European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes saturday August 10, 1991 air Force Experiment astronauts Fry to make do with borrowed space Center \ Houston a the Atlantis astronauts switched a part on a camera Assembly hoping to Salvage an air Force photography Experiment Friday that was jeopardized when a Lens adapter was left behind on Earth. The five Crew members awoke Early for an eighth Day of experiments and tests. The first task for shuttle commander John Blaha and Mission specialist James Adamson was to demonstrate weightlessness for watching youngsters. Television pictures beamed to Earth showed two Clear plastic bags containing Green candies and White marshmallows. The pieces were taped Down in one bag to show How they would look in Earth a Gravity. They floated freely in the second sack. A this material is very different a Blaha said of the second bags contents. A and it will allow scientists and engineers to evaluate the physical and chemical properties of this material with a whole new variable a  the findings Blaha said could ultimately improve life on Earth. The astronauts planned to try the photography Experiment Friday. It was postponed wednesday when the Crew discovered the Lens adapter had been left behind. Mission specialist Shannon Lucid substituted a borrowed adapter for the missing one on thursday. The View through the device was hazy but the astronauts still planned to by snapping some photographs Friday. Researchers for the a Star wars program want pictures of shuttle exhaust plumes Jet firings and the glow that forms around the orbiter when atomic oxygen strikes the spaceship. Besides the photography Experiment another test of a vacuum Container was planned Friday aboard the shuttle. Pilot Michael Baker and Mission specialist g. David Low planned to spend about one hour each inside the contraption which resembles a sleeping bag and uses negative pressure to Force fluids from the upper body to the lower limbs. Scientists Hope that spending time in the Rig will ease the lightheadedness Many space travellers experience returning to Earth. Both astronauts spent several hours inside the Waist High chamber thursday. Although the Seal around lows Waist leaked thursday and during a Shorter test sunday information gathered during both runs will be useful said or. Sam Pool chief of the medical sciences division at Johnson space Center in Houston. The nine Day flight is scheduled to end sunday with a Landing in  among 98 arrested at abortion clinic protest from wire reports Wichita Kan. A a priest and an abortion protest Leader were among 98 people arrested Friday As demonstrators rushed the Gates of a Wichita abortion clinic guarded by Federal marshals and City police. One Man was arrested when he knocked Down a Federal marshal. A dozen protesters a some of them children a Lay in the Street and blocked a car that was preparing to turn into the clinic grounds. Police warned them they would be arrested if they did not leave. A i m Here because i want to Rescue babies a said 10-year-old Erin love of Ann Arbor mich., who was among those lying in the Street. She left after the police warning and was not arrested. The stepped up demonstration marked the first arrests since monday in the 4-week-old protest coordinated by operation Rescue. More than 2,000 arrests have been made at the City a abortion clinics. There was no immediate response to the latest protests from . District judge Patrick Kelly who had said earlier this week that he would jail anyone violating his order not to Block the clinics. About 40 protesters rushed in a crouched position toward the Gates of or. George Tiller s women a health care services which were being guarded by More than a dozen Federal marshals and a similar number of City police officers. Witnesses said some of the protesters made physical Contact with the officers. Protesters have singled out Tiller because he is one of the few doctors in the country who performs late term abortions. Among those arrested Friday were the Rev. Joseph Foreman 36, a presbyterian minister from Atlanta who tried to step in front of a car approaching the Clinie Gate. He would face charges of violating a court order Federal marshals said. The Rev. Pat Malone a roman Catholic priest from nearby Derby also was arrested. . Marshal Kent Pekarek said the charge against him will be determined later for running into . Marshals. Most of the arrests were on trespassing charges. Operation Rescue has been in Wichita since july 15 and the demonstrations have led to 1,906 arrests. Many protesters have been arrested repeatedly for blocking clinic entrances. The groups attorneys said they Are appealing Kelly a orders in Denver a 10th . Circuit court of appeals. They have claimed that Kelly has no authority to intervene. The Justice department has filed a Friend of the court Brief in . District court also contending that Kelly has exceeded his authority. The Brief said Kelly lacked jurisdiction Over the demonstrators and Hud no right to order Federal marshals to guard the clinics. In Washington meanwhile More than 50 pro Choice demonstrators marched outside the Justice department on Friday to oppose the Bush administrations attempt to lift Kelly a injunction against blocking the entrances to the Wichita clinics. Two Wichita Kan., police officers keep an Eye on abortion protester David dressed in a a death stalker costume outside the women a health care services a Davis  group rejects Thomas nomination Pittsburgh apr a Baptist organization formed in support of the Rev. Martin Luther King jr., is opposing the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the supreme court saying it threatens the reforms King fought for. But Thomas garnered support thursday from two other groups a predominantly Black fraternal organization and a roman Catholic fraternal group. About 2,700 delegates to the progressive Baptist National convention stood thursday to support a Resolution criticizing Thomas for opposing affirmative action. Only about 30 people voted  the convention formed in 1961 in support of King has about 2,000 member churches with a combined membership of nearly 2.3 million people. A the question is not his personality but a conservative trend of 10 years that is undermining civil rights Progress said the Rev. John Mendez of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Winston Salem . A this Man represents that  in new Orleans delegates to the annual convention of the nations largest predominantly Black fraternal organization a the improved benevolent and protective order of elks of the world a approved by voice vote a Resolution supporting Thomas about 50,01 0 of the group s 450,000 members were attending the convention which ended Friday while some speakers were against the endorsement a in the final analysis the vote was cast and there was an overwhelming majority for the endorsement a spokesman Wendell Johnson said. The group is not affiliated with the predominantly White benevolent and protective order of elks Johnson said. In St. Louis 450 voting delegates at the National convention of the 1.5 million member knights of Columbus the roman Catholic fraternal service group approved on voice vote a Resolution calling Thomas a exceptionally Well  several organizations have opposed Thomas nomination because of his civil rights record. They include the National association for the advancement of coloured people the Al Cio the league of United latin american citizens the leadership conference on civil rights and a Black lawyers group the National bar association. In Kennebunkport. Maine the White House sharply criticized the a act for threatening to suspend a Compton. Calif., Branch that has endorsed Thomas. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwa Ter said a a it a very troubling that the a act who has a Long and distinguished record of civil rights would choose to threaten one of its chapters for endorsing judge Thomas. It seems that they Are ignoring individual rights and personal Freedom at the expense of their own Liberal political Agenda. A i think it serves to strengthen our Contention that Many of these organizations done to reflect the mainstream of America or even the mainstream of their own membership a Fitzwater told reporters at a briefing at the resort where president Bush is vacation. The a act said this week that it was investigating the Compton chapter because it is the groups policy to suspend chapters that break with its stance on National issues. Groups supporting Thomas a Federal appeals court judge include the . Chamber of Commerce the american conservative Union and Republican partisan groups