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A-6 Monday. June 27. 1994 Star-Bulletin THE NATION Orbiting junk could imperil space station High cour? sides with cable TV 'to no bed ml a from Stafford wire report i oTTrMMYiitf The Sunreme Court to-bns "The traditional design philosophy says the mission catastrophic risk should not exceed a few percent," the designer said. "Now, they've got it in the range of 10 percent. That violates due diligence.

If you're working in an uncertain environment, your bias should be on the side of safety." The American military has found about 7,000 objects in orbit ranging from the size of a school bus to the size of a baseball, and it tracks all of them from the ground with radar. Smaller objects cannot easily be tracked. Experts estimate that there are perhaps 150,000 objects circling Earth that could penetrate the space station. Because of the enormous speeds of everything in orbit, a tiny flake of metal can pack the punch of an exploding hand grenade. over the same time.

NASA officials say they are confident that the risk of penetration can be reduced, perhaps to one chance in 10, making the risk of catastrophe about one chance in 20. "We'll do whatever is necessary to get adequate safety," NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin said in an interview. But Goldin also said danger and death were inevitable in space exploration. "We'll never be able to guarantee total safety," he said.

"We could have loss of life with the shuttle, and the station as well. If you want to guarantee no loss of life, it's better not to go into space." Still, a station designer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the bureaucracy is playing down the problem and courting disaster. New York Timet Dead satellites, shattered rocket stages and thousands of other pieces of man-made space junk speeding around Earth could destroy a planned international space station, and engineers are struggling to reduce the danger. NASA estimates the chance that debris could smash through the shield of the space station, an orbital outpost for the world's astronauts, at one in five during its construction and expected 10-year life. While the station is to have redundant gear to maximize safety and interior hatches to let astronauts seal themselves off from shattered areas that lose air, the overall risk of a catastrophe resulting in death or destruction of the craft is still estimated at roughly one chance in 10 day set aside a ruling that forced cable)lfi television operators to carry local broadcast stations on their systems, ordering new hear- vo8 ings on the controversial measure.

In a major ruling involving the constitu- sni tional freMpeech protections for the television industry, the high court by a 54 vote outlined a number of questions to answered in deciding the fate of the law. The 1992 "must-carry" law requires cable operators to aevoie a uiui uuc-iuuu their channels to local private and public broadcast stations. It had been upheld by anrSJJ Appeals Court and then was appealed to the Q. Iff supreme uouru jow The four dissenting justices wanted to go, one step further, saying more hearings are yiv unnecessary and concluding that the law violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the speech and of the press. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the fij majority that in reconsidering the law, a three-judge federal court must require that i.

the government prove the measure advances its main goals of preserving local ing, disseminating information from numer-jw, ous sources and promoting fair Kit Beuret, spokesman for Oceanic Cablevi- sion, said the company can better serve -m Energy chief turns up more radiation tests Scripps Howard Newt Service WASHINGTON Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary said today her agency has identified dozens of additional human radiation experiments sponsored by the federal government most, apparently, without their knowledge. Like previously disclosed human radiation experiments, the list of tests released by O'Leary at a news conference today includes many that used "vulnerable" populations such as pregnant women, fetuses, stillborn babies, live infants, the elderly and the mentally disabled. Energy Department officials said they have found no evidence yet of informed consent by the people used in most of the experiments, and that they may never be able to determine if consent was ever sought or given. O'Leary likened the search for documents on the experiments to a "detective story" and compared the agency's efforts to piece together that information to putting together a giant puzzle on "Grandma's card table." "We believe we have all the pieces of the puzzle," O'Leary said. "But I have learned in this work that we are dealing with a system that is very old So, will I be surprised to find something new a year from now? No." Clinton will seek delay in sex lawsuit LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

President Clinton will ask that a sexual harassment lawsuit be dismissed until after he leaves the presidency, according to papers his lawyer filed today in U.S. District Court. A motion filed today in Little Rock asks the court to allow Clinton to delay the normally required response to the allegations until courts have decided whether a president can be sued. Attorney Robert Bennett of Washington said in the court papers that Clinton will file a motion by Aug. 5 arguing that presidents are immune while in office from having to deal with private-lawsuits.

Bennett's filing cites a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court opinion related to former President Nixon, which found that presidents are immune from being sued for official actions taken while they are in office. The lawsuit filed May 6 by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, alleges that Clinton made a lewd sexual advance while he was governor in 1991. U.S. ready to revoke Haitians' visas WASHINGTON The Clinton administration is expected to revoke most nonimmigrant visas held by Haitian citizens as a means of further isolating the country's military regime, U.S.

officials said. The action will be limited essentially to visas issued to Haitians inside Haiti, officials said today. One official described the new sanction as mostly symbolic because commercial air traffic between the United States and Haiti was banned late last week. The administration hopes the sanction will let Haiti's military leaders know that international resolve against them is not weakening. Haiti's rulers have been holding out hope that the international community will eventually grow weary of sanctions and begin to lift them.

The new sanction shows the momentum is running in the opposite direction, officials said. From Star-Bulletin news services customers' needs if it can cnoose we siauons 1 'ft I S3! Associated Prese A Huntsville, firefighter looks for victims under a metal awning blown down by high winds last night. Storms across the South overnight are blamed for at least four deaths, dozens of injuries and heavy damage. Destructive storms plague southern states that it carries. Religious sect can't have public schools Associated Press WASHINGTON New York violated the required separation of church and state when lawmakers created a special public school district for a community of Hasidic Jews, the Supreme Court ruled today.

The creation of the Kiryas Joel school district for disabled children violates the Constitution's ban on government establish' ment of religion, the court said in a 6-3 ruling. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said this means "the door is now firmly shut to other religious groups that may have been-planning to demand their own taxpayer-financed 'public' schools." Justice David H. Souter, writing for the court, said, "We do not deny that the Constitution allows the state to accommodate religious needs by alleviating special burdens." However, "accommodation is not a principle without limits." He added that the creation of the Kiryas Joel district "fails the test of neutrality" because it "singles out a particular religious sect for special treatment." vri m) be K' I Vt In western Kentucky, two people drowned yester-dayaf ternoon when a flooding creek washed their car off a road. Seven people were injured when a houseboat capsized at Lake Cumberland. Wind gusting to 100 mph in parts of South Carolina left thousands of residents without power, knocked down trees and caused property damage across the state.

Joe Baxter, emergency director in Lawrence County, said an apparent tornado last night damaged more than half the buildings in Iron City, a town of about 450 people on the Alabama line. Residents were evacuated until authorities were able to seal leaking propane tanks. Associated Press Storms rumbled across the South, spinning off tornadoes and causing flooding blamed for at least four deaths, dozens of injuries and heavy damage. A suspected tornado blew off the second floor of a house between Grayson and Loganville east of Atlanta early this morning, killing a 10-year-old girl, said Sgt Steve Cline of the Gwinnett County, police. Rescuers took two hours to free eight others from the home's debris.

A woman was killed and two people were injured about 7:30 a.m. when a storm demolished a mobile home near Farmington, south of Athens, said Oconee, County Sheriff Scott Berry. A mq 1 FROM PAGE ONE Churchgoers react with regret, surprise Time official apologizes for STAFF: Clinton overhauls staff at White House Continued from Page A-1 Ml yd Ofj i62 photo of O. J. Associated Press tised by media critics and members of the NAACP for the June 27 cover that significantly darkened Simpson's face.

Gaines said that on the cover, the mug shot was "subtly smoothed and shaped into an icon of tragedy." He said the change "lifted a common police mug shot to the level of art with no sacrifice to the truth." But he acknowledged the criticism. "First, it should be said (I wish it went without saying) that no racial implication was intended, by Time or by the artist," Gaines wrote. "One could argue that it is racist to say that blacker is more sinister but that does not excuse insen-sitivity. To the extent that this caused offense to anyone, I deeply regret it Nor did we intend any imputation of guilt We were careful to avoid that in our story, but for at least some people, this cover picture was worth several thousands words." Clinton was effusive in praising his new chief of staff "No one in Washington has a better understanding of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue than Leon Panetta, and no one has earned greater respect at both ends," he said. -1 Rivlin, deputy head of the Office of Management and Budget, needs Senate confirmation to re-place Panetta.

oi) Clinton made the changes as no; debate heated up on his health care proposal and as the dollar came under intense pressure ond a world currency markets. president leaves next week or Europe, where he'll visit fourr5' countries and attend an economic ar NEW YORK Time magazine apologized to readers for featuring a darkened version of O.J. Simpson's mug shot on the cover, saying it did not intend to offend anyone or imply guilt Explaining how Matt Mahurin's photo-illustration was chosen. Time Managing Editor James R. Gaines said in a full-page letter in the July 4 issue, which was released today: "I have looked at thousands of covers over the years and chosen hundreds.

I have never been so wrong about how one would be received." tTh9 magazine was widely chas encouragement, he said. "Even a person in a position of bishop holding that prestige and honor needs to feel that people support him and, even if they have doubts in this person, still will support him because of his office." The problems Hart and the Episcopal Church face are unfortunate but can be attributed to a "combination of market and general economic problems" affecting Hawaii, said William Murtagh, who's been attending services for 10 years. The church is caught "between a hard rock and stone." Hart's decision did not come as a surprise to some. The Rev. John Paul En-gelcke, editor of the diocesan newspaper the Hawaiian Church Chronicle was ready to ask for Hart's resignation when clergy from the West Oahu deanery asked the church's Standing Committee to vote on the matter last week.

Hart's resignation "was necessary and good for him so he can heal, and with him out of the way, the Diocese of Hawaii can heal," Engelcke said. But one cleric says the action -xwas necessary' By Debra Barayuga Star-Bulletin Some attending services at St: Andrews Cathedral yesterday reacted with surprise, oth-, ers with regret at the sudden: resignation of the Right Rev. Donald Hart "I knew there were problems but I don't think it called for his resignation," said Stacy Shige-mura of Waipahu, a member for three years. The resignation was an-: nounced in a letter read by the the Rev. Canon Karen Swan-son.

John Adams Bright, a former dean of St. Andrews, said Hart's resignation was a "response to this sense of lack of support and is not a reflection of his responsibilities and how he carried out those responsibilities." More than ever, the bishop needs everyone's prayers and SIMPSON: Coroner's report bared Hale 0 Mafia Events surrounding the Episcopal Church-related retirement project, called Hale Malia: 1 989: Episcopal Homes of Hawaii Inc. set up to develop the project. June 1993: Episcopal Church signs loan guarantee. February 1994: Episcopal Homes fails to repay $4 million bank loan as promised, in advance of the June 30 loan due date.

April 1994: Diocesan Council votes to disassociate itself completely from Episcopal Homes. Hart resigns as chairman of the company's board. May 1 994: Vestry of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Wailuku) asks Hart questions regarding his role. June 8: Good Shepherd's vestry votes to withhold diocesan assessment and pay It into an escrow account until the questions are answered. June 12: Good Shepherd's vestry urges Bishop Hart to resign.

June 19: Vestry of St. Stephen's, Wahiawa, calls for Hart's resignation. June 20: Eight clergy from the West Oahu Deanery ask the standing committee to conduct a vote of confidence on Bishop Hart within a month. June 21: Vestry at St. Peter's, Honolulu, calls for Bishop Hart's resignation.

June 22: Standing Committee (ecclesiastical authority in death, incapacity or absence of bishop) considers calls for resignation without reaching consensus. Central Oahu i Deanery (St. Peter's, St. Andrew's, St. Luke's and St Elizabeth's) calls for bishop's resignation 1 3-1 2 with one abstention.

June 23: Kauai Deanery votes on resolution "deploring the situation" and calls for any further support by the Episcopal Church to be terminated. June 24: Bishop Hart informs diocesan staff of resignation. June 25: Bishop Hart informs Diocesan Council of his resignation. Aug. 24-SepL 2: House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church to consider Hart's resignatioa Acceptance is expected.

Source: The Rev. John Paul Engelcke, Holy Crott Malaekohena BISHOP: Hart resigns post envelope containing a pair of eyeglasses lay at Goldman's feet. The glasses belonged to Nicole Simpson's mother, the report said. Previous reports said the glasses were her own. Goldman had gone to Nicole Simpson's Brentwood condominium to return the glasses, left the previous night at the Mezzaluna restaurant where he worked.

Nicole Simpson was last known to be alive at about 11 p.m., when she spoke to her mother on the telephone about the glasses, the report said. At about that time, Simpson's lawyers say, he was at his mansion about 10 minutes from Nicole Simp ine cnanges aiso come at a time when Clinton's approval ratings 1 are declining. A Harris poll the end of last month said only 42 am percent of Americans gave the president a positive rating. i'gii Gergen, a former Republican I ni adviser who joined the White House staff a year ago to help deal with a spate of negative is moving to the State Department as a "special adviser to both president and the secretary of state." A former California congress-man, Panetta is expected to be a much stronger presence than McLarty, widely criticized as "tootJU nice" to be effective. In brief remarks at the an-' nouncement made in the Oval Office, Panetta signaled a wider'.

shakeup, saying "changes will made in consultation with the )V0 president." Panetta earned a reputation as a 1 deficit hawk, forcing Clinton to'-) make tough cuts in a lean federal -V, budget 101 Rivlin will be the first woman to '-head OMB. Clinton said that with her in charge, "OMB will continue to be in very good hands." mi Gergen made clear he doesn't intend to remain long in the ad-ministration; Clinton said he pected him to remain for less than -21 a year. Panetta will deal with the to-day managing of the White 'so House, duties that traditionally bring the chief of staff his great- mi est power. Aides hope Panetta will u2 show more of an iron fist thanks? McLarty, a mild-mannered South- nc ern gentleman. Continued from Page A-l help clear him, and he will not plead insanity.

"In California, you don't approach the question of insanity until you have a trial on guilt," Bailey told CNN yesterday. "California really is ahead of the world with the best procedure around because it's inconsistent to talk insanity and guilt or innocence in the same proceeding." Simpson pleaded innocent to charges of first-degree murder in the slaying of Nicole Simpson, 35, and Goldman, 25. Reportedly, blood found at the scene is of the same type as Simpson's, and blood was found in Simpson's Bronco and in his driveway. Prosecutors are pinning much of their case on the results of DN A tests from blood samples, Bailey said. "If the DNA comes back and is not a match, then the police had better get busy opening the investigation they may have prematurely closed," Bailey said.

But even if it is a match, Bailey said on ABC today, it "is not going to settle the matter conclusively, as everybody seems to think." Today, a hearing was scheduled on a media request for the release of sealed documents from the 1989 case in which Simpson, 46, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery against his then-wife. Council to review the $150 million project Among problems the April 16 report cited were conflicts of interest by officers and directors of Episcopal Homes, church officials' failure to anticipate the seriousness of the project's financial problems, and nondisclosure of financial problems facing Tony Garcia, the project's general manager. Garcia's contract was canceled at the end of March. Following the report, Hart resigned as chairman of Episcopal Homes. Van Home also resigned as president of the corporation and Porter, an attorney who represented Episcopal Homes, resigned as church chancellor.

Hart, who has been bishop since 1986, will be submitting his resignation to the presiding bishop. The House of Bishops will consider the matter at its next meeting during its general convention Aug. 24-Sept 2 in Continued from Page A-l the project was moving ahead and would be able to pay off the loan from its sales and other sources so that the diocese would never have to honor the guarantee," Hart said. But changes in the management of the project, increased interest rates, and marketing problems later threw a cloud on the project, he said. A six-page letter Hart wrote denying any wrongdoing by himself or any clergy or church staff was read to all Episcopal congregations yesterday.

"My intentions, and I believe the intentions of all who voted for the guarantee, were to act in the best interest of the Diocese and of our mission to support ministry in many different ways in the community," Hart said. The Episcopal Church withdrew from its involvement in the 300-unit residential retirement project in April following a report by a special committee established by the Diocesan son townnouse, preparmg to leave for a business trip to Chicago. Bailey reiterated that alibi. "He says be was at home waiting for a limousine to take him to the airport," Bailey said in today's New York Times. "So, if he was home, he couldn't have done it, could he?" In other developments: In New York City on Sunday, a group of activists and politicians rained to demand that corporations work to curb domestic violence, criticizing companies that kept Simpson on the payroll after his no-contest plea to wife-beating in 1989, including Hertz and NBC.

The New York Post said today that Nicole Simpson had an affair with a restaurant executive in 1992 while she was separated from Simp-; son, and that Simpson once found them having sex on a couch when he visited his wife's home. Nicole Simpson and her friend, a waiter at a trendy restaurant, were found slashed and hacked to death. The coroner's report said a white.