European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. February 28, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 5 Nasa Delta rocket boosts weather satellite into orbit App Ola a to purity he Kopler Flics around the goes-7 satellite sitting on a Delia rocket before liftoff at Cipe Canavy Cape canaveral Fla. A a powerful Delia rocket roared skyward at ii Light thursday and boosted into orbit a �55 million weather satellite in tended to fill a critical surveillance void in the coming Hurricane season. It was the sixth straight space launch Success for the United states. The three stage rocket blazed aloft on schedule at 605 . Briefly illumine cd the sky and quickly Dis appeared behind a Low Cloud Bank. Thirty five minutes after liftoff Nasa launch commentator George Diller reported the rocket had done its Job and propelled the goes-1 satellite into a highly elliptical Transfer orbit ranging from about 140 Miles to 26,150 Miles above he Earth. We be got a satellite proceeding on its own and it appears to be in Good health Diller said. We have had a flawless countdown and a flawless  on saturday an inboard motor is to be fired by ground command to arrest the satellite in stationary orbit 22,240 Miles above the Atlantic Ocean. The successful launch continued a string of space successes that began in september when another Delta rocket boosted a military payload into orbit. Since then. Alias Atlas Centaur scout and Titan 3b rockets All have orbited satellites. These flights followed a disastrous 1986 Start for the . Space program. The space shuttle challenger is plod cd Jan. 28, killing its Crew of seven. A Titan 34d exploded april 18 and a Delia failed m by 3. Goes-7, which stands for geostationary operational environmental satellite is to join the already orbiting goes-6 to form a fully operational network to keep an Eye on weather patterns in a area stretching from the Eastern Atlantic to the mid Pacific. The goes satellites provide the familiar Cloud cover patterns seen in daily newspapers and on television weather shows. Goes-7 a intended to replace goes-5, which lost its ability to transmit Cloud cover pictures nearly three years ago culling in hair the nation s weather watch capability from stationary orbit. A Delta rocket that failed last May also carried a goes satellite that was to have replaced the disabled spacecraft. That failure was blamed on an electrical fault which was corrected. Normally two fixed weather satellites arc Over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans looking at the United Stales from East and West. But after the failure of goes-5, goes-6 was mane Vered from the Pacific to a Point South of Texas to cover All of the uni cd slates from a Central location. In that location goes-6 is unable to photograph storm systems in the Central Pacific or Survey the at lactic off the West coast of Africa where Many Hurri canes form before heading for the United slates. If goes-7 successfully reaches ils outpost Over the Atlantic its win will be shifted Back to the Pacific. Owner of killer dogs Given five years in prison Decatur a. Of f a Man whose three pit Bull terriers killed a 4 year old boy trying to Cross the Man s Lawn was convicted thursday of involuntary manslaughter. Superior court judge James weeks sentenced Hayward turnips cd to the maximum 10-year prison sentence with five years suspended in favor of Proba Tion. The jury Deli Crati j about 2w hours in the nov. 21 Daili of Billy Ray Gor Don jr., who was mauled while trying to run from the animals. The boy s companion an i Lycar old girl escaped injury by falling to the ground and remaining motionless police said this child met the most horrible death imaginable it s difficult to get out of mind said weeks. I m sorry in happened Turnipseed 25, told weeks before hearing the sen tence. Weeks stipulated that Turnipseed could not have pets during the probation period. The dogs were taken to the Dekalb county animal shelter where one died apparently of natural causes. Weeks also ordered Turnipseed held in lieu of $20,000 Bond pending an a peal. District attorney Bob Wilson in Clos ing arguments conceded that Turnipseed did not intend for the youth to be killed but said the dogs were free to come and go As they liked and there had been a history of complaints by neighbors Al Turnipseed s arraignment in de Cember Wilson said police had to shoot and kill two of Tumi paced s dogs in 1985 after officers were attacked when responding to a report that the animals were chasing children. Defense attorney Donald Samuel con ceded turnip seeds dogs had run Loose 12 or 14 limes Over the past three years. But he said children in the neighbourhood were not afraid of the dogs. He said the dogs had never killed be fore and had not been trained to kill. He said police had issued no citations in pre Vious complaints from neighbors. All service Hospital ship begins philippine Mission san Diego a the Nalion s first Hospital ship stalled by personnel from the Navy army air Force and Public health service was to embark on its first voyage Friday a six month deployment through out the South Pacific. More than 600 men and women Are staffing the 1,000-bed Hospital ship mercy a former supertanker converted by the National steel & shipbuilding co. The Mission was ordered by president Reagan As part of an Aid package promised to philippine presi Dent Corazon Aquino last year. The first Stop will be at Subie Bay where the ship is scheduled to arrive March 18. It will then Start a Cycle of 10-Day Calls at six other philippine ports. We cup eco to treat 750 to 1,000 patients a Day said cmdr. Deborah Burn Lac the ship s Public affairs officer. Burnetta said the philippine work is the first phase of an assignment that could take the mercy to other South Pacific areas. One of those aboard is air Force senior airman Kimberly Lepori. As a girl i dreamed of doing something meaningful in the peace corps Lepori said. This was a Chance to put my a Ray training to humanitarian work and i volunteered the mercy will not be escorted by armed . Ships and is not fully staffed by the Range of specialists in would take if it were going into a combat zone. It has no Scuro surgeons cardiac surgeons or psychiatrists but family practice physicians and a gynaecologist Are aboard. A Ward for Battle casualties is being fitted with baby cribs and incubators. Al Subic Bay a contingent of 55 philippine doctors nurses and medical technicians will Board the ship. We will have six Mobile units working ashore at each Pon said Navy capt. John Matheson head of the mercy s denial department. It s going 10 be o training experience for us and a training experience Tor philippine denial personnel. 7-year-old boy recovering after receiving new liver Pittsburgh a seven year old Ronnie de Sillers who won the sup port of president Reagan and thousands of others continued his recovery from liver transplant surgery thursday losing some of the yellow color that marked his Long illness. So far everything looks Good said Lynn Mcmahon spokeswoman for Chil Dren s Hospital of Pittsburgh where Ronnie was in critical but stable Condi Tion in the surgical intensive care unit. He s Row Able to talk but very softly. He told his Mother that he is ready to leave the intensive care unit and go Back to his room but he probably has another week or so to spend there Mcmilion said. The Miami boy. Who had suffered from defective liver duels received a new liver during a 12-hour operation that ended wednesday morning. Mcmahon said doctors removed his ventilator for breathing within 12 hours after surgery. Ronnie s Case received National alien lion after reports two weeks ago that $4,000 was stolen from his Florida medi Cal fund. President and Nancy Reagan gave ,000 and sent an autographed photograph which Hospital officials say Ronnie keeps at his Side. The boy s yellow color typical ofor Var patients was said to be fading according to those who have seen him. Sex ambassador Dies Philadelphia a Fredric r. Mann a . Ambassador to Barbados died thursday in a Miami Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was 83.  in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 28, 1947 former president Herbert Hoover proposed s951 million in supplementary exports to Germany to overcome starvation in he Anglo american zones. Hoover also recommended the establishment of soup kitchens to feed 3.5 million children a German operated Supply Fleck of 75 ships and increased rations for about 18 million germans 30 years ago today., feb. 28, 1957 the . Stale department disclosed thai it was calling Home its minister to Hungary Edward t. Wails. Wailes rejected accusations made against him in a demand by the hungarian communist regime for his removal. 20 years ago today. Feb. 28, 1967 . Navy planes started sowing mines in Rivers of North Vietnam in a third increase of military pressure on the Hanoi government. 0 years ago today. ,. Feb. 28, 1977 Uganda warned us cilia cons to be prepared for an american invasion Weihin 24 hours and delayed an Assembly president Idi Anion Hud ordered Wilh the 175-Membcr american Community there