Atlantis Ready for Liftoff to Venus on Magellan Mission
NASA managers give Atlantis a clean bill of health for an on time 1 24 p m CDT Friday liftoff from Cape Canaveral to deploy the Magellan Venus radar mapper in Americas first interplanetary shot in over a decade. The crew includes Atlantis commander David Walker and pilot Ronald Grabe among others while Igor Volk attends as a guest cosmonaut observer. Weather is forecast near ideal and the countdown ran 78 hours with 23 minutes launch window limits amid public protests outside the building facing the Roe v Wade reconsideration.
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Movie plans upset wives of astronauts
Three wives of Challenger astronauts oppose an ABC TV movie about the shuttle disaster saying it is inaccurate and too soon after the tragedy. They urge a serious documentary approach and privacy for their families while noting the 1986 launch and loss of seven crew members.
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Exxon tanker in close call near Washington coast
A fully loaded Exxon tanker carrying 21 million gallons of crude oil lost power nine miles off the Washington coast. The 810 foot vessel adrift since 8:15 a.m. PDT was kept from drifting toward Cape Flattery as U.S. and Canadian ships and two Crowley Maritime tugs pursued a repair route to Port Angeles.
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House Banking panel backs thrift subsidy for housing loans
The House Banking Committee, split along party lines, approved a plan to levy 5 percent of net income from 1990 to 1993, 6 percent in 1994, and 10 percent thereafter to fund about 75 million dollars in subsidized low income housing loans for the poor. The proposal, led by Democrat Henry Gonzalez, faces a tough House floor vote and a separate Senate plan already approved without the housing subsidy.
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Protests at Supreme Court over abortion law and Roe v Wade
Police arrested 25 abortion rights supporters at the Supreme Court as about 300 demonstrators clashed with barriers amid chants and banners. Eleanor Smeal and Norma McCorvey spoke, urging defense of Roe v Wade against proposed viability tests and sanctions.
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Unrest in Seoul North Korea protests escalate with flames
Thousands of workers and students in Seoul and other cities riot for a fourth day. Police deploy 2,500 officers as 13,000 workers from 18 plants in Changwon protest detention of a union leader and storm a Democratic Justice Party branch office. Thirty three workers are detained with no injuries reported. In El Salvador, FMLN commander Roberto Roca says a major offensive will start May 1 against the U.S. backed government, timed ahead of the president-elect's May inauguration.
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Storms sweep through Midwest injure worker and threaten region
United Press International reports severe thunderstorm watches for parts of Indiana Ohio and Kentucky after Iowa winds killed a construction worker named Leroy Lundberg 23 who re entered a building to fetch a shirt. Gusts toppled a barn roof and damaged a hog barn near Little Rock Iowa. A teen in Oregon was struck by lightning but survived a late day game. A tornado formed east of Carrollton Illinois with no injuries and Webster County deputies evacuated several hundred residents after large hail.
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Illinois forecast temp changes and lottery results
Illinois weather outlook calls for highs in the 60s and lows in the upper 30s to upper 40s across regions through Monday with a chances of showers. Illinois State Lottery results show Pick Four 7 2 1 3 and Cash Five 3 15 18 23 26, Lotto grand prize estimated at 17 million dollars for Saturday.
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Commodity and futures quotes from Mercantile Trading Co
Noon commodity prices and futures shown for live cattle pork bellies soybeans wheat and metals. Market quotes include Live Beef Cattle June to Dec contracts Soybeans May July Sept Nov Corn May July Sept Dec March Wheat May July Sept Cocoa May Sugar May Cotton Silver Gold and T bonds with several misprints and OCR issues noted.
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