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■space CENTER — Trou
bles with an antenna which
transmits data between the
shuttle Columbia and Earth
will not delay its planned Nov.
28 launch, space agency offi
cials said Thursday.
m One of two relay antennas
on Columbia’s KU-band was
found to be “seriously de
graded” about two weeks ago,
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said.
pected to be re-installed on
Columbia within a week.
Despite the problem in the
antenna system, NASA said
the system will be able to func
tion properly for the mission.
I On Wednesday, techni
cians switched to a backup
antenna system, which also
failed to work.
The antenna is crucial for
the successful operation of the
upcoming nine-day mission,
in which scientists conducting
70 experiments plan to use the
KU-band antenna to transmit
scientific data from the shuttle
to the $100 million Tracking
and Data Relay Satellite
(TDRSS) for relay to Earth.
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f| Workers then removed the
KU-band antenna from the
orbiter and shipped it to
Hughes Aircraft Co. for re
pairs. The antenna is ex-
A NASA spokesman said
the cause of the antenna prob
lem was under investigation.
Columbia, with its Spacelab
cargo, is scheduled to be laun
ched from Cape Canaveral,
Fla.
Vesco suspected in smuggling
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BROWNSVILLE — A feder
al prosecutor charged Thursday
that fugitive Robert Vesco is
masterminding the smuggling
of banned goods from the Un
ited States to Cuba from his
beach front home in Cuba.
Federal officials said that
Vesco, wanted in the United
States in connection with $300
million mutual fund swindle, is
orchestrating a scheme to thwart
the American economic block
ade of Cuba by routing technol
ogy through Canada and other
nations that trade openly with
the Fidel Castro regime.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack
Wolfe made the allegation at the
trial of a man who is charged
with attempting to ship — de
spite the U.S. technology bans
on trade with Cuba — sugar pro
cessing machinery to the com
munist country. The man is
charged with two others under
the Trading with the Enemy
Wolfe told a U.S. District
Judge that attorney Richard Sil
vio Bettini flew to Cuba by way
of Mexico and met with Vesco
after the three were charged.
Vesco arranged for the cash
bonds for the defendants, Wolfe
said.
The prosecutor said that a
New York man later brought
$240,000 across the border
from Matamoros, Mexico, and
provided the money to post the
cash bonds for the three defen
dants.
Only one defendant, Salva
dor Ramirez Preciado,
appeared for the trial which
opened this week. Another de
fendant, Alejo Quintero Peralta,
reportedly died in Mexico. The
third defendant — Albert
Ahthony Volpe, a Canadian
with organized crime links —
jumped his $50,000 bond.
Wolfe requested to show the
connection between Bettini and
Vesco. Thejury was ordered out
of the courtroom and Wolfe
continued his allegations.
“Mr. Bettini is a lifelong ac
quaintance of Mr. Vesco and
they went to school together in
Detroit,” Wolfe said.
“Vesco needed a warehouse
in Houston and he instructed
Bettini to procure it for him. In
the end, Vesco did lease the
warehouse.”
The three were arrested July
10 at the Harlingen Internation
al Airport where U.S. Customs
officials seized 31 crates of
machinery that were being
loaded onto an airplane.
The machinery was to be used
to turn the waste products of the
sugar cane crops into fuel to run
the Cuban sugar mills.
In the case on trial, prosecu
tors said the three men paid a
charter airline $30,000 to fly
goods to Merida, Mexico. From
there, they charge, a Canadian
air freight company was to have
transferred the cargo to Cana
da, where it would be picked up
by a Cuban plane.
The Brownsville Herald
quoted government sources
Thursday as saying the FBI,
CIA and other national security
organizations were compiling a
file on the case.
The report that Vesco may be
in Cuba was the first clue to his
whereabouts since the U.S. offi
cials requested his extradition
from Guatemala.
Vesco lived in Costa Rica until
he was expelled in 1978 for get
ting involved in internal politics.
He then went to the Bahamas
where he also was expelled.
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