European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. July 29,1986 of urges Mot Balling shuttle facility Vonc Enberg Complex May Nof be needed until 91, Magazine says Cape canaveral Fla up in inc Wake of the challenger disaster the air Force has recommended Mot Balling its j3.3 billion West coast shuttle launch Complex until at least 1991. Aviation week & space technology Magazine re ported monday. The Magazine also said air Force . Forrest Mccartney commander of the air Force space division will re place Richard Smith As director of he Kennedy space Center. Smith s retire ment becomes effective aug. 1 but Nasa had no comment monday on who might replace him. Before the challenger Accident inc air Force had been gearing up for a july 1986 shuttle launch from Vandnberg fab Calif from Vandnberg shuttles can be launched into orbits around Earth s poles a crucial consideration for spy satellites because such orbits allow them to observe the entire planet Asil spins below. Shuttles launched from he Kennedy space Center cannot achieve such orbits without flying Over populated areas Dur ing ascent. Aviation week said air Force Secre tary Edward Aldridge made the recommendation to Mothball the West coast shuttle facility to defense Secretary Cas Par Weinberger based on the perceived need to concentrate the remaining three shuttles in Nasa s Fleet Al inc Kennedy space Center. The Magazine said Aldridge s recommendation called for Moth fling Inci facility until at least 1991 and possibly longer. To utilize Vandnberg a shuttle would have la be based in California for extended periods when it could be used for missions launching from Florida. With Only a three orbiter Fleet space managers believe it makes More sense to concentrate those vehicles on night operations from Kennedy space Center  he Magazine Saia. In inc Wake of the challenger Acci Dent there also arc space shuttle solid rocket Booster and main engine thrust level safety issues that must be addressed before heavy military payloads Pri Marily imaging reconnaissance satellites could be launched from Vandnberg. The use of Vandenburg for military shuttle operations depends in Nan on a decision to replace challenger but so far the Reagan administration has not announced ils intentions on proceeding with such a project. A new Shudolc could not be built and readied for flight before the end of the decade at which time Nasa could More easily afford to base a shuttle at Vanden Berg for extended periods. Appolo Good morning Ortega Nica Guan president Daniel Ortega Oft poses for Good morning America Host David Hart uni in the program s studio Ortega is id address the United nations tuesday to seek support for a world court ruling that found is. A to Contra guerrillas illegal. Ortega s translator Alejandro Bendana is Al Center. . Grace firm ruled responsible for Well paintings Boston a a Federal jury decided monday that . Grace co. Was responsible for hazardous waste contamination of two drinking Wells in Woburn where six people have died of leukaemia. The jury cleared Beatrice foods co of liability. Both companies had been accused of causing the contamination which eight families in the industrialized suburb said caused sickness and death. The verdict was the first of three to be rendered in the Case. Now thai responsibility for the contamination has been placed a second proceeding will be held sept. 15 with the same jury to decide if inc contamination caused the leukaemia. After that a third trial could be held to assess damages. The Case has been perceived As a precedent setter for hundreds of similar cases nationwide involving allegations that industries discharge wastes that cause illness and death. The jurors had deliberated for seven Days before recessing for the weekend. , Grace based in new York and Chicago based Beatrice went on trial March 10. The jury saw about450 charts graphs and other exhibits and heard 45 witnesses including Plant employees geologist an hydrologists experts who study inc movement of water both above ground and underground. There s so much evidence accumulated that it is very hard for a group of people to digest All the information said Jan a Schlichtmann the plaintiffs Lead attorney. When the jurors reported thursday that they were deadlocked . District judge Waller Jay Sec inner urged them to continue. The jury has some sharply contrasting expert testimony to consider. 1 can understand their quandary said Grace attorney Jan i Brown. One Guy says yes one Guy says no. One Guy Sayi Black one Guy says  what Hya have Paw stage by Sei Drinkard d etch kind of Bow liquor soles continue decline in . New York up americans drank less alcohol last year for the sixth year in a Row and appear to be shunning the hard stuff in favor of Sweet liqueurs and cordials an annual report released monday said. Overall consumption of distilled Spir its dropped 1.6 percent in 1985 from156.4 million cases in 1984 to 153.9 Mil lion cases last year said Nicholas fur Totle director of the annual report published by Jobson publishing co., a private marketing group. Furlotte said America s consumption of alcohol Rose steadily from Jobson first report 33 years ago until 1979, when a Peak 166 million cases of liquor were sold in the United states. Since then americans have Bee drinking less hard liquor every year and Furlotte said other surveys have shown that consumption of Beer and wine has levelled off As Well. The decline has been attributed to a surge of health consciousness among Consumers a crackdown on Drunken driving and a 19 percent increase in the Federal excise tax tin liquor that look effect last october it s All added up said Furlotte sales of whiskey alone dropped 7.2 percent last year and tequila Gin and rum also showed losses according to the report which did not take Beer and wine into account. Meanwhile americans drank 4.6 percent More Sweet liqueurs and Cor dials in 1985 than they did the pre Vious year. Californians alone drank 1.6 million eases of the Sweet stuff or about 10 percent of the National total Furlotte said. A slave by state breakdown of the re port shows people in Nevada consumed 4.2 Gallons of liquor per person last year the highest average in the country. New engenders drank 2.47 Gallons of hard liquor per person while Midwest enters imbibed on average 1.64 Gallons each last year. New yorkers and californians were almost even with 1.94 and 1.97 Gallons per capita. Southerners averaged 1.54 Gallons per person. Furlotte said another of the company s surveys has shown a steady decline in the consumption of table wine. But fuelled by the skyrocketing sales of wine coolers Overall wine consumption was up slightly. He said other marketing surveys have shown consumption of Beer the Best Selling alcoholic beverage levelled off two years ago. There Are Many Bright spots in the spirit picture and certainly liqueurs Are one said Douglas Metz vice president of the wine and spirits wholesalers of America a Trade association