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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1992
Page
2
Discovery astronauts received laser signals from a Hawaii ground station and were told Galileo would perform a gravity assist pass by Earth today on its six year trip to Jupiter. The two crafts would pass within about seven thousand miles. Atlantis launched Galileo in 1989.
A 13-year-old accuser joins Tiffany Work among 16 women alleging improper advances by Sen. Bob Packwood. Work recalls a 1973 incident at a Eugene party for Packwood, who calls the accusation an outrageous lie. A state group seeks Ethics Committee action.
Cory Evans of La Costa California is the nation’s toughest kindergarten chess player, winning the youngest division at the U S National Grade School Chess Championships in Gilbert Arizona last month. He began in diapers and could play a full game by age two. His parents guide his training as he aims to be a grand master by twenty and dreams of teaching, exploring space and science.
President Bush and Boris Yeltsin have begun personal talks by phone and letters to resolve differences threatening a major nuclear arms reduction agreement announced in June. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said analysts fear verification and technical issues, with Eagleburger and Kozyrev resuming talks in Stockholm. The leaders exchanged messages after Yeltsin proposed cost-cutting ideas while Moscow negotiators pushed technical concessions.
Battles around Sarajevo's airport diminish hopes for quick aid airlift resumption. UNHCR reports famine signals as relief flights face restrictions. 17,000-plus deaths since secession. Serb and government forces pledge safety of flights, but heavy fighting on approaches may delay resume.
Rescuers halted the hunt for eight missing miners after an explosion deep in a coal mine near Norton Virginia. Officials said drilling a ventilation hole could begin midday once a bulldozed area above the chamber is prepared. A ninth miner escaped, and one worker, Robert K. Fleming, survived surgery for burns. Conditions include smoke, heat and methane gas raising fears of another blast.
Douglas County zones 1 to 16 show tonight varying chances of rain changing to snow with lows from 20 to 35 and Wednesday generally partly cloudy to snow with highs from 30s to 40. Zone 15 reports 70 percent rain then snow tonight and 70 percent snow Wednesday with 1 to 3 inches possible. wind NW 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight a 70 percent chance of rain turning to snow by morning with a low near 30 and winds from the south. Wednesday continues snow with 1 to 3 inches possible and a high around 36 as northwest winds rise. Wednesday night brings a 25 percent snow chance, low near 30 with northwest gusts. Official readings note record temps and Clinton Lake levels near normal at 876.82 feet.
Missouri watchers: tonight rain sleet and snow west spreading east with lows in the 20s to 30s. Wednesday rain to snow north, highs in 30s to 40s. Nebraska: freezing drizzle or snow tonight east, lows teens to 20s, Wednesday snow or sleet east, highs 30s east 40s west. Oklahoma: tonight rain, lows 35 to 40, Wednesday mostly cloudy with chance of rain, highs in the 40s. Colorado: tonight snow west valleys 5 to 20, 20 to 35 east, minus 15 to 10 above mountains, highs 20s to 30s mountains west 40s to 50s east. Road contacts: Kansas Highway Patrol 1-296-3102 and Kansas Turnpike Authority 843-8250.
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