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the problem could endanger the shuttle
during descent, NASA said Sunday.
Teams of experts were scrambling to
Foreign Relations Committee. He
said Bush should think again
before using a recess appoint-
ment to place Bolton at the
United Nations while the Senate
is on its traditional August break.
“That’s not what you want to
water from deep underground
for processing.
ply lost that land.”
Cumberland’s ancestors came
on the first train to bring new
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By LYNN BREZOSKY
The Associated Press
'asino
material.
If NASA’s spacewalking specialists
come up with a relatively easy solu-
tion, “Why worry? Why would you not
just go take care of it?” deputy shuttle
program manager Wayne Hale said
Sunday evening. "Why should I lose
“On the other hand, this is bigger than
we’ve seen before.”
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Police question
bomb suspects
LONDON — Police arrested
seven people Sunday during a
raid on an'apartment in southern '
England, bringing to 21 the num-
ber in custody in the relentless
hunt for accomplices in the failed
July 21 transit bombings.
Investigators determined to
prevent further attacks also were
probing possible ties between
In protest of URI “tearing
,” the Garcias haven’t
RICARDO, Texas — The
extended Garcia family has
lived for five generations in a
cluster of frame and trailer
homes known, with some irony,
have the confidence of the
Congress and so many people
who’ve urged that he not be sent
up to do that job,” said Dodd, D-
Conn., on “Fox News Sunday."
Senate still lacks
veto-proof support
WASHINGTON — Despite a
boost from the majority leader,
there is not enough Senate sup-
port now to override a threatened
veto if Congress tries to ease
restrictions on embryonic stem
Saudi Arabia, British newspapers
reported. Police were searching
for anyone who may have recruit-
ed and directed the attackers
and built the -explosives..
Police arrested the six men
and one women during a search
of two buildings in Brighton, on
the southern coast, said a
Metropolitan Police spokes-
woman, speaking on condition of
anonymity because her depart-
ment does not allow her to give
her name.
Dodd says Bolton
would lack support
WASHINGTON — Anticipating
President, Bush soon will appoint
John Bolton as U.N. ambassador,
a leading Democrat said Sunday
that Bolton would go without the
confidence of Congress.
"He’s damaged goods. This is
a person who'lacks credibility,”
said Sen. Christopher Dodd, a
senior Democrat on the Senate Chinese author produced an
entire fake adventure, “Harry
Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-To-
Dragon."
Kleberg County in the first wjn make their case against the
place- company mining a new area,
The Garcias and other arguing that since the company
Kleberg County residents don’t failed to clean v~ r~----
accept that explanation. operations it shouldn’t be
Chinese hawk Hany
Potter translations
BEIJING — The wizards of
China's thriving piracy industry
have worked their magic again
and produced a rush translation
of the latest Harry Potter book.
Though it's missing some para-
graphs and gets a couple of facts
, , wrong, an unauthorized Chinese
version of “Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince" was on sale
Sunday in Beijing, almost three
months ahead of the planned
October launch of the official ..
Chinese-language edition.
Impatient Chinese fans also
have begun posting their own
translations online.
The fantasy series by J.K.
where the hero is known as “Ha-
li Bo-te” In 2002, an unknown
new 100-foot inspection crane, but it
would likely be a bouncy ride and that
makes spacewalk and robotic special-
ists nervous. Poulos said Sunday
evening that that option was consid-*
ered, but ruled out. “
Anything dangling from the normal- “
ly smooth bottom of the shuttle will
overheat the area and downstream
locations during re-entry. ._
A hole in Columbia’s left wing,
carved out by a large chunk of flyaway
fuel-tank foam, led to the spacecraft’s
destruction during re-entry on Feb. 1,
2003. All seven astronauts were killed.
NASA has cleared Discovery’s ther-
mal tiles for landing on Aug. 8; they
constitute the vast majority of the shut-
tle’s exterior. The only remaining -
issues, before the final go-ahead can be
given for descent, are the reinforced
carbon panels that line the wings and
nose cap, and the two dragging gap
fillers. : ,
“We just started sending the !
checks back,” Garcia said. “All
between die thermal tiles, the other
protrudes at an angle from six-tenths to
nine-tenths of an inch. For those areas,
far forward near the nose, the general
wisdom and flight history indicate that
the limit should be a quarter-inch, said
flight director Paul Hill.
Hill noted, however, that the quarter-
inch measurement was taken following
previous re-entries and the intense heat
could have burned some of the materi-
al off. Discovery’s flaws were spotted
in orbit — a first — because of all the
photography and laser imaging being
aimed at normally hard-to-see spots.
On a flight by Columbia in 1995, the
shuttle returned with a gap filler that
protruded 0.6 inches, but it was rolled
up and located farther back on the
belly, in an area less likely to overheat,
said Steve Poulos, manager of the
orbiter project office. When unrolled,
the strip of material stretched 1.4 inch-
es long. The only overheating effect
tors because of a high risk of agreement, the company must
cancer. clean un its first old mine before
The government and the com-
pany that has been mining ura-
nium in the area for the last 20
was to nearby damaged tiles.
The extremely thin gap fillers are
held in place with glue and by the tight
fit of the thermal tiles; thousands cover
the shuttle. Poulos speculated that the
glue may have come loose.
Any repair, if deemed necessary,
would most likely be performed during
the third and final spacewalk of the
mission on Wednesday, although a
fourth unplanned spacewalk might be
required. The second spacewalk, for
space station repairs, is set for Monday.
The astronaut would have to stand on
either the shuttle or station’s 50-foot
robotic arm in order to reach the two
hanging strips of filler. There are draw-
backs to using either arm, namely
clearance and time constraints.
“There are pretty strong arguments
for and against most of the options,”
Hill said.
One extreme option would be to put
an astronaut on the end of the brand
SPACE CENTER, Houston — A
couple of short strips of material dan-
gling from Discovery’s belly may
require an unprecedented repair by
spacewalking astronauts, if engineers sleep over these gap fillers if we can
determine there’s even a possibility that ^ke care of them that easy?”
“ * Discovery and its crew of seven may
be perfectly safe to fly back with the
two drooping pieces in a week, offi-
understand just how serious the prob- cjais stressed, as space shuttles have
lem was, with heated discussions rag- Jone many times before, although not
ing on what to do, if anything. necessarily with dangling pieces as
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cell research, a key proponent
said Sunday.
A favorable Senate vote is con-
sidered more likely now that
Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.. send up, a person who doesn’t
has reversed his position to sup
port more federal dollars for
research. However, the Senate
vote will not matter if, as lawmak-
ers predicted, a veto by President
Bush stands in the House.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who -
sponsors a bill easing restrictions
that Bush put in place, said Frist
two of the bombing suspects and gave his side “a big boost." A
vote on y|| cou|d come jn
September.
While a bill would pass the
Senate with a simple majority, 67
senators would be needed to
fend off a veto by Bush if all 100 .
senators voted.
“I think the evidence is the
them in the mid-1990s and houses, and it is established that
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mination from the mine field The URI mines use a process1
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NASA scrambling to decide if drooping material poses danger
By MAROA DUNN
The Associated Press
mination is natural
from the vein of the radioactive
material that runs near their
well, the very uranium that expert to monitor their cleanup, until the state approved,
attracted Lewisville-based At a public hearing Monday, ” “
The county reached a settle- pumped to
ment in December with URI to Chemicals draw the uranium
a „
system
second mine before completing als used to isolate the uranium
the third, then the third mine before the water is pumped "
on the fourth, back into the aquifer.
He said removing the well ■-
casings was the last step of the
them for decades.
URI well casings stick out of
the ground on Garcia Hill. In ment was the county’s best route
> the 1980s and early 1990s, URI toward getting at least $5 mil- settlers to the area in 1904, not
pumps sucked uranium-filled lion worth of cleanup done. long after ranch scion Robert "1
water from deep underground “We had two choices, the way Kleberg’s well digger found
for processing. I see it,” he said. “The first water 700 feet down.
The activity ended when choice was just to not allow
prices plummeted from more them to mine, let them go away things up,’
than $30 a pound to around $7. and leave our water dirty. The cashed their annual URI lease
Claiming financial problems, second I thought was more pru- check,
the company left without clean- dent — to get our water cleaned
ing up the area or restoring the up.”
water below. Mark Pelizza, a URI vice these things kind of bother you
“The promise was they would president, said URI has operat- a l’“’~ V i —
take all the uranium and leave ed prudently and that the resi- make a lot of money.”
Cash In Big Every 15
Minutes Every Monday!
Associated Press photo/Paul Iverson
TEO SAENZ, PRESIDENT OF STOP, South Texas Opposes Pollution, stands in front of the entrance to the
"PAA-3" area of a URI, Inc. uranium mine located in Ricardo, Texas. STOP members say an engineer __
mapped the underground for them in the mid-1990s and accurately predicted that contamination from the
mine field would migrate first to the Garcia wells. They now fear poisoned water will seep toward the water 7i
Rowling is wildly popuiarTn China, supply of nearby Kingsville, population 26,000. A
Kleberg County residents oppose
opening of new uranium mine
HIKK SPRINGFIELD
In Concert September 9 & 10
foam or other launch debris but rather Hale, in fact, did not think it was that
the accidental slippage of ceramic- big a deal when he first learned of the
fiber fabric used to fill the thin gaps problem a few days ago.
between thermal tiles. “My immediate knee-jerk reaction
It will be Monday before the analysis was that we can live with this,” he said,
is complete and mission managers
decide whether to have the crew’s two
spacewalkers cut or pull the hanging
Wx—"k X—A-
nuKn
attracted Lewisville-based At a public hearing Monday, He said STOP’S concerns
Uranium Resources Inc.^ to Garcia and other local residents about their operations affecting ~
water in Kingsville are"*
unfounded.
But Kleberg County residents
up its former who leased land to URI say they
wished their families hadn’t...
“That’s weird that it’s the only allowed to do more. The admin- bought into URI’s promises 25
place and nobody else has it,” istrative judge will make a rec- years ago of easy royalties,
Humberto Garcia said. “It just ommendation to the Texas regional prosperity, and better- —
kind of raises questions. A quar- Commission on Environmental than-before cleanup.
. ter mile away we have relatives, Quality. I “It’s been how many years “ *
and their well is OK.” STOP members hold little now that we cannot farm the
The Garcias and other local hope that they’ll stop what will land?” said Elizabeth —
residents see the family’s plight be URI’s third and fourth mines. Cumberland, whose family
as an emblem of the problems They said Kleberg County offi- leased land to URI in 1980. “I
they say URI has dumped on cials let them down by signing personally believe we have sim- _
the settlement agreement.
De La Garza said the agree-
the water clean,” said Teo dents can’t see what cleanup
Saenz, president of STOP they have already done. He said .
(South Texas •• Opposes their operations have nothing to ‘
Pollution). “They didn’t.” do with-the Garcia Hill poison-
STOP members, who number ing.
about a dozen, say an engineer ’’' ’ ’’ '' ' ”
mapped the underground for uranium deposit underlies their
as Garcia Hill because its com- accurately predicted that conta- it natural,” Pelizza said,
nnund sits mavhe a foot hieher mjnation from the mine field The URI mines u se a ]
would migrate first to the known as in-situ mining, by
local distinction: Their water is
contaminated with uranium at
levels so high the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Administration has told them to
pound sits maybe a foot higher
than the surrounding scrub.
The^ Garcias have another Garcia wells. They now fear which injection wells introduce
poisoned water will seep toward mining solutions th± —utilize
the water supply of nearby uranium' and other metals
Kingsville, population 26,000. (including arsenic) so it can be '
The county reached a settle- pumped to the surface.
mines use
stop drinking and see their doc- c]ean the water. Under the from the water.
t Pelizza explained that
clean up its first old mine before reverse
starting mining on the third, the removes salts and other miner-
icond mine before completing
_ J. _ xl. xv:-j mjne
years told the Garcias the conta- before starting
seepage County ludge Pete De La Garza
..... conlpany also must w ........
pay the county $20,000 for an cleanup and could not be done
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