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November 4, 1982
Candidate’s wife steals signs
United Press International
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Poli
tical campaigns make people do
strange things. Just ask the wife
of a state Assembly candidate
who was caught stealing signs
belonging to her husband’s
opponent.
“I’m just sick about it,” said
Grace Bottoni, who paid a $234
bond and was freed Sunday
night.
“My husband is not even
aware of it. He was asleep when I
came home and I didn’t tell
him.”
Her husband, James, is the
Democratic candidate against
Republican Peggy Rosenzweig
in the 67th state Assembly Dis
trict.
Bottoni said she and a 12-
year-old girl she was taking
home Sunday night saw a stack
of Rosenzweig signs on the
ground and picked them up.
The girl then said she thought it
would be funny to take a sign
from a front yard.
“1 was not thinking clearly
and as an adult I should have
been,” Bottoni said.
Police officer Howard Bacon
III said he saw the girl snatch a
sign from a front yard and
throw it in the back of a station
wagon.
When he stopped the station
wagon, Bacon said, Mrs. Bottoni
denied there were more signs.
But Bacon said he saw signs
sticking out from under a blank-T
et covering the girl’s legs. When
he asked what was under blank
et, the girl said he couldn’t look
because she didn’t have a skirt
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il'STON — Spacewatcher
Oberg always is dreaming
plumbing)! utsome exotic space mission
niorlar ,i mother, but sometimes he
tew Hoot it lesthem sound almost possi-
-asin his latest essay on a
iched up it- med mission to Mars by the
brotherai# ^OOl.
eir ltot |Sf THere is the p unc h ij ne ng[ lt
.■front,” Oberg writes in his
lidtti dot [pamphlet, Mission to Mars,
said Loin* uand Concepts for the First
condo ow j ne( i L anc lj n g. “A manne I
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wantedmj fty feasible as soon as we de
ed an in 1 ®! : to do it.”
, Admitting problems but be-
oyIrit"” In jug they can be solved with
to teplatF effort equaling the Apollo
ng. CL "
She * in-landing program, Oberg
throdijisJ ties such a mission can bejus-
ew bann^Uon scientific, economic, so-
and political grounds.
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e nevcf JJ'Furthermore, it can be car-
said. W lout by the end of this cen-
,f thedW [ with the equivalent expend-
mseives m; eof about half of what it took
, ledge of i 1 * the 1960s to sene Apollo
ust simp 1 ' 5 ronauts to the moon,” Oberg
can find' 1 ft.
thesemi* y oberg, a McDonnell-
itglas employee who works at
Space Center and
rksand writes about space on
such fj iside, includes a warning.
Hechiojl' He predicts American failure
rh teacl' el j: advance the interplanetary
a in offef mtier will not stop establish-
iklets. W k of interplanetary civiliza-
onstrafM*! nin the next century,
utting ll Pi It will only “delay it a few de-
jg furiit(|3 leswhile insuring that such a
“arewill not necessar ily reflect
characteristics and values of
femporary North American
pzation, nor benefits the de-
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it, he said.
It is, of course, only Oberg’s
opinion that a manned mission
to Mars is feasible by the end of
this century. He assumes,
perhaps inaccurately, that the
problems which even he recog
nizes can be solved.
Many in the scientific com
munity disagree with him.
One informed observer calls
his pamphlet science-fiction
“fluff.” But his ideas, which he
admits are based on the ideas of
many others, are intriguing.
The space shuttle makes pos
sible the carrying of millions of
pounds of payload into low
Earth orbit. Oberg argues a
man-to-Mars vehicle could be
shipped up in parts and assem
bled in parking orbit.
One big barrier seems to be
simply finding the propulsion
system to carry men on a
months-long mission from low
Earth orbit to Mars. Oberg
favors solar sail or electric prop
ulsion technology. Rockets
would require too much fuel.
He doubts the early feasibility
of solar sail propulsion, which
might involve a miles-square foil
surface catching photons from
the sun just like cloth sails on
Earth catch the wind. It is
theoretical only and not proven.
But Oberg is more optimistic
about electric propulsion, which
would use electrostatic repul
sion of ions for thrust rather
than the directed explosion of
chemical fuels common in to
day’s rockets.
The concept of electric prop
ulsion has been around since the
mid-1950s and small-scale tech
nological work has been under
way for decades; NASA and the
Soviets have tested ion-drive en
gines in orbit but have not gone
further.
“Despite its revolutionary
potential, electric propulsion
technology remains essentially
dead in the water,” Oberg
writes.
A key reason electric engine
technology is “dead in the wa
ter” is real applications would in
volve enormous amounts of
electricity, which might come
from big nuclear reactors or so
lar panels in space — so far only
dreams.
Another problem is the
body’s inevitable adaptation to
long periods of weig htlessness in
a sealed, purified environment,
a deterioriation of conditionin-
ing and possibly immunization
achieved on Earth.
Exercise en route and drugs
are partial answers.
Oberg admits the insidious
problem of bone deterioration
in weightlessness is a long way
from being solved.
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