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sion is now estimated to be I in 233,
still far more likely than the chance of a
person being struck by lightning (about
one in a million). But the space agency
has launched 66 shuttles safely since
the Challenger and NASA officials say
there has been no slackening in the
"emphasis on safety.
Shuttle crews do not dwell on the dan-
gers, said James Wetherbee, director of
flight crew operations.
"Astronauts tend to think about risk
differently than most folks," Wetherbee
said. He said crew members may think
about the risks on the night before a
launch, but they then put the thoughts
aside and focus on the intense activity
of a launch. "You don't think about any-
thing but your job," he said.
If astronauts were to die again in a
shuttle accident, particularly on a high-
profile flight like Glenn's, NASA
would face some political risk as well.
"If people were killed, the existence of
the agency might be in jeopardy," said
Seymour Himmel, a former top NASA
official and a member of the agency's
advisory panel of outside safety experts.
There was management complacen-
cy and inattention to warnings about a
faulty booster rocket joint prior to the
Challenger disaster. If similar failings
were found again, it surely would trig-
ger another round of soul-searching.
More immediately, some space policy
analysts have been concerned that the
launch crews could be rusty, because
NASA's last shuttle launch was on June 2.
That is the longest stand-down since the
post-Challenger investigation grounded
shuttles for 2 1/2 years.
Ground crews have performed six
mock countdowns and four fueling
rehearsals during the down time to keep
an edge on their skills.
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Students: Colleges
unfairly blame alcohol
The Department of Philosophy
The University of Michigan
announces
THE TANNER LECTURE ON HUMAN VALUES
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"There is a huge emphasis on underage
drinking. It's crazy." Rahl said MSU
wrongly blamed alcohol for inciting the
riot.
"Ever since I got here, there has been
a huge crackdown of alcohol,"' Rahl said.
"Any way they can blame alcohol they
will."
At universities where alcohol is relat-
ed more definitively to a tragedy, admin-
istrators launched massive anti-alcohol
initiatives.
Last spring a group of Washington
State University students, who had been
drinking heavily in celebration of the last
week of classes, reacted violently when
police officers attempted to break up a
party. The night ended with student
arrests, property damage and 10 injured
police officers.
"The disturbance crystallized the
problem of drinking and the impacts it
has on relationships with alumni, stu-
dents and the community," said John
Thielbahr, director of conferences and
institutes at WSU.
Following the occurrence, the school
was awarded a $250,000 state grant for
student alcohol awareness programs.
"We decided that we needed to
expose this on a national basis,"
Thielbahr said, adding that he currently
is working on gathering experts for a
national teleconference Nov. 13 that will
address collegiate drinking.
Thielbahr said colleges from around
the country were invited. Although
Western Michigan University, Michigan
Technological University and MSU are
taking part in the conference, WSU has
not yet received a response from the
University.
Thielbahr said the event triggered the
renewed emphasis on alcohol awareness,
although it was always a priority.
"There have been ongoing pro-
grams, including initiatives from frater-
nities to go alcohol-free," Thielbahr
said. "We want students to see that alco-
hol is as dangerous as anything else
they're facing."'
But some students questioned the
effectiveness of any administrative
efforts.
"Awareness hasn't changed," said
a WSU sophomore who did not want
to be identified. "People still drink
just as much,"
She added that members of Greek
Row, which is supposed to be "dry,"
go out to drink regularly - despite
the "overboard" efforts of the local
police department and university
administrators to decrease drinking
on campus.
Penn State University, where riots
occurred this past summer during an
annual arts festival, also is struggling
to bring alcohol awareness to stu-
dents.
The Daily Collegian, the universi-
ty's student newspaper, reported that
some students were drinking and got
out of hand.
Bryan Shine, a representative in
Penn State's student government, said
the university spends too much time
blaming alcohol for uncontrolled inci-
dents.
"I think they are going a little too
far," Shine said.
Shine said recent incidents have
caused a crack down on alcohol.
Shine said the riots this past sum-
mer caused the administration
embarrassment.
"They are all about anti-drinking"
Shine said. "The state troopers come to
campus during the football games"
Shine said the university should
address other issues besides alcohol.
Deal may binge on
Palestinian pledge
WASHINGTON - Despite Israeli-
Palestinian quarrels over their land-for-
security accord, yesterday President
Clinton predicted Israel would approve
the deal if the Palestinians carry out their
pledge to take action against terrorism.
"Peace is a difficult business in the
Middle East," Clinton said during a
Rose Garden news conference.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has threatened to delay sub-
mitting the agreement he reached with
Yasser Arafat to his Cabinet until the
Palestinians submit their security plan.
Palestinians say Netanyahu is looking
for an excuse to placate hard-line mem-
bers of his government who are against
the agreement.
"I believe that if we complete the
security arrangements that were agreed
to at Wye, that the Israeli government
will approve this and honor their com-
mitment and will go forward," Clinton
said, adding a caution "not to overreact to
every little hump and turn in the road"
He said mistrust was not expected to
completely evaporate during the nine
days of summitry at Wye, Md., and that
Netanyahu and Arafat were both "quite
brave" to reach the agreement.
At the same time, Clinton s*
Netanyahu wants to be "absolutely
assured" the Palestinian Authority will
follow through on countering terrorism
before moving ahead with a withdrawal
on the West Bank.
State Department spokesperson James
Rubin said the Palestinians would submit
an action plan to counter terrorism by
tomorrow. These security measures by
the Palestinians are a major compon
of the Wye agreement.
Museum updates
scientific facts
WASHINGTON - The biggest
exhibit at the National Museum of
Natural History has a problem: It's a
whale without a belly button.
A critique done for the museum says,
"A blue whale's umbilicus - roughly 8
inches across - is not a subtle feat
and cannot be omitted from an accura
model."
As part ofa five-year, $26 million ren-
ovation, the museum plans to replace the
92-foot-long, 40-year-old model and
change other exhibits as well, to bring
them more up-to-date scientifically.
Officials also plan a new focus for
the country's largest collection of spec-
imens, part of the Smithsonian
Institution.
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Scaled-back AIDS treatments fail
Two experimental attempts to cut down on the 15 to 20 pills a day that HIV-
infected people must take to keep AIDS at bay failed when the virus bounced back
quickly in many patients.
Over the past few years, the three-drug AIDS "cocktail" has turned AIDS from
a death sentence to a manageable illness. However, patients must take their pills
an excruciatingly precise schedule. Some pills must be taken with a quart of wa
some on an empty stomach, some only after eating. Missing a few can let the virus
mutate into forms resistant to the drugs.
In two studies published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, researchers
tried to find out what would happen if they cut back on medication once the drugs had
reduced the virus to almost undetectable levels. It's the way cancer is treated: hit it hard
and fast at the start, then follow up with easier-to-take maintenance therapy.
Doctors in France and the United States took different approaches but got results
so disappointing that both studies were ended early.
In the United States, virus levels shot up rapidly in nearly one-quarter of the
patients when medication was cut back to just one or two of the drugs.
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Pinochet immune
from prosecution
LONDON - The High Court ruled
yesterday that Augusto Pinochet is
immune from prosecution in British
courts and ordered the British govern-
ment to pay the former Chilean dictator's
legal costs of $560,000.
The court threw out two Spanish
arrest warrants, acted upon by British
authorities. The warrants sought
Pinochet's extradition to face charges of
murder, kidnapping and torturing politi-
cal opponents during his 17-year dicta-
torship.
In his ruling, Lord Chief Justice
Thomas Bingham said it was "of course
a matter for acute public concern that
those who abuse sovereign power to
commit crimes against humanity should
not escape trial and appropriate punish-
ment."
But nothing, including the charter that
established the International War Crimes
Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945, invali-
dated the principle "that one sovereign
state will not impugn another relation to
its sovereign acts," Bingham said.
In Madrid, lawyers trying to extradite
Pinochet to Spain criticized the British
court but said they remained hopeful that
an appeals court would eventually ov
turn the ruling. W
"I was very optimistic until today;'
said lawyer Virginia Diaz, who has
worked closely on the case.
"We were surprised by the ruling,"
said.Diaz, who argues that international
law clearly rules out immunity in cases
of crimes against humanity.
U.N. envoy meets
with junta member
YANGON, Myanmar - A U.N.
envoy met yesterday with a top member
of Myanmar's ruling junta, a day after
meeting an outspoken government critic,
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The meeting between Alvaro de Soto,
a representative of U.N. Secretary-
General Kofi Annan, and intelligence
chief Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt, took place
hours before the release of a U.N. rep
critical of government repression.
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