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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 12,1990

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Quayle quandary Vice president’s Latin America trip already on stormy course

WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Dan Quayle’s mission to soothe Latin American ire over the U.S. invasion of Panama is on a stormy course even before his itinerary is set, diplomatic sources said. “People are very skeptical about it You invade and then you try to convince us that an invasion is not an invasion. He tries to patronize us,” said a Costa Rican official, referring to President Bush. QUAYLE’S OFFICE SAID no Latin countries have refused to talk to the vice president, but other sources said sentiment in Venezuela is such that Caracas could signal it does not welcome a visit at this time. “Maybe the government will say, ‘OK, you are welcome, but in two or three years,’” said one diplomatic source, laughing to indicate he was exaggerating the Venezuelan resistance to the Quayle trip. Venezuela has been one of the harshest critics of the military action. Some countries welcomed Bush’s gesture in sending Quayle to explain the invasion of Panama. “It’s a gesture, no?” asked an official from one nation. BUT OTHER LATIN diplomats predicted Quayle will have a tough time succeeding at what Bush termed “very, very important diplomacy” in presenting the U.S. rationale for the military invasion. The Costa Rican said in a telephone interview Thursday from San Jose that his country, because of its pro-U.S. stance, will welcome Quayle, but predicted reaction in some South American nations will likely be “very icy.” The White House has not announced what

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countries Quayle will visit or a timetable for the trip other than that he will keep a previous commitment to attend the Jan. 27 presidential inauguration in Honduras. Stops in several Central American and South American nations could come in a subsequent trip, as well as further opportunities for discussions with heads of state during Quayle’s expected attendance at the March presidential inaugurations in Brazil and Chile. BUSH AND OTHER officials have acknowledged the invasion of Panama strained U.S. relations with Latin nations. The Organization of American States voted to deplore the military action. By sending Quayle to the region, Bush said he hoped to explain his reasons for the invasion and convince Latins of “the truth and that is that we are not just reverting to just a willful... use of force that has no rationale.” But Latin officials say it will take some major convincing, and some say it’s not the best time for Quayle to visit. “The people of Latin America will be more comfortable if the United States gets its troops home as soon as possible and helps Panama carry out an election,” said one Latin diplomatic source in Washington. ASKED ABOUT THOSE rumblings, whicn also surfaced in Caracas media reports, one administration official tersely replied: “Just as we’re always happy to accommodate the visits by Caribbean and Latin leaders, I’m sure they will be pleased to welcome the vice president.” “I have no indication that Venezuela or anyone else is not willing to talk with us,” said Quayle’s press secretary, David Beckwith.

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Venezuela abstained from the OAS vote deploring the invasion, saying the resolution was not strong enough and should have tied recognition of the U.S.-installed government of President Guillermo Endara to withdrawal of the U.S. invasion troops. In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon was confronted by an angry, rock-throwing mob in Caracas during a goodwill tour to several Latin American countries. Rioters attacked the stalled cars, shattered windows in Nixon’s limousine and tried to drag Nixon and his wife, Patricia, from the car. The motorcade managed to escape the mob. THE LATIN COUNTRIES, like the United States, opposed the dictatorship of Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, but they have voiced dismay at what they see as U.S. heavyhandedness in invading to topple him. Latin diplomats, whose national economies are tightly interwoven with U.S. assistance, were cautious in discussing the Quayle trip and spoke only on condition of anonymity. “Something had to be done with Noriega, but that doesn’t mean an invasion an uninvited invasion,” said a Bolivian diplomatic source. The source said it was hoped that Quayle’s trip would produce more than the already voiced U.S. explanation. “THE SYMBOLISM WILL play a very important role, but if he has something significant to say, of course that will be very important,” the diplomat said. Quayle’s trip is only one step in mending relations, said another South American diplomat “There must be future steps.”

Shuttle crew salvages satellite

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Columbia’s astronauts caught up with an orbiting science lab Friday morning and moved in to capture it with the space shuttle’s robot arm and save it from a fiery doom in the atmosphere. Commander Dan Brandenstein guided the spaceship to a position about 400 feet directly above the target, with the shuttle flying upside down, its open cargo bay facing the satellite. BRANDENSTEIN and pilot Jim Wetherbee then pulsed their steering jets to gingerly approach the Long Duration Exposure Facility. In the bay was a 50-foot mechanical arm, which mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar was to extend to grasp LDEF, which is 30 feet long and weighs 11 tons. Astronauts have retrieved satellites before, but never one that big. After Brandenstein adjusted

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Columbia’s speed to match that of the satellite, both were racing in formation around the Earth 201 miles up at more than 17,400 mph. THE SUCCESSFUL rendezvous ended a celestial chase that began with Columbia’s launch on Tuesday and covered 1.3 million miles during which the astronauts circled the globe 50 times. Brandenstein reported the astronauts first spotted LDEF

Artificial heart future could be in electric version, experts say

PHILADELPHIA (AP) The air-driven artificial heart failed as a permanent device but, scientists report, work continues on a new generation of plastic hearts that would let patients live independent of external machines. Some researchers say the Food and Drug Administration’s withdrawal of approval for the Jarvik-7 device might hurt their work by creating doubt about the long-term feasibility of artificial hearts. THEY AGREE that the future of artificial hearts lies in totally transplantable devices, such as battery-run devices that also could use external energy sources. Some day, a patient’s plastic heart may beat from current flowing from his car’s cigarette lighter, says Dr. Donald Olsen, a University of Utah researcher developing the Utah-100 hydraulic heart. “The air-drive heart has failed as a permanent device,” said Dr. William Pierce of the Penn State Medical Center in Hershey. Pierce implanted Penn State’s first total artificial heart, like the Jarvik-7 a pneumatic device, in 1985. But the risk of strokes and infection facing recipients of the

Thursday night. It was glinting in the sunlight nearly 200 miles away, he said, and was “as bright as could be.” When the crew awakened early today, LDEF was 108 miles in front of them and Brandenstein and Wetherbee gradually narrowed the gap with a series of intricate en-gine-firing maneuvers. SHORTLY BEFORE 7 am., observers at Cape Canaveral

‘Great Attractor’ tugs on Milky Way: Study

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) Like an immense gravitational magnet, a vast celestial structure nicknamed “the great attractor” is pulling powerfully at the Milky Way and more than 100 other galaxies, causing a dramatic distortion in the normal expansion of the nearby universe. THE STRUCTURE has been shown in new studies to be pulling on galaxies from across more than 100 million light years of space, astronomer Alan Dressier said Thursday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Dressier, with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said he and Sandra Faber of the University of California at Santa Cruz have confirmed the influence of the great attractor by measuring the movements of about 400 galaxies and comparing that motion with what is considered normal for an expanding universe. More than 100 galaxies were found to have a “peculiar motion” that pointed toward the center of what Dressier labeled the great at-

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air-driven heart who remain mostly bedridden in hospitals, linked by tubes to large compressors has sapped early hopes for the device. “It’s more than what people want to accept,” Pierce said Thursday. RECIPIENTS OF the electric heart, who will wear a battery pack, will be able to walk, exercise and even work, he said. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is financing research at Penn State, the University of Utah, the Texas Heart Institute and the Cleveland Clinic on electric artificial hearts. Gerson Rosenberg, a biomedical engineer who leads. Penn State’s electric heart: development, said the school is in the third year of its 5 *A-year contract from the NHLBI and is. testing the device in calves. Penn State’s air-driven device now is the only FDA-approved total heart. Rosenberg predicted the FDA • will consider a totally implantable, electric heart by the late 19905.

watched for about two minutes as Columbia and LDEF passed directly overhead, both shining brightly in the reflective rays of the rising sun. They were about 14 miles apart. Two miles out, the astronauts sent to Earth the first television pictures of the target. Dunbar was to hold the huge payload on the end of the arm for four hours, twisting it slowly, while mission specialists Marsha Ivins and David Low photographed all of its 57 experiments from every angle. “SOME MIGHT have become so eroded or weakened by the long exposure to space and bombardment by micrometeoroids and atomic oxygen that they could fall apart during the stress of atmospheric re-entry or a return to Earth’s gravity,” Dunbar said. “We want good documentary photos in case that happens.”

tractor. CURRENT THEORY is that the universe is expanding at a steady rate, hence ail galaxies are moving in one direction at a constant rate. “The great attractor is a large area of density in which galaxies are moving toward it from one side and toward it from the othei',”' Dressier, Faber and five other astronomers, called the “Seven Samurai” in the astronomy community, presented preliminary evidence for the presence of the great attractor in 1987. “We had found a rather large lump,” Dressier said. Their studies then showed that only galaxies on the same side as the Milky Way were being drawn toward the attractor. MEASUREMENTS, he said, have determined that the great attractor is about 500 million light years across and that the center of the structure is about 150 million light years away from the Milky Way, which is the home of the sun and the Earth.