European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page s the stars and stripes saturday. June 14, 1986 surgeon general backs Tough controls on smoking stateside Washington a the surgeon general Laid a House panel thur?.dj a Puli restrictions on san ill Federal building including Post offices and military building surgeon general or. C. Have Rcpt Koop said in try is Strong evidence Lului Cip Arctic smoke can be a la non smokers and Cunt Bute to heart and Lungis Csc. Opponents contend the proposals arc unfair and unnecessary tobacco smoke in the Immoor environment has not been shown to be i significant health a Iid Robert j. Lewis of the int Itule. Neither has it been demonstrated Thyl Sim King results in increased costs to pm the Insl Hule said result of n Telephone pull of -00 Federal Waers showed 70 a Kacem of non smoking employees Seldom bad u ask their colleagues lit refrain from smoking and k1 percent were opposed to More restrictions. But Gas administrator tar ranch Golden said u5 per cent of the 300 employees who luvs commented thus far on inc Agency s Proth i support it. Rep. Don hitter . And rep. James sch cur d n.y., who introduced the bids in Llic House they arc necessary to protect Public head. In my View the legislation is vague nebulous and open to discrimination and lawsuits said rep. Thomas Boley jr., Rva. The Bills arc blatantly unfair and said rep. Stephen Neal. I -N.C. Ii seems better to keep government out of ii and let people work it out for them selves he said the Bills should be titled the smokers segregation and persecution Pirt of the challenger Varju Bay Huston Friday u reporters got their first look at the shuttle debris. New shuttle Booster design readied Washington up a new design for shuttle blaster rocket joints is expected la be completed in a few necks and engineers Are considering a More realistic ver tical test firing to guard a Ainsle a repeat of the challenger Disier Nasa officials said thursday. They said the new design for the rocket joint hat leaked like a blow Torch 59 seconds after challenger was launched will be reviewed by a National research Council panel of experts before ii gnus to National aeronautics and space administration administrator James Fletcher for approval. John Thomas head of the Nasa team studying Booster redesign said several changes Are under consideration to prevent another fuel segment joint failure and he said the final Choice May contain features of several designs now on i he drawing Board i think we re Muling some Progress on selecting at least a number of alternatives to alleviate these particular problems Thomas said after testifying before the House science and technology Commilles at the third Day of hearings on the Jan 28 disaster. A wide Range of ideas is being considered said Arnold Aldrich shuttle program manager at he Johnson space Center in Houston who also was at the hearing. I Don t think anything s being asked when a new design will be ready Aldrich said in my opinion it la be in the nent few weeks Thomas agreed with that schedule but said he did not know if the changes and Lessing can be Cample lad in Lime to meet the july 1987 target fur resuming shuttle launch right now Don t have a Cher Date Han july he said. I m not terribly optimistic we can adhere la Hal but i Don t have a better in testimony before the House committee. Thomas re ported an examination of disassembled boosters that would have been launched on u May shuttle flight revealed several holes in insulating Putty that could have contributed to the same kind of failure that caused the challenger explosion. The Putty is used As a Barrier Between hot Gas and the rubber of ring seals in the joints. Thomas said Putty a As a probable contrib dior to the challenger Accident along Wilh cold weather and other factors. No single o Jcj Dunc causing mechanism could be discerned he said. The Rogers Amir Sion reached inc same conclusion and said the entire join had to be redesigned to eliminate each of the factors that could have had n role in the Accident the presidential panel recommended that Nasa give full consideration to conducting ground test firings of the new Booster in an upright position. Previously he boosters were test fired horizontally and investigators said hat did not create the conditions the critic a join ii experience in Fiig i. Thomas said engineers were considering firing one of he 149-foot Booster rockets vertically at the Kennedy space Center in Florida either Wilh its Nouk Down As it normally would be launched or Wilh its nozzle pointing up to reduce the problem of Bunch pad damage from the 5,900-Degrce ii Hausa. Banker wants to Send abandoned track to Ethiopia Colorado Springs Colo. A fat banker Mark Skansberg wants la dismantle a 130-mile is retch of abandoned Rio Grande Railroad track in Utah and Send it to Ethiopia to help solve its chronic famine Skansberg 27, has opened up Trie nation s first regional office for Africa id a 3-year-old Organiza Tion of British australian and Irish citizens the group has developed an elaborate plan to solve Ethiopia s recurring problems of drought crop fail ure and poor food distribution. Lawmakers want chilean ship banned from Liberty gala Washington a Rifle five members of Congress have asked organizer Lee Iacocca to bar a chilean tall Shuji. The Esmeralda from the fourth of july statue of Liberty Centennial Celebration be cause ii was once a floating torture chamber. Their be incr circulated by reps. Bill Green r-n.y., and Michnal Barnes. D-md., said inc ship was used by Gen. Augusto Pinochet to Al off and torture political prisoners after he seized Power in 1973. At the Celebration honouring the world s greatest symbols of Liberty it would be inappropriate to Host what is a Symbol of oppression Green said. The ship it not jus Canvas and limbers with an unfortunate Hillury it is a vessel operated by the same government thai conducted inc tortures and that continues its Southern baptists urge fight against religious repression Atlanta a thousands of Southern baptists arc headed Home from their National convention with a message for fellow believers politics needs baptists. Praying protesting Anil politicking arc badly needed to fight a suppression of religious expression in the United Stales the baptists declared thursday before concluding a three Day gathering in which Lucye acc of staunchly conservative new leaders the Southern Baptist convention with 14.5 Mil lion members is the nation s largest protestant de nomination second Only to roman catholics among All . Religious groups two elderly Sisters attack burglar with fists dishpan Delano Fla. A the burglar who broke into a Home Here got nothing for his trouble except punched by an angry is year Oid and smacked with a Metal dishpan by her 71 year old sister. I was t afraid of him. Me did t want to Hurt us he just wanted Money nothing else Clam Prince 73, said thursday. Do Lind police believe a Man broke into the Halo room window of the one Story Home Southwest of town while the Sisters were on the other Side of he House. Clara Prince said she was watching television in the living room when she heard a noise in the Kitchen. She called to her sister and rushed 10 inc room where she surprised a a n As he rummaged through a Dresser. She started swinging she said. The Man took off. But Al the front door her sister Almota was wailing Wilh the dishpan. Which she liberally used Clara Prince said of he wednesday night incident. Lifeguard suspended after driving Over sunbathe Huntington Beach Calif. A the City has suspended a lifeguard and agreed to pay medical expenses for a Sunna incr he ran Over in his jeep officials said. Andrew Weissenber Ger. 24, will remain off duty until an investigation is completed Community services director Max Bowman said thursday. The City has agreed to pay medical costs for Beverly cola 25, of Orange said City attorney Cail Hutton. It was just like a Cota said tuesday from her Hospital bed. The monday afternoon Accident left her Wilh two broken vertebrae a Bruise and Cut on her leg and tire Marks Down her Back she said and she May need physical therapy for up Loa year. Wis Icenberger was returning to the lifeguard a Tarn from a Rescue Call when inc vehicle ran Over the woman As she Lay in a hollow Oil the municipal Beach authorities said
