European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a j the stars and stripes wednesday thursday july 4/5,1990 4 Navy Shi ing Over Washington apr a Navy task Force was standing a Over the horizon1 off Liberia tuesday ready to evac Uati americans or liberian president Samuel Doe if requested to do so by the state department in the Wake of in wed fighting the Pentagon said. Defense department spokesman Pete Williams said the Navy ships sent to the area May 31 were a still in International Waters Over the horizon from the coast of Fth troubled West african nation. Williams said about 800 americans including 70 . Embassy personnel remained in the liberian capital of Monrovia. Rebels attacked Monrovia on monday in a two pronged offensive that Cut All major land routes from the capital according to a Pool report filed by journalists there. The Pentagon spokesman said the primary purpose of the Navy ships which have about 2,500 sailors and marines on Board is to evacuate americans if needed. The state department advised . Citizens on May 31 to leave Liberia because of deteriorating conditions and some departed on chartered airline flights last month. In response to a question about the possible evacuation of Doe Williams said a if the state department were to ask us to assist in moving president Doe we would certainly be prepared to do what they asked us. The state department has said it is prepared to help Doc depart the country if he so requests. A a rebel source in Ivory coast across the Border from Liberia said tuesday that several thousand rebel troops were approaching Monrovia to a put an end to Doe. The United states and other governments have urged Doe to resign and leave the country a condition that the rebels have set for accepting a cease fire. Several countries have offered Doe Asylum including Nigeria and Togo. Doe 40, a former master sergeant Nas ruled Liberia since a bloody coup in april 1980. He ousted the descendants of freed american slaves who had ruled the West african country for More than a Century. Bush ordered the amphibious task Force to the area on May 31. It is made up of the amphibious assault ship Saipan and supporting ships Ponce Sumter and Peterson. The ships arrived off the coast june 3. In new York apr Bensonhurst racial attack defendant John Vento was found innocent tuesday of one count of murder but the sharply divided jury could not reach a verdict on a second murder charge against him. The jury which was in its ninth Day of deliberations convicted Vento of two counts of unlawful imprisonment and four counts of menacing for his role in the attack which left 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk. Vento who backed out of a Deal to testily against his co defendants in the Case faces up to four years on the unlawful imprisonment counts and 90 Days on each men acing count. Sentencing was set for aug. 14. The 21 year old sat silently As the verdicts were read. Vento was acquitted of the first murder count a weapons Possession charge one count of unlawful imprisonment and five counts of discrimination. The jury also was Hung on a count of first degree riot. Prosecutors said Vento would be retried in september on the charges for which there was a Hung jury. The Vento Case was the second trial stemming from the attack by a White gang on Hawkins who was shot and killed in the predominantly White neighbourhood last year. Hawkins was in the area to look at a used car. The first trial actually two trials held simultaneously with separate juries resulted in a murder conviction against Joseph Fama 19, and a conviction on lesser charges against Keith Mondello also 19. State supreme court Justice Thaddeus Owens who also presided Over the earlier trials old the jurors judging Ven to Scase that he knew it was not an easy Case to decide. A i can understand your Chagrin and i can also understand your anguish a Owens told the panel before dismiss in them. Hawlins a Black High school student was fatally shot last aug. 23 As he and three friends walked through the South Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bensonhurst. The four Blacks crossed paths with a gang of Bat wielding Whites which Vento allegedly helped  attack was widely viewed As one of the worst racial incidents in new York in years. The murder was a Shock for a City trying to heal from the wounds of the racial killing in another predominantly White neighbourhood Howard Beach As Well As allegations of police attacks on Blacks and other racially charged incidents in the late 1980s. Or. Pig stands Over his feeding dish on a farm in Dewitt Iowa his owners will left him filthy Rich. Wills put pets in hog heaven Iowa City Iowa apr or. Pig is rolling in it the 150-Pound Gray jumped hog along with a German Shepherd named a Lamity Jane will be taken care of for the rest of their lives after inheriting part of a $600,000-plus estate left by Margo lamp of Davenport who died in february at 81. Chico the Amazon Parrot is also living comfortably despite losing a Large chunk of an inheritance to its late owners go children. But the Fate of four cats a Clementine Martha Gene and smudge a hinges on what happens in probate court the animals belonged to three Lowans who stipulated in their wills that Money from their estates be used for the Well being of their pets. The owners All died Over the last eight months. Lamp willed the bulk of her estate to the Scott county humane society but set aside Money for her dog and her hog or. Pig. She had no dose relatives and left $1,000 to a Distant Cousin and $ 1,000 to a Friend said her lawyer George Goebel. A i think that what you have is older people that because of advanced age their sphere of friends die a disappear. Their pets become close companions to them Quot he said. May help Hubble images salvaging the troubled Telescope the flaw in the space Tate Copo t optical cannot be fixed from the Pound. Scientists Are now waiting to find ways to compensate for the defect but Fie Observatory May never be restored to its maximum performance. Ennd tie Pete by i Ier am of Necton in a be a Type of or minor of ticker tie Mirror to Mado of Tjw. Imato Panato to Paar. 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A a in la believe it when i see  Weiler told a news conference. A a we la let the experts play with the images. People in the Field say there is a lot of Hope  Weiler emphasized however that the computer technique is Only an Effort to Salvage some Good from a fundamentally flawed Telescope. 1 a this is not a cure All for the problem Quot he said noting that the computer processing would recover less than 50 percent of the images expected from the $1.5 billion Telescope. Hubble s Basic problem is that a mistake was made in the grinding and polishing of either its primary or secondary Mirror. Weiler said one of the reflecting surfaces was not Cut to the Correct prescription and As a result the two mirrors do not work together properly. The result is a fuzzy View of the universe from the Telescope. Lennard Fisk chief scientist for the National aeronautics and space administration said on monday that the computer enhanced photos from Hubble would be so Good that Quot you Are All going to be delighted with the kind of results that the Tele scope produces in the next few  Nasa engineers meanwhile stepped up tests designed to find a Hydrogen leak that has grounded the nations three space shuttles. Helium under 30 pounds of pressure was forced into the Hydrogen rocket fuel system of space shuttle Atlantis As it sat monday on a launch pad at the Kennedy space Center. A similar test using super cold liquid Hydrogen revealed a leak last week. Plumbing and valves from Columbia which was grounded last month when a Hydrogen leak was found Are being tested at the shuttle manufacturers Plant in  Hope the tests will pinpoint precisely How the Hydrogen escapes from the shuttle and fuel tank while the liquid rocket fuel is being loaded. The leaks occurring within weeks of each other from the same area of two different shuttles led Nasa last Friday to ground the Fleet until the problem is corrected. Fisk said the Hubble focusing problem is absolutely consistent and that this reliable symmetry will enable scientists to Correct the fuzzy View through a computer program. A there is growing optimism that because of the nature of the signal. That we will be Able to do image reconstruction and produce Clear exciting views of the universe Quot he said. Such techniques were used at the Jet propulsion Laboratory to improve the Quality of pictures Rell Kiwi from the two voyager spacecraft that explored me outer planets and radioed images Back to Earth. A if you be seen pictures from voyager you know How capable we Are of doing image reconstruction when the signals Are not precisely in the focus that you want Quot said Fisk. At the same news conference Nasa space Fli amp a director William b. Lenoir said the space shuttle my Tery leak must  within a few weeks to keep m Agency anywhere near its ambitious flight schedule