European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday april 17, 1986 ships from first Libya clash welcomed Home by the associated press /tj10usjands. Of relatives and friends crowded Dock wednesday in Florida and South Carolina As Navy ftps red a me after a 7 /2-m�nth deployment inthe Mediterranean that included air and sea Battles with libyan forces. Up to 7,000 people gathered at the Mayport naval station near Jacksonville fla., to Greet the 2,800 Crew members of the aircraft Carrier Saratoga and the 270 men aboard the frigate Paul which were expected to Dock around midday. At Charleston s.c., the guided missile Cruiser Rich mond k. Turner and its Crew of 450 were erected by hundreds of people at the Charleston naval base. The guided missile destroyer Mahan and the frigate Garcia arrived shortly after the Turner which crossed libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy s line of death across the Gulf of Sidra on the North african coast an fired on a libyan target. Planes from the Saratoga and two other carriers also were involved in knocking out libyan missile batteries and attacking patrol boats last month. Crew members of the Turner said the ship fired a Harpoon surface to surface missile at what one Crew Man called a libyan threat during the Maneu vers in the Gulf of Sidra a Crew member who operated radar on the ship said the . Ship did not come under any fire from libyan forces. It was pretty tense but it was also pretty quiet said the Seaman adding that the missile was fired after libyans fired missiles at . Aircraft. The Navy would not allow identification of individual crewmen on the Mediterranean Mission for Security Rea sons to avoid terrorist reprisals said cmdr. Dugald Gil lies a spokesman for the Charleston base. Crewmen on the ship said they did not know if the Turner missile hit its target and did not specify what target they were shooting at. Crewmen said they had not heard much about this week s . Air strikes in Libya. Probably you people Here know More about it than we do said an Ensign on Board the Turner. When we get off the ship the first thing i la do is buy a new spa on oct. 10, four f-14 fighters from the Saratoga intercepted an egyptian Airliner carrying the alleged hijackers of the italian cruise liner Achille Lauro forc ing it to land where they could be arrested by italia authorities. Booster Section s recovery May delay panel s report to a the recover the recovery this week of a vital piece of evidence May delay a report spelling but Nasa s findings on the cause of the Jan. 28 space shuttle explosion which claimed seven lives. The report from the National aeronautics and space administration s Accident analysis team was to have been submitted to the presidential commission investigating the challenger Accident by Friday. On monday however search teams found and brought Back to the Kennedy space Center in Florida one of the most sought after pieces of debris a part on the right Booster rocket that leaked and is thought to have caused the Accident. Finding the piece was considered so important to the investigation that commission member Eugene Covert a professor of aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of technology and a rocket expert flew immediately to Florida to work with the analysis team. In View of the recovery of a burned out Section of the aft joint of the solid rocket Booster final submission by the Accident analysis team May be delayed for a Short time said commission spokesman Mark Wemberg. He said most of the team s data already is in the hands of the commission. The challenger commission chaired by former Secretary of state William p. Rog ers has until june 6 to make its report to the president and the writing process Al ready is under Way. Meanwhile a source close to the commis Sion said members last week viewed films that show the smoke from the leaking joint shooting out As if there were no Seal thereat All he said the first puff of smoke seen in photographs taken less than one half second after the rockets ignited was a great whoosh with a lot of Force that shot straight out like a the smoke lasted 12 seconds. In the 60th second of flight a Bright plume of flame could be seen coming from the Side of the right Booster rocket and in the 74th second the shuttle was engulfed in a giant fireball Slayer of minister s wife repentant before execution the source who viewed computer enhanced films last week of the fatal Jan. 28 liftoff said the photographs also show the Crew Cabin being thrown Clear of the explosion intact and tumbling As it fell to the Ocean nine Miles below. It really Shook me said the source the Cabin was absolutely intact when it broke off. As it turned every time it caught the Sun and you could see the rate of spin. That flight was doomed from the moment that rocket lighted a Federal safety investigator Terry Armentrout said last Friday the nose Section containing tie Cabin broke cleanly away from the rest of the spacecraft and remained intact until it struck the water. An other investigator said the Crew probably died in the High Gravity forces As the ship Tore apart. A two ton Section of the Booster con Taining the portion of the suspect joint was fished from the Atlantic this week and re turned to the Kennedy space Center in Florida on tuesday morning. It had a jagged two foot Hole described As if some one had taken a bite out of it and showed evidence of burning. Photographs shown to commissioners last week show eight distinct puffs of smoke coming from the joint at the rate of three puffs per second the source said. He noted this rate coincides with the three per second sequence of shocks in the twang that rocks the orbiter 25 i inches Forward and Back at the tip when the shuttle s main engines ignite. The shuttle stack is held Down to the pad by explosive bolts at the Bottom of the two rocket boosters and the twang puts tremendous Strain on the 180-foot rockets. The number of dynamic loads of the twang had something to do with the Seal failure the source said adding that Nasa had believed the rockets flex out Ward during that period closing any Gap in the joints Between the four segments that make up the Booster. Instead they flex inward and open the joints the source said. Huntsville Texas a Jeffery Allen Barney became the second Man executed in the United states in As Many Days Early wednesday proclaiming that he de served to die for the rape and murder of the wife of a minister who had befriended Himin 1981. I m sorry for what 1 done Barney said in a final statement. I deserve it. I Hope Jesus forgives Barney 28, had asked that no appeals be filed to halt the execution which was by injection. It was the fifth execution in the United states this year and the 55th since states resumed imposing the death penalty the 54th execution took place at midday tuesday when Daniel Thomas 37, was put to death in Florida s electric chair for kill ing a Man and raping his wife during a 10 month crime spree in 1975 and 1976. In contrast to Barney s repentant com ments Thomas struggled with his guards for seven minutes to avoid being strapped into the electric chair. He also made a final statement in which he accused Florida gov Bob Graham of executing people for Politi Cal motives. Barney was described throughout his final Day As Calm so Calm that he spent his last hours playing dominoes with a guard. His last meal was two boxes of Cere Al and a pint of milk. I m tingling All Over he said after the injection. His shoulders and Chest trembled briefly a tear rolled Down his Cheek and he some . Companies continue to operate in Libya official says of a ottttvt/-1ti/-Vkt y � a _. Us is 8uilty and has made i right with the lord and has to pay his debt with society said Freddie Wier one of the chaplains who witnessed his execution. Barney who had an extensive juvenile record was arrested in his native Dayton Ohio on nov. 28, 1981, driving the Cadillac owned by Ruby Longsworth. Four Days earlier Longsworth 54, had been raped and strangled in her Houston area Home Washington a despite president Reagan s ban on . Busi Nesses in Libya 10 to 12 american firms still operate there under special temporary licenses a Treasury department official said wednes Day. The permission was granted to the group which includes five Oil Compa Nies to give them time to sell off their assets a Treasury official said. T n the Elm uld be a potential wind fall of $1 billion to libyan Leader col Moa mar khad Afy if these Compa Nies just walk away the official said. The five Oil companies Are Conoho . Grace Amerada Hess mar athon and Occidental. He said an additional five to seven . Companies which largely provide Oil related serv ices also Are still operating in Libya. He declined to list those claiming that identifying them As american outfits might make them harder to sell. President Reagan last feb. 1 severed All economic relations with Libya and prohibited . Citizens other than journalists from remaining there. The Treasury official said that while there still May be a number of americans remaining in Libya who work for libyan or foreign companies the remaining firms do not have any americans on their payrolls there. The companies Are required to file frequent reports on their activities with the Treasury department and any profits they have made since feb. 1 must be put in an escrow account. In companies also Are prohibited from transporting libyan crude Oil out of the country or refining it
