European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes saturday september 15,1990hubble�?Ts problems blamed on faulty measuring device by the Baltimore Sun Danbury Conn. A the main Mirror in the Hubble space Telescope was flawed during its manufacture because a measuring Rod probably was installed upside Down in the device used to help determine the shape of that Mirror Nasa investigators concluded thursday. The six member Hubble optical systems Board of investigation of the National aeronautics and space administration found a Strong evidence that a 1.3-millimeter spacing error in the testing device known As a reflective null corrector occurred because the inverted measuring Rod did not fit snugly into an aluminium Cap. A technician at the manufacturer then known As per Kin Elmer corp., apparently put the Flat end a and not the finely polished rounded end a of the Rod into the Cap accounting for a 1.3-millimeter spacing error Between a Mirror and a Lens in the test device investigators said. The spacing error in the test device caused a flaw in the Hubble a 94-Inch primary Mirror called spherical Abb ration resulting in Blurry images being transmitted from the $1.5 billion Telescope and greatly re cleanup plan for Everglades wins backing West Palm Beach Fla. Apr the state of Florida water managers and sugar Industry executives have agreed on a $ 120 million plan backed by environmentalists to clean up the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee. Whether the plan agreed to this week will be enough to get the . Government to drop a pollution lawsuit against the state and the South Florida water management District remained an open question. The water districts governing Board was to hold a final vote on the plan Friday. It involves buying up 70,000 acres of privately owned farm land and converting it into marshes and reservoirs that would naturally filter polluted farm waste water before it reaches the Everglades. The state would throw in an additional 3,800 acres of state owned farm land to be converted. The state the water District and sugar growers would each put up $40 million. The Industry a share would be raised Over 10 years by a tax of $ 10 an acre on growers in the Everglades. The tax needs the approval of the Everglades agricultural area which is dominated by big growers. Water managers have been developing the cleanup plan for the past year under the threat of a Federal lawsuit accusing District and state officials of letting agricultural drainage a primarily from sugar Cane Fields a damage the Arthur r. Marshal Loxahatchee National wildlife Refuge and Everglades National Park. The lawsuit is scheduled for trial next year. Justice department spokeswoman Amy Casner in Washington said wednesday that officials Hadnot seen the plan. Water flowing South from farm Fields would be cleaned by running it through the marshes where plants would absorb excess phosphorus blamed for upsetting the Everglades ecosystem. During the orbiting Observatory a capabilities. Or. Lew Allen jr., who chairs the investigation Board thursday called the error in testing device a painful and tragic and said that a adequate prudence was not taken in relying on the reflective null As the sole test for the mirrors shape. Double checks of the mirrors shape were recommended by engineers employed by the company now known As Hughes Danbury optical systems inc., but were rejected at the time said Allen who is director of nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena. Asked whether Nasa had the final say in rejecting the double checks he said it did not appear the recommendations Ever got that far. A these recommendations were not accepted within the Perkin Elmer Structure because of time and Cost a he said. From the beginning the Hubble project ran behind schedule and had huge Cost overruns. At the time the double checks were recommended a there were enormous pressures on the company forcing it to operate a in a crisis Mode a Allen said. Thorny tomatoes businessman Steven Balourdos on thursday tends to the tomatoes he is growing in front of his business on Chicago a posh Michigan Avenue. The tomatoes have aroused the ire of Condo association members who live in the High Rise where Balourdos business is located. Stateside snarling drug dogs ousted from their own graduation Nashville Tenn. Apr ten weeks of training by drug sniffing dogs came to a snarling conclusion when they had to be separated at their graduation. The six Labrador retrievers were sent to their handlers cars thursday after the dogs bared their fangs during a ceremony at the Public service commissions offices. The dogs which get along with almost everyone except each other will go to work this week making Roadside truck inspections across the state. A i think they were a Little afraid of the cameras a said commission chairman Keith Bissell. The ceremony went on without the  California air rules mean More smog alerts los Angeles apr California will tighten standards for smog alerts because of new research that suggests Ozone causes ill health effects at lower Levels than previously thought. The state air resources Board decided thursday to Issue earlier and More frequent Ozone health advisories said Board chairwoman Jananne Sharpless. Ozone the most common element of smog was thought hazardous at 0.20 parts per million. The new Standard is 0.15 ppm. A we strongly believe if the air Isnit healthful the Public should be aware of it a said spokesman Tom Eichom of the air Quality management District in Al Monte. The studies were made by the state department of health services he  schools to delay relaxing desegregation Seattle apr the Seattle school Board threatened with the loss of millions of dollars has voted to defer for one year a plan to relax desegregation rules. The panel had voted 4-3 last week to relax its racial balance guidelines. The . Education department quickly withheld $3.2 million in Matching funds for a a Magnet schools that have been part of the districts desegregation Effort Over the past decade. The state said $ 10 million for construction also might be withheld. Board members said after wednesdays 5-2 vote to defer action that they could not do without the Money. The Board had sought to reduce mandatory busing by allowing students greater Freedom to select schools. The reinstated guidelines allow schools no More than 50 percent enrolment from any minority group 70 percent from All minorities or 65 percent White enrollment.. Pledges $50 million for measles vaccinations Washington apr the United states will contribute $50 million Over five years to the world health organizations vaccination Campaign against measles. Ronald Roskens administrator of the . Agency for International development said the funds will go for vaccination equipment training of health care workers on immunization and a publicity Campaign. The world organization is in the final stages of completing its Campaign said Jerrry Lipson a spokesman for the . Agency a world Summit for children will be held sept. 28-29 at United nations Headquarters in new York. Roskens said Only about 60 percent of the 125 million children bom each year in the third world Are immunized. The goal is to make that figure 90 percent he said. Nearly 2 million children died from measles in 1989. Doctors not urging mammograms study says Atlanta up1 a about one third of breast cancer deaths could be prevented if women Over age 40 underwent mammograms but Many doctors fail to recommend the test government health officials said thursday. A Survey of 980 women conducted by the Jacobs Institute of women a health in Washington and the National cancer Institute found that 45 percent of women who never had a Mammogram said their doctor never recommended the procedure. A it has taken a Long time to convince doctors and patients that radiation from mammograms is not a problem a or. Charles smart of the National cancer Institute said in Washington. Nearly three fourths of the surveyed women who had undergone a Mammogram indicated they received the test because a doctor told them to do so. A doctors Are going to have to do a much better Job of recommending that women get mammograms and get them on a regular basis a said Jacobs Institute director Martha romans. An estimated 150,000 women develop breast cancer each year in the United states and about 44,000 women die from the disease making it the second leading cause of cancer deaths among american women. Of those deaths 13,000 could be prevented if the women had regular mammograms an a Ray of the breast the Federal centers for disease control said in the morbidity and mortality weekly report. A if death rates Are to be decreased mammography use rates must continue to increase and women must return for repeat mammograms at recommended intervals a the cd report said. A special efforts Are needed to ensure that older women and women with Low Levels of income and education receive  mammograms reduce the breast cancer death rate because the tests can detect a cancerous growth in the earliest most treatable stages before the cancer has spread. The government recommends women Between age 40 and 49 undergo clinical examinations annually and a Mammogram every one to two years. Women age 50 and older should have annual exams and mammograms the government recommends. The Survey showed 67 percent of women Over 40 had received at least one Mammogram but Only 31 percent were following the recommendations for repeated testing. A we need to work around the notion that being tested every once in a while is Good enough a said Marion Nadel the cd epidemiologist who authored the report. A the whole idea of regular screening is to detect a problem before its too  mammography testing was higher among White women than Black women. Sixty five percent of White women underwent mammograms compared with Only 58 percent of Black women. Women with higher incomes and More education were also More Likely to undergo the exams