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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, November 22, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 an in met astronaut b Carrm to safety during simulated emergency Board the a tattle aurally. Mock emergency on shuttle reveals some breakdowns Cape canaveral Fla. A seven Astro Nauli fled the Buttle Atlantis and scrambled into escape baskets thursday in a mock disaster Drill. The simulation Wai very realistic and Well orchestrated by the people in charge said launch director Gene Thomas. We Learned an awful lot about where improvements can be made especially in our Means of communicating. We had some breakdowns but Overall the exercise was very valuable to  As the astronauts All rookies boarded the Atlantis i fuel leak provoked a major emergency fire and Rescue workers rushed to the pad from their station a mile away. Within la minutes six of them were assisting people on the pad. One ast Maul and three members of the ground Crew Wen tagged by observers As injured or inca  after oxygen masks were affixed they were carried acres a platform to wire baskets at the Cabin level of the pad. 147 feel High. All entered the baskets but did not ride them Down 1,200-foot cables to the ground. Some fed the Swift ride and abrupt halt in nets at the Bottom is risky and should be attempted Only in an emergency. Once on the ground the astronauts were taken in three tank like armoured vehicles to a heliport two Miles away where they received medical treatment. One armoured vehicle had a real breakdown during the trip and its occupants transferred to a Van. Stand ins for the injured were taken by ambulance to a Hospital in Titusville or by helicopter to hospitals in Orlando and Gainesville. The stand ins were Nasa medical personnel who were to evaluate emergency procedures at the Hospital. Thomai said thai in addition to some communications problems and the breakdown of the armoured vehicle one of the helicopter developed a fuel leak and after the exercise ended the launch control Center was unable to shut off the pad water Flushing system probably because of a computer program problem. It was stopped manually by a pad worker. Thursday s Astun Daub none of whom has flown in space were Frank cd Berton. Stephen Oswald car Meade Kathryn Thornton g. David Low Pierre Thuot and Jerome Apt Citadel to form advisory group Charleston.  a the president of the Chadd and Black Leaden angered at a racial hazing met Tutu by and treed to set up an advisory committee for the hate military College. Afterwards the group urged an end to the month Long controversy Over the hazing of a Black Cadet who later resigned. We believe we lie on the Way to meeting the objectives in Heaard to the Kevin Nesmith Modem and urge Allau Zent of Charleston to strengthen our Community and put Fri. Rosa a Hrisi inf Mottl the Rev. Frank Portee of the tube fed United methodist Church. Portee Tad five other ministers and Black Leaden met with James Grimsley or the Chadd prudent. They later announced an by menant bad been reached to aka Bush an advisory committee of school officials alumni and Blade and re pious leaders from across the state. Porte said the group was dropping a earlier  with he Pun the five White cadets entered Nesmith i room in the Middle of he night on oct. 23, chanted obscenities and left behind i charred paper Cross. They were sentenced to 19sajditinaal marching Tours and confined to Campus for the remainder of the school year. Black leaders however said they should have been expelled. Nesmith a freshman resigned laying he was mentally drained by harassment from other cadets following wide spread publicity about the incident Portee said the Black leaders have expressed our con Cern about the breakdown in communications Between the Citadel and the Community at Large and the Blac Community in particular.1 the Rev. James Blake of Morris Brown ame Church said the agreement resolves concerns about the  to a reasonable  however Black tune sen. Herbert Fielding mid. Id ont think. It of Nave been Rrapo Hodr 5ut the a atm has Black Leaden have called on the school to end the inc up Nubani Looe ofte Hugi the football games. They also want to see More nyc police scrap plan for transfers new York a the police commissioner under pressure from the City s officers abandoned plans thursday far Large scale periodic transfers to fifth graft in the 27,200-member Force. The plan had prompted a sin Day police slow Down that saw a reduction in the number of arrests made and summonses issued. Commissioner Benjamin Ward announced in Stead thursday that senior officer Wilt ool be transferred and that officer fresh from the acad Emy will be reassigned after three years and again within the following five Yean. The new plan was worked out after nearly a week of talks with the police Union. I Hope i lift morale. I Hope it works belter than what i decided in the first place Ward said Ward announced the wholesale Transfer on nov. 6 after 13 officers from Brooklyn 77lh precinct were indicted on charges ranging fro official misconduct to jelling guns and drugs. One fifth of the Force was to be reassigned every year for five Yean until All officers had been moved to Mother precinct before the dispute the department had no policy on transfers except those Hal had Bee requested by officers or those Hal had to do with promotions and command assignments. Ward said the new agreement allow for the removal for cause of officer who Volunteer to work late shirt hours. Other officers will be transferred Only within their precincts. Test gives of to global flight Mojave Calif. A the pilots of the voyager experimental air plane were elated after thursday s test flight that showed new aluminium propellers could provide an unexpected margin of safely for their planned non Stop round the world flight. The propellers replaced a wooden prop thai split in a sept. M  piled Dick Rulyn and jeans Yeager soared above tie Mojave desert for nearly 4t4 noun in the lightweight Craft. Weather permitting. Voyager win take off nov. 28 for a in the stars and stripes nov. 22, 1946 in he second series of he Nuernberg War crime trials 23 nazi doctors pleaded inno cent to charges of murdering hundreds in cruel medical experiments. 30 years ago today. Nov. 22, 1956 sixty one refugees from Hungary arrived at Camp Kilmer no. They were the first of at least 5,000 refugees and possibly twice that number offered Asylum by president Eisenhower. 20 years ago today. Nov. 22,1966 Gen. William Westmoreland said the communists were moving to avenge 7,000 troops a month from North to South Vietnam and the rate was Apt to increase. To years ago today. Nov 22,1976 syrian troops of the Arab peace keeping Force brought nearly All of Lebanon under control by weeping into the leftist coastal strongholds of Tripoli and Side. Only the Southern Border Region remained   
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