European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 13. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Stufflebeam demoted escapes prison term quantion. A. A Robert Siut Mcbeain was or Imilce from the rank of Marine staff sergeant to sergeant As punishment Friday for his convictions on two count of dereliction of duly a military jury which convicted the former . Embassy guard thursday gave Stuffie Cam no prison sentence. It deliberated Tor about i � hours. The court martial judge. Marine it. Col. E. Dean Clark had ruled earlier Fri Day that Stuffl Cream be credited wild 5j Days on any sentence the jury recommended. The s4 Days represents time spent by the Bloo Migglon 111., native under arrest or restriction. The prosecution had asked thai slut Fly beam be reduced in rank to Corporal placed in the Brig for 75 to 90 Days and Given a bad conduct discharge stuff Mcbeam inc second in charge of the Marine guard detachment at the . Embassy in Moscow in 1985, was acquitted thursday by the eight Man jury of seven counts of having 5c with soviet women and failing to report inc Fraler nation. The to Misdemeanour counts involve drinking while off duty at a Moscow hotel bar that was off limits to marines. Had he been found guilty of All nine could hav maximum 14-year sentence. The Mise Meanor counts carried a maximum Siv month sentence. The major charges that they tried to allege fell by inc Side defense Al Gorncy James Daulcy said. Under Stufflebeam s command were sol. Clayton Lonc Trcic and Cpl. Arnold Bracey. Last month Lonc Trcic became the first Marine Ever convicted of espionage. Braccy also was charged with spy. Ing for the soviets bul those charges were later dropped. This whole thing is pretty much a fabrication of the naval investigative charges stuff Mcbeam Coul have faced a service Stufft Cacam said outside the courtroom after inc verdict i feel very much relieved. There was no Way for the gov Emmonl to prove their  after the sentencing  de scribed the Case As a Witch  the prosecution made no comment on inc verdict which followed a three Day trial during which prosecutors presented evidence that  admitted to  that he had sex several limes Wilh soviet women. Bogley argued there was doubt that Stuffl Cacam knew the women were Sovi ets or that inc establishment where he met them Moscow s International hotel bar was off limits. A promotion How Lovely a potato this English bulldog is none other than Lance Cpl. Daniel j. Duty As signed to the Marine Barracks at the Groton Conn submarine base. Me will a promoted to Corporal monday when the marines ire assigned to other duly stations. Daly the unit s Mascot is named for Marine sol maj Daniel j. Daly who twice won the medal of Honor in world or i. Canaveral gears up for discovery launch Cape canaveral Flo. A most of the 2,000 workers Laid off after the challenger Accident have been re hired or replaced and morale has improved now thai a shuttle again is being prepared for launching inc director of inc Kennedy space Center said Friday. The Center is on schedule to Mecl a june 2, 1988, target for resuming flights said Forrest s. Mccartney but he eau Lionet that Many hurdles remain. The hiring of 125 to 1 so people by the end of this year will increase the Center s work Force to the pc challenger level of about 15,500, he said. Mccartney said morale had been a problem since the challenger exploded and kilted seven astronauts on Jan. 28, 1986. Bul i think we be now turned the Corner on morale he said. The work Force is very professional. It s trained to process hardware for launch and it is doing hat  engineers and technicians last month switched on the discovery s electrical Power for the first time in months and started the Long task of preparing the arbiter for launching. The Power up generated a wave of cheers from workers. Powering up the vehicle certainly had an Impact on morale Mccartney said. It was done on a Date we had set several months ago on a schedule that called for an awful lot of modification work being done on the vehicle  space station Cost estimate called Low Cape canaveral Fla. A a research panel will report monday that Nasa s 114,6 billion estimate for build ing a permanent manned space station is 30 percent too Low an Industry Magazine reported Friday the National research Council a unit of inc National Academy of sciences said the space Agency projection fails to include funds for such station related items As spare parts. Aviation week & space technology said. Mark Hess a spokesman for inc National aeronautics and space administration in Washington admitted that the Agency had not acc Guled for spare parts but he said the parts would amount to Only $200 million 1.3 percent More than its estimate. We disagree with the Way the coun cil calculated this Range of figures Hess said. He said the Magazine Esti mates that the spare supplies could cast up to $3,9 billion. With the exception of 1200 million Worth of spares Nasa believes it has accounted for All the hardware needed to run the program he said. The space Agency plans to assemble the station in orbit in two Steps. The first phase would begin in 1994 and would include modules labor Iorii s and equip ment to support eight people. The Sec Ond phase to Start at an undetermined Date would include an improved Power system and the upper and lower booms to which additional modules could be attached. Nasa officials believe the report is generally favourable on inc station bul in does question whether inc phase 2 con figuration is Correct to support future space goals the Magazine said. Aviation week also said the Council s report is not expected to give Strong endorsement to a Nasa proposal to use elements of the shuttle system such As rockets and engines to develop a Large unmanned rocket for heavy payloads. Defense Bill filibuster finally ends Washington api inc Senate has voted 79-4 to begin considering a Pentagon budget for the next fiscal year ending a four month Republican Effort to Block the measure. Republicans Are Aoji rim inc Hill he cause it contains i Trainis on Star wars testing. The Friday a a Nuno the 1302 billion measure to inc lop of hi1 democratic con trolled St nil s Agenda meaning in will be considered during ihi1 in i a cml weeks As inc chamber debates and i Oles on a variety of National Security issues. The Vole approved a motion to proceed to the Bill a parliamentary Maneu ver thai cedi d the gop filibuster. Democratic leaders first tried to have inc Bill Condl re j in mid May shortly after it was approved by inc Senate armed services committee but republicans filibustered. Do Matrau holding a j4-- 6 majority in the Senate had been unable to gather i hi1 60 i of s needed to invoke a Lolur and end inc filibuster. The republicans changed their tactics after sen. Sam Nunn. D-ga., chairman of the armed services panel said he would help Block Senate action on the nomination of Rob in Bork to inc supreme court Seal until after inc defense Bill passed. The defense Bill authorizing spending in the fiscal year stoning oct. I. Eventually will have10 he reconciled with inc sirs Bill Ion measure that the House a sad. He said a major Milestone in Roulo to a june launch Date is the Progress being made in testing the shuttle s redesigned solid fuel Booster rocket. A faulty Booster joint caused inc challenger Accident. The first full scale test firing of a Rede signed Fockel was conducted a. 30. Preliminary assessments indicated it was successful and engineers have suited taking the Booster apart Tor evaluation John Thomas manager of the redesign learn at Nasa s Marshall space flight Center in Alabama reported Friday that inc aft joint had been disassembled. So far everything looks Superb it sealed properly and retained its  he said. The National aeronautics and space administration reported that one of the three other joints also had been disassembled and while it had few details. Spokesman Dave or Ntilis at the mar shall Center reported it looks  Mccartney said the two boosters for discovery s launch must be delivered at the Kennedy space Center by january to meet the june Dale. A Crew escape Hatch for discovery also is set for december delivery it would permit astronauts to bail out if anything went wrong while the spacecraft was descending for a Landing. The discovery is to be moved to inc launch pad March 12 and on april 8, while bolted Down it is to undergo a 20 second test firing of its main engines. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 13, 1947 the United slates demanded inc immediate re lease by Yugoslavia of nine British and american military personnel seized by the yugoslavs in the Vicinity of Trieste. Italy. 30 years ago today., sept. 13, 19s7 the communications workers Union in Washington called a nationwide strike of Telephone workers Starling sept. 16. The threatened strike against Telephone companies affiliated with the Bell system would involve 200.000 worker. 20 years ago today ,., sept. 13, 1967 Frank Sinatra was punched in the Mouth and reportedly lost two Teeth during a ruckus Ai the Las vegas nev., Sands hotel Casino. Bystanders said Sinatra hurled betting chips at the hotel vice president who in turn hit the Singer i 0 years ago today. Sept. 13, 1977  the most watched to show in Tek vision history won in nine categories in the four month Lac 28ih annual emmy awards