European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 29, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Journa Sis vips am Kennedy space censer Cai e canaveral Fla. Up thousands of reporters and vips including celebrities John tra Volta and Daryl Hannah want to witness America s return to manned space flight straining facilities at the Kennedy space Center. Nasa officials said a record 5,100 applications had been received from news organizations by late tuesday and More were expected up until an hour before the planned Ian Nch thursday morning the invited guest list bulged with the names of seven senators 39 congressmen five foreign officials one Cabinet Secretary and dozens of top level Federal officials it s been a real logistical Nightmare said Karl Kristol Turson chief of news  Al the Kennedy space Center. They re coming from All Over inc.  by tuesday night the Grassy press site within View of the discovery s launch pad had become a Cable laced Forest of to production trucks most sprouting satellite dishes to beam the launch around the world. Nasa officials warned the larger news organizations to restrict their electrical use for the rest of the week citing the unexpected Drain on the Power sup ply. A Brief interruption knocked out a few television stations tuesday. We be maxed Oil on Power pleaded Nasa spokesman de Harrison if you turn on one More Coffeepot. You might bring everybody Down. We need you to not put anything else on the  Lisa Fowler a Nasa spokeswoman handling Media credentials said requests flooded the press Center throughout the Day even As the countdown progressed toward the launch and she expected applications until one hour before liftoff. Applications were nearly double the 2,707 issued for the inaugural Light of the shuttle Columbia in 1981 and Well above the 1,467 journalists at the Cape when the challenger Mission failed in 1986. But Access to the press site during launch itself was at a Premium. Rick Hauck Mission commander for discovery sits in a Trainer aircraft. Post challenger studies conducted by the air Force showed that in the event of a major failure Early in the launch phase a shuttle s solid fuel boost Era could prove More dangerous to spectators than had been previously believed. Because of those concerns Nasa will allow Only 1,800 people on the press site during launch. The rest will be forced to watch the launch from a causeway about 3 Miles farther away and allowed Back Al inc space Center 15 minutes after Blastoff. A vip viewing site also has been set up about 7 Miles from the launch pad. Access there will be limited to 2,000 on a first come first scr cd basis. The rest will be directed to the causeway. Among vips expected to watch the liftoff were movie stars Travolta a guest of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Hannah of splash Fame. Also expected o attend was Singer John Denver who wants to Fly in space. Interest in discovery s Mission was High from for eign news organizations including the czechoslovak news Agency prompting Nasa to set up a special desk in the main press Center to handle their inquiries. But inc american television networks with hundreds of accredited employees dominated the Media contingent Al the space Center dress site. Crews from the european broadcasting Union set up facilities in a Long trailer just in front of and below the major american networks. We re using land we be never used before said a. Diana Boles the Nasa logistics officer for the press. Sultan Salman Al Saud of saudi Arabia a member of the discovery s flight in june 1985, leads he list of foreign dignitaries most of whom work in their country s embassies in Washington. For inc first Lime. Nasa deployed i5 people Wear ing iridescent yellow vests just to help find parking places for 2,000 automobiles used by the journalists. Boles said. Sen. Adams denies sexual assault of woman by the Washington Post Washington sen. Brock Adams a Wash. Contended tuesday that a former congressional Secretary falsely accused him of sexually assaulting her and then demanded "$400,000 in hush  with his wife of 36 years standing at his Side Adams told a Capitol Hill news conference thai the woman s account of what happened one night in March 1987 Al his Northwest Washington Home was absolutely false and said the . At Torney Here had declined to prosecute him after investigating the allegations. The senator s statements came hours after both of Seattle s daily newspapers reported that Adams was accused of sexually assaulting the woman. In Whit was a pair of extraordinary statements Adams acknowledged that he had allowed Kari Tupper the 26-year-old daughter of dear longstanding friends of ours and someone he had known since childhood to spend a night at his Home while his wife was out of town in 1987. I went to bed  the senator said in one statement. I did not sexually As Sault the  in a Shorter statement he read to Tele vision cameras. Adams expressed out rage at Tupper s allegations saying he and his family had been harassed by this woman for Over a  he said she had demanded the Money to Settle a threatened lawsuit. Betty and i refused to pay. We will Al ways refuse to pay blackmail. Now she is trying this t am outraged about it and can t imagine what else she might dream  Tupper who now lives in Seattle where she has married could not be reached for comment Lawrence Baskir a . Lawyer who prosecutors said rep resented Tupper last year would not comment on the incident tuesday former . Attorney Joseph Digenova said tuesday that inc matter was handled routinely reviewed by career prosecutors and career supervisors and there was a unanimous decision that the matter had no Merit. I concurred in and approved their  Tupper filed a complaint with . Police on july 24, 1987, alleging that Adams sexually fondled her in his Home on a single occasion in March of that year. The complaint which was classified As a simple assault report said that the alleged offence occurred on March 27 or 28 Between 9 15 . And 6 30 . At a House Al 3002 Albe Marle St. New which is Adams address. It was unclear Why Tupper wailed until july to file inc complaint. Tupper told police Hal she woke up nude in Adams bed that she was drugged and Hal he was fondling her according to the police report she also believed she had been sexually assaulted a source close to the investigation said. The source said that Tupper first went for some Type of medical treatment to a Hospital in Arlington on March 18, and apparently was advised by authorities there to report her allegations to police. To poor a Cal to George Washington University Hospital three Days later and called District police Al that time inc source said. Law enforcement sources said that be fore Tupper formally filed the report she and Baskir went to the . Attorney s office and asked officials there to review the incident. After recommending thai Tupper first go the police department s sexual assault squad a group of assistant . Attorneys was assembled to review the Case the source said. The group unanimously recommended no prosecution according to the source. Adams said he had helped Tupper the daughter of a retired physical in Seattle get a Job As a congressional intern in 1985. After he was elected to the Senate in 1986, Adams said Tupper and her parents again appealed 10 him to help her find a Job. Without Adam s assistance aides said Tupper found a Job with the House select committee on aging. It was to discuss her unhappiness with thai Job thai Adams aides said Tupper came to Sec him. According to inc sen Ator s statement she called Nis House on the night of March 27,1987, believing he had forgotten a dinner they were to have Al Filomona s restaurant in Georgetown. He said she then came to his House and Hal they tried to have dinner Al another restaurant. When they discovered Hal it was closed they returned to the Adams Home so she could pick up her car Adams said i told her Hal she was Welcome to suy Al inc House if she was not Well enough to drive Home. She said she preferred to slay and then 1 went to bed alone he said. Looking Back i should have called her a cab but Al the time the suggestion seemed appropriate for a family Friend who was upset about her Job and not feeling  jury convicts 1st of 10 charged in gang rape san Diego Texas a a jury on tuesday convicted a Man of rape in the first trial among 10 men accused in a Case in which a woman claims she was attacked by As Many As 23 men outside an illegal cockfight. The jury deliberated Aboul 20 minutes before re turning the verdict against Orlando Garza 24. The panel also recommended a 20-year prison term. Garza showed Little reaction when the verdict was read. Stale District judge Ricardo Garcia set sentencing oct. 17, the 19-year-old woman Lold police Garza and other men forced her to go to a ranch where illegal cockfight were being held near this South Texas town of Aboul 5,000 people. She said As Many As 23 men raped and sodomized her on inc Hood of a car the night of March 26-27, sometimes two at a time. Garza who faces a later trial on an aggravated kidnapping charge claimed the woman insisted on having sex with him twice outside inc cockfight and thai they had been having an affair for some time. The victim said the verdict was right because i Don t want him to go and do it to somebody  i m relieved too because now it will take off some of the stress and the pain Hal i had she said in an interview in Corpus Christi tuesday afternoon. She said she is prepared to testify against the other men accused in the Case. Jurors returned the verdict about a is . They then deliberated another 20 minutes before deciding to recommend the maximum sentence for Garza. Garza had asked the jury for probation. A second defendant is to stand trial nest month. Assistant District attorney Rodolfo Gutierrez has said he believes some of the other defendants might want to plea bargain for Shorter prison terms if jurors sentence Garza to prison