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Shuttle
NASA cancels 3 launches
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — NASA an
nounced Monday it is scrubbing its
next three space shuttle flights be
cause of the Challenger explosion.
Included in the postponement are
missions to Jupiter and the sun that
were to have been launched from
shuttles.
The planetary opportunities will
not come again for 13 months.
Meanwhile, the Air Force is pro
ceeding with preparations For the
launch of a shuttle in July from its
new spaceport in California — with
the hope that NASA will be able to
quickly determine the cause of Chal
lenger’s demise.
The next shuttle, scheduled for
March 6, was to have carried astro
nomical instruments to observe Hal
ley’s Comet.
The comet will disappear from
view before another American
manned spacecraft can go aloft —
missing a scientific opportunity that
occurs only once in 76 years.
William Graham, the space agen
cy’s acting administrator, said the
decision to postpone the planetary
missions was based on the fact that
crews needed to prepare and launch
the spacecraft are tied up with the
investigation of the Challenger acci
dent.
Challenger was to have carried
the Ulysses mission on May 15 and it.
was specially modified to carry a
Centaur rocket in its cargo bay to
send the spacecraft on its way.
Ulysses was to have been sent to
Jupiter to get a gravity-assisted boost
to send it to the sun, where it was to
go into a polar orbit.
The shuttle Atlantis was similarly
modified to launch the Galileo
spacecraft atop a Centaur rocket to
orbit Jupiter and send a probe down
to the planet.
The mission was to have begun on
May 20.
Air Force preparations at the new
launch complex at Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California are continu
ing with an eye toward a July 15
launch “to ensure that we are ready
if the investigation is completed,”
the service said.
Challenger trust fund started
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Several Austin resi
dents have formed an organization
to raise funds to replace the $1.5 bil
lion space shuttle Challenger, which
exploded Jan. 28, killing seven crew
members.
The Americans for Challenger
Trust Fund has been set up at Re
public Bank-South Austin, accord
ing to a statement from the organi
zation’s co-chairmen, Steve Koch
and John Ortego.
The statement said,“On Jan. 28,
1986, seven brilliant Americans and
a superb space craft. Challenger,
were lost in a tragic accident. As a
means of expressing support for the
manned space flight program and
assuring that the Challenger crew
did not die in vain, several Austin
residents have formed an organiza
tion, Americans for Challenger, to
raise funds to replace Challenger.”
Koch and Ortego “acknowledge
that the goal is grandiose and can
only be accomplished if the several
groups around the country that have
been organized for this purpose can
generatte broad-based support for
the idea,” according to the
statement.
Whatever funds are collected “will
be used for the advancement of
manned space flight, including re
search or educational grants aimed
at furthering space exploration,” the
statement said.
The Challenger trust fund was or
ganized under the authority of the
Space Foundation, a nonprofit edu
cational and research foundation es
tablished in Houston in 1979, Koch
and Ortego said.
Tuesday, February 11, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13
Slouch
By Jim Earle
“You name it and you know my position.
Faculty Senate proposals
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determined by the department head
will make recommendations to the
dean of the college. The dean will
forward these, along with his own, to
a Committee for Emeritus Status to
be named by the Senate. The nomi
nations will then be presented to the
provost who will make recommenda
tions from the list to the president.
The current policy regarding
emeritus status is different in each
department.
Also, the Senate approved recom
mendations giving undergraduates
with a 3.25 grade-point ratio the op
portunity to apply graduate credit
hours toward their undergraduate
degree program once they have re
ceived the proper approval.
Expected guest presentations by
Sean Royall, student body president,
and Laurie Johnson, speaker of the
Student Senate, were not given at
the meeting.
High school vigilantes plead guilty
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Only Dorris is still a student at
Paschal. All Five defendants are ei
ther going to college, working or
both, according to testimony pre
sented Monday.
Defense attorney Bill Magnuson,
who represented Norman, said, “We
decided to enter an open plea be
cause the state hasn’t made a plea
bargain. We felt that open sentenc
ing would be very beneficial to my
client.”
Leonard said he has tried to avoid
“knowing too much about this case.”
“I’ll start reading the evidence to
night and I really don’t know what
I’m going to do,” he said. “We’ve got
more facilities (legal options) than
we’ve ever had for dealing with this
case.”
Leonard said the options included
prison, probation, work release,
county jail terms and restitution.
The judge also could order “shock
probation,” under which a de
fendant serves a short time in prison
before being released on probation
or unajudicated probation, by which
the defendant’s record is wiped
clean after probation is completed.
The eight defendants were in
dicted on graduation day last May
on 33 charges stemming from a se
ries of crimes between Jan. 9 and
March 24, 1985.
Police said members of the Legion
of Doom — many of them honor
students, athletes and sons of promi
nent members of the community —
resorted to violence in a misguided
attempt to rid Paschal of crime and
drugs.
The Legion members, who are
white, also are reported to have
scribbled racial epithets along with
Nazi slogans arid swastikas.
One member celebrated his 18th
birthday with a skull and crossbones
etched into his cake.
Wisch said there was no evidence
the group was tied to outside ex
tremist groups.
Judge's attorney wants new trial
Associated Press
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — US.
District Judge Walter L. Nixon was
the victim of a “government witch
hunt” and should get a new trial on
charges he twice lied to a special fed
eral grand jury, his chief attorney
said Monday.
Attorney Michael Fawer said,“My
God, what did he do? Certainly we
want a new trial. This whole thing
has been insane and everybody ad
mits the government’s case was built
around a perfectly innocent trans
action.”
Nixon, a 16-year veteran and
chief judge in Mississippi’s southern
district who once turned down an
appointment to the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, faces a maximum
sentence of 10 years in prison and
$20,000 in fines on his convictions
on two perjury counts.
Nixon was in seclusion and had
made no public statement since gas
ping “Oh God, no” when the guilty
verdicts were read Sunday. He was
found innocent of a third perjury
count and of receiving an illegal gift.
“He’s not stepping aside but he is
not hearing any cases,” Fawer said of
Nixon’s status with the court.
John Russell, a spokesman for the
Justice Department’s criminal divi
sion, said Monday it would require
action by Congress to remove Nixon
from office.
“He is appointed as a judge for li
fe,” Russell said. “It takes . . . the
same impeachment proceedings as
for a president.”
Nixon, 57, is to remain free on
bond until he is sentenced March 31
by U.S. District Judge James H.
Meredith of St. Louis, who was
brought in to hear the case.
Nixon was acquitted of accepting
$60,000 worth of oil and gas inter
ests from Wiley Fairchild, a million
aire Hattiesburg contractor, in ex
change for the judge’s help in trying
to get state drug charges dropped
against Fairchild’s son Drew.
Nixon said he paid $9,500 for the
royalty rights in three wells.
But the jury, which deliberated
14V2 hours Saturday and Sunday,
concluded that Nixon twice lied be
fore a federal grand jury in 1984
when he said he never discussed the
Fairchild case with the prosecutor
handling it, then-District Attorney
Bud Holmes, and when he said he
never discussed the case with anyone
else.
Nixon is only the second sitting
federal judge ever convicted for
crimes while on the bench. U.S. Dis
trict Judge Harry Claiborne of Las
Vagas, Nev., was convicted in Au
gust 1984 of understating his 1979
and 1980 incomes by more than
$106,000.
Fawer, himself a former govern
ment attorney, said a judicial council
of the 5th Circuit should review the
“way the prosecution was used to ba
sically destroy a federal judge. They
got him on nothing and somebody
ought to do a number on the De
partment of Justice.”
Key points in the government’s
case were the oil and gas transaction
and the date and nature of a tele
phone call to Fairchild from Nixon
and Holmes dealing with the drug
case.
Nixon confirmed the telephone
call in testimony but did not mention
it during his grand jury appearance.
He said his attorney at that time had
told him to answer only the ques
tions asked and that he considered
the telephone call insignificant.
“We were able to show that the
telephone call” had no bearing on
state prosecution of Drew Fairchild,
Fawer said, “so what... is the signifi
cance of the phone call?
“The man was vindicted of the
underlying crime of corrupting his
office and is convicted only on the
testimony of Bud Holmes, which the
government knows was perjured.
“He was the victim of a govern
ment witch hunt that brought down
a fine jurist,” Fawer said.
Icy roads
hazardous to
motorists
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Associated Press
and Dumas had received more
than 15 inches of snow.
Ice-covered roads were re
ported across wide sections of
West Central Texas from Abilene
to Lampasas. Snow was falling in
Wichita Falls, where ice covered
roads and overpasses, the
weather service said. Snow also
fell in the Sherman-Denison area,
near the Oklahoma border.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area,
which was expected to receive up
to 2 inches of snow, probably
would escape with only a dusting,
forecasters said.
Mark Brundrett, a weather
service meteorologist in Fort
Worth, said, “There’s nothing
really all that great for us as far as
accumulation. I imagine we’ll get
a dusting.”
Rush-hour traffic clogged free
ways as the ice kept trucks from
negotiating overpasses and
caused numerous accidents.
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