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Worl Nation f > i * "V ■ *" - » * * si* , r 4^" - oviet spacecraft gets look at comet IOW — Jubilant scientists a Soviet spacecraft’s encoun- with Hailey's comet Thursdav as triumph and said early data fseated smooth sailing for probes »t will venture even nearer next :k. The crowded control room at loscow’s Institute for Space Re- *arch erupted in applause as of the comct^_arr»ved tinutes after Vega l paSSecL from it at 10:20 a m. (2:20~aTtK The pictures provided the closest at a comet and were believed to the first view of a comet's icy core. Televisioh monitors showed >r-enhanced images of a fiery l-brown center, believed to be the mcleuS, surrounded by wide bands |»f yellow and blue. The core is be lieved to be about 2W miles in diam> eter. Vega I is the first of five probes scheduled to fly by the comet in the next eight days. Data from the mis sions wul take months to analyze and are expected to provide an unprece- dented [glimpse into the origins of the universe. Halley’s comet, which is named af ter the English atronomer Edmond Halley. swings around the sun every 5*270 * ^6 years arid last was seen in 1910. On Thursday, it was about 105 mil lion miles from Earth and 74 million miles from the sun, traveling about 104,000 mph. Some of the most useful early data came from the only U.S. experiment aboard, a "dust counter’’ engineered by John Simpson, a physics profes sor at the University of Chicago. Vega 2 is expected to pass within 4,986 miles of Halley’s on Sunday. The European Space Agency’s Giotto probe is to pass within 310 miles of the comet Thursday. It has a television camera expected to pro vide the most vivid pictures of the comet's mysterious core. One Japanese probe will pass the comet at a distance of about 93,960 miles Saturday, and a second one will swing within 6.9 million miles on Monday. Most of the approximately 100 foreign scientists in Moscow to mon itor the probe praised the Soviets for the sophistication of the Vega pro gram and their willingness to share information. Other countries taking part in the project include West Germany, France and Austfia, as well Soviet blot allies Poland. Bulgaria. East Germany and Czechoslovakia. atellite dishes House attempts to resolve conflict on signal control Associated Press WASHINGTON — Urged on by thousands of letters from constitu- rnts, a House subcommittee on Tmrsday sought to balance the blaims of people with backyard satel lite dishes against TV programmers trying to keep control of the signals [hey beam down front orbit. Major pay television services and the TV networks are beginning to :ramble their satellite-delivered sig- tals so those not authorized to see them can’t watch. Some 2 million Americans have burchased eat th stations — satellite lishes — to pluck signals from the kky. They are worried that the pnoney thev spent — $3,000 or more will-be wasted if all signals are :rambled. Even if all of the companies that ty thev are going to scramble actu ally do, there still would l>e some 70 unscrambled channels available to dish owners, including C-SPAN, which delivers ,the House of Rep- resentalivers debates. ’ So far. all of the cable networks with announced scrambling plans are using the same scrambling tech nology and those who wish to buy a $400 decoder and pay a tee to watt h the shows can do so. The cable in dustry and dish owners disagree over whether the decoders are read ily available. One bill would delav scrambling for two years to make sure decodeis are available and systems are m plat e to allow for subscribing to the pro gram services. t Cable operators say they must scramble to prevent bars, motels and some foreign countries from receiv ing the signals and making a profit without hav ing to pay any copyright or other f «*-s Broadcasters want to scramble be cause programs leaving the net works do not contain locally inserted commercials, which are the lifeblood of local stations. Members of the House telecom munications subcommittee ex pressed concern that the few Ameri cans who live too far from TV trasnsmilters to receive any pro gramming would lx- shut out of net- vvork and (xipulai cable news and entertainment programming if m rambling continues. Rt*p. \l SwUi, I)-Wash. said it is not line ih.it am solution that suits urban America is adequate for the rest of America.” \ * i ^ at Mi 11 j rzt 1 i! Pride and respect. They come with the territory. 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