European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday August 8.19b7 jumper surrenders Somerville no. A Aman who jumped off the George Washington Bridge but glided safely to a Landing with a Parachute has surrendered to authorities. Gordon i la liar Legg 32, of h Borough was turned Over to port authority detectives. Port authority police said Legg would be issued a disorderly conduct summons. He Dove off the Bridge sunday morning into the Hudson River where an unmarked speedboat picked him up. Booster joint tested Brigham City Utah a the first major lest of a fully redesigned space shuttle Booster joint was declared a tremendous Success by officials of Nasa and Morton Thi Okol inc. In the lest the new joint pre vented super hot gases from escaping the rocket motor during a 50 second firing at Morton Thi Okol s proving ground 20 Miles West of Here said Allan Mcdonald director of Thi Okol s redesigned solid fuel rocket motor task Force. Leaking gases from a faulty joint have been blamed for theban. 28, 1986, explosion of the shuttle challenger. Temperatures Louse Bill asks for probe of 3&s censorship charge Washington Sass " to Bith an Independent i in com Mission to investigate charges of censorship at the european an editions of the stars and stripes introduced in the House tuesday. The Bill sponsored by rep. Glenn English. A okla. And rep. Gerald Klc Cika d-wis., is almost identical to legislation introduced in the Senate in May said a staffer with the House government operations committee. English chairs the subcommittee on government information under that committee the Only difference Between the House and Senate versions is that English s Bill would give the commission so Days to perform its task while the psf tic Bill by sen William Proxmire for a 90-Day time English Hinks the Commissi a Suid need mor Ticic to do a the Fligh Job because its members Youj Jive to travel overseas to Gale a jul int inform lion a subcommjiym0rfer said. He com Mission to mend whether the Rote of at the papers strengthened. The commission. Be empowered to hold hearings ind subpoena witnesses and documents for its investigation. The Senate Bill is scheduled to be attached As an amendment to the defense authorization Bill which is stalled in that chamber. Iranian planned to take hostage Hamburg a a group ans who were against the Deal with Iran planned to Lake it Al Olive North and Robert my Fjone hostage when they arrived in flan last year a German Magazine tuesday. The Hamburg need Stern Magazine said it had of Ltd the information on the planned has Mlac taking of North and Mcfarland Tuegh an interview with a former comm per of the iranian revolutionary who has since fled Iran. The former commander whom Stern did not identify by name was quoted As saying the plan to take the americans hostage was dropped after it was discovered that Ayatollah Ruh Iiah Khomeini s son Ahmed was Active in the . Iranian arms Deal. Stern a tinted its source As saying the sex chief of the office for the Export of revolution in the iranian City of qum headed the hostage taking plan. He was identified by the former Revo Luliona guard commander its Mahdi Hashemi weak wanted to use the hos tages to Oyer int uhe speaker of Iran s parliament for his involvement in the Ninn Yil Stem said. Stem also quoted the Enk Volution Ary guard commander As opt that Iran operates its european tenon Mand Center from the former Mel the late Shah Reza Pahlavi in the whirl _ River City of Cologne about 12 Miles North of Bonn. 76 m81 1cs s3 Kyj 79 57 7804 77 7 Isth to m 77si n 74 90to m41 n to m co by cola 74 h s5 is concord77 100 Ohli of on to h v Flag h exp us 31 u f to k to ii 73 40 Hanouw Houston to div spokesman said thursday. First la David Divot of Airlift support so Shaw fab treated for a broken left leg and Gaceru Lions at the army Hospital in Wuerzburg and later transferred to the University Hospital in the City 1st it. Patrick a. Sawyer said. He is expected to be hospitalized for one week. Chief warrant officer Robert p. Boomer the helicopter Pilot was not injured. Devol and Boomer from the 22slh general support aviation co -1thbrigade. 3rd inf div were the Only two on Board the helicopter. The oh-58 scout helicopter or me flying a training Mission Ofat i brigade 3rd Sirju anoint air attack to Leneris Ciprut 12 Miles Northwest of Wuerzburg. The aircraft was flying at a it hit a heavy tactical truck from he Ca Breck helicopter run Sawyer t0vo soldiers in the truck which we unmoving were not injured Leam from the army try Center. Fort Rucker ala., ii sex mining the wreckage to determine the cause of the Accident. Detail about thee mini of the damage to the helicopter and truck were not available. Prof Esters to luf Angen base Mut Langen Germany up members of the anti missile thursday blockaded a base Pershing us. J the blockades wercj4erying the 42nd anniversary of a atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. German police removed do Moitra tors fro rat Road leading to the base of he army s 56lh Field any come at lulling in 40 Miles cast of Stull. Thirty five demonstrators were into custody and released a police1 spokesman said. Police said about 60 people took part in the blockade bul the movement put the number at 100. The bait has been a frequent target of demonstrations since the first of Lac per thing 11 medium Range nuclear missiles arrived in late 1982. Germany has All of the 108 Pershing ii us Siles deployed in Europe to counter ss-20 missiles aimed Ai Western o agreed to deploy the americol Jussi at he urging of Hel Mut Schmid to to the time we Ger Many s social duh Gravic Chancellor. Since then the have repudiated Schmidt s poll
