European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday january 30, 19e6 Reagan of of Fence services Tor shuttle Crew Rump id Fram press dispatches Washington president Reagan will attend memorial services in Taum a an Friday for the seven Crew members Kilk i in the explosion of the space shuttle challenger lie Wosic Hiim s Iid wednesday. The services will be held at the Johnson spice Cemiler up nil Milan Lurry Penkes told reporters. The president will he in  by he i lie Nunez.  Nho mid Reagan  telephoning relative of the victims Ami would Send will in Iii Ysaee to the students it con curd  i 11iuli school where Christ Mcauliffe the teacher who was killed taught. Lit said he possibility of Reagan going to Concord had been considered Bill the White House decided after consulting Wilh school officials. That a written Mes Sage would be More appropriate. Condolences from abroad continued to mow in including i message from soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev saying we snare the feeling of sorrow in connection Wilh the tragic death of the Crew of he space shuttle chit Hong or. We express our condolences to the people of the United slate and in i he  a Czigan vowed to press on with exploration in space. Life  to it Art j fid so  4he space  Reagan told reporters in. The Oval office after announcing appointment of Lidl ird  is agriculture Secretary. Asked to describe his feelings in the Btl Ermatti of the , he preside in said they Are still much As they were yesterday although he Atleed. I think All of us have kind of escaped the numb Ness of Shock that we ii  Resnik consulted rabbi Mexico City a rabbi who taught Judy Resnic one of the seven astronauts who died in the  explosion said in an interview published wednesday she one worried whether space travel Violi led jewish Law. Rabbi Samuel Lerr of the Beth Israel Temple in Mcnico City old the Mexico City news of Rucsnik s ambition to travel in space when he was the rabbi in her Home town of Akron Ohio in 1962. She was very gregarious and sociable always smiling and very cheerful Lerr said adding that she  asked him whether space travel might violate centuries old jewish Law. We have a right to penetrate and to search. In seek to Leani and to know the whole  Lerer told the 12-year-old Resnik in Akron he paper reported. The rabbi said he told his Young Pupil the second woman to Fly in space that Man was Given Dominion by god Over inc world and thus reassured her space travel did not violate her religion the paper said. Lyrer. Who has lived in Mexico for the past 16 years also spoke of How he first heard of the news of the explosion that killed the seven member Crew. When i came Home and t put on the television and they showed Judy Rucsnik i almost fainted Lerer was quoted As say ing. Nation shared images new York in two Days the nation went from the exhilaration of the super bowl to the Depths of despair Over seven fallen astronauts. It All happened on television. America s most intimate messenger of life and death. Tuesday on to screens All across Amer Ica these were some of the nation s shared images a shuttle disintegrating into an explosive Ball of fire sch children crying for their beloved teacher a Cape canaveral Flag at half staff. Once again television United inc country in a shared experience. Once again the emotion was grief. Everybody has a share in it in part because so Many of us saw it sail Abc Anchor Peter Jennings. There s something  american about sharing grief in Public t s a cathartic experience. No Oiler nation places such a Public Premium Oil the loss of  other disasters have had Many More deaths. The plane crash in Gander new a Sundland. The Reisui Barracks massacre. Hut for various reasons to this nation of col Clive to watchers the shuttle Chal Lenger going Down Wilh seven aboard meant More and hit us harder it s not a numbers game it s what it Iii ads  said Rick Kaplan executive Crew members. It s  said re acc Gordon a  Secretary. Something As Tryg As the spec shuttle blowing up happens and people want to know what is happening on their soap operas. I explain the tragedy and some people by yes it s a tragedy All figh. I an i watch As he world turns gee you can t help hut feel a Little angry when you hear ibis cordon said. I be been going nuts Wilh Alt the Calls said Nulda Garcia a tax Rocc pianist. This is Cray. During general Hospital flags lowered for challenger the Flar at the White House stands it hair staff wednesday in Kerning proximity in the Distant obelisk of the Washington Monument As the United Stales mourns the loss of the space shuttle challenger and us Crew. Pratsi Dent Reagan ordered the nation s flags flown Al half staff for a Wetli. Producer of Abc s  this was a terrible blow to the american  Kaplan said the deaths in Beirut came in a War zone where violence is not unexpected. This was totally unexpected a catastrophic Shock. We own space. We be had great Confidence in it and ii blew up right in front of our  Abc. Lbs. Abc and Cable news net work perhaps sensing America s need 10 learn feel and Grieve provided non Stop coverage. Abc s world news tonight and the Abc nightly news devoted their entire broadcasts to the single subject the lbs evening news spent nearly All its time on it. Single subject coverage Al though not unprecedented was most unusual. Some wanted soaps Salt Lake City two to stations were swamped with Calls from viewers complaining that afternoon soup operas were preempted by coverage of the space shuttle challenger s explosion that killed seven hour i was swamped with Calls. It mates you wonder about society you know. How could they care so much about a soap opera people said they were tired of watching space shuttle coverage All Day they wanted i hair  fund for Crew s children Washington a Washington la scr has established j Trust fund to receive contributions to bin Ceil the children of the seven people kilted in the explosion of the space Shu i tie challenger n Bank official said wednesday. The non Profil charitable Trust was inc idea of Del Bart Smith an attorney who has represented Nasa and space and satellite organizations and companies for 15 years said Roger w. Conner vice president for Public affairs of american Security Bank which set up the Trust. While the lives of those pioneers on Board the challenger will be mourned for a very Long Lime there Are Oiler lives namely the children of the new it i be permanently affected by this tragedy Smith said in a statement released by the Bank. The fund while in no Way beginning to repair the unimaginable loss will Al least provide for the financial Well being of these children he said. This is quite simply one of those times when this is the right ining to  the challenger Crew members had eleven children among them who will be beneficiaries of the fund. Contributions to the space shuttle Chil Dren s fund should be mailed to american Security Bank. Box 0150. Washington d.c., 20055. Checks should be made out to the space shuttle children s fund and cancelled checks Wilt serve As proof inc gift was received the Bank said. Flags at halt Statt Washington president Reagan in a Salute to the seven Crew members killed tuesday in the space shuttle challenger ordered that the american Flag be flown at hair staff on Public buildings and military installations throughout the world. The order contained in a proclamation is effective through next monday. It directs thai the Flag be lowered Al All Public buildings and grounds Al military bases and naval stations and on naval ves Sels to addition it said the Flag should be flown Al half staff at All . Embassies and other diplomatic offices and other facilities throughout the world. Insurance policy settled London Lloyd s of London has settled the $1 million life insurance policy on schoolteacher Chrisla Mcauliffe one Day after she was killed aboard the challenger space shuttle a spokesman for the insurance Market said wednesday. In the circumstances we would have expected Lloyd s to move with Speed and sympathy and they have behaved magnificently said Mike him Mirtys of brokers Crawley Warren who placed the policy with Lloyd s underwriters. The policy was a gift to Mvauliffe from Corrow und Black an International satellite and space insurance firm. The Money is being paid to Macau Tiff s beneficiaries whose identity was not Dis closed by Lloyd a Lloyd s said there was no Lloyd i policy on the other six Crew members of the shuttle similarly there was no Lloyd s insurance coverage on any major item of equip ment being carried on Board the ill fated challenger Mission. Ford and pulled Detroit Ford motor co. Has pulled advertisement comparing its Aerostat min Ivan with the space shuttle in the Wake of tuesday s explosion that killed All seven challenger Crew members. The Lel Vison and print ads show the minium parked1 on a runway next to u shuttle. The image emphasizes the shape of the Van which is similar to the spacecrafts i think that everyone thought it appropriate that it be removed. Given the tragic events of Loday said Michael j. Moran assistant manager of Public affairs for the company s Ford division tuesday. Television ads were cancelled immediately but some print ads already had gone to press and could not he changed he said. Advised of write wis Pasadena Calif. Astronaut scientist Taylor Wang said he wrote it will and letters to loved ones before his night aboard challenger last year. I knew about the potential risks Wang said during an interview Al Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory. Before his challenger night last Spring inc payload specialist sail he and other astronauts were advised to write your will write letters to your loved ones leave some thing