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Shuttle Discovery: Still sitting on the launch pad Power unit malfunction leads to launch delay

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA scrubbed the launch of Discovery with the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope today when a problem developed four minutes before liftoff in one of the units that supplies power to the shuttle’s wing and tail surfaces. There was no immediate word on whether launch would be rescheduled for Wednesday. All the other worries, about weather at the Kennedy Space Center and at emergency landing sites overseas had been swept away and the countdown proceeded without a hitch to the four minute mark pointing toward a launch at 8:47 a.m. EDT. But then Commander Loren J. Shriver noticed that one of the auxiliary power units was running too fast and reported the fact at launch control. The APUs are critical to the shuttle only when it lifts off and lands. The scrub was a disappointment to the hundreds of astronomers who had gathered at the space center to watch the launch of Discovery and the telescope that it carries in its cargo bay.

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Hubble, the most expensive unmanned spacecraft ever built, has been waiting to take its place in space since 1983 delayed by technical problems and the 1986 Challenger explosion. The crew, wearing bright orange flight suits, had spent nearly three hours on their backs in the cockpit, waiting for Discovery to blast off on the 35th space shuttle mission. Discovery was aiming for an altitude of 380 miles, the highest a shuttle has ever gone, so that the telescope can operate safely above Earth’s obscuring atmosphere. Hubble will be capable during its 15-year working lifetime of detecting objects 50 times fainter and with 10 times greater clarity than the best ground-based observatory. It will allow astronomers to study stars and galaxies so distant their light has been traveling to Earth for 14 billion years. It may shed light on how and when the universe was formed, solve the mysteries of quasars, pulsars and black holes, even find stars with planets that could conceivably support life.

Abu Nidal releases French woman, Belgian man and their daughter

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The Palestinian terrorist group led by Abu Nidal today freed a French woman, a Belgian man and the daughter bom to them in captivity. The couple had been seized from a French yacht nearly 2Vi years ago. Jacqueline Valente, 32, Ferdinand Houtekins, 43, and 2-year-old Sophie-Liberte were released by masked gunmen who sped up to the main gate of the French Embassy in three cars with drawn curtains, police said. A POLICE spokesman said French Ambassador Rene Ala “apparently had advance notice of the release. Ala was waiting at a cement outpost manned by French Marine guards near the main gate” of the West Beirut compound. French Embassy spokesman Francois Abi Saab said the three were “OK.” He said Houtekins was “clean shaven and looked relaxed.” In Paris, a special plane left for Beirut and was expected to return with the three later today. Hours after the release, Walid Khaled, spokesman for the terrorist group, the Fatah-Revolutionary Council, drove to the French Embassy and said he would release a statement “after my talks with French diplomats.” FATAH ANNOUNCED on Nov.

U.S. signals harder line to El Salvador, rebels

WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration is signaling it intends to take a harder line toward El Salvador’s government and the leftist guerrillas who have waged a decade-long civil war, officials say. The new policy is coming about through discussions with Congress, where El Salvador remains a leading sore point in foreign policy. A FIRST ROUND OF contacts came last week between Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 and congressional leaders of both parties. Baker aides said the visits on Capitol Hill were intended to indicate a willingness to rethink the U.S. policy of undiluted support for the Salvadoran government On one side, the issue is being propelled by mounting concern among congressional liberals over human rights lapses in the tiny Central American country and in particular the murders last year of six Jesuit priests. From the administration’s standpoint, a bipartisan agreement on U.S. policy would blunt a thorny domestic political issue and enhance chances for success at United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva between the Salvadoran government and the leftist rebels. The civil war has cost an estimated 70,000 lives. SUCCESS IN those talks is par-

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8,1987 it had seized hostages from the French yacht Silco in the Mediterranean off the Gaza strip. It accused them of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Friends said the group was on a holiday cruise. The Abu Nidal group had acknowledged holding Valente, 32, Sophie and five Belgians: Houtekins, his brother Emmanuel, and Emmanuel’s wife and teen-age daughter and son. A boy bom to

ticularly important to Bernard Aronson, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. Aides said he has a deep personal desire to promote peace in what remains the most serious trouble spot in the hemisphere. “My sense is there will be some restriction on aid to the government of El Salvador, conditioned on an effective investigation and prosecution of the Jesuit murders,” said a senior congressional Republican, speaking on condition of anonymity. At least two serious complications threaten the discussions.

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Ms. Valente in captivity in March 1989 died shortly after birth, French government sources said. Because the boat hostages were believed to have been held in Libya, the case is considered unrelated to the 18 Westerners held hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem factions. ON WEDNESDAY, Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi urged the release of Ms. Valente as a compassionate measure on the occasion of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. Khaled had said Monday three European hostages would be freed by the end of Ramadan, about April 26 depending on when the new moon is sighted. Jan Hollants Van Loocke, a Belgian official, said at the same news conference he was in Lebanon to negotiate the Belgians’ release. He said Fatah had linked freedom for the four other Belgians to the release of Nasser Sa’eed, a Palestinian jailed in Belgium for a June 1980 grenade attack on Jewish youths in Antwerp. A 15-year-old was killed in the attack and 20 people injured. TWO OTHER daughters of Ms. Valente were freed after Libyan intervention on Dec. 29, 1988. Daughter Marie-Laure was 6 at the

CONGRESSIONAL sources said shipments of weapons to the FMLN rebels from Nicaragua have tripled in the past month, since the leftist Sandinista government in Managua lost in national elections. The stepped-up shipments apparently are an effort to build stockpiles before a new government takes over and the weapons pipeline is shut down, the sources said. And there are indications that the Salvadoran government may be unable to successfully prosecute Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides, the highest-ranking officer indicted in the Jesuit slayings, because of in-

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time and Virginie was 5. They were returned to their father Pascal Betille, divorced from Ms. Valente. The two girls surfaced in Libya, where the others were believed held. In Paris, France’s foreign minister credited Gadhafi with the freeing of the hostages and expressed satisfaction with the Libyan leader for this “noble and humanitarian gesture.” “ITS REAL VALUE will be appreciated in the future of relations between France and Libya,” Roland Dumas said. He expressed hope the remaining four Belgians would be released without delay. Khaled said Monday that freedom for the four was contingent on the release of Nasser Sa’eed, sentenced to life in prison for a June 1980 grenade attack targeting Jewish youths in Antwerp. A 15-year-old was killed in the attack and 20 people injured. The Fatah-Revolutionary Council has been blamed for scores of terrorist acts, including the December 1985 attacks on Rome and Vienna airports that killed more than 20 people and the September 1986 attack on an Istanbul synagogue that killed 21 worshipers.

sufficient evidence and a weak judicial system. MEETINGS BETWEEN Baker and members of Congress, reminiscent of the process the secretary followed last year to forge a bipartisan policy on Nicaragua, will resume after lawmakers return from their Easter recess on April 18. “This break allows time for the talks in Geneva to proceed,” said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “If they make headway, it will be a lot easier for us to get a bipartisan accord.”

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