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Fat substitutes still must earn public's confidence kinds of baking because It congeals the same way as egg whites when heated. Heating it is harmless, but unappetizing. Simplesse would allow calorie reductions in food servings ranging from 28 percent for yogurt to 78 percent for butter, the company said. For instance, four" ounces of super premium ice cream traditionally has 283 calories, but only 130 with Simplesse, it said. One tablespoon of butter or margarine drops from 36 calories to eight when made with Simplesse, and an ounce of cream NEW YORK (AP) Two companies have achieved scientific triumphs by creating appetizing substitutes for fat, but they still must win the battle for the hearts, minds and stomachs of the American public.

NutraSweet Co. on Wednesday unveiled the fat substitute Simplesse and emphasized that it was all-natural, made up of ground-up protein from fresh egg whites or milk. The biggest drawback of Simplesse is that it cannot be used in frying or most cheese containing 99 calories hs 45 calories with the fat substitute, it said. Products using Simplesse could reach the market within 12 to 18 months, Robert Shapiro, NutraSweet's chairman and chief executive, told Wednesday's crowded news conference. Company executives faced questioning from reporters who wanted to know why it had not received approval of the Food and Drug Administration.

Simplesse does not require FDA approval because it is ordinary protein, they replied. It has not been chemically altered, only changed in size and shape to give it the feeling of fat. In Washington, FDA spokesman Bill Grigg said, "The NutraSweet Co. has not yet provided the FDA with enough information for an appraisal, but the agency will look at the substance to determine whether it presents any regulatory, or in particular, safety issues." Several experts said the questioning re-fleeted a widespread skepticism in the general public even cynicism about the application of technology food. Procter Gamble Co.

has encountered the same difficulties in promoting olestra. Its own fat substitute, which was announced last May. Olestra must clear the hurdle of FDA approval because it is a synthetic substance, made of ordinary sugar and fatty oils. "People are afraid of what they don't understand and they're afraid of things that are made out in headline news as possibly being damaging," said David Williams, a principal in the New England Consulting See Page Column 1 tmra (gazette Indiana Printing and Publishing Company, Indiana, Pa. Pages 2 Sections Challenger astronauts remembered Copyright 1988 He again rejected a Contra demand that the talks deal not only with the mechanics of a cease-fire, but with what the rebels say are the social and political causes of the war.

Tinoco said political talks' between the government and internal opposition groups, which broke down in December, were likely to resume soon in Managua, obviating the need BIRTHDAY CONCERT Jazz violinist Stephene Groppelli. left, and classical great Sir Yehudi Menuhin, 71 rehearse on stage at the Barbican in London Tuesday. The violin legends are preparing for a concert honoring Groppelli on his BOlh (AP Loserphoto) Sgndin is fas, Contra rebels meet in first direct peace Twenty-Five Cents end is in sight." Under the new schedule. Discovery will roll to the launch pad on May 13. A 20-second firing of Us three main liquid-fueled engines is set for June 13, with the spacecraft bolted to the pad.

That will test the' engines as a unit for the first time and provide valuable countdown practice for the launch team. Discovery is to carry a crew of five experienced shuttle astronauts who will deploy a communications satellite and conduct experiments during a four-day mission. -Investigators said the Challenger accident was caused by a faulty joint in one of two booster rockets that allowed hot gases and flames to See Page Column 1 i hike; approved ifeHARRISBURG ksecoml.limeinie has cariniurasce in'PenivP irsylvama Vcompah an Yavera thei Insurance rinesday rie'sl last, increase; i was 9.4 percent on he Jhcreas day. wiil mean an extra $S6 Iron'lri'rev'enueifor thecompany, -1 coveYs. i Penrisylvania-rNb breakdown was available WWnesday on the; percemagevincrease for.

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IAP) NASA workers tempered their enthusiasm for a new shuttle launch date with a silent tribute to the seven Challenger astronauts who died two years ago today. Flags at the Kennedy Space Center were to be lowered to half-staff at 11:38 a.m., the moment Challenger roared off launch pad 39B on Jan. 28, 1986. For 73 seconds, the duration of the fatal flight, all activity was to stop in memory of the worst disaster in the history of space exploration. At the same in Concord, N.H., students at Concord High School were to stand for a moment of silence in honor of Christa McAu-liffe, the social studies teacher who died in the explosion that grounded the shuttle program.

"Everybody has their own, very silent way to remember and to rebuild themselves-and that's the way it's been school Superin-' -Mark Beauvais said said the low-key observance reflects how the community has tried to heal from the shuttle tragedy, respecting the privacy of McAu-. liffe'5 husband, Steven, 39; and children, Scott, 11 and Caroline, 7, who live in Concord. "What we are dealing with now is the respect for the living, the three people who were closest to Christa," said Beauvais, who was in the bleachers at Cape Canaveral when Challenger blew up. After the silent memorial, some Kennedy Space Center workers would return to preparing Discov- ery for launching on Aug. 4, the new date announced Wednesday by Rear Adm.

Richard Truly, NASA's asso-- ciate administrator for space flight. Others are working on Atlantis and Columbia for later flights. Setting the date Idled the spirits ot workers here who had been without a firm target since Dec. 29, when the space agency announced was scrubbing a June 2 launch because of the failure of a nozzle part during a test firing of a solid fuel booster rocket like the one that caused the Challenger explosion. Officials at the time estimated a six-to-10-week delay.

Our morale here is high and everything is pulling together," said shuttle operations director Charles Gay. "That morale should hold up because these people live to process and launch space vehicles and the Latest Data Shows That Color In Newspaper Advertising Increases Sales By Forty-Two Percent Over Black And White. Listen To STEREO 1160 For Kickback Kash And Save Money! Rose Inn Dinner Feature Tonight Broiled Swiss Flounder. member commission to investigate the tragedy. After a 120-day probe, it determined that Challenger was destroyed by a flawed solid rocket booster.

Before the accident, said Rum-mei, NASA had created the impression (hat space flight was "as safe as a Sunday afternoon drive" by allowing civilians to fly. "Space travel should be recognized for what it is a very hazardous undertaking," he said. "The shuttle is a very dangerous system." agreed Joseph F. Sutter, an engineer and a vice president of Boeing Co. "There is no way (hat civilians should be allowed to fly on it.

The crew should be only essential personnel and those should be single folks with no families." Several of the commission members said the United States should never use the shuttle for satellites than could be launched on expend WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan has begun a personal lobbying campaign for $36 million in new aid to the rebels fighting Nicaragua's leftist government, but House Democrats are drafting their own rival proposal that leaves out any money for weapons. The opposing plans were being pushed hard with a showdown House vote on the Reagan proposal just a week away. The outcome is crucial to the existence of (he rebels, known as Contras, who would get $3.6 million in lethal aid under the Reagan proposal. "It's now or never," said Rep. Mickey a leader of pro-Contra forces in the House.

"We cannot afford a defeat on this aid package." Reagan held a series of meetings with undecided lawmakers on Wednesday, and more meetings were scheduled for today. The House mil vote on the president's aid proposal on Feb. 3 and if it passes, the Senate will vote the next day. "I didn't come to Washington to to expand the cease-fire negotia-. tions.

Alfredo Cesar, a director of the Contra umbrella organization known as the Nicaraguan Resistance, spelled out his group's negotiating position in a news conference in San Jose last week. "No cease-fire will take place in Nicaragua if simultaneously the See Page Column Lobbying preside over the communization of Central America," Reagan said in a speech announcing the proposal. With Ihe Contras and the Sandinis- tas beginning direct cease-fire talks today in uosta Kica, Keagan saiu only continued support for the rebels will keep the negotiations going. The Reagan package would give a total of $36.2 million to the rebels to last them from March 1, when current aid runs out, until the end of June. Of the total, roughly $20 million would go for transportation of supplies to Contra troops in the field inside Nicaragua, and another $12 million or so would buy supplies such as food, clothing, medicine and communications gear.

The most controversial part is $3-6 million for ammunition and Redeye anti-aircraft missiles. That money would be held in escrow until March 31, when it would be up to Reagan to decide whether to release it to the rebels. The decision would be based on See Page Column 6 Robert W. Rumme), an aerospace engineer who was on the panel, said the shuttle had so many fundamental flaws that "I think it miraculous that we didn't haven an accident before we did." Challenger exploded 73 seconds after its Jan. 28, 1986 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The seven-member crew was killed and the shuttle program was grounded. President Reagan appointed a 13- Don't Miss The Big Fish Fry, Fridays, p.m., At The Greenery Complex. Rose Inn D.J. Music With "V-Sound" Tomorrow Night. Tell That Special Person How Much You Care With A Classified Valentine Message! See Valentine Special, Page 14! SAN JOSE; CostaRica (AP) Nicaraguan officials and the Contra rebels said they will present specific proposals when they sit down, together for the first time in an attempt to reach a cease-fire in their war.

But with their negotiating positions far apart and essentially unchanged since they were Grst announced in November, it seemed unlikely that either side was prepared to bend enough to satisfy the other. President Oscar Arias of Costa Rtca, whose efforts were largely re-, sponsible for bringing the two sides together, said he was not "too optimistic" about the talks, scheduled to begin today. The outcome of the negotiations could influence the fate of President Reagan's new $36.25. million aid request for the Contras, all but $3.6 million of it-for food, medicine and other non-military supplies. Reagan submitted the request to Congress on Wednesday and asked that the $3.6 million in military aid be held in escrow until March 31 to give the two sides another chance to settle their differences.

Marlin Fitzwaler, chief White House spokesman, acknowledged the aid request faced an uphill battle and said its defeat would end the Contra movement, upon which the administration has largely based its Nicaraguan policy for years. The House will vote on Reagan's request on Feb. 3. If it passes, the Senate will consider it the next day. "In the middle of the peace pro-i cess going on in Central America now, we consider that this request, if approved, will be disastrous," Vic-I tor Hueo Tinoco.

the Nicaraguan deputy foreign minister, told a news conference on Wednesday after he arrived for the talks in San Jose. "We hope rationality will prevail in the U.S. Congress and they will opt for peace, and not for war, in Central America," said Tinoco, who heads his government's negotiating team. Tinoco also said he wanted "to let it be known that we're bringing, obviously, some plans, some proposals" to the talks, but declined to reveal them until they were presented to the Contras. All Brady's Supplies And Fixtures Priced To Sell.

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"Why risk lives just to launch a satellite?" Sutter asked. Robert B. Hotz. former editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology, said that when his work on the commission was completed, he thought the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would be able to return to flight quickly. "I thought they'd be flying last summer," he said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Some members of the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger accident say the space shuttle is still "no damn good" and crews should be limited to only essentia) personnel. Interviewed Wednesday, the day before the second anniversary of the Challenger accident, some commission members said they still doubt that all of the problems with the shuttle system can ever be corrected. They said it should be replaced as soon as possible with a safer spacecraft. "It's a sloppy, loose, budget-driven said David C. Achcson, a Washington lawyer who served on the commission.

"It is no damn good." Acheson said the best thing to do with the shuttle is to "get an advanced system going and retire it as soon a possible.".