European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 34, 1987 the stars and stripes Psge 5 Airport Security systems found lacking Washington Ai one of of five my a weapons slipped through when Federal inspectors tested weapon Crenning systems at airports across America a Rcd Erat Avillion administration official told Congress on thursday. The to percent detection Rale was identical in the Success rate inc Agency found in a smaller Sample last year leaving the official and several lawmakers Dis satisfied because passenger screening is the must important com Pnnell of an Airport Security program. I find these results particularly disturbing said rep. Card in Collins. Mil., inc chairwoman of the government activities and transportation subcommittee conducting the hearing. Kay mind a. Sala a director of the a is office of civil aviation Security conceded dial we Are not s. Tis fied with thai Success  hut soul i Agency was trying to Spur airlines into improving their detection systems. I continue id believe. That our Domestic screening program remains an effective Means of combating aircraft  Sala a said. From september i set through last june. Faa in spectres attempted to carry More than  mock weapons through weapons detection systems Al 1,16 . Airports. Sala a said. About four fifths of the weapons were selected Al inc checkpoints which an hailed by airline employees. At .14 major airports the Rale of detection ranged from 99 percent to in percent said Kenneth m. Mead an associate director of the general account ing office the congressional investigative Agency. Gao has been auditing incl a s efforts to improve passenger screening. The airports tested were not identified. Rep. Howard. Nielson. Rulah. Said he believed that to encourage airlines to improve screening the government should threaten to release statistics showing How successful each Carrier has been in de letting test weapons. During the last four months of i i Airport screening devices fail to Deled i m out of 2,419 lest weapons at Jyh major american air orly in those tests the Airport Al Anchorage. . Had a w percent Success rate. Hie highest and the Phoenix. An/., Airport had the lowest rate at 34 per cent. As of Oil. I. The Faa requires airlines id Deled every weapon carried through scree inn is Sims. Those that fail to Are subject to lines of up to i 1.01111, new concept in telecommunications this is an artist s Conception or a new Breed of communications satellite. The tls-601, in the planning stages by Hughes aircraft co., a unit of Hughes electronic in Las Angeles has a solar Power array measuring 85 gift from tip to rip bul compacts to just eight Square feel for launching. Generating 6,000 Watts of Power the is Fiol could vend to programs directly i private Fimes through dishes measuring just one foot in diameter. Firms fined for collapse of building Washington Al the govern ment imposed a record $5.11 million Fine against contractors thursday in the april collapse of a half built Bridgeport conn., apartment Complex that killed 28 workers. John a. 1 Pendergrass. Chief of the occupational safely and health administration said an investigation had revealed a serious disregard for Basic fundamental engineering practices a fac Tor directly related to the cause of col  the investigation found that the col lapse was triggered Liy failure of a jacking system used to life Concrete floor slabs into place. Pendergrass said. The National Bureau of standards concluded that l ambiance i la a col lapsed As workers were lifting three con Crete slabs into place on april 2.1. A Rod connected to a Hydraulic Jack atop a steel column slipped out of a a shaped opening in a steel bracket Hal was embedded in the ninth floor slab according to a National Hureau of standards report. Osha cited to Siar construction co. San Antonio Texas with 238 violations of Federal safely standards and thai Macomer the primary contractor and project manager with identical violations id soft in the stars and stripes 40 years ago . 24, i m 7 president Truman said he would Call a special session of Congress nov. 17 to Deal with the Emer gency on european Aid. Truman said the crisis in Europe was so grave he could not wait Umil january to seek legislation. 30 years ago today. ,. Oct. 2 1, 19s7 the communist party opened an East Berlin conference of More Ihan 1.000 cultural leaders and ordered them to wipe out Western influences in everything ranging from television to sculpt tire. 20 years ago Loday. Oct. 24, 1967 a Stanford univer sity physicist called Venus a hell Hole based on data obtained from Mariner 5 s sweep past the planet i our Davs earlier. Most of murmur s information agreed with Hal of the soviets venus4. ? 0 years ago today. Oct. 24, 1977 president Carter said in los Angeles he would stand by Israel As a staunch and unshakable All " but remain a mediator Between jews and arabs in the quest for Middle East peace. Trainmen smoked pot before crash Baltimore a a former con rail brakeman old a grand jury that he and an Engineer smoked marijuana be fore their locomotives Slid into the paid of an Amtrak passenger train in january causing the worst crash in Amtrak history according to published reports. Sixteen people were killed and 175 others were injured when the con rail train skidded through a closed switch and into the path of inc High Speed Pas Senger train. The Engineer Ricky l. Gates was indicted in May on 16 counts of Man Slaughler by locomotive stemming from inc crash near Chase. My. His Tria is scheduled to begin in february. The former a Bakcman Edward Crom Well also told the grand jury that he and the Engineer told a cover . To Federal officials investigating the crash the re ports said Uoung unidentified sources. Cromwell who was not charged Testi fied under a Grant of immunity before the Baltimore county grand jury according to the reports. The grand jury reportedly indicted Gates a week after hearing the Teni Mony in april. Cromwell told the grand jury Hal i acts came to his House before the two were to give their statements to National transportation safety Board investigators and told him to Memorie a ver Sion of inc Story gales had prepared one source was quoted As saying. Cromwell Lold the grand jury that he and gales shared at least one marijuana cigarette shortly before inc crash sources old the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Traces of marijuana showed up in blood and urine samples taken from both men after the Accident and additional tests showed traces of the hallucinogenic drug  in Cromwell s annl. Gutenberg Bible auctioned for $5.39 million new York. A a Ciu Tenberg Bible was sold at auction thursday fur $5.19 million More Ihan double the previous record for a primed Book. Christie s auction House said. The Bible printed in 1455 in main. Germany is one ol"4s surviving of the 185 believed to have been printed at least in part by Johann Gutenberg. The bibles the first books printed b Mova Hie Type heralded the age of mass communication. The buyer in spirited bidding was Maruen co. Ltd. Of Foi of. Japan s big Geil Hii Kiesler. Said Christie s spokeswoman  him Kennann. The previous record was s-.2 million for a Ulen Hurij wild a Christie s in i47s. Sho said. The Bible wa1. The Moil prominent piece in an Aunon of More than 130 printed books from the 1 my Century col Leclede by the Lute Estelle Doheny. Widow of California oilman Edward Doheny. I was the first of seven sales of Hooks in the Doheny collection which is being auctioned to Benefit the archdiocese of of Angeles. Chamie s called the Sale the most important of us Type since Ivi. The Dowie no Ulenberg Bible is Ipri nne condition us pages clean and fresh and in us original stain binding Christie said in j release. Mrs. Doheny bought the Bible for 170.093 in Ivio