European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 8, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 four Navy spy satellites launched Dod denies report that rocket exploded los Anci Les Lal j four Navy spy Sale Llilas headed toward proper Urbiss despite the reported explosion of a rocket s first stage As it fell Way from he Rusl of inc Booster during monday s launch sources said tuesday. Photo on Pace 7. The Compoe Accord newspaper filing observers on the ground reported tuesday thai tic Titan 2 s expended first stage apparently blew up after it separated from the second stage of the 103-foot, liquid fuelled Rockol. Which was seen continuing skyward. The Sall Litas arc moving exactly As they should be an air Force source told the associated press speaking on condition of anonymity. Everything is just peachy a second source also demanding anonymity confirmed inc Sale Llilas Werc not endangered after the launch from Vandnberg fab 140 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. The sources could nol confirm thai a secondary explosion occurred but said they would t necessarily he told of such an even i f in did t of Eccl deploy Neni of the suit la pics. Spokesmen Al Vandyn Harg and the Pentagon would not discuss Ifan explosion occurred. I checked Inlo it and everything i know is Posi Yonkers pays fines totalling $192,000 Yonkers , al1 _ City officials paid fines totalling s 192.000 tues Day and faced with escalating fines reaching ii million a Day by the end of the week pressed their efforts to end an impasse in the City Council Over court air dared housing . In yer Nicholas Wasicsko said he met with c Council Man Nicholas  and i Clur Chema for 7v hours monday 10 discuss services that would have to be Cul town Cellec fines no meetings were scheduled tuesday hut the mayor said he was in Contact by Telephone with City Council members the Federal judge in the Case and aides to gov Mario Cuomo. Al Issue is . District judge Leonard Sand s order hat the City Council approve measures to promote the construction of 800 units of subsidies housing. Sand ruled in ims5 that the cily wus Guilly of decades of intentional segregation of its schools and Public housing. The schools were desegregated under a plan approved by Sand and the City Council agreed in january to develop 1,000 units of housing. Under pressure from people who Don t want Suh Sidi cd housing in their Midilla class neighbourhoods four councilmen re canted and vowed to Block Ilie plan. Sand levied escalating fines against the City s100 for the first Day and doubling every Day Afler that. He also fined the recalcitrant councilmen. Live said capt. Marly Hauser. An air Force Public affairs officer in Washington la went  the observers who arc familiar Wilh launch proce dures believed the Crimson Flash resulted from a puncture in a nearly empty oxidizer tank on the first stage of the s37.s million Rockol according to the newspaper in the cily where Many Vandenburg workers live. The record said similar anomalies happened after launches of other rockets at Vandenburg without preventing their payloads from reach ing Orbil. The Rockol was the first of a series of Titan 1 inner Continental ballistic missiles refurbished for use As space boosters. The missiles each carrying a nine Meg Aton nuclear warhead were deployed in silos in Arkan Sas. Kansas and Arizona in inc 1960s, Bui were re moved because of their age. Spice policy expert John Pike of the federation of american scientists has Idun tipped the Titan 2 s pay Load As a while Cloud Navy Ocean surveillance sys pm of four satellites which would be used to listen to the soviet Fleet s radar and radio communications. Once the payload reaches inc desired Altitude a Mother satellite deploys three  so All four Are Strung out in Polar orbit each a few Hundred Miles from Hensel. I Ikei Aid. Titan 2s were removed from service As icbms be cause of corrosion and other aging problems including a 1980 Titan explosion thai killed one silo Crew Mem Ber and injured Al others. The air Force decided to refurbish Tilan 2 As space boosters because in was cheaper ban building new Rock cos. Last Friday a satellite said to be designed fur intercept ing soviet communications was launched by a s65-Milhon Tilan 34 d Roeckel from Cape canaveral Fla. A source close to the project who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity said the spacecraft failed to achieve its desired stationary orbit when the upper stage of the Rockol failed to re ignite. On monday Cap. Norma Payne a Vandyn Borg spokeswoman called the Titan 2 liftoff a spectacular launch with All systems operating As expected but snid officials would not know for two in three Day whether inc classified payload achieved its intended orbit from North to South poles. Air Force Secretary Edward c. Aldridge issued a prepared Sla Lemeni after the launch declaring this is the year of space launch  president Kcal in is awarded an Hii Nur urn doctorate in  in Eer in Ink s tuesday at i lusting c Ull Urc or. Reagan in hustings neb. Kenyan  on hand to dedicate the Cray Center tar the communication arts. Keulan i assisted by or. Gerald Hazel Rolfie left and or. Thomas a Reeves. Inc Trull arc president in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sel t. 8, 1948 soviet troops and Eastern Schlor German police established a blockade around the Berlin cily Hall and refused passage to All Western Allied personnel following communist demonstrations outside the building. 30 years ago today. ,. Sept. 8, 195s fighting broke out Between Streci mobs and rebel Millary police in the heart of Caracas following an attempted military coup in Venezuela. 20 years ago foe a. Sept 8. I96s a cuban intelligence officer stationed in Mexico City was rescued by mexican police while attempting to flee from cuban officials escorting him Back to Havana. J 0 years ago today. Sept. 8, 197s pc ill Moon he drummer for the who Rock group was found dead in his apartment shortly after attending a party in London. Celebrities fast to support Chavez s Boycott of grapes new York Al actress Kelly magi jigs and Kerry Kennedy daughter of slain sen. Robert Kennedy began a Ihrcke Day film tuesday in support of United farm workers president Cesar Chavez s anti pesticide fas for  the two women arc taking Over the fast from actor Emilio esl Cycz who isl finished his three Day stint. He had taken Over from his father actor Manin Sheen. By falling the celebrities Are support ing Chavez s Boycott of California grapes because of the alleged use of dangerous pesticides on the fruit. Chavez began the water Only fast in x la no calif., on july 16. He turned the fas Over to the Kev Jesse Jackson after 36 Days. Adam Ortega a spokesman for the Cali fornia table grape commission dismissed the fast As mainly for publicity  every government lest has demonstrated California table grapes Are Safe and delicious said Ortega. Is Lovez Star of the cd Nam film Young guns passed the fast along to top gun Star Mcgillis Kennedy and Well known chef Tommy Tang outside the food Emporium supermarket at Broadway and West 68lh Street. The store is owned by the a a Chain the largest buyer of grapes in inc metro Politan area an event spokesperson said