European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes Friday april 24, 1992evidence of big bang found in space los Angeles a a Nasa satellite has found huge Ripples of matter near the Edge of the universe a momentous discovery that explains How stars and galaxies evolved from the a big bang that created the Cosmos scientists say. A what we have found is evidence for the birth of the universe a said George Smoot an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. The discovery by nasal a cosmic background explorer spacecraft Caps a 28-year quest for the solution to one of sciences most vexing puzzles How did matter that was uniformly spread out in the Newborn universe Start clumping together to produce stars galaxies and clusters of galaxies if the research is confirmed a a it a one of the major candidates turn to environment on Earth Day from wire reports for at least one Day a Earth Day a the environment became an Issue in the presidential Campaign with democrats Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown and president Bush touting their environmental records. Clinton celebrated wednesdays 22nd anniversary of the original Earth Day with a wide ranging attack on Bush. He charged that a presidential leadership on the environment has become an endangered  he criticized Bush a policies on global warming preservation of wetlands Oil drilling in the Arctic and Energy conservation. A Bush official responded by charging that under Clinton a leadership As governor of Arkansas the state has had the worst environmental record in the country. That theme was also sounded by Brown former governor of California. He warned that if Clinton were the democratic presidential nominee environmentally conscious voters would support Independent h. Ross Perot As part of an a environmental  in a speech at Drexel University in Philadelphia Clinton assailed Bush a hesitancy in making a commitment to attend a june Summit on global warming and other environmental issues to be held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. A nearly a Hundred Heads of state have already firmly committed to attend a Clinton said. A but just wednesday the president said he simply  decide whether to go or  Clinton also offered a confession of sorts saying in discoveries of science a said physicist Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Smoot said the Ripples which Are extremely Wispy Clouds of matter Are a the largest and most ancient structures in the universe a stretching As Long As 59 billion trillion Miles and dating to almost 15 billion years ago. That a Only 300,000 years after the big bang the cataclysmic explosion scientists believe created the universe he said. The Ripples were created by the universes rapid expansion after the big bang Smoot said. Once the Ripples formed Gravity made increasing amounts of matter clump together eventually creating galaxies stars and clusters of galaxies he said. Decisive Nobel prize winning evidence supporting the big bang theory was discovered in 1964, when Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected the big bang so afterglow a microwaves known As cosmic background radiation. The Earth orbiting cobe spacecraft made More than 300 million measurements since its 1989 launch from Vandenberg fab Calif. It detected nearly imperceptible variations in the temperature of the radiation which measures 454 degrees below Zero. Those variations a Only about thirty millionths of a degree a represent slight differences in the density of matter at the Edge of the universe Smoot said. Since the Ripples were created almost 15 billion years ago their radiation has been travelling toward Earth at the Speed of Light. By detecting the radiation cobe is a a wonderful time machine Able to View the Young universe Smoot said. Children in Little Rock ark., have fun with a giant Canvas a Earth balls during Earth Day activities wednesday. Tough economic times he had made Trade offs in favor of employment Over the environment. Michael r. Deland chairman of the presidents Council on environmental Quality led Bush a assault on Clinton so Slippery attempt on Earth Day to gloss Over his record gives new meaning to the words a Oil  a Deland said the administrations accomplishments a including reauthorization of the clean air act proposals to phase out Ozone depleting chemicals and a moratorium on offshore Oil and Gas drilling a a represent a lifetime commitment to environmental  elsewhere americans marked Earth Day with tree plantings recycling programs and Beach cleanups. A we Are learning we can kill a planet a said Norm Steenstra of the West Virginia citizen action group. Battered Duke drops out of gop presidential race by the Washington Post Washington former Klansman David Duke on wednesday formally ended his bid for the Republican nomination and ruled out a third party candidacy in the fall. Duke who lost bids for the Senate and the governorship in Louisiana Over the past two years foundered badly in his presidential Campaign winning just 7 percent of the vote in March a South Carolina primary. That effectively killed his Hopes of being a Factor in the race. A i feel in be done what i can do a Duke told a sparsely attended news conference at the National press club in Washington which contrasted with the packed House he enjoyed when he announced his candidacy last fall. Duke said he saw no future in an Independent candidacy this year particularly with the Prospect that Texas businessman h. Ross Perot would enter the race. Duke said he had no plans to run for any other office but he added that he would not Bow out of the political process. For now he said he needed to pay off personal and Campaign debts and would try to make a living in part through lectures and a Book. Dukes candidacy was Hurt by conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan who has campaigned on some of the same issues As Duke and appeared to be a More acceptable alternative to president Bush than the former nazi sympathizer. Duke denied that his failure As a presidential candidate was caused by voters distaste for his ideas. Quot i done to think the american people see me As a racist a he said. Duke used his news conference to restate Many of the themes of his election campaigns saying Whites have become a second class citizens in this country. A file David Duke. In happier political Days among Earth Day events in the states a forty Middle school students were organized by the Baltimore Harbor endowment to pick up trash along the waterfront. In Exchange the students will get their names engraved in bricks that will adorn a waterfront Walkway. A peace activists planted a for the fifth time since 1983 a a a children s tree of life in Palisades Park in Santa Monica Calif. The new zealand Pines that previously were planted had been vandalized. A West Virginia gov. Gaston Caperton unveiled a program establishing collection centers around the state for Safe disposal of used motor Oil. New York states Energy office announced a similar Pilot program to collect used Oil from people who change their vehicles motor Oil  promises review of health files Boston apr former presidential candidate Paul Tsongas said wednesday that if he seeks National office again he will release his medical records to an Independent review panel for analysis. Tsongas decision followed admissions by his doctors that they did not disclose while he was running for the democratic presidential nomination that his cancer recurred after the Bone marrow transplant they said had rid him of cancerous cells. Tsongas campaigned for the democratic nomination on pronouncements he was free of cancer since undergoing a Radical Bone marrow transplant in August 1986. But or. Tak Takvorian and or. George Canellos said wednesday that a previously undisclosed cancerous Lump was found under Tsongas Arm about nine months after the transplant. Tsongas 51, was treated for it with radiation in the Spring of 1987. The physicians said they either forgot about the relapse or did not think it was Worth mentioning