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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes monday september 3,1990 Nasa gives new commands to spacecraft orbiting Venus stateside Pasadena Calif. Apr commands radioed 152 million Miles across the solar system saturday made the errant Magellan spacecraft easier to control As it orbits Venus nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory said. Engineers have not yet determined Why the spacecraft has suffered two Long communications blackouts. They Are hopeful that its $744 million Mission to map the planet with radar will begin this month. Controllers began sending commands to Magellan Early saturday to awaken it from a so called deep Safe Mode and put it in a state called random Access memory control. Nearly six hours after beginning the series of orders the lab received Magellan a confirmation of the new configuration. Radio signals take 27 minutes and 10 seconds to travel from Earth to Venus and Back. Venus is Earth a closest planetary neighbor. Magellan appeared to be stable its solar panels were properly pointed at the Sun and its batteries were charged the lab said in a statement. The new condition will allow flight controllers to More easily program Magellan a computers. In addition data from Magellan can Tell engineers More about the spacecrafts condition said jul spokesman Jim Doyle. Former auxiliary Bishop for military Dies of illness new York apr Bishop Lawrence j. Kenney former Secretary to Cardinal Terence Cooke and auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese for the . Military died on his 60th birthday thursday after a lengthy pulmonary illness. Kenney died at the Home of Cardinal John of Connor in Manhattan. Kenney was ordained in 1956 and became assistant Chancellor for the archdiocese of new York in 1969. Two years later he became director of priest personnel and vice Chancellor of the archdiocese. In 1973, he was appointed Secretary to Cooke As Well As military vicar. In the latter Post Kenney was responsible for the religious needs of the 1.5 million catholics in the armed forces. Kenney was elevated to Bishop in 1983, and began serving As auxiliary Bishop to the military vicar that same year. He moved to Bonn West Germany the next year and was based there through 1986. Images of Venus sent by Magellan after an aug. 16  a test of the radar mapping system showed extensive of Fidfl s clip ii to do Noi Tisci seismic faults enormous flows of solidified lava cinder Cones a meteorite Impact Crater filled with lava and innumerable valleys and Mountain ridges. The National aeronautics and space administration had originally planned for Magellan to begin its mapping Survey by the end of August. This week engineers will do More to normalize the spacecrafts operation. If that goes without a hitch Magellan will be ordered on sept. 12 to Send Home radar data already stored on its tape recorder and its radar sensor would resume operation two Days later. Magellan was launched from the space shuttle Atlantis in May 1989. It has made a looping 15-month, 948 million mile journey to Venus. The spacecraft entered orbit around the Cloud shrouded planet aug. 10, and things began to go wrong. The radio link from Magellan to Earth failed for 14 hours starting aug. 16 and for 17 i hours beginning aug. 21. Controllers put Magellan into deep Safe Mode which kept its solar array pointed toward the Sun so its batteries would stay charged. Other spacecraft have passed near Venus but they returned images far less detailed than Magellan can produce. Relax mormons pilots Only use Church Temple during mock runs. Ogden Utah apr a mormon Church Temple is a favorite mock target of military pilots training in stealth fighter bombers a Utah con a Gressm amp a said. Rep. Jim Hansen a Republican said a Squadron of the futuristic f-117a fighter bombers use the illuminated Spires Temple in St. George As a target on their mock bombing runs. The Church in St. George 250 Miles South of Salt Lake City is one of the first mormon temples built in Utah. A they take out the St. George Temple every night. I was out there watching them do it a few times a said Hansen a member of the House armed services committee. The f117-a was designed to penetrate radar defense and. Bomb targets before enemy forces can react according to the Pentagon. The plane has been flying since 1981, but the Pentagon refused to even acknowledge it existed until late 1988. Hansen said the fighter pilots based at the Tono pah test Range in Nevada mean no disrespect to the 1,7 million member Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints based in Salt Lake City. A the commander of the group was a mormon Bishop so i guess he Felt All right taking out the St. George Temple a said Hansen who spoke thursday to a group of Ogden area businessmen about . Military technology. A Squadron of the planes recently flew to saudi Arabia for operation desert shield. 147-year-old by Nai by Rith agrees to open membership to women Dallas apr the worlds largest jewish organization by Nai by Rith International is setting aside its 147-year history As a predominantly male group and will allow women As full members. Leaders of by Nai brith and by Nai brith women reached an agreement last week that recognizes by Nai by Rich women As an Independent self governing organization affiliated with by Nai b Rith. Delegates to the by Nai by Rith biennial convention gathered in Dallas last week. As by Nai by Rith moved in recent years toward admitting women the future of the separate women a organization Nas been hotly debated. The agreement defines by Nai by Rith women As a women a organization and by Nai by Rith As an organization for both men and women. The agreement can be renegotiated after five years. The measure admitting women As full members to by Nai by Rith passed unanimously last tuesday at the convention. Previously there were individual units of the organization that allowed women members. With the change about 10,000 new women members to by Nai by Rith Are expected. A we have indeed preserved what we did not want to tear asunder a said by Nai by Rith women president Harriet Horowitz. A this agreement ends a complicated and tense time in the history of our organizations a Horowitz said. A it ends a situation that has divided families and created much Adverse  retiring by Nai by Rith president Seymour Reich favored admitting the women a group As a full equal. The agreement must be ratified by the by Nai by Rith women delegates Assembly. Mail in ballots Are due by oct. 15. After late astronaut Resnik Akron Ohio apr a proposed $40 million women a health Center will be named after an Akron native who died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle challenger builders said. The Judith a. Resnik women a health Center will provide services such As radiation therapy gynaecological examinations and in Vitro fertilization to women of All Ages said Trudy Kapper spokeswoman for the Summa corp., which will build the Center. Resnik the second woman astronaut in the space program was an outstanding student and had a biomedical Fellowship at the National institutes of health Kapper said. A if you look at her history and values she strove for  200,000 children face Job injuries report says Washington apr an estimated 200,000 children will be injured this year on the Job according to a report by the american youth work Center a youth advocacy group. In a report released Friday the american youth work Center predicted some 40,000 cases of child labor violations will be reported this year almost double the number found in 1989. A deaths and injuries Are increasing dramatically and yet Are spread thinly across the country a said William Treanor of the Center. A and so All that people have Are anecdotal stories. Everybody can think of one gruesome horrible incident that they re aware of and they think that that a some sort of Freak occurrence. A Navy to name destroyer after terrorist slain diver Washington up a the Navy announced Friday it will name a new destroyer the Stethem in Honor of the 23-year-old Navy diver who was shot and killed by terrorists in Beirut Lebanon during the 1985 hijacking and siege of a Twa Airliner. A guided missile destroyer one of four new ships authorized for construction in the current building program will be named in Honor of Petty officer Robert Dean Stethem a Navy diver Ana construction worker from Waldorf my. Stethem boarded trans world airlines flight 847 in Athens Greece where it was hijacked on june 14, 1985. He was later beaten by the hijackers then shot and his body dumped off the plane while the aircraft sat on a runway in Beirut. Stethem an underwater Steelworker for the Seabee the Navy a engineering Arm was awarded a posthumous Bronze Star for heroism exhibited during the  says landlord did no to violate Minn Law St. Paul Minn. Apr a sharply divided Minnesota supreme court has ruled that a landlord did not violate the states human rights act when he refused to rent to an unmarried couple. The court on a 4-3 vote that reversed a state court of appeals decision ruled Friday that Layle French of Marshall did not discriminate on the basis of marital status when he refused to rent to a woman who planned to live with her Fiance whom she eventually married. A it is simply astonishing to me that the argument is made that the legislature intended to protect fornication and promote a lifestyle which corrodes the institutions which have sustained our civilization namely marriage and family life Quot associate Justice Lawrence Yetka wrote for the majority. A before abandoning fundamental values and institutions we must pause and take Stock of our present social order millions of drug abusers rampant child abuse a rising underclass without marketable Job skills. And children growing up with no one to guide them in developing any set of values a Yetka wrote. The landlord contended that the ruling against him violated his constitutional rights to Freedom of religion and to due process of Law. His attorney argued that French upheld a state Law against fornication. In the ruling Yetka said a at the very least before the state imposes sanctions on French it must repeal the fornication  however chief Justice Peter Popovich wrote in dissent that a this is not a Case involving discrimination against fornicators rather it is a Case involving discrimination against single people living   
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