European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 27,1988 the stars and stripes 3?� Nasa Waits on Date for next shuttle flight workers it Kennedy space Center sunday install the second of three main engines in he space shuttle discovery in preparation Tat he not Hunch. Washington us top space Agency managers decided to put off pin Ning Down a new target launch Date for the tint Post challenger shuttle flight to gather additional data on the stale of the Overall program official said. We reached no decisions of mile stones shuttle program manager Arnold Aldrich said monday after an All Day management Council meeting. We decided to Lake it couple of extra Days to look at other aspects of the program other than the solid rocket motor before we commit ourselves to a new target Dale a Nasa statement released Inte in the Day said it is anticipated that a Bunc Date decision will be made later this the shuttle discovery and a Veteran five Man shuttle Crew led by cmdr. Frederick Hauck had been scheduled to blast aft around june 2 on the first american manned space night since challenger s destruction two years ago thursday. But the failure at a Booster nozzle Boot ring in a Racket test fired dec. 23 put the flight on hold indefinitely Pend ing analysis of plans to fall Back on backup version of the piece that failed. Nasa officials initially said discovery could not take off before july 15 at the earliest and faced a Su-to-10-week delay. We re still in our previously announced time Frame for the Bunch Al dried told United press International after the management Council meeting. Discovery s actual launch Date de pends in Lane part on successful implementation of the alternate Boot ring de sign along with Laws performance i upcoming full scale Booster lest firings. But the statement by the . Nation i aeronautics and space administration said having conducted a comprehensive review of the solid rocket motor program shuttle management official elected to review the readiness of other program elements. Over the next few Days before making a launch Dale Deci the meeting monday chaired by rear adm. Richard truly chief of the shuttle program followed engineering meeting Friday and saturday at Morton Thi Okol no s Brigham City Utah Booster Plant to assess the work to recover from the Boa ring incident. Truly and other managers arc scheduled to attend a House of representatives space subcommittee hearing wednesday to discuss what went wrong in the december Booster lest tiring anyhow Nasa plans to recover from the setback. The Boot ring protects a flexible Bear ing Assembly that allows a Booster s nozzle to swing Hack and Forth for steer ing during the first two minutes of flight. During the december lest a redesigned Boot ring came apart or to minimize the resulting launch delay Nasa officials decided to fall Back on n backup version of the Boot ring design that was successfully tested in Ana gust Booster firing. State worker earns it s Best to keep Mouth shut Denver a when Colorado gov. Roy Romer asked Tor volunteers among mate workers to Tell him if their jobs weren t needed. Jack Burbank did. Durban 41, says he s sorry now. My opinion is now i wish i would have never done this he said. I would be Hack at work. I could still be Down there earning 11.300 a month if had kept my Mouth the former Public safety dispatcher with the motor vehicle division has been looking for a Job for the past five months. State officials concede that Burbank responded to Romer s plea in fact he was the Only one to do so. But they Point out that they found him a re placement Job that Burbank later quit. Burbank s troubles began list May after he read about a speech Romer made to the Denver labor manage ment Council urging state workers to let him know if the slate could gel along without their jobs. Whal we would want to do is re Ward you and secondly get you a new Job at higher pay and higher skill level and make you Anero Romer said. Burbank decided to take the Gover nor up on his offer. He was criticized by his Boss and Goethe cold shoulder from fellow employees. I d sit there at nights and for hours on end i would t have anything to do but read the Star or the enquirer orsome Book said hut Bank who As a last hire worked the graveyard shift and holidays. There was not that much activity and there were three other dispatchers on then last july he resigned. Burbank was offered three other positions As a receptionist at the depart ment of Revenue to help people with taxes in the machine room or Asad ministrative clerk in lax compliance. Burbank took the clerk Job eve though it paid $300 a month less than his old Job. A Little More than a month later he jumped to the department of administration for More Money and to getaway from the rumours in the Revenue department about what he had Days later he handed in his Resig was told 1 really shot myself in the fool by resigning he said. When he went to look for other jobs some peo ple warned him he had been labelled a troublemaker he Ann Sokir the state personnel director said Burbank did exactly what we wanted in reporting his Job situation but said he went too tar when he resigned. She also said he was theone who breached confidentiality that allowed his immediate supervisor and fellow employees to discover what head done. Marine s 2nd rape trial opens quant1co. A. Ai the attorney for Marine Scott monday said he will present a witness who will prove Scott could not have committed these Ual As Sault for which he is being court Martiale a second time. The claim by civilian attorney Gary Myers came during opening arguments after a seven member Marine jury was selected to hear Scott s second court mar Lial on charges he sexually assaulted and tried to kill the wife of a fellow Marine on the Quantico Marine corps base. Scott s 1983 conviction was overturned Bihe . Court of military appeals last summer Myers told the jury he will Call Cynthia ausby a clerk at a department store in nearby Woodbridge who has Aid she saw Scott buying a gift for his Rife at the Lime the woman 15milcsaway. The victim is White and Scott is Black and his sup porters contended he was the victim of racism in his first trial. Marine Dpi Steve Hinkle the prosecuting attorney said testimony will show the victim twice identified Scott As her attacker. La. Gen. Frank e. Petersen commanding officer at Quantico called for a second trial after Scott s conviction was overturned july 7 by the . Court of Mili tary appeals. Scott of Louisville. Ky., spent 45 months in prison before the appeals court ruled that he did not have effective counsel during his court martial. The court found that the failure of Scott s civilian attorney to prepare a competent Alibi defense cast doubt on the conviction. Civil rights activists established a Legal defense fund for Scott and lbs s "60 minutes broadcast a Story on the Case. Jesse Jackson directed aides to lobby the congressional Black caucus to pressure the Pentagon for a new trial. Scall became a stupid almost immediately after the woman the 23-year-old wife of a military policeman who worked with him was found dazed and bleeding. She told investigators she had been lured from her apartment hours earlier by a Telephone Call from a Man who said her husband had been in an Accident and who offered to Lake her to the Hospital. Instead of driving 10 the Hospital the Man drove her to a Remote spot raped her choked her Slabbed her in the neck and left her lord cad according to her testimony. The woman twice identified Scott As her assailant first from a group of photographs and then from a lineup but each Lime she equivocate saying other men in the groups resembled him. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today ,.jan. 21,1948 Secretary of he Interior . Kru proposed the development of a synthetic fuel Industry to meet the nation s fuel needs and to ensure economic and military Security 30 years ago today. Jan. 27,1958 the British medical association giving its official opinion that cigarettes cause cancer said no amount of criticism has shaken the Basic clinical chemical and statistical 20 years ago today. Jan. 27, 1968 the Federal communication commission turned Down a request by sen. Eugene Mccarthy for equal time to answer president John son s televised comments about the Minnesota demo crat s presidential Campaign. 10 years ago today. Jan. 27, 1978 the soviet Union eased its restrictions on travel by foreigners opening about 20 fits cities to foreign visitors Lor the first time
