European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 18, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 a  a it \ it <11 k a i i ganging up on the big Guy Louis Guy jr., 8, and his 5-year-old Heidelberg West Germany. The event brother Joey swarm All Over sgt. At Patrick Henry Village featured no James Lockett during a break Friday serous sporting events. Lockett is at non commissioned officer Day in with the 649th engr in at Heidelberg. . Trade deficit in june dropped to 7-year Low Washington apr the . Trade deficit fell to a seven year Low of $5.07 billion in june the government said Friday but analysts expect it to resume acceleration once the Impact of the Middle East crisis takes effect on the Price of Oil imports. The Commerce department said the june deficit was Down 34.7 percent from the $7.77 billion imbalance posted in May. It was the lowest deficit since december 1983, when it totalled $4.17 billion. Until recently Many economists and government officials including Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher were predicting that Strong Export growth would offset a growing dependence on foreign Oil and result in the first . Deficit below $100 billion since 1983. In fact the deficit for the first half of 1990 had been running at an annual rate of $91.62 billion. But that belief was shattered by the iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Rise in Oil prices this month. Analysts now say deficits could grow even larger once the higher Oil prices arc added to the import Bill starting in  deficit improvement in june came from a 2.9 percent decrease in imports to $39.37 billion and a 4.6 percent gain in exports to a record $34.3 billion. The Trade deficit is the difference Between imports and exports. A Commerce spokesman said $500 million in air plane shipments contributed to the record exports. It was the first time this year the deficit had dropped below $7 billion. It averaged $7.64 billion a month so far in 1990, compared to $9.12 billion in 1989. But higher Oil import costs now threaten to add even More than expected to the . Import Bill. At the same time overseas economics have slowed lessening demand there for u a. Goods a so you have a combination of slower Export growth and a higher Oil import Bill a explained Mark m. Zandi Art economist with regional financial associates in Bala Cynwyd a. A those two things Are going to serve to limit any possibility of a significant improvement in the merchandise Trade deficit Over the next six months to a year Quot he said. Oil imports in june fell 14.6 percent to $3.69 billion. Americans imported 8.4 million barrels a Day Down from 8.95 billion in May. The average Price per barrel fell to $14.64, Down from $15.57. However in an ominous portent for Trade reports this fall prices of the Benchmark West Texas crude had risen to $27.36 by thursday. In addition to aircraft other capital goods foods and consumer goods added to the Export total. On the import Side there were declines in Industrial supplies consumer goods and automobiles. As usual the biggest deficit was with Japan a $3.1 billion imbalance up from a $3 billion deficit in May. The United states posted a surplus with Western Europe of $899  says Hubble can be fixed in �?T93 Danbury Conn. Apr the Mirror flaw that has blurred images from the $1.5 billion Hubble space Telescope can be easily fixed in a space shuttle Mission tentatively scheduled for mid-1993, a Nasa official said thursday. A the Hubble could actually be better than it could be now a said Charles Pellerin director of astrophysics for the National aeronautics and space administration. Pellerin and members of a Nasa investigative Board held a news conference after two Days of hearings at Hughes Danbury optical systems inc., the company that made the Mirror on the orbiting Observatory. The1 flawed primary Mirror suffers from a spherical aberration caused by a 1.3mm error in a measuring device used to grind the Mirror said Lew Allen head of the team and director of nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Calif. A the error that we discovered is one that leads to an essentially pure spherical aberration and that a relatively easy to Correct a Allen said. Pellerin said All that Nasa needs to do during the 1993 Mission is replace Hubble a wide Field planetary camera which takes pictures of space. He said the replacement camera which is already being built will be manufactured to Correct the error and simply placed in the  camera was going to be replaced anyway Pellerin said because machinery suffers from extraordinary Wear and tear in space. The Hubble is expected to operate for 15 years. A the systems been checked out for this a he said. �?o1 he Only thing that a different is we did no to anticipate doing this because of optical  the flaws discovery shortly after the Hubble was launched april 25 proved a major embarrassment for Nasa the Telescope is designed to take clearer pictures of the far reaches of space than Are possible trom ground based telescopes. Allen said the problem occurred in a device called a reflective null corrector but the team Hasni to been Able to determine Why it happened and will continue to investigate. R a i he said one possibility could be the presence of simple washers in the null corrector that threw off the entire instrument. The washers appear to be the same thickness Ash error 1.3 Millimetres. A it is possible that its a coincidence that the Washer and the size of the error arc the same a Allen said adding that the team will study Many other possibilities. Allen said another null corrector test called a refractive null corrector had indicated the error when the Mirror was manufactured in the Early 1980s at a division of Perkin Elmer corp. That was bought last year by Hughes. But he said Perkin Elmer engineers had placed com plete Faith in the reflective null corrector test and disregarded the other test results. While declining to say whether i Lughes Danbury was to blame for the error Allen did say Nasa was not aware of the results that showed it existed. A was we go Back through the Dix ments we done to find any Case where they called this to the attention of Nasa a he said. Charles Pellerin Cente director of astrophysics for Nasa Eastman Kodak co. Vice president Charles Spoelhof left and or. Lew Allen nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory head at a news conference i thursday