Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1993)
floppy J O E '5 5 o f 1 ** now rents • Super Nintendo Gameboy • Genesis • Sega CD Systems • Games 693-8720 Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, June 22, Endeavor pursues Bangkop satellite, opens lab By Boomer Cardinale THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WE BUY USED CD’S FOR $4.00 or trade 2 for 1 We sell used CD’S $8.99 or less 268-0154 (At Northgate) VMA Information Systems IMPACT One-Call Information Hotline 774-1222 Time and Temperature 1555 Real Estate 8001 Sports 3000 Financial 6001 Horoscopes 4000 Entertainment 9001 Medical/Dental 2000 Simplicity! 1. Dial Number 2. Enter 4-digit Code 3. Become Informed! CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Endeavor's crew set up shop in the world's first commercial space lab with its menagerie of wasps, shrimp and flies Monday after the shuttle zoomed into orbit in hot pursuit of a giant satellite. "It looks like we're open for business," astronaut G. David Low told Mission Control after entering the laboratory three hours into the flight. David Rossi, a vice president at Spacehab Inc. of Arlington, Va., which owns the laboratory, called it "an exciting day." "My heart was literally in my throat," he said. Endeavor and its six astronauts raced through a cloudy sky into space Monday morning, a mere 22 seconds late because of a small plane that strayed into restricted airspace near the pad. It was the second launch at tempt. Sunday's was canceled by bad weather. Pilot Brian Duffy was thrilled to finally be aloft. "I tell you what, it was worth waiting an extra day for that present," said Duffy, who turned 40 on Sunday. Once in orbit, the shuttle began a 17,500 mph chase that will last TONIGHT IS KTSR FAMILY NIGHT AGGIE OWNED & OPERATED SINCE 1926 SCHULMAN SIX 2000 E. 29th Street 775-2463 Jurassic Park *PG 13 $5.00/$3.00 1:45 4:20 7:00 9:40 Sliver -R $5.00/$3.00 2:00 4:30 7:10 9:40 Life With Mikey -PG $5.50/$3.50 2:10 4:35 7:20 9:30 MANOR EAST 3 MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 Aladdin •G $5.50/$3.50 2:10 4:30 7:00 9:30 Dave •PG 13 $5.00/$3.00 2:00 4:35 7:10 9:40 Hot Shots 2 •PG 13 $5.00/$3.00 2:20 4:40 7:20 9:50 920 Movies Benny & Joon The Sandlot •PG 7:20 9:50 •PG 2:05 4:35 •R 7:05 9:45 Adventures of Huck Finn ‘PG 2:05 4:25 Unforgiven Wc have student airfares! ^1J Costa Rica $139 London $339 Paris $380 Frankfurt $419 Moscow $459 Tokyo $470 ’Above fares are each way from Houston based on roundtrip purchase. Restrictions apply. Taxes not included. One way fares slightly hi'sher. iegc&dok the epot/ Council Ikavd 2000 Guadalupe Austin, IX 78705 three days and culminate in a "cliffhanger," said the European Space Agency's Alan Dover, deputy project manager of the satellite to be fetched. The satellite, called Eureca for the European Retrievable Carrier, has been orbiting for nearly one year. Researchers are anxious to get back the 15 scientific instru ments aboard Eureca — cosmic dust catchers, solar monitors, crystal-growing furnaces, among other things. Low, the payload commander, is to use the shuttle robot arm to grab Eureca on Thursday 296 miles above Earth. If the rendezvous and retrieval go well. Low and Peter "Jeff" Wisoff will conduct a four- hour practice spacewalk Friday to help NASA get ready for the Hub ble Space Telescope repair mission this winter. Most of the astronauts' efforts in orbit will focus on science, however, and most of that re search will take place inside the new laboratory. The pressurized laboratory module — 9 feet long, 11 feet high and 13 feet in diameter — is inside Endeavor's cargo bay and reached through a tunnel. Called Spacehab like the company, it provides ex tra room for astronauts to conduct experiments without having to cart NASA's much larger and more complicated Spacelab. There wouldn't be any room in the bay, for instance, to put the 41/2-ton Eureca if Spacelab were flying. Nearly 700 science samples fill Spacehab lockers, including miniature wasps, brine shrimp and fruit flies, all part of studies to see how creatures develop in weightlessness. Elsewhere on the shuttle are a dozen rats taking part in a tissue repair study. The astronauts activated the experiments one by one, including a small greenhouse that might one day in a space station. NASA is Spacehab's biggest customer by far. It's leasing 42 of the 43 Spacehab lockers being used on this mission. NASA, in fact, has reserved 200 of 300 Spacehab lockers to be flown on six shuttle missions over the next three years at a cost of $184 million. Seventy-five of those lockers still are for sale, generat ing concern that the company may not be able to survive with out government help. SodewheKe over Thailand.. By Paul Stroud Aggie Man By Sergio Rosa J W FACT, THf only TMlUl Those cncmicals gave me ACC Ati CMCAKASSiflC m rtD AN iksaTiable U3SE- To D&roc BAD 8! Y Tuesday What's Up The Career Center: is offering a Job Search Strategies Seminar for students interested in learning how to get started with the job search at 2pm in room 110 of the Student Services Building. For more information call the Career Center at 845-5139. ages Seminar to teach students in terviewing techniques and how to project a professional image. It will be held at 3pm in room 110 of the Student Services Building. For more information about the semi nar, call the Career Center at 845- 5139. 764-9377 for further assistance. The Career Center: is offering an Interviewing and Professional Im- TAMU Cycling Team: is holding a training time trial at 6:30pm one block West of Aerofit on Villa Maria. Contact Rey Trevino at What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Items for What's Up should be submitted no later than three days before the desired run date. Application deadlines and notices are not events and will not run in What's Up. If you have questions, call the news room at 845-3313. 512-472-4931 Pope appoints panel to study clergy scandals — cut here S ■ DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS i I June 28 & 29 (6-10 p.m. & 6-10 p.m.) | I July 9 & 10 (6-10 p.rn. & 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) | ■ STATE APPROVED DRIVING SAFETY COURSE * I Register at University Plus (MSC Basement) | I Call 845-1631 for more information on these or other classes i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 D&M EDUCATION ENTERPRISES 1 icut here — —..-i—iJ Professional Computing 505 Church Street College Station, TX 77802 (409)846-5332 (One Block Behind Kinko’s Copy) NEW YORK — Pope John Paul II has ap pointed a committee of Vatican and U.S. Catholic Church officials to study whether to make it easier to dismiss sexually abusive cler gy from the priesthood. The new committee will look specifically at whether the church's 5-year statute of limita tions on dismissals can be lifted in cases in volving sexual abuse of minors, church offi cials said Monday. The panel also will study whether the age when individuals are considered minors can be raised from 16 to 18 and whether abusive priests can be dismissed even if their actions resulted from mental illness, said Deacon Christopher Baumann, a spokesman for the U.S. Catholic Conference. In a letter to U.S. bishops released Monday, the pontiff said he has become aware during the last few months how much U.S. Catholics are suffering because of clergy scandals. "I fully share your sorrow and your concern, especially your concern for the victims so seri ously hurt by these misdeeds," the pope said. Leaders of the 55-million member Catholic Church in the United States last week estab lished a committee of bishops to address the problem. In personal meetings with the pope, many bishops have expressed particular concern about their ability under canon law to dismiss a priest whose moral and psychological condi tion precludes his return to ministry. Archbishop William Keeler, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Monday the pope "has taken to his own heart our concern for both the victims of abuse by priests and the priests who abuse. We join in his call for prayer, and we will indeed use the means at our disposal to reverse this scandal In his letter, the pope said every sinner wli repents can call on God's mercy, but there alst is the question of how humans respond to dei gy sexual abuse. "The canonical penalties which are provid ed for certain offenses and which give a soda expression for the disapproval of evil are full) justified," the pope said. "These help to main tain a clear distinction between good and evil and contribute to moral behavior as well as to creating a proper awareness of the gravity of the evil involved." The pope said the committee he established will study how church law "can best be ap plied to the particular situation of the United States." He wasn't specific, but U.S. church official! said the committee will study the statute of limitations for sexual misconduct and the agf at which individuals are considered adults. Featuring a complete line of Hewlett-Packard Scientific and Business calculators Rebel leader in Azerbaijan declares Absolute power' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HP 48 GX Expandable Calculator HP 48G Programmable Calculator * 128-KB RAM standard in HP 48GX * 32-KB RAM standard in HP 48G * Combined I/O ports for data transfer to and from a PC *GX features Expansion Ports for plug-in Applications Pacs and RAM cards HP 19BH Business Consultant * Algebraic of RPN Logic * Graphics for Cash Flow and Statistical Analysis * Menus and Softkeys HP 17BII Financial Calculator * Choose between Algebraic or RPN Logic * Menus and Softkeys for easy access to solutions * Over 250 functions for real estate and finance Business Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00-5:30 Sat. 10:00-3:00 HEWLETT PACKARD BAKU, Azerbaijan — The leader of a rebellion against the elected president declared Mon day that he will take power in Azerbaijan, after winning sup port from government troops and Parliament. "In connection with the power vacuum ... I will take all absolute power into my hands," rebel leader Surat Huseynov said in na tionally televised comments from his base in the eastern city of Gyandzha. "There is nobody who can stop this," he said. Since launching his rebellion on June 4, the former army colonel has seized half the coun try and forced elected President Abulfaz Elcibey to flee the capital. Late last week, army comman ders told Elcibey that they would not oppose Huseynov if the rebel entered the capital. And on Sun day and Monday, government troops embraced the rebel forces, who have advanced as close as five miles to the capital. On Monday, the 50-member Parliament in Baku declared its support for him and summoned Elcibey back to the capital to an swer for the two-week-old crisis. There were no reports of un rest late Monday around the city. Elcibey was still held up at Or- dubat in the remote Nakhichevan region and has not submitted his resignation, despite Huseynov's demands for him to step down. It was also unclear whether the pres ident would obey parliament's or ders to return to the capital. The rebel commander has ac cused Elcibey of bungling the 5- year-old war with neighboring Armenia over the Nagorno- Karabakh territory, where ethnic Armenians are fighting for inde pendence from Azerbaijan. There was no immediate reac tion from Parliament to his claim to power. Azerbaijani television intro duced Huseynov as "a national hero" before airing his comments. Huseynov's declaration did not make clear whether he sought immediate power or was willing to wait for Parliament's approval. Some government leaders on Sunday accused Huseynov of at tempting a coup. Rebel spokesmen insisted then that Huseynov would only assume power peacefully and was willing mainly to have control over the country's military. Japan gives new meaning to no-frills indoor skiing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FUNABASHI, Japan — It sounds like the perfect ski resort: vir gin snow every day, no wind or rain, easy to get to and no long lines for the lift. Perfect, that is, if you don’t mind giving up mountain scenery and fresh air to do your schussing with 1,999 others inside a giant contraption that looks like an erector set made for King Kong. Towering as high as a 25-story building, SSAWS (pronounced "zouse") will become the world's largest indoor ski facility when it opens in mid-July, its owners claim. Two other indoor ski areas already exist in Japan, but they will be easily dwarfed by SSAWS, which stands for "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow." Skiing is just one outdoor sport the Japanese have brought into captivity. Indoor golf practice ranges and batting cages enjoy a brisk business, and the company that manages SSAWS also runs an indoor beach facility in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, complete with artificial waves and plastic sand. "I've been told that only the Japanese would be nuts enough to build a thing like this," said Yasunori Inubashiri, SSAWS's senior marketing manager. "But we think it's fun." Mitsui Fudosan, Japan's largest real estate developer, spent two years and $375 million building the facility, which is a half-hour by train from downtown Tokyo. The owners hope to draw one million customers per year. The slope — about one-third of a mile — is divided into sections according to level of difficulty. A powerful refrigeration system keeps the temperature just below freezing, and fresh snow is made nightly. Mitsui claims that its equipment makes powder snow finer than any found in the wild. Even so, skiing beneath industrial girders, catwalks and valves induces the eery feeling of being inside a huge scientific device. wk Some 1 cizing the ing the sys Dr. Wei ogy profe; as "neand< Stock v\ a 12-0 vote The ten have the t required tc "The cli bad histo tenure," S has been { 1984." Stock d devoting ti in relation Pai THEAi WASH years, she complaini Nixon's t tions. And as Nixon would hav Pat Nix at the cou Tuesday, daughters The 81- lady had s numerous Nixon's i White He bounced h smoker at i nosed earl lung cance: Her dea Nixons ob anmversar townhouse "Mrs. Ni day and ki niversary," Nixon's ai there and tl Unit This su America (l Task Force dent invoh UWSA i former pre: Darla K coordinate 800-333-US knowing al chapter at t No fee i have to be though it is "If the > public serv facing our i Texas A in March a: bers. The c forum for Bentsen's si Dr. Ron dent chapb recruit nev ship at A&l Brent Su Insi •Downs c for dem< •Rush: Lo have no ►Editorial a boon i ►Column: for drug Toi