Space shuttle flight
cut short by generator
1CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Space shuttle Columbia and its
seven astronauts will return to
Earth on Tuesday, 12 days earlier
than planned, because of a deteri
orating and potentially explosive
power generator.
It is only the third time in space
shuttle history that a mission has
been cut short by equipment fail
ure.
While NASA considered com
mander James Halsell Jr. and his
crew to be in no immediate dan
ger, shuttle managers did not
want to take any chances with the
generator and, on Sunday, cut
short the 16-day science mission.
“The conservative thing to do
is land on Tuesday,” shuttle pro
gram manager Tommy Holloway
announced at a hastily arranged
news conference.
Holloway said a Monday land
ing was ruled out in order to al
low for an orderly return, and be
cause Columbia’s two other
electricity-producing fuel cells
were working fine.
The fear was that hydrogen fuel
and oxygen in the degraded gen
erator could mix, overheat and
blow up if voltage in the unit
dropped far enough. Flight con
trollers had the astronauts turn off
the unit Sunday to reduce, if not
eliminate, that risk. The crew also
shut down all non-critical equip
ment to conserve power.
Football owner Cooke
dies of heart attack
2WASHINGTON — Jack Kent
Cooke, the crusty entrepreneur
whose Washington Redskins won
three Super Bowls, died Sunday
of cardiac arrest. He was 84.
Cooke collapsed Sunday morn
ing at his northwest Washington
estate. “When paramedics arrived
... his heart was not beating, ’’said
Dr. Robert Shesser, emergency
room chief at George Washington
University Hospital, where Cooke
was pronounced dead shortly af
ter noon, 35 minutes after arrival.
Blizzard incapacitates
northern Plains states
3 BISMARCK, N.D. — A bliz
zard shut down much of the
northern Plains on Sunday with
blinding wind-blown snow and
drifts up to 20 feet high, strand
ing travelers and making life mis
erable for volunteers sandbag
ging flood-threatened towns.
Hundreds of miles of high
ways were closed in Wyoming,
the Dakotas, Nebraska and the
eastern edge of Montana. Thou
sands were without electricity.
Zaire rebel upset by
American presence
4GOMA, Zaire — Rebel leader
Laurent Kabila objected Sun
day to the presence of American
troops on Zaire’s border, calling
them a threat to his country’s in
tegrity.
"They could move in at any
time. They don’t recognize the
sovereignty of our people,” Kabila
said at rebel headquarters in east
ern Zaire.
Kabila also said there should be
no international intervention in
Zaire.
Clinton urges talks for
Palestine, Israel
5 WASHINGTON — U.S. offi
cials pleaded Sunday for Is
raeli and Palestinian leaders to
shed their hard-line stances and
renew face-to-face consultations
as President Clinton prepared to
meet with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat insists building must stop
on an Israeli housing project in
east Jerusalem before long-stand
ing disagreements can he re
solved.
Netanyahu pressed his case
Sunday with his closest friend
among Arab leaders, King Hus
sein of Jordan, who was recover
ing from prostate surgery at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
The U.S. government, mean
while, urged the two sides to
agree to a face-to-face meeting to
salvage a shaky Middle East
peace process.
“The United States remains
committed to securing a just,
lasting and comprehensive
peace between Israel and her
neighbors,” said Bill Richardson,
U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations. “But, in the end, the
success of the process depends
on the willingness of the Pales
tinians and the Israelis to work
together as negotiating partners.”
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