The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 3

liTi a a MM- 3a Cedar Rapids Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1980 Saturn encounter exciting, 'fleeting' Hijackers seize plane, release 32 HR1 HSIk aaaaaaaaaaaaaaanaH a. life; IflK WPtJ PASADENA, Calif. (AP) After aiming its cameras pointblank at the huge moon Titan and taking pictures of an orange smog concealing its surface Voyager 1 hurtled on today toward the climax of its mission a close-up look at the golden, ringed planet Saturn. The unmanned space probe, which sailed within 2,500 miles of the moon late Tuesday, headed into Saturn's clouds at 38,000 mph to take photographs of the shimmering rings and at least five other moons before leaving the planet's realm.

Meanwhile, earthbound scientists were disappointed that only hints of Titan's surface detail emerged through the moon's natural smog. Computer wizardry was expected to enhance photographs of the features below the haze. "I don't think there's any evidence we are seeing the surface," said David Morrison of the Voyager camera team. "But we are clearly seeing some cloud structure. "The streaks and things (vaguely seen in the clouds) aren't showing up very convincingly in the raw images" from Voyager.

Amid the excitement, scientists already were feeling sad that the close encounter with Saturn was so fleeting. "This near encounter is happening so fast and some of us have worked so long on it that we wish we could slow time down," Deputy Project Manager Esker Davis said. "We wish we could revel in this excitement and this joy in learning all these new things. But we can't slow time down, so it will be over ail too quickly." Fast approaching the end of its three-year mission, Voyager skimmed past Titan at 11:41 p.m. CST Tuesday, but radio messages signaling its success took more than an hour to cross the more than 1 billion miles of space.

Its equipment also recorded data on the composition and density of Titan's methane atmosphere and its actual size. The moon's unseen surface may even hold puddles or lakes of liquid methane or nitrogen, said project scientist Ed Stone. Accurate surface measurements also may show whether it really is the solar system's largest moon. Titan's diameter, 3,400 miles, has included the clouds around it. Voyager pierced Saturn's magnetic field late Tuesday afternoon after covering 1.24 billion miles since leaving Earth on Sept.

5, 1977, crossing what is known as the bowshock the point where Saturn's magnetic field deflects the solar wind, a stream of electrically charged particles emitted by the sun. Photographs earlier Tuesday revealed at least two eccentric, irregular ringlets among the planet's 100 or so narrow, circular rings of icy particles. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UPI) Hijackers today seized a Uruguayan airliner on a 35-mile flight, freed 32 of 39 passengers upon landing in Buenos Aires and threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met. Police sources said the U.S.-made twin-engine Convair turboprop plane was hijacked on what was supposed to be a 15-minute flight between Colonia, Uruguay and Buenos Aires on a route across the estuary of the River Plata. Police sources said the hijackers were armed with explosives although an airport spokesman said he was unaware of it.

Airport spokesman Angelo Toribio said the hijackers and airport authorities were negotiating over the radio between the control tower and the plane's cockpit. Toribio said he did not knOw the nationality or number of the hijackers. When asked if the hijackers had explosives Toribio said, "We don't know, they haven't mentioned that." But the official news agency Telam said the hijackers had threatened to set off explosives if their demands are not met. Telam did not say what demands the hijackers had made. The Argentine news agency Noticias Argenti-nas quoted unofficial sources as saying the plane of Arco Airlines was hijacked by three Algerians who demanded the presence of the Algerian ambassador in Argentina at the airport.

But Algerian ambassador Ahmed Bouderba said he had not been informed by authorities of the request, although he had heard about it in news reports. A spokesman at the Buenos Aires metropolitan airport, where the hijacked airplane landed at approximately 10:45 a.m. (7:45 a.m. CST), said 32 of the 39 passengers aboard were released by the hijackers. The airport was closed and the plane was parked at the northern end of the main runway.

Air force police launched a major operation, surrounding the plane from a distance and shutting off the entire airport zone. AP pholo Cabbie refutes Rather version of 'kidnapping' Parade grand marshal General of the Army Omar Bradley, the nation's only living five star general, sits in the viewing stand at San Jacinto Plaza in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, watching the annual Veteran's Day parade go by. General Bradley was the parade grand marshal. aiMaeHralffilBBBBW 1 U.S. Gene Phillips to do preventive maintenance work on the power system and knocked out both the primary and backup power sources.

"As he was taking the back off (the equipment), he dropped it. It was made of metal and it apparently fell across an electrical bus and shorted it out. There was such a large surge of voltage that it caused the transformer to blow out and that's where the difficulty arose," Holtsberg said. There was no danger to air traffic during the 2V4 hours the planes were diverted from the control of the Cleveland Center because all flights were routed around the airspace, the FAA spokesman said. officer for the Federal Aviation Administration in New York.

"A gear threw dirt in the air and airport officials thought a fire had occurred," Nantz said. "But there was no fire." FAA blames human error CLEVELAND (UPI) Human error caused a power equipment failure that knocked out the Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center Tuesday night, forcing 113 aircraft to be diverted, the Federal Aviation Administration said today. FAA spokesman Warren Holtsberg said the problem occurred when an FAA technician was preparing CHICAGO (UPI) Was Dan Rather kidnapped? Or was he being detained by a cab driver who only wanted to be paid? Gene Phillips, the cab driver who stands to lose his livelihood because of the incident, says it was the latter. "If Dan Rather says I kidnapped him, he's a fat-faced liar," Phillips told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mike Royko Tuesday. Rather told police Monday he had been kidnapped by a "madman" who refused to take him where he wanted to go.

Phillips' side of the story is a bit different. He said he couldn't find the address Rather gave him the home of author Studs Terkel and when he did find the address. Rather refused to pay him because he did not have his driver's license. "When I got to the address, Rather went to get his wallet, then he leaned forward and said: 'Driver, where's your Phillips said. "I had received a ticket, and they had my chauffeur's license (the one displayed in the cab) as bond.

That's why it wasn't displayed. I'm permitted to drive on a ticket." After Rather refused to pay, Phillips said he took off, with Rather still in the cab, to look for a police officer. "You see, that's the only thing a driver can legally do when somebody says they aren't going to pay. If I try to stop him physically, then he's got me for assault. If I keep his luggage, then they've got me for theft of his property.

If I follow him into the house, they've got me for trespassing. "So I did what a cab driver is supposed to do. I started driving and looking for a cop. I've done that a hundred times. Every cab driver has done it if he's been driving for a while." Rather asked the city to rescind Phillips' license to drive a cab, Royko said, and the case now rests in the hands of Mayor Jane Byrne.

Jack Smith, CBS News bureau chief in Chicago, today denied Rather was seeking to have the cabbie thrown out of work. "That is absolutely, unequivocally untrue," Smith said today. "Rather is not trying to deprive this guy of his livelihood." Smith said Rather only filed a complaint with police charging Phillips with disorderly conduct end refusing to let a fare out of his cab. He said Rather does not want Phillips Tired but merely wants-to have the incident checked out. "If anything.

Rather wants' to make sure nothing like this happens again," Smith said. World 'Halt affirmative action' WASHINGTON (AP) A conservative research group with ties to the head of Ronald Reagan's transition team is urging the new Republican administration to halt affirmative action to increase hiring and promotion of blacks, women and minorities discriminated against in the past. A task force put together by the Heritage Foundation is recommending policy reversals and sweeping executive orders to stop the federal government from advocating cross-district school busing for integration, from bringing suit to boost minority and female enrollments in professional schools, and ultimately from even gathering employment data by race, sex or ethnic origin. The group called the Civil Rights Division the "most radicalized" element of the Justice Department. Thompson viewed on tape NEW YORK (AP) Rep.

Frank Thompson, says he wasn't looking for a payoff when he offered to help two wealthy Arabs with immigration problems, according to the initial videotape played at the latest Abscam trial. "I'm not looking for any money," the 13-term congressman said on the tape of a 51 -minute meeting with FBI agents posing as representatives of a rich sheik at a Washington, DC, townhouse on Oct. 9, 1979. In opening statements Tuesday, federal prosecutor Thomas Puccio contended that Thompson and Howard Criden, a Philadelphia lawyer, left a subsequent taped meeting with a cash-filled suitcase. Criden, convicted in an earlier Abscam trial, will be tried separately.

More tapes were to be shown today in U.S. District Court to accompany the testimony of FBI agent Anthony Amoroso, the first government witness at the bribery-conspiracy trial of Thompson and Rep. John Murphy, Plane blown off runway NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Gale force winds jolted a Braniff Airlines plane off a runway at Newark International Airport on Tuesday night, and seven passengers were injured as they slid down emergency chutes, authorities said. Braniff Flight 112 from Washington had landed safely and was taxiing to the airport terminal when it was apparently blown off Runway 22 by winds of up to 45 miles per hour, said Bill Nantz.

duty -Just In Time For Christmas! You Are Invited To Another Fabulous seven-year guerrilla war against white rule in Rhodesia. What surprises many observers is that such major violence didn't erupt sooner between Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, or ZANLA, and Home Minister Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army, or ZIPRA. Though they fought the war together in a loose alliance called the Patriotic Front, the two guerrilla armies were ethnically and ideologically opposed, and efforts to merge them failed. Most of Nkomo's men came from the minority Matabele tribe, and the Soviet Union backed them. Most of Mugabe's guerrillas were Shonas, Zimbabwe's biggest tribe, and China supported them.

After Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union defeated Nkomo's Patriotic Front Party in elections last February, they formed a coalition government and Nkomo joined Mugabe's cabinet. But the hostility between the two factions has frequently broken into the open. Soviet dissident dies in crash MADRID, Spain (AP) Exiled Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik, in Spain to protest alleged Soviet human rights violations to an international conference, was killed in a head-on collision with a truck on a wet highway, police said today. Hospital sources said a piece of metal from the truck pierced his neck and that this apparently was what killed him. Amalrik, a playwright and historian who wrote a scathing book called "Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984," and spent years in Siberian labor camps for it and other works, was 42.

Amalrik criticized the West for showing "too much indulgence" to the Soviets when he began his life-in-exile in 1976. Authorities said the accident occurred Tuesday night near Guadalajara, 40 miles north of Madrid. They said Amalrik's wife, Gyuzel, and two other dissidents were in the car but escaped with no injuries Amalrik was driving the car, they said. The truck driver also escaped unhurt. 'Closest we've come to war' BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (AP) "This is the closest we've come to civil war," said a white police officer after at least 48 people were killed in gun battles this week between veterans of the FUR TRUNK SHOW Thursday, November 13 10 am to 9 pm Friday, November 14 Thought for today: English philosopher John Locke said, "It is-one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth HI 10 am to 5 pm 25 Off All Furs Purchased During Record rains pelt Key West This Showing Informal Modeling Luxurious new styling Luxaire offers a good solid line of quality oil furnaces.

When it comes to heating with oil. we re the oW reliables with a complete hoe of efficient furnaces Trim, compact, and attractive, our oil furnaces feature rugged, unitized construction for long working lite your heating fuel oil. you should talk with us today LINDY, INC. 141 1 3rd St. SI Cedor Rapids 366-8218 KEY WEST, Fl.

(AP) Record rains pelted this resort city today as residents water skiied through the streets, public schools shut down and police urged everyone to stay home More than 23 inches of rainfall was recorded in Key West over Monday and Tuesday, the National Weather Service said The previous 24-hour mark. 19 88 inches, was act Nov. 13-14. 19S4. said NWS spokesman Ray Boucher.

By early today, radar indicated the thunderstorms had moved south of Key West but that moderately heavy rainfall persisted puonc scnools dosed today Flights were grounded at Key West Interna tional Airport, and the rain left city streets flooded and clogged with abandoned cars. Electricity and telephone service were cut to tome areas of Key West the southernmost point of continental United States. Police ordered everyone to stay home as severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in the Lower and Middle Keys, and motorists and boaters were advised to avoid travel until the weather cleared. Forecasters said the rain wasn't connected to Hurricane Jeanne, which stalled late Tuesday about 450 miles south-southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico Custom furs of St louis vsill shovs a complete collection of qualih turs Choose from Uckets. Blousons.

Stroller, lengths and full length Coats ALL AT 25 SAVINGS boutique ratcliff 383 -047 3417 Mt Vernon Road SE businesses were closed and County officials ordered.