European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 12, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3 Atlantis ends Mission Cape canaveral Fla. A Atlantis swooped through a Clear sky and landed in Florida on sunday with five astronauts who released a satellite and spent More than a week in orbit conducting research to Benefit space travellers. A Welcome Home Atlantis. Congratulations on a picture perfect Mission a Mission controls Bob Cabana told the Crew after the shuttle touched Down on Kennedy space centers Concrete runway at 8 23 . Edt. Its arrival was heralded by its signature twin sonic booms. The Mission commanded by John Blaha was the first since the 1986 challenger Accident to have Kennedy As the primary Landing site. Nasa traditionally had favored the dry Lake bed at Edwards fab Calif but the. Addition of new brakes and nose wheel steering prompted officials in june to give Kennedy equal Landing status beginning with this flight. Nasa saved $1 million and one week shuttle Columbia to undergo overhaul Cape canaveral Fla. A space shuttle Columbia was bolted atop a jumbo Jet and flown saturday to Macdill fab near Tampa where it was to spend the night before heading on to California for modification work. The modified Boeing 747 left Kennedy space Center late saturday. It was to depart from Tampa Early sunday for Rockwell International a shuttle Assem Bly Plant in Palmdale Calif. A about 50 modifications Are planned for nasal a oldest shuttle including new computers brakes and a drag Chute. Extra nitrogen tanks also will be added for the Cabin atmosphere. The Power and waste collection systems will be enhanced so the ship can stay in. Orbit for two weeks and More. Shuttle flights currently do not exceed nine or 10  was supposed to be transported to California on Friday but the trip was delayed because of bad weather and the need to switch accompanying cargo planes at the last minute. Columbia which has travelled into space 11 times is scheduled to return to Kennedy in january. Its next Orbital Mission is set for june 1992. Of processing time by Landing Atlantis at the launch site. About 2,000 guests watched the Landing from about five Miles away. Blaha had been instructed to wait until several minutes before touchdown before turning on an auxiliary Power unit with a broken Cooling system. The Oil coolers for. The two other Power units worked Fine. Atlantis circled the world 142 times during its nine Day voyage and travelled 3,676,369 Miles. The four men and one woman spent the final eight of their nine Days in space conducting scientific and engineering re search. Nasa extended the Mission last year so scientists could learn More about How the body responds to weightlessness in preparation of longer space flights. Their main task in orbit was to free a $120 million tracking and data relay satellite from the cargo Bay. They accomplished that six hours into the  wins Battle of the bulge Bigfoot who weighed in at 1,193 pounds was the win state fair in Springfield. Martin Caldwell top left of Ner of the largest boar contest Friday at the Illinois Industry iii., is the proud , Hanoi Leader discuss mias Bangkok Thailand apr six . Congressmen looking into efforts to account for americans missing from the Vietnam War have met with Hanoi a most powerful political figure the Vietnam news Agency has reported. The Agency said the congressmen met saturday with communist party chief do muoi who said he hoped their visit would a accelerate the process of normalization of Vietnam-. Relations.�?�. The congressmen All of them Vietnam veterans earlier visited Laos and Cambodia to look into the Mia auction and other issues blocking Normal ties Between washing ten and the three indochinese nations. The Agency said the congressmen in responding to the communist party head a spoke highly of the humanitarian policy of the vietnamese government and its effective cooperation in the search for missing  a they also expressed the Hope for Early improvement of relations Between the two countries a the Agency said in the saturday dispatch monitored by a Western embassy in Bangkok. The group led by democratic rep. Thomas r. Carper of Delaware returned to the United states later saturday the Agency said. Their visit was reportedly scheduled before a recent spate of photographs purporting to show live americans being held in Indochina. Washington officials have cast serious doubts about the photos  woman to fight ban on garage sales Hometown 111. Apr a ban on garage sales in this tiny Chicago suburb has angered a Homeowner who has so much clutter she a a can to even walk in my  Mary Smith and a neighbor Elaine Bridge Man say  pass out letters to hometowns 4,769 residents to urge a repeal of the ordinance. The ban was enacted last week after Smith announced plans for a garage Sale this Friday. A town zoning Law already prohibited the Sale of goods a upon the premises of a Home. But Smith said she did no to think the Law applied to garage sales. Supporters of the ban said garage and Yard sales could cause parking and traffic problems or heighten tensions Between feuding neighbors. A Hometown is so Small if we have five or six garage sales going on in one weekend the town could be in total chaos a said Alderman Shannon Selvage who voted for the ban. 2 professors plan Black journal to counter Willie Horton image Topeka Kan. Apr two professors Are starting a journal about african american men to fight what one Calls the a Willie Horton syndrome a the stereotype of Black men As vicious criminals a for the image of Willie Horton to work we had to be socialized to see Black males in a certain Frame of mind a said Richard majors assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at eau Claire. Horton a Black Man imprisoned in Massachusetts for murder raped a woman after escaping a prison furlough and became a Symbol of crime in president Bush a 1988 election Campaign. Majors and University of Kansas professor Jacob Gordon Are starting the journal a they say its the first of its kind a with a $196,000 Grant from a private foundation. Called the journal of african american male studies Gordon Hopes it will help put an end to Many stereotypes besetting Black men. The first Issue is due out next Spring. A we Hope to use this journal to promote african american male studies As an intellectual discipline of inquiry a said Gordon who went to the University of Kansas in 1970 to Start its african studies department. He now directs the University Scenter on Black leadership development and research. A that kind of research should enable us to dispel some of the stereotypes that have built up a stereotypes such As the Black Man is a killer or Lousy father and a poor husband a Gordon said. The bitter aftermath of slavery has created a set of stereotypes that haunts Black men Gordon said. A you also find a number of Blacks who have settled for this stereotype a he said. A a it a kind of a self fulfilling  Gordon said the journal will embrace various disc lines including sociology psychology history and Uman development. Majors whose Book Cool pose the dilemma of Black male Hood is due out in two months said much scholarly attention has focused on Black women in recent years partly As a result of feminism. But there is Little academic literature about Black men he said