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Commoner is wife to Akihito’s son TOKYO (AP) Sipping sacred rice wine in a shrine to the sun goddess, Emperor Akihito’s youngest son and his college sweetheart were wed today as millions of Japanese watched on television. Flanked by imperial ritualists, Prince Aya, 24, and Kiko Kawashima, 23, knelt together in the Imperial Palace shrine to the goddess Amaterasu, from whom legend says the royal family is descended. MISS KAWASHIMA, a graduate student, is the second commoner to marry into the royal family, and the marriage was seen as another step in bringing the imperial palace and Japan’s people closer together. The ceremony also was being hailed as the public’s first taste of the new imperial era, called Heisei or “achieving peace,” which began with the death of Emperor Hirohito on Jan. 7, 1989. The new emperor, Akihito, has been credited with trying to create a more open, softer image for Japan’s often distant and mysterious imperial family. STILL, MUCH OF today’s wedding cermony was in line with Japanese traditions going back more than 1,000 years. The prince, speaking the classical Japanese used by priests of Japan’s indigenous Shinto religion, recited vows to the sun goddess. The couple sealed their nuptial bonds by sipping sacred rice wine from a white ceramic cup. Aya was clad in a black silk robe and cap with an arched tailpiece signifying his royal rank. The bride wore a green, maroon and orange kimono, nearly a dozen layers thick and reportedly weighing 50 pounds.
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Senate goes for assault gun ban; police get credit
WASHINGTON (AP) Police groups who have campaigned against semiautomatic assault rifles are getting the credit following a narrow vote by the Senate to maintain curbs on nine such weapons in an omnibus anticrime bill. “Why we won is that law enforcement did a better lobbying job than the National Rifle Association,” Sen. Dennis DeConcini, DAriz., said Thursday after the Senate voted 50-48 to maintain the curbs. TOUGHER PENALTIES for federal firearms violations, sexual abuse of children and selling the new narcotic drug “ice” also went into the bill as senators worked past midnight this morning. The Senate also rejected efforts to drop numerous death penalty provisions in the anticrime bill. It did vote to let Indians decide for themselves whether to impose capital punishment for murders committed on reservations. Central provisions of the bill call for capital punishment for 30 federal crimes and streamline the appeals process with an eye to ending delays of up to a decade in carrying out executions. THE SENATE, ADJOURNED until after the Fourth of July recess, plans to vole on passage of the overall anticrime package when it returns. Forty-two Democrats and eight Republicans voted to uphold the ban on import or manufacture in this country of the nine semiautomatic assault weapons while 36 Republicans and 12 Democrats voted against. The result was a further blow to the National Rifle Association which has been fighting the restrictions. THE FRATERNAL Order of Police, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and an array of other law enforcement groups have been campaigning against assault weapons. They say the military-style rifles and semiautomatic pistols are too dangerous
Hubble trouble pinpointed to way mirrors made
WASHINGTON (AP) An error in the grinding and polishing of the main mirrors aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has been pinpointed as the cause of a focus flaw that crippled the $1.5 billion orbiting observatory. An official of Hughes Danbury Optical Co., which manufactured the mirrors, said Thursday night that experiments with signals from the Hubble have confirmed that a mistake was made in the tedious three-year process of making the primary and secondary Hubble mir-
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SEN. PHIL GRAMM Toughens penalites
to be on the streets. The anticrime bill had appeared dead when the gun provisions survived previous moves to scrap them and the threat of an unbreakable filibuster materialized. Two weeks of bargaining, however, produced agreement to resurrect the bill once part of President Bush’s anticrime package but now largely rewritten. SEN. PHIL GRAMM, R-Texas, led off Thursday’s debate with a plan to scrap the assault weapons provisions in favor of mandatory sentences ranging from 10 years to life for firearms-related federal crimes and the death penalty in some gun killing cases. “The sad, cold reality is that drug felons that are smuggling tons of illegal drugs into the country will smuggle firearms,” said Gramm. “ ... They are going to have guns. The question is, are we going to have the stiff, mandatory sentences for those who violate the law? “We are talking about crime control on one hand and criminal control on the other hand,” Gramm said. THE SENATE’S 50-48 vote to uphold the gun curbs came on a DeConcini move to combine both the restrictions and Gramm’s
rors. “WITH FAIRLY HIGH certainty, we have concluded that ... the shape of one of the mirrors is not correct,” said Terence Facey, a Hughes Danbury engineer who helped NASA isolate the source of the Hubble focusing problem. He said it was not known which minor is flawed, but that may be discovered by searching the Connecticut company’s records of tests conducted during the months of grinding and polishing required to turn foot-thick, spherical glass
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VICE PRESIDENT QUAYLE Almost a tie breaker
tougher penalties. The success of that effort frustrated the move to delete the restrictions and the Senate then quickly adopted both the restrictions and the tougher penalties. “The drug traffickers have not stopped using assault weapons, they’re not going to stop using assault weapons but at least we can stop them from using these assault weapons,” DeConcini said. VICE PRESIDENT Dan Quayle was presiding over the Senate when the vote came and was in position to cast the deciding vote if there had been a tie. The Senate later rejected, 73-25, a move by Sen. Mark Hatfield, ROre., to drop its death penalty provisions and substitute instead mandatory life sentences. Hatfield said the death penalty provisions represented “a primal urge for revenge, sadistic revenge,” and added that it placed the United States at odds with western European nations and in a category with Syria, South Africa and North Korea, among other countries. “We seem to be on a death penalty rampage today,” Sen. John Chafee, R-R.1., declared. “We seem to have applied the death penalty to everything except school truancy.”
blanks into the telescope mirrors. Two senators who oversee the space program, meanwhile, reacted angrily to news of the Hubble focusing flaw and ordered hearings on the mistake. “I’M VERY OUTRAGED at what has happened to Hubble,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. “They have had 10 years to put this together and spent $2.8 billion to be able to get it right. “Now we find that the Hubble telescope has a cataract,” she said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said the telescope cost $1.5 billion, plus S6OO million for operations and maintenance. Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn.,
Hydrogen fuel leak found on Atlantis
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A hydrogen leak was found this morning during a test of space shuttle Atlantis, a NASA spokeswman said. It was in about the same place as a leak that grounded shuttle Columbia one month ago. The test, involving pumping up
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If there’s intelligence in baseball, and baseball at the CIA, then there’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) About 500 people employed by America’s top spy agency gathered at CIA headquarters this week for some highpowered talks. The subject? Baseball. “Many here have found that baseball is particularly compatible with intelligence,” CIA Director William Webster, a diehard St. Louis Cardinals fan, told the group. “BOTH COULD BE called ‘the sport of the long season,”’ Webster said. “Both demand the long view, a need for teamwork, a demand for individual performance. Both require excellence and precision.” Webster had invited Eli Jacobs, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, intelligence expert and well-known figure in some Capitol Hill circles, to talk to CIA employees about “The Art, Science and Philosophy of Baseball.” Jacobs was joined at the Langley, Va., headquarters by Orioles manager Frank Robinson and syndicated columnist George Will, an Orioles director and a Chicago Cubs booster. ADDRESSING MEN and women whose lives often are filled with the international intrigue that make thriller novels, Webster said of Jacobs: “It is as owner of the Baltimore Orioles that he has come closest to living out our dreams. To have your own baseball team now that’s something to aspire to.” Webster, who was a federal judge in St. Louis before he came to Washington, also made some lighthearted remarks about his team they’re last in the National League East these days. AS A LAWYER, THE CIA chief handled the estate of legendary general manager Branch Rickey, best known for integrating baseball by hiring Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers. According to
chairman of the Senate subcommittee on science, technology and space, called a hearing on the Hubble problem for today, with NASA’s chief scientist, Lennard Fisk, as the lead witness. MIKULSKI SAID she and Rep. Bob Traxler, D-Mich„ also plan an investigation. NASA engineers discovered the focusing flaw in Hubble after they were unable to coax the telescope into capturing crisp, clean photos of distant stars. Facey said he assisted the space agency in the tests and helped to confirm that the problem was in one of the two mirrors. It was a tough job, he said in a telephone interview. “It’s always difficult to
to 200,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen into Atlantis’ giant external tank, was intended “to establish confidence in the hardware,” NASA spokeswoman Lisa Malone said. MALONE SAID a concentration of hydrogen was found near a four-inch disconnect valve in the area of a 17-inch-diameter valve, the same that appeared responsible for the leak that grounded Columbia. The leak was detected by one of two sensors mounted between the orbiter and the tank about 18
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WILLIAM WEBSTER Baseball and intrigue
CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield, Webster also did some work for the old St. Louis Browns, who later moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles. While many of the nation’s spies Webster included are mesmerized by baseball, Jacobs has spent a lot of his time recently on intelligence matters. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence named Jacobs head of an unpaid blue-ribbon panel to study future counterintelligence needs. The group has recommended ways to crack down on spying. And the revolving door doesn’t stop there. SVEN HOLMES, A protege of Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., and the committee’s former staff director, now does legal work for Jacobs and the Orioles. Boren is chairman of the intelligence committee. In a bipartisan vein, Jacobs recently hired Tom Daffron, former administrative assistant to Sen. William Cohen, RMaine, as the Orioles’ senior vice president. Cohen is the ranking Republican on the intelligence committee. “I have two great passions politics and baseball,” Daffron said. “I’ve gotten to work in both areas.”
conclude that you’ve made a mistake.” MEANWHILE, The New York Times reported in today’s editions that NASA decided against using top-secret, ground-based military testing equipment that likely would have detected the problem before the Hubble was launched. The Times quoted a scientist involved in the agency’s deliberations, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Facey said that although the main Hubble minor can be adjusted slightly from the ground by moving actuators that cause the glass to flex, the system will not correct the focus enough to eliminate the problem.
minutes after the test began. An additional 21 sensors had been installed in the orbiter’s aft compartment to sniff for leaks. Before the leak was discovered, NASA had hoped to launch Atlantis on a secret military mission in midJuly. THE LEAK CHECK was ordered as a precaution after a similar hydrogen leak stopped the countdown for the shuttle Columbia six hours before its intended launch May 30. Columbia is now grounded until at least mid-August.