European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. May 8. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 embassy laxity could be punishable Washington a a presidential panel investigating Security at the . Embassy in Moscow May recommend disciplinary action against americans found to have have been lax in intelligence mutters there commission members said wednesday. If we find Hal something needs to be done immediately we will make that known to the Secretary of state said John Vessey former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a member of the panel. Commit Ion chairman Melvin Laird a former de sense Secretary said the panel will Complete its work within 90 Days and if there Are flagrant violations. Certainly will Point that out in our  our responsibility is to find out what Well wrong and How to improve Security in the soviet Union and to Lake a look at. What went wrong Laird told a news conference marking the first Day of the panel s work. Also attending were Vessey and the other two members of the commission former Cia chief Rich Ard Helms and Diego Asencio a former ambassador to Brazil and Colombia. The Washington landscape is crowded with administration and congressional panels reviewing Security in Moscow in the Wake of allegations that Marine guards were seduced by soviet women and allegedly allowed Kab agents to roam the embassy at night. The Senate intelligence committee after reviewing allegations that soviet workers put listening devices into precast Concrete beams incorporated into the Structure of new . Embassy offices in Moscow recommended that the building be torn Down. The Senate foreign affairs committee also has held hearings on embassy Security in Moscow and a commis Sion headed by James Schlesinger the former Cia chief and defense Secretary is trying to determine whether the unoccupied Structure should be demolished. Laird said that his commission is not looking into he new building. In another investigation the House foreign affairs subcommittee on overseas operations headed by rep. Dan Mica d-fla., is pressing the state department for details of love affairs Between soviets and americans other than the marines at the . Embassy in mos cow congressional sources said. Defense attorneys for two marines accused of allow ing the Kab into the old embassy offices say the government s Case is weak. Administration officials believe the soviets used the Chance to learn communications codes and the name of some russian working with . Intelligence widow of challenger co Pilot Iron workers files $1.5 billion negligence suit in bost011 refuse lift slab projects w1nston-Salem, . Up the widow of challenger co Pilot Michael Smith wednesday filed a if.5 billion lawsuit charging three defendants with extreme negligence in he shuttle explosion that killed Smith and six other astronauts. The lawsuit by Jane Smith was filed against the . Government Morion Thi Okol inc., and Lawrence mul Loy director or the space Agency s solid rocket Booster program at the time of Lite Jan. 28, 1966, Challenge Accident. In lie wit filed in . District court in Orlando fla., Smith asks for $300 million in actual damages from the three defendants and an additional is billion in punitive damages from Morton Thi Okol the maker of the Booster rocket that ruptured 73 seconds after Blastoff and doomed challenger. The lawsuit requests an injunction to permanently bar Morton Thi Okol from further work in the shuttle program. The Booster that doomed challenger failed when a joint Between two solid fuel segments rup tured. Killed aboard challenger were commander Francis Dick Scobee co Pilot Smith Ronald Mcnair Judith Resnik Ellison Onizuka civilian Engineer Gregory Jarvis and new Hampshire school teacher . Marc oses contempt charges upheld Ion. A a a Federal appeals panel Day upheld a contempt order against former i i a president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife for refining to submit documents to a grand jury. But the ruling by a three judge panel of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals did not apply 10 the refusal by Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos to testify before the Federal grand jury in Alexandria a. The Marc oses have been living in Hawaii since february 1986, when the philippine Leader was replaced by Corazon Aquino As president. The Federal grand jury investigating possible corruption in arms contracts Between . Companies and the Philippines subpoenaed the Marc oses in january to testify and to provide documents. The couple tried w quash the subpoenas under the head of stale immunity doctrine that protects National Sands of time leaders from a foreign country s courts. But on feb. 3, the Aquino government in the Philippines waived the Marc oses immunity from sub Poe Naes. A week later . District judge Claude m. Hil Tou denied the couple s motion. The Marc oses were cited for contempt after their attorney said they would refuse to produce the documents. They were ordered confined but thai order was stayed pending Appeal. The Richmond based appeals panel in its unanimous ruling affirming Hilton s contempt order concluded the immunity doctrine was. Created to resp Cal National sovereignty a Goat that would be undermined by opposing the Aquino government s wishes. Our View is that head of Suie immunity is primary in an attribute of stale sovereignty not an individual Light the panel said. Boston a the Iron workers Union in g real or Boston says its members won t work on lift slab construction projects while Concrete floors Are lifted into place. The lifting procedure is believed to have led to the building collapse that killed 28 workers in Bridgeport,conn., two weeks ago. We re not going to let our Guys go underneath unsecured Concrete until we find out what happened in Bridgeport Robert Banks a business agent for local 7 of the Iron workers Union said tuesday. The contractor in Connecticut was using the lift slab technique in which Concrete floors Are poured on the ground around steel columns then hoisted up to Var ious locations on the columns to eventually form the building s floors. The slabs each weighed 324 ions. The workers in Bridgeport were believed to be in the process of moving several such slabs at the time of in collapse. Federal and private investigators have Yel to pin Point the cause of the Bridgeport collapse. Such a de termination May be months away they  Union s action. Banks said will affect Only one Job in the Boston area an 84-unil condominium project in Watertown. Telstar corp. Of san Antonio Texas which has the construction contract to raise the slabs on the Waler town site has agreed 10 Union demands to pull Iron workers off the Job when the slabs Are being  said. However officials of telstar both in Massachusetts and Texas told the Boston Globe tuesday they had no knowledge of the Union s position. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 8,1947 an official in Canberra Australia said most of the country s Koala bears would remain in Australia despite requests for them from Many pans of the world. 30 years ago today.,. May 8, 1957 sen. Harry of Byrd d-va., re enacting the Boston Tea puny struck 6 Toma Hawk blow at president Eisenhower s budget. He and 24 others dressed As indians dumped three dozen big empty Cartons into Boston Harbor from a two masted Schooner to show their resentment toward Eisenhower s j7l.8-billion budget 20 years ago today. May 8, 1967 according to a government sponsored study an increasing number of the 40,000 new pilots hired by . Airlines by 1980 could come directly from College campuses. 10 years ago today. May 8, 1977" the . Food and drug administration chief said the government would continue to bust manufacturers of the controversial cancer drug laetrile no matter what the latest hearing showed about its merits. Lost Titan 2 taken from Arkansas silo Judsonia Ark. A Eva Rich never thought the air Force would fire the nuclear lipped Titan 2 missile that rested in readiness for 25 year across Arkansas 371 from her Pink farmhouse. She was right. Site 373-8 died quietly this week not in a blast of unspeakable fury but As the strategic air come deactivated the last of the titans. I never thought they d Light that fuse said Rich 84. That would be like a big bully picking on a Little Guy. The United slates is a neighbor to  on wednesday heavy lifting equipment rolled up to the silo which is surrounded by an 8-foot Fence topped by barbed wire. There was still Security and signs warned people to slay away. Uniformed crewmen escorted the machinery toward the Only visible components of the aging silo a 740-ton Concrete and steel door and a Maze of antennas. The silo s four member Crew had already returned to utile Rock fab in Jacksonville where the airmen got the traditional hosing Down Given to All Crew members on their last Day in a missile silo. The Judsonia silo contained the nation s last operational Titan 2, a 103-foot missile that stood vertically in a Concrete tube sunk 165 feet into a pasture. Col. William h. Gibson vice commander of the 308th strategic missile Wing Al the base has worked in the Tilan 2 program since 1972 and has nothing hut Good things to say about it. It has been a strategic  Gibson said. I think that the fact thai we have maintained peace for the last 40 years in important and Titan bus been a pan  but the Tilan has become obsolete slowly surren Dering its front line position in the nation s arsenate to the likes of cruise missiles and by bombers which were described by Gibson As just More Modem  the Titan 2, Gibson added was state of the Art in its Day but that was in the 1950s. The Titan was phased out As pan of president Rea Gan s military modernization drive. Gibson said the missiles Are being shipped to Norton fab in califor Nia and eventually will be used for putting Small satellites in orbit. As for the silo it will be left open for six months giving the soviets an Opportunity granted to them by treaty to photograph it from surveillance satellites and confirm in is no longer in use. Then the silo will be permanently capped with Concrete. The Little Rock base once was Hub to a Semi Circle of 18 Tilan 2 silos in North Central Arkansas. Similar than 2 wings were located near Davis Monthan fab in Arizona and Mcconnell fab in Kansas. Gibson said tuesday was the first Lime in 25 years dial a Titan 2 missile has not guarded  one of the missiles in the state was taken out of service and nol replaced after an explosion sept. 19, 1980, in which one crewman was killed and 21 were injured near Damascus. The blast left a 250-fool-wide Crater and spit the missile s nine megaton nuclear War heard harmlessly 200 feet from the silo. There have been other incidents involving the Titan 2s, such As fuel leaks and spurts of vapor that prompted Brief evacuations