European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Discovery repair Job completed Cape a workmen completed repairs on the space shuttle discovery on saturday and moved it to an Assembly building to be mated with a fuel tank and Booster rockets in preparation for a mid april flight with Jake discovery was damaged in a processing hangar on March 8 when a overhead work platform breaking a workers leg and washing the shuttles cargo Bay door in two technicians had to Cut out two sections of the door and replace them with new a they completed replacement of ther Mal blankets atop the damaged area Early saturday and the ship was towed to the nearby Assembly hangar in the once discovery is joined with the tank and two Booster there will be Exten Sive checkouts to make certain All connections have been made the National aeronautics and space administration said the shuttle should be ready to Roll to the launch pad Nasa says april 12 is the tentative launch but a firm Date wont be set for several chairman of a Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees Nasa is Riding with the seven person Crew As a congressional March 1985 the stars and stripes firm concealed extra costs for a executive says Washington not officials of general dynamics attempted to mask the extent of excess costs for work on Navy attack submarines in the 1970s in order to protect the company financial a former general dynamics ship Yard manager based partly on records provided by the former Takis who managed the company electric boat Divi Sion in from 1977 to the House Energy and Commerce commit tees oversight subcommittee was planning to question David chief executive of general on monday about that and allegations of Stock a House staff member said the commit tee had obtained a tape recording of a 1977 Telephone conversation Between Veliotis and Max a vice president of the he said the tape included a Dis Cussion of a meeting about the excess costs on with Edward assistant Secretary of the among those at the meeting were Golden and Gordon financial vice president of general according to a memorandum by Macdonald that was released last summer by Senate the subject of the december 1977 meeting was excess costs in the attack submarine general realizing it was spend ing More to produce the boats than the government was paying it to produce was seeking to increase a claim it had filed against the government for the difference in the House staff member said the tape indicated Macdonald had told Hidalgo that the excess was far higher than the figure Given to for More than a year Veliotis has Cooper ated with investigators from Congress and the Justice department by providing re cords of his tenure at electric including tape recordings of business Telephone he fled to his native Greece shortly before being indicted on Federal Kickback charges in in a recent Veliotis asserted that Lewis and Macdonald knew from internal studies that excess costs on the navys los Angel Sclass attack submarines under construction at electric boat might reach not the Mil lion the company requested from the government in a 1976 everybody knew Veliotis said of the but if its magnitude had become Public knowledge at that he the Banks would have Cut off our credit and the company Stock would have gone into a the company denies the disclosures that the company made to the Public consistently reflected manage woman tells jury How she shot Turk Charmaine Pfender left and Sara Mae Richardson Are charged in the killing of a turkish student in Pittsburgh last a photos Pittsburgh a tears running Down her a 19yearold woman told a jury she shot a turkish student to death after he threatened her with a knife for rebuffing his sexual Engin Aydin put his left Arm around me and slipped his hand Down my Charmaine Pfender of Pittsburgh said Fri Day during her fourth Day of trial on a homicide i saw what i thought was a he told me i want going to tease him no Pfender and Sara Mae of were dating Aydin and another turkish Suat when the shooting occurred who also is charged with had driven the four to a Remote dirt Road about five Miles West of Pitts Burgh when she suddenly apparently to kiss Pfender she testified that she thought Aydin might try to Hurt kill me so she grabbed a magnum that the women planned to use for target practice and got put of the i raised the gun and fired a shot and told him not to come near me or i would shoot she he rushed at me i shot him Pfender said she believed Erdogan also wanted to Hurt her and fired after him when he ran finding him lying on the she pointed the gun beside him and she Pfender said Erdogan fled again after she walked away and that she did not think he was Erdogan testified earlier that fenders first Bullet struck him in the right shoulder and the second grazed his he said he wandered bleeding through the Woods before finding help the next Pfender said she and her Friend dug a shallow grave and dragged Aydin into two women drove the next Day to Virginia where they surren dered and came to Pittsburgh from Turkey in july 1984 to study Erdogan said he and Aydin met the women in a downtown Park on 5 and made dates for the next two denying either Man threatened the said both women were in the cars front seat when Pfender suddenly pulled a gun and Richardson put a knife to his ments Best appraisal of the situation at each Point in general dynamics lawyers wrote to the securities and Exchange commission in april urging the Agency to drop its in each of its fiscal years from 1973 to 1977 the company reported neither a loss nor a profit on the los Angel Sclass pro expecting to receive payments from the government to cover its excess using footnotes and other narratives in its annual the company alluded to serious problems with the program and the necessity of winning sizable claims to turn a in june the company claim the government was settled on the basis of a total estimated excess of the Navy provided an immediate Cash payment of million and the com Pany recorded an after tax loss of Mil Veliotis said that by making Cash invest ments and absorbing the loss Over a 10year general dynamics had been Able to turn the settlement terms into a substantial since allegations of fraudulent activity on the submarine claims arose last general dynamics has maintained that investigations by the Justice department and the securities and Exchange commission in the late 1970s and Early 1980s exonerated the spokesmen for the top ranked weapons whose Pentagon contracts totalled More than billion last have continually asserted that the Veliotis charges were false and in his january 1978 Mac Donald said Secretary Hidalgo said that he had heard that our claim of million was not and that additional claims would be he said he had heard it could be As much As our response was be even More than on March general dynamics released its 1977 earnings and on april 3 that year published its annual foot notes indicated that the Cost to Complete the los Angel Sclass program was about million More than anticipated Revenue but that the company would continue not to Book either a profit or a pending Reso Lution of the Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today March 1945 the stars and stripes was not published on this 30 years ago today March 1955 an underground atomic test explosion Tore open the Nevada desert like a Volcano As the army practice demolition with the newly developed nuclear Satchel the charges Are highly portable and capable of being trans ported and planted by a Small combat v 20 years ago foday March 1965 Martin Luther King led his civil rights army of marchers into for a massive tent completing the final leg of a 50mile pilgrimage from to years ago Oday March 1975 the define department sent an additional aircraft Carrier loaded with Marine helicopters to Waters off Indochina to help evacuate americans and the outer Cifen ses of Hue crumbled under North Vietti amese tank and infantry assaults and the u mum lists opened fire on refugees tying to escape by