. A barrel is 42 Gallons the Oil sits in barges atone Wilh thou Sands of Gallons of seawater thai have been sieved and strained. Exxon spokes Man Henry Beathard said every one Toto Gallons of water contains about a gallon of Oil. Beathard said despite the waterlogged condition of the Oil it has some Commer Cial potential. Any Oil that s in the water you can separate it and gel the water  he said. Beathard said the Oil might wind up As heating Oil or Asphall we Haven t decided which refinery it will go to but Well probably move i Down in barges to another state he said. Nut collection explains the unexplainable by Michelle Locke Assoc Ingwl press writer Cambridge mass.  who took a wrong us on the Road to enlightenment have wound up enshrined in the archives of useless re search at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. The archives also known As the nut collection consist of some 200 books drawings and pamphlet which seek to explain things such As Why life exists and Allied subjects Bui archivist Kathy Marquis says the weird science does t entirely clash Wilh inc serious science at Mit since both slim from people s desire to explain i hair existence. We warn to coiled basically not Only what worked but what did t work,1 she said Al least two of the theorists from the 1920s, 30s Andros who warned that cigarette smoking could be linked to cancer were later vindicated. But it s thermally useless theories that dominate not inc musing of the ahead of their Lime misunderstood geniuses there is Cyrus teed who advanced the theory thai people Are living inside Earth. And there is Scab iry   that the Sun is actually 600 Miles away from Earth As opposed to the 93 Neil Tion Miles generally accepted by astronomers. Titles of the mainly self published works Are Ambi  fact of All life beyond Einstein Why life exists and Allied subjects arc among the Sticky issues bravely tackled. Explaining the meaning of life is a key theme of the authors along Wilh debunking scientific beliefs such As the existence of Gravity and finding prior for religious beliefs. Who my own theory is these ire the same kind of people10 in another circumstance might have found their one answer in religion Marquis said. I think that s a lot of what drives science anyway. We want to know  collection which was  Mit by an editor of scientific american also includes Crank mail Scal to Mit scientists Over the years Marquis said. Most of the authors take a bombastic approach but. Some Are More modest such As Ernest e. Sowull who titled his 1938 work a Layman s guess or the uni Versal electric life theory. Sowull noted he lacked scientific training and admitted that some readers might think him presumptuous. However there is an impelling desire on my part to do this he wrote. The impelling desire to explain the unexplainable is an integral part of science. Marquis said. The successful Guys think about impossible things and try to explain them she said. These Guys just Kepi thinking about impossible  conv cafe Florida drug Dea or charged in murder of grocer Miami a a convicted drug dealer who feuded with a neighbourhood grocer has been arrested and charged with masterminding the slaying of the outspoken anti drug crusader police said. Bobbie Lee Kobin von 29, was arrested Friday and charged with one count of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder. One bystander was critically wounded and another managed to Dodge bullets in the machine gun attack outside Lee a thur Lawrence s West Perrine grocery March 20. Lawrence 51, died in a Spray of 30 bullets that residents of West Perrme say came in retaliation for his outspoken efforts against drug dealers in the Low in come Community about 10 Miles South of Miami less than a week before he died Law rence reported to police a death threat. His family said it was Robinson who threatened to kill the grocer. Two men Are already in custody and another suspect is still being sought. Metro dad sgt. Ted Macarthur supervisor of the homicide investigating team said he won t release the motive or inc murder fee until the remaining suspect has been arrested. But he said Rob. Mson contracted with Rodney no Wiome and Ronnie Johnson to kill Lawrence. New some and Johnson both 21, have been arrested. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 10, 1949 in testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee. Air Secretary a Stuart Symington said he believed no possible aggressor would have inc atomic bomb before 1952. 30 years ago today. April 10, 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright the internationally renowned architect who designed More than 700 buildings around the world died in a Hospital m Phoenix ariz., Al the age of h9. 20 years ago foe a. At Ril 10, 1969 in the latest decision in an 11-year-Ouj court Case a Federal appeals court ruled thai the american tobacco co. Was not liable for the death from. Lung cancer Ofa 47-year-old Man who had smoked three packs of cigarettes a Day. To years ago today. April 10. 1979 the ugandan government of president i Amin confirmed that it had captured and executed tour foreign journalists who had tried to sneak into the country by boat