European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 17, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 nuke powered space probe of d Washington a president Bush s science adviser Friday approved the october launch of a nuclear powered probe to Jupiter despite claims by protesters that a challenger like Accident could Poison Earth s Atmo sphere with the most toxic substance in the  d. Allan Bromley authorized the launch and told Bush before he left for a weekend at Camp David. My. Said White House spokeswoman Alixe Reed. Earlier. White House chief of staff John Sununu said Bush was going to sign the authorization but he apparently was mistaken Reed said. Approval by either the president or Bromley was needed before the Galileo space probe which will be powered by two nuclear generators could be sent into deep space from space shuttle Atlantis. The Mission scheduled to begin oct. 12. Will be the first time nuclear Power has been carried on the shuttle and opponents Are preparing to file a lawsuit in Federal court to Stop the Mission Bruce Gagnon a Leader in the Florida coalition for peace and Justice said. He said if the suit fails his group will attempt to enter the launch area and sit on the launch pad. Gagnon said a 200-mile March to protest both Gal Ileo and the Trident missile would begin sunday. The Galileo spacecraft was originally scheduled fur launch in january 19x2 but was delayed repeatedly b design changes. After the challenger exploded after liftoff in 1986, officials decided that earning a liquid fuelled launch vehicle in the shuttle cargo Bay was too dangerous causing More delays while a switch was made to a solid fuel rocket. In 1982. The cruise time to Jupiter was to have been 26 months. But because a less powerful launch vehicle is being used the current cruise time is six years delaying the end of the Mission until 1997. The costs have More than tripled from an original $410 million to $1.4 billion according to a general accounting office study. Galileo is outfitted with two radioisotope thermoelectric generators rugs to produce the electricity for the spacecraft science instruments and engineering support systems. Similar Attis were used on 22 pre Vious missions and three have been involved in Acci dents one releasing radioactive material 75 Miles High Over the Indian Ocean. The rugs use the heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium-238 dioxide to generate electricity. Nasa estimates the probability of having a launch Accident that results in the release of plutonium into the atmosphere is one in 2,800. The coalition s Gagnon said "plulonium-238 is the most toxic substance in the universe. If ingested it concentrates in the Bone marrow where it can cause leukaemia and if inhaled it Sticks to the lungs where it can Lead to  generators similar to the ones on Galileo provided the Power for voyager 2. Which recently sent Back spectacular views of the planet Neptune. Voyager 2, launched in 1977. Was the last spacecraft carrying a nuclear Power source. Nasa says the rugs arc the Only feasible option for spacecraft that Fly so far away from the Sun. Galileo would require a 2.000-Squarc-foot solar array neighing approximately 1,000 pounds to Supply the same amount of Power provided by the two rugs each of which weigh 124  the space Agency said. Meanwhile the three men and two women who will be on the oct. 12 Mission completed a two Day countdown test and flew to Washington and a saturday breakfast with vice president Dan Quayle. Quale. Who intends to be at the Kennedy space Cen Ter for the liftoff Heads the National space Council. Car strikes Boston schoolchildren 5 on critical list 2 others also Hurt Boston a a car struck Chil Dren on their Way Home from school Fri Day injuring five of them critically an leaving schoolbooks and notebook papers scattered in the Street police said. Witnesses said the children were struck As they stood on the median of a Road. They said a car ran a Stop sign striking a station Wagon that slammed into the children. I m hoping i can get to sleep  be never seen anything this bad said Adell Jackson 30, who was on her Way to pick up her son from a nearby school when she witnessed the Accident in the Dorchester Section. The children were on a median strip when the car struck them she said. That s when the kids went up in the air Jackson said. Five children were taken to children s Hospital where three were listed in Crit ical condition including one who was reportedly comatose. One child was listed in serious condition and one in fair condition. Two Oiler children were taken to bos ton City i Hospital where both were listed in critical condition Hospital spokesman Louis Daddario said. Officials said two adults one pedestrian and one Riding in a vehicle were also injured and taken to Brigham and women s Hospital. Hospital officials refused to release their condition. Richard Seri no an emergency medical services Dep Uty said both were in stable condition when they were taken to the Hospital. The Driver of the car that went police and fire officials lean Over one of the children run Over by a car in Boston. Through the Stop sign was cited for driving to endanger driving without registration and failing to Stop police spokes Man Scott Gillis said. The children ranged in age from 7 to 11. Said Kristi Kic Nolz a spokeswoman at children s Hospital. Books and notebook papers were scattered in the median strip shortly after the Accident. Police blocked off the area As neighbors gathered. They said they have Long believed the crossing is dangerous. Aides soy pal bonuses badly timed Charlotte . A it founder Jim Bakker got hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses a year after hundreds of workers were Laid off from his television ministry before the Christmas holidays wit Nesses testified Friday. I had to go to social services and apply for welfare and food Stamps Joanie Ames a former pal payroll clerk and single Mother of two who testified in Bakker s fraud trial Friday. She was Laid off in november 1985 with 285 other pal employees saying the ministry $3.6 million said former pal personnel director Chris Easley. A year later the pal Board approved a $500.000 Bonus for Bakker. The Rev. Evelyn Spencer of Oakland calif., who joined the Board of pal in november 1985, testified that the largest Bonus she remembered approving was $150,000 plus taxes. But when asked by prosecutor Deborah Smith if she would have approved a $500,000 Bonus for Bakker Spencer said if everybody else agreed with it. I would  if found guilty of the 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy Bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined More than $5 million. Viet woman in napalm photo Sands of time in the stars and stripes her trip to . 40 years ago today t. Los Angeles a a Vietnam Ese woman whose agony As a napalm cd child became one of the enduring images of the Vietnam War has indefinitely postponed her trip to the United states an american sponsor said Friday. Phan Thi Kim Phuc decided to cancel the trip she had planned this month Pri Marily because of health reasons said Merle Ratner co director of the com Mittee to Welcome Kim Phuc. A Black and White photograph of 9 year old Kim screaming with pain and tear As she ran nude Down a vietnamese Road after an air raid in 1972, was published throughout the world and was awarded a pulitzer prize. Nick it the associated press photographer who took the picture was reunited with Kim in Havana in july the first Lime they had been together since it took her to a Hospital that Fate Ful Day. He fled from Vietnam in 1975. I would like to see her Here he said Friday. But now i think the vietnamese government does t want her to come Here. I wish she would come Here  Kim 26, developed diabetes while studying in Cuba and has had a lot of difficulty with her eyesight and ability to concen trate Ratner said from her new York office. Ratner said Vietnam s communist government already had approved Kim s trip to America and played no part in influencing her  were very interested in having her make it she said. No one wanted her to jeopardize her  sept. 17, 1949 Seldin Chapin a former . Envoy to Hungary categorically denied charges he had conspired against the hungarian communist regime with Hungary s former foreign minister Las to Rajic. 30 years ago today. Sept. 17. 1959 in a nationwide radio and television address French president Charles de Gaulle offered Algeria s 9 million moslem the right to decide their own destiny once peace was achieved in the rebellion torn country. 20 years ago today. Sept. 17, 1969 president Nixon announced at least 35,000 More . Troops would be withdrawn from Vietnam by dec. 15, bringing to 60,000 the total number of americans to leave Vietnam since july. 0 years ago today. Sept. 17, 1979 four adults and four children escaped from East Germany to Naila West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon pieced together from bits of Nylon and cd sheets