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Crew shows trip slides
Shuttle flight was Tun
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SPACE CENTER, Houston —
Challenger’s five astronauts said
nothing on Earth could top the fun
and adventure of their 2.5 million
mile, six day space voyage that
took them around the world 98
times.
“The view from space was spec
tacular,” said Guion Bluford, the
first black astronaut to fly in space.
“We defy Hollywood to match
this, ’ quipped Commander
Richard Truly as he showed
videotape of Challenger emerging
from a dark sky onto a California
desert runway bathed in light
from the world’s largest spot
lights.
Pictures of the first-ever night
launch and night landing of a space
shuttle were among dozens of
slides and “home movies”
showed-off Tuesday by Truly,
Bluford and fellow crewmates
Daniel Brandenstein, Dale Gard
ner and Dr. William Thornton.
“There are things we saw that
have not been seen before,” Truly
said as he showed slides of erupt
ing volcanoes, blue swirling ocean
currents and fault lines on the
earth’s surface.
The crew returned to Earth
Sept. 5 with other slides showing
the orange fireball that enclosed
the Challenger as it rocketed in
and out of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Some pictures showed an unex
plained gold glow around Challen
ger’s tail during orbit.
“You see the world from a larger
perspective. If anything, it cer
tainly increases your feelings and
desire to keep the world for
peace,” said Truly, who will leave
the astronaut corps in October to
head the Naval Space Command.
Lawsuit tries to block scheme
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Attorney
General Hubert H. “Skip” Hum
phrey III said he hopes to use a
civil lawsuit to block a suburban
Dallas firm from operating a pyra
mid scheme in Minnesota.
Humphrey said that Dynasty
System has recently begun prom
oting a multi-level, chain—refer
ral or pyramid sales program in
which “members” are recruited
for a fee into a three-party prog
ram — Dynasty I, Dynasty II and
Dynasty III.
Each new “member” is encour
aged to recruit four new mem
bers, receiving a percentage of
each new recruit’s membership
fee and annual renewal, Hum
phrey said. He said members also
receive commissions on the sale of
required purchases and on their
recruits’ service fees.
Humphrey filed suit Tuesday
in Washington County District
Court against Dynasty System
Corp. of Irving, and two Minneso
ta men listed as salesmen for the
firm, Arthur R. Ross of Owatonna
and Douglas D. Ward of Wood
bury.
He accused them of violating
the state’s consumer fraud laws in
connection with the sales of
Dynasty programs in the Twin
Cities, Owatonna, Rochester and
Oronoco in Minnesota.
The lawsuit seeks to block the
company and its salesmen from
selling memberships in its promo
tion program. It also seeks restitu
tion for any money paid to the firm
by Minnesota residents.
Mississippi mayor
angry over survey
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JACKSON, Miss. — Mayor
Dale Danks blasted the Nation
al Coalition to Ban Handguns
Tuesday for its just released sur
vey listing Jackson with the
sixth-highest murder rate in the
country.
Danks called the survey
“ludicrous, misleading and de
trimental to the city of of Jack-
son” and he threatened legal ac
tion unless the Washington-
based organization “issues an
apology and a retraction of its
survey.”
Sam Fields, coordinator of
legal affairs for the coalition,
said from his Washington office
that the group “would not apo
logize” and “would welcome a
lawsuit. He said a legal fight
would give the coalition the
“unique opportunity to debate
homicide in the city of Jackson. ”
An irate Danks called a news
conference to refute the coali
tion’s new release listing “the
most dangerous metropolitan
areas” in the country. Odessa
was listed first with a homicide
rate of 29.8 deaths per 100,000
residents, while Jackson was
listed sixth with 20.3 murders
per 100,000.
Danks maintained Jackson is
actually 17th in homicides, not
sixth as claimed by the i
handgun group.
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within the city limits, the
gun control group utilizes Ik I
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Jackson’s population
203,839, but when theSMSAisJ
included, the populationjunps|
to 320,101.
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the city limits was usedtodeter
mine the murder rate, itachii
ly increased from 20.3to25.(
per 1(K),(KK) residents.
The attorney general said the
company program is purportedly
to sell mouthwash and a novelty
pen. In reality, he said, these
“products” are little mre than an
afterthought, and the company’s
entire emphasis is on the endless
recruiting of new participants.
“It’s an inevitable mathematic
al fact that most of the participants
will lose money,” he said. “These
schemes are doomed to collapse.
Key witness safe
with friend
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SAN ANTONIO — Teresa
Starr, a key prosecution witness
against her step-father Charles
Harrelson in his trial for the mur
der of U. S. Judge John Wood Jr.,
was feared missing by police after
her apartment was found ran
sacked.
But police said Wendesday that
Starr was out of town with her
boyfriend and in no danger follow
ing a fruitless search for the
woman Tuesday.
“We wanted to make sure there
was no foul play involved and we
have been assured that there is
none,” an investigator said.
Police were summoned to
Starr’s apartment early Tuesday
following an anonymous tele
phone call that the woman feared
for her life. Police refused to ela
borate on the call.
Burglary Sgt. Mike Akeroyd
said police could not tell if any
thing was taken in the break-in,
but that several items of obvious
value were not taken. Starr’s north
San Antonio apartment was ran
sacked, and Akeroyd said it was “a
mess.”
Starr was a key prosecution wit
ness against Harrelson in his mur
der trial for the May 29, 1979
slaying of Wood. He was con
victed and to two life sentences for
Wood’s murder.
Starr’s mother, Jo Ann Harrel
son, was convicted of conspiracy
in the judge’s killing and is serving
30 years in federal prison.
Starr was jailed for six months
when she refused to testify before
a grand jury investigating the
judge’s death.
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