European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6the stars  stripes Friday May 17, 1991 historic radar Survey of Venus completed by Magellan probe Pasadena Calif. Apr the Magellan space probe has concluded its main exploration of Venus ending a nine month radar Survey revealing the evening Star As a cratered world of volcanoes Mountain peaks  lava flows. A we Are just completing a historic episode in planetary exploration a project scientist Steve Saunders said wednesday at the National aeronautics  space administrations Jet propulsion Laboratory. A a we be revealed More new terrain in a Shorter time than Eyer in  eighty four percent of Venus surface was mapped during the primary phase which began sept. 15, 1990. The remainder will be filled in As the $744 million . The spacecraft which uses radar Waves to Peers at team kills armed bus rider after standoff Beverly Hills Calif. Up a a a woman went berserk on a bus late wednesday night fatally shooting a passenger  holding police at Bay for three hours before a swat team moved in  shot her to death authorities said. None of the other 20 passengers aboard the bus were Hurt. Neither the woman nor her victim was immedi Atchly identified by police. The woman opened fire inside the rapid transit Quot District about 10 15 . As it travelled along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. A she had been displaying a handgun waving it around putting it on her Lap a said Beverly Hills police it. Frank Salcido. A it Hen for some reason she shot another  Salcido said Swap team members at one Point believed her to be a Man. Her Large stature  hair style apparently led to the confusion. Mike gunning a passenger on the bus said the woman Quot started screaming about nazis Black people White people. Then just opened fire on this  t he Driver stopped the bus  passengers rushed Olf. Some helping the wounded Man outside. He Lay on the Street for some time As a swat team surrounded the darkened bus with the woman still inside. T he Man was later pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars Sinai medical Center. Tor the next three hours pleas to surrender from deputies went unanswered Salcido said. About 1 10 a.m., a concussion grenade was tossed into the bus  members of the swat team stormed it. Gunshots could be heard As seven or eight officers slipped through the front  rear doors of the bus. A when the swat team entered the bus they had a confrontation with the suspect  shots were lived a Salcido said. Quot she was dead at the  through Venus thick Cloud cover  map its terrain has sent Back a wealth of images of Earth s closest planetary neighbor. The 7,410-Pound Magellan spacecraft 21-feet Long. And 15-feet in diameter was lofted into space by the shuttle Atlantis on May 4, 1989. Its own rocket hurled it away from Earth  onto a looping 5-month, 948-million-mile trek to Venus where it went into orbit on aug. 10, 1989. A Magellan a powerful synthetic aperture radar presented an unparalleled picture of Venus but scientists say interpreting the data has Only just begun. A Magellan is giving us a global map of the planet for the first time with enough Resolution to understand the processes that May be going on there a Saunders said. A a a a a a a a a a a a fishy bomb scare shuts Down Road Crescent City Calif. A Law enforcement officers closed a Road for seven hours  blew a fish of undetermined species to bits Here wednesday because of fears it  been a bomb. A a. V. Officers closed the Road near Crescent City after a sack with the word a  sic written on it with a Blue Felt tip pen was discovered about 8 feet from the  kept the Road closed until a demolitions expert from. The state fire marshals office arrived. Ltd a a a  a a a a a. A. A a a a. A officials used a High powered water Canon to demolish the suspected explosives. A California Highway patrol officer said there was no explosion but tiny bits of fish were scattered All Over the Road. Gen. Ii. Norman Schwarzkopf receives a ceremonial Saber from Cadet first capt. Douglas p. Mccormick. Schwarzkopf honoured at West Point West Point new York a Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf a 1956 West Point graduate was honoured with a full dress Parade at the . Military Academy for his role As commander of the Allied forces in the persian Gulf w a. Schwarzkopf 56, reviewed a corps of cadets on the Plain a Parade ground overlooking the Hudson River. Cadets cheered  applauded his arrival from the windows of a nearby dormitory. A West Point has been a part of my life All my life  its appropriate that it be a part of my life at the end of the military career a the general  has said he intends to retire. Talking to reporters Schwarzkopf said he was not worried that Saddam Hussein remains in Power in Iraq. The United states a a knew from the outset that he could be alive at the end. It does no to concern me much because there is not much he can  he also said he hoped the iraqi people a will get rid of  cadets said they were moved by the visit. Quot he a the ultimate Grad  a role Model a said first year Cadet Andrew Hanson 19. Mayan Tomb j Mexico Flores Ayache i Guatemala # Honduras Guatemala Al Salvador san Salvador i North Pacific a amps map anthropologists make mayan discovery Washington a anthropologists digging into an 8th Century Pyramid in Guatemala say they opened a Tomb of what May be one of the last great leaders of the mayan civilization. Officials at Vanderbilt University in Nashville tenn., announced. Tuesday that a group  Arthur dem rest a professor of anthropology removed the final Loose stones under an ancient mayan Pyramid  found a Skeleton wearing a bejewelled Headpiece. Tracey Ferrell the project administrator at Vanderbilt said the researchers found the Skeleton amid elaborately decorated pottery  knife Blades made of Obsidian Glass once used As a gemstone. A a it a definitely a ruler of some kind a Ferrell said. A Obsidian was an elite material in the mayan world because it had to be brought from far  Obsidian is a volcanic Glass. Knives made from the material were used in bloodletting ceremonies among the Royalty she said. The Pyramid is located in an ancient City know la As Dos Pilas that is thought to have been the capital of tie Pete Batun Region of Guatemala. It is near the present City of Flores  the town of Saya Che. Ferrell said Demarest reported that the headdress adorning the Skeleton was made of Mother of Pearl shells  Jade  said to be in excellent condition. Workers Are removing soil  debris around the Skeleton  Ferrell said the legs have been uncovered. Pottery in the Tomb is covered in hieroglyphics that May give clues to the relationship of the mayan Center where the Pyramid is situated  the rest of the mayan civilization. Ferrell said the Skeleton May be that of a Monarch known to researchers As ruler 2. This name is used because no other has been found. Dem rest who has been excavating in the urea Tor two years said in a report that the Tomb was located on the Edge of a great Plaza  is near a Monument cat cd Stela 8, that is dedicated to ruler 2. The Stela bears a Date of . 715. A ruler 2 was one of the Kings that launched the ambitious program of Conquest in the 8th Cei Tury a Demarest reported. This led to formation of what he called the largest territorial state in mayan history. By . 740, he said the kingdom started by ruler 2 stretched Tor 1,500 Square Miles. Researchers believe the father of ruler 2, known Only As ruler l was expelled from the mayan City of Tikal a generation earlier. He went 60 Miles into the Jungle  established Dos Pilas. He said the War  the expansion of ruler 2�?Ts Empire May have changed the agricultural system of the area  forced Farmers into agrarian habits that stripped the land. War May have finally forced the population to seek shelter in defensible areas of the City. The mayan civilization collapsed in about . 830