European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 of says Titan ii missiles but can be improved future meetings planned Lopez have talk Washington a an air Force review panel said the Titan ii the oldest weapons in the strategic nuclear arc basically Safe but can be made congressional sources the review formed after one of the giant missiles exploded in an Arkansas recommended measures to tighten maintenance procedures and enhance safety in handling volatile liquid the sources said the panels three month study of the Titan ii missile which is nearly 18 years is separate from a detailed investigation of the explosion but draws on Les sons Learned from the said the one airman was killed and 21 others injured in the 19 explosion at Damas the explosion occurred after a Workman doing routine maintenance on the rocket dropped a wrench piercing the missiles fuel tank and letting volatile swim Captain among 6 dead in plane crash up six peo including Arizona state University diver Peter were killed in the crash of a Light plane on a Mountainside in grand Teton National authorities said Mon Park spokeswoman Becky Griffin said a Cheyenne was aboard a Cessna 310 that crashed about nine mites North of Jackson after taking off from Jackson Hole Airport late a Sophomore diver and Tricas Tain of the any swimming and diving was Wyoming High school state div ing Champion in also killed were John Tom Mccue of the Wyoming air National guard Mccles Barbara their 19 a Kim Marie of and Robert president of read read mix of who piloted the the Mccles also were from the party was returning from a Holiday ski rangers at grand Teton National Park and Teton county sheriffs officers sighted the air planes wreckage Early monday at the level of the South Ridge of Cascade Canyon above Jenny fuel leak sources said review panel recommendations designed to preclude what happened in Arkansas Ever happening again include a suggestion that technicians working on the missile be ordered to tether their tools to their bodies to keep the tools from being the review group report also recommends improving Contact Between military officials and the communities near the Titan ii bases and More clearly defining responsibilities of the air Force and focal officials in the event of accidents at the missile the sources the nations s3 Titan ii missiles Are at or near Little Rock fab in Mcconnell fab near and a vis Monthan fab near they Are a Small part of the country land based nuclear strike Force which includes solid fuel minuteman mis Siles in underground Fern Jfe of from Washington up Ronald Rea Gan and mexican president Jose Lopez por Tillo plan a series of future meetings on the Border to follow up on a Dis Creet and elegant encounter in Ciudad in Reagan termed Mon Days meeting successful and wonderful and said it establishes the basis for having the kind of Friendly relations neighbors As close As we Are should aides said the president elect Hopes to hold a similar meeting at the an Border with Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in the near possibly before inauguration Reagan crossed the Cordoba Bridge connecting Al with Ciudad Jua to two hours with Lopez Portillo just South of the rip Grande he later flew on to the get together was Long on Good will and Short on but the two made plans for additional the next to be held within six months on the american Side of the Border with bars Gay Washington is a Federal appeals court Here has temporarily barred the air Force from discharging a Serviceman because he is a Homo sex a three judge panel of the circuit court of appeals for the District of Colum Bia issued the stay monday night ill spouse to an emergency petition by lawyers for Harold whom the air Force had decided to discharge As of 5 the appeals court acted shortly after District judge Norma Holloway John son denied an emergency request to halt the lawyers for a 13 year air Force Veteran challenged the Dis based on the appellate courts Rul Ings in the Case of retired air Force Leonard a homosexual who recently settled a suit challenging his Dis charge for the appeals court ruled in Mati Ovich Case that the air Force was required to explain a service regulation that authorized discharging except in certain lawyers for Bryant monday argued that the air Force has never complied with the appellate directive to define unusual Cir failure to do Bryants Law yers was a denial of due in a hearing before Bryants Hamilton said that Bryant had openly lived As a homosexual since when the Serviceman informed some colleagues and superiors at Macdill fab in Florida of his despite the Fox Bryant was allowed to reenlist in the service three years Fox said the discharge Effort began last after a tenant in property Bryant owned was threatened with the tenant complained to air Force officials of Bryants homosexuality after the Serviceman carried through with the Evic Fox in asking Johnson for a court Fox argued that the air Force does not spell out what constitutes unusual he said Bryants homosexuality has not affected his Job performance at the air Force where he manages base Fox said Bryant never engaged in sexual conduct while on military duty and has Al but Justice department lawyer John Maclay said the air Force policy does not permit the retention of and that the regulation exception for unusual circumstances applied Only to those servicemen found to have been onetime this exception would not apply to persons who would continue their Homo sex Maclay Maclay added that the Bryants Homo sexuality posed a threat to Good conduct and recruitment the description discreet and elegant was applied to the talks by Lopez who also exclaimed Senor Presidente when Reagan said he to put discussions on a sounder contending that there have been Only half solutions to Many Mutual problems in the this discreet and elegant meeting will make for elegant meetings in the said the mexican reagans foreign policy Richard sat in on the meeting and quoted Reagan As i have the feeling we have spent too much time talking at each other instead of to each perhaps we have talked too much and listened too Reagan was quoted As there was no set Agenda for the Reagan Lopez Portillo meeting according to the president elect did most of the despite the outbreak of new violence in Al where two americans and a salvadoran peasant Leader were that stricken Central american nation was not Allen y Allen told initial talks were enormously and said Reagan and Lopez Portillo got off to a terrific the meeting was in Sharp contrast to the often strained relations Between president Carter and Lopez underlined Dur ing Carters 1978 visit to Mexico at that the mexican president heaped scorn on the United states and was in no mood to soothe ruffled diplomatic crowds on both sides of Rio Grande were sparse several thousand mexicans Aid turn out along the Way especially on Lincoln where there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln to wave american and mexican flags at the passing presidential Allen said it was very significant that Lopez Portillo walked to the american Side of the Cordoba Bridge to first Greet Rea calling it a highly symbolic temperatures l 8 29 19 13 15 City 6 33 16 33 12 11 2 6 34 28 8 Molnes 4 39 1 l 51 Angeles 8 21 49 Beach 1 Paul 8 37 Orleans 18 York 14 24 ally 14 45 13 2 35 Ore 6 24 9 Louis 35 Petersburg 28 Lake City 55 Diego 48 Francisco news update senator meets Chiang Taiwan up re publican Theodore Stevens and Republican supporter Anna Chennault met with Taiwan president Chiang Chingkum the Taiwan government denied the two americans were intermediaries in an Effort to establish contacts Between peking and Stevens and the chinese born widow of world War h flying Ace Claire arrived in Taipei monday after two Days of talk i with leaders in no details of the talks with Chiang were but a ranking government who refused to be said for eign minister Chu fusing told the two visitors Taiwan continues to refuse any Deal with shooting ruled Accident los Angeles a the shoot ing death last october of Richard Carl ton Meeker Only son of actress Mary Tyler Moore has been ruled an the county coroners office has the ruling was based primarily on the statements of said James spokesman for the coroners of a messenger at lbs television was killed in mid october by the discharge of a Shotgun he was Hom the incident occurred in the rented House he shared with two women Stu dents near the University of Southern California and just As he had finished talking by Telephone with Bis Girlfriend in police said at the Meeker s Judy and Janet both said the shooting was an police detective Jerry Ferrin said Meeker was loading and unloading the a Short barrelled when it went interest rates slide Washington a interest rates on Short term Treasury securities continued to slide this reaching their lowest Levels in two the government the average discount rate on 26week Treasury Bills declined monday to percent from the percent of a week the government said after its weekly the new figure is the lowest since the percent reported in october of last