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year at ion ) press box, but thq : it is it is still surroundf; nd, Addison, Sh treets.” f known as Weeghmat ill park was built in 191| f $250,000 and was tit e Chicago Whales of tl# ed Federal League, n was owned by Charle nan, a wealthy restauia e league folded two yean an had a park but it ; bought the Cubs hot unily of Cincinnati am m from the West Sidt the Wrigley family ptit team from Weeghmat une was changed hot Park to Cubs Park. Sit it was officially namec Id in honor of William the club’s owner, s history. Astros .4-1 lodgers 4, Cubs 0 go, Tim Belcher pitched straight shutout and two runs as the Los An- rs beat the Chicago Cub the 75th anniversarycel- Wrigley Field. Wets 2, Braves 1 brk, David Cone allowed 8 2-3 innings and Leu »ve in a run and scored ding the New YorkMets inta Braves 2-1. gers 5, Mariners 2 t, Frank Tanana pitched or eight innings to snap winless streak and Matt e a tie with a three-run ling the Detroit Tigers ttle Mariners 5-2. ikhead, 1-2, gave up six lings for Seattle. ewers 10, Twins! jkee, Glenn Braggs and r both hit two nomen Clutterbuck earned his league victory with a as the Milwaukee Brew- he Minnesota Twins Id- ►ox 11, White Sox 0 on, Roger Clemens ree-hitter, breaking his sing streak against Chi- m Rice, Ellis Burks and n homered as the Bos- beat the White Sox 11-11 ht. >ry snapped Boston's losing streak and lin ens’ career record after es to 36-6. 3-0, struck out 11, i and allowed singles in tig to Harold Baines and nd seventh to Ivan Cal- r & Bill Hinds CS ram sntID e 779-4756 pries falion The Battalion WORLD & NATION 11 adW-|CE | I • Chiropractic Wednesday, April 26,1989 Shuttle flight marks new wave in U.S. planetary exploration -CLINIC- 3743 S. Texas Avenue Bryan, Texas 77802 409-846-0525 Dr. Richard Vance CHIROPRACTOR CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The countdown began Tuesday for Friday’s launch of space shuttle Atlantis and five astronauts on a mis sion to send a payload to Venus and revitalize a U.S. planetary explora tion program. The $550 million Magellan-Venus project will mark the end of a de cade-long dry spell for U.S. planet flights and signal the beginning of a science-rich three years when four major probes will be rocketed into deep space. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:24 p.m. Friday in a rare afternoon launch. Only five of the 28 earlier shuttle flights took off after noon. The countdown clock began tick ing on time at 8 a.m., when electrical power surged into the spaceship. Test director Terry Willingham reported there were no problems as the count began. He said work Tues day included checking computer software, the main engines and com munications systems and closing out the engine compartment. He said the forecast was for clear skies Friday afternoon, but officials were expressing some concern about the possibility of strong crosswinds that could interfere with Atlantis if it had to make an emergency landing on a runway near the launch pad. Six hours after Atlantis lifts off, commander Dave Walker and his as tronaut crew will release the 7,600- pound Magellan payload, propelling it on a 468-day journey to Venus. The other crew members are pilot Ron Grabe and mission specialists Mary Cleave, Mark Lee and Norman Thagaard. Magellan is to slip into orbit around the cloud-shrouded planet in August 1990 and map up to 90 percent of its surface during the fol- White House proposes cutbacks for futuristic weapons systems WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration will slow or cancel several futuristic weapons programs, including Star Wars and the stealth bomber, to build more of the arms already in the nation’s arse nal, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Tuesday. To further cope with fiscal 1990 budget reductions mandated by a new White House-congressional compromise, the Army, Navy and Air Force will reduce their active- duty strength of more than 2.1 mil lion by 16,800 men and women, Cheney added. Appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Cheney ticked off a list of cutbacks. Many of the bigger decisions already had been disclosed, including the fact that $10 billion had been shaved from the proposed defense budget in the compromise with Congress. The Pentagon’s new budget au thority, if Congress goes along with Cheney’s bottom line, is $295.6 bil lion. Left intact is a proposed 3.6 percent pay hike for men and romen in the military. Adm. William J. Crowe, the chair man of the Joint Chiefs, said he sup ported Cheney’s cuts only because of "dismal realities — both political and economic.” But Crowe, who testified along with the other members of the Joint Chiefs, said the moves were not justi fied by any changes in the threat posed by the Soviet Union or in American commitments around the world. Cheney, the former Wyoming representative who testified for the first time since becoming defense secretary last month, said the cuts could not come “without offending somebody, without breaking some china, stepping on some toes.” Among the reductions in “pro grams which offered potential, but which we could not afford at this time:” • “Star Wars,” the program pushed by Ronald Reagan to de velop lasers and other exotic weap ons to shoot down enemy nuclear missiles, will lose $1 billion from its proposal 1990 budget, giving it a new total of $4.6 billion. Cheney said the focus will shift from deployment sometime in the 1990s to research on “Brilliant Peb bles,” a more advanced system con sisting of thousands of orbiting satel lites. • The B-2 stealth bomber will have its production pushed back a year to 1993. Almost $4.1 billion is being cut from the fiscal 1990 and 1991 budgets for the radar-evading E lane. Recent estimates of $500 mil- on per plane make it the most ex pensive in history. • The Marine Corps’ V-22 Os prey, a battlefield aircraft designed to take off like a helicopter but fly like an airplane, will be dropped. lowing 243 days with a high resolu tion radar system. The images, relayed to Earth and enhanced by computer, could help scientists understand how Venus was formed and evolved. They are ex pected to show features as small as 120 yards across, 10 times sharper than any previous pictures of the planet. Stephen Saunders, Magellan pro ject scientist at NASA’s Jet Propul sion Laboratory, said it is hoped the expedition will answer “a major question of why Earth and Venus evolved so differently even though at the beginning of the solar system they were almost identical ” The surface temperature of Earth’s sultry twin is 900 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than that on Earth. Magellan is the first new Ameri can planetary spacecraft since Pi oneer 13 was launched in 1978, also to Venus. It also is the first planetary payload to be carried by a shuttle. In October, another Atlantis crew will start the Galileo spacecraft on the way to Jupiter; in October 1990, the Ulysses probe will be launched, also from Atlantis, to study the sun, and in 1992, the Mars Observer craft will be on its way aboard an un manned rocket. 4k “Fresh” baked from scratch f/* Plan ahead for study nights and treat yourself ■jLji to a quality break! 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In a harsh editorial, read on the televised nightly news and hourly on the radio, the Communist Party called for a swift end to the student movement, the biggest since the rev- s olution of i949. Agency says two drugs hindered heart patients WASHINGTON (AP) — Two drugs used for years to treat mild heartbeat irregularities have been with drawn from that use after studies showed that more pa tients taking them died than did patients who took only sugar pills, a federal agency announced Tuesday. The drugs, identified as Tambocor and Enkaid, were used in a clinical study of patients who had suffered Iteart attacks and then experienced mild arrhythmias, orirregular heartbeats. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said that the study showed that patients on the medication were dying more than twice as fast of heart attacks than patients who were taking a placebo, or sugar pill. Food and Drug Administration chief Frank Young emphasized that though the agency is recommending that these drugs not be used for mild arrhythmias, pa tients should go to their doctors before changing medi cation. The drugs are the only members of a pharmaceutical class called 1C. Drugs in this group work to slow electri cal conduction in the heart fiber. Young said these two drugs may continue to be used to treat patients in emer gency situations where the heart has slipped into a life- threatening rhythm. Tambocor is manufactured by 3M Riker Laborato ries. Its generic name is fiecainide. Enkaid, whose ge neric name is encainide, is manufactured by Bristol-My ers. Representatives of both the drug companies said they were working with the FDA to change the instruc tions on how their drugs could be used. A Bristol-Myers official said that patients with unused drugs could be reimbursed but a representative of Riker Laboratores said no decision had been made by his company on that issue. “This is a grave political struggle facing the whole party and Chinese citizens,” the editorial said. “This is a planned conspiracy that . . . aims at negating the leadership of the party and the socialist system.” It called the student unions illegal and said new demonstrations would be suppressed. The unions were set up this week to replace the state-run student organizations. “This is their first step,” said a Beijing University student as the edi torial was played repeatedly over loudspeakers on campus. “We can expect arrests to come soon.” Students and student leaders said they would defy the editorial. “It makes me sick to hear this,” said one student at Beijing Normal University, speaking on condition of anonymity. “This is just the kind of propaganda and lies we are fight- mg.” At least 50,000 students have boy'- cotted class since the strike began Monday. They plan to maintain the boycott at least until May 4, the 70th anniversary of China’s first pro-de mocracy student movement. They also said they would persist in calling for talks with the govern ment to discuss demands for a free press, more funds for education and the publication of the financial re cords of China’s leaders. 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