2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 13, 1989
World and Nation
NASA aiming for
By WAGNER DOTTO
Staff Writer
The space shuttle Atlantis, designed
to dispatch the space probe Galileo on
its six-year journey to Jupiter, might be
launched Tuesday if tests Saturday
indicate an engine's computer problem
is solved, a National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) spokes
man said yesterday.
An engine's computerized fuel con
troller, a unit that regulates the amount
of fuel and oxygen that is burned by the
engine, has been replaced and will be
tested Saturday at noon, said NASA
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From Associated Press Reports
WASHINGTON The House
voted final, overwhelming approval
Thursday for a federal ban on flag
burning, just four months after a Su
preme Court decision allowing destruc
tion of an American flag as political
protest.
"This is the least we can do to protect
the sanctity of the flag," Rep. Butler
Derrick, D-S.C, said before the House
voted, 371-43, to approve the bill.
However, President Bush and many
Republicans say Congress must do more
than pass a mere statute, and they have
been pressing for a constitutional
amendment to outlaw flag destruction
or desecration. The Senate will take up
that issue next week.
Still, 154 Republicans joined 217
Democrats in supporting the statutory
ban on Thursday, while only 1 8 Repub-
Stallings
make corrections based on the inten
tions of the 70th Congress."
Congress members also noted Thurs
day that the honor court's jurisdiction
included only individual cases and not
those of the congress. "There is never a
time or place any decision of Student
Congress can be questioned by the honor
court," Davis said.
Rep. Matthew Heyd (Dist. 1 1), who
voted against Beall's amendment and
for the resolution, agreed. "The code is
explicit on it to avoid conflict of inter
est. Bill had met the spirit of the law, if
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spokesman Charles Redmond.
The best estimate for the launch is
Tuesday afternoon. The weather is good
and there is no indication that there will
be problems."
The launch of Atlantis, which will
carry five astronauts, was planned for
Wednesday at 1:29 p.m., but a last
minute problem with one of its three
main engines made officials postpone
the launch. The three-day delay will
cost the government an additional
$83,000, Redmond said.
Atlantis' launch has been postponed
House vote bams flag jburnin
licans and 25 Democrats, opposed it.
The bill passed the Senate 91-9.
House Speaker Th6mas Foley, D
Wash., said he assumed Bush would
sign the measure into law. despite his
clear preference for a constitutional
amendment.
Bush said last week that a new stat
ute would not be adequate to get around
the Supreme Court decision, which
threw out the conviction of a Texas flag
burner.
The bill on its way to Bush would
revise existing federal law and provide
up to a year in jail and a $ 1 ,000 fine for
anyone who "knowingly mutilates,
defaces, physically defiles, burns,
maintains on the floor or ground, or
tramples upon any flag of the United
States."
The one-sided votes in Congress
reflected the power of the flag as a
not the letter of the law."
Rep. Sam Bagenstos (Dist. 14), who
also voted against the amendment and
for the resolution, said the congress
was not in a position to strike Stallings'
name from the list. "If there was a
conflict, it's not up to Student Congress
to tell him what he (Stallings) is not to
do."
Rep. Tom Elliott (Dist. 6), said that
while he saw no conflict of interest, he
voted against the resolution because he
could not ignore the code. "I felt that
the Student Congress should be obliged
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for years due to budget cuts and the
1 986 Challenger explosion. Last month
three anti-nuclear environmentalist
groups the Florida Coalition for
Peace and Justice, the Christie Institute
and the Foundation on Economics
Trends filed a lawsuit against NASA
seeking a restraining order to block the
launching.
The groups feared that Galileo, the
plutonium-powered space probe, could
cause a nuclear disaster if something
went wrong during the launch.
A Federal District judge in Wash
political symbol, as demonstrated by a
public outcry following the Supreme
Court decision in June.
Derrick told the House that the court' s
decision, throwing out the conviction
of Texas flag burner Gregory Lee
Johnson on grounds that his right to
free speech was violated, hit Ameri
cans like "a slap in the face."
Bush joined the call for a constitu
tional amendment, but Democratic
leaders said changing the Constitution
would be too drastic an action.
"Amending the Constitution as some
would advance should be a last resort
and not a first resort," said Rep. Wil
liam Hughes, D-N.J. He said the issue
should "be addressed in a much less
dramatic manner."
However, House Minority Leader
Bob Michel, R-Ill., said, 'To those who
believe we can overturn a Supreme
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to follow their own rules, fix them if
there's a problem, but follow them until
then."
Congress members said they thought
the controversy could have been
avoided if the code conflict had been
handled differently.
"It was Jeff Beall's handling of it
that was lacking," Heyd said. "Bill came
away feeling like he'd been had."
Bagenstos agreed. "It seemed very
much like an ambush for Jeff to bring it
up on the floor of the congress without
discussing it with Bill beforehand."
Elliott said, "The mistakes are tech
nical, and it embarrassed the hell out of
a fine member of congress and put him
on the spot."
Beall said he had been aware of
Stallings' conflict since the summer
but had not seen any advantage in dis
cussing it with Stallings before
Wednesday's meeting because congress
members were already aware of the
conflict. "They knew it was wrong.
They were pulling the wool over
everyone's eyes and running it through.
They were relying on the good old boy
network and it failed."
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ronmental requirements.
Delaying the liftoff with a restrain
ing order probably would cause NASA
to miss the launching window to Jupi
ter, which closes in mid-November, the
judge told The New York Times. The
next available launching opportunity
would be in 1991 and would cost an
additional $ 164 million to maintain the
$1.5 billion program until then.
The groups said they would submit
an emergency appeal to a higher court.
Court decision at this time by statute, I
can only repeat the immortal words of
the farmer who, asked directions, said,
"you can't get there from here.'"
Supporters of the bill said the word
ing had been carefully fashioned to
withstand court challenges, banning flag
defacement regardless of whether it
involved political protest.
"It is the act of harming the physical
integrity of the flag rather than any
message that the action might convey
that is to be punished," Judiciary
Committee Chairman Jack Brooks, D
Texas, told the House.
Brooks said the bill has been framed
in a "content neutral manner."
But that idea drew scoffing from
some Republicans, who said that any
bill to ban flag burning by simple stat
ute would be overturned for the same
reasons as the Texas case.
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heard cases over the summer were not
legitimate members," Davis said.
"Except for the honor court president
and vice president, who are chosen by
their own rigid method, there will be no
honor court members until the bill
confirming them is signed."
Grounds exist for an appeal against
decisions made by illegitimate honor
court members, Davis said. "Any deci
sion made with an illegitimate member
of the court serving could be brought
into question."
Philip Floyd, acting attorney gen
eral, said the spirit of the instrument
was more important than the literal
interpretation. "Congress is basically a
rubber stamp. Congress is there to
confirm honor court members, not to
give them a critical review."
Floyd said no more than 15 cases
came before the honor court this sum
mer. Ruth Dowling, honor court chair
woman, said she felt comfortable with
the decisions made by the unconfirmed
court members.
"The summer court did its job. We
had three new court members who
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Catholic bishops denounce
safe sex education in schools
From Associated Wire Reports
NEW YORK The U.S. Roman
Catholic Church should drop its
qualified support for education about
condoms in public schools as a way
of preventing AIDS and should urge
that youngsters be taught chastity
instead, a committee of bishops said
Thursday.
"There is no such thing as safe, or
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Angeles, chairman of the Ad Hoc
Committee on the HIV Statement.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
The committee's draft statement
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by the church's 50-member Admin
istrative Board in December 1987,
which said the church could tolerate
public schools' providing informa
tion about condoms as long as sexual
abstinence outside of marriage was
presented as the "only morally cor
rect and medically sure way" to
prevent AIDS.
The wide-ranging statement also
opposes universal mandatory AIDS
testing, calls for increasing federal
funds for AIDS research and de
nounces violence and discrimination
against AIDS victims as immoral.
Computer users running scared
NEW YORK Fears that a
computer virus will trash informa
tion on some portable computers are
overblown, experts said Thursday,
but some alarmed users have taken
steps to make sure they don't wake
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served this summer, but they were all
well trained before they sat on any
cases. It would not have made any
difference in the decisions if the mem
bers had been certified or not."
Floyd said students who were found
guilty by unconfirmed members of the
honor court had a right to an appeal on
the grounds of a violation of their basic
rights. But, he added, the results of any
retrial probably would be the same
because all court members have the
same training and make decisions on
the same precedents.
"I am not concerned that there is
legitimate cause for appeal," Floyd said.
"I don't think there is any question of
the quality of the court members.
Whether or not they (the honor court
members) had been confirmed had no
effect on the cases."
Cherry Crawford, a two-year honor
court member, said court members'
training, not Student Congress confir
mation, qualified them to hear cases. "I
could understand (an appeal) if the
members had no training, but just being
confirmed by Student Congress would
make no difference in the decisions."
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News in Brief
up Friday the 1 3th with the infection.
"Our advice to people is stopr
worrying," said Dennis Steinauer of.',
the National Institute of Standards '
and Technology. "People should;
make a backup copy of their files and
don't call me in the morning."
But others feel the threat is real
from the so-called Columbus Day
virus, programmed to activate after
computers' internal clocks hit 12:01
a.m. Friday and begin doing its dirty"
work when an operator begins using
an infected program.
The Columbus Day virus, also
known as Datacrime, is programmed
to scramble indexing information in'
IBM or IBM-compatible personal
computers. It would be the equiva
lent of zapping index cards in a li
brary so books would be impossible
to locate. r
U.S. accused of coup involvement,
LOS ANGELES Panamanian'
officers who led last week's abortive '
coup were recruited and paid more
than $1 million by the U.S. govern-'-ment,
Gen. Manuel Noriega charged
in an interview published today.
Noriega also said Nicaraguan con
tras and Panamanian businessmen'
delivered money and relayed mes
sages between U.S. officials and coup
plotters, the Los Angeles Times and'
The Boston Globe reported.
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Many area residents also expressed
their opposition concerning the septic
system in the sanctuary site.
Bobby Kirk, a dairy farmer, said lie
had dealt with a lot of animal waste. He
said he was concerned about the septic
system because he thought the land did
not perk. Septic waste cannot dissolve
in soil that does not percolate, or is
impermeable.
Hubert Morrow, a local property
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animals might escape and attack people,
especially children. .
"The kennel may be for a good cause,
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