European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes tuesday sep Temoer at Long last Columbia ready for liftoff Cape canaveral. Fla. Up a shuttle could be launched 13 minutes Early Stive to a rays Sajja Violet ugly that a Kassel tuesday september 4,1990 Cape canaveral Fla. Up countdown clocks finally began ticking again monday for the shuttle columbian a pre Dawn Blastoff thursday on a Long awaited astronomy flight after a weekend of around the clock work to fix a Balky Telescope. Engineers restarted the countdown at 1 . Monday and if All goes Well Columbia and its seven Man Crew will blast off at 1 20 . Thursday three months late because of a fuel leak and a week after the ship was grounded by an electronic glitch with one of four on Board telescopes. A a we be had some trouble but responding to trouble fixing problems is our Strong suit a said Nasa test director Michael Leinbach. A a a jinxed is not a Good word. We be been disappointed several times of course but thursday morning we re hopeful All that will be behind  if bad weather knocks an emergency Landing strip in Africa out of action the shuttle could be launched 13 minutes Early at 1 07 ., to take advantage of another Landing site in Moron Spain. As for weather at the Kennedy space Center air Force meteorologists predicted an 80 percent Chance of acceptable conditions at launch time. A a in a ready to go in a ready to get this one off the ground a Leinbach said of nasal a launch less summer. A barring any unforeseen problems we re going to do exactly that. The teams feeling  commander Vance Brand 59, co Pilot Guy Gardner 42, John a a Mike lounge 44, Robert Parker 53, Jeffrey Hoffman 45, and civilian astronomers Ronald Parise 39, and Samuel Durrance 46, plan to spend 10 Days in orbit before gliding to a Landing at Edwards fab Calif. The goal of the 36th shuttle Mission the fourth of 1990 and the 11th since the 1986 challenger disaster is to study the most violent objects in the universe with a $ 150 million Battery of telescopes sensitive to a rays and ultraviolet Light that cannot penetrate Earth a atmosphere. Data from the Mission should help astronomers later gain insights into the nature of quasars As yet unseen Black holes Supe movie interstellar Gas and dust Stellar evolution and other a tical questions in Modem astronomy. The Astro-1 telescopes will remain in columbian a cargo Bay throughout the flight with the ships Crew working around the clock in two shifts operating three ultraviolet instruments from the shuttles flight deck. The fourth instrument the Broad band a Ray Telescope will be operated by Remote control by scientists on the ground. During columbian a countdown last week data from the a  suddenly stopped flowing to the ground forcing Nasa managers to delay the Crews planned saturday launching. The problem was traced to faulty circuit boards in a a Black boxy device used to convert engineering data from the Telescope into a form that can be passed on to the shuttle and then to the ground. The a Bart is cooled by super cold solidified argon and being Able to read temperatures and pressures at the launch pad and in orbit is critical. The faulty integrated circuit a a cards were replaced saturday and successfully tested sunday Clearing the Way for a second launch attempt thursday morning. Blastoff originally was scheduled for May 30, but the Mission was grounded the night before by a Hydrogen fuel leak that ultimately was traced to damaged seals in a massive 17-Inch-wide a a disconnect fitting that allows the shuttles external tank to be jettisoned in space. Columbia was equipped with a new disconnect and after Atlantis was grounded in july by a similar leak Nasa managers decided to make another attempt to get the Astro-1 astronomy Mission off the ground. Gem Dandy a the Roach broach designed by Jeanine Lewis of Houston was one of the creative entries in the worlds largest Roach contest held recently in Houston. Lewis fashionable cockroach is encircled by Silver and pearls tiny yellow roses and topped with the Star of Texas. Lewis 2-Inch broach is larger than the Winner from Dallas. Durenberger taking his lumps from disappointed minnesotans Falcon Heights Minn. Apr Robert Ostman spotted sen. Dave Duren Bercero a state fair Booth right Between the cider and nut hut and a stand hawking inflatable teenage mutant ninja turtles. The 68-year-old Man was ready to give the Minnesota Republican a piece of his mind. Ostman is one minnesotan who says he voted for Durenberger before but wont vote for him again. A what were you thinking a queried Ostman face to face with his senator. A you thought you could get by with it. You had a Good thing going and you blew  later a teen Ager in braces brought Durenberger a different message. A the Only difference Between you and the rest of them is that they did no to get caught a he said. A i Hope you la be Able to support me a Durenberger replied softly. Durenberger had expected this Ever since he was formally denounced on the floor of the Senate on july 25 for financial wrongdoing. The Senate found that he violated its rules by laundering speaking fees through a Book contract and Billing the government when he stayed in his Minneapolis condominium. Some senators used the Long August recess to relax on Long vacations before the Post labor Day crunch of congressional business. But Durenberger whose support in Public opinion polls has plunged faces a Long period of political rehabilitation. Before he went to saudi Arabia with a congressional delegation last Friday he attended much of the two week Minnesota state fair to take what came from the 1.5 million who visit it each year. In some of them he found support. A knot of Well sen. David Durenberger wishers stayed around Durenberger who posed with fair visitors for an aides Polaroid camera and listened patiently to constituents. A stay in there we re behind you 100 percent a said an elderly woman who identified herself As Matilda. Durenberger had braced himself for the worst. The democratic Fanner labor party Booth Down the Street was passing out buttons that read a i paid More rent than Dave Durenberger a a reference to his Condo Deal. Minnesotans Are known for their congenial manner a collective personality trait known As a Minnesota  but some visitors to the fair let Durenberger know they were disappointed m him or  understand How he got off so easy As they saw it for a a stealing from the government. Earl Cromey a retired Railroad worker from Stillwater demanded to know Why Durenberger was still in office if former House speaker Jim Wight a Texas was out. A the quit on his own. He made the decision a Durenberger explained. Durenberger insists that he was acting in Good Faith when he pursued the schemes that resulted in the Senate a disciplinary action. He was first elected to the Senate in 1978 and his current term expires in 1994. He has not said whether he will run again. A somehow they think i stole $40,000 from the government a Durenberger said in an interview before heading to the fair. A i can to change Peoples minds about what they think Are the facts. Ill just have to change their minds about How they View me As a senator a he said. Up tile tabloid vows to Tell Oil straight from police blotter Seminole a. A lifting my  a retrospective of summer films no its the subheading for the prototype of the informer a new Hor Ida newspaper promising crime stories and no glory. Fed up with big City news. Most sensational crimes tabloid listing every local _ alleged shoplifting and Drunken driving As Well As murder. The informer plans to fight crime by filling pages with a blotter style listing of every suspect a even though they re innocent until proven guilty. A this is going to be a deterrent a said publisher Ray Aden. A what is happening is the great majority of people violating our Laws Are not known a to their neighbors their Bosses sometimes even their family. A but nobody wants to get their name in the  some daily newspapers already print crime blotter information. There s nothing unlawful about printing arrests from the Public record. But civil libertarians and attorneys say the tabloid is treading dangerous Legal ground and could trample the rights of the accused. From a Small office in this St. Petersburg suburb Aden and a handful of employees Are Busy preparing for the oct. 3 premiere of the twice monthly 89-cent publication. Aden a 70-year-old marketing analyst has spent nine months and More than $ 150,000 getting ready to erint the paper slated to be about half advertising and Alf listings of arrests along with articles such As a How to Deal with obscene phone  the areas big dailies report Only a few arrests a Day focusing on major murders and drug busts. But each Issue of the informer is designed to bulge up to 48 pages and list hundreds of arrests in St. Petersburg Clearwater and surrounding Pinellas county communities. All of them list Only the Standard booking information name address age and arresting charge. A a we re not crime reporting or editorializing a a that a not the concept a Aden said. A we give the Community information. It probably will evolve into More area crime watches which will Benefit the  and on every Page beneath boldface headers Reading a Domestic violence and a a shoplifting disclaimers in the newspapers tiniest Type read a tote being arrested does not mean the person is  a they have an absolute right to print arrests a said Robyn Blumner executive director of the american civil liberties Union in Florida. A but i would Only Hope the Public is smart enough to know that arrests by themselves Are legally  Patricia Anderson a libel attorney whose clients include the St. Petersburg times said publishing arrests is Fine but they had better be  one wrong first name or one wrong Middle initial and you could have a big lawsuit on your hands a she said