European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. August 31. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 flawless voyager Heads into the unknown from wire reports Pasadena. Calif. Scientists bade an emotional Farewell to the voyager 2 tuesday As the intrepid spacecraft completed its grand tour of four outer planets and headed out in search of new worlds. It s been a very special decade in human  imaging team Leader Bradford Smith of the University of Ari Zona said As scientists closed their work at Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory Here. No other spacecraft has Ever visited four planets. The voyager took the human race on an armchair tour of worlds no one had seen before Jupi Ter Saturn. Uranus and Neptune. To Many the voyager became More than 3 mindless robot responding to Digi Tal commands from a Distant Earth. It appeared to take on a life of its own. There will be other spacecraft in the future and there will be other expeditions but in the millennia ahead. Voy Ager will be the Best remembered Smith said. Of the scores of engineers and scientists who saw voyager begin its 12-year Odyssey in 1977, Only a handful  have moved on to other jobs. Others have retired. A few have died. This has been a journey of a life time said California Institute of technology physicist Edward Stone who has served As the voyager s chief scientist throughout the entire project. The 1-ton spacecraft sent hundreds of images and enough data to fill Ware houses Back to the 11 scientific teams that have been working at the Pasadena Laboratory the last few weeks. As it soared past the Brilliant Blue orb of Nep tune to the pastel Moon of Triton the voyager did everything it was asked to do. Nothing went wrong emphasized project manager Norm Llam s. Neptune is so far from the Earth that it takes four hours and Sis minutes for a command to reach the spacecraft so All the instructions had to he radioed to the Craft Days ahead of time. Then it sailed through on its own. Bobbing and weaving like sugar Ray to take time exposures in the darkened neighbourhood of Neptune. Haynes said. As fascinating As Neptune turned out to be. It had to give up Center stage to its intriguing Little non. Triton. Triton s surface is 400 degrees below Zero making it the coldest place in the solar system so far As is known. Even Pluto is believed to be a Little warmer than Triton. Triton which is smaller than the Earth s Moon is also one of the brightest objects in the solar system. It is so Bright in fact that it relied nearly All of the skimpy dab of Light it receives from the Sun Back into space. That is one of the principal reasons it is so cold. Voyager 2 will spend the final years of its life searching for the Edge of the solar system As it cruises silently into the lonely space Between the stars. Racing away from the solar system. Voyager 2 will continue to beam Back data about Neptune its Moons and its space environment until oct. 2 when the far encounter phase of the Neptune pass officially ends. At that Point. Voy Ager 2 will be 35.8 million Miles from the planet speeding away from the solar sys tem at 37,735 Mph. But voyager 2 and its twin voyager i. Also equipped with a nuclear Power pack arc expected to continue beaming Back data about the space environment until around 2017 when they will be so far from Earth that even the sensitive elec tronic cars of Nasa s deep space net work will no longer be Able to pick up intelligible data. Neptune and its mysterious non Triton Are shown in a picture sent by Voy hirer 2 us the spacecraft leaves the planet behind three Days after their closest encounter. Bush officials veto planned dam angering Colorado proponents by the Washington Post Denver the Bush administration gave environmentalists another major Victory tuesday and infuriated Denver s Busi Ness and political elite with a formal proposal to veto construction of the two Forks am a giant water project that had enjoyed unswerving support from the Reagan administration. The dam and Reservoir planned for the spot where two Forks of the South Platte River meet about 30 Miles Southwest of Denver would help to meet Urban water needs along the front Range of the Rockies Well into the next Century. But it would flood much of Chocs Man Canyon a postcard perfect stretch of Forest that has been called the St. Peter s Basilica of Trout  the struggle Over construction of two Forks dam emerged earlier this year As one of the first major environmental decisions facing president Bush when he entered the White House. Last March Bush s hand picked environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly announced his Tenta Tive decision to kill the proposed dam. That announcement sparked enormous political upheaval Here and led to a More detailed Epa review of the project. But the regional director of Epa s Denver office James sch scr. Generally considered a sup Porter of the dam project was Given no role in the review. Instead the task was handed to Lee a. Dehihns an official in the Epa s senior executive service serving in the at Lanta Branch. Tuesday Dehihns announced Epa s proposal to veto the dam citing the significant loss of aquatic and recreational values along the Trout Stream and the availability of less damaging practicable alternatives to meet the Denver area s water needs. Dehihns said the dam would inundate a diverse riverine and Upland habitat that contains one of the highest fish Bio masses of Trout in the Western United states in other words that the South plane through Chiesman Canyon is cherished country for fishermen. He also expressed concern about the dam s Impact on water How Down Stream particularly in Nebraska where whooping cranes and other Birds nest along the plane each Spring. Public comment and perhaps hearings will Likely take two months before the veto recommendation becomes final. But sup porters and opponents of the proposed dam Felt tuesday s announcement was a near fatal blow. Fri joins . Slaying racial attack probe new York not the Fri has begun a preliminary inquiry into the kill ing of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins in a racial attack in the Bensonhurst Section of Brooklyn last week the office of the . Attorney for the Eastern District of new York said tuesday. A sixth Man arrested monday night in the attack. Joseph Serrano 19, pleaded not guilty tuesday and was ordered Heldon $75,000 bail. Investigators said they were searching for a seventh suspect whom they would not identify in Addi Tion to the suspected shooter 18-Ycar old Joseph Fama who is believed to have fled possibly to Calabria Italy where his parents were born. In Pedor Richard j. Mayronne of the Public information division said tues Day that the police department had asked the state department to help Trace Fama s possible whereabouts overseas. Hawkins and three Black friends were confronted by up to 30 White youths some with baseball bats when according to police the four walked through the predominantly White neighbourhood on the night of aug. 23. To look at a used car that was for Sale. Witnesses told police that the White youths mistook the Blacks for visitors to the former Girlfriend of one of the arrested while youths. A witness has told the police of seeing Serrano with a gun but he is not charged with firing it they said like theother suspects arrested earlier he is charged with assault riot aggravated harassment civil rights violations an menacing. Those arrested earlier also pleaded not guilty and have been re leased on bail of up to $ 100,000. The Fri inquiry was described by Ann Driscoll. A spokeswoman for . Attorney Andrew Paloncy As a routine Mea sure in cases of potential Federal civil rights violation. She said Paloncy had asked for Fri involvement and that the Bureau had begun looking into the Case. She said prosecution of such cases is usually left to the state in this Case the Brooklyn District attorney Elizabeth Holtzman. A spokesman for Holtzman Glen Goldberg confirmed that the Fri had called to offer assistance and that a state grand jury investigation was proceeding. Judge tells offenders to watch to Oklahoma City a a judge with a penchant for creative sentences has ordered nearly 100 traffic offenders to watch a to special on Safe driving. We have a Nice group of Youthful offenders who come from the upper economic strata. Fining them 40 or 50 Bucks in t going to do  said Robert Manchester a judge in the suburban enclave the Village. The judge said he had ordered 75 to 100 offenders to watch Valvoline National driving test televised tuesday by lbs and to take a 25 que suon test on defensive driving rules of the Road and Basic Mechan  must return their completed test to the 48-year-old judge who used to race motorcycles and subscribes to hot Rod Magazine. It s not the first time Manchester has handed out an unusual punish ment in the City of 12,000. "1 have required kids to do the family laundry Manchester said. One of my favorite things is if i have a Young offender who is driving a fairly new car i Check to Sec whether the parents bought it. If they did i have the offender Wash and Wax the parents  other offenders have been required to write reports. Some had to interview the police officer who made the arrest so they la know that officer is human and not some Cretin just trying to Stop their fun he said