European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 the stars and Strupes thursday May 22,1986 Pfob ers question Sailor to find who kept pieces of stateside Cape canaveral. . A Nav altars arc questioning aboard it Salvage ship to learn who kept about two Down Small pics of space shuttle challenger wreckage As souvenirs. The skipper of. The opportune already has disciplined one member of his Crew for idling a woman a i a bar about inc ship s operations. In the same conversation the Sailor disclosed thai some Crew members had kept the challenger pieces officials said tuesday. After inc woman alerted the National aeronautics and space administration about the discussion Trie debris weighing boil l 20 pounds was found in a Box on the ship and was turned Over to Nasa Security officials on Mon Day. -. Neither the name of inc Sailor nor inc nature of the disciplinary action was disclosed but spokeswoman said the commander of the opportune had conducted an informal investigation and awarded a non judicial punishment to one Crew member for failing to obey direct orders such punishment could include an Oral or written reprimand restrictions of leave or a demotion said it. Cmdr. Deborah Burnitte. She said the action was taken because the skipper a cmdr. Michael Scott found that the Sailor had told the woman about the ship s operations violating an order. It did not necessarily mean the Sailor was one of those who had kept shuttle debris Burnelle said. She said Scott found he Box with the shuttle wreckage in u common area of the ship to which All Crew members have Access. Scott also re queued that a formal investigation of the finding of the debris be conducted by the naval Intelli gence service Anil members of the Nis Boa Jed the ship. This probe could Lead to disciplinary action against Crew members who kept the debris. Nasa spokesman Hugh Harris said the Agency in formed the Navy and began an investigation on Friday after receiving a phone Call from a woman who said that on two occasions divers from the opportune told her at a Cocoa Beach bar thai they had kept some of the debris As souvenirs including personal items of some of the Sowri astronauts killed in inc explosion of the challenger on Jan. Harris said no personal items were kept and he noted that the opportune was not involved in recovery of the Crew compartment or astronaut remains. The Nasa investigation of the incident is nearly com plete he said and a report would be turned Over to inc Navy. The opportune based in Norfolk va., joined the shuttle recovery Fleet april 4 and Lias been involved primarily in retrieving pieces of the orbiter including the right Wing and a Landing gear. A few ships Are continuing the search even though the operation has retrieved All the High priority items including astronaut remains the Crew comportment and the Section of the right Booster rocket where a flame escape from a seam and triggered the fiery Accident. The search is expected to end about june 1. Nuclear sub successfully launches Poseidon missile off Cape canaveral Cape canaveral Fla. A the Crew of the nuclear submarine will Rogers tired a Poseidon missile tuesday in the first successful launch Here since january. The Navy reported the 42s-Fcot-Tong submarine unleashed he missile while sliding submerged about 30 Miles offshore. Bath stages fired As planned and hurled an unarmed warhead to an Ocean target area about 2,880miles Southeast of the Cape. The purpose of the launch the Navy said was to demonstrate the Crew s ability to safely handle maintain and operate the weapon after such a demonstration the submarine and Crew Are certified for operational deployment. The Success follows the catastrophic failures of the space Inutile challenger on Jan. 2$ and a Delia rocket on May 3. The Only other launch Here this year that of the shuttle Columbia on Jan. 12, was successful. Seven astronauts died in the challenger explosion. A $57,5 million weather satellite was lost in the Delta fail ure. In addition to those failures an air Force Titan 34dexploded As it carried a spy satellite toward orbit from Vandenberk gab calif., on april 8. The will Rogers is one of 19 Poseidon submarines oper ated by the Navy. The subs carry 16 nuclear tipped mis Siles each capable of delivering As Many As 10 nuclear warheads to targets More than 3,000 mites away the Navy also has 19 submarines that carry 16 of the advanced 4,600-mile-Range Trident missiles. Each Trident hoj eight warheads there have been 81 Poseidon launches 61 from submarines since the first was fired in August 1968. A Poseidon missile la bunched from the will Rogers san Francisco had highest rate of new Legal immigrants in 85 san Francisco a the san Francisco metropolitan area and the highest concentration of new Legal immigrants in the nation last year according to the Center for immigration studies. The Washington Center said san fran Cisco and Marin and san matco counties became Home to 17,229 Legal immigrants in 198i, men eng 1.12 per cent of the residents were newcomers new York was the highest in the total number of new immigrants but the percentage was Only 1.08. The Bay area it Raets filipino chinese indochinese and Central american immigrants said Art Shanks Deputy director of the immigration and naturalization service in san Francisco. The study involved Only Legal immigrants but director Dave Simeon said there is a Strong supposition that illegal immigration follows the same trails As Legal immigration and in some cases Legal immigration actually attracts illegal St graders take $33.51 step toward cutting Federal deficit Washington a rep. Stan inn done d n.y., has forwarded to the Treasury department a Check for 133.51, a donation that was literally a drop in the bucket by some eighth graders la help the Federal deficit. In n letter this week Lundine wrote the Salamanca Junior High school students their Effort was laudatory and shows your exceptional Public spirited Ness clearly you understand the seriousness of the need to balance the Federal budget Lundine wrote in t statement released tuesday. Sally glow the students teacher told Lundine the students had collected the Money Over a two week period by dropping whatever change hey had into a Coffee can. The projected deficit is 1202.8 billion Tor the current fiscal Yea tending sept. 30. New bomb Detector will deter terrorism Westinghouse says Pittsburgh a Westinghouse Eltrie corp. Says it has developed a bomb Detector thai can curb attacks at airports embassies and other terrorist targets. Westinghouse spokesman Robert Benke said Mon Day. We think it the most accurate there is we have evaluated other methods of detection at our lab Here things such As chemical sniffers and a Ray Benke said the company has decided not to dido details of the device for Security reasons however sen. Arlen Specter who has urged Secre tary of state George p. Sulu to consider its use said the device will serve As an effective deterrent against today s sophisticated he said the Detector called a Thermal Neutron activation device h new being tested at four unidentified airports in the u United slates British airways plans big Giveaway including free flight new York a British airways suffering a Sharp drop in trans Atlantic business because of . Fears of terrorism on tuesday announced an 18 million Giveaway in which thousands of passengers will Fly free and have a Chance to win everything front a Rolls Royce to a posh London apartment. The whole travel Industry is suffering from the softness in the Market this summer our plan is to Lead the Way to recovery now James Harris the government run air line s marketing director told a new York news Confer ence. It was one of the most dramatic Steps any trans Atlantic airline has taken to recover from a severe decline in Book Ings because of fears by americans that they will be victimized by terrorists. The drop has been particularly acute since the april 15 us air attack on Libya which the Reagan adm Nistra. Tion considers a terrorist enclave. British airways pan american world airways trans world airlines and British caledonian airways the biggest competitors on flights to Britain have hut Mil Lions of dollars in cancelled reservations and the entire european travel business is expecting a poor season. British caledonian has said it would Lay off 1,000 of its 7,750 workers because of the drop and pan am and Twa have intensified Security it was not Clear How those air lines would respond to the British airways promotion. Harris said British airways traffic was Dawn about 10 percent from the planned target but he did not disclose precise figures. On june 10, Alt 5,200 seats on the airline s flights tramis is. Cities to London will be free and passengers will be chosen in a sweepstakes drawing to be announced May 29. Those who already have booked for that Date will get a one Way refund but sweepstakes winners will get a free round trip Good for a year in addition us. Passengers from june i through sep incl re cli6ible to Wio Priks anal delude use of British airways concorde supersonic jetliner and Crew for eight hours a 1100,000 Rolls Royce a five year lease on a Nuiry London apartment and a portfolio of mocks and Bonds currently Worth about $150,000. Harris said the entire promotion would Cost about so million. We decided that this was a situation thai could not bos olved by Ordinary fare cutting buy one get one free or other time worn ideas said James gallery senior vice president for sales and marketing. The announcement came a few hours after British air ways chairman lord King announced in London thai the airline suffered a 4 percent drop in passengers and an it percent decline in Revenue in the Fust Sut weeks after april 1. Compared with the year earlier period. He u need in decline directly to the us. Air raid on Libya. I
