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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday february 21,19bb boy 4, takes family car for a spin Yucaipa Calif. Apr Gary and Linda Landry have a Jun keeping their car Leys lurked in a filing Cabinet since their 4-year-old son look he car out for a drive. Raymond Landry. Who has been allowed to Start inc family car since he was 2, look his Mother s keys to the family s him Buick regal last week. When she heard the cur Man up. She looked out the window and saw Raymond a1 the u Eccl of the car. Which was backing Down the driveway. Al least he had enough sense to put it in reverse Gary Landry said. She Kepi Yelling Al him to put his fool on the Brake but she said he was running around inside the car. 1 guess he  Landry said. The car came to a Hall after it hopped Over a 12-Inch curb and ran mid a Fence. Raymond ran in Side and was found Hilling in a closet. In was afraid the California Highway patrol was going to Lake him to  Landry said. The patrol listed the cause of i i Accident As improper backing. "1 Don l the info he will Ever do it  Landry said. Raymond Mill shakes when we mention  2 Meese associates were paid $ 150,000, newspaper reports Washington up the Swiss businessman who promoted a proposed iraqi pipeline sent si50,000 in the sum Mer of 1985 to two men close to attorney general Edwin Moesche washing ton Post reported saturday. The Post quoted informed sources As saying Bruce Rappaport a wealthy Busi Nessman with tics to Israel s labor party sen 1150,000 to e. Bob Wallach meet s close Friend and w. Franklyn Quinn Mcnese s investment adviser. James Rocap. The attorney general s lawyer told the Post he a aware of the payment but in has absolutely nothing Todo Wilhmur.  none of it Trie Money Ever went to or. A desc Rocap told the newspaper. None of it was Ever used for the Benefit of or.  a Mecie never got any Money from the pipeline project or from Bruce Rappaport. He never got any Money from Bob Wallach with the exception of a few lunches said Rocap. The lawyer said that the Only Money Meese got through hit partnership with Chinn was the previously disclosed Stock profits that Chinn earned for the attorney general through various Stock trades. Rappaport hired Wallach a few months before the payment was made to help secure . Backing for the Sibil lion project which was never built. The sources told the Post the payment represented Wallah s Legal fee for work on the pipeline proposal. Wallach obtained a Csc s help in setting up a june 19ks meeting with then National Securi Edwin my to adviser Robert Mcfarlane the payment was then Mill to Chinn for inc Benefit of Wallach one source told the newspaper. The sources also told inc port that Wallach did not include the $150,000 fee on his 1955 income tax return. They said he finally reported the pay ment in Hay 1987, a month after inde pendent counsel James Mckay expanded Bis investigation of the we tech corp. To include Melesc s dealings with Wafi Ach and Chinn. The Justice department could not be reached for comment. Sources said the investigation turned up financial records showing a s150,000 Deposit on aug. 1$, 1985, in brokerage account held by Chinn i financial management International inc. Chinn also maintained account for Meese and Wallach at the brokerage firm Bear steams and co Wallach Chinn and third Man were indicted last december in a Federal court in Mew York for taking illegal payments from we tech in order to use their influence with a Csc one of president Rea Gan s closest advisers. The Bechtel group the san Francisco firm that wanted to build the 540-mile pipeline near the israeli jordanian Bor Der retained Rappaport because of hot close ties to Israel s prime minister at the Lime Shimon Peres. The company reportedly hoped Rappaport could enlist a Promise from Peres that Israel would not interfere with construction of the pipeline. Soviet space program disasters detailed in Book Washington a the soviets have become More open about announcing their space failures but failed to announce Ilie destruction of a spy satellite Ian month and gave out sparse details about 3 rocket failure space watcher Jim Obi guid saturday. The official Tass news Agency or ported thai inc upper slip go of the Proton rocket Booster failed on wednesday and thai on thursday inc sputnik entered dense lasers of 1he atmosphere and ceased their Ebisu  according to the . Space come Llie largest chunk of debris from inc mis Sion re entered Earth s atmosphere Fri Day Al i Moon Between saudi Arabia and Turkey and a smaller chunk fell earlier near Australia. Besides the failure of the Proton with three satellites aboard the soviets lost another satellite. Cosmos 1.906, on Jan. 31. The imaging satellite was launched on dec. 26 and was blown up to pre vent the film and equipment from falling into the hands of Western intelligence agencies Oburg said. Siik soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev came to Power in March 1985, of org said the soviets have certainly recused new material. But in arc remain severe limits. Military stuff is clearly beyond the  Stilt. Oburg said. Western technology can do Eccl such events As the Proton fail ure and Western news reports can Force further disclosures from the soviets. Penetrating the secretive soviet space program is nothing new for Oburg whoa published his findings in a new Book called uncovering soviet disasters exploring the limits of  Long before Gorbachev s moderate re forms led to greater disclosure of prob lems in the soviet Union Oburg had pieced together hair raising tales of disasters that for decades went Urc ported in the slate controlled Media. Oburg has been working since child Hood at this watching their space pro Gram looking for chinks in their secrecy and driving through  soviet secrecy can be dangerous Oberg wrote in his Book. On oct 24, 1962, a soviet space probe exploded Inlo dozens of objects during inc cuban missile crisis the confrontation that brought the superpowers their Tomcsi to nuclear War. Debris from the probe appeared without warning on american attack warning radars in Alaska Oberg wrote. The cuban missile crisis was Al its height and for a few moments the unannounced and unpredicted soviet space failure looked like the Long feared Mas Sive soviet intercontinental ballistic missile  the debris burned up a it entered the atmosphere. But a Borg said the soviets have never publicly acknowledged the Ovcin. Soviet Media also have not reported on the most spectacular and probably the greatest disaster of the space age the a Coclin catastrophe which in october i960 killed scores of soviets including marshal Mitrofan a Coclin the commander in chief of the soviet Strate Gic rocket forces. The Accident came three years after he soviets launched the first sputnik satellite. Operating in the strictest secrecy the soviets launched two unmanned spacecraft on a probe to Mars but both fell Back Inlo the atmosphere and burned up became their upper stages failed. A third Booster was loaded with fuel and the order was Given to launch. But the main rocket engine did not ignite. It just stood there on the launch pad. Oberg  made a fatal error and committed a Gross violation of elementary rocket safety standards Oberg wrote. From the launch Bunker where he had prepared to watch the expected Success he ordered a team of engineers to inspect the rocket Booster immediately. Since he was an experienced combat commander he would not Send men into peril he himself avoided so he walked out to the base of the rocket White the inspection was being  although the main rocket failed to ignite the uppermost stage continued to operate As though it were in route to Mars and Ai the Lime when it would have separated from the Booster. Tired its own rockets Oburg noted. A million pounds of kerosene and liquid Joy gun flared up in a byte which must have been visible for hundreds of Miles Oberg wrote. The soviet press earned an official obituary of Nerfin on oct. 20. I960, saying that he had died tragically in the line of duly in a plane crash. Not a word has appeared since then in the official press although a nun smuggled out of Russia or published us. --.t-j-. Bash cd in searchlights and fuming with emigres have described inc incident am Clouds of super cold liquid oxygen Oberg pieced together the evidence. 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