Fear the Walking Dead

The best sleeping dreams are where I am looking down at my feet as I plummet towards the ground from a very high distance. That's another recurring element of my sleeping dreams I don't think I detailed earlier and always happens in varying locations and situations. Although I have mentioned it before now that I think more.










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Fear the Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 2

So Close, Yet So Far

Aired Sunday Aug 30, 2015 on AMC

AIRED: 8/30/15



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Fear the Walking Dead

So Close, Yet So Far


Travis: Nick, stop, please.

- (tunes radio) - Man #2: And people act like this doesn't change everything. It does. This is a catastrophe of biblical proportions. We are losing the best pocket passer in the league! (tunes radio)

Nick!

(radio turns off)

No one's talking about this. No one's saying anything.










http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-09/news/mn-1970_1_stomach-flu

Los Angeles Times


Stomach Virus, Not True Flu, Believed to Be Bush Ailment

January 09, 1992 MARLENE CIMONS TIMES STAFF WRITER

WASHINGTON — Most people, at some point in their lives, will be stricken by the annual winter scourge known as the flu--and now it appears that President Bush has joined their ranks.

If, as the traveling White House says, Bush is suffering only a "touch" of the flu, he is among the rare lucky ones. A full-blown case of influenza typically brings full-blown misery: chills, fever, muscle aches and pains, headache, runny nose and extreme fatigue.

"It can be a very serious illness," said Dr. John La Montagne, a flu expert with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "Usually, when people get a case of the flu, they don't feel like doing anything--they just go to bed."

But true influenza--caused by two basic flu virus strains--rarely produces intestinal symptoms, experts said. More likely, Bush is suffering from one of several other common viruses that attack the gastrointestinal tract at this time of year and are often generically referred to as "stomach flu."

"There is something that people call the stomach flu, but it is not caused by an influenza virus," said La Montagne, who is the director of the national institute's division of microbiology and infectious diseases. "In the public consciousness, if you're sick in the wintertime, you have the flu--whether it's stomach or respiratory."

Bush's gastrointestinal ailment is not believed to be related to his suffering from Graves' disease, an overactive thyroid, which was diagnosed last spring and has since been treated successfully.

Most of the time, classic flu is not life-threatening, although it can prove risky in individuals 60 and older. Bush is 67. Even a flu shot--which Bush probably has had--is not fully protective against influenza viruses, which are constantly changing. Such shots do not protect against stomach viruses.

Flu is caused by two major strains of virus--influenza A and influenza B. But these strains undergo variations every year, which makes it impossible to develop a onetime vaccine that would confer permanent immunity from the disease.

This year, the predominant strain in the United States is a Type A variant known as H3N2, a designation that refers to proteins on the surface of the virus. Type A flu viruses are generally regarded as more serious than Type B strains.

A strain of Type A was responsible for the deadly 1918 pandemic that killed millions worldwide--many of them healthy young adults. "What happened in 1918 could happen again tomorrow," La Montagne said.

Nevertheless, the President's symptoms seem more consistent with a condition caused by one of a family of non-influenza viruses and is not regarded as dangerous, experts said.

"It is not life-threatening, not at all," said Dr. Robert T. Schooley, head of the infectious diseases division at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "It's more of an inconvenience and nuisance than anything else."

Whichever virus is producing Bush's symptoms, his condition has almost certainly not been helped by jet lag--which compounds fatigue--his grueling schedule, and his propensity to engage in strenuous physical activity, such as tennis and running.

"You could be quite run down from a trip and that could make you more susceptible to some agents," La Montagne said. "He may have overdone it."

Unlike real flu, which can last for as long as two weeks, stomach viruses usually wreak havoc for 24 to 36 hours. But those can be very unpleasant hours--which Bush undoubtedly already has discovered--with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and low-grade fever.

Lightheadedness, which Bush experienced when he slumped at the table during Wednesday night's state dinner, is not uncommon.

The most serious danger from gastrointestinal virus attacks is dehydration, the result of fluids lost through vomiting and diarrhea, experts said. This is why the condition often is treated with lots of fluids to replenish what was lost. Significant dehydration can also cause lightheadedness.

Tigan, the anti-nausea drug given Bush by his physicians, is "a low-key medication with no major side effects," Schooley said.

Also, it's unlikely a connection exists between Bush's symptoms Wednesday night and the controversial sleeping pill Halcion, which Bush had taken earlier to help combat the sleep-depriving effects of jet lag.

On the Menu

Here is the menu for Wednesday's state banquet in Tokyo where President Bush collapsed:

Saumon Trais Morine a L' Aneth au Caviar (Marinated raw salmon)

Consomme Chaud aux Champignons (Hot Consomme with mushrooms)

Tournedos Grille Sauce Poivrade (Fillet of Japanese beef)

Pomme Dauphins et Ligumes (Cooked potatoes and vegetables)

Salade de Saison (Seasonal salad)

Bombe de Passion a La Fraise (Passion fruit and ice cream with strawberry flavor)










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August 1966

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following events occurred in August 1966:


August 28, 1966 (Sunday)

The science of theoretical biology had its first seminar when the Rockefeller Foundation hosted a gathering of computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and biologists (but, surprisingly, "hardly any molecular biologists") at the Villa Serbelloni overlooking Lake Como, in Bellagio, Italy.



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Google Books


Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

edited by M. Norton Wise


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Toward a theoretical biology?

Overlooking beautiful Lake Como, in the village of Bellagio, Italy, stands Villa Serbelloni owned by the Rockefeller Foundation. There, on 28 August 1966, a select group of computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and of course, biologists, (but hardly any molecular biologists!) gathered "to explore the possibility that the time [was] ripe to formulate some skeleton of concepts and methods around which Theoretical Biology [could] grow."










[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/01/vertigo-1958.html ]


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=20438

The American Presidency Project

George Bush

XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993

Remarks at a State Dinner Hosted by Emperor Akihito of Japan in Tokyo

January 9, 1992










From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 1/9/1992 is 299 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/28/1966 ( the science of theoretical biology seminar hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation ) is 299 days





http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-09/news/mn-1978_1_key-part

Los Angeles Times


Findings May Alter Theories of Universe : Astronomy: Researchers have discovered planets orbiting a pulsar, and mysterious bursts of powerful radiation from unknown sources. Other studies back a key part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

January 09, 1992 LEE DYE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

Scientists say they have discovered two and possibly three planets orbiting a distant star, suggesting that other planetary systems can form under the most unfavorable conditions and probably are common throughout the universe.

The discovery was presented today as part of a smorgasbord of astronomical discoveries that could rewrite a number of theories about the universe.

In a series of research papers in today's issue of the British science journal Nature, scientists also reveal that they have discovered mysterious bursts of powerful radiation from unknown objects that appear to be scattered around the universe.

Both of those discoveries pose more questions than answers, but there was good news for some astronomers who may be longing for stability in their field: Other new research strongly supports a key part of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The various findings, if confirmed, could force revision of some theories about the universe.

For decades, scientists have searched for evidence of other planets around other stars, because the more planets there are, the greater the chances are of extraterrestrial life. So far, the only way to discover planets is to infer their existence from the behavior of their host star, because any star is so bright compared to its planets that the smaller bodies cannot be seen with optical telescopes.

Most stars with planets would appear to wobble when observed for long periods because the star and its planets would revolve around their common center of mass. So, in recent years, astronomers have sought stars that change position slightly, because orbiting planets would be the most likely explanation for such a change.

Several potential planetary systems have been identified lately, but the most compelling evidence is perplexing because it suggests that planets have formed around very dense, spinning stars called pulsars. Few experts expected planets to be found around pulsars, because those stars are believed to be formed in the violent explosion of a previous star that should have swept away any dust and particles that could have coalesced into planets.

Last year, British astronomers reported evidence of a single planet around a pulsar, known only by a number, PSR12829-10, but many scientists doubted that finding because no one had expected pulsars to have planets.

But American scientists have come up with evidence that supports the British finding, and they take it a step further: They say they have discovered two, possibly three, planets orbiting another pulsar, PSR1257+12.

The discovery suggests that the formation of planets "can take place under surprisingly diverse conditions," said Alexander Wolszczan of Cornell University. Wolszczan is also a resident astronomer at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, site of the world's largest radio telescope, where he did much of the work. Joining him was Dale A. Frail, who measured the pulsar's position with the Very Large Array, a series of radio telescopes in the New Mexico desert.

The pulsar is about 1,300 light-years from Earth and is so faint that it can barely be seen by even the largest telescopes. It spins at an astonishing 162 times a second, and as it turns it sends out a radio beacon that sweeps the skies like a spinning lighthouse. As the beacon sweeps past the Earth, it is received as a pulse--thus the name pulsar--and it arrives with such precision that it could actually be used as a very accurate clock.

But when the two scientists examined the star, aided by Cornell University's National Supercomputer Facility, they discovered that the pulses were not quite as precise as they should have been. Sometimes they arrived a little late, and sometimes a little early.

By computing the variation in time, they determined that the changes were caused by a slight movement of the pulsar, leading them to conclude that it was first being pulled farther away and then closer to the Earth by at least two planets. Further analysis suggested that the planets were about the same distance from the pulsar as Mercury is from the sun, and with a mass about three to four times greater than the Earth's.

Another slight variation suggests that a third planet, a little farther from the pulsar than the Earth is from the sun, may also be orbiting the star.

The discovery reveals the precision of modern instruments in that the scientists were able to measure the pulsar's movement of only about 550 miles from a distance of 7,500,000,000,000,000 miles away.



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Findings May Alter Theories of Universe : Astronomy: Researchers have discovered planets orbiting a pulsar, and mysterious bursts of powerful radiation from unknown sources. Other studies back a key part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

January 09, 1992 LEE DYE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

Wolszczan said the pulsar was once part of a binary system, meaning it had a companion star. About 1 billion years ago, the star with the greater mass exploded in a supernova, and the debris collapsed into a tiny pulsar that has a greater mass than the sun but is only about six miles in diameter. The violence of the explosion probably vaporized the companion star, he said, and while most of that debris was undoubtedly swept away by the blast, some was eventually pulled back by the pulsar's powerful field of gravity.

Debris from the companion star would have formed a disc around the pulsar, causing it to spin faster and faster until it coalesced into planets, Wolszczan said.

If other scientists find similar evidence in this rapidly expanding search, it means that planets have formed around many stars and thus the chances of life existing elsewhere are enhanced.

But these planets probably have no life, Wolszczan said. Powerful bursts of radiation from the pulsar constantly sweep the planets, and that would almost certainly sweep away any atmosphere, probably leaving them as barren chunks of rock.

While some scientists look for planets, others have been searching for the source of mysterious bursts of gamma rays. These extremely energetic bursts have been studied since they were accidentally discovered in 1967 by a satellite designed to monitor nuclear test ban violations. The bursts were thought to be coming from near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and many scientists believed they were being produced by matter being stripped apart by a black hole.

It remained a mystery, because the center of the galaxy is so dusty that it cannot be penetrated by optical telescopes.

But the mystery has deepened considerably with the latest results from the "burst and transient source experiment" on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, which was built by TRW Inc. of Redondo Beach.

When the observatory looked for gamma ray bursts, it found them, but they were coming from everywhere, not just from the center of the galaxy.

"Everybody had believed they were coming from the galaxy," said Charles Meegan of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "The big shocker is, they are not (coming just from the galaxy.)"

Instead, the bursts appear to be randomly distributed across the sky. And if they were being produced by black holes gobbling up matter in the center of galaxies, they should be far more plentiful around other nearby galaxies. But they are not.

The scientists reported that they have found 153 bursts, and there is "no apparent clustering of bursts" around this galaxy or any other. They conclude that the bursts must be coming from objects either very close or very far away.

"Very close is a possibility," Meegan said in a telephone interview, "but no one has come up with any reasonable suggestion for what the source could be."

Or they could be very far away, but if they are on the fringes of the universe they would have to be so powerful that their presence should have been detected in many other ways.

"No one has come up with any reasonable suggestion for what it could be," Meegan said. "It's a complete mystery right now."

Mysteries are nothing new to astronomers, especially since Einstein turned their world upside down with theories that seemed to challenge common sense. Einstein postulated that the geometry of space is curved, and everything, including gravity, is influenced by that curvature. A black hole, for example, is so dense with its gravity so intense that space folds in around it.

Proving Einstein's theories has been one of the most formidable challenges in science, yet many aspects of his work have been confirmed. Scientists determined long ago that when light passes the sun, for example, it is bent in conformance with the curvature of space.

But what about more distant objects? Einstein theorized that two dense stars revolving around each other should send out gravity waves that would ripple across the curvature of space, like waves from a pebble tossed into a pond.

Joseph Taylor of Princeton University has been working on this problem for 10 years, and today he and several colleagues present evidence that supports Einstein's theories.

Using the Arecibo Observatory, the scientists studied three pairs of binary systems, in which a pulsar and a neutron star are orbiting around each other. They measured the pulses from each of the pulsars precisely, and then computed the orbits.

If Einstein had been wrong, the orbits should have conformed exactly to paths worked out nearly three centuries earlier by Isaac Newton. If Einstein were right, however, space in the vicinity of the two dense objects should have been curved slightly, making the orbits a little irregular.

The scientists found the curvature.

"General relativity passes these new experimental tests with complete success," they concluded.

Planets Discovered

Astronomers say they have discovered two and possibly three planets orbiting a distant pulsar. The evidence confirms a similar discovery last year, and it suggests that planetary systems may be common throughout the universe.

Creation of a Pulsar

A. Pulsars are formed when a red giant "progenitor" star exhausts its fuel and collapses.

B. The star explodes violently into a supernova, in which the core is compressed into a neutron star.

C. If the neutron star spins, it creates a powerful magnetic field that sweeps the heavens like a beacon from a lighthouse. When this occurs, the neutron star becomes a pulsar.

The Planets and the Pulsar

* A pulsar normally emits regular radio signals.

* But in this case, the gravitational influence of at least two planets is believed to be causing the pulsar to oscillate, or wobble.

* The pulsar's wobbling is causing a variation in the time it takes the radio signals to reach the Earth, indicating the presence of planets.










http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-16/local/me-370_1_first-planets

Los Angeles Times


New Planet Isn't There, Expert Says

January 16, 1992 From Times staff and wire reports

For those keeping score on the search for new planets outside our solar system, scratch the one discovered last July; keep the two announced last week.

Andrew Lyne of the University of Manchester's Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories in Jodrell Bank, England, told the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta on Wednesday that the discovery he announced last July has turned out to be incorrect.

"The planet just evaporated," he said, because changes in signals from a distant pulsar--which he and some colleagues thought were caused by a planet revolving around the star--turned out to have been caused by the Earth revolving around the sun, not a planet around the pulsar.

"Our embarrassment is unbounded and I'm very sorry," Lyne told astronomers from around the world who are attending the meeting.

However, Alexander Wolszczan, the astronomer who announced last week that he and his colleagues had discovered two planets revolving around another pulsar, said he is still confident that he has, indeed, found the first planets outside our solar system. Other experts who have examined Wolszczan's data hailed it as the best evidence yet of other planets.

Wolszczan said Lyne's misfortune "does not change my thinking about what I have found," but it appears that the basic question--Are we alone?--is still up for grabs.










http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-22/news/mn-49016_1_solar-system

Los Angeles Times


First Planets Found Outside Solar System

April 22, 1994 ROBERT LEE HOTZ TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

An astronomer has found "irrefutable evidence" of at least two planets orbiting a nearby star--the first confirmed observation of planets outside the solar system humanity calls home.

What has scientists most excited, however, is that the finding suggests that planets can form around almost any star and that the galaxy may well be crowded with planets.

Astronomer Alexander Wolszczan at Pennsylvania State University confirmed the existence of the planets in orbit around an unusual neutron star located 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The star is one of just 21 known stellar objects, called millisecond pulsars, that spin thousands of times faster than typical stars, broadcasting powerful radio pulses as they revolve.

The star, known as PSR B1257+12, is an extremely small, very dense body barely the size of Los Angeles, that weighs as much as the sun and spins faster than a kitchen blender. It is the cinder from an ancient supernova that once burned more brightly than any other object in the sky.

"The proof that objects of planetary size do exist outside the solar system indicates that our planets are not unique and uncommon anymore," Wolszczan said. "The evidence is such that there is no need to question the reality of this."

Wolszczan and his colleagues determined that one planet is about 3.4 times the size of Earth and is orbiting the star every 66.6 days; the second planet-sized object appears to be about 2.8 times the size of Earth and is orbiting the pulsar every 98.2 days.

Scientists Thursday said it was extremely unlikely that either planet could support life.

Wolszczan also reported the possibility that a smaller, moon-sized object is orbiting closer to the star, but cautioned that those observations were not yet confirmed. That object appears to circle the pulsar every 25 days.

More than one scientific reputation has foundered on such announcements of new planetary systems.

At least five times in the past 30 years, news of planet discoveries has been followed quickly by retractions when errors in the data were discovered or when others could not confirm the initial sighting. In 1992, for example, a respected British astronomer had to tell his colleagues that the planet he thought he had discovered the year before "just evaporated."

But Wolszczan's findings, which are being published today in the journal Science, appear to convince many skeptical astronomers. He spent three years confirming the existence of the planets, which he detected in the fall of 1991 with the help of Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory after 16 months of monitoring the unusual star.

Shrinivas Kulkarni, the Caltech astronomer who discovered millisecond pulsars in 1982, said Thursday that he found the evidence very persuasive, calling it "a wonderful thing.

"There were some healthy doubts that maybe the pulsar was doing some bizarre stuff that we were incorrectly interpreting as planets," he said. "But we can all be sure now that we are (detecting) planets."

The star would be considered remarkable under any circumstances, astronomers said, but it is an especially unlikely place for planets to form because it is the collapsed remnant of a supernova explosion that should have destroyed any existing orbiting bodies.

For that reason, the discovery suggests that planets may be far more common in the universe than any astronomer had ever dared hope, authorities said.

"The fact that planets have been found orbiting a neutron star is a strong piece of evidence that planets are easy to form," Caltech astronomer Stephen Thorsett said. "This is certainly the best case I've seen and I am personally confident things have been done right and this is correct."

The discovery apparently culminates a search that began with the invention of the first telescope centuries ago. But no one has laid eyes on the two planets with any optical instrument.

Instead, to find the planets, researchers used statistical analyses and detailed observations of the regular radio signals the pulsar emits. Wolszczan was able to detect the infinitesimal wobble caused by the gravitational pull of the planets whirling around the central star. The star sends out a radio signal 160 times a second with a precision greater than the most accurate atomic clock on Earth.

Wolszczan used the 305-meter-diameter radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to measure the arrival times of the pulsar's energy pulses. Unlike many of the other 550 known pulsars in the universe, these signals contained a subtle, periodic hesitation that strongly suggested that the position of the star was changing in response to one or more large objects in orbit around it.

Further meticulous analysis revealed the effect of the planets' changing orbits as they passed each other in their journeys around the strange sun, bearing out theoretical predictions. That was the test that other astronomers found most convincing.

There are two theories on how the planets may have formed.



http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-22/news/mn-49016_1_solar-system/2

Los Angeles Times

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First Planets Found Outside Solar System

April 22, 1994 ROBERT LEE HOTZ TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

Any planets already around that star should have been destroyed in the supernova blast. "It is the last place you'd look for planets," Kulkarni said.

But Thorsett at Caltech and Rachel Dewey at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena last year calculated that planets could survive a cataclysmic stellar explosion, depending on where they were in their orbits when the supernova was triggered.

But the supernova happened so long ago that planets could have formed since then. Scientists believe that in that scenario, the neutron star was orbited by a companion star, which eventually swelled into a red giant, a cool star typically 100 times larger than our sun. As it did so, it dumped matter into the neutron star, causing it to spin rapidly. The red giant somehow came apart, and from its ruins the seeds of the newly discovered planets formed, astronomers theorize.

"We have to take news of the first two planets very seriously," said Stephen P. Maran, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and spokesman for the American Astronomical Society. "I think we now have much greater confidence that there really are planets of other stars.

"But the confirmation comes from the person who made the initial discovery," he cautioned. "Everything I have heard indicates this is good work, but . . . he already knew what he wanted to find."










http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-22/news/mn-49011_1_bosnian-serb

Los Angeles Times


Rebel Serbs Threaten to Wipe Out Gorazde : Bosnia: 65,000 citizens face annihilation unless city surrenders. U.N. convoy is halted north of 'safe haven.'

April 22, 1994 CAROL J. WILLIAMS TIMES STAFF WRITER

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rebel Serbs issued a surrender-or-die ultimatum to the leaders of Gorazde on Thursday, threatening to annihilate the 65,000 civilians trapped in the U.N. "safe haven" unless the Bosnian government capitulates.

Authorities in Gorazde disregarded the 4 p.m. deadline for surrender.

U.N. Protection Force troops had set off for the beleaguered Muslim pocket earlier in the day, but the peacekeepers were halted 18 miles north of the enclave by a blockade of Bosnian Serb women and children in what appeared to be another attempt at securing a human shield against air strikes.

More than 200 U.N. troops and aid workers were taken captive by Serbian rebels last week after token NATO air strikes failed to halt the deadly offensive against Gorazde but succeeded in angering the defiant Serbs.

Most of the hostages have been released as the rebels maneuver to deter a seemingly serious threat of massive air strikes after a call by President Clinton for determined action to stop the Gorazde carnage.

And the U.N. Security Council early today demanded that the Serbian forces pull back from Gorazde and release any remaining hostages.

But even the more severe warnings from Washington and NATO headquarters in Brussels have had no measurable deterrent effect on the Serbs: U.N. spokesman Maj. Dacre Holloway said they launched a major infantry attack on the southern flanks of Gorazde close to nightfall.

The Serbs demanded in the morning that all government troops and civilians withdraw from the enclave to within a 1.8-mile radius of the city center and threatened to "roll over the civilian population" with every weapon in their arsenal unless the Muslim-led forces complied, a senior Sarajevo official disclosed.

The ultimatum was hammered home to the hungry and terrified population by a barrage of tank and artillery shells that killed at least 47 people and wounded 143, according to foreign aid workers hunkered in basement shelters in the besieged city.

Two tank shells tore through a makeshift first aid station near the city hospital that was destroyed a day earlier by wire-guided missiles. Doctors with the international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said 20 patients died inside the clinic, which was crowded with wounded.

A doctor at the ravaged facility, Ferid Tutic, told reporters here in a ham radio broadcast that the overwhelmed hospital staff was able to evacuate only seven of the 35 people pinned inside the smoldering clinic.

"We could still hear screams from within the burning building," the anguished doctor said.

Well over 400 civilians have been killed by the onslaught that the Serbs began in late March. They have pressed on despite token NATO air strikes and threats of escalated attacks. Showing no inclination to retreat when the U.N. mission here is powerless to stop them, the Serbs instead have intensified their offensive.

The commander of the Serbs' radical Herzegovina Corps used the blocked U.N. convoy as bait to lure the beleaguered homeless into submission, saying the foreign troops and the food and emergency medical care due to follow would be let through only if the defenders surrender.

Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic called the ultimatum outrageous and appealed to the international community to make good on its proposals to strengthen the U.N. defense of Gorazde before more civilians were killed.

"The Serbs are trying to buy time. I hope the world will wake up and stop the public execution of so many thousands of innocent people," Silajdzic said.

The convoy of 100 Ukrainian, British and French troops, along with 41 Scandinavian medics, planned to bivouac for the night along the side of the road at the rebel stronghold of Rogatica, Holloway said.

The U.N. official who negotiated the agreement by which Bosnian Serb political leaders had promised to permit the deployment to Gorazde said there was nothing the mission could do to force its way in.

"It's simply unacceptable that people sign things, then change their minds," lamented Viktor Andreyev, U.N. civilian affairs chief.

Andreyev indicated disapproval of the mounting Western pressure for punitive air strikes if the Serbs refuse to pull back but conceded that an escalation of foreign intervention is likely.

Asked if he believed that the U.N. mission was about to be drawn into a cataclysmic clash with the Serbs, he replied: "Yes. I hate it, but it looks like that."

Bosnian Serb political leaders in the rebel headquarters at Pale, just east of Sarajevo, have sought to justify their assault on Gorazde by saying that it is in retaliation for attacks by the encircled government forces among the enclave's civilians and refugees.

Serb nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic has also said that government troops used the medical facilities in Gorazde as cover to wage attacks--a contention dismissed as preposterous by U.N. military observers still in the pocket, Holloway said.



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Rebel Serbs Threaten to Wipe Out Gorazde : Bosnia: 65,000 citizens face annihilation unless city surrenders. U.N. convoy is halted north of 'safe haven.'

April 22, 1994 CAROL J. WILLIAMS TIMES STAFF WRITER

In a further sign of defiance, Karadzic issued a statement through Serbian media warning that he would not take part in any further peace talks unless the United Nations lifts economic sanctions imposed on neighboring Serbia, whose government supports the Serb rebels in Bosnia.

The deputy chief of the Bosnian Serb army, hard-line Gen. Milan Gvero, also issued vague threats against U.N. peacekeepers, saying "the aggressor's personnel would not be safe" on Serb-held territory.

Serb leaders have characterized the U.N. mission as an enemy force since NATO warplanes bombed two rebel positions firing on Gorazde last week.

Gorazde is one of six U.N.-designated safe areas, which the U.N. commander for Bosnia has proposed be accorded better protection through the proclamation of weapons exclusion zones backed by the threat of NATO air strikes.

NATO officials are scheduled to consider the plan today. By pretending to approve the peacekeepers convoy, Serbs may have lured it deep within rebel territory and acquired a convenient pool of potential hostages in the event that NATO approves wider use of air power.

The Serbs have conquered about 72% of Bosnian territory and expelled most non-Serbs since rebelling against Bosnian independence in March, 1992. At least 200,000 people, mostly Muslim civilians, are dead or missing from the conflict.










http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-23/local/me-49310_1_solar-system

Los Angeles Times


SCIENCE WATCH : Are You There?

April 23, 1994

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . .

The odds are that somewhere in a universe containing stars beyond counting--think here in terms of hundreds of billions--there are planets besides our own and our solar system's other eight. Also, the odds are that, given the advance of science and human ingenuity, someone would start to find them. For the first time, astronomers think they have done so.

A team led by Alexander Wolszczan of Pennsylvania State University says it has "irrefutable evidence" that at least two planets and maybe a third are orbiting a star in the constellation Virgo, 1,200 light-years (7,000 trillion miles) away. The objects are too distant and too small to be seen by optical telescopes. Their existence is inferred from the radio signals emanating from the pulsar, the rapidly spinning residue of a dead star, around which they orbit. Could there be life on these objects? Almost certainly not, given the inhospitable neighborhood. But now that the Wolszczan team says it has proven our solar system isn't unique there's even more reason to assume that on planets elsewhere, yet to be detected, life does exist. That life could conceivably make our own state of evolution seem primitive.

It's something to ponder, the possibility that some place in this vast and still expanding universe--maybe even in many places--civilizations exist that can boast their own or even better Shakespeares, Mozarts, Einsteins, Roseanne Arnolds. It would be nice to get in touch sometime.

Hello, out there.










2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD video:

00:45:50

Dr. Helen Benson: You know, I took a huge risk back at the hospital. Did I make a mistake? Are you a friend to us?



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:15 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 17 April 2016