European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 civil rights panel May have outlived its chief says Washington not Clarence Pond Luton chairman of the commission on civil said thursday that it might make sense to abolish the commission when it comes up for congressional reauthorization in what in saying is it int the worst idea to consider said who has previously suggested that the com Mission might soon outlive its who was appointed by presi Dent has had a running Battle with civil rights leaders Over his outspoken statements in support of Reagan administration such As its rejection of racial quotas As a remedy for employment Hast made up mind he said thursday that he had not made up his mind on the future of the eight Mem Ber he that he questioned whether it would have any work left to do by 1989 and added that he welcomed discussion about abolishing the com if theres nothing More to if our mandate has been then Why leave the commission around he hut in talking about 1989 in no talk ing about Pendleton was reached at a hotel in Al one Day after he addressed a boisterous and generally hostile audience at Cornell in tape recording played Richard a student who was played for a reporter a tape recording in which a member of the audience if Congress Doest give you any Money they can do away with the whole Pendleton responded sure they sure they sure they not a bad amid hoots and laughter from the he noted that he had said the same Pond Luton said thursday he did not mean to suggest that All civil rights prob lems had been he stressed that the commission was an advisory group with Power Only to do studies and make other including the Justice department and equal employment Opportunity enforce the civil rights the commission will expire unless Congress extends its life be fore As Congress has done several times since it created the commission to Monitor civil rights in reconstituted in 1983 the commission was reconstituted by Congress in 1983 after a bitter Battle be tween the Reagan administration and civil rights groups Over its the idea of letting the commission die has not been seriously discussed in con the commissions current budget is million and it has about 200 pm a Small fraction of All Federal civil rights who is has attracted attention and criticism by his outspoken attacks on Black civil rights leaders and on measures favored by Many of he said thursday i dont happen to believe that the government owes me any thing just because my ancestors were i think its paid that All it owes me is to keep the doors some Liberal critics of the commissions current Reagan majority have said it should be abolished they under Reagan and Pendleton it does More harm than the Collie caper a photo Tammy Gorshe is just 3 years but the san dog Doest Shes full of rhythm and eager to appear to object to the and Tarn teach an original step to her Las mys enjoying her dancing teacher role Mother of youth who died asks snuff warnings Washington a an Oklahoma Mother who watched her 19yearold son die of Mouth cancer after six years of using snuff urged Congress Friday to put new restrictions on smokeless say ing a simple warning Label would have saved her sons Betty Ann Marsee of told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health that her was a Star High school athlete who cared about his health and chose not to smoke cigarettes because of the but snuff was supposed to be she As it was promoted on television by athletes she said her son i do not know what Impact a warning would have had on my son when he was 12 years old and first began using she i do know by the age of when i discovered his a health warning would have caused him to quit immedi had he been a nonuser at that he never would have she told the he told me Sean continued to use a practice health officials say is growing in popularity among High Junior High school and even children in elementary after six Marsee Sean devel oped Mouth three major operations disfigured his but they were unsuccessful in removing the he died on near the end of his he wanted to dissuade other youngsters from taking up the Marsee my son was a handsome after three major he was so disfigured that people found it hard to look directly at she Sean realized the Shock that his looks and yet it was his wish to go from school to school to show other kids what could happen to them and to warn them of the she urged the subcommittee to approve legislation requiring warning labels on snuff and chewing tobacco and to ban their advertising on radio and if you do not Force them to put warn Ings on their we could have the deaths of Many More promising Young men like my she your child should not have to endure the pain and suffering i watched my son bravely the smokeless tobacco a Trade was scheduled to testify in its prepared called warning la Bels unnecessary and it has not been scientifically established that smokeless tobacco is the cause of any human said Council president Michael saying that the question is still a matter of but Mike sponsor of the warning Label said the Industry position is the Only controversy that exists about the danger of tobacco use is in the Board rooms of the tobacco he there is no this stuff will kill Nasa aiming for monday liftoff of challenger Cape a launch team planned to Start the countdown saturday for the once aborted science flight of space shuttle challenger even though Crews Are running several hours behind schedule because of Hydraulic fluid prob the space Agency said Nasa spokesman Charles Redmond said the plan was to Start the count at 9 aiming for a liftoff at if the lost time cannot be made he a hold would be called in the count at some Point and the flight would be delayed until the problems started with the Hydraulic fluid used in ground support equipment to test various movable parts of the such As engine valves and Wing the ground unit substitutes for the shuttles auxiliary Power which Are used in the fluid inherently absorbs which makes it spongy and to remove the the fluid is circulated through a but that machine developed a pump leak and the fluid was not returned to Normal condition until thursday technicians then tested the fluid on Board challenger and found that it too had absorbed too much they then began circulating that but a different machine being used for the task experienced a pump failure and had to be the unit has been but the prob Lem has further delayed final engine valve testing and aft orbiter compartment said a statement from the National aeronautics and space a delay would be another setback for Chal whose first launch attempt for this Mission was aborted july 12 when a computer sensed that a valve in the 2 engine did not close properly and commanded All three engines to shut Down just three seconds before engineers believe a actuator was responsible for the but they could not pinpoint the exact and the actuator and a controller were the astronaut scientists Hope to draw a composite portrait of the learn How solar radiation entering earths atmosphere influences the probe mysteries of the electrified or that surrounds the Analyse the sources of cosmic rays and better understand infrared radiation sources in our Milky Way and other they also Are to examine the causes of Bone demoralization and Mineral imbalance that occur in humans during weightless