European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 11. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 . Officials lax in War on drugs Bennett maintains Washington a drug policy director William j. Bennett on Friday accused District of Columbia officials of lacklustre efforts in combating drugs and a Bennett aide said the City let $2.4 million in Federal funds slip away. I Don t know who it s heresy when 1 a  Bennett told the Senate budget committee everybody in this town knows that this government is nol fulfil Ling us responsibilities to its  the testimony came at a hearing in which democrats on the Senate budget committee questioned Bennett about efforts to combat drugs in the District of Columbia. Chairman Jim Sasser. A Tenn. Sought to spotlight the serious problem in this Civ. Whose mayor. Marion Barry is in a Florida alcohol and drug clinic after his arrest on a cocaine Possession charge. An aide has said Barry is being treated Pri Marily for alcoholism. Sasser reminded Bennett that when he became drug policy director a year ago. To promised to make Washington a test Case in the fight against drugs which still can he bought on Street Corners on blocks from this  Bennett said action by Federal officials cannot take the place of local govern ment. Federal initiatives cannot replace local  we re tired of being flogged for a problem that is not of our  Ben Nett told the committee. District police estimate that More than 60 percent of the record 438 Mur Ders recorded in the nation s capital last year were drug related. Sasser said District of Columbia officials have complained that they have not received the assistance the Federal government promised in the Early Days of the drug War. Bruce l. Carnes. Director of planning budget and administration under Ben Nett told the panel that the Federal government made a commitment to provide More than $90 million of the $102 Mil lion that the District sought. He said however that despite repeated warnings District officials allowed $2.4 million in defense department funds for bolstering the National guard As a drug fighting tool to slip away through i fiction. Almost every Penny of that lapsed because the District did not draw Down that Money Carnes told lawmakers. I kept telling them the clock is ticking. You be got to draw Down that Money or it s going to lapse. It  when asked after the hearing if he had delivered his warning personally to the mayor he said he had not. He was then asked if he had warned City administrator c Arol b. Thompson who is operating a Caiet Kcf government while the mayor is in treatment. Carnes said i m not going to gel into that. I said it to various District offi  Lurma Rackocy. A Barry spokeswoman said the mayor chose to have no comment on or. Bennett when he was  ship ashore Kerry Robinson and her do. Sidney head for Home after having a look at a car Currier ship the haul Ingrida thai ran aground in Narrai Janpelt Bay thursday. The transport vessel later freed and continued in port. . Was theory blooms the oldest known Fossil of a 120 million year old Flower thai was misidentified As a Fern has provided the basis for a new theory in the Bloom s evolution. Two Vale University scientists said the Fossil shows the Flower s Humble ancestry contrary to the belief thai prehistoric Flowers were Large show specimens. Spacecraft s camera problem has Nasa experts puzzled Pasadena. Calif. A Nasa s Galileo space Craft developed camera trouble saturday alter room ing around Cloud covered Venus in a celestial billiard shot that seeded the robot explorer toward its 1495 encounter with Jupiter. The camera apparently continues to shutter when it s not supposed to be trying to Lake  said Bob Macmillin. Spokesman for Nasa s Jet propulsion  malfunction won t harm the pictures the space Craft took of Venus earlier saturday. Engineers have shut off the camera until they learn win the space Craft s computer erroneously ordered the camera s shutter to open and close even when not recording pictures he added. They Don t understand it that s what s bad about  Macmillin said. The 2.8-ton spacecraft made its closest approach to Venus at 9 51 . Post Friday passing 10.028 Miles above the Furnace like surface of the second planet from the Sun. Mission science and design manager Bill o Neil said earlier. We have clearly achieved the sole objective of going to Venus a trajectory that will help us ultimately reach  he said. After the close approach. Galileo s camera snapped pictures of the planet to study w ind and Cloud patterns and to search for lightning that might indicate the presence of volcanoes erupting beneath the Clouds. The camera was supposed to continue taking Pic Tures of Venus for a week so Well end up with a movie of Venus As we  Mission director Seal Ausman said. But Nasa was t sure if the problem could be fixed in time for the camera to Lake pictures later saturday As scheduled Macmillin said. The spacecraft s ultraviolet visible and infrared Light sensors studied the makeup of Venus Carbon dioxide atmosphere mapped Cloud top temperatures and looked for the glow of the lower atmosphere Back lighting the Clouds project scientist Torrence Johnson said. The pictures and data were stored on Galileo s tape recorder and won t be sent Back to Earth until october when the spacecraft is close enough to transmit the material with its Antenna. That Antenna now can be used Only for communications to keep Galileo operating. Galileo s main umbrella shaped Antenna must re main furled to protect it from sunlight until alter the Craft hurtles past Earth on . 8. The $1.35 billion Mission also will let Galileo exam Ine Earth its Moon and one or two asteroids before the spacecraft separates into an orbiter and a Small probe in july 1995. In december 1995, both pieces of the Craft will arrive at Jupiter the solar system s largest planet after a 2.4 billion mile trip. Including 182 Mil lion Miles 10 reach Venus. Galileo was deployed from the space shuttle Atlantis last oct. 18. Acid Laden Clouds extend 40 Miles above Venus surface trapping heat in a runaway greenhouse effect that raises surface temperatures to 900 degrees fahrenheit. The planet s atmospheric pressures 90 limes that of Earth s. Mission director Ausman said the photos and measurements of Venus were secondary to the main Pur pose or the flyby using the planet As a Gravity Slingshot to expand the spacecraft s orbit and boost its Speed to 88,740 Mph. From 83.750 Mph. We have gained enough Energy Oul of this celestial billiard shot to gel the Energy we need to make it a the was to Jupiter Johnson said. Galileo will use Earth As a Gravity Slingshot next december and again . 8. 1992. Soil will be prop Erly aimed toward Jupiter. Ausman said. Nasa s Magellan spacecraft launched from Atlan tis last May 4, will go into orbit around Venus in August. It will use radar to map at least 70 percent of Venus surface during a $550 million Mission