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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday october 1, 1994 on rent Cape canaveral Fla. A after a 1 2-month delay endeavour thundered into orbit at Sunrise Friday with the world s mos powerful civilian space radar capable of piercing Clouds plants Sand and ice. The space shuttle Rose from its Seaside pad at 7 16  into a sky tinged with peach under a Crescent Moon it soared Over the Atlantic and up along the East coast appearing As a Bright Star in the Clear  ". / endeavour s astronauts were eager to get going. Their first launch attempt in August ended with a last be cont engine shutdown it. Let s  astronaut Daniel Bursch said after strapping himself in it is the second trip into orbit for the $366 million radar. Minutes after reaching orbit commander Michael Baker reported an extra Pas Senger one of those Nice Florida mosquitoes is on boards. We re sorry to hear about that endeavour Mission control replied. Hope Youcan take care of  during this 10-Day flight the radar will search for buried treasures along the silk Road once travelled by Marco Polo map while saving kids denied compensation Chicago a Clarence Notree barely had time to act when a gunman burst into the elementary school gym. As the bullets flew the physical education teacher spread out his arms to shield the children arid pushed them put a door to safety. He got shot in the wrist. His school and Community lauded no tree As a hero but the Chicago Board of education insisted he was t entitled to workers compensation. They said saving the children s lives was not part of his Job. A arbitrator ruled in favor of Notree s $13,000 claim but the Board appealed. A ruling is expected next week. To sit there and listen to the school Board lawyer say that it is not my responsibility As a teacher to protect these kids is just ridiculous Notree said. And shootings Are fairly common near Woodson North elementary school said Notree who later resigned and took a less dangerous Job As a stadium manager after he saw two children in his program get shot to death. The school is in an impoverished neighbourhood on the City s South Side. On sept. 17, 1991, Notree was running basketball drills for about 30 Kidson the _ City s hot shots after school program when he heard gunshots coming from be Hind him. Without turning to see the gunman Notree tried to get the children some As Young As 8, to safety. Notree  made it through the door with blood spurting from his wrist every one of those kids was running and being helped through that door and it was Notree who by being the last one was shot said his co worker Adrienne Fleming. He was shielding  the gunman was never caught. Notree lost 20 percent of the use of his right wrist and Lias trouble swinging a baseball Bat and playing sports that re quire heavy wrist pressure. School principal William Taylor com mended Nofre it to or hts bravery. The Board  did pay Notree $1,410 for sick leave As he recovered from his Mounif and its health insurance program covered his medical Bills. However the Board rejected his compensation claim. Playground activity does not inherently contain a risk of being shot by som unknown assailant the Board declared in its Appeal. Board of education spokeswoman Dawn Simmons declined to comment while the Case was pending. I kind of feel betrayed said Notree a teacher for 19 years. You kind of expect them to be behind you saying Job Well done rather than have them say you did something  the Mist shrouded Home of Africa s endangered Mountain gorillas and track Oil intentionally dumped into the North sea by oceanographers. And then there Are the More traditional radar uses the focus of this Mission and the one Back in april surveying Volca noes forests oceans and Rivers for clues about global change. About 1,800 researchers and students around the world will verify the 3-d images of the United states German and italian radar by measuring soil moisture tracking wind and counting rocks. Astronaut Thom As Jones who flew on the april radar mis Sion and the rest of the six Man Crew will photograph these Sites for further compari son As the shuttle flies overhead.,. One of the toughest radat4asks will be the search for ancient mud Walls buried beneath the Drifting Sand of the Talama Kan desert in Northwestern China. Those structures would have been used by travel ers along the silk Road 2000 years ago. Endeavour s radar can penetrate dry Sand by up to 13 feet. We re very much testing limits of Reso Lution said silk Road explorer Derrold Holcomb a scientist at Earth resources data analysis systems in Atlanta. In a league of their own Joe Hoderfield paints a Stripe As a Gaggle of Cement geese in plans to erect a stadium Complete with bleachers a press Box football uniforms Waits to take the Field ill Whitehall Ohio on and scoreboard r for the web footed team. The geese will Wear thursday. Hoderfield s father Sells the Cement figures and he basketball jerseys when the basketball season begins. Brownsville Fexas a a woman accused of luring a pregnant woman to a mexican clinic and snatching the baby at birth was ordered thursday to return to Mexico to face kidnapping charges. Laura Lugo claims the woman stole her baby in 1992.hours after a doctor forcibly delivered him in a caesarean Section while she was sedated. I am very Happy. I m going to be get Ling Justice Lugo said. U s. District judge f Lernon b Vela said that he was not determining the guilt or innocence of the woman Paulyna Bot Ello but that mexican courts should de or faces cide the Case. Public defender Felix Recio said he was considering appealing the extradition  Lugo says Botello and her sister Rosa befriended her and lured her from her Brownsville Home to a Mata Noros mexi co clinic for what she believe hould be a routine prenatal exam. Lugo says she Vas drugged and the child Vas delivered sept. 1, 1992. She says hat she never saw the boy but that nurses told her he had been taken by Rosa Botello. The botel los Are charged in Mexico with child abduction. They face no . Ilion charges.  " Recio had argued that Lugo freely gave up the baby for adoption and then later changed her mind. Vela did not schedule an extradition Date. Paulyna Botello 33, remains in the Cameron county  pending extradition Rosa Botello is considered a fugitive in Bot Mexico and the United states. State District judge Robert f. Barnes granted limited visitation to Lugo two weeks ago. The child has been in Foster care sinc Paulyna Botello s arrest june 30 in Calleri. Pounded Jupiter expected of return to Normal Washington a dark scars left in the Cloud tops of Jupiter by last summer s pounding by a Comet Are slowly fading and scientists now believe All tra Ces eventually will disappear. Within a year or two All of the fallout will fade away and Jupiter will look the Way it did before astronomer Heidi b. Hammel said thursday at a news Confer ence called by the National aeronautics and space administration Twenty one fragments of Comet shoe maker Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter Dur ing one week in july. The larger pieces triggered immense explosions and sent Earth sized Black plumes rising above the tops of Clouds marking the Edge of Jupi Ter s gaseous sphere. Some scientists had speculated that the violence of the collisions was enough to leave permanent Marks or Cyclone like features in Jupiter s Clouds. The planet has a giant red spot thought to be a per manent storm and some experts raised the possibility that the Comet would Ere ate similar Marks. 3 but a team of scientists studying the. Planet with the Hubble space Telescope said thursday that shoe maker Levy 9 soon will be but a memory. Jupiter is now relaxing Back into a Normal state said Hammel  Chusett Institute of technology scientist who Heads a Hubble Telescope team. We Don t see anything like the giant red   
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