European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 11,1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7strike limits delivery of new York times new York a Union Drivers tied up delivery of the new York times for a second straight Day saturday with the paper charging that they set fire to one truckload of papers and caused another Driver to crash his truck. The two truck incidents kept the times from getting any papers into Westchester county and Connecticut on saturday when 108,000 papers Are normally distributed times spokeswoman Nancy Nielsen said. On Long Island another 108,000 papers were brought in but they arrived late she said. Hooting shouting workers walked a picket line in East Farmingdale where three Drivers were persuaded not to Cross. The trucks later got inside the Long Island wholesale distribution Center one of two facilities where labor strife began after the Union Drivers rejected a contract. According to Nielsen one of the trucks destined for Westchester had its cargo of papers set afire Friday night in Manhattan. The second truck smashed into a Low hanging overpass As its Driver fled an angry mob in new Rochelle she said. Long Island outlets and residents received their times but later than usual Nielsen said. The times Headquarters on West 43rd Street in Manhattan was evacuated for a half hour saturday afternoon because of a bomb scare. Later in the afternoon someone pulled a firebox in the times building but it was not evacuated Nielsen said. On Friday the times delivered just 90,000 of the usual 230,000 papers to the new York suburbs and Connecticut. . District judge Pierre Leval who said Friday that the Union was responsible for a More or less terrorist acts a is sued a restraining order to keep the workers from interfering with distribution. A hearing today was to determine if the Union violated that order. No one from the Union was available for comment saturday but its president Douglas Lachance had said his members would not violate the judge s order. The dispute Between the times and the newspaper and mail deliverers Union began after the Drivers rejected a Deal that would have Given management More control Over them. The Deal would have also halved the salaries of some Drivers. North Carolina cattle getting some extra fiber in their diet Gill . Apr Hay move Over. Some North Carolina cattle Are finding Cotton in their Chow. And they re devouring the Fluffy stuff. A the cows helped me unload it a Farmer Bruce e. Perkinson said. A a they a Chase the truck across the pasture to get to  Perkinson was involved in a test to determine whether waste Cotton fibres from the textile Industry could fill Bovine stomachs rather than scarce Landfill space. Ben e. Chase livestock agent for two counties in North Central North Carolina near Raleigh suggested the idea to Farmers As an Experiment. A they thought i was crazy a he said. But he had heard old Farmers say cattle grazed in Cotton Fields after Harvest. And cottonseed cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls Are common in livestock lunches. The unusual cow cuisine is what Harriet amp Henderson yarns inc. Cleans from raw Cotton that the company turns into yarn for clothing. The leftovers Are mostly Cotton fibres too Short for processing crushed stalks seeds and dust. Up to 30 tons a week pile up at the company plants. With landfills crowded and expensive to use company engineers asked the state cooperative Extension service in Vance county for help in finding another Way to dispose of the material. They thought it could be used As fertilizer or mulch. Instead a few cattle producers and researchers at North Carolina state University in Raleigh offered it to beef and Dairy herds. The animals dug in though the Odd entree took some getting used to. A they eat it like they done to quite know what it is a said Matthew h. Poore an animal husbandry specialist. A they Chew funny and  As some Angus calves at the bar j ranch gnawed cows in Gill ., Munch on Bales of waste Cotton. Hollows into a Bale recently wisps Clung to their Black faces like whiskers. A sometimes it looks like they have beards a Chase told a group touring the ranch. The Cotton eating cattle fared As Well in health or weight gain As those munching a More traditional menu. Researchers said the feed Cotton is nutritionally comparable to Low Quality Hay though lower in protein. Some sheep also sampled the new rations but did no to develop a taste for it. Nasa plans to examine asteroid the Baltimore Sun Baltimore a a research Arm of Johns Hopkins University has been chosen to design a spacecraft intended to take the first close up look at the kind of asteroid that could one Day collide with Earth officials said saturday. Hopkins applied physics Laboratory has been Given a $450,000 contract by Nasa for preliminary work on the near Earth asteroid rendezvous satellite. If the National aeronautics and space administration and Congress approve construction of the compact $150 million spacecraft it could begin orbiting an asteroid called Nereus in january 2000. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to conduct the first Long term study of any asteroid. Robert w. Farquhar the physics Laboratory a head of Mission planning for the satellite said the asteroid was chosen because it is easy to get to since its orbit closely follows that of Earth and occasionally crosses it. Nereus did not have a name until recently when it was chosen As the target for the Mission. A it was kind of a Pun by some people because you can also read it As near us a he said. It is precisely these near Earth asteroids that May have collided with the planet in the past and could do so again said astronomer Donald k. Yeomans of the Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Such a collision could be far More than a fender Bender. An asteroid the size of Nereus could explode with the Force of 25,000 Hydrogen bombs creating a huge Shock wave and throwing up enough debris to Block out the Sun. Near Earth asteroids Are different from a main belts asteroids which orbit the Sun in a vast ring Between Jupiter and Mars. Farquhar said the satellite will spend a year either flying alongside Nereus or spinning around the asteroid coming within a mile of its surface. Yeomans said that should Tell scientists what near Earth asteroids Are made of and help decide if they pose any threat to our planet. A we really done to know what a typical of a near Earth asteroid a he said. A a we be never seen  if As some scientists theorize they Are extinct cornets made mostly of icy material a then they Are fairly Low density objects and perhaps not a threat at All a Yeomans said. A for Are they True asteroids similar to those in the main Belt he asked. If so a a they re made of Rock or Iron in which Case they re More of a  Yeomans said he Hopes Nasa decides to Send the satellite to other asteroids and perhaps a Comet after its lengthy study of  s fast talk almost earns him ticket from wire reports Tampa Fla. A a state senator failed to notice his increasing Speed during a cellular phone Chat with gov. Lawton Chiles until the flashing red and Blue lights caught his attention. A i guess i was getting More and More intense As i listened and All of a sudden i looked up Quot Tampa Republican John Grant said. As he waited for a Pasco county sheriffs Deputy to walk to his car Friday he wondered if the officer would reach him Ocford the governor stopped talking. A the Deputy got there first a Grant said. �?o1 asked him if he could wait just a second while i finished talking to the governor. I guess if it Hadnot been on a speaker phone he might not have believed  the Deputy waited while Chiles finished his Call. The senator had been doing 45 Mph in a 30 Mph zone. A the told me he ought to give me a ticket but a obviously you were temporarily preoccupied and not watching the speedometer a said Grant. He did not get a  acreage Burns St. Helena Calif. A a fire burned through Brush in a Steep Remote area of Northern California on saturday and firefighters could not estimate when the Blaze would be contained. A we have 120 people and one water dropping helicopter fighting the flames burning at the 2,000-foot Elevation a said Debbie Matteoli of the California department of forestry. Forestry capt. Scott Primm said no Homes were in danger and no injuries were reported. The fire was reported by department personnel who were training in the Sonoma county area about 80 Miles North of san Francisco. The Blaze had consumed 80 acres by saturday evening. A a it a burning in real heavy fuels and its going to take us a while to contain it a Primm said adding that winds hampered firefighters ability to extinguish the Blaze. The fires cause was  remarks draw Fine new York a a state supreme court judge fined a male lawyer $1,000 for belittling a female attorney. It May be the first such instance in which one lawyer was punished for sexist disparagement of another the judge said. Supreme court Justice Diane Lebedeff said Lawrence Clark exceeded acceptable behaviour when during a deposition he remarked to Beth Rex a i done to have to talk to you Little lady a a what do you know Young girl a and a be quiet Little girl a among other comments. He also said a Tell that Little mouse Over there to pipe  Lebedeff called Clarks comments a a paradigm of rudeness and said Thev a degrade a colleague upon the basis that she is  the judge ordered Clark to pay a $500 Fine and $590 attorneys fees. She said her research indicated it was the first Case in the country in which a lawyer was punished for sexist comments to an adversary