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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday january 5, 1986 officials Trade charges in prison rioting Charleston. . A As control was Light ened Over the West Virginia Penitentiary after three Days of Riding in which Ihrcke inmates died gov. Arch Moore and predecessor Jay risks Teller a . Senator traded charges of cowardice and misguided policies. Moore said inc three prisoners were executed by fellow inmates at the prison after they were judged p be  and he blamed he deaths on informer policies begun by inc Rockefeller administration in 1979. Rockefeller s office countered Wilh a statement Friday saying that Moore was cowardly and contemptible for making such a charge and asking where the governor had been during the uprising. For three Days during this crisis. Governor Moore was nowhere to be found said Rockefeller aide Tim Gay. For reasons known Only to himself the governor chose to leave the hard negotiating in Moundsville to his press  the uprising ended Friday when the last of 16 hostages seized new year s Day was released in return for a meet ing Wilh Moore to discuss grievances in the rat infested 120-year-old prison. Food service worker Bill Henderson the last hostage released walked to Freedom at 12 45 . And said he Felt  the uprising began wednesday afternoon when up to 200 inmates brandishing hand made knives took 16 hos tages and Sci de control of the main building. The prisoners agreed thursday to free their captives in stages in return for the meeting Wilh Moore but thai night rioters raided the Hospital drug dispensary and went on a rampage officials said. Moore and corrections commissioner , Dodrill accompanied by two bodyguards met with an eight member inmate grievance committee for about 90 minutes Friday. I went to listen not to lecture he said. Moore said officials suspect that the three inmates were killed during the uprising after mock trials of prison in formers. I think a group in the institution sat both As judge jury and executioner the governor said. Dodrill said that the inmates were locked in their cells and that All prisoners. Including the three who were slain and three who had hidden were accounted far. The leadership of the inmates seemed to maintain pretty Good control said corrections officer Bill Duncil. They re a Little enc we re a Little tense Bui they agreed to the lockup. They Pul themselves in the cells closed the doors and waited on us to come  Moore said Many complaints dealt with inmates per Sonal problems which might be settled administratively. But complaints Aboul the prison itself will be More difficult to solve. We have spent some Money on the institution so million to Sio million Moore said. If Money were to be the sole criterion i have monies available. We be got damage but Noi nearly what i expected to find Dodrill said. Electronic locks had been destroyed and the cells Wens secured Wilh padlocks and chains said Moore spokesman John Price. The prison would remain in a slate of Emer gency and no visitors would be allowed for at least two More Days he said. Officials said a Shakedown of the in Al to confiscate weapons and other contraband would take several Days. Moore s office had refused to reveal his whereabouts Bui in an interview published Friday in the Charleston doily mail he said he stayed at his Florida vacation Home because his presence in the state would have intensified matters making them  but he said he stayed in touch by Telephone. Moore did not say whether he ordered a change in the Snitch system after succeeding Rockefeller last january. His press office said it could not gel comment front Moore or Price on whether changes had been ordered. Libya from Pago 1 radars that could coordinate air strikes launched from the Coral sea. Also aboard was a Squadron of a-6 intruders. At the same Lime the Crews of the Carrier America the battleship Iowa and their escort ships in Norfolk a have been alerted to a possible unscheduled deployment to the Mediterranean Navy sources said. Deputy press Secretary Peter Roussel had no comment on Libya s condemnation of terrorism saturday and its official denial of involvement in the Airport attacks. Despite continuous reports on state run libyan radio and television of an imminent . And israeli attack Ordinary libyans went about their daily chores apparently unconcerned., the Semi official United Arab emirates newspaper Al itt had said saturday that Libya has asked the 45-Nalion islamic con Ference organization to discuss . Threats of retaliation for Tripoli s alleged involve ment in the Airport attacks. It quoted informed sources As saying Morocco where islamic foreign ministers Are scheduled to meet monday Hod asked the United Stales for an urgent explanation of preparations for . Aggression on  the can of americans in Libya were heightened late thursday after an English language report on libyan television said Libya was forming suicide squads to attack is and West european interests in Libya if the United states launched a retaliatory strike. Stale department spokesman Charles Redman warned Hal the 1,500 americans sex thin Lizzy Singer Lynott Dies at 35 London a Rock Star Philly Noll former Lead Singer of the group thin Lizzy died of heart failure and pneumonia or saturday a Hospital spokesman said. He was 35. The Irish born Singer whose group was one of the most pop i ular of the late 1970s, had been hos i Pill sized since he i collapsed at his West 1 London Home i Christmas Day. Doc i tors at the Salisbury i infirmary said he was treated for an 1 infection of the Kidi Neys and liver in the. Hospital s intensive  care unit. Thin Lizzy was formed in Dublin in 1970, and Lybolt Rose to Fame in 1971 when the group scored its first hit with a version of the Irish Folk song whisky in the  the group grew in popularity during the late 70s with such successes As boys arc Bock in town and waiting for an Alibi there were More than 20 hits before thin Lizzy disbanded in 1984. Lybolt darted a Solo career that was not a great Success although he was Back on the charts Early last summer with out in the Field a record made with another for Mer thin Lizzy Star Gary Moore. He was one of Rock music s controversial Stan and had several convictions far drug offences. He enraged women s groups with a song killer on the Loose at the height of the police Hunt for the so called Yorkshire rip per. Lynott half Irish and half brazilian was married on Valentine s Day 19so to Caro line Crowther daughter of British television personality Leslie Crowther. The two were separated More than a year ago Bat his wife drove from her family Home in the Western City of Bath when by Noii collapsed in London Christmas Day and took him to a clinic up hoi and drug addiction. Lynott s condition quickly deteriorated and he was taken to be Hospital. The couple had two daughters 7 and 5. Disc jockey Alan Freeman said sat urday "1 think in s an enormous loss. He was a great songwriter and one of the Origi Nal great  Freeman who had known Lynfatt since the late 1960s, Spike to him three weeks ago when the Rock Singer was in London for a radio interview. He was bubbly and seemed very confident. It s very hard to believe he s  Freeman worked with Lynol on radio and live shows and he said he found Lynott to be a quiet person. I always found he was really almost alien Lohi rip roaring appearance on stage. He was quiet and reflective a very deep  Lynol was the author of three books of poetry. Countdown begins for shuttle launch Cape canaveral Fla. A the countdown began saturday for another try at launching inc space shuttle Columbia and a Crew of seven an a flight that was aborted two weeks ago just u seconds be fore liftoff. Columbia the flagship of the nation s shuttle Fleet is scheduled to blast off at 7 05 . Est monday on its first Mission in More than two years. The Craft recently completed an id month overhaul to install sophisticated gear already aboard its three sister ships. The Crew flew to Florida Friday from the astronaut training base in Houston. U includes rep. Bill Nelson a Democrat whose District includes Cape canaveral and the Kennedy space Center. We re looking Forward now to being the first flight of 1986 instead of the last night of 1985, and we re ready to �0," Mission commander Robert Gibson told reporters. Nelson chairman of the House subcommittee on space science and applications is the second congressional observer named to a shuttle flight. Sen. Jake Cam a Utah chairman of a subcommittee that oversees funding for the National aeronautics and space administration flew last april. The other Crew members Are Charles Bolden Steve Hawley George Nelson Robert Cenker and Franklin Chang Diaz the first hispanic american astronaut during five Days in orbit the astronauts Are to deploy an Ria communications satellite photograph Halley s Comet and other celestial bodies and conduct medical mate rials processing and other experiments. Gibson and his Crew boarded Columbia dec. 19 and were just 14 seconds from launching when a computer mapped us countdown after it detected what appeared to be a Turbine spinning too fast. The tur Bine was in a Hydraulic Power unit that helps guide the steering nozzle of one of two sold fuel Booster rockets. The trouble was traced loan electrical part Las than an Inch Long. The part was in a package thai relayed electronic signals to the Power unit. Nasa said the defective part was a new Type designed to military specifications. Those requirements made the part More sensitive than those previously used Caus ing it to pick up Normal electronic noise and to erroneously report the Turbine was run Ning too fast. The Turbine in fact was operating normally. The bad part has been replaced by one of the older less sensitive ones. In Libya were taking a risk by remaining in the country. The americans Are Safe and Over Libya with a heavy concentration in desert Oil Fields living in seafront compounds oper ated by National Oil. The United Stales broke off diplomatic relations with Libya in 1980, six month after a libyan crowd stormed and gutted the . Embassy. The Reagan administration imposed an embargo against Libya two years later and declared . Passports in valid for travel to Libya. Meanwhile. 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