European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes wednesday March 26, 1986 of enforcement of dress code upheld justices support ban on wearing religious garments with uniform Washington a the supreme court tues Day gave the armed services sweeping authority to prohibit the wearing of religious garments by military personnel ruling against an air Force psychologist who wore a Yar Mulke while on duty. By a 5-4 vote the court said the air Force properly banned a former Captain who is an orthodox jewish rabbi from wearing a Yarmulke the traditional jewish Skullcap. The court said the ban did not violate the constitutional rights of the former Captain. In other action the court backed out of deciding whether Public High schools May allow students to meet during school hours for prayer and religious worship. Citing a procedural flaw in a Pennsylvania Case a 5-4majority refused to reach the merits of a Freedom of Reli Gion controversy from Williamsport a. Justice William h. Rehnquist writing for the court inthe air Force Case said to accomplish its Mission the military must Foster instinctive obedience Unity commit ment and Esprit de corps. The desirability of dress regulations in the military is decided by the appropriate military officials and they Are under no constitutional mandate to abandon their considered professional  the court said that the air Force did not violate the rights of s. Simcha Goldman who was a clinical psychologist at March fab in Riverside calif., until 1981. Gold Man is now on an inactive Reserve status with the air Force. Goldman was a Navy chaplain from 1970 to 1972 and was assigned to March air Force Hospital in 1977 after he received a doctorate degree in clinical psychology. He wore a Yarmulke in the Hospital without incident until Early 1981. But he said when he testified As a defense witness in Acourt martial in an unrelated Case that the lawyer for the opposing Side complained to the Hospital commandant that Goldman was wearing the Cap at the proceedings. Goldman was subsequently ordered not to Wear the Yarmulke while on duty at the Hospital and was repro supreme court Roundup handed. The Hospital commandant also withdrew his recommendation that Goldman be permitted to extend his Active service with the air Force. A Federal judge ruled that the air Force violated Gold Man s rights and barred it from enforcing the dress code restriction against him. But a Federal appeals court Over turned the ruling. The Reagan administration urged the supreme court to leave the appeals court decision intact. It said the Pentagon is conducting a study ordered by Congress to deter mine whether the armed services should change their poli cies to allow some exceptions to the dress code. Tuesday s ruling went even further than the administration requested. Rehnquist said uniforms encourage a sense of hierarchical Unity by tending to eliminate outward individual distinctions except for those of  was joined by chief Justice Warren e. Burger and justices Byron r. White Lewis f. Powell and John Paul Stevens. In a dissenting opinion Justice William j. Brenna said the Contention that the discipline of the armed forces will be subverted if orthodox jews Are allowed Tower Yarmulke with their uniforms surpasses  also dissenting were justices Thurgood Marshall Harrya. Blackmun and Sandra Day o Connor. In the school prayer Case the justices ruled that John  jr., a former member of the Williamsport school Board had lacked the Legal standing to carry therase to a Federal appeals court and that the Case should never have been decided by that  tuesday s action sets no National precedent in the continuing debate Over the role of religion in Public schools it did appear to reinstate a Federal trial judge s ruling that allowed the student religious group to meet during student activity periods at the Williamsport High school. In another decision the court made it easier for people to sue local governments for alleged violations of their rights by government  a 6-3 vote the court ruled that a Cincinnati Ohio physician is entitled to sue Hamilton county for a 1977incident in which a door in his offices was chopped Down by police. Finding vital challenger Section has top priority Cape canaveral Fla. A the Leader of the challenger Salvage Effort says it May be two to three weeks before searchers know if they will be Able to find and recover a Section of the Booster rocket that caused the shuttle explosion. Air Force col. Edward a. O Connor told reporters monday the highest priority has been placed on retrieving a part of the join Between the Bottom two segments of the right Booster. A plume of flame shot out of the joint 15seconds before challenger exploded Jan. 28, killing the seven Crew members. O Connor said radar tracking indicate the right rocket broke into three or four major chunks and several smaller piece Sand that they hit the water at a Speed of about 400 Mph from an Altitude of about nine Miles. Any object hitting the water at that Speed would be like hitting a Brick Wall and you could expect a lot of damage he  parts could be shattered into Small fragments and never be found he added. Sonar searches have located a Booster debris Field on the Ocean Bottom that looks promising As the resting place for the wanted part o Connor said. Weather has not been Good the last fou Days with High winds whipping up Large Waves in the 480-Square-mile recovery area search for shuttle debris. Jan 28 challenger explosion,.v\ about 15 percent of shuttle has been \ recovered from Atlantic launch 3 i right solid rocket Booster piece recovered 2left Booster piece photographed 3 left Booster piece photographed 4 external fuel tank piece recovered s orbiter main engine debris recovered e inertial upper stage of satellite aboard orbiter debris recovered 7aft fuselage of Booster debris recovered 8 Crew Cabin Crew remain being recovered left Booster aft pieces recovered Booster piece photographed 9 segment 4 of boosted u i f external tank Booster i i attachment fitting photographed Chicago Tribune graphic by Penante Odom source Chicago Tribune news reports. 1a extending roughly from 15 to 50 mile Northeast of Cape canaveral. Seven of the nine Salvage ships that had been forced to stay in port for three straight Days returned to the search area  swells up to 12 feet kept divers and submersibles from dropping overboard an conditions were no better tuesday effectively halting operations. Divers from the preserver were prevented from searching the debris of the Crew compartment 100 feet below the surface for additional remains of astronauts. The National aeronautics and space administration has declined to discuss whether any Crew remains have been retrieved but sources close to the investigation say most have been recovered and som have been identified. The remains Are being examined by forensic experts in a Laboratory Here. Information about the Cabin and Crew i being tightly monitored and tightly con trolled out of respect for the families Oconnor said. When we have recovered All the Crew compartment there will be formal  o Connor said representatives of the National transportation safety Board Are helping plan the debris search and helping Nasa Analyse the debris for such things As soot smoke deposits and fire and Salt water damage. Shuttle chief pledges redesign of faulty parts space Center Houston a Nasa s new shuttle chief promised employees tuesday that the space Agency s management systems and All the hardware on the shuttle will be reviewed and revised if necessary before the spacecraft flies again. We had an Accident. To try to defend the indefensible and pretend we did t have an Accident would be Ludi Crous rear adm. Richard truly told reporters after his speech. He affirmed that the joint on the shuttle s solid fue Booster rocket which is suspected of causing the Accident would be redesigned. In addition he promised a Complete design require ment review of All other elements on the shuttle system and a total re certification of All those items listed As criticality one that is items whose failure would destroy the space shuttle and its Crew. In his speech he said the first Post challenger shuttle flight would take off in Daylight from Cape canaveral Fla., under conservative weather conditions carrying a satellite of a kind that has been put in orbit from the shuttle before. Landing he said would be on a Large runway at Edwards fab in California not on the 15,000-foot runway at the Kennedy space Center in Florida. I know the business of space flight can never be totally risk free truly said. But the conservative flight plan i have outlined is not going to be a Nimby Pamby  business of flying in space is a bold business. We Are going to Correct any mistakes made in the  in his 30-minute speech broadcast Over a government network to All National aeronautics and space administration flight centers the former shuttle astronaut said today i d like to Stop looking backward and Start looking to the  truly who took Over As associate Nasa administrator four weeks ago promised that throughout this year when the shuttle is not expected to Fly Nasa officials would reassess our entire program management which has been criticized directly by the presidential commission investigating the explosion that destroyed the challenger on Jan. 28. He said the review also would encompass abort proce dures and Landing safety and even weather forecasting abilities but he told a news conference later he doubted a escape module could be added now to the shuttle. However he then added i May have strayed too far because if the commission recommends that we do it we certainly will do  truly emphasized that the plan to resume shuttle flight next february and conduct nine of them in the first year of resumed flight was just a device to be used to plan budgets not a fixed goal. He pointedly noted that a memo on renewed flight which he sent monday to All Nasa employees did not fix a Date for the first flight or a number of flights for the first year. During the first year truly said he wants to carry mostly if not All payloads that Nasa has experience with and he promised that in the first year to 18 months of resumed flight the shuttle will launch military commercial and scientific satellite payloads