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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page6 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 23.1989 stateside five believed victims in la. Fishing Accident Farmerville. 1,1. Al l two Small fish ing boats were caught in the Swift current flow ing Over a spillway into a Bayou leaving at least two people dead and three others presumed drowned sunday. Police said two men had been fishing from a boat tied to a Post near a dam spillway where water from d a Bonne Lake dumps into Bayou d a Bonne. The Lake is unusually High because of recent storms. The men untied the boat to return to Shore but their motor would not Start and the boat began Drifting toward the dam. Authorities said. They said the men managed to grab Brush about 30 Yards from the spillway and people in a second boat threw a line to them. When the men grabbed the rope both boats were swept into the Swift current. The bodies of a Man and woman found sat urday were identified sunday As Albert Bradshaw age unknown of Grambling and Pamela in Trammel. 35. Of Ruston. Two men and a teen Ager who were missing and presumed dead sunday were identified As Mike Osborne. Age unknown of Grambling and Carey Trammll. 58, and Harold d. Trammel14, of Ruslon. Scrap collection recovered from prisoner s stomach hutch1nson. Kan. A doctors re moved nearly a half Pound of razor Blades paper clips and Metal bedsprings from the Stom Ach of a prison inmate who swallowed the Metal in a suicide attempt. Surgeons operated on Carl Rhoades 32, a prison official said. Rhoades swallowed the Metal on March 13. The 7vj ounces of Metal was thought to have caused a gastric ulcer but no other damage. Rockets fired successfully to Correct Magellan s course Pasadena. Calif. Dpi the Magellan radar mapping probe launched from the shuttle Atlantis may4 successfully completed a critical 5.6-second rocket firing late sunday to nudge the Craft onto the proper course for its l 9 encounter with Cloud shrouded Venus. More than 2 million Miles from Earth As the Magel Lan hurtled through space at some 60,000 Mph relative to the Sun its eight rocket thrusters flashed to life at 7 . Increasing the spacecraft s velocity by a scant 6.6 Mph. The computer instructions for the Burn were radioed to the Magellan saturday from the Jet propulsion Laboratory in i Asadena. Where the Mission is being controlled. Everything went real  said Sam Dallas a mis Sion design manager at the Laboratory. We got a nor Mal Burn As far As we can Tell. We re going to track it for a couple of Days. To see exactly How Well we did but we re real Happy. I think the spacecraft is per forming very  Dallas said the trajectory correction Man Euver was required to make sure the spacecraft will Fly into the proper orbit As it sails Over the North pole of Venus on aug. 10, 1990. Before sunday s rocket firing the Magellan was Way to the left and a Little bit higher than that aim Point that we have to pass  we be got to make a correction on the order of about 144,000 Miles to the right and about 5,600 Miles Down to get to that aim Point Dallas said Friday. That s going to Lake a Man Euver on sunday that s really Small. It s Only about 6.6 Miles per hour. The Magellan built by Martin Marietta astronautics group of Denver was built to map the surface of Venus using a High tech imaging radar system that can Sec through the thick Clouds that perpetually Blanket the second1 planet from the Sun. The result will be photo Quality images showing Fea Tures As Small As a football Field 10 times better than any previous data. The Magellan was launched from the shuttle Atlan tis on May 4 and fired toward Venus by a two stage inertia upper stage rocket Booster. Dallas said both the shuttle and the Booster performed better than expected in terms of placing the Magellan on the proper course. We were anticipating a correction about three times that big he said. Because of the positions of Earth and Venus and the Power of the Booster Mission planners were forced to launch the Magellan on a 15-month. 806 million mile Type 4" trajectory to Venus. When the Magellan first reaches the orbit of Venus the planet will not be there and the probe will continue on around the Sun and Back out to the orbit of Earth. It then will fall Back toward the inner solar system and when it reaches Venus s orbit this time around the planet will be there. Given the length of the voyage Small course corrections Early translate into major changes in the probe s ultimate position. Dallas said the Magellan has been performing smoothly since its launching from the Atlantis Al though engineers arc troubleshooting a variety of minor problems. The probe s navigation system which uses the positions of various stars to locate its position in space has not been Able to lock onto a second reference Star on a few occasions the temperature of the rocket nozzles has been higher than expected and the spacecraft s stabilization system has to be adjusted More often than planned. We be got solutions to All these Little problems that we be discovered he said. I think it s a matter of us gelling experience filing the spacecraft in space in the real environment making our adjustments to inc Model and getting ready for the mapping  the next trajectory correction Man Euver is scheduled for late december with a final adjustment planned 17 Days before the Magellan reaches Venus. Card no urging Boycott of aids education Doss Boston a a roman Catholic Cardinal said an aids education pro Gram in Boston Public schools will in crease students risk of gelling the Dis ease and has urged parents not to allow their children to partic palc. In a Leiter read at weekend masses in Boston parishes. Cardinal Bernard f. Law said the lessons planned for Slud cols in Scy enl through 12th grades Over the next six weeks could place our children in danger both moral and  the curriculum presents various is sues of sexual behaviour in a valueless amoral  Law wrote. It admits permissiveness in sexual behaviour which is not acceptable to a great Many citizens of the City is certainly unacceptable for catholics and which increases the Chil Dren s risk of gelling  the schools plan to offer iwo 45-min Ute lessons stressing abstinence and shunning intravenous drug use As the Best Way to prevent acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Instructors will Tell students who arc sexually Active to use condoms. Parents who object May cd Cpl their children from the classes. Law warned that students As Young As 13 will. Be Given explicit instructions in the use of condoms. Sexual abstinence can not be taught if at the same time detailed directions on How to use condoms Are presented As an  he said the archdiocese will offer its own value entered aids education program this summer. Some school leaders disagreed with Law s evaluation of inc program. In is Fine for him to take moral positions but Young people have not abstained from sexual  said school superintendent Laval s. Wilson. Thai s the reality we Deal  Soldier gets 5-year sentence Kaiserslautern West Germany is a 35-year-old Soldier who at tempted to sodomize an airman against his will has been sentenced to five years in prison at fort Leavenworth ran.,Afler a general court martial. Sgt. 1st class Carl e. Rainsbarger a maintenance supervisor assigned to the sch main co in  also was demoted to inc lowest enlisted rank or dered to forfeit All pay and allowances and Given a dishonourable discharge. In the May 17 court martial a Mili tary judge found the native of Kansas City mo., guilty of one count each of attempted forcible sodomy and being absent without Cave the incident look place Early feb. 26 in Rainsbarger s room in Bachelor enlisted quarters located in Vogel Weh. A 21st theater army area come spokes Man said monday. Rainsbarger met the airman assigned to Sembach a at a Kaiserslautern area bar feb. 25, he said. The iwo men had several drinks together before Rainsbarger who was absent without leave at the time offered to give the airman a ride Toa Friend s Home the spokesman said. After slopping for another Beer Rainsbarger then invited the Man to slay Al his room and offered to sleep in a chair so the airman could use the bed he said. The victim woke up to find Rainsbarger attempting to rape him the spokes Man said. After fighting off his attacker the victim left the room Yelling and called military police he said. Sweet taste of Victory Tom Beatty of Bend ore., Rives Bis Frog. Meaty Metal a kiss at Angels Camp calif., after the Long legged pet won the annual Calaveras jumping Frog Jubilee Competition sunday with a distance of 19 feel 9vt inches  
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