European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 9, 1687 the stars and stripes -. If1 wrong turn nearly ends Biden s bid Des Moines. Iowa Lipf sen. Joseph Biden. A Del who is expected to seek the democratic presidential nomination in 1988, took a wrong Lurn and wound pred faced among several Naif dressed swimsuit could see my whole political future going Down the Drain bide said when asked about the incident. I said Mocol sover already Biden had been looking for the Entrance to maxwells a do Moine restaurant where he was to Dine with about 40 party activists when he accidentally walked into a dressing room for models who were appear ing in a swi Tsuu show in the mall that houses the Biden stayed for Only a few seconds he said his political future flashed in front of me and he recalled an Iowa senator whose career ended . The first thing i thought was of my cod. It s Roger Jepsen All Over again,1" Biden said. Jepsen a Republican lost hit re election bid in 1984 after it was revealed that he had membership in a pcs Moines sex spa. Biden who apologized to the startled models and backed out of the room added that he was glad no photographers were present. That would have been All i needed he said. , must continue to pursue destiny in space says Glenn scout campfire causes 17 injuries lewisv1lle. Tas a Eames erupted from a boy scout campfire and spread to surrounding grass and Brus saturday injuring 13 youngsters and four firefighters authorities flames spread As members of troop 223 were building the fire to pre pare lunch at the scout Camp about five Miles West of Lewisville said assistant scoutmaster Matt Hubbard. The Blaze consumed about so acres of grass and Brush before firefighters brought it under control officials said. Cape canaveral a sen. John Glenn the first american to orbit the Earth told a gathering saturday marking the Kennedy space Center s 2slh anniversary that the United state must continue to pursue Iti destiny in space Glenn. A Ohio spoke to about 1,000people, including astronauts and current and former space Center workers at ceremony to commemorate the March 7, 1962, opening of the facility. Glenn flew the nation s first Orbital flight on feb. 20, 1962, Days before the opening. Seven years later Man s firs Landing on the Moon was launched from the facility. Twenty five years from now i wan America to be first in space Glenn said. Being first is the Only Way to de sign our destiny he said the Jan. 28, 1986. Challenger disaster was a tragedy thai paid for the feeling thai the program was infallible because of the Triumph after Triumph after Triumph that preceded in. But he said the human error thai caused in should not interrupt research or flights into space. The space Center is on Merrill Island across the banana River from the Cape canaveral air Force station where the earliest manned , space nights originated. The facility is on 140,000 acres no valued at about 1830 million undeveloped according to local real estate experts. The government originally paid $71 million Tor 84,000 acres of the land and the rest was donated by the state of Florida the first manned launch from the Cen Ter was Apollo Viii during which Frank Borman James Lovell and William and ers became the first men to orbit the Moon. The Crew orbiting Between dec,21 and 27, 1968, captured America s at Tention by Reading passages from the Bible on Christmas eve from the same site the United stale landed 12 men on the moan orbited Crews in the Sec lab space missions an finally launched the space shuttles. Prior to the challenger flight the Cen Ter had had 24 successful manned mis events after challenger Jan.28,19bsqialengar i launched at 10 38 . After a night or freezing cold. The shuttle explodes 73 seconds after liftoff. Feb. 3president Reagan names former Secretary of state Wilton p. Rogers and former astronaut Nell Armstrong to Lead a. Presidential the and Deal no. 10morton Allan Mcdonald manager of the Booster rocket motor project Tats commission that he end other of rep try engineers had feared Odd weather would cause the Booster Rockst joints to leak. Fab. 16rogers says Nasa process May Nave been flawed because senior Nuner officiate had not been add of objections to the launch by Mortonn Ocol eng Meera. June 9rogers says cauda of the a oddest Cwb leaking Seal in Toht Nasa end recognized the Booster Seal As problem report says but came to treat As an accept taboo fight i Duda Rod Aslyn of the Booster Bohrat a change in management Structure efforts to provide a Crew Recap system a rom mat Otic Fly Jet rate. Jury 2�a Nasa report say some of the astronauts May Nave been Alve and perhaps conscious during some of the Crew Cabin s Fai. Aug. 15 present Reagan beets development of a Cha Tenger replacement aug. Aft search f or remains Ofchar Tenover and its Crew ends. Ocia Nasa announces the next shuttle fight i be launched. Source inc ago try co not noon Slons. There have been 2,381 major launches including manned flights satellites and weapons tests. Rep. Bill Nelson d-fla., flew on thelast successful shuttle Mission and in re Marks saturday he recalled the words of teacher Christa Mcauliffe who died on the challenger. Exploring space is part of our nature As we Are discoverers and explorers who went West and then to a new Frontier Upin the heavens said Nelson. Chrism said it Well when she declared we just have to continue to reach the stars " officers criticize paroles for inmates with aids new York a parole officers Are critical of a slate policy that has Given paroles to about so prison inmates with aids for humanitarian Rea sons. Of course Many of the parolees Are going Mohave sex and no parole officer is going to be Able to Slop them George to Roensch president of the900-Merober new York suite parole officers association told the new York Early release policy adopted two years ago is justified because it docs no Good to Force inmate with confirmed cases of aids to spend their remain ing Days alive languishing in prison said Edward Elwin director of the slate division of on our experience the risk of these men infecting others in the Community is minimal he said adding thai Only those who showed Strong predictions of Good behaviour were being for a bizarre Case in Albany in which a released inmate took advantage of a woman we know of no Case in which a parolee with aids went hog wild with women or went around sharing Needles he said. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is mos frequently spread through sexual Contact or through the use of dirty Needles by intravenous drug users. It is the leading cause of death among the 37,000 in mates in state prisons rising from three deaths in 1982 to 124 last said More prisoners would have been re leased Hud they not died before their cases we reconsidered. However parole officers said they worried about the families of the released prisoners because the officers arc barred by slate and Federal Laws fro warning the families about the risks. Torodash said to Iii if he were faced with Danalds inf cycled parolee who was having sex he would violate the confidentiality taws and Tell the family. Reagan blames soviets for continued tensions Washington up president Reagan warned saturday that Easl Wisl tensions will continue As Long As the so Viets keep supporting regimes in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and shipping Armilo third world communists. In his weekly radio address one Day after lie announced that Secretary of slate George Shultz would go to Moscow next month for talks that could Lead to an arms control agreement and a sum Mit Reagan assailed the Kremlin for its seven year occupation of Afghanistan and its Aid to that his four Point Agenda for improving relations with to soviet includes arms control human rights a coptic to pc pc exchanges and regional issues Reagan conceded in the last few months we be seen movement in Sam of these but he said he was particularly disappointed in the failure to resolve the regional soviets continue to occupy Afghanistan. They continue to Supply Bil Lions of dollars Worth of weapons to re Gimes like Libya. Syria Cuba Nicaragua Vietnam Ethiopia South Yemen and Angola and the pales line liberation organization he said. As Long As the soviets keep this tensions will continue Rea Gan said and hat s Why it is in the interest of world peace to convince the soviets to Stop in he said peace cannot come to Afghanistan until the soviets withdraw More than 100,000 troops stationed there and allow a government that enjoys the authentic support and Confidence of the afghan he said a peaceful solution to Nicara Gua depends an the sandinista govern ment negotiating with the contras sup ported by the United Stales. Reagan who asked Congress last a to release a second $40 million install ment of military and economic Aid to the contras approved last year said to abandon Mem would be to betray our own
