European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Calif Ornia shuttle launching May be delayed Vandenberk gab. Calif. A the first West coast launch of a miliary space Shin lie once scheduled for this summer May be delayed until the Early 1990s,according to a published report. .-.-. The possibility of a Nve or six year postponement was raised in the May 19 Issue of the aerospace weekly mag Aimo. Avetian week and space technology. A Pentagon spokesman said no decision had been made about a postponement and denied that the air Force was re examining shutting Down the Vandyn Borg shuttle rights in the Wake of the explosion of the shuttle Chal Lenger off Florida that killed seven astronauts. Maj. Ron Rand a spokesman for acting air Force Secretary Edward c. Aldridge jr., said he did not know when the decision would be made. Larry Hannon a civilian spokesman for the air Force s space div in los Angeles said that Tram Nasa s Point of View the military shuttle s schedule has been complicated by the fact that Nasa would have to make a shuttle available to the air Force. The space Agency also is responsible for certifying the Vandenberg launch facilities Hannon said. Aldridge s recommendation on the military shuttle May be lied into recommendations on the Overall Shullie pro Gram being formulated by a presidential Cam Mission. The incr Agency advisory group has been debating for weeks on whether and How to fund a new orbiter to replace challenger and a buy Mare unmanned one shot rockets to boost satellites into orbit. The air Force first studied the feasibility of its military shuttle schedule in the Days after challenger exploded mat Balling inc military shuttle program was rejected at hat time As Noi Cost effective. Development costs at the West coast base have been pegged at j2.8 billion. Rand said earlier that Nasa estimates that the orbit cars would be grounded for a year and resume with 13 flights a year fully justified continuing the Vandyn Borg program to launch at the earliest Opportunity tentativelyi9b7. .-.-, More recently Nasa told Congress inc shuttles will be grounded far 18 months until july 1987, and there will be Between nine and 13 missions a year. As late As last week the new shuttle manager. Rear adm. Richard truly told a congressional committee that he estimates the first launch from Vandyn Borg will be no earlier than the Spring of 91is,and possibly later. The air Force is proceeding with preparations of the shuttle launch facility at. Vandyn Borg including solving a complicated problem involving the buildup of Hydrogen at launch. The air Force also plans to test pad systems by slacking solid rocket Booster segments an external fuel Lank and the or biter Columbia due now Tor arrival in september. Rand  complicating inc military shuttle s schedule focus on the most efficient use of the three remaining orbiters  Security requirements and costs. Space Agency officials said having All three arbiters at. The Kennedy space Center in Florida could result in More efficient scheduling of ground servicing and one or More extra shuttle flights annually. Aldridge who was assigned As a Crew member to the first Vandyn Borg launch has endorsed funding for a new Nasa orbiter As Well As additional unmanned Ockels for the military. He also testified to the presidential commission on challenger in april that "1 personally believe in a 10 coast launching system. I believe some of the plans thai have been expressed for the nation at the end of the decade and on into the next decade really require a four orbiter  Haig makes presidential run overtures As Pac dinner raises $200,000 for gop new Vernon , a former Secretary of slate Alexander a Haig or. Raised More than s200.000 at a fund Rais ing dinner tuesday for a committee he said would help Republican office seekers with an Eye to his own presidential ambitions. The political action committee called committee for America will support con Gressional and state and local candidates on the november ballot Haig said. Needless to say it is also affiliated with my own interest in the presidency in 1988," he added in an apparent reference to the National exposure he can gain As head of the organization. However Federal Law prohibits such pics from getting specifically involved in exploratory activity for potential presidential Candi dates. A Pac can contribute no More than $5.000 to a presidential candidate and the donation of that sum would automatically trigger official presidential candidacy. Once a person is an official candidate he or she is subject to expenditure limits and reporting rules. Haig later said in reply to a reporter s question that he planned to farm a second political action committee after the novem Ber elections specifically geared to his exploration of a presidential race. Alexander Haig Haig who served As president Reagan s Secretary of Stele for 18 months is one of several prominent politicians who arc looking at the gop nomination. There s no question that i am interested and intend to pursue that into esl to that utmost in the months ahead said Haig. The former White House chief of staff and sex nato commander made the com ments to reporters at a $ 1,000-a-plate Din Ner for some i �0 guests. The event at the 100-acre estate of los. Aviation underwriters inc. Chairman Frank Lynch near Morristown was the first major fund Raiser for Halg s Pac with some guests contributing 15,000. Haig who has just returned from a Ihrcke week trip to the far East said the Pac will Back various Republican candidates. I m very very concerned that if the re publican parly loses control of the Senate the Reagan administration would be a lame  from november on he said. Haig noted that 22 gop senators Are up for re election this year Haig was supreme Allied commander of nato from 1974 to 1979 and while House chief of staff under former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Me now Heads a Washington d.c., consulting firm Banff nut ear group arrested on fest site Las vegas Nev. A five Mem Bers of a peace group were arrested tues Day about 12 Miles inside the Southern Boundary of the sprawling Nevada test site the department of Energy said the anti nuclear protesters were about 25 to 3d Miles from any testing areas when they were captured about noon after being seen by Security guards in a helicopter Doe spokesman Jim Boyar said. They will probably be charged with mis Demeanour trespassing he said. Representatives of the Rocky Mountain peace Center in Boulder colo., said four men and a woman Rode onto the testing facility Over the weekend to try to halt or delay a nuclear lest believed scheduled for later this week. Joe Young a spokesman for the group said they had information that the underground test would be conducted wednesday. The department of Energy has not announced any tests for this week but for Secu Rity reasons some tests Are not announced. Peace activists have entered the test site several times in recent months in efforts to halt tests. Officials say their efforts have not succeeded. Prof Esters Wak ouf As Harvard gives Meese medal Cambridge Moss. A attorney general Edwin Melesc was Given the distinguished Public service medal at the Institute of politics Public forum at the John f. Kennedy school of government Al Harvard University tuesday and dozens of people in the audience walked out in protest. Meese was the second of three Cabinet officers to be so honoured As part of the Institute s 50th anniversary Cele bration. The medal was Given to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger earlier this year and Treasury Secretary James a Baker is scheduled to receive the medal thurs Day. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., and Joseph a. Califano jr., former Secretary of health education and welfare have also received the medal. When Dean Graham Allison introduced Meese about 45 of the estimated 550 people attending the event Rose from their scats filed in front of the speaker s podium and left the building /. Demonstrators also marched in front of the Hall before the  feel particularly offended As lawyers that Meese is being recognized for his Public service said Helena Goldstein co chairwoman of the Massachusetts chapter of the National lawyers Guild. Under Meese the Justice department is taking a lot of positions that Are contrary to the Public interest she said. Mcnese who did not mention the protest during his 40 minute speech said he was honoured to have been selected for the award. The greatest Challenge to us is to recapture the essentially political use of Public administration he said. What the government does is Al least As important As How the government functions.". He said the expansion of government programs after the 1930s brought the Advent of scientific manage ment.". As government came to do More efforts were made to separate it from the government of Public will. Citizenship was reduced to something Akin to consume ship in the 1960s and 1970s, he said.  to be deployed in Wyoming next month Cheyenne Wyo of the fir armed my missile to be deployed will be lowered into a silo in . I within 30 Days maj. Rick Oborn an a Force spokesman at the Pentagon. Sad  said the installation is scheduled for l � latter part of june an inert missile will be installed in a underground modified Minien a 3 Iilo Wuhan la next two weeks to Tram Crews in installing the weapons capt. Dave newbry an , Warren fab spokes Man said. In the meantime some 300 civilians and 50 to 60 air Force personnel will continue to process sections of the four stage missile which the air Force Calls the peacekeeper and will Complete modification work on the five silos that will be the first to hold the my newbry said. Because the my missiles Are catapulted out of their Sites before their engines Are fired the minuteman 3 silos will have Metal cylinders inserted before the new weapons can be lowered into them Section by Section. Ten nuclear warheads can be installed in the missile s fourth stage either before or after the stage is lowered into the silo he said. The Reagan administration initially wanted to deploy 100 my missiles consid ered to be far More accurate than the minuteman throughout Southeastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska. However Congress limited the deployment to 50, All in Wyom ing. Oborn said the air Force remains on track for achieving initial operating capability for the my by the end of december. The air Force defines initial capability Tor the my As having the first 10 of the mis Siles in sties and on Alert he said