European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes sunday. April 16,19b9 shuttle hauling Venus probe will be launched april 28 Cape canaveral Fla. A the Atlantis will blast off april 28 with the first planetary payload to be carried by a space shuttle Nasa said. The decision was announced Friday after a two Day review of the flight by More than 200 shuttle managers and engineers. Liftoff is set for 2 24 . While e have much work to do and Little Contin gency time we have established an april 28 launch Date Nasa shuttle director Richard truly said. That had been the unofficial launch target for sever Al weeks. During their four Day flight the five astronauts Are to release the j378 million Magellan spacecraft from the cargo Bay starting it on a 466-Day journey to Venus the spacecraft is to orbit the Cloud covered planet of Venus in August 1990 and map its surface Over thereat 243 Days with a High Resolution radar system. Magellan is the first new american it Anclaim space Craft since Pioneer 13 was launched aug. 8, 1978. To Venus.  the goal of Magellan is to obtain radar images of workers wan f no. Mayor fired Elizabeth . A Sharp cutbacks in this City s police Force and fire department because of Bud gel problems have prompted Calls for he removal of mayor Thomas Dunn who has held office for a Quarter Century. ,. About 250 police officers firefighters and ambulance personnel protested for a fourth straight Day Fri Day chanting on City Hall Steps Dunn must go and the roof the roof he roof s on fire let that.  Elizabeth population 106,000, Laid off 93 civilian employees 70 police officers 53 firefighters and 12 emergency medical technicians at 6 . Friday. The cuts mean a 22 percent reduction in the police Force and 20 percent reduction in the fire department along with the closing of iwo firehouses and four of ii fire companies said Tony Valvano. Vice president of the fireman s Mutual benevolent association. We  the mayor right Down the line Valvano said. We be done everything possible to help him but he s done nothing to help us. Dunn s term is up in 1992, the Democrat postponed for 45 Days the layoffs of 169 other employees scheduled to lose their jobs. The mayor has blamed Assembly speaker Chuck i lard Wick of Union for the City s budget shortfall. I lard Wick a Republican gubernatorial candidate said a funding source is needed before he would allow an Assembly Vole. To bring Money to distressed cities. Dunn called Hardwick "hard-headed,1 and blamed the budget problems on garbage disposal costs for the City adjacent to new York s Stalen Island. At least 70 percent of the  said Stephen Saun dvrs. Magellan project scientist at Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The radar is intended to produce images showing features As Smalt As Iso feet across. In comparison Pioneer 13 could not distinguish features any smaller than 60 Miles across. Saundre said the images would help scientists understand How Venus was formed. They also might pro vide answers to the question of How Earth and Venus with a surface temperature of 900 degrees fahrenheit evolved so differently even though at the beginning of the solar system 4.8 billion years ago they were almost identical. He said he Magellan pictures might answer questions about the extent of volcanic activity and Settle disputes Over whether Venus once had oceans of water and whether it has shifting Crystal plates similar to those on Earth. Commanding the Crew will he Veteran shuttle Pilot David Walker. The others on Board will be Pilot Ron Grace and Mission specialists Mary Cleave Mark Lee and Norman Thagard. Putting up millions. Junk Bond tycoon Michael Milken smiles As then ters Federal court in new York on Friday the for Mer Drexel Dur Tum Lambert financier agreed to set aside More than $600 million in assets that in old he forfeited if he is found Cuilty in Wall Street s l i it ver securities fraud Case. Separately Drex cd has agreed to rigorous Federal supervision and a future without Milken to Sutlo civil charges. Stateside 1,000 exotic animals placed on auction Block Lake Odessa Mich a Brec Deri dealers and exotic animal lovers docked to a Dairy Bam to place their bids on everything from Emu and Vietnam Ese pot bellied pigs to 2bu. About. I,000 exotic Birds and animals were for Sale at the two Day auction thai began Friday. It s a form of insanity animal trader Jim Scott said of the Public s desire to own unique animals. Among the animals being auctioned were pygmy goats cougars miniature donkeys Llamas Boa constrictors Bear cubs Blue neck ostriches and foxes. There were Emu which resemble ostriches and Zebu Domestic 01 Ike animals. You can even pick up a bin Turing a Catlike animal from Asia or a Vietnam Ese pot bellied pig for about $ 10,000. Scott runs one of the largest exotic animal auctions in the country in Cape Girardeau my. Quayle says he. Bush differ Only in their styles Washington Dpi vice president Dan Quayle said Friday he and president Bush Are of the same Wavelength ideologically and  even though their style and rhetoric May differ. He made the comments in response to questions after a speech to the american society of newspaper editors. Asked How his operational approach to the no. 2 Job differed from Bush s vice presidential style m the Reagan administration Quayle said it is essentially the same Model. Obviously i am a different person from Bush in time you la see a Quayle Model of vice president. Ideologically and philosophically there is no Dif Ference he added but in style and rhetoric obvious. By we approach the  Oil companies profits climbed 27 8% in 1988 new York Dpi profits of the big . Oil companies Rose nearly a third in i988, thanks to near record earnings from their refining and chemical operations the american Petroleum Institute said sat urday. The Trade group said the 20 major Oil companies had profits of j19.3 billion a 27.8 percent increase Over she is 5.1 Bill Ion earned in 1987. Revenues Rose 4.2 percent to $360.9 billion from s346.s billion the api said. Earnings from Petroleum refining and marketing and from chemical operations doubled to $8,9 billion in 1988, but were partially offset by a 3fi.i percent decline in earnings from crude Oil production to $8,3 billion api said. Even with 19888 gains profits of the 20 Oil Compa Nies lagged behind those of the 100 leading non Oil companies 11,1 percent compared with 18.8 per cent when measured As a percent of Slock Knees the api said. 1 of 12 pregnant women abused study finds los Angeles a about one of every 12 pregnant women in a study of prenatal clinics was brawn by her male partner making it More Likely the babies died or suffered birth defects the March of dimes foundation said Friday. " battered women Are four limbs More Likely to deliver Low birth weight babies and twice As Likely to miscarry com pared to other mothers said Betsy Berk Homer cred air of the group s Southern California chapter. Low birth weight babes arc More Likely to be born with birth defects and More than 40 times More Likely to die during the first month of life she added nurses a prosecutor the operator of a battered women s shelter and a woman who tearfully told How she was brutalized while pregnant joined Berkhemer Fredaire at a news conference sponsored by the March of dime birth defects foundation. They urged doctors and nurses to watch for signs of battering in their preg Nant patients and  document in juries so assailants can be prosecuted. They also urged battered women to leave their persecutors and seek help and emergency shelter. Abuse against expectant mothers Hap pens in All racial and  groups and ranges from slaps punches fractured jaws and punctured eardrums All the Way to being pushed Down the stairs said Anne Stewart Helton a Community health nurse consultant at Texas women s University in Houston. Helton conducted a foundation financed study of 290 pregnant women randomly selected from Public and Pri vate prenatal clinics in Houston. She found 8 percent or one in twelve were beaten by their male partners Dur ing pregnancy while another 15 percent reported being battered earlier. This is the first study of its kind to document the prevalence of battering during pregnancy Helton said contrary to the image of battered women being from lower socioeconomic. Groups. Helton said that in her study the incidence of violence against pregnant women was higher 14 percent among those who were not from Low in come groups. " More research is needed to confirm her belief that the statistics Are valid nationwide Helton said. But Many a Peru believe the one-in-12 figure is Low be cause women fear admitting they have been abused she said. / Only one in every five incidents of Domestic violence is reported said Mia Baker a special assistant District attorney who runs los Angeles county s Vic Tim witness assistance program. About 4,000 american women die from physical abuse each year. If doctors learn battering is taking place during pregnancy or at other times they arc obligated to report that Baker said during the conference at Kai ser Permanente us Angeles medical Center. The March of dimes said 3 million to 4 million american women Are battered each year resulting in one fifth of All Hospital emergency room visits by women. Their injuries account for an Nual costs of is 00 million for medical care and up to s5 million in absenteeism. About 60 percent of wife beaters also assault children Heiton said adding that to Stop child abuse we must Stop wife abuse. Last year. 57 children in los Angeles county died from physical abuse including 11 fetuses said Barbara Davidson a podiatric nurse practitioner with the county s child abuse program. Eight of the ii mothers also were killed she added