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N
EWS
Columbia lands safely
Shuttle returns to Earth after five-day mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With the first fe
male commander at the controls, space shuttle Co
lumbia returned to Earth late yesterday after a quick
trip to orbit to drop off the world’s most powerful X-
ray telescope.
Air Force Col. Eileen Collins landed the shuttle at
11:20 p.m., the first woman to ever
do so.
The runway was illuminated
with xenon lights for the rare night
landing, and the moon was nearly
full.
“Welcome home. Eileen to you
and the crew, just an outstanding
job deploying Chandra (telescope)
and bringing Columbia home for a
beautiful landing,” Mission Control
said as soon as the shuttle rolled to
a stop.
The landing — only the 12th in
"You look great
passing over
Houston right now.
Beautiful shot/'
darkness out of 95 shuttle flights — seemed to go more
smoothly than Friday’s launch, which came after two
delays and was plagued by a possible hydrogen fuel
leak and a short circuit. Neither problem affected the
ride home.
Collins, 42, a former test pilot who twice served as
a shuttle co-pilot, guided Columbia over central Texas,
southern Louisiana, down across the Gulf of Mexico
and on into Florida, where 150 people gathered to wel
come the five astronauts home.
Columbia appeared as a gold and white streak in
the sky as it passed over the home of Mission Control
15 minutes before touchdown.
________ “You look great passing over Hous
ton right now. Beautiful shot,” radioed
Mission Control.
At five days, it was NASA’s shortest
planned mission in nine years. Only one
flight, in 1997, was shorter; a defective
fuel cell ended that laboratory-research
mission after only four days.
The mileage for the trip: a relatively
modest 1.8 million miles.
Despite its brevity, the telescope-de
livery mission was a plum assignment
for Collins. She was the first woman to
command a space mission in 38 years
— Mission Control
on shuttle approach
of U.S. human space flight, and the only woman to ac
tually land a spaceship of any kind, anywhere.
Columbia made it to orbit safely despite what pho
tographs suggest was a hydrogen leak during the
launch.. An engine could have shut down if more fuel
had seeped out, forcing the first emergency landing for
a shuttle.
Network boycott planned
Latino groups criticize lack ofHispanics in fall shows
HOUSTON (AP) — A national
coalition of Latino groups decided
yesterday to mobilize Hispanics for
a weeklong boycott of the four ma
jor TV networks in September to
protest the “brownout” of Hispan
ics in American television.
“Latinos are mad as hell and not
going to take any more,” Felix
Sanchez, president of the National
Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, said.
Sanchez’s organization and
nine other Latino groups an
nounced the move at the annual
convention of the National Coun
cil of La Raza, a coordinating orga
nization whose 240 affiliate groups
claim a membership of 3 million.
Two weeks ago, the NAACP at
its national conference said it was
going to monitor how network
shows incorporate minority roles
in their programs. That organiza
tion, the nation’s oldest and largest
civil rights group, threatened boy
cotts and legal action to make its
point for greater diversity.
Alex Nogales, spokesperson for
the National Hispanic Media Coali
tion, said the Hispanic boycott will
be the opening salvo in the fight for
greater diversity on television.
The coalition said Latino lead
ers will meet in Washington on
Sept. 12, National Hispanic Her
itage Week.
There the group will launch the
brownout, asking Hispanics to
turn off their televisions to
counter the major networks’
“brownout” that is evidenced by
“a virtual absence of Latino im
ages on television,” a coalition
statement said.
Organizers said they plan no
action against sponsors, only
against the networks.
The coalition plans to meet
with advertisers, will look for le
gal and regulatory remedies and
plans to start buying stock in
publicly owned media compa
nies to influence stockholder
meetings.
NEWS
IN BRIEF
Research examines
Suspect escapes
in Grimes County
presidential money
IOLA, Texas (AP) — A capital
murder suspect bolted from the
custody of Grimes County sheriff’s
officers yesterday and ran into the
countryside as he was being'es
corted into a patrol car.
Roy Glover, 19, barefoot, hand
cuffed and wearing a black-and-
white striped jail uniform, outran
the two officers who had taken him
to what authorities believed was a
crime scene near lola.
A search dog team was sum
moned to help in the hunt and
roadblocks were set up in the rur
al area about midway between
Huntsville and Bryan.
Wreckage believed
to be missing plane
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A
rescue team yesterday reached
wreckage thought to be of a missing
U.S. anti-drug reconnaissance plane,
a Colombian official said.
Air Force commander Gen.
Fabio Velasco said 24 rescuers were
lowered down by ropes from heli
copters and would spend the night
on the mountainside. In the morn
ing, they would try to find the bod
ies of the crew, who are all believed
to have died in the crash.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice
President A1 Gore has raised more
money from the entertainment in
dustry than any other presidential
candidate, and Texas Gov. George
W. Bush has taken in the most
money from the high-technology
industry, a political watchdog
group said.
Meanwhile, former Sen. Bill
Bradley, who was a consultant to
financial companies, trailed only
Bush in the
amount of money
raised from Wall
Street, and Sen.
John McCain, R-
Ariz., raised more
money from gam
bling interests
than anyone else
during the first
six months of
1999, according to a study by the
Center for Responsive Politics, a
Washington-based nonpartisan re
search group.
The study examined contribu
tions to the Democratic and Repub
lican presidential candidates be
tween Jan. 1 and June 30. Bush set
a record by raising $37 million and
had $30 million in the bank at
midyear. Gore raised $17.5 million,
BUSH
plus an additional $2 million for le
gal and accounting expenses and
had $9.4 million in the bank. Bradley
reported raising $11.7 million and
had a balance of $7.5 million.
Gore took in $479,245 from the
entertainment industry, with Bush
second at $357,802 and Bradley
third at $320,874. Like President
Clinton, Gore has a list of support
ers studded with such Hollywood
luminaries as actor Kevin Costner,
actress and singer Barbra Streisand
and producer Quincy Jones. Em
ployees and executives of Viacom,
which owns Paramount Pictures
and MTV, gave Gore $70,250, sec
ond only to members of the ac
counting firm of Ernst & Young,
which contributed $114,200.
But Bradley also has his sup
porters in the entertainment indus
try; former Paramount Pictures
chief Barry Diller has hosted a
fund-raiser for him.
Bush, meanwhile, received
more than 20 donations from exec
utives of the Warner Bros, enter
tainment conglomerate, including
$1,000 each from Robert A. Daly
and Terry Semel, who are stepping
down as co-leaders of Warner
Bros.’ movie, television and music
divisions.
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Annex
Continued from Page I
In an earlier Battalion article,
Joey Dunn, administrator for
Planning and Zoning Services in
the city of Bryan, said the city
budget will allow for mainte
nance for the annexed areas.
Dunn said “procedurally
speaking,” the council should
not let the citizens vote. He said
the council responded to the
public hearings by reducing the
size of the area to be annexed.
“The state law does not re
quire the city council to defer
power to decide to the voters,”
Dunn said. “The council re
sponded to the citizens by re
moving some areas.”
Dunn said the general reason
for the annexation is to promote
orderly growth of the city for the
next five to 10 years.
He said another reason is to
preserve the gateways or major
entrances to the city.
A concern of county residents
in the area that is to be annexed
is the increase in property taxes
Dunn said the city of Bryan’s
property tax is $.62 on every
$100 worth of property.
In other action, the city council
proclaimed July 28 "Dan
son Day” in honor of the
of Bryan Texas UtilitiesP’
Wilkerson, Class of’?
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