European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 29. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 panel to review latest rocket failure decision to launch during rainstorm criticized Cape canaveral Fla. Lap the head of review Hoard 11 ready id begin an investigation into the lost of a $78 million rocket and an js3 million Mili tary communication satellite that has prompted Cril i cts Over their rain drenched launch. Jon r. Bucu director of flight Assurance at god Dard space flight Center in Maryland scheduled Alda Lemoon meeting saturday with a Kennedy space Center team that hat been conducting a preliminary probe Busse and hit nine member Board arc to begin formal investigation tuesday analysing radio data photograph and other evidence impounded by Nasa after the Atlas Centaur rocket shot off course thurs. Day and was destroyed by a radio signal to keep it away from populated areas rear adm. Richard truly Nasa s associate administrator for space flight selected he review Board and said Al included experts in structures electronics Rock ets and weather and lightning research. The rocket was launched in a rainstorm and a videotape released by the space Agency clearly shows a lightning Boll streaking from the area where the rocket vanished in the Clouds. The Bolt hit near the Launchpad 50 so Condo after liftoff one second before the vehicle was destroyed. Fiery debris fell into the Atlantic just offshore. Sev eral pieces washed ashore and Are being examined. Launch director James l. Womack and other launch officials said All weather constraints for the launch were met. Including a report that there was no Light Ning within live Miles of the launch pad or the rocket s path. We did t consider we were taking a risk said John w. Bibb chief of Nasa s Atlas Centaur office. Former Nasa officials questioned the decision to launch at a time when the Agency says it is taking conservative approach to safely As a result of the space shuttle challenger explosion that kilted seven Crew Mere person Jan. 28,1986. What Are they doing asked Milton Silveira who retired recently As Nasa s chief Engineer. If you gel into a situation like that you get charged particles in the air. You re making yourself a great big target for of lightning  Walter Kapryn launch director during the Apollo Man to the Moon program said it was poor judgment to launch under such condiiioni.". There Are rules for launching but sometimes you have to use common sense in following those rules he said an electrical engineering professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville Martin Uman said Nasa can t be criticized simply for launching the rocket when the skies were filled with Tow Clouds. There Are some kinds of rain Clouds you can fire into with no problem he said. He said Nasa uses a magnetic direction finding system or Field Mills which record electrical Fields to select lightning in the area they have enough instrumentation if property read to know when a situation is Safe or not Safe he said. I Don t think anybody knows exactly what happened but certainly the information will show whether somebody did something stupid or whether the instruments weren t properly read or whether the instruments  one won one lost a. Up photos Diane Joyce sealed at the microphone u a dispatcher for a California county Highway department prevailed last week Over Paul e. Johnson in a supreme court Case that tested affirmative action programs Johnson had higher qualifications for he Job but Joyce got the promotion in 1980. The High court said employers May Dis Criminate in a woman s Tarot to help even the balance Between the a i higher ranking jobs. Underground editors fighting ban on paper Miami a four High school Stu dents have been ordered to Stop publish ing an underground newspaper that has featured an ugliest administrator poll and poked fun at athletes and cafeteria food. We re not against Freedom of speech said Carl Manzelli. Assistant principal of Palmetto High school. My objection is that it is not sanctioned condoned sponsored or supervised they broke the rules. We told them to  Mark Goodman executive director of the student press Law Center in Washington d.c., said the school May be on shaky Legal ground unless the school can prove the paper has caused a substantial disruption. Manzelli has had the students in his office twice in recent weeks and plans conferences with their parents Over the paper called Elmarko for a Brand of Felt tip Marker. They Are very Bright if misdirected boys who said they Felt they had a right to express themselves Manzelli said. We re going to keep publishing promised editor Matthew Hurtgen 17. Then we be got a problem said Pete Bucholz the school s principal. Me has threatened to discipline the students but Wilt not disclose what action he has in mind. Elmarko was distributed for the first time in october when about 400copies were slipped into lockers before classes one morning. With the november edition students who wanted a subscription were told to write paint or embed an e on the front of your locker prompting a flood of e s on lockers doors and Waits. Perhaps the school could punish them for requesting vandalism of lock ers Goodman said. The paper has satirized a cheerful Stu Dent who makes the morning announce ments athletes who patrol school Park ing tots and the official school newspaper the Panther. The Panther ran an editorial in sup port of Elmarko on feb. 13, but suggested its Content was degenerating from cleverness to slander. Everybody thought it was cute and Bakker Hahn Tell different stories f i. I re i. I " Sec Wiuf a coff one night stand in Florida Motel pens on protest they got a Little too  the latest Issue contained profanity and a Story on girls bathrooms. 16 arrested in Steelworker by the associated press Jim Bakker and Jessica Hahn each claimed Friday that the other was the seducer in their one night sexual encounter and Hahn j adviser claimed that she succumbed to drugged wine. Jessica says she had sex with Bakker after her wine was drugged and she was incapable of firmly resisting Paul Roper said in los Angeles meanwhile Bakker s successor As head of the pal organization the Rev. Richard Dortch faced accusations of conflict of interest because he is involved in investigating a financial settlement which he reportedly helped arrange for the woman. Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart said Dortch should resign. Dortch s pentecostal denomination the assemblies of cod said Friday that he has offered his resignation. Hahn was introduced to Bakker by John Wesley Fletcher a former Assem Blies of cod minister now based in okla homa City Roper said. As a teen Ager Hahn worked for Fletcher As a baby Sitter Roper said. Fletcher said he introduced Hahn to Bakker on dec. 6, 1980. There is Noth ing wrong with that he said. Nowhere in the Bible is it written thou shall no introduce one another " Belcher was dismissed from Assem Blies of cod several years ago for some kind of ministerial misconduct Church spokesman Terry Terrell said. Hahn in a Brief interview Friday at her West Babylon n.y., Home refuse to comment on any particulars. Bakker described himself to a Pente costal columnist As confused and fright ened after his encounter with Hahn who appeared to him to know All the tricks of the  Roper however earlier portrayed her As feeling discarded like a piece of hamburger somebody throwout in the  in los Angeles Swaggart said he personally approached Dortch before the scandal broke and that Dortch assured him there was nothing to it Richard Dortch was involved in a coverup Swaggart said at a news con Ference. A thin the should step  Dortch As a member of the new Board chaired by the Rev. Jerry Falwell will be involved in the Board s probe of the one night stand at a Florida Motel and of payments that Hahn received. Bakker resigned from pal ministries on March 19, confessing his infidelity but claiming he was set up by Treacher Ous former friends and that he was now being blackmailed. He asked Falwell to step in to direct the pal Board. The Rev. 0. Raymond Carlson general superintendent of the assemblies of god said thursday that the Church found no Evi Dence that Bokker was be ing blackmailed. Ally Nippa a. A sixteen people including two clergymen were charged with disorderly conduct after protesting the loss of pension benefits for retired steel workers. I had to arrest my own priest Howdy you like Piatt said officer George David who dragged the Rev. Jay Geislor from the main Gate of the Ltd steel  when he refused to move. He gives me communion on  protesters had ignored orders to disperse after kneeling around a car that Cisler had parked near the Plant Entrance. District Justice Peter Loschiavo expressed sympathy for attempts to restore supplemental retirement payments of$400 a month that were lost when Ltd filed for Protection under chapter i i of the Federal bankruptcy code. But he told the group to Slop the protests which have been taking place for two months