Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, May 10, 1993 TAG: 9305100021
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"Before I always entered through the kitchen. Suddenly there's a big door where I go in through," Menchu said Saturday during her commencement address at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. "Having to call me Miss Menchu was very hard and very curious" for the government. Menchu, who received an honorary degree from the school, said she would help teach a human-rights course next spring, making her the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to teach at the university.
Astronauts who set foot on the moon say it's important to return and travel beyond.
"Going to the moon, although a lot of people look at it as having been a luxury, wasn't at all," Eugene Cernan said Friday at a news conference during the annual Naval Aviation Symposium in Pensacola, Fla. "We are going to go. It's man's intuitive spirit to go back and go on to Mars."
Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, was joined by Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon; Alan Shepard, the first American in space; and James Lovell, part of the first moon mission. Former Air Force astronaut Buzz Aldrin of Laguna Beach, Calif., the second man to walk on the moon, introduced the panel.
by CNB