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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, November 9,1984

Discovery crew chasing wayward satellites

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery s astronauts are making small adjustments in their orbit to catch up, slowly but steadily, to two off-course satellites that will be salvaged by spacewalkingastronauts. Three more engine firings were planned today to further reduce the gap between hunter and hunted in the intricate game of celestial cat-and-mouse. The goal: Catch the first satellite, Palapa 82, on Monday and the second, Westar 6, on Wednesday. Before the wayward satellites can be captured, the astronauts must empty the shuttle’s cargo bay of two commercial communications satellites. The first is to

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U.S, keeping eye on Soviet delivery Nicaragua arming civilians for predicted invasion by U.S.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) The Sandinista government says it is arming civilians, including 20,000 student volunteers who normally help harvest coffee, to defend itself from a predicted U.S. invasion. Claiming that an “escalation of aggression’’ indicated an invasion was imminent, Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto announced Thursday night that the leftist government was mobilizing its reserve defense forces. He also told reporters and foreign diplomats that Nicaragua was requesting an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to denounce the alleged acts of aggression, saying they “pose a situation that is extremely grave.” He charged that a U.S. spy plane caused sonic booms Thursday over Managua and listed several other complaints. These included “harassment” of a Soviet freighter by U.S. Navy frigates inside Nicaraguan waters, deployment of U.S. warships in the Caribbean and Pacific, and “very suspicious movements” in at least three U.S. Army bases in the United States. Pentagon spokesmen refused to comment on the overflights, but denied that U.S. Navy vessels had entered Nicaraguan waters. They also denied a Sandinista claim that a U.S. military plane was chased away by gunfire Wednesday near

Hoosier economy set to grow, IU economists predict

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) Unemployment in Indiana will fall from its current 7.5 percent level to near 6 percent by the end of the year as Hoosiers see their real personal income rise 5 percent, Indiana University economists say. Starting a statewide tour Thursday, the IU Business Outlook Panel noted the state’s economy will grow because of employment gains and declining interest rates. The panel, which has issued an annual forecast for 12 years, makes state and national predictions prepared by IU economists and business professors who specialize in analyzing changing economic conditions.

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be released late today for Telesat of Canada. The second, owned by Hughes Communications Services, is to be dropped off Saturday. Telesat is paying the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $lO million, and Hughes, with a bigger satellite, sl7 million for the delivery service. Commander Rick Hauck and pilot David Walker began the satellite pursuit within an hour after Discovery soared into orbit Thursday, triggering the first of 44 engine firings intended to bring the ship within 35 feet of Palapa on Monday. As the chase began, with shuttle and

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MIGUEL D'ESCOTO Nicaraguan Foreign Minister

the Pacific port of Corinto, where the Soviet frieghter docked In Washington, Reagan administration officials raised the possibility the Soviet vessel may not contain MiG fighters, as had been suggested, but less sophisticated Czech-built L-39-ZA trainer plane. Unlike the MiG-21s, the L-39-ZA is subsonic and its air-to-ground capability would make it useful against U.S.-backed

Banksjoin prime drop

c. 1984 N.Y. Times NEW YORK Joining a movement started by Citibank on Wednesday, most of the nation’s major banks lowered their prime lending rates Thursday by a quarter of a percentage point, to 11 :, 4 percent. They included the Manufacturers

Projections for the state are based on data from the Indiana Econometric Model, which combines Indiana data with national forecasts.

satellte racing around the globe at more than 17,400 mph, Palapa was about 17,000 miles ahead at an altitude of 224 miles, 40 miles higher than Discovery. Westar is 720 miles ahead of Palapa. The spaceship is to draw alongside Palapa and fly in formation with it while mission specialists Joe Allen and Dale Gardner move outside for the retrieval. Allen is to fly free of Discovery, propelling himself with a jet-powered backpack, to attach a pole-like device in the satellite’s engine nozzle to secure it. Mission specialist Anna Fisher is to

Nicaraguan rebels fighting the Sandinistas. The Reagan administration has said it would regard any delivery of MiGs with “utmost concern” and has not ruled out the possibility of a pre-emptive strike to neutralize them. Nicaragua has denied receiving advanced warplanes. Pentagon officials said military exercises by U.S. forces were under way at Fort Stewart, Ga., but were not related to Nicaragua. D’Escoto mentioned Fort Stewart as one of the military installations where “suspicious movements” were taking place. At a rally late Thursday in Managua, Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock announced that “general plans for the defense of the country will begin as of today and a rifle will be issued to every youth, to every person so that person can defend the homeland.” Wheelock, a colonel in the Sandinista army, told some of the 20,000 students who are recruited annually to help with the coffee harvest that they will instead be sent to barracks to form part of the national militia. Wheelock said the coffee crop Nicaragua’s top export will be picked by “old people, women and farmers.” "We prefer the loss of the coffee than the loss of the country,” he said.

Hanover Trust Co., the Bankers Trust Co. and the Chemical Bank, all of New York; the Bank of America, the Security Pacific National Bank, the Crocker National Bank, and the First Interstate Bank, all of California, and the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago.

“If everything breaks right, our econometric model indicates a gain of 100,000 jobs in the state, which will bring us close to our pre-recession employment peak,” said panelist Morton J. Marcus, research economist at the IU School of Business. However, Marcus said after the forecast was released, “It’s hard to imagine that number would be correct. If it doesn’t come about we’ll know that either the positions have changed or the model needs to be worked on.” The projection also contradicts findings of a congressional subcommittee hearing Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., convened in Indianapolis in July. Witnesses from four

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grasp Palapa with a 50-foot robot arm and Allen and Gardner are to latch it firmly in the cargo bay. Gardner is to wear the jetpack for the Westar rescue. The satellites, worth $35 million each new, are to be returned to Earth, refurbished and resold by insurance companies which paid out SIBO million in claims when the payloads were injected into useless orbits by faulty rocket motors last February. The companies, with Lloyd’s of London having the biggest share, are paying the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $5.5 million for the salvage job. Man killed as car rams license branch MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) A car smasheo through a wall of a license branch, killing a man and injuring his wife, authorities said. Ralph H. Markins, 74, of Muncie, died in the crash at the Delaware County License Branch Thursday, police said. His wife, Ollie Markins, 57, was listed in stable condition in Ball Memorial Hospital. Police charged the driver, Mildred Morgan, 76, who escaped injury, with a preliminary count of reckless driving Witnesses told police the woman pulled into a parking spot outside the west door of the building when the car lurched forward through the wall, running over Markins’ as they sat waiting for service. One witness said the car seemed to be accelerating as it passed through the building. Prostitution ring broken at Muncie MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - “A major prostitution ring" was cracked, police said, with arrests of three Muncie residents. Police Chief Donald Scroggins identified the suspects Thursday as Evelyn Gibson, 56, arrested on three counts of promoting prostitution; Julius Mcintosh, 41, arrested on two counts of promoting prostitution and ofie count of patronizing prostitutes; and Greg Mayse, 26, arrested on one charge of obscene performance and one charge of possessing hashish and marijuana. Scroggins said the arrests followed a lengthy investigation, which is continuing and may result in arrests in other counties. He said charges of promoting child prostitution may also be filed because five of the 13 females involved were under 16, and two others were under 18.

sectors of the state’s economy testified. Almost all of the 14 witnesses indicated the areas they represented manufacturing, services, agriculture and high technology could not provide more jobs in the future. Marcus said Conditions necessary for such employment gains include a 1.5 percent decline in interest rates for major consumer purchases, oil prices remaining steady and no increase in the federal deficit. And members of the panel predict that such conditions are likely. The IU economists project continued economic expansion through 1985, although they expect the rate of expansion to be slower than in 1984. This slower growth is favorable, they believe, because “it reduces the risks of resurging inflation down the line in 1985 and 1986.” “We believe the economy is poised for a soft landing after its rapid rebound from the 1981-82 recession,” said panelist R. Jeffery Green, IU professor of economics. “We also expect the prime rate to drop by 1 percent and long-term rates to fall next year,” he said.

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This statue of American soldiers of the Vietnam War was unveiled in Washington, D.C., today at its permanent location about 100 feet from the Vietnam Memorial. The trio of seven-foot figures was designed by

Vietnam War statue dedication Sunday in nation's capital

By BARBARA GAMAREKIAN c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - The three bronze figures, dressed in the gear of the combat soldier, gaze intently ahead. Their eyes are wary and shadowed. W'hat is it they see? What are they searching for? The three figures comprise a military statue that has been added to the site of the Vietnam Memorial, the simple polished black granite wall engraved with the names of Americans killed in that war. The statue was unveiled today and will be dedicated Sunday, Veterans Day, when more than 300,000 veterans of all wars are expected here for a round of ceremonies. The statue has been placed, along with the United States flag, in a sort of vestibule entryway to the memorial about 100 feet away. The soldiers are stepping out of a grove of trees looking in the direction of the wall and its sea of names. “It’s as if they had come unexpectedly upon the wall as a kind of a vision, or a metaphor for the war itself a brooding, unknowing, unknowable, tragic presence,” said Frederick Hart, the Washington sculptor who was commissioned to execute the statue. “One marine who saw the model wrote me: ‘They are searching for their own names.’ ” As if also serving as a metaphor for the unpopular war, controversy has surrounded the Vietnam Memorial from its inception. And it gives no sign of letting up with the addition of Hart’s statue, which he says has been criticized as too militaristic and not militaristic enough. The black wall that is the Vietnam Memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin, whose plan won out over those of 1,400 other competitors in 1981. Those other competitors, incidentally, included Hart, who was said to be the highest ranking figurative sculptor in the group. Some veterans and other critics of Miss Lin’s design called the wall “a black gash of shame and sorrow” and said it failed to commemorate the patriotism and heroic quality of the Vietnam veterans. When it was decided in 1982, after much more controversy, to add a military sculpture to the memorial, these same critics favored a plan that would place the statue and flag at the vertex of the V-shaped wall Hart, having been chosen to create the sculpture, disagreed with that suggestion. He said that when he sat down to work on this new project, his main problem was the stylistic inconsistency between the realistic figures that emerged from his drawing board and the more allegorical black wall designed by Miss Lin. “My solution was to put the figures completely away from the wall, to preserve the autonomy and integrity of that simple, clean design,” he said, adding that he had also tried to keep the

Frederick Hart, a Washington sculptor, who said they are intended to represent three men about the age of 19 - one white, one black and the third having undefined ethnic features. (N.Y. Times photo)

“The wall is like a sea of tragedy and these three figures are there confronting it, but it doesn’t make them beaten. By their very fragility, their interdependence, they have a heroicism that 1 think truly did exist among Vietnam veterans.’’ --Frederick Hart

figures small so as not to compete with the wall in any sense. “But that created a problem, too,” he said. “You didn’t want to create two memorials as such. You wanted something that was integrated, that had unity with the wall. My solution was to have the figures looking on the wall.” One of the seven-foot-tall figures is a black, one is fair-haired, and the third has facial features that Hart explains as “ethnic features in a sense he could be Jewish, Lebanese, Indian.” The men are “about the age of 19," Hart said, “the average age of the Vietnam soldier. I tried to portray that intimacy and interdependence and mutual love that men in combat share for each other, sort of a loose physical contact, a sense that they are about to whisper to each other about something they see.” When his model of the statue for the Vietnam Memorial was unveiled to the public, it was criticized by architectual purists who wanted the memorial left untouched and by those who cried out for a more heroic work. In retrospect, Hart says, he thinks he was a bit naive about what he would be able to accomplish. But the final test, he feels, will come when people view the two elements in place. “My long vision was never thinking of the sculpture solely as a thing by itself,” he said. “I was trying to create an interactive event between two inanimate elements that are echoing and resonating back and forth. The wall is one event and the sculpture is one event, but the two of them together is yet another matter What kind of an effect will you get? What kind of interaction?” He paused, then added: “If you can image three little figures on a seashore looking out to the ocean in the scale of that relationship they are very vulnerable. This is a similar thing to me. The wall is like a sea of tragedy and these three figures are there confronting it, but it doesn’t make them beaten By their very fragility, their interdependence, they have a heroicism that I think truly did exist among Vietnam veterans.”