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Gerpheide of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told reporters. “So after an 11-year gap in the planetary program, we’re anxious to get started,” he said. “We have our team in place . . . and the butterflies are soon to arrive.” The last planetary mission launched by the United States was the Pioneer-Venus probe in 1978. Voyager 2, launched in 1977, will take the first close-up look at distant Neptune in August after earlier ex ploring Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The countdown began Tuesday at Launch Pad 39B and was on time Wednesday for a launch at 2:24 p.m. Friday. The main task Wednesday was fueling the spaceship’s electric ity-producing fuel cells. “ I he countdown during the last 24 hours has been squeaky clean,” test director Albert Sofge reported. “We have no significant open items . . . Some work is actually ahead of schedule.” The 7,600-pound Venus probe is :lo! to orbit the cloud-veiled planet and map up to 90 percent of its surface with high resolution radar. Its images should reveal details as small as 100 yards across, about the size of a football field. This is ID times sharper than any previous pic tures of the planet. “All our previous data from Ve nus has been low resolution and about all that data has done is tell us basically there are continent-size mountain masses on Venus and that there are extensive rolling plains," Magellan project scientist Josepli Boyce said Friday. Bush, Quayle give themselves A’s so far CHICAGO (AP) — In back-to-back appraisals, Vice President Dan Quayle and President Bush issued their own report cards on their first 100 days. Not surprisingly, the marks were excellent. Bush said his administration is off to a good start in confronting problems that demand “ur gent attention and decisive action,” and in setting a steady course for long-term progress. Quayle said the United States is disproving “the so-called declininsts,” who see signs of na tional retreat. The vice president said his mes sage on a 12-day mission to the Pacific is one of optimism, with alliances nourishing, trade boom ing, U.S. political and economic principles ascen dant. However, there are other measures of the first semester of the new administration. For example, while Bush boasted of a biparti san budget agreement that kept “my no new taxes pledge intact,” the deal does not deliver the decisive deficit curbs he also promised during the 1988 campaign. Indeed, some critics have called the deal a sham that simply puts off the day of budget reckoning until next year. Bush said it was “a strong first step.” ground summary on accomplishments bui skipped setbacks like Senate rejection of John Tower’s nomination to he secretary of defense. Quayle, then Bush, addressed members of The Associated Press in Chicago on Monday, two hours apart. The vice president’s speech was, in his phrase, a “pre-trip briefing” on his trip to Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. The Bush script was an assessment of the first 100 days. His staff also turned out a 17-page back- Quayle said his biggest surprise was how mud he enjoys foreign travel. The vice president an swered questions from AP member publishers, and said he senses a change in the way he is viewed and covered after a season of consiant criticism. “Now in the position of approaching the 104 days, 1 think the people of America are going to judge me on my job performance and that’s the way it should be,” Quayle said. “And I believt that’s the way the news media is and will continue to cover me as the vice president of the United States and I believe that’s fair.” Bush approves of shake-up in Communist Party CarePlus^ttv Presents Roc, The Good Doc 'Third case of Aggie homerun this week!’ Have a sports injury? Roc, the good doc says slide into CarePlus Medical Center. They’ll treat your sprains, bruises and breaks quickly. No appointment is nec essary, so you can come in immediately after an injury. Conveniently located at 1712 Southwest Parkway, Careplus is open 8 to 8 Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 8 on Sunday. 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But the administration then went on express hope that “whatever changes occur, their effect is to strengthen and promote the reform process in the Soviet Union toward greater democratization and open ness.” The statement was read by Mar garet Tutwiler, the State Depart ment spokesman, in response to questions at the department’s daily press brefing. Secretary of State James A. Baker III will hold talks in Moscow May 10-11 with Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. They are expected to set a date for a resumption of U.S.-Soviet ne gotiations to reduce long-range nu clear missiles and to discuss pros pects for Arab-Israeli negotiations. Baker also may make preliminary preparations with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze for a summit meeting between President Bush and the So viet leader. Baker last week praised the eco nomic reform program Gorbachev has undertaken but said the Soviet leader could be in trouble unless “there are consumer goods on the table and in the markets.” Baker told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the risk to the Soviet leader could come from opponents of change, entrenched el ements of the bureaucracy and from “sources of nationalistic discontent.” the United States and the world be cause it would lead to a more secure and stable Soviet Union. He said Gorbachev’s economic program, known in Russian as per estroika, was in the best interest of “We very much want perestroika to succeed,” Baker said in response to a question after a speech. "We very much want the general secre tary to succeed.” Biggest lottery jackpot ever hits $100 million HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Players drove, flew, took the train and walked to the nearest Pennsylvania lottery ticket counter Wednesday with dreams of winning the North American record jackpot of at least $100 million. In an average week, the state usually sells about 4 million or 5 million tickets, but on Tuesday alone about 24 million tickets were sold, deputy Revenue Secretary Karl Ross said. Between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. Wednesday, about 7 million tickets were sold. Players came from all over the country. But lottery officials considered the nightmarish pos sibility that no one would win Wednesday night’s Super 7 drawing. The odds of any one ticket bearing all seven numbers is one in 9.6 million. With more than 74 million tickets sold in the last week, and the jackpot rolled over be cause of no winner in six previous drawings, Ross said the odds are about 4,000-to-l against another rollover. Although a winner or winners could come forward, lottery officials said that because of the high volume of sales they wouldn’t know for certain until sometime Fri day if a winning tic ket had been sold or how many had been sold. They said the computer would give them a preliminary inaication Thursday afternoon, hut that it would take another day to complete backup reviews of ticket numbers. If there is a rollover, next week’s jackpot could ap proach $200 million, payable over 26 years, and some lottery agents would run out of tickets. “We couldn’t handle another week like this, sellingall these tickets, without having spot shortages,” Ross said in a telephone interview. As a precaution, he said, the lottery was lining up vendors to do emergency printing runs if necessary. “We’ re in a brave new world, uncharted waters, Ross said. “If a rollover occurred and the jackpot soared beyond $150 million, he added, “I think theat- mosphere would be even weirder.” At least one vendor also hoped against another roll over. “I’ve already told my customers not to come in if there isn’t a winner tonight,” said Theresa Donavich, owner of T heresa’s Cards and News in Burgettstown, near the Pennsylvania-West Virginia-Ohioborder. “I’m locking the doors and I ’m leaving town until af ter next Thursday,” she said. Vendors receive 5 cents for each $ 1 ticket they sell. She said a constable and police officer were posted in the store because of the extra money on hand due to ticket sales. 1 LUXUtW APARTMENTS ! f i Li After graduation, this will be your first smart move. 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