European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday june 6,1990space Agency urged to help in War on drugs by he Cox news service Washington a the drug enforcement administration is trying to get the nations space Agency to enlist in the War on drugs. A Dea contractor has asked the space Agency to modify a research satellite to include special communications equipment that would allow drug agents anywhere in the world to communicate with Headquarters instantly. The drug Agency which already relies on the department of defense for help with Aerial surveillance and interdiction has begun reviewing suggestions fora sophisticated space based network that would if it were added to a research satellite Nasa wants to launch in 1992, enable authorities to a pinpoint the location of an agent to within 500 Yards anywhere in the world and track his movements on a map. A Send and receive voice or data messages from individuals carrying portable telephones and other Light Battery powered equipment a Monitor activities in the Field a such As a drug raid a by a compressed video a a kind of television that sends several still pictures every second. And it would also permit agents to determine their own locations in Remote areas or at sea for navigation purposes. Although coverage would be worldwide the Dea is interested in a network with a heavy concentration in the Continental United states and Central and South America a according to an announcement in a government publication. Dea officials have declined to answer inquiries about the proposal which was conveyed to Nasa by Geo Star corp., a satellite communications company that provides position locating capability for about 70 trucking companies and a number of other Federal agencies. Space Telescope problem solved experts believe shuttle discovery into a 380-mile-High orbit april 25 to kick off a 15-year Mission to explore the Depths of the universe. But a series of problems has plagued the telescopes Orbital activation. Many of those problems were related to the telescopes inability to find guide stars. By Locking onto and tracking such stars the telescopes primary instruments can make time exposure observations. Olivier said Early problems with wobbling were caused by the telescopes guidance system trying to lock onto out of focus stars. Such blobs of Light caused the guidance system to a a search for the targets Center which caused the Telescope to wobble slightly. As the focus was improved however the telescopes stability improved dramatically. Only one such problem remains to be resolved when the Telescope moves into and out of sunlight temperature induced oscillations in the Observatory a big solar panels apparently cause a minor wobble. What will be done about that problem remains to be seen. A i feel we know a lot about the spacecraft obviously More than we did and 1 feel pretty confident the kinds of things we find in the future will be More isolated than the kinds of things we be been running into in the past several weeks a Olivier said. 19th . Doctor Dies from potent painkiller Hartford Conn. Apr a 29-year-old doctor died from a self inflicted overdose of a potent painkiller that has claimed the lives of 18 other . Doctors in the past three years Hospital officials said. The doctor David Leyda died at Hartford Hospital after taking Fenta nyl a synthetic narcotic 200 times More potent than morphine said or. James j. Richter head of the hospitals department of Anaesthesiology. A a it a extremely potent it produces a Quick High and it is addictive a said or. James of Brien director of the drug and alcohol treatment Center at the University of Connecticut health Center. Cape canaveral Fla. Up a engineers believe they have solved a problem with the Hubble space Telescope that has plagued efforts to get its Ultra accurate guidance system operating properly officials said monday. Deputy program manager Jean Olivier said persistent trouble getting the Telescope to lock onto guide stars apparently was the result of computer programming that prevented the instrument from lining up properly on the Correct targets. Instead of orienting guide stars on the a Center line of the guidance sensors Fields of View the telescopes computer was ignoring such stars unless they happened to end up near the Center line by Chance. In a weekly teleconference with reporters across the nation. Olivier said work to Check out the $1.5 billion Telescope should proceed More smoothly from now on. A a we re still behind two or three weeks All in All i would guess a Olivier said from the Goddard space flight Center in Green balt my. Quot i feel the last thing we found on the guidance problem has been one of the things that a plagued us on the whole Orbital verification activity and has hampered everything we be  the Hubble space Telescope was released from the drug Kingpin gripes about prison life copies of the letters dated May 28, 1990, were mailed to the associated press by Lehder. Lehder is serving a life term plus 135 years for smuggling More than 20 tons of cocaine into the United states in the late 1970s. At Marion he is confined to a 8-by-9 /2-foot cell and is allowed seven hours of exercise a week Snoddy said. It is the nations Only Federal lockup designated a a High Security prison meaning about two thirds of the inmates Are never allowed to mix with other inmates Snoddy said. In his letter to Bush Lehder complained he has been a subjected to a constant Battery of psychological torture and sensory deprivation As a matter of official treatment  the letter to Gorbachev was mailed to the soviet embassy in Washington he said. A i Carlos Lehder As a sociopolitical prisoner knowledgeable of your Paramount defense of human rights and the underprivileged of the world. Wish to invite your excellency and the soviet news Media to visit the american a gulag a known As Marion a he wrote. Jacksonville a. Apr convicted colombian drug Kingpin Carlos Lehder Rivas says he wrote letters to Mikhail s. Gorbachev and president Bush to complain about prison conditions. Lehder a onetime Leader of the Medellin co Cain Cartel told Bush that presidential dog Millie lives better than he does and urged Gorbachev to visit the Federal Rivas prison in Marion iii., which he called the american  Marion spokesman Joe Snoddy said Lehder receives the same treatment As other prisoners at the maximum Security prison. Space Telescope s timetable the newly launched space Telescope has six advanced cameras for viewing the universe. Astronauts will visit regularly via shuttle for Upkeep next 18 months. A apri july Nasa scientists on ground will test and calibrate instruments take first photographs and spectrographs. August november More testing and calibrating scientists who designed instruments will be first to make observations. December through 1991 selected astronomers will use Telescope half of the time other users include designers and some Amateur astronomers. How to see it in the sky several times a week observers on Earth can see the Telescope with the unaided Eye. It will be visible at Twilight As a Star brighter than Jupiter but not As Bright As Venus. It will be moving West to East As you look South. Is 373-mile tuneup ,t8y<>ri in the next t s years the Telescope will be serviced once every three to four years by shuttle Crews while if s orbiting at 373-mile attitude. Sources Nasa Assai of univ. Lor research in astronomy. Research by  and l Den Krten Inlo graphics a strike emptied shelves a Point Roberts wash., grocery store clerk Karen out of milk in the Community near the Canadian Bowdridge walks past shelves that Are usually full of Border hit by an Independent truckers strike. Some milk Cartons. The store is among those that have run strike hit service stations in the area Are out of Gas