European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7o sex Nasa worker says he Felt pressure to lie Washington a a former Nasa budget analyst who authored an internal memo on the space shuttle s of ring Seal problem says that superiors pressured him to lie about the space Agency s follow up to safety issues he raised. Richard c. Cook also said in an opinion Page article in sunday s editions of the Washington Post that Nasa s promotion system tends to turn people into yes men " with a decided tendency to report Only Good news to paint Only a Rosy  Cook now works for the Treasury department. Six months before the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle challenger which killed its Crew of seven Cook wrote a memo Eastern Jet makes emergency Landing without nose wheel Miami a an Eastern airlines 727 jetliner made an emergency Landing without its nose wheel Landing gear at Miami International Airport. None of the 139 people aboard was injured. The aircraft stopped in the Middle of the runway. They did evacuate the passengers but there were no injuries said Jack Barker a spokesman for the Federal aviation administration in Atlanta. The plane landed at 12 10 . Sunday on its Mai Landing gear he said. Eastern s flight 757 originated at new York City s Laguardia Airport Enro Ute to fort Lauderdale fla., but diverted to Miami International where Eastern is based when the problem with the nose gear was detected barkers id. 139 persons aboard Eastern spokesman Glenn Parsons said the flight car ried 133 passengers and six Crew members. The Pilot made a couple of passes by the Tower in for Lauderdale Parsons said. Fuel was running Low so he brought it to Miami headed. He made an excellent nose gear up Landing and Pas sengers evacuated via chutes from the plane Parson said. Buses ferried the passengers and Crew to the terminal. Parsons reported that there was Only minimal damage tothe aircraft. The National transportation safety Board spokesman is sending an investigator to look into the incident said Ira Furman an Nosb spokesman in  200 organize profess in Pittsburgh summarizing my concerns about the safety of the solid rocket Booster used in the space  he said As the investigation after the Accident was getting under Way and press in quiries mounted i was told to say that after i filed my report the problem was discussed in the comptroller s office inquiries were made to the program office and work was under Way that satisfied us that the safety Issue was being dealt  i Felt i was under official orders to deny publicly the Validity of my earlier july 23 memorandum a denial which of course i could not and did not make he wrote in the newspaper. Jim Mcculla Deputy director of Public affairs at Nasa Headquarters in washing ton said saturday night he found Cook s comments about being told what to say to reporters incredible. I be never heard any of that. I can t imagine that Mcculla said. Nasa has always had since its inception a Rule that says that any member of the press can go to anybody in Nasa and talk to  since Cook did t name the Nasa Supe rior who told him what to say Mcculla said there was no Way to know what he meant. Cook wrote his memo after investigating the possible budgetary Impact of the of ring Seal problem. The investigation of the Chal Lenger explosion has highlighted possible failure of the of rings which Are designed to prevent leaks in the shuttle s rocket boosters. In his article Cook wrote that Nasa people understood completely the implications of a possible of ring failure. It s just that it was viewed As no  Cook also said Nasa s Field centers operated As a quasi Independent fiefdom with Little Central guidance or  at Nasa in the hours and Days follow ing the Accident there were Many hushed conversations As More information came in to support the solid rocket Booster failure hypothesis. There was concern about who might be blamed Cook wrote. Cook concluded that if Nasa had listened to a Small number of individuals. Who feared that the Booster seals were unreliable in cold weather. The challenger and its astronauts might still be with  actress Susan Anton admires some doonesbury comic strips As creator Gary Trudeau left and . Penney chairman William r. Howell unveil comic Relief no laughing matter Dpi photo an exhibit intended to raise Money to combat world hunger. The display of 170 original strips by leading american cartoonists opened in new York. Catholic women barred from washing of feet rite pc d t to of � t / a to i a it. Of Pittsburgh a More than 200 roman Catholic women have organized a protest against the Pittsburgh Catholic diocese which has excluded them from traditional washing of the feet services on holy thursday. We Don t want to fight. We want to be heard Patricia Morgan a member of Good Shepherd Church in Braddock said Friday about Bishop Anthony j. Bevilacqua s interpretation of the Liturgy. In a directive issued last month to Parish priests Bevilacqua said women would be excluded from the service because Only men were among the disciples whose feet Jesus washed at the last supper. Last week the Liberal 70-member association of Pittsburgh priests said its clerics probably would not comply with Bevilacqua s directive. Although the Bishop has apologized for the fuss he refused to rescind the order. Instead he urged priests on Friday to find a substitute for the ritual that would not exclude women. After a meeting Friday night the women said they rejected the suggestion that alter native gestures such As prayers processions and hand washing ceremonies be used to include them in the service on March 27, the thursday before easter. They said they planned to protest the directive by withholding Volunteer services and financial contributions from the diocese and writing protest letters to diocese officials and priests. The women also were considering some form of demonstration possibly asking All catholics in the area to Wear yellow  bands until easter. A group will be set up to review the stat us of Catholic women in All areas of the Church they said. The Rev. Warren Metzler pastor of St. James and a member of the priests association said women Are permitted to take part in the feet washing ceremony in the Catho Lic dioceses of Greensburg Erie and Harris Burg. It s been done so Long in the Pittsburgh diocese that everyone just assumed it was the right thing he said. That s Why the memo was such a  the Rev. Donald Fisher another association member said the Bishop s alternative proposal failed to address the real Issue Why women Are prohibited from the ritual when the Church should be trying harder to include them in its ministry. There needs to be a great push for open Ness to women and sensitivity to How much we be excluded them in the past he said. . Deputy mayor quits amid probe of kickbacks Washington a District r f Nln Rikio n0T. A District of Columbia Deputy mayor Alphonse Hill has resigned effective the end of March amid an investigation of whether he accepted kickbacks in the latest of a series of problems for officials of mayor Marion Barry s administration. It was disclosed last week that Hill had accepted $3,000 in payments from an auditing contractor who Heads a firm that has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in City contracts. A Federal grand jury is investigating. In an interview published in sunday s editions of the Washington Post Hill denied that the payments were payoffs however he admitted he used poor judgment in accepting the Money last year from James Hill jr., a longtime Friend and the head of the Chicago based accounting firm of Hill Taylor & co. Last Spring Alphonse Hill 45, came under criticism for investing $100 million of City funds in a firm that late went bankrupt. Barry who is planning to run for a third term had no immediate comment on the resignation his office said. The Deputy mayor said he was not forced out by Barry but quit to ensure the integrity of the City s financial system which he helped design. In december Ivanhoe Donaldson a former Deputy mayor and a major Force in developing Barry s political career pleaded guilty of having defrauded the City of$190,000