European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Space program showing recovery sunday july 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Cape canaveral Fla. Up America s space program is showing signs of recovery with word from Nasa and the air Force that two rocket fail ures following the challenger disaster were not caused by major design flaws. Results of Accident reviews on the april 18 explosion of an unmanned air Force Titan rocket and the May 3 failure of a Nasa Delta rocket were released and officials indicated both programs could be Back on flight status by Early next year. Brig. Gen. Nathan Lindsay said the Titan launched from Vandenberg fab calif., exploded seconds after Blastoff when insulation pulled away from the Wall of a solid fuel Booster allowing flame from burning propel am to burst through with catastrophic results. Lawrence Ross chairman of the Delta Accident review said in a separate news conference that critical electrical wiring apparently was damaged by launch vibration which created a Short circuit that shutdown the rocket s engine prematurely. That threw the vehicle out of control and forced safety officers to trigger the rocket s self destruct system. The failures following the challenger disaster Jan. 28, shocked . Space officials. The Only other launcher in Nasa s inventory the Atlas Centaur was grounded pending the Delta investigation leaving the United slates with no Way to launch heavy payloads. In the West Only the unmanned French ariane rocket was still on flight status. But an ariane launched May 31 was destroyed when its third stage failed to  with Arian space the Agency that markets the european rocket said no manufacturing defects have turned up in the ariane and that the ignition sys killer 13, sentenced to prison Greenville . Up an attorney for a 13-year-old boy convicted of murder says a civil liberties group May Challenge a state Law that allowed a judge to sentence him to prison. Family court judge r. Kinard Johnson imposed a 30-year sen tence against the unidentified youth thursday. The boy hugged his Mother and cried As he was led from the courtroom. The youth was convicted of the Jan. 9 murder of Kenneth Carroll Giles 59. Details of the crime were sketchy and lawyers refused to discuss the Case. The youth who was certified As a juvenile rather than As an adult in the Case is to begin serving his 30-year sentence in the custody of the state s department of youth services. But under state Law the boy could be transferred from youth services to the corrections department and when he reaches 21 to serve the remainder of his term in prison de sense attorney Stephen Henry said. Henry has maintained that family court judges can Only sen tence a juvenile to serve time until his 21st birthday. Henry said the american civil liberties Union had expressed in Terest in filing an Appeal in the Case. Tern will be beefed up to prevent another failure. In the meantime the program remains grounded. Lindsay said the Titan program is expected to get Back in the air by Early next year. Ross while declining to say when deltas might resume flights said no major redesigns Are required indicating flights could resume within a few months. An Atlas Centaur is scheduled Lor launch from Cape canaveral in late August and Ross said nothing Learned in the Delta investigation would delay those plans. Challenger was doomed by the failure of a joint Between fuel segments in the shuttle s right Side solid propellant rocket. Lindsay said the Titan bum through happened about 5 to 7 inches below a fuel segment joint and that the challenger and Titan failures were unrelated. We found no evidence of solid rocket motor design deficiencies Lindsay said. There is no relationship Between this mishap and either the challenger tragedy last january or the August 1985 loss of another  fuel leak and a Turbo pump failure caused the earlier Titan loss and the destruction of its spy satellite  described the insulation Materi Al at fault in the april failure As very Excel Lent when  he said 940 Titan solid fuel segments had been used in about70 flights with no insulation problems. Ross said the Delia investigators recommended increased Quality control and implementation of redundant backup systems wherever possible. We want to make sure everyone on the program is once again reminded these systems being outgrowths of Early weapons systems Are not very fault tolerant he said. They have Many single Points of  As Honor for Hope Bob Hope trades quips with president the comedian was one of 12 people and mrs. Reagan after receiving the honoured by Reagan it statue of Liber medal of Liberty from the president by ceremonies in new York. Demanding Burger out of the bedroom Gays protest High court ruling new York up thousands of homosexuals marched to the Federal courthouse in Manhattan in protest of the supreme court decision upholding anti sodomy Laws. There were no arrests at the More than four hour rally and March sponsored by the coalition for lesbian and  rights. Officials estimated 2,000 to 3.000 participated in the rally and March. Miss Liberty hangs her head in shame said Raymond Jacobs of the  men s health crisis. She is embarrassed. She is ashamed. The Torch that was delighted must Shine truth into the dark Dank Chambers of the supreme court. There is nothing supreme about the supreme  the noon March marked the final Day of  Pride week and was in Sharp contrast to last sunday s upbeat Parade Down fifth Avenue. At the . District courthouse speakers berated the supreme court s court s 5-4 decision monday that upheld Georgia anti sodomy Law. My Liberty is abridged. Yours May be next one Banner at the Friday Demon stration proclaimed. Burger out of my bedroom said another sign addressed to retiring chief Justice Warren Burger who voted with the majority in the ruling. Privacy for All. Courts out of the bed room read another. Mark Green a candidate for the . Senate against incumbent sen. Alphonse d Amato , pointed out that Blacks were 10 percent when they got the majority of the . Congress to enact a great 1964 civil rights  does the government have the right to police private adult consensual con duct he asked. No yelled the audience. The Church not the state. We alone decided our Fate the marchers chanted As they walked from 7th Avenue and Sheridan Square to Foley Square and the courthouse. The marchers became lost in a throng at Battery Park where thousands Gath ered to watch the tall ships Parade. Police said about 75 demonstrators Man aged to regroup an hour later and March Back Uptown along Greenwich Street. Father receives dead son s kidney Birmingham Ala. A a Man who received a kidney from his dead son says he now feels challenged to encourage others to donate their Organ. Felix Smith or. Of Columbus ga., was recovering Friday from the transplant at University Hospital in Birmingham. Smith 36, who faced life threatening kidney problems was summoned to the Hospital by doctors the Day after his 13 year old son Felix Dean Smith was killed in a wreck on an interstate High Way in Illinois while travelling to a family reunion in Colorado. Smith said the operation has offered him Promise of a healthy life. He also said others should donate organs. First of All if you re not going to be using it somebody else should Smith said in a Telephone interview from his Hospital bed. I want to go into counsel ing maybe that Way 1 can get the Mes Sage  Smith said receiving an Organ from his son is certainly very special to  Smith said he had worked As a technician in a substance abuse unit at a col Umbus Hospital before he was sidelined from his Job by his kidney problems in december. He said he now wants to re turn to work with Hospital patients but As a Counselor. After doctors informed him in Decem Ber that he had kidney problems and might be a Prospect for a transplant. Smith said he checked with his relatives in an unsuccessful search for someone with a blood Type to match his rare Type b positive. Smith said he never considered his son As a potential donor because of the age difference. Officials in Illinois said Smith s for Mer wife Viviane Day first approved the idea of donating her son s kidney to Smith. A Coroner said the youth was brain dead when he arrived at a Hospital after the wreck. Day was also injured in the wreck and is recovering at a Hospital in mount ver non. 111