European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 31, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 i glitch prevents viewing of first asteroid photos Pasadena Calif. A nasal a Galileo spacecraft raced past a potato shaped asteroid in the first such close encounter but the Agency May have to wait a year to see pictures of the tumbling chunk of Rock and Metal. A we just scored almost a perfect bulls Eye. The spacecraft did exactly what it was supposed to Quot Mission director Neal Ausman said tuesday after Galileo raced within 1,000 Miles of Gaspar a leftover from the solar system s birth 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists must wait from two to 13 months to see Galileo a pictures of Gaspar because the Craft s umbrella shaped main Antenna failed to open completely in april limiting How much information it can Send to Earth. The problem which threatens to cripple Galileo s 1995-97 exploration of Jupiter meant that the spacecraft had to store its pictures temporarily. The spacecraft was launched from the space shuttle Atlantis in 1989. Engineers plan to try to open the main Antenna in december. If that does t work the pictures will be transmitted in november 1992, when Galileo will be close enough to Earth to use a Small secondary Antenna. The wait disappointed researchers at Nasa Jet propulsion Laboratory. A i Don t like it a said Rob Kocsis chief of Galileo orbiter engineering. A a it a postponing immediate gratification. I want it All right  Gaspar about 11 Miles by 7 Miles by 6 Miles May be part of a larger asteroid that broke up in a collision. The largest asteroid Ceres is 570 Miles wide. A this is our first Ever spacecraft encounter with an asteroid Quot said Torrence Johnson Galileo s chief scientist. Asteroids a Are a View Back in time to the origin of the solar system Quot Johnson said. A they represent our Best shot at looking at the Type of things that went into putting planets  scientists believe the planets were formed by the clumping of Gas dust and larger debris that orbited the Sun. The material Between Jupiter and Mars never coalesced leaving More than 1 million asteroids larger than one half mile. Gaspar is believed to be made of Rocky and metallic minerals including Iron and Nickel. It is an average of 205 million Miles from the Sun near the inner Edge of the main asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter. It orbits the Sun once every 3.3 Earth years. Galileo encountered Gaspar within 1.5 seconds and 3 Miles of when and where it was programmed to. A we were dead on Quot said navigation chief William kirhofer. Because Gaspar is so Small and Galileo moves so fast the spacecraft was programmed to take 150 images of space surrounding and including the asteroid. That Way Galileo was guaranteed to get at least one detailed Black and White picture and one slightly less detailed color picture of Gaspar from about 3,500 Miles  of neighbor Venus the closest planet to Earth appears Luminous in this it duo taken by the Magellan spacecraft and released by the Jet propulsion Laboratory in California. Magellan is photographing the entire planet for the second time from a variety of angles. Special camera apertures allow the spacecraft to project computer simulated three dimensional images of Venus where temperatures sometimes exceed 170  nurses ordered Back to work two nurses leave a picket line at the to University of Southern California los Angeles on tuesday. Los Angeles Cotin medical Center in los Angeles apr a judge tuesday ordered striking nurses to return to their jobs at six county run hospitals and 48 clinics but the walkout continued into the night. Union officials vowed to continue Job actions but did t say what those actions might entail. The Union a which represents 37 percent of los Angeles county a nurses or about 4,300 workers a went on strike monday night Over benefits and wages after contract talks failed. Superior court judge William Huss granted the Back to work order late tuesday at the county a request ruling the strike threatened Public health and safety. A similar order forced striking nurses Back to work in 1988. A a in a not concerned about the county. In a not concerned about the nurses. In a concerned about sick people a the judge said. He directed the nurses Union to provide the county with addresses and phone numbers of its members and ordered the county to Send letters to the nurses explaining the order. County chief administrative officer Richard Dixon said tuesday that he expected the nurses to return to their jobs wednesday. A we anticipate when the nurses Are called  come Back a he said. But Gilbert Cedillo general manager of the Union said �?o1 do not believe the nurses will be Back tomorrow and 1 do not believe the judges order will be sufficient to bring them Back to  at a late night meeting of serv ice employees International Union local 6 4cedillo and other Union officials vowed that Job actions would continue at least through wednesday. They did not specify what those actions would entail. A rank and file meeting to decide what position to adopt was scheduled for wednesday. Cedillo called the judges ruling a a tremendous setback to the first amendment rights of registered  forty one percent of the county a Day shift nurses a 550 out of 1,328 a and 20 percent of the morning shift a 141 nurses out of 698 a participated in the walkout said county spokesman Jim Ellman. A it Wasny tas successful As the Union had hoped but when nurses participate in a strike action and their service is no longer provided it is a threat to the health and safety of the Public a Ellman said. A Long strike could Force emergency doctors to Transfer patients to private hospitals where emergency rooms could become overcrowded. Health and fringe benefits such As free parking valued up to $80 a month was the main Issue said local 660 spokeswoman Loretta Stevens. At Issue was a two year nursing contract. The county proposed a first year pay raise of 5.5 percent effective nov. I and a negotiable second year increase. The nurses asked for a 10 percent raise in november and a 7 percent increase a year later. The Union said nurses in the private sector average salaries 15 percent higher than county workers. County nurses average $37,000 and $38,000 a  shows 2 women welcomed suicide Southfield Mich. A amid tears and laughter two disabled women planned their suicides and explained on videotape Why they were drawn to the doctor who would help them die. A i want to die and i know there a no turning Back a Sherry Miller 43, told or. Jack Kevorkian in the tape released monday by his lawyer. A i have no qualms about my decision. I just want out a said Miller who had multiple sclerosis. The videotape was recorded oct. 22 at her parents Home in Roseville. The next Day Miller and 58-year-old Marjorie Wantz of Sodus joined Kevorkian in a secluded Oakland county Cabin and killed themselves with devices he invented. Wantz injected herself with drugs. Miller breathed Carbon monoxide through a mask. In a statement issued by his attorney the 63-year-old Kevorkian said a on behalf of myself and a those who believe that medical decisions involving life and death Are a patient s inalienable right i ask that a Blue ribbon commission be convened to establish appropriate guidelines to regulate the right of people to decide their own  Kevorkian will say no More until prosecutors decide whether to charge him in the deaths said his attorney Geoffrey Fieger. A court order issued in january barred the retired pathologist from using his suicide machines or helping in suicides. The order followed the dismissal of a murder charge against Kevorkian for helping alzheimer a patient Janet Adkins of Portland ore., commit suicide by hooking her to a device with which she gave herself a lethal injection. Michigan has no Law against assisting suicide. In the hour Long videotape Wantz told of attempts to kill herself and of the pain of 10 Pelvic operations. Her disease papilloma virus was not terminal. Wantz told Kevorkian she tried three times to kill herself by inhaling Auto exhaust through a Hose and twice tried to overdose on sleeping pills. A i tried loading a gun but i did t know How a she said. A if you do it yourself you done to know what you re  the videotape showed both women and their family members chatting amiably with Kevorkian about their plans. At one Point the women joked about accommodations at the Cabin. Kevorkian said it had 20 bunks