European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday july 10,1966 age 28 revered Rickover Dies at 86 Washington not adm. Hyman g. Rick Over the fruity and outspoken naval officer who be came the fall or of the nuclear Navy died tuesday morning at his Home in Arlington a. He was 86 Yean old. The Admiral served As an officer Tor 63 Yean Longe than any other naval officer in american history. Rickover generated controversy on All sides. He at tacked naval bureaucracy ignored red tape lacerated those he considered stupid bullied subordinates and assailed the country s educational system. And he achieved in the production of he nuclear powered submarine in the Early 1950s, what Cornier Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball called the most important piece of development work in the history of the Rickover took the occasion of his retirement to say that both nuclear weapons and nuclear Power should be outlawed. I m not proud or the pan i played he said. Rickover cared Little for protocol tradition or what other people thought of him so Long As he could do has Job. He was detested by his enemies and even his friends admitted that his abrasive personality made him far from a lovable old sea dog. Rickover was not considered Navy by other admirals. Despite his achievement despite the support of people in High civilian places the Navy nearly forced his retirement As a Captain by passing him Over for promotion to rear Admiral. Even after the promotion he was pointedly snubbed on a number of occasions Rickover always insisted that his difficulties with the Navy arose from stuffed shirts who were against anyone with new ideas. He was rarely awed. Once a congressman asked him if he had prepared Tor hearings. Yes Rickover said. I shaved and put on a clean in later years Rickover came to be accepted by his fellow admirals particularly since nuclear Power gave a new global reach to aircraft carriers. Aside from the nuclear Navy one of his lasting legacies will be a new generation of naval officers trained with the Ric overemphasis on detail and Quality control. President Reagan said in a statement that Rickover 5 commitment to excellence and uncompromising Devotion to duty were an integral part of american life for a he called uie Admiral a revered teacher and a talented Public former president Jimmy Carter who served under Rickover As a naval officer issued a tribute in Chicago where he was doing voluntary carpentry. Rickover deplored nuclear Power s use for destruction and As a Pioneer was responsible for its use for peaceful Pur poses Carter said. A Superb Engineer his record Tor careful design installation and operation of nuclear Power plants in ships and on Shore has set an example of safety which can never be the Secretary of the Navy John f. Lehman jr., who ordered Rickover to retire in 1982, said at a news conference that Rickover made a contribution infringing the concept of nuclear Power from a Mere idea 19 the reality of More than i to naval ships today steaming under nuclear Lehman censured Rickover in 1985 for accepting gratuities from general dynamics the submarine builder with which Rickover had quarrelled for years. Adm. Hyman g. Re Kortri the feisty father of the nuclear airy Wili president John f. Kennedy. Tolas of crusty old Rickover from Corker biographers Washington up Here Are some of the stories about adm. Hyman g. Rickover recalled by former president Jimmy Carter or taken from the biography Rickover by Norman Porc i and Thomas b. Allen. Carter named his 1976 Campaign autobiography. Why not the Best after a question Rickover asked him during his interview to join Rickover s nuclear program. Rickover who often challenged and badgered those he would interview for the program asked Carter where be ranked in his naval Academy class and then wanted to know did you do your Best i started to say yes sir but i remembered who this was and recalled several limes i could have Learned More about our allies our enemies weapons strategy and so Forth. I was just human. I finally gulped and said no sir 1 did t always do my Best he looked at me for a Long time and then turned his chair around to end the interview. He asked one final question which i have never been Able to forget or to answer. He said Why not 1 sat there for a while shaken and then slowly left the in 1966, Rickover asked Academy students apply ing for nil program if they were willing to give up Christmas and Spring vacations and All weekends to prepare for nuclear submarines. Academy superintendent James Calvert was peppered with so Many parental complaints that in or dered a discreet inquiry and eventually chief of naval operations Thomas Moorer intervened to Rescue Christmas for the midshipmen. His interviews often Daylong affairs interspersed with banishment to a sparsely furnished Roo known As " he tank for fearful contemplation were sometimes conducted with the applicant seated on chair that pitched Forward because it had shortened front legs. Rickover would Badger and demean the candidate curse at them question their integrity and intelligence and sometimes Call them stupid in 1979, Rickover no great Lover of television agreed to appear on lbs s face the nation but Only the topic were limited to Bis great interest Educa Tion. In fact he threatened to walk off the show if he were asked questions on other topics and a hot topic of the Day was a presidential veto of legislation con Taining Money for a nuclear powered aircraft Carrier. Correspondent George Herman recalled Rickover repealed his threat once the show was on and was israeli official admits crimes in Hijack Case Tel Aviv Israel a the out going chief of Israel s secret service said in a court affidavit tuesday that he committed crimes related to the beating deaths of two palestinian bus i jackets. Avraham shalom made Bis statement in response to supreme court order that he explain Why be asked president Chaim Herzog for immunity from prosecution in the care involving the april 1984 killing of the two palestinians. In my request for a Pardon i Taw a admission of crime. The phrasing of the Pardon request was not meant to provide que justification which nullifies the of sense but to explain the framework i which i acted shalom wrote in tie Dep text of the document and of a similar affidavit by another Shin bet official were circulated by the National slim news Agency and read on Israel other official s name was not revealed for reasons of his Pardon request to a cum read last week in the supreme court shalom said he was being accused of ordering the killing of two hijackers and falsifying Tes Timony Ai subsequent inquiries. In tuesday s affidavit shalom did no specify what crimes he had committed. Boy George sought in dope investigation London Dpi toe brother of pop Star boy George Wai arrested tues Day on a drug conspiracy charge and the linger is wanted for questioning police said. A newspaper Laid the musician had fled to new York. Narcotics police raided boy George two London Homes before Dawn tues Day finding no drugs but saying that the25-year-Olof music video Star May Nave gone into hiding. The daily express newspaper quote Friend As saying that pressure in the form of reports about the use of heroin May have forced boy George to Lake flight. The Hunt was intensified after police tuesday arrested four people including boy George brother Kevin o Dowd,26, on charges of conspiring to provide the linger with heroin. Boy George whose real name i George o Dowd is the Lead Singer of the British pop group culture dub. Kevin o Dowd was quoted last weekly Fri Lii pipers assaying the Singer had an expensive habit and doctors bad warned be Only had weeks to live. The Singer was first reported to have said he was an addict but in recent Day denied it and denounced his brother for speaking in Public. We d fill up the Lime without Rickover s biographers described a typical Day in his office he is about to dictate an answer to an electronics firm when he mutters Hii favorite obscenity those bastards he teaches for a Small rubber stamp and sump pad. He carefully inks the stamp pad presses it in the Middle of the firm s letter re folds the letter and orders that it be mailed Back to the firm the. Stamp in red Ink shows the rear end of i Bone with the word bullshit printed Congress must reduce deficit Reagan says Washington ufos president Reagan responding to the supreme court s rejection of a key provision of the Gramm Rudlun balanced budget Law u urging Congo is to keep it prom ise and work to Cut the Federal deficit Reagan insisted monday that the blah court ruling on Gramm Rudman should change Little but Force con Gress to make the difficult choices 00 budget priorities. The court declared unconstitutional trip provision that empowers the comp troller general an officer of the legs live Branch to order automatic Pend ing cuts to stay within deficit targets if Congress and the administration nil to do so. The court Laid that Section in fringed on executive Power
