2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, September 26, 1988
World and Nsttioii
pace shuttle countdown
From Associated Press reports
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
NASA postponed the start of the
countdown for space shuttle Discov
ery by eight hours Sunday because
of lagging preparations, but still
aimed for a Thursday morning liftoff.
"We're still on the timeline for
launch on the 29th, and that's the
plan," said launch director Bob Sieck.
The countdown was rescheduled to
begin at 8 a.m. EDT Monday for the
first manned American space flight
since the Challenger blew up over the
Atlantic 32 months ago.
The space agency had added 27
unprogrammed hours to the count
down as insurance for last-minute
problems, and Sieck said eight hours
of that time would be used in advance
to complete the work of replacing
Japan emperor
Hirohito reman o
in serious
From Associated Press reports
TOKYO Emperor Hirohito
lay in serious condition Sunday
but was alert enough to watch the
finals of the autumn sumo tour
nament on television, and a
daughter who paid a bedside visit
expressed optimism about his
health.
Thousands of well-wishers
braved thunderstorms and cold
rain to throng the gates of the
moated Imperial Palace in central
Tokyo under a sea of bright
umbrellas. Palace officials say
300,000 have signed their names
in a dozen registries set up nation
wide to pray for Hirohito's
recovery.
The 87-year-old monarch
remained under intensive, around-the-clock
care by a team of court
doctors after vomiting blood from
an intestinal hemorrhage on Mon
day. The emperor has sat on
Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne
for nearly 62 years.
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"We don't want those people to
have to do that under the gun with
the clock counting," he said. "So we
said. Take all the time it takes,' and
well delay the. call to stations to
accommodate that."
NASA had planned to start the
countdown at midnight, but "button
ing up" the aft end of the spaceplane
akin to closing the hood on a car
was delayed by a problem that had
the potential of postponing the
launch for two days.
Low voltage readings were found
in an electrical circuit that triggers the
explosive charges used to separate the
shuttle from its fuel tank when the
tank is empty. Eventually engineers
determined that the fault was in a
condition
His condition was serious but
appeared stable. Palace officials
acknowledged Hirohito dis
charged a small amount of blood
Sunday morning.
The officials would not confirm
published reports that the emperor
has cancer of the upper intestine.
Cancer is rarely acknowledged
publicly in Japan.
Under the Constitution, the
emperor has no political power
but signs documents already
approved by the government and
serves as a symbol of Japan's
unity.
The Imperial Household
Agency said Hirohito viewed the
final matches of the Autumn
Grand Sumo Tournament on
television. A noted fan of the
ancient wrestling sport, the
emperor watched grand champion
Chiyonofuji claim his 25th tour
nament title with a 15-0 record and
commented, "A perfect victory,
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ground circuit, which does not affect
the flight.
The winged spaceplane rides aloft
attached at three points to the 154-foot-long
external tank. At 8 12
minutes into flight just before the
shuttle reaches orbit the explosive
devices release the tank, and it breaks
up in the atmosphere as it falls toward
the Indian Ocean.
Discovery's launch date has been
changed five times in the past as new
problems cropped up in getting ready
for STS-26, the 26th mission of the
Space Transportation System.
The Cape Canaveral area was
bracing for an influx of visitors
comparable to the first flight of the
space shuttle in 1981 when more than
1 million crowded the roads outside
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io presidential race
From Associated Press reports
WINSTON-SALEM Recent
polls suggest and state campaign
leaders confirm that North Carol
ina's 13 electoral voters will be up
for grabs between George Bush and
Michael Dukakis six weeks from
now.
And whichever candidate wins
them will have a potentially signif
icant prize.
Not only is North Carolina the 10th
largest state in the union, but its votes
have backed the overall winner in
every presidential election since 1960.
The Bush and Dukakis campaigns
have targeted North Carolina as a
priority state, and each candidate has
appeared at an enthusiastic rally here
since winning his nomination.
Campaign strategists on both sides,
as well as most independent analysts,
place the state for now in a category
with three other states in the upper
South Tennessee, Kentucky and
Arkansas that could swing either
way on Election Day.
The winner of those states will
almost certainly also be the next
president. . .-.
"We know how it's going to go in
48 days. It's going for George Bush,"
William T. Graham, the chairman of
Bush's N.C. campaign, told the
Winston-Salem Journal. "How it's
going right now is it's still a horse
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When Discovery lifts off, with five '
veteran astronauts aboard, it will be
a far different vehicle from on its six
previous flights. The orbiter has had
2 1 0 changes, and the solid fuel rockets
have had 145.
Navy Capt. Frederick H. Hauck
and his four-man crew of astronauts
will fly to the launch site from their
Houston training center Monday
afternoon for last-minute briefings
and some practice landing on the
Kennedy runway in an aircraft that
handles like a shuttle.
Discovery's cargo will be a $100.
million communications satellite that
NASA needs for communications
with future shuttles, as well as 11
scientific experiments.
Sen. Russell G. Walker, D
Randolph, co-chairman of the state
Dukakis campaign: "I certainly think
we're in a very good position in North
Carolina the best in a long, long
time so far as the national race is
concerned. If we're not ahead, we're
certainly in a dead heat."
A pair of polls suggests how close
the presidential race may really be
with less than two months remaining
in the election.
The Charlotte Observer, in a poll
of 802 likely voters across the state,
reported Sept. 17 that it had found
48 percent supporting or leaning
toward Bush, the Republican presi
dential nominee, and 47 percent
supporting or leaning toward Duka
kis, the Democratic candidate for
president.
On Wednesday, The News and
Observer of Raleigh, WTVD and
WBTV reported that its poll of 806
likely voters found 49 percent sup
porting or leaning toward Dukakis
and 47 percent supporting or leaning
toward Bush.
Although the polling techniques
were somewhat different in the two
surveys, the results in both cases were
well within the 3.5 percentage-point
margin of error, making it impossible
to determine if either candidate
actually had an edge at the time the
interviews were conducted.
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'First brother' Billy Carter .
dies after battle with cancer
From Associated Press reports
PLAINS, Ga. Billy Carter,
the former "first brother" and
beer-drinking good ol' boy whose
candor and business ventures
amused and sometimes embar
rassed the Carter administration,
died Sunday of cancer. He was 51.
The brother of former President
Jimmy Carter suffered for a year
with pancreatic cancer the
disease that killed his father and
a sister and lived longer than
his doctors expected. He died three
days after leaving the hospital for
his home in this southwest Georgia
hamlet.
Carter "died quietly and peace
fully in his sleep ... with his family
at his bedside," according to a
statement issued by the Carter
Presidential Center on behalf of
the former president and his
family.
Billy Carter, who once defined
himself as a beer-drinking good ol'
boy, was forced into the spotlight
when his older brother rocketed
from their tiny hometown into the
White House.
He put his name on a brand of
beer that flopped, got into hot
water with remarks denounced as
racist or anti-Semitic, accepted
money from Libya and was forced
to sell some properties to pay a
debt to the Internal Revenue
Service.
But underneath the mask of the
court jester was a perceptive man,
an avid reader, a fighter who
refused to go down quietly under
the pressure of alcoholism or
cancer.
JFK vigil planned
WASHINGTON Network
documentaries, a string of new
books, an all-night Capitol vigil
and memorials by former Peace
Corps volunteers and PT boat
veterans will help commemorate
the 25th anniversary in November
of the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.
But family members plan a low
profile remembrance, much differ
ent from the 1983 nationally
televised observance of the 20th
Parking
Martin said, he wants to see an
emphasis on the importance of long
term parking plans, the return of
parking allocation to students and the
inclusion of faculty and staff in the
2-mile commuter restriction in the
meeting Friday.
Hinton James Governor David
Smith, who organized the parking
forums, said the counterproposals
were fairer than those of the com
mittee. The student proposals would
cost students less, since they call for
distribution of transportation fees
among faculty and staff. This would
benefit them as well as students in
the long run, he said.
Smith said he would like a com
promise to come from the Friday
meeting. "I would like to see a 2-mile
radius for faculty with the elimination
of sophomore parking. If a faculty
member lives down the street from
the University, why shouldn't he use
the bus?"
With the elimination of sophomore
parking and the implementation of
a 2-mile radius for faculty, more
spaces could be opened up for
students, commuting faculty, staff
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anniversary of that fateful day in ,
Dallas. '
"They have tried to get away
from commemorating the day of
his death and try to celebrate the
day of his birth," said Melody
Miller, an aide to Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass. The senator
and other family members have
said they will not grant interviews.
Some family members likely
will follow tradition and quietly
visit JFK's grave site at the
Arlington National Cemetery,
while others join family matriarph
Rose Kennedy at her regular daily
Mass at the Kennedy compound
in Hyannis Port, Mass., said
Miller.
Doctors' pay reviewed
BOSTON A long-awaited
study being released this week
could dramatically change the way
doctors are paid, sharply reducing
fees for many kinds of operations
while raising charges for office
visits.
The study has been the object
of intense speculation and appre
hension in the medical world since
it was undertaken two and a half
years ago by economist William
C. Hsiao of the Harvard Univer
sity School of Public Health.
The massive project attempts to
determine the amount of work
involved in everything doctors do
from checkups and well-baby
visits to brain surgery and coro
nary bypasses so they can be
paid what their services are worth.
There is widespread agreement,
Hsiao said, "that the current
payment system is unworkable.
The fees are distorted and
inequitable."
Hsiao's plan, requested by
Congress, will try to correct that.
It would pay physicians more for
the time they spend thinking about
patients, , examining them and
talking to them and less for specific
procedures.
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pital employte's'Smith said. :
Trey Loughran, assistant to the
student body president, said the
committee should seriously consider 1
the proposals. Since the students have
already made sacrifices with a 2-mile'
restriction, the faculty and staff '
should also have to make sacrifices'
With the current committee proposal;
the students "were just getting"-';
screwed," he said. '..'.
The committee proposals are not ?;
fair since they require students to pa
for public transportation that could
easily be used by faculty and staff,1:''
Loughran said. The counterproposals "r
are enough of a compromise because-':
faculty and staff members need to '
make sacrifices like students already T
have. ;'
Student Government is hoping tir';
receive a "fair compromise" from thre -committee,
but 'may go to the chan- -cellor
if it feels the committee did nqf : :
make an equitable compromise,
Loughran said. . ' P
For the Record
In Tuesday's article, "In a medical ,
emergency, students have 2 options," ,
the DTH incorrectly reported that
North Carolina Memorial Hospital ,
charges a flat rate of $75 for all visits,
to the emergency room. The hospital' ,
charges based on services rendered.
Also, the article incorrectly reported
that the emergency services available"
at Student Health Services are equal ,
to those offered by NCMH. NCMH
has a level 1 trauma center, the most
sophisticated type, while SHS has a
level 3 trauma center.
The DTH regrets the errors.
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