European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Steering motor fixed in shuttle Cape canaveral. Fla. Up engineers swarmed Over the grounded shuttle Columbia on Friday in a pc Christmas Rush to replace i suspect rocket Booster steering motor which was blamed for the spaceship s launch postponement thursday. The shuttle s huge Apricot coloured external fuel tank was drained of its hair million gallon Load of fuel Over night allowing Nasa to re open the launch pad so work ers could reach Columbia s solid rocket Booster. A Turbine in the Booster s Hydraulic steering system malfunctioned during the final seconds of the shuttle s countdown thursday prompting ground launch computers to Slop the Takeoff try just 15 seconds before launch Blastoff was rescheduled for no earlier than Jan. 4. Turbines in the shuttle s two solid rocket boosters pro vide Hydraulic pressure to push and pull actuators that move the Booster , which is How the shuttle is steered during the first two minutes of flight. Engineers planned to install a new Turbine Assembly in the right Side Booster saturday and to fire up the Hydraulic Power unit sunday to make sure it will be ready. While each Booster is equipped with dual Hydraulic systems to protect against an in flight failure the shuttle cannot be launched unless both systems arc working. Columbia s crewmen plan to Fly Back to the Florida Shuttl port on Jan. 1 for the Start of their second count Down on Jan. 2. Blastoff is scheduled for around 7 . On Jan. 4. On Board will be commander Robert Hoot Gibson. Co Pilot Charles Bolden Franklin Chang Diaz Steven Hawley George Nelson Ria Engineer Robert can scr and rep. Bill Nelson d-fla., who chairs the House sub committee on space science and applications. Sunday december 22, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 use 2 bullets says one card in a Board game created by new York s so called subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz who faces charges of attempted murder in the gun play shootings at four teen agers on a subway train last december. The object of the game is to ride the subway and try to make it to the Bronx alive. Shultz won t have of submit of we fest Reagan says by Bernard Gwertzman new York times Washington the White House on Friday sought to Case he concern of Secretary of stale George p. Shult. Over its policy on Lic Del color tests asserting that they would be administered Only to officials who Are suspected of espionage and not Given at random. Seeking to Avert a Cabinet crisis Over the policy which appeared Likely when Shult threatened to resign if asked to take such a lest. President Reagan and other White House officials went out of their Way to say that he would not have to Lake such a test and that he scone of the new policy had been exaggerate when it was initially disclosed. Reagan asked by reporters if Shutlz would have to Lake  a test replied neither one of us Are going  Lacr Friday the White House issued a statement stressing that the president believes polygraph lasting is a limited though sometimes useful tool when used in conjunction with other investigative and Security procedures in espionage cases. The statement went on to say that Secretary Shutlz fully shares inc presi Dent s View of inc seriousness of espionage cases and agrees with the need to use All Legal Means in the investigation of such  a senior slate department official said Friday night that Shultz is satisfied with the White House statement and believes that his pubic comments had helped mod Ify the president s position. Last week the while House said Shatas part of a new directive signed by Reagan on nov. I All officials with a Cess to sensitive information including Cabinet officers would be subject to random polygraph testing. Tim while House also said such tests would be mandated Al inc time of employ Cal. It was said then that thousands of employees of the defense and stale depart ments and other agencies would be subject to the screening. Shull who has Long opposed lie do acc Lor Icsis said on thursday that he had grave reservations about polygraphs and would resign the minute. 1 am told that i m not  Reagan suggested that Shultz who had been in Europe when the directive was made Public had been misled by news reports of the directive. I just explained to him that what he read in the press in Europe was not  Reagan said. Other officials however said that Shutlz had Lakin pan in the debate within the administration on the directive in August and had argued strongly against the use of polygraph tests. While House spokesman Larry Speaks insisted thai there Are As Cyl no firm guidelines for administering the tests and that a group considering thai problem is not expected to finish its work until the end of january. In effect the administration seemed to be going Oul of its Way to suggest that Here might not have been any major shift on polygraph Tesis. Do spic the publicity Given 10 what appeared to be such a shill last week. Charles e. Redman a state depart ment spokesman said that Over the last 25 years about i 2 polygraph tests a year have been administered on a voluntary basis in Carbide says it had Little control of Bhopal Plant new York not Union Carbide corp. Says Indian companies and officials changed its design for the pesticide Plant in Bhopal India and that Carbide had Little control Over the Plant s construction or operation even though it was the majority owner. In Federal court papers filed on Friday regarding inc billions of dollars in claims filed after inc Gas leak disaster Al the Plant dec. 3, 1984, Carbide said hundreds of in Dian engineers had modified its original Plant design in innumerable  the company said Indian government policies Hod barred the Plant from using electronic safety equipment in favor of less sophisticated controls. This marked the first time that Carbide has tried to publicly document its primary defense that it did not control the Plant. The Issue of control is Centrallo inc Case All sides agree. If the Parent corporation is liable its $10 billion in assets Are exposed. If Only its subsidiary Union Carbide India Ltd is liable less than si00 million in assets Are available. The Parent owns 50.9 percent of the subsidiary. Safety experts familiar with the Plant say that the simpler controls often manual reduced safely margins but provided More Indian jobs. But Carbide did not explicitly say on Friday that the changes compromised safety. More than 2,000 people died and 200.000 people were injured from a leak of a logic pesticide ingredient Mcl Hyl Iso Cyanate in the worst Industrial Accident in history. Carbide also urged thai litigation on the claims be conducted in India. It termed absurd the Indian government s argument two weeks ago that its own citizens could not get a fair trial in India because that court system is overloaded and is less experienced in Complex personal injury Law. Carbide contended that India which is suing the company wanted the High monetary awards often dispensed by american juries. Talmin Ahmad the commercial Consul for the Indian consulate in new York said Friday that the main reason for the Indian government s suit in the United Stales is the cause of the discs scr the Union car bide corp., is Here and is under the Juris diction of the american  he said that even if the Indian courts decided on a huge damage award the government would probably have to come to inc United Stales to have in enforced. Some Indian Legal experts have said that courts there could assess damages on Carbide at least As Large As those by american juries. Carbide said India had endorsed the Silc for the pesticide Plant in the Central Indian City and then allowed Lens of thousands of people to move adjacent Loil. As a result Many More people were injured the company said. Carbide said its policies state that inc subsidiary is an Independent Legal entity. Warren j. Woomer a Carbide Engineer who was Plant manager Al Bhopal until july 1982, said in an affidavit that the Plant functioned quite autonomously on a daily basis Independent even from its bom Bay . Inc department. It s been used he said As an investigative Aid when we Are unable to resolve an Issue using All other available investigative  a senior while House official said Rea Gan s views on the usefulness of polygraph tests applied to espionage cases and thai the president was nol taking a position on the use of such tests for violations of other . Laws. The slate department has historically had a different Atti Ludo toward polygraph Icsis than the Cia and the defense department. The slate department docs nol give such Icsis to new employees or require them of is personnel. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 ears ago today. Dec. 22, 1945 Gen. George s. Pallon jr., 60, died in inc i30lh station Hospital in Heidelberg. His death came 12 Days after his neck was broken in a car Accident near Mannhe m. Patlon apparently had no illusions about the seriousness of his injuries. He remarked to  visitors this is a hell of Way to have to  30 years ago today. Dec. 22, 1955 the new government of prime minister Ibrahim Hashim in Amman acted swiftly to Clurn Jordan to Normal after five Days of riotous demonstrations against inc five nation Baghdad pact. 20 years ago today. . 22, 1965 Sandy Koufax the los Angeles dodgers Brilliant icel handed Ditcher has been named sportsman of inc car by sports illustrated  10 years ago today. Dec. 22, 1975 six terrorists of the self styled  of Arab revolution shot their Way into the meeting Hall of the organization of Petroleum exporting coun tries in Vienna. They killed at least two guards and look 30 or More hostages including 11 Oil ministers