European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday March 9, 1986 shuttle flight vets very Lucky people1 official pressure imperilled safety chief astronaut reportedly says App rom to uT.4T n Ion pressure to the space shuttle program whenever necessary to make the shuttle challenger was lost Jan. 28 when a rup listed flight flight safety corrections it will not survive and neither Ture in its right hand rocket Booster ignited the ship s missions Are will our three space shuttles or their flight Crews giant external fuel tank. A crime suspect in the disaster space Center Houston up pressure meet launch schedules has seriously Compromise a. Safety and veterans of some past shuttle Mission very Lucky people Nasa s chief astronaut charged in an internal memo the Houston Post reported saturday. In a copyright Story the newspaper outlined the con tents of a 12-Page memo written by chief astronaut John Young commander of the first space shuttle flight to George Abbey chief of flight Crew operations at the Johnson space Center. If the management system is not big enough to Stop Young said. Copies of the memo which was dated March 4, also were sent to rear adm. Richard truly associate administrator for spaceflight top Nasa managers and the rest of the astronaut corps the Post said. Young could not be reached for comment saturday Gian Prim suspect is a joint Between two fuel segments and the possible failure of two rubber seals designed to prevent flame and hot Gas from escaping. Challenger was launched Over the objections of rocket engineers who worried that cold weather could interfere with the operation of the seals. The seals were classified As criticality 1" because it was understood that if the i -._, a i Nival nor i us Vara 11 s  Lulal ii Mand truly at the Kennedy space Center in Florida primary Seal failed at ignition the secondary Seal might i a ii Norl i of 4 i i 4/% avst4 an t . O declined to talk to reporters. Not prevent disaster. Americans mourn palme at service in . Washington a prominent and Ordinary americans of All political stripes mourned Sweden s assassinated prime minister Olof palme As a Man of peace Friday during a memorial service in Washington. The mourners included Henry Kissinger who said his thinking was not Complete without palme s insight. The former Secretary of state Long at Odds with palme Over the . Role in Vietnam said in a Eulogy that Olof palme once one knew him was a gentle caring and thoughtful  vice president George Bush wrote in the swedish embassy s condolence Book our condolences to the great people of Sweden As we mourn a Man who loved  others among the 1,000 mourners who filled washing ton s National presbyterian Church were Barbara Bush the vice president s wife former vice president Walter Mondale Deputy Secretary of state John c. Whitehead and Sens. Edward Kennedy d-mass., and Charles , red. Kissinger told the gathering that because of the anguish and passions of the Vietnam period he did not meet the prime minister until Rajme invited him to Sweden in 1976. It was Clear immediately that palme was an extraordinary personality Kissinger said. We maintained an increasingly frequent and close con tact Kissinger said during which my own thinking i Felt was not Complete without the Benefit of palme s in sight perspective and  transcending All controversies palme s passion was 2 presidential hopefuls get unfavourable mention a photo sen. Edward Kennedy left and swedish ambassador Wilhelm Wachtmeister at service for Olof palme. For the Best in Western values Kissinger said. Wherever peace was threatened or Justice was denied or Freedom was in jeopardy in the Middle East in Central America in South Africa on the Issue of nuclear weapons palme was to be found at the cutting Edge of the debate. He strove tenaciously to find solutions to world prob lems Many far Distant from his own country always intelligently never yielding to the counsels of tactical Pru Dence. For his passion was concentrated on making the free Peoples worthy of the values they  eventually Kissinger said i came to think of Olof palme More and More As a Sentinel in the ramparts of Freedom warning cajoling holding aloft a Standard which contributed crucially to the dialectic by which Liberty and human dignity achieve their  in a Eulogy Mathias called palme a politician who despite local problems made time for a broader constituency the human race. He applied his thoughts to. The awful feat of living in the nuclear  whenever palme criticized America Mathias said i always Felt it was because he knew How Fine we might be and he hated to see us fall  Kennedy said palme was the rarest of modern men because he was both a Prophet and a prime minister. His compatriots in spirit Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King led movements but not govern ments Kennedy said. Olof palme proved anew that what counts most is not the size of a Man s country but the scope of his vision and the depth of his  spotlight put on politicians pay of women staffers Quim Ottom ii Idi tit a  a i r i i a i. Washington uple two Poten tial 1988 democratic presidential contend ers sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware and rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri pay the top women on their staff considerably less than the men a new study says. The report by the democratic task Force of the National women s political caucus also showed that among other possible 1988 candidates sen. Bill Bradley of new Jersey paid his top women staffers More than the men sen. Gary Hart of Colorado paid them about the same and sen. Dale bumpers of Arkansas paid men somewhat More than women. The caucus looked at the staff salary and hiring practices of nine potential presiden tial candidates. Specific salary figures were available for the five members of Congress surveyed while More general information was used for three democratic governors and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Gephardt and Biden had Strong records of supporting the equal rights amendment and other issues of interest to women Al though they generally have voted against legislation supporting abortion. The Survey compared the top 10 jobs in each office and How much men were paid compared with women. Gephardt had the worst record. The median salary for the men on his staff was $36,620, for woman $17,668 about 48 percent of the men s salaries. There were Only three women among his top 10 staffers and the highest paid woman ranked seventh. On Biden s staff the median salary for men was $26,500, while for women it was $15,000 Only 57 percent of the men s salary level. Two women Are included in the top 10 jobs and the highest paid woman a scheduler ranks eighth. All the figures were compiled from offi Cial records for the third Quarter of 1985, the latest available. Since then Biden has added two women in High policy positions one As his chief foreign policy director and another As legislative director. Bradley had four women among his top 10, including his administrative assistant his highest paid aide. The median salary for men was $16,274, while for women it was $ 18,990, or 117 percen of the men s level. Bumpers had an equal division among his top 10 staffers but he paid men a median salary of $34,416, while women received $25,000, or 73 percent of the men s level. Hart had four women in his top 10. He paid men a median salary of $18,243 and women $18,555, or 102 percent of themen s level. The report looked at the staff of Jack son s Rainbow coalition and found women in six of the 10 top staff positions including the highest ranking Job the chief of staff. Complete figures were not available but three of the six women were ranked As professionals and four received salaries of More than $20,000. Specific salary figures were not available for the governors staffs. Gov. Bruce Babbit of Arizona has an executive staff of six women and five men and his six member Cabinet is equally divided with a woman As head of the Cabinet receiving $75,000. Gov. Mario Cuomo of new York appointed women to about 25 percent of the 500 policy level positions. Of the 56 Agency Heads he named 10 Are women. Gov. Charles Robb of Virginia who left office in january appointed an unprecedented number of woman during his administration 640. Among his first were women As Secretary for Commerce and re sources alcoholic beverage control com missioner and state corporation commissioner. Lower interest rates expected to follow fed action new York up the latest reductions in the Federal Reserve s discount rate and Banks prime rate Are a Welcome sign to american Consumers that the Cost of Money is headed Down some More. The fed s move Friday to 7 percent from 7.5 percent for its discount rate which commercial Banks themselves pay was part of a coordinated action by some major Industrial countries. Japan Germany France and the Netherlands earlier notched their rates Down in an Effort to Spur worldwide economic growth. Led by Chase Manhattan Bank . Banking institutions quickly followed the fed s announcement with a half Point reduction in their prime rate to 9 percent bring ing it to a level not seen since mid-1978. It s obvious that the Banks were waiting for a signal from the fed to move on the prime a Money Market analyst said. But their action clears the Way for All inter est rates including mortgage rates to come  meanwhile president Reagan signed legislation Friday allowing the veterans administration to guarantee $6 Bil lion More in Home Loans. The $12 billion now available to veterans in govern ment backed Low Down payment mortgages for the cur rent fiscal year would have otherwise expired in april due to a surge of refinancing coupled with Gramm Rudman cutbacks. Although interest rates dropped dramatically in 1985 before stalling until the most recent declines real rates interest rates minus inflation have remained at historically High Levels of 5 percent to 6 percent