European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes sunday june 14,1987 my guidance system failure Northrop s Fau of panels told Washington a guidance systems on the last year for telling the air Force that there were prob us iiift1v Misilo an to of of  a which Tyrne in Iho we tntir1tnftt vet fimme nuclear missile Don t work properly because Northrop corp. Was More interested in making Money than it was in building proper computer systems three current or former employees of the defense contractor told Congress on Friday. The hearing by two House armed services subcommittees was the latest round in an investigation into a widely publicized failure on the guidance system forthe 10-warhead my. The guidance systems known As inertial measurement units or Imu Are so fouled up that one third of the 21 my weapons now in ground based silos Are not operational according to testimony. The air Force admits it is dissatisfied with North Rop corp s rate of delivery on guidance systems for the missile but denies it is concerned about the equip ment s Quality or performance. The Imu s performance has never been in ques Tion an air Force statement said Friday. There have been 7 flight tests and 17 successes All highly acc the guidance systems were constructed by North Rop electronics division for the air Force to put atop the my one of the most controversial weapons in president Reagan s defense buildup. Reagan wanted100 of the weapons but Congress Cut the program to 50 missiles. Bryan Hyatt testified that he worked for North Ropas an Engineer for five years until he said he was fired  of forgery or Art Stephen Hoggs displays the Art his drawings of some of the world s currency that got him in trouble with the Law. Boggs 32, of Brandon Fla says he told his patrons it was Art not real Money. British authorities disagree and Boggs who has been charged with counterfeiting bees trial next year. Las lems in the my guidance system. It s a Case of management run amuck said Hyatt. Their interest is greater in delivering the Imus to the air Force than in delivering them to the soviet  later Hyatt said the guidance systems were so fouled up that these missiles stand As much Chance of hitting their targets in the soviet Union As they do of Landing Here in Washington  Hyatt s contentions were supported by Jeff Kroll who is a manager at Northrop and Dave Peterson who worked As an Engineer for the company until last Spring. When Northrop first received the contract for the systems according to Peterson the company did t properly base line the production equipment mean ing that thousands of engineering changes were eventually needed to make the systems work. Because of All the changes Peterson said production fell behind and Northrop eventually decided to setup a Dummy company. Liaison engineering services inc., to handle procurement of the needed parts for the changed systems. Peterson was one of the people picked to run the Dummy firm. John Thome a spokesman for Northrop said these Are serious allegations and we need to wait until All the facts Are in before a judgment is  have already turned out to be false and on others Northrop has already taken corrective  suit filed to keep vet centers open Washington a a veterans group and five members of Congress filed a lawsuit Friday to prevent the Reagan administration from closing eight outreach centers for Vietnam War veterans. The lawsuit filed Here in . District court charges that the veterans administration s plan to close eight centers and move their operations to regu larva hospitals violates the intent of Congress. The a has already closed an outreach Center in Wil Mington Del and plans closings in Rochester ,  Oak Park. Ill Avon mass Sioux Faus . Northedge Calif Houston and Milwaukee. The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order against further closings until oct. 1 or when Congress acts. There Are 188 outreach centers under the program set up in 1979 to give special counselling to Vietnam veterans. Flouting the will of Congress is nothing new to the administration said Robert Miller president of the Vietnam veterans of America which filed the lawsuit they obviously have their own Agenda for dealing with the aftermath of Vietnam which certainly does not include assistance to those who fought there Miller said. The House veterans affairs committee recently passed a Bill requiring a moratorium on the closing of centers. The lawsuit contends closings Are not supposed to begin until oct. I under current Law. The lawsuit also notes that the a missed an april deadline set by Congress for filing a report evaluating the counselling program. World series Chutis freed from a new York a the parachutist who floated into game 6 of the world series is free after three weeks in jail for contempt of court and says he feels kinship with the German teen Ager who landed his tiny plane in red Square. I think i could have a lot of fun with him said to actor Michael Sergio 37. He was released Friday after Federal aviation administration officials asked that his six month sentence be Cut Short. . District judge Henry Bramwell had cited ser Gio for contempt after he refused Faa requests to name the Pilot who flew him Over Shea stadium with out clearance oct. 25 during the new York mets bos ton red sox series. The airspace is in the Landing pattern of Laguardi Airport and aircraft must have permission to enter it. There is one person i would like to meet that s the fellow who flew into red Square Sergio said Friday referring to Mathias rust 19, who was jailed after eluding soviet air defences and Landing his four seater in Moscow on May 28. Sergio said he received 50 letters a Day while in jail. He thanked the thousands of new yorkers who signed petitions in his behalf As Well As sen. Alfonse d Ama to r-n.y., the news Media and the head of the City s police Union for seeking his release. On wednesday Faa administrator Donald d. Engen wrote . Attorney Andrew Maloney that the jail term and too a Day tines were appropriate but that incarceration is unlikely 10 produce the information the Agency wants. Sergio s lawyer Richard Simon said the $2,100 in fines will be paid with Small donations sent to Sergio from scores of people. Stateside smashing $13,000 cello costs teen Cash jail term Duluth Minn. A one of two 15 year Olds charged with smashing a $ 13,000 Colo was sentenced Friday to serve eight months in jail and pay $2,161 in restitution. State District court judge Jack Lilman imposed the sentence on John Slowikowski who had asked to be tried As an adult. He bad pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated Crimi Nal damage to property and one count of Una homed use of a motor vehicle. Slowikowski and another boy were arrested april 11 after Betsy Highland round her purse and cello missing from her car. The cello was found smashed in the Street near her car. Earlier in the evening police said the boys stole a car and crashed it into a Road Barrier. Litman sentenced Slowikowski to eight months in the northeastern regional corrections Center but gave him credit Tor two months already served in the county jail. The restitution covered the amount not Cov ered by insurance. The other boy s Case is pending. Drivers get the message by Brake Light buckle up Livonia Mich. A every Lime they hit the brakes police Are reminding Drivers to fasten their seat belts. In a safety Experiment that began this month about half of Livonia s cruisers hive been equipped with rear Brake lights that say buckle up every time the Driver hits the Brake pedal officers say that Drivers will see the sign Grin and reach Over to sheepishly put on their seat belts said Deputy police chief William Hoff. We be bad a lot of Good  the City which has been described As toughen violators of the state s mandatory scat Belt Law was honoured by Secretary of state Richard Austin for issuing 358 citations for scat Belt Vio lations in 1986. Hoff said the lights Cost less than is apiece and Are easy to install. Trident ii missile launched 4th Success in test series Cape canaveral Fla. A a Trident ii submarine missile thundered off a land launch pad and scored a fourth straight test Success for the . Navy s newest most powerful rocket the Navy said. The 44-foot, three stage missile Friday hurled a Dummy warhead to an Ocean target several Hundred Miles Down the Atlantic tracking Range. The test was the fourth of 20 Trident launches planned from a land pad. That Tenet will be followed by up to 10 submarine test launches with the weapons scheduled to become operational in late 1989. Trident ii is an intercontinental Range missile designed to propel up to 10 nuclear warheads to different targets. Each Trident submarine win carry 24 missiles. Judge fines a $25,000 for withholding evidence san Francisco a a Federal judge has fined the veterans administration an Esti mated $25.000, ruling that the a withheld documents and gave misleading statements in a suit against it by 5,000 veterans exposed to Radia Tion. . District judge Marilyn Patel called the a s conduct in the 4-year-old Case  she ordered the a to pay three months Legal fees and costs of the National association of radiation survivors which represents the Veter ans. The judge did not set an amount. However Gordon Erspamer an attorney for the association estimated it at $25,000. The a has already has  ordered to pay $ 125,000 in penalties to the group. Patel ruled in january that the Agency had unlawfully destroyed records in the Case