European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pace 2 stars and stripes monday february 10, 1986w monday re Ruai Nasa got Booster warnings report says " ,. Director ship preserver sunday was Over the i l Saster Judson Lovingood Deputy a it Sumid site of an unfired satellite Roc Cape canaveral Fla. Up seven member Crew of shuttle projects at. Nasa s Marshall a that have been blown a Navy divers searched the Ocean floor sunday the new York Moeft Loffi space flight Center in Huntsville ala., Booster in � d to Retour for wreckage from the exploded shuttle hat a teune.1. To top Hule is dts it wms Tow sedum Atad in Cape canaveral Fla. Up1 the r wreckage shuttle Chal Lenger amid charges Nasa knew of possibly catastrophic problems with the shuttles rocket boosters before the fatal launch. The space Agency refused to comment on the report As its investigation into the tragedy continued under a thick Cloud of secrecy. But officials privately acknowledged awareness of problems with Scab Between Booster rocket fuel segments on Many past flights. Jesse Moore associate administrator for spaceflight and chief of the shuttle program last answered questions from reporters on Jan.29, the Day after history s worst space disaster. Since then he and other program manage shave been inaccessible the challenger disaster appears to have been triggered by a rupture at or near a Seal joining the lower two of four solid fuel propel font fuel segments in the ship s right Side Booster  escaping flame apparently heated challenger s giant external fuel Lank enough to raise internal pressure to the rup Ture Point setting off a titanic explosion that blew he shuttle apart and killed its seven member  new York times reported sunday that Agency documents showed top shuttle managers knew of potentially dangerous prob lems with seals around the shuttle s Booster rocket fuel segments last year and that inter Nal memos were circulated As late As Decem Ber listing concern about possible failures. The newspaper cited a memorandum from a National aeronautics and space administration analyst last july that said flight safety was being compromised by potential failure of the  the analyst added failure during launch would certainly be catastrophic during Assembly or stacking of the boosters at the Kennedy space Center the lower rim of the upper fuel casing is Low ered into a Groove that runs around the to of the Section underneath. The two Are joined by 177 steel  synthetic rubber of rings that run around the Interior of the joint form a Pri Mary and secondary Seal to keep burning propellant on the inside at the casing from escaping through the joint. At the first meeting of a presidential commission investigating the challenger it found after past  have seen some evidence of what we has the first ring been destroyed but the second has been partially my another memorandum said erosion of the primary Seal Between the two aft fuel segments had been noted after 12 shuttle of slots and in one Case the secondary sea showed erosion As Well. Lovingood who made his under oath could not be reached sunday for comment on the times  Cape canaveral the search for shuttle debris  cmdr. Art Norton said the Salvage ship preserver sunday was Over the presumed sit rocket Booster that May have been blown from challenger s ruptured payload Bay Rota Tive by intact after the ship disintegrate in Ball of fire 73 seconds after Blastoff. Scuba divers were sent to the murky Ocean floor 120 feet Down saturday but Norton said they were unable to positively identify any of the debris littering the seabed known on the Honda coast As the graveyard of rockets because it is the resting place of countless spent rocket Cas Ings and other wreckage left Over from More than 25 years of space  divers resumed searching sunday any wreckage they encountered. A Nas recovery ship the Independence mapped an area about 40 Miles offshore where the space Agency believes challenger right Side boost or rocket May be resting. The undersea location of both solid fuel rocket boosters is believed to be known but Nasa has imposed a virtual news blackout on the search Effort reflecting the  secrecy surrounding its internal investigation of the worst space disaster in  the Span a Miniea commit Ion a Raug uie a Libya Renews threat to intercept israeli  to a t to in air a Vino Al often toll Tripoli. Libya a the Libya foreign ministry sunday reiterated libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy s threat to intercept israeli jets Over the Mediterranean and search them for error ii i retaliation for last tuesday i interception of a libyan Jet by the israelis. The foreign ministry statement reported irl the libyan newspaper Al Fajar Al Jadu new Dawn edited the interception and america1 provocative Maneu vers off the libyan coast As reasons the country was concerned about its own Security. Libya has the right to undertake Al Steps Nec Estuary in defending its Independence sovereignty and interests the statement  air and naval forces continued a Nevers off he coast sunday appear envy boo ing their show of Force would discourage american plan for activities in toe same  libyan exercises which Are being con ducted with live ammunition got under Way saturday and were scheduled to continue through next sunday according to a govern ment announcement on state run television. The area of the libyan Man Euver these called Tripoli flight information Region is the same coastal stretch that  used to conduct air and sea a Nevers during the last week in january. The . Carriers that led those training exercises the Coral sea and the Saratoga spent last week visiting italian ports an were reported by government sources in Washington to again been route to the Mediterranean area North of Libya. Further Maneu vers including flight operations were quite possible the Washington sources were quoted As  Tripoli flight information Region is the area in which Tripoli air traffic control lers Are responsible for civilian aviation. It extends some 70 Miles into the Mediterranean from Libya s Shoreline. Western diplomats Here said they did not believe the libyans were seeking a confrontation. In the past they have drawn a line mow Safe line to avoid provocation Laid one Diplo mat who insisted on anonymity. However another Diplomat who also asked that his name and nationality be withheld said there was always concern about a possible confrontation. He added that he thought the libyan hoped to dissuade the americans from re turning by conducting their own  Maneu vers off the libyan coast in August 1981, . Warplanes shot Dow two libyan jets when the libyan plane allegedly attempted an interception. A Kennedy urges soviets americans to engage in Friendly Competition news update Moscow a sen. Edward  Suggs sted in an interview Broad cast on soviet television sunday that the two superpowers should engage in Friendly Competition to Benefit Mankind rather than continue competing in the arms race. Cast of a 10-Ininute address i which Ken Nedy called on us. And soviet leaders to Compromise to achieve nuclear disarm  of Kennedy s speech had been broadcast Friday night on soviet television when it was announced the full address would be televised sunday. Kennedy discussed arms control another issues with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev during a three Day Moscow visit that ended Friday. In his speech the democratic senator said he believed both Gorbachev and presi Dent Reagan Are ready to negotiate a real reduction in nuclear  the address Kennedy an swered questions in a 30-minute interview with political commentator Valentin Zorin who once worked As a soviet correspondent in the United states. Kennedy said he hoped the soviet Union and the United states could find ways to Channel their resources into peaceful cooperation instead of competing in the arms children against disease. The full version of the television address contained no surprises. Kennedy mentioned human rights and Afghanistan but Only briefly and said the two superpowers will continue to have differences. We will find ourselves at Odds far into the future in philosophy in economics in our Conception of human rights Kennedy said. We will state our separate views and 1 Hope we will always debate them in for the United states and the soviet Union we ought to find areas where we can have perhaps a Friendly Competition in the cause of humanity he said.  he suggested the superpowers could co Kennedy  in using space for peaceful instead he added to of military purposes and he also expressed interest in a soviet program for immunizing peace. At the same Lime we must seek new ways to resolve old antagonisms on continuing regional conflicts in Central Ameri Ca Southern Africa and Afghanistan that above Alt the two super Powers must never permit such conflicts to trigger a global War. Pro nato forces gaining in Spain Madrid Spain up support forthe socialist government s referendum next month on continued membership in Nabob slowly growing but a Large number of spaniards still favor withdrawal according to a poll published sunday in Madrid s leading daily Al  Survey showed 21 percent of spaniards endorsed remaining in the Alliance compared to 19 percent in � similar poll last october. Thirty nine percent favor a pull out and 18.4 percent were undecided. The poll was taken last week several Days after the government of prime min ister Felipe Gonzalez announced the referendum would be held March 21. It will ask spaniards to Back continue integration in nato s political Wing in Exchange for reducing us. Troops a ban nonnuclear weapons and a pledge to stay out Side the Alliance s military  the 1,532 people questioned 18.5 per cent said they would abstain and 3,1 per cent indicated they would leave the ballot  major opposition group the popular coalition supports membership but has urged Active abstention in the referendum arguing that Spain s defense policy should not be decided at the polls. Spain joined the 16-member Alliance inlay 1982. But Gonzalez who had Campf Ned in the general elections on an anti nato platform froze Spain s integration in the military Structure when he took of fice six months later. Since then the Premier has gradually moved toward a pro nato stand saying a country s Jan. I entry into the  economic Community involved an award in molest Case Abbeville la. A the parents of an altar boy who was molested for years by his Parish priest say they Are gratified with a $1.25 million a jury awarded them in civil lawsuit against the roman Catholic Church and the support they received for their efforts. A predominantly Catholic jury awarded the damages to or. And mrs. Glenn Castal parents of the boy who is now it. The Astals had sued the Church for $12 million accusing Church offi. Vials of harbouring the Rev. Gilber Gauthe for 10 Yean after hearing allegations that he was 8 child moles Ter. Gauthe 40, was sentenced to 20yean in prison last october after admitting he molested about three dozen altar boys. Out of Hospital new York a one of Heyoung men shot in a subway train by Bernhard Goetz has been release from the Hospital where be had been treated for More than a year. Darrell Cabey 20, was expression less As he was taken in a wheelchair from St. Vincent s Hospital. Cabey was the most seriously injured of the four youths shot by Goetz on dec. 22,1984. He was in coma for two months and was left paralysed below the Waist. Last month a judge dismissed at tempted murder charges against Goetz