European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 9, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Happy for hanukkah five year old Anna Rose Klingenstein holds a stuffed toy menorah with Felt candles and a smiling face one of the Many unusual hanukkah items available at new York City stores specializing to jewish goods. The eight Day festival of lights began wednesday evening. Surgeon study on from wire reports Washington surgeon general Joycelyn elders no stranger to controversy was enmeshed in a new one wednesday after recommending that the govern ment study the idea of legalizing drugs in the Hopes of reducing violent crimes. The White House quickly made it Clear tuesday a and again wednesday a that president Clinton does t see Eye to Eye on that Issue with the health crusader who accompanied him from Little Rock Ark. Elders however stopped Short of endorsing such a Radical reversal of the nation s drug policy. And after her comments Drew fire she issued a statement saying her remarks were personal observations that did hot re it Fleet the administrations views. Republicans and conservatives who opposed her con formation expressed outrage Over her earlier comments some said the outspoken doctor should resign or be fired. V. A if the surgeon general has to have a study to see if drugs Are hazardous to your health we need a new surgeon general a. Sen. Don Nickles r-okla., said wednesday. A americans must be wondering if the surgeon general is hazardous to our health cracked Senate minority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas. But elders also was praised for a her usual courage by Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke who endured some of the same Wrath five years ago when he suggested that the nation consider decriminalizing drugs. A i think what the surgeon general said was absolutely courageous and Correct. There should be a study a said Schmoke interviewed along with Nickels on Abc elders responding to questions at a National press club luncheon after a speech decrying violence said 60 percent of violent crimes Are drug or alcohol related. A Many times they re robbing stealing and All of urges these things to get Money to buy drugs a she said. A i do feel that we would markedly reduce our crime rate if drugs were she added that she did not know about the ramifications but Felt it was Worth studying because some other countries that have taken this route have reduced crime without driving up drug use. 1 that infuriated critics who Felt she was unfit to be surgeon general because of her unabashed support for sex education a including distributing condoms in schools a and abortion rights her1 views a Are so far outside the mainstream they Are simply Radical a said sen Dan Coats a and. A simply put doctor elders does no speak for the great majority of in this instance at least she did not speak for Clinton who weathered earlier storms Over Blunt elders statements when he was governor and she was health commissioner of Arkansas. A the president is against legalizing drugs and he a not interested in studying the Issue a White House press Secretary dec Dee Myers said. A she expressed a personal opinion. Its been made Clear to her that the president does no to share that Myers said wednesday that elders has a always been very outspoken. The president stands very firmly behind her. We think she a doing a very Good Job. In this instance she was not speaking for the Myers added that the Case was closed and no further action was contemplated. Clinton has cited the drug problems of his brother Roger As a reason for opposing legalized drugs. Elders office issued a statement saving the remarks were just a her personal observations based on the experience of other countries and stressing that a there Are no similar initiatives under consideration by the administration by the Public health service at this space walking opticians slide on Hubble s glasses space Center Houston apr the Hubble fix it team fitted the nearsighted space Telescope with glasses in a High flying operation wednesday. Looking and sounding More like furniture movers than opticians endeavour astronauts Kathryn c. Thornton and Tom Akers installed a refrigerator sized Box of mirrors. Her Load lightened by the weightlessness of space Thornton held the 640-Pound Case and with Akers help gently guided it into place on rails. A keep it coming a Akers urged from More than 360 Miles above Earth. A a it a in a Thornton shouted. It was the final step at least for the space walking endeavour Crew toward correcting Hubble a fuzzy vision. On tuesday the Crew installed a camera with corrective optics. A a we re almost Home free a said Astro naut astronomer Jeffrey a. Hoffman who was scheduled to go out wednesday night stateside time on the missions fifth and final spacewalk. A a we be got basically a new Telescope up there. It s going to be real exciting for the astronomical Community and for the whole world to see what Hubble really can do with a Good set of Nasa is hoping the results Wilt be a Telescope that fulfils its Promise of probing the faintest and oldest objects in the Cosmos thus revealing the age and size of the universe. But astronomers will not know the outcome for nearly two months that show Long Nasa expects it will take to Fine tune and test All the instruments. A we done to know what we halve in orbit today a said David Leckrone Hubble s senior project scientist. A we know what we have electrically. We know what we have in terms of Basic housekeeping functions. But optically its going to take this period of almost two he added a it is extremely difficult to keep from getting excited right now but in be got to scientists have been in a state of anxiety since they found out that the Hubble a $1.6 billion probe launched by Nasa in 1990, had an improperly ground Mirror. Thornton and Akers making their second spacewalk of the Mission had to remove a Light meter to make room for the new Mirror device wednesday. The meter was sacrificed because it contributed Little scientifically. It was packed for the trip Home. The mirrors inside the Box should Correct the Light from the flawed main Mirror. Leckrone said the new optics were tested repeatedly in various ways to ensure history would not be repeated. A i am quite confident. 1 have thought of anything else to do a Leckrone said. The astronauts mood was Light As they toiled on the 43-foot-Long Hubble from the end of the shuttle robot Arm. Akers hummed frequently a a bum bum bum bum dec Dee Dee Dee Quot a and Thornton laughed at Mission control jokes. After installing the mirrors the space walkers installed a new computer with greater memory. They spent the rest of the six hour 50-minute spacewalk cutting insulation from the protective cover of one of the Hubble instruments. Akers set a . Space walking record. Wednesdays spacewalk boosted his time in the vacuum of space to 29 hours and 40 minutes. The former record Holder Apollo 17�?Ts Eugene a. Carnan logged 24 hours and n minutes. The most crucial jobs were behind endeavours seven member Crew. I the Hubble got new gyroscopes and fuses sunday new electricity generating solar panels monday and a new wide Field planetary camera and magnetometers tuesday. Coming up wednesday night new electronics to operate the solar panels and a new switch for an ultraviolet Light Detector. The night Spac walkers Hoffman and f. Story Musgrave also will wrap Hubble sold magnetometers with the insulation removed wednesday to protect against contamination from exposed foam. And the Crew Wilt boost endeavours orbit by a few Miles so Hubble can be left at a higher and safer Altitude. The $629 million Mission a the biggest space repair Job Ever a is to end monday Pearl Harbor victims honoured for greatness Washington apr under Leaden skies Secretary of veterans affairs Jesse Brown Laid a Wreath at the Navy memorial on tuesday to Honor service members killed at Pearl Harbor. Quot these heroes Are not unknown to us a Brown said. Quot they Are known to us for their spirit. They Are known to us for their greatness. They Are known to us for their sacrifice we love and Honor them. Quot it is a Day that forever will beat in the pulse of history a Brown said of the Sunrise japanese attack on the . Naval base in Hawaii on dec. 7, 1941. The Wreath Laid by Brown with red White and Blue Flowers was placed at the foot of the Lone Sailor statue a Bronze work of a Sailor in peacoat and sailors Cap standing in a stiff Breeze with a Duffel bag at his feet. Ceremonies also were held tuesday at Pearl Harbor. A bugler played taps As Brown and rear adm. Edward Moore jr., commandant of naval District in Washington stood before the statue. Sailors in dress Black uniform in two rows formed a corridor before the statue. Attending tha ceremony were six witnesses of the Pearl Harbor attack. Capt. Louis Detweiler remembers a burst of machine gun fire a from . Ships a startling him during breakfast on the Cruiser St. Louis. V Quot we ran out on deck and the japanese planes were flying right Over and dropping their torpedoes a Detweiler said. A we had to get out of the the undamaged St. Louis moved through towering sheets of flame from Oil burning on the surface of the water to get to open sea he said. Gerald Glaubitz former National commander of the Pearl Harbor survivors association was stationed aboard the heavy Cruiser san Francisco �?�1 think of All the confusion and the noise and the fire and the explosions a Glaubitz said reflecting on his experience As a 21-year-old. Quot i woke up in a hurry when 1 heard All the explosions. It Wasny to the kind of Wake up Call 1 was looking for a
