Police Story

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries [ Monday 08 December 2003 USA ]


Gaeta: I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but we have a Priority 1 alert message from Fleet Headquarters. It was transmitted in the clear.

Adama: In the clear? What does it say?










http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lucid.html

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Houston, Texas 77058

Biographical Data

SHANNON W. LUCID (PH.D.)

NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)

PERSONAL DATA: Born January 14, 1943, in Shanghai, China, but considers Bethany, Oklahoma, to be her hometown. Married to Michael F. Lucid of Indianapolis, Indiana. They have two daughters and one son, five granddaughters and one grandson. Dr. Lucid enjoys flying, camping, hiking and reading. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O. Wells, are deceased.

EDUCATION: Graduated from Bethany High School, Bethany, Oklahoma, in 1960; received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma in 1963 and a master of science and doctor of philosophy degree in biochemistry from the University of Oklahoma in 1970 and 1973, respectively.

AWARDS: Dr. Lucid is the recipient of numerous awards.

EXPERIENCE: Dr. Lucid's experience includes a variety of academic assignments, such as teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma's Department of Chemistry from 1963 to 1964; senior laboratory technician at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1964 to 1966; chemist at Kerr-McGee, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1966 to 1968; graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from 1969 to 1973 and research associate with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from 1974 until her selection to the astronaut candidate training program.

Dr. Lucid is a commercial, instrument and multi-engine rated pilot.

NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in January 1978, Dr. Lucid became an astronaut in August 1979. She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. Some of her technical assignments have included the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL); the Flight Software Laboratory, in Downey, California, working with the rendezvous and proximity operations group; Astronaut Office interface at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, participating in payload testing, Shuttle testing and launch countdowns; spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Mission Control Center during numerous Space Shuttle missions; Chief of Mission Support and Chief of Astronaut Appearances. A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. She served as a mission specialist on STS-51G (June 17 to June 24, 1985), STS-34 (October 18 to October 23, 1989), STS-43 (August 2 to August 11, 1991), STS-58 (October 18 to November 1, 1993), and as a board engineer 2 on Russia's Space Station Mir (launching March 22, 1996, aboard STS-76 and returning September 26, 1996, aboard STS-79). Dr. Lucid was the first woman to hold an international record for the most flight hours in orbit by any non-Russian, and, until June 2007, she also held the record for the most flight hours in orbit by any woman in the world. From February 2002 until September 2003, Dr. Lucid served as NASA's Chief Scientist stationed at NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., with responsibility for developing and communicating the agency's science and research objectives to the outside world. She returned to JSC in Fall 2003 and resumed technical assignments in the Astronaut Office. She served as a CAPCOM in the Mission Control Center for numerous Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) crews, representing the Flight Crew Office and providing a friendly voice for dozens of friends and colleagues in space. Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-51G Discovery (June 17 to June 24, 1985) was a 7-day mission, during which the crew deployed communications satellites for Mexico (Morelos), the Arab League (Arabsat) and the United States (AT&T Telstar). They used the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) to deploy and later retrieve the SPARTAN satellite, which performed 17 hours of x-ray astronomy experiments while separated from the Space Shuttle. In addition, the crew activated the Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (ADSF), six Getaway Specials and participated in biomedical experiments. The mission was accomplished in 112 orbits of the Earth, traveling 2.5 million miles in 169 hours and 39 minutes. Landing was at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), California.

STS-34 Atlantis (October 18 to October 23, 1989) was a 5-day mission during which the deployed the Galileo spacecraft, on its journey to explore Jupiter, operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SSBUV) to map atmospheric ozone and performed numerous secondary experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer morphology, lightning research, microgravity effects on plants and a student experiment on ice crystal growth in space. The mission was accomplished in 79 orbits of the Earth, traveling 1.8 million miles in 119 hours and 41 minutes. Landing was at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

STS-43 Atlantis (August 2 to August 11, 1991) was a 9-day mission, during which the crew deployed the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E). The crew also conducted 32 physical, material and life science experiments, mostly relating to the Extended Duration Orbiter and Space Station Freedom. The mission was accomplished in 142 orbits of the Earth, traveling 3.7 million miles in 213 hours, 21 minutes and 25 seconds. STS-43 Atlantis was the eighth Space Shuttle to land at KSC.

STS-58 Columbia (October 18 to November 1, 1993). This record duration 14-day mission was recognized by NASA management as the most successful and efficient Spacelab flight flown by NASA. The STS-58 crew performed neurovestibular, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, metabolic and musculoskeletal medical experiments on themselves and 48 rats, expanding our knowledge of human and animal physiology both on Earth and in spaceflight. In addition, they performed 16 engineering tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 20 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth, traveling 5.8 million miles in 336 hours, 13 minutes and 1 second. Landing was at Edwards Air Force Base, California. In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space.

Dr. Lucid currently holds the United States single-mission spaceflight endurance record on the Russian Space Station Mir. Following a year of training in Star City, Russia, her journey started with liftoff at KSC on March 22, 1996, aboard STS-76 Atlantis. Following docking, she transferred to the Mir Space Station. Assigned as a board engineer 2, she performed numerous life science and physical science experiments during the course of her stay aboard Mir. Her return journey to KSC was made aboard STS-79 Atlantis on September 26, 1996. In completing this mission, Dr. Lucid traveled 75.2 million miles in 188 days, 4 hours, 0 minutes and 14 seconds.










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NASA


Space Shuttle


STS-58

Mission: SLS-2

Space Shuttle: Columbia

Launch Pad: 39B

Launched: October 18, 1993 10:53 a.m. EDT

Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Landing: November 1, 1993. 07:05:42 a.m. PST

Landing Weight: 229,753 pounds

Runway: 22

Rollout Distance: 9,640 feet

Rollout Time: 61 seconds

Revolution: 225

Mission Duration: 14 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes, 32 seconds

Returned to KSC: November 9, 1993

Orbit Altitude: 155 nautical miles

Orbit Inclination: 39 degrees

Miles Traveled: 5.8 million

Crew Members

Image above: STS-58 Crew photo with Commander John E. Blaha, Pilot Richard A. Searfoss Mission Specialists M. Rhea Seddon, William S. McArthur, Jr., David A. Wolf, Shannon W. Lucid and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman. Image Credit: NASA

Launch Highlights

STS-58 Mission Patch First launch attempt on Oct. 14 was scrubbed at the T-31 second mark due to a failed range safety computer. Second launch attempt on Oct. 15 scrubbed at the T-9 minute mark due to a failed S-band transponder on the orbiter. The launch was reset for Oct. 18. Countdown proceeded smoothly to liftoff, delayed only by several seconds because of an aircraft in launch zone.

Mission Highlights

Second dedicated Spacelab Life Sciences mission (SLS- 2). Fourteen experiments conducted in four areas: regulatory physiology, cardiovascular/cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal and neuroscience. Eight of the experiments focused on crew; six on 48 rodents. Crew collected more than 650 different samples from themselves and rodents, increasing statistical base for life sciences research. Combined data from SLS-1 and SLS-2 will help build comprehensive picture of how humans and animals adapt to weightlessness.

Cardiovascular investigations: Inflight Study of Cardiovascular Deconditioning; Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero Gravity; Pulmonary Function during Weightlessness. Regulatory physiology investigations: Fluid Electrolyte Regulation during Space flight; Regulation of Blood Volume during Space flight; Regulation of Erythropoiesis in Rats during Space flight; Influence of Space flight on Erythrokinetics in Man. Musculoskeletal investigations: Protein Metabolism during Space flight; Effects of Zero Gravity on the Functional and Biochemical Properties of Antigravity Skeletal Muscle; Effects of Microgravity on the Electron Microscopy, Histochemistry and Protease Activities of Rat Hindlimb Muscles; Pathophysiology of Mineral Loss during Space flight; Bone, Calcium and Spaceflight. Neuroscience investigations: Study of the Effects of Space Travel on Mammalian Gravity Receptors; Vestibular Experiments in Spacelab.

For one of the neurovestibular experiments, the Rotating Dome Experiment, crew worked with first flight prototype of Astronaut Science Advisor (ASA), a laptop computer designed to assist astronauts conducting experiments; also called "principal investigator in a box" because it can increase efficiency of experiment activities.

Six rodents were killed and dissected during mission










http://articles.latimes.com/1998/dec/16/news/mn-54651

Los Angeles Times


For Clinton, Mideast Hills Are Alive With Allegory

Trip: From Masada to Church of the Nativity's Door of Humility, ancient lands echo the embattled president's political predicament with symbols.

December 16, 1998 JAMES GERSTENZANG TIMES STAFF WRITER

JERUSALEM — In this corner of the world, the story of Masada carries the emotional weight the Alamo does in Texas.

As legend has it, Jewish zealots besieged by the Roman army nearly 2,000 years ago (AD 73) atop a mountain above the Dead Sea chose death rather than surrender. Thus was born a cultural symbol: the inspired fight of the weak against the strong, of death before enslavement.

As he flew home to face siege by House Republicans, President Clinton could be excused for identifying with the population of Masada--967 men, women and children trying to fend off the army of Flavius Silva, about 10,000 to 15,000 strong. They chose what was perhaps the ancient equivalent of resignation. He has vowed not to quit.

The puffiness under his eyes notwithstanding, Clinton labored to project the air of a man with nothing on his mind beyond the welcome challenges of his office. After all, this is an executive said by aides to have a remarkable ability to deal with the many pressing elements of his job separately.

Was he able, a reporter asked, to insulate the Middle East peace process from the domestic political problems he--and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu--are facing?

"Oh, absolutely," the president replied, projecting a broad grin and a relaxed, aw-shucks attitude that as much as asked why anyone would think otherwise. "You show up for work every day. It's not a complicated thing."

So the president of the United States, on the final day of his three days in the Middle East, was making one last stab at finding peace between Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then playing tourist at Masada with the Israeli as his guide and before that in Bethlehem, where the Palestinian was his host.

At Manger Square, the president, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, their daughter, Chelsea, and Arafat and his Christian-born wife, Suha, now a Muslim, visited the Church of the Nativity, entering through the Door of Humility. The church is built over the grotto where Jesus is said to have been born. The Clintons hung ornaments on a Christmas tree. The president joined in while a choir of perhaps two dozen children sang "Joy to the World." He threw an arm around his wife's shoulder. Everyone smiled.

More than once during the trip, Clinton applied a biblical cast to the search for peace in the Middle East that could be applied equally to his own search for a degree of peace with his critics.

"In the Christian New Testament," he said, "we are instructed that they who judge without mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy triumphs over judgment."

But in this land of ancient parables, there is another one, more recent than that of Masada, that may be just as disconcerting to the White House.

On Monday, Clinton visited Gaza, where more than 1 million Palestinians live in impoverished refugee camps and other shantytowns.

He flew over the crowds by helicopter. But the people, once hostile to American leaders, nevertheless turned out to greet him. They lined an anticipated motorcade route, displaying banners welcoming him and waving U.S. and Palestinian flags.

On June 13, 1974, as the Watergate crisis neared its climax, Richard Nixon traveled through the Middle East. By train, he journeyed along the Nile to Alexandria, with Anwar Sadat, president of an Egypt once hostile to the United States, at his side. Thousands of people lined the route, cheering an American leader who was embattled at home.

Seven weeks later, Republican Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the minority leader, led a delegation of Republican senators to the White House to tell the president that his support had evaporated.

The senator told a reporter immediately afterward: "Nixon sat there with his feet up on the desk and behaved like a man who didn't have a care in the world."

The day after Scott and his delegation visited the White House, Nixon resigned.










http://articles.latimes.com/1998/dec/16/news/mn-54652

Los Angeles Times


Republicans Shift Gears in Drive to Oust Clinton

Politics: At first, the GOP downplayed significance of impeachment vote. Now, the new tune is resignation.

December 16, 1998 RONALD BROWNSTEIN TIMES POLITICAL WRITER

WASHINGTON — Faced with a public skeptical of removing President Clinton from office, even some of his staunchest Republican critics spent weeks trying to downplay the significance of a vote to impeach him.

From Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) to impeachment pointmen such as Reps. Charles T. Canady and Bill McCollum, both from Florida, GOP legislators stressed the same mantra: Only the Senate could actually remove Clinton. Like a grand jury, the House was merely passing along accusations.

But now that the House appears virtually certain to approve at least one article of impeachment later this week, Hyde and other key Republicans are dramatically raising the stakes by amplifying calls on Clinton to resign if the House votes against him.

To Clinton's besieged defenders, this change in tone looks like classic bait and switch--Republicans first try to lull the country into complacency about impeachment, then use the searing fact of it to ignite a chain reaction that they hope will drive Clinton from office.

But the GOP's shifting emphasis also shows how one of the president's core arguments might be rapidly turned against him: If the House votes to impeach, his insistence that the country needs to move on might generate calls not only for the Senate to coalesce quickly around censure but competing demands for Clinton to end the crisis by stepping down.

That prospect obviously increases the risk to Clinton in the impeachment vote but also raises the stakes for the remaining wavering lawmakers who may have comforted themselves--and their voters--by assuming that the Senate would quickly wrap up the controversy without serious risk that Clinton would be forced out.

"If he is impeached, you are in a new situation and people readjust their sense of what is appropriate," said GOP strategist Bill Kristol, publisher of the Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine. "I am not convinced that, if he is impeached, everyone will say: 'Let's end this right away. Let's cut a deal.' "

All of this represents a marked change in tone for the GOP from the period leading into last week's Judiciary Committee vote. Earlier in December, for instance, McCollum argued on ABC-TV's "This Week" that impeachment was merely the "ultimate scarlet letter" and would not require the Senate to conduct a trial.

During last week's votes, other Republicans also struck calming notes. "Impeachment is not removal," insisted Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.(R-Wis.).

Those soothing words reflected a harsh political reality: Polls have consistently found little support for removing Clinton from office. In a Pew Research Center survey released Monday, 67% of Americans said that Clinton should not be impeached and removed.

But as support for impeaching Clinton has solidified inside the House Republican Caucus, the calls for his resignation that were largely muted through the fall campaign and the initial Judiciary Committee deliberations suddenly have resurfaced. Hyde himself signaled the pivot on Sunday when, for the first time, he called on Clinton to step down "to save the country a lot of turmoil and tumult," if the House votes to impeach.

House Majority Whip Tom DeLay and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both of Texas, echoed Hyde's words Sunday. On Tuesday, after announcing that he would vote for impeachment, Rep. Tom Campbell (R-San Jose) jumped on the pile, saying: "It would save the country immense turmoil if [Clinton] would resign."

Many GOP and conservative operatives believe that, if impeachment passes the House, these voices are likely to be joined by a swelling procession of Republicans.

"Hyde broke the barrier," said Marshall Wittmann, director of congressional relations for the conservative Heritage Foundation. "I think you'll have a chorus of calls from the Republican side for resignation to spare the country [a Senate trial], and you may have opinion leaders saying that as well and even some in the Democratic Party."

This change in direction has both angered and worried White House officials. "One of the ways [Republicans] have sought to build support for impeaching the president, is by suggesting . . . that it will be some kind of super-censure and nothing more, that no one should worry, that [Clinton] will continue serving the country," said one senior White House aide. "Then they turn around and say that's the reason to remove him."

In an interview Tuesday, McCollum dismissed those complaints. "I don't think there is any effort to lull the country to sleep," he said. It remains a fact, he said, that a House vote to impeach wouldn't mean "anything formal" in terms of forcing Clinton's removal.

Still, some Republicans are concerned that the party may be compounding its political risks, if it raises its goal from tarring Clinton with an impeachment vote to actually mounting a serious effort to force him from office, either through resignation or a Senate conviction.



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Los Angeles Times


(Page 2 of 2)

THE IMPEACHMENT DEBATE NEWS ANALYSIS

Republicans Shift Gears in Drive to Oust Clinton

Politics: At first, the GOP downplayed significance of impeachment vote. Now, the new tune is resignation.

December 16, 1998 RONALD BROWNSTEIN TIMES POLITICAL WRITER

"Once the House has finished impeachment it is imperative that Republicans move on with the people's business" rather than trying to pressure Clinton to resign, said Ken Johnson, the communications director for Rep. W. J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-La.), who still has not announced how he will vote on impeachment. "The president needs to be punished for his transgressions, but we have to be careful that we don't wind up going down the tubes with him."

As House Republicans unify behind impeachment, however, it is clear that many in the party feel increased confidence about pushing on further and escalating the pressure to terminate Clinton's presidency.

Most Democrats have assumed that, even if Clinton is impeached, the overwhelming public distaste for the struggle would compel the Senate to make a quick deal for censure that would keep Clinton in office--as 1996 GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole suggested Tuesday.

But now, pressure is growing in the GOP for the Senate to conduct a full-scale trial. On Tuesday, for instance, McCollum said that he "absolutely" would encourage the Senate to take the case to trial rather than reach an early deal on censure.

In part, the conservative demand for a trial is fueled by hopes that extending the crisis will increase pressure on Clinton to step down. "Republicans feel more comfortable now in the resignation mode," said Wittmann. "There's a general feeling that regardless of the general polls about whether [the president] should be impeached, there is a wave of revulsion from the public about this whole crisis and, if it can end with Clinton's resignation, so be it."

Immediately bolstering that belief in the GOP was the result of a striking ABC/Washington Post poll released Monday night. Though more than three-fifths of respondents continued to oppose impeachment, 58% said that, if Clinton is impeached, they would prefer he resign rather than fight on in the Senate.

But other analysts--such as Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press--were deeply skeptical of that result. Kohut noted that other surveys have revealed no increase in support for resignation and even the Post poll found that only 13% of Americans believe the country would be better off if Congress removes Clinton.

With public reaction to a Senate trial so unpredictable, maybe the only indisputable conclusion is that forcing the crisis to that stage would greatly increase the risks for both sides--raising the prospect of a backlash that might either force Clinton to resign or decimate Republicans at the polls in 2000.










http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-58.html

NASA


Space Shuttle


STS-58

Mission: SLS-2

Space Shuttle: Columbia

Launch Pad: 39B

Launched: October 18, 1993 10:53 a.m. EDT


Mission Highlights:

STS-58 was the 4th longest mission in US manned space history and was dedicated to life sciences research. Columbia's crew performed a series of experiments to gain knowledge on how the human body adapts to the weightless environment of space. Experiments focused on cardiovascular, regulatory, neurovestibular and musculoskeletal systems of the body. The experiments performed on Columbia's crew and on laboratory animals (48 rats held in 24 cages), along with data collected on the SLS-1 mission in June 1991, will provide the most detailed and interrelated physiological measurements acquired in the space environment since the Skylab program in 1973 and 1974.

Crew members conducted experiments aimed at understanding bone tissue loss and the effects of microgravity on sensory perception. Two neurovestibular experiments investigating space motion sickness and perception changes were performed on the 2nd day as well. Astronauts Lucid and Fettman wore a headset, called an Accelerometer recording Unit, designed to continually record head movements throughout the day.

Only one minor issue came up on Tuesday, October 19, 1993 associated with a circuit breaker that tripped, cutting off power temporarily to one of the rodent cages in the module. Flight controllers in Houston reported it was not caused by a short in the electrical system and the breaker was reset, restoring power to the cage.










http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/17/king.tick.tock/

CNN


Impeachment and Iraq fill the president's time

By John King/CNN


WASHINGTON (December 17)


Washington - 4:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

The first wave of attack against Iraq started 4:30 p.m. ET Wednesday










From 1/14/1943 ( Shannon Lucid ) To 12/17/1998 is 20426 days

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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 10/2/1973 ( premiere US TV series "Police Story" ) is 2891 days


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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 10/2/1973 ( premiere US TV series "Police Story" ) is 2891 days



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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9812/16/pentagon.02/

CNN


Pentagon unveils details of Operation Desert Fox

December 16, 1998

Web posted at: 10:11 p.m. EST (0311 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. and British attack on Iraq was launched using a variety of both land-based and sea-based military assets delivering Tomahawk cruise missiles, according to officials at the Pentagon.

Sources tell CNN that more than 200 cruise missiles were launched at targets in northern and southern Iraq and in the Baghdad area.

"Iraq should not misunderstand our determination," said Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who briefed reporters at the Pentagon along with Gen. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Cohen said the objective of the military attack was to erode Iraq's military capability and ability to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. He would not give a timetable for how long the attack would last.

While only American and British forces were involved, Cohen maintained that other countries, which he didn't identify, were supportive of the attack. However, he said the scope of the force was limited so that it could strike quickly and maintain the element of surprise.

"(These countries) were prepared to volunteer assets, and they did in fact call and say they would be supportive of anything that we were to undertake." Cohen said. "We had tried to maximize our ability to strike quickly without any further warning."

The military operation began at 5 p.m. EST Wednesday (2200 GMT/1 a.m. Thursday in Baghdad).










http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9812/16/pentagon.01/index.html

CNN


Pentagon unveils details of Operation Desert Fox

December 16, 1998

Web posted at: 7:40 p.m. EDT (2340 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Here are some of the details of Operation Desert Fox, unveiled at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday night by Defense Secretary William Cohen and Gen. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

The military operation began at 1:00 a.m. Thursday in Baghdad










http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/17/king.tick.tock/

CNN


Impeachment and Iraq fill the president's time

By John King/CNN

WASHINGTON (December 17) -- President Bill Clinton's decision Wednesday to go ahead with what he called "a strong, sustained series of attacks" on Iraq, capped off a long day that seemed to be going in two directions at once. Here is a brief look at the events that filled the president's day Wednesday and the days just prior to the airstrikes against Iraq.

Israel - Saturday night, December 12

The stage was being set for the latest confrontation with Iraq during Clinton's recent trip to the Middle East. The president was first briefed on the strike plan Saturday night in Israel. He was told Iraq was again refusing to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

Air Force One - Tuesday, December 15

The president signed off on Operation Desert Fox as he flew home to Washington from the Middle East Tuesday night.

Washington - 11:43 p.m. ET Tuesday, December 15

It was close to midnight when the president landed back at the White House Tuesday. He then spent two hours shuttling from briefings on Iraq to meetings full of bad news about growing Republican support for at least one of the four articles of impeachment the House was scheduled to vote on Thursday.

Washington - 1 a.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

A little after one in the morning Wednesday the president called House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Missouri) to talk impeachment and Iraq.

White House - 7 a.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

After a few hours sleep it was back to juggling the two momentous issues. Clinton went straight from 7 a.m. ET White House Situation Room meeting on Iraq to Chief of Staff John Podesta's office to talk impeachment. Meanwhile, Vice President Al Gore was making a pitch for censure.

Full story: Gore rallies support for Clinton

Washington - 8:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

Marking an extraordinary moment on a remarkable day, the president gave the green light to strike Iraq, and walked out of a top secret national security meeting and into a top level staff meeting on impeachment.

Full Story: Clinton: Iraq has abused its final chance

Washington - 9:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

The president had a telephone call with British Prime Minister Tony Blair Wednesday morning. Both agree that Operation Desert Fox was a go. After the call, Republican Congressman Amo Houghton of New York stopped by the White House to discuss impeachment.

The president spent the majority of the day on the phone and out of the public eye. He made calls to outgoing Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R- Georgia) and the Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) to update them on the military operation.

CNN has learned Clinton also spoke to at least two Democrats about impeachment, complaining that Republicans are out to get him.

Washington - 4:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

The first wave of attack against Iraq started 4:30 p.m. ET Wednesday and Lott launched an extraordinary attack on the president. Saying that he could not support the military operation, Lott raised questions about the timing of the strikes.

Full Story: Sen. Lott questions timing of airstrikes on Iraq

Washington - 6 p.m. ET Wednesday, December 16

Ten hours after ordering the attack, the president addressed the nation about an international military operation.

Looking the world in the eye Wednesday night Clinton announced: "Good evening. I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq."

The president also added one caveat about a domestic political crisis.

"Saddam Hussein and other enemies of peace may have thought that the serious debate currently before the House of Representatives and would distract American or weaken our resolve to face him down," Clinton said. "But once more, the United States has proven that although we are never eager to use force, when we must act in America's vital interest we will."

All questions about the timing of the attack were left to the president's Republican Defense Secretary, William Cohen.

"I am prepared to place 30 years of public service on the line to say the only factor that was important in this decision is what was in the American people's best interest. There were no other factors," Cohen said.

Full Story: Pentagon unveils details of Operation Desert Fox

Washington - Thursday, December 17

Republicans remain openly skeptical of the president's timing, but they have put off for now the House debate and vote on impeachment. White House sources say it is a vote the president is expected to lose.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112864/quotes

IMDb


Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Quotes


Simon: Simon says, McClane and the Samaritan will go to the subway station at 72nd and Broadway. I will call you in 15 minutes on the payphone outside the station. No Police. Failure to answer will constitute noncompliance. Do you understand me, John?

John McClane: Oh, yes, I understand. I understand that you're a fuckin' wacko who likes to play kids' games. That's what I understand.

Simon: Hardly.

John McClane: [imitating Simon] Hahdly? Well, then, who are you? Somebody I sent up? What'd you do? Shoplifting? Purse-snatching?

[pauses and puts hand over the receiver]

John McClane: Cross-dressing? What?

Simon: You c-c-c-couldn't catch me if I stole your ch-ch-chair with you in it!

John McClane: My ch-ch-ch-chair with me in it? That's very exciting. Let me ask you a question, bonehead. Why are you trying to k-k-k-k-kill me?










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=king-kong-2005

Springfield! Springfield!


King Kong (2005)


Get it on board, fellows,
come on.
It's bad, it's bad.
They're on their way.
I've just had word.
Who?
Men in uniform.
The studio called the cops.










http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/seddon.html

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Houston, Texas 77058

Biographical Data

MARGARET RHEA SEDDON (M.D.)

NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)

PERSONAL DATA: Born November 8, 1947, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Married to Former Astronaut Robert L. Gibson of Cooperstown, New York. Three children. Her father, Mr. Edward C. Seddon, resides in Murfreesboro. Her mother, Mrs. Clayton Dann Seddon, is deceased. His mother, Mrs. Paul A. Gibson, resides in Seal Beach, California.

EDUCATION: Graduated from Central High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1965; received a bachelor of arts degree in physiology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970, and a doctorate of medicine from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1973.

EXPERIENCE: After medical school, Dr. Seddon completed a surgical internship and 3 years of a general surgery residency in Memphis with a particular interest in nutrition in surgery patients. Between the period of her internship and residency, she served as an Emergency Department physician at a number of hospitals in Mississippi and Tennessee, and served in this capacity in the Houston area in her spare time. Dr. Seddon has also performed clinical research into the effects of radiation therapy on nutrition in cancer patients.

NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, Dr. Seddon became an astronaut in August 1979. Her work at NASA has been in a variety of areas, including Orbiter and payload software, Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, Flight Data File, Shuttle medical kit and checklist, launch and landing rescue helicopter physician, support crew member for STS-6, crew equipment, membership on NASA's Aerospace Medical Advisory Committee, Technical Assistant to the Director of Flight Crew Operations, and crew communicator (CAPCOM) in the Mission Control Center. She was Assistant to the Director of Flight Crew Operations for Shuttle/Mir Payloads. A three-flight veteran with over 722 hours in space, Dr. Seddon was a mission specialist on STS-51D (1985) and STS-40 (1991), and was the payload commander on STS-58 (1993). In September 1996, she was detailed by NASA to Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee. She assisted in the preparation of cardiovascular experiments which flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on the Neurolab Spacelab flight in April 1998. Dr. Seddon retired from NASA in November 1997. She is now the assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group in Nashville, Tennessee.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-51D (Discovery), April 12-19, 1985, was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The crew deployed ANIK-C for Telesat of Canada, and Syncom IV-3 for the U.S. Navy. A malfunction in the Syncom spacecraft resulted in the first unscheduled EVA (spacewalk), rendezvous and proximity operations for the Space Shuttle in an attempt to activate the satellite using the Remote Manipulator System. The crew conducted several medical experiments, activated two "Getaway Specials," and filmed experiments with toys in space. In completing her first space flight Dr. Seddon logged 168 hours in space in 109 Earth orbits.

STS-40 (Columbia) Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-1), June 5-14, 1991, a dedicated space and life sciences mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. During the nine-day mission the crew performed experiments which explored how humans, animals and cells respond to microgravity and re-adapt to Earth's gravity on return. Other payloads included experiments designed to investigate materials science, plant biology and cosmic radiation, and tests of hardware proposed for the Space Station Freedom Health Maintenance Facility. Mission completed in 146 orbits of the Earth, and logged her an additional 218 hours in space.

STS-58 (Columbia), Spacelab Life Sciences-2, flew October 18 to November 1, 1993. Dr. Seddon was the Payload Commander on this life science research mission which received NASA management recognition as the most successful and efficient Spacelab flown to date. During the fourteen day flight the seven-person crew performed neurovestibular, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and musculoskeletal medical experiments on themselves and 48 rats, expanding our knowledge of human and animal physiology both on earth and in space flight. In addition, the crew performed 10 engineering tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 9 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth in over 336 hours.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44431

The American Presidency Project

Jimmy Carter

XXXIX President of the United States: 1977 - 1981

White House Reception for Secret Service and Military Aides Office Employees Remarks at the Reception.

December 22, 1980

Merry Christmas.

First of all, let me say that Rosalynn and I want to welcome you to the White House to an old-fashioned Christmas party. We had anticipated having a very warm day today, but Pat Caddell's survey was not exactly accurate. But I hope you won't be too cold, because the entertainment we have is going to warm everybody up.

We've got snow in the background, and after the show is over we've got refreshments and also sleigh rides for those—or rather, hayrides for those who want to enjoy them, and if you would like to go inside the White House to get warm and enjoy the beauty of the tree which is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen. The decorations are in the Victorian style.

This is the, I think, 181st Christmas at the White House, and it's the 80th Christmas since the Secret Service began to protect the President. Through, I think, 14 administrations and something like 17 campaigns the Secret Service has provided safety and protection and security for the First Family and those who sought the Presidency. And as we approach this holiday season, Rosalynn and Amy and I and all our boys and grandchildren want to express our deep appreciation to all of you for being so wonderful to us, for keeping us safe, sometimes at the danger of your own lives, and we just want to say, God bless you, Merry Christmas to you. Have a good time this afternoon.

You have performed like true Olympians, and this afternoon to entertain you, I would like to introduce a real Olympic star, someone who's soon to show you that she's poetry on ice, a young woman who is a gold medal winner in the winter Olympics, who comes here as part of the only cabaret ice show this side of Las Vegas, the Urban Hilton on Ice. And now I'd like to introduce to you, Peggy Fleming and a wonderful show for your entertainment. We're grateful to you.

Merry Christmas. God bless all of you. Thank you.

Note: The President spoke at 2:30 p.m. on the South Lawn of the White House.










http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/chron-1905.htm

Einstein Chronology for 1905


June: Sends Annalen der Physik his special relativity theory paper, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.” Received June 30, published 26 September.










https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-Heinrich-Heinkel

Encyclopædia Britannica


Ernst Heinrich Heinkel

GERMAN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER

Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, (born Jan. 24, 1888, Grunbach, Ger.—died Jan. 30, 1958, Stuttgart, W.Ger.) German designer and builder of the first rocket-powered aircraft shortly before the outbreak of World War II.










http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-20/news/mn-47805_1_shuttle-mission

Los Angeles Times


Astronauts Check Body Changes During Tests on Weightlessness

October 20, 1993 From Associated Press

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia drank water laced with oxygen isotopes, nitrogen and calcium Tuesday in tests to monitor body changes during weightlessness.

The crew members also gave each other shots of chemicals that were traced through their bodies to measure changes in blood volume, kidneys, bones and muscles. Blood, urine and saliva samples also were collected on the first full day of the planned two-week medical research mission.

In another test, the astronauts monitored their heartbeats with an ultrasound device developed by David Wolf, one of the crew's two physicians. They also exercised on a stationary cycle and collected the droppings of laboratory rats.

The crew had to open the door on one of the two animal enclosures and turn on a fan to cool the 24 inhabitants. The enclosure was a few degrees warmer than desired.

"All the rats look pretty healthy and happy," said Columbia's veterinarian, Martin Fettman. "We're just a little concerned about the rats in cage two because of the vacuum, the hurricane that goes by them with the cage door open and the (fan) on."

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants the five men and two women to collect as much data as possible early in the flight, while the body is still adapting to weightlessness. Scientists said that is a major limitation of Russia's space program--even though cosmonauts have spent as much as a year in orbit, it is difficult for them to gather medical data during the first few days.

Muscles weaken in space and bones soften. NASA wants to develop measures to counteract these and other side effects, such as diminished immunity, reduced red blood cells and loss of balance.

The only other shuttle mission devoted to medical research, a nine-day flight in 1991, indicated among other things that the body produces enough muscle protein in weightlessness but that the protein breaks down faster.

Tuesday, like launch day, was full of experiments. "I think that we'll be fortunate if we can keep up this pace," NASA program scientist Frank Sulzman said. "We know that for a 14-day mission we have to schedule things so that we don't have the crew working nonstop."










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/homers-enemy-1461/trivia/

tv.com


The Simpsons Season 8 Episode 23

Homer's Enemy

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM May 04, 1997 on FOX

Quotes


(Bart notices that the factory has collapsed)

Bart: Ah, jeez. Milhouse, how could you let this happen? You were supposed to be the night watchman!

Milhouse: I was watching. I saw the whole thing. First it started falling over, then it fell over.

Bart: Wow. Wonder where all the rats are gonna go?










http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-21/news/mn-48194_1_calcium

Los Angeles Times


Astronauts Cycle Around World, Crawl Into Bag

October 21, 1993 From Associated Press

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Columbia's astronauts took turns cycling around the world Wednesday and crawled into a vacuum bag that forced more blood into their legs.

Payload commander M. Rhea Seddon made the ultimate sacrifice for the 14-day medical research mission--she exercised, and hard.

After an hourlong session on a stationary cycle as the shuttle flew two-thirds of the way around Earth, the Tennessee-born physician informed Mission Control: "Us Southern girls don't like to perspire very much."

"We'll be sure to announce that to the world," said Mission Control's Carl Meade.

"Oh, thanks, Carl," she replied.

Seddon and the three other scientists on board also drew blood from each other after swallowing water with calcium on the third day of the flight, a lighter workday than the first two.

The calcium isotopes will show researchers how calcium is absorbed by the body in weightlessness as well as how much bone is lost, a side effect of space travel.

Similar studies are being conducted on the 48 rats on board.

In another experiment, astronaut William McArthur Jr. slipped into a waist-high sack that, via reduced pressure, drew blood and other body fluids from his chest, where it collects in weightlessness, into his legs, where it gathers on Earth.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=mission-to-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


Eighty percent atmosphere.
Jim, you've got to go get
your spare helmet.
Copy that, Jim?
There's no time.
All the systems have crashed.
I gotta shut down the hab
from below.
We're losing pressure, Jim.
You could embolize.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/quotes

IMDb


Tombstone (1993)

Quotes


Doc Holliday: Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

Johnny Ringo: Fight's not with you, Holliday.

Doc Holliday: I'll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?

Johnny Ringo: I was just foolin' about.

Doc Holliday: I wasn't. And this time...

[opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge]

Doc Holliday: ... it's legal.

Johnny Ringo: All right, lunger.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=mission-to-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


Seventy percent atmosphere.
Phil, you've got to get
the nav computers back on-line.
Uh, Jim,
I've got an idea.
If you guys can save
enough atmosphere,
I'll disconnect the power in the main
computer bay and jump-start the systems.
- I'd basically be doing a hard boot.
- Has that been tested?
Are you kidding?
These machines
are way too expensive.
- Do it.
- Okay.
I think this'll work.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=mission-to-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


Jim, I've got oxygen.
- Come on.
- Voice print identification.
- Mc... McCon...
- Not accepted.
Voice print identification.
- McConnell!
- Accepted.
Shut down... gravitational rotation.
Shutting down
artificial gravitational rotation.
Jim, I've got the oxygen
for you.
- Hang on!
- Forty percent atmosphere.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 08:32 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 17 October 2016