Fly swatter key to satellite salvage effort
Discovery's crew received clearance to attempt reviving the crippled satellite using a homemade fly swatter device built from a window shade, vacuum hose and plastic. Astronauts Hoffman and Griggs prepared for a spacewalk to clamp the device to the shuttle arm and snag a four inch lever that powers the satellite. If the lever can be caught, engineers expect to start the electrical sequence to restore operations, with multiple fallback plans if the snag fails.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Discovery
Jeffrey Hoffman
David Griggs
NASA
Space Center
Houston
Margaret Rhea Seddon
Space shuttle lab grows DNA crystals for Iowa researchers
University of Iowa biochemists study DNA crystal growth in space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Scientist Arthur Arnone explains larger, more ordered crystals may form in microgravity, aiding X-ray analysis of genetic material.
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Space Shuttle
U of
Gazette
Jaminson County
Iowa City
A. Locker
University of Iowa
Charles Walker
Arthur Arnone
U of I
Arnone
National Institutes of Health
American Heart Association
University of Alabama
Manned Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Peres Wins Israeli Foreign Policy Fight
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres won cabinet approval by one vote to send adviser Ezer Weizman to Egypt for a goodwill mission. The dispute with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir over foreign policy control exposed strains in the coalition and left a divided government.
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Jerusalem
Shimon Peres
Egypt
Peres
Yitzhak Shamir
Israel
Ezer Weizman
Hosni Mubarak
Shamir
Likud
Cairo
Weizman
Tel Aviv
Ben-Gurion
Israel Radio
Mubarak
Eleven Redhead Slayings Linked Across Six States
An eleventh victim in a sequence of killings of redheaded hitchhikers and prostitutes along highways across six states was found near Interstate 81 east of Greeneville Tennessee. Investigators say many victims lacked families and appeal for help. the case remains unsolved.
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Knoxville, Tenn
David Davenport
Tennessee Bureau of Investigations
Interstate 81
Greeneville, Tenn
Ted Tweed
AIDS Legacy Study Links Mothers’ Later Children To AIDS Risk
University of Miami researchers tracked 13 women who had children with AIDS or ARC. Over four years they had 17 more children, and 10 of these later offspring developed AIDS or AIDS-related illness, suggesting increased maternal complications during pregnancy.
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Atlanta
University of Miami
Extradition Ordered in Demjanjuk War Crimes Case
U S District Judge Frank J Battisti ordered retired autoworker John Demjanjuk extradited to Israel to stand trial for war crimes tied to his alleged service as a Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible He was taken into custody after bond was revoked and surrender stayed to May 1 for appeal processing.
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Cleveland
John Demjanjuk
Israel
Ivan the Terrible
U.S
Frank J. Battisti
Demjanjuk
Treblinka
Poland
Battisti
RCMP to replace Pinkerton guards at embassies
The RCMP will hire 150 to 175 special constables to replace Pinkerton guards at foreign missions after the Turkish Embassy attack. The change should finish before Pinkerton's Canada contract ends this March.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Lloyd Larose
Pinkerton
Pinkerton's of Canada Ltd
Elmer MacKay
RCMP
White House weighs Reagan trip options for West Germany
The White House dispatched two officials to West Germany to explore alternative sites for Presidents Reagan May visit to balance outcry over plans to tour Bitburg military cemetery where Nazi soldiers are buried. Chancellor Kohl urged keeping the cemetery on the itinerary in pursuit of reconciliation.
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Reagan
Bitburg
West Germany
Washington
White House
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Cellor
Helmut Kohl
Kohl
Europe
Satanic cult blamed for animal mutilations in Union County
Union County officials link about 200 animal mutilations in the past year to Satanist groups targeting teens for recruitment. Sheriff deputy Lala says cultists torturing lambs and dogs sacrifice animals, drink blood, desecrate a Civil War grave, and own expensive occult books. He cites five groups with four to five members each and claims up to 1500 worshipers statewide participate in periodic rites in the county.
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Marysville
Ohio
Union County
John V. Lala
John G. Overly
Lala
Union County Humane Society
Columbus
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John Belushi
Michael Montagna
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Brazil
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