European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Ride urges . To use Moon As Mars trip base Washington Dpi warning that he United Stales already has lost its leadership in two key areas of Pace exploration Asl Ronal Sally ride has urged Nasa to return people to the Moon by the year 2000 and use Ilas an orderly stepping Stone to Mars. In a report released monday America s first woman in space called for a revitalized space program that will lend americans into space from the Highlands of the Moon to the Plains of but ride who is leaving Nasa next month to work at a research insist Etc in Palo Alto calif., cautioned against adapting Mars As a single shot goal like the Apollo lunar Landing project of Hie 1960s. There is no doubt that exploring prospecting and settling Mars should be the ultimate objectives of human exploration her report said. But America should not Rush headlong toward Mars we should adopt a strategy to continue an orderly expansion out Ward from , who sent the 63-Page report to Nasa adminis Trator James Fletcher last wednesday was not available for comment. She left Washington Over the weekend and was driving to Houston where she will wrap up her work with the space Agency according to Nasa spokesman Edward ride concentrated on future initiatives for Nasa she made in Clear thai she believes the United slates is losing the space Lead in has held for two decades. As two examples she said the soviet Union has a plan to explore Mars with robots while the United slates has not sent a spacecraft there since 1976, an soviet space station cosmonauts Are now the sole Long term inhabitants of Low Earth ride said the nation enjoyed a Golden age in space before last year s challenger disaster but since then Nasa s shortcomings have become starkly Veteran shuttle commander John Young agreed with ride s late it easy approach to Mars. I think if we redoing logo to Mars we ought to do it a step at a Lime he Aid in an interview in Houston. If you said you would go straight to Mars i still think you d probably want to Stop offal the Moon to get a Little smarts before you did it wednesday August 19, 1987 the stars and stripes broken Radiator Hose caused Brothers to miss ill fated flight Mayville Mich. A a California Man said monday that he and his brother missed North West airlines flight 255 when their parents car broke Down about 15 Miles from the Airport and Detroit Lions wide receiver Pete Manduc said his wife and two children had reservations on right 2ss, which crashed after taking off from de troit metropolitan Airport but decided to stay i Michigan another Day it was the nation s second deadliest air plane had to be the work of the lord protecting my family like said mandly who lives in Paradise Valley Ariz. I just wanted them to slay Here another Day. I feel very fortunate David Mckellar of Dana Point calif., and his brother Robert 37, of Newport Beach calif., had been visiting rela Tives in the Small town of Mayville about 70 Miles from mandly the Airport and their parents Roger and Phyllis Mckellar were driving them to the Airport when a Radiator Hose failed. We went to a Gas station trying to find a Hose Sowe could gel going David Mckellar 27, said monday from his parents Home. In took n Little longer than we thought it the family Learned the night had crashed when they arrived at the Airport an hour late he said. In really dazed us David Mckellar said. We just looked at each other and said of my god " the Mckellard called other relatives to say they were Safe then returned to Mayville. The Brothers said they would take another Northwest flight to California. Mandley s wife Teresa his 7-year-old son Dej How i and infant daughter Trca Zurc attended the Lions football practice monday at Oakland uni re just trying to put this behind us mrs. Mandley said. I m Happy to be Here Brothers David left and Robert Mckellip. It s hard for me to say it s our Good Fortune when it s some people s misfortune mandly said. I m blessed that my family was t on it but on inc other hand there Are a lot of other lives that cannot be retrieved Lonetree sought to expose spies witness says Quantico a. A Marine sgt. Clayton Lon tree wanted to expose soviet spies and prided himself on stringing the Kab along without turning Over in formation he thought was valuable according to testimony monday at his espionage trial. But Lon cute also said during interrogations by the naval serv ice last december that he thought he was in trouble Nis special agent Gary l. Hardgrove testified. He indicated that he was doing wrong and was probably going to go to jail for a while for what he had done Hardgrove said under questioning by the chief military prosecutor Marine maj. David l. Beck whether the information passed to inc soviets was valuable was disputed. Lonetree stated the information he provided would be used for intelligence Pur poses said h. Andrew Sperber also or thenis. Portions of scr bar s testimony Wen taken behind closed doors which the government docs whenever it fears National a be meeting with Sasha. A soviet who took in formation from Lon tree in Moscow and Vienna. Hardgrove found the material Dur ing a search of Lonetree s quarters in Vienna on dec. 24. Lonetree met Sasha through Violetta an interpreter with whom to had an affair while stationed at the Moscow was introduced As viol cola s Uncle. Lonetree is a former Moscow embassy guard is charged with 13 counts that include allegations he turned Over Cia identities and floor plans of the Moscow and Vienna Austria embassies. The prosecution introduced As evidence letters to and from Lonetree s soviet girl Friend Viola la As Well As photographs and a piece of paper thai had instructions for a Lon Clicc is accused of failing to report his contacts with soviets As required by military regulations. Testimony monday from the state department s assistant regional Security officer in Vienna indicated that Lonetree did not mention Vio Lelta or Sasha when he was debriefed after leaving the soviet Union. He said he had no contacts with so Viets Mary Bauer test i tied. The defense tried to show that during the interrogations Lone rec Lott is agents he believed he had turned Oscr nothing of use to the soviets. Defense lawyer Michael Stuhff said he attempted to string them along by dodging the Qun Lions about what he thought was important and providing material he Bali old they already had. I think i did. A decent Job of nol giving them Lont Frt tit j. It cording to a transcript of a tape made during one of the interrogation. In another portion of a transcript. Lone tree ii said to have tool the n is actually my real intentions were to bring him Sasha in expose these people republicans cafes frayed fes a. Officials report Harrisburg a. A officials in the Republican administration of gov. Dick Thornburgh burned nearly 3,000 pounds of documents destroyed a key computer program and shredded files before handing Power Over to the new democratic administration according to government records and interviews. In addition press secretaries throughout Thorn Burgh s administration were told to rid their files of politically sensitive material state officials said. Documents were burned and the computer program we destroyed in the office of labor and Industry Secretary James Knepper. The shredding was done in the governor s office of policy and planning. The new governor Robert p. Casey was inaugurated in january. Cay official r. David Myers said workers who remain from the previous administration reported the shredder Wai used extensively although it is not Clear exactly what records were destroyed. At labor and Industry two employees working overtime took documents packed into 78 boxes that were taped shut to an incinerator sin Days after Casey won the november gubernatorial election department officials said in interviews conducted monday and last week. As a result when Harris Wofford took Over the department in january he said he found an executive office thai had no files Wofford described the office As cleaned out. Basic documents on administration of the depart ment were Wofford and his top aides also found that a computer system that kept track of documents and correspondence in the Secretary s office had been wiped clean leaving them no idea where to find records in other offices. Of lord said he had not determined what file were missing. He press Secretary Frank Lynch said Mon Day that reconstructing key file took four Moshi. Casey s Secretary of administration. Jack Tighe did the destruction May have been illegal. But Robert gent id. A spokesman for atom cd Gen eral Leroy s. Zimmerman said i can t find anything that would directly say you can t do that but i can t give a Blanket answer Knapp or did he had Dune nothing wrong and Thornburgh s spokesman. David Runkel Laid the new administration was not entitled to much of the Maien a in the previous administration s files. But Michael Mclaughlin who worked As former democratic gov Milton Shapp s pros Secretary said Democrat did not leave fit i empty when Thornburg i arrived we had no operation like that Mclaughlin said Knepper said nothing substantive was among the destroyed files. But he said he did nol know the entire tracking system had been wiped out
