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...step in the future. He was reprimanded for sending federal officials to look for a plane he believed was carrying Texas Democratic state lawmakers dodging a vote on a DeLay-backed redistricting plan. A second rebuke involved a $25,000 contribution to one of his political committees by Westar, a Kansas energy company that was seeking a special provision in a pending energy bill. The panel's action came a week after it admonished DeLay for courting a Congressman's vote on the 2003 Medicare bill by offering to support the lawmaker's son in his Michigan congressional campaign...
Robert W. Funk, Director Westar Institute Santa Rosa, California...
...moderate theologians to find new meanings in Scripture are burdened by the decrees of such groups as the Jesus Seminar, which seem determined to offend at all costs. The seminar is the invention of onetime Protestant clergyman Robert W. Funk, who now runs a Bible think tank, the Westar Institute. Since the mainstream press rarely covers the esoterica of New Testament criticism, he set an irresistible trap: he would gather "eminent" scholars, and they would put the events in the Bible to a vote. He passes around a white plastic container, and each scholar drops in a colored marble: black...
Next year Great Wall plans to launch its first commercial payload, a Westar 6-S communications satellite for New York-based Terasat. It will transmit television programming and business data for Western Union and other users. The Chinese have also signed an agreement to launch a Swedish satellite, and are holding talks with 17 other nations. For customers who are concerned that China may copy the technology in satellites, Great Wall suggests that they package the payload in a sealed container and send along representatives to escort the cargo to the launch site...
...That total included two commercial satellites in 1986 and six next year, at a launching fee of up to $40 million each. Since NASA has scrapped that plan, several customers have started shopping around. Western Union was forced to postpone the June trip of its Westar VI, a 24-channel communications satellite designed to replace an older, twelve-channel model. GTE Spacenet had planned to send up its G-Star III, which would relay telephone and television signals, on the shuttle in November. Says C.J. Waylan, the company's president: "We're not abandoning the shuttle...