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Cl THURSDAY Forest road fees One extended; second due IB Clutches of poverty Car wash to help families IB Piece of charm Life at El Encanto condos 1C BP Ampfoi aflum creappeao's Tamoni Joiner will return wearing Oregon green Sports, ID FSsGnSeig fOGDGilS Two sites are trout havens OutdoorsFitness Star Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona Vol. 157 No. 302 1998 Final Edition, Tucson, Thursday, October 29 U.S.$1.00 In Mexico 54 Pages mmm JOHN GLENN RETURNS TO SPACE LAUNCH TIME: NOON Deeply split zoning panel says no to Canoa Ranch But recommendation leaves door just ajar! By Tony Davis The Arizona Daily Star With a proposed desert-saving plan hanging over it, the Pima County Planning and Zoning Commission yesterday narrowly voted to recommend denial of the massive Canoa Ranch project south of Green Valley. But the 5-4 vote wasn't a slam-dunk victory for the project's opponents. That's because the commissioner who pushed for denial left the door open for developing part of the ranch.

The recommendation followed yet another tempestuous public hearing, in which speakers against the project outnumbered supporters by The countdown is in the final hours for John Glenn's return to space, more than 36 years after he took America into orbit for the first time. The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for launch today. The number of experiments in which Glenn, 77, will take part vu; a a while on board. Eighty-three experiments and research projects will be conducted during the $500 million Discovery mission. The number of days the mission will last.

Discovery will travel 3.6 million miles. Eight-foot-tall letters will spell out "Godspeed John Glenn" on the roof of Cape View Elementary School in a nearly 2-1 ratio. More than 100 people packed a basement meeting room downtown to argue over whether A group of prominent Tucsonans and Green Valley residents is hoping to establish a Smithsonian Institution historical museum as an alternative to Fairfield Homes' Canoa Ranch development plan. Page 12A. the project is an alternative to urban sprawl or another form of it.

Even residents of conservative Green Valley were split over the project. The Board of Supervisors will consider the project in early December. Cape Canaveral. Also making up the crew II of seven: Curt Brown 42, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the commander. Steve Lindsey, 38, also an Air Force lieu tenant colonel, is the pilot.

Stephen Robinson, 43, is pay-load commander. The Associated Press Pilot Steve Lindsey, center, specialist Chiaki Mukai and Glenn in the last press briefing before liftoff Scott Parazynski, 37, will direct a complex solar experiment. ChiaM Mukai, The number Of g's the astronauts will experience on liftoff. For someone weighing 150 pounds, the The swing vote came from Commissioner" Thomas Spendiarian. He is sympathetic to Canoa, but wanted to hold off on it while the county ponders buying the land.

Under the new proposed Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, Canoa and eight other Pima County ranches would be preserved if the county finds money. "This project does meet all textbook requirements for good planning," Spendiarian said. "The county is interested in a historic park, and that's enough reason to delay until See CANOA, Page 12A WEATHER Have fun. Look for some high clouds today and a high temperature around 80, dipping overnight into the low 50s. Yesterday's high was 79.

The low was 47. Page 13A. INDEX force 01 acceleration would make him feel as though he weighed 450 pounds. TV COVERAGE The Associated Press ABC: 11:30 a.m., anchored by Peter Jennings with Wally Schirra and Gene Cernan (live until launch). "Good Morning America" broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, 7 to 9 a.m.

(tape). CBS: 11:30 a.m., anchored by Dan ap file photo 46, a cardiovascular sur-Jet training helped geon from Japan, will par-Glenn, with Cmdr. Curt ticipate in several health Brown get ready. experiments. Pedro Duque, 35, a European Space Agency astronaut from Madrid, Spain, will help conduct several science experiments.

Two UA-developed telescopes and a miniature refrigerator for the UA's dying z. Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to have been on six shut- ue flights. He also has held the record of the oldest person in space for two years, but says he won't be watching when Hubble Space Telescope camera will ride into orbit today. The two ultraviolet-wavelength telescopes are called UVSTAR and STARLTTE. The mini-fridge will be tested for possible installation on Hubble's NICMOS infrared camera in May 2000.

Rather with Gordon Cooper and Bill Harwood (live until launch). "This Morning" broadcasts from. Cape Canaveral, 7 to 8 a.m. (tape), "CBS Evening News" from Cape Canaveral, 5:30 p.m. NBC: 11 a.m., anchored by Tom Brokaw with Scott Carpenter and Bob Hager (live until launch).

"Today" broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, 7 to 9 a.m. Glenn breaks that record. Musgrave flew his sixth shuttle flight at age 61. Accent 1-6C DearAbby 2C Bridge 2C Money 4-8B Classified 1-12 Noon to Noon 3C Comics 4C Obituaries 12A Comment 14-15A Sports 1-8D Crosswords 2 TV listings 5C 1995 AP photo Walter Cronkite will cover Glenn's return to space for CNN. Glenn's Mercury flight lasted five hours U.S.

Route 1 runs by the i tit life mas BOB launcn site- More than 250,000 peo back in 1962. ple are expected to be on hand, packed along the highway, to see the liftoff. 4 There will be at least four big-name Urn The number of astronauts who will have worse seats than Glenn. Glenn won't be able to see the guy who's flying the thing or even look through a window. (tape), "Nightly News" from Cape Canaveral, 5:30 p.m.

CNN: 11 a.m., anchored by Miles O'Brien and Walter Cronkite (live). Live periodic reports from Cape Canaveral starting at 5 a.m. Fox News Channel: 7 a.m., anchored by Jon Scott with James Lovell (live). MSNBC: 7 a.m., with Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer (live). "The News with Brian Williams" from Cape Canaveral, 7 p.m.

(live). Discovery: 11:30 a.m., anchored by Steve Aveson with Jerry Linenger Shrieks in store Halloween events promise to deliver chills, thrills and goose bumps to the unwary. journalists covering the launch: Walter Cronkite will be on hand for CNN, Dan Rather of CBS and Tom Brokaw of NBC will be at The Associated Press A replica of Glenn first flew in. His view is restricted to a bulkhead and control panel about 18 inches in front of him. The mother of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion, will speak at two area schools.

Page 11A. Cape Canaveral, while Peter Jennings will describe the liftoff for ABC in New York City. Roughly 3,500 journalists and technicians requested credentials. and Blaine Hammond (live). Mitch creeps across Caribbean, deals lethal punch lV gg-BBg 1 Committee.

Many towns were cut off by washed-out roads and downed bridges, and phone lines were severed on the Bay Islands, making it difficult to gauge the extent of the damage. The government said 72,000 people were forced from their homes. President Carlos Flores Facusse declared the Caribbean coast a disaster zone, and officials said 23 people died in Honduras alone, See MITCH, Page 10A evening, the 350-mile-wide storm's sustained winds were down to 105 mph. The U.S. National Weather Service said only three Atlantic storms were stronger than Mitch at its peak: Gilbert in 1988, Allen in 1980 and the Labor Day hurricane of 1935.

The rainfall up to 25 inches in mountain areas began to take a toll. More than 50 rivers overran their banks, and the government evacuated more than 45,000 people from low-lying areas, said Col. Guillermo Pinel, chief of the National Emergency from the storm's center. That meant the Honduran coast and a good portion of the interior were under hurricane conditions for more than a day. "The hurricane has destroyed almost everything," said Mike Brown, a resident of Guanaja Island who was within miles of the hurricane's eye.

"Few houses have remained standing." At its peak Tuesday, Mitch was classified as the fourth-strongest Caribbean hurricane this century with 180 mph winds. By yesterday LA CEIBA, Honduras (AP) Hurricane Mitch paused yesterday in its whirl through the western Caribbean to punish Honduras with 120 mph winds, sweeping away bridges and flooding neighborhoods. At least 32 people were killed. Mitch was drifting west at only 2 mph over the Bay Islands, a Honduras tourist area popular with American scuba divers and beachcombers. The storm was 30 miles off the coast, and hurricane-force winds stretched 105 miles.