European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Tuesday july 12, 1994 by Jupiter watchers await Comet Washington a like Mountain sized slugs from a celestial machine gun fragments of a shattered Comet will rat a Tat Tat into Jupiter starting saturday. It could be the show of a lifetime a or a Dud. Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 is a string of space Rock or ice speeding in line toward Jupiter at about 130,000 Mph. The largest fragment is almost 2 Miles in diameter. When they hit the Comet shards will explode with the Force of about 200,000 Megatons of int. Each is expected to trigger a fireball More than 1,500 Miles across and rising up More than 600 Miles above the Jovian Clouds. A a that a Many limes larger than any nuclear bomb Ever exploded on Earth a said Lucy Mcfadden of the University of Maryland one of an army of astronomers  watch the show. Unfortunately most of the. Fireworks a will be shielded from direct View by Tele Scopes on Earth. The impacts will occur just beyond Jupiter a Western horizon As viewed from Earth. Even so just about every major Telescope. On Earth along with an array of instruments in space will be aimed at Jupiter on saturday for what most astronomers believe will  most  collision they will Ever witness. A this is the first time in history we be been Able to predict a major Impact and then prepare to observe it scientifically a said Gene Shoemaker a . Geological Survey scientist who is one of the comets discoverers. A a we re seeing an event that happens once in a millennium. There is about one Chance in 10,000 that we would find something that would hit during a time period of a Century or so. A a in be dreamed my whole life of an Impact on the Moon a he said. A it never occurred to me that i would have an Opportunity to Sec an Impact on  Shoemaker his wife Carolyn and David h. Levy discovered the Comet March 24, 1993, while conducting their monthly photo scan of the heavens from an outdated  mount Palomar Calif. The team has conducted sky searches for years and made previous Comet discover is. The Comet was first sighted by Carolyn Shoemaker who was analysing film with a Flicker device that picks up celestial movement. What she saw appeared to be an elongated Point of Light. A it was clearly the strangest object we had Ever seen a Gene Shoemaker said. A Carolyn called it a a squashed comets when she first looked at it. Carolyn never had any doubt. She was sure it was a Comet a soon some of the most sophisticated astronomy instruments in the world including the orbiting Hubble space Telescope were focused on the a squashed  by May the Hubble and other instruments had confirmed that Shoemaker-1 Levy 9 was actually 21 pieces streaking along in a game of follow the Leader. The first Rock is to hit the upper Clouds of Jupiter at .3 54 . Edt saturday. Pieces will Fly in at irregular intervals for the next five Days with the last one hitting at 3 53 . Edt july 22. Just what will be visible from Earth a 480 million Miles from the action a a is an open question. Some astronomers say the whole thing could be a Dud producing Little effect. Jupiter the largest planet in the solar system has a diameter 11 times that of Comet stoic maker Levy 9 approaches the planet Jupiter in a theoretical depiction from Jet propulsion laboratories. The depiction shows a View trom the Galileo spacecraft. A Earth but the. Giant Globe is mostly Hydrogen and helium. Objects falling into Jupiter could just disappear. Nonetheless the Speed and mass of Shoemaker Levy 9 is expected to create explosions that will Send Waves of Light bouncing off Jupiter a Moons and into the viewers of telescopes Jom Earth. The fireballs arc expected to be As red and As Bright for about 45 seconds As the sunlight reflected from  the experts admit that they done to know for sur what will happen when the shards of Shoemaker Levy 9 meet up with Jupiter. Janeffa pins health care to mandate Washington a the Clinton administration is determined to fight for Universal health care coverage and will seek congressional approval without Republican support if necessary White House chief of staff Leon Panetta said sunday. Appearing on cd so face he nation Panetta reiterated the Clinton administrations support for some form of requirement that employers pay part of the Cost of providing coverage. A a what a alive is Universal coverage and to get to Universal coverage you have to have some kind of mandate. Whether its employer whether it s employee whether its 50-50,�?� Panetta said. He predicted increasing Public support for an employer requirement. However he said he did not know if there were enough votes in Congress to enact an employer mandate. A i would love to be Able to have Broad bipartisan support on the health care Reform Bill and i think the president would like the same thing a Panetta said. A a we a like to have republicans and democrats working together to get this done a he said. A but in the end we be got to get health care Reform passed and if it has to be done just by democrats then so be it.we re having a Midsummer Sale hundreds of items on Sale july 16 Ioam-6ph amp july i7noon-4pmlive band a food a beverages cd Swap meet buy sell and Trade bring your unwanted cd Kenwood Quot sound off Quot automotive i i completion. Trophies prizes and much More everyone is invited to enter the show. Displays by Max Pioneer or. Frankenstein jul Sony Cerwin Vega Denolon and Bla punkt. Rhein Mai audio photo club open tue Fri 11om-6pm a Sot 10am-6pm a Sun noon-4pm bldg. 349 Mab a Dan 330-7712 a Civ 0069-69-3013. Visa amp my accepted t a act Leader rips critics of meeting with Farrakhan Chicago a a act executive director Benjamin Chavis in a fiery speech sunday night took his critics and the Media to task for highlighting a recent meeting he had with Radical nation of islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. Chavis and a act chairman William Gibson met in june with Farrakhan at a Black Unity convention in Baltimore. A if you listen to the Media there were Only three people there a me Farrakhan and or. Gibson. The truth is there were hundreds of Black leaders a Chavis told about 4,000 people Many of whom were cheering,.at the official opening of the organizations 85th annual convention. A minister Farrakhan is a lifetime member of the a act and All lifetime members Are Welcome to attend this convention a Chavis said. Despite Chaviss new Alliance with Farrakhan the National association for the advancement of coloured people did not invite the Black Muslim Leader to speak at the convention even though it is being held in his Hometown. Earlier Chavis said a act leders were a a endeavouring now to get a handle on an accumulated deficit of $2 million. He also said the convention should broaden the definition of civil rights to include contemporary issues while maintaining the historic Mission of the a act. Gibson said that health care racism and other hazards remain on the Agenda and that other concerns also will be addressed. Trip spared pair when death dropped in Charlotte . A Walter Dunn a wardrobe now consists of four pairs of Blu jeans and five shirts. Thais what Dunn packed when he left with his wife july 1 for a weekend visit with their son in South Carolina the next Day a us air dc-9 slammed into their House smashing Walls spewing Jet fuel and killing 37 passengers. Masking their faces against the scent of Jet fuel and death Dunn and his wife Martha came Home saturday Quot their Hrick House was still Sodden with the fuel fad with the water that doused the flaming wreckage. ,. It was their first visit to their Home of 18 years since the Jet hit the ground bounced and broke into three pieces while aborting a Landing at nearby Char Lotte Douglas International Airport. A i d have been there and she d have been there a said Dunn pointing to the sofa and easy chair where he and his wife usually sat hot 15 feet from where a chunk of the planets fuselage had Cut into the Kitchen Wall. Dunn 68, believes destiny led them out of town that weekend. Martha Dunn 62, agrees. Fearful of Highway accidents the dunns done to usually travel on Holiday weekends. But this july fourth they planned a weekend of swimming and relaxing with their son and his wife. Hours after they heard about the crash on television police broke the news that the dunns House was at ground Zero. They have been living in a hotel Ever since at us air a expense while their lawyer negotiates with Airport officials who have offered to buy the House