European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 30, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 ceremony recalls challenger tragedy Cape canaveral Fla. A space worker Sand tourists stood silently saturday for 73 seconds the length of the fatal challenger flight to remember the seven astronauts who died in the fiery shuttle explosion three years ago. About 350 peace activists marked the anniversary with a rally outside a Kennedy space Center Gate to protest the launch of defense department payload aboard space shuttles. Four women were arrested for trespassing when they walked into an off limits area. Tour buses stopped in their tracks and engineers technicians and support Crews halted activity As flags at the Kennedy space Center were lowered to half Sta fat 11 38 a.m., the moment when challenger lifted off on Jan. 28, 1986. It s an appropriate Way to Mark the occasion Leav ing it to the individuals on How they want to remember it said Forrest s. Mccartney the Center director. Only about 1,000 of the Center s 17,000 employee were at work saturday but hundreds of tourists joined them in the tribute. Meanwhile a challenger memorial was dedicate saturday in downtown Miami. It was t until we lost challenger that the Ameri can Public realized that space travel is dangerous said rep. Bill Nelson speaking at the challenger 7miami memorial dedication at Bayfront Park. Nel son a Florida Democrat Rode on a shuttle Mission jus two weeks before the challenger disaster. The 105-foot White sculpture shaped like a twisting girder was designed by japanese american artist Isamu Noguchi who died in december. On Friday space workers at the Cape paused briefly to Honor the challenger Crew a Day before the anniversary. Mccartney said in a televised message we won forget the sacrifice made by these seven fallen heroes. We promised them we d push on in the years to come to Flythe space shuttle again we re fulfilling that  the peace activist demonstration was organized bythe Florida coalition for peace and Justice. Among those participating was former Apollo astronaut Demitchell who walked on the Moon in 1971. Mitchell told the group that military reconnaissance and navigation satellites have a place in space because they help keep the peace. That s not True about putting weapons in space congressman Bill Nelson Speaks to crowd at the dedication of the challenger 7" memorial in Miami. He said specifically mentioning the strategic defense initiative program whose goal is to deploy an anti missile system in orbit. Following an afternoon of speeches and songs the demonstrators had a peaceful confrontation with  Rity guards at a Center Gate near the Headquarters building. After being warned that anyone passing through the Gate would be arrested four women entered. They were booked and Given a court appearance Date. Organizers had announced before the rally that some planned to trespass As part of the protest. A group of men wearing Kun flux klan Robes stood by to protest what the demonstrators were advocating. Killed in the challenger tragedy were Dick sconce Michael Smith Judith Resnik Ellison Onizuka Ron Mcnair Greg Jarvis and teacher Christa  s brother Eric Mcnair of Atlanta said at a ceremony in nearby Cocoa Beach that it is important to remember the challenger explosion so we will not forget what happened lessening the chances of it  the Accident was blamed on a faulty Booster rocket joint that failed to Seal properly allowing flame to escape and ignite the shuttle s external fuel tank. Wedding Bells ring at Chicago homeless shelter Chicago a a homeless Man and a shelter Volunteer were married the knot saturday at the Sanctuary in a Crum bling neighbourhood where they met Las Winter. It s a gorgeous time it s a Beautiful time said Christine Williams who married Roosevelt Tucker. This is where we met. This is our spot. This is where we fell in  the inner voice shelter was filled with about 30 friends and family of the couple As the Rev. Robert Johnson who founded the shelter pronounce them husband and wife. The couple met when he was living on the Street and she was volunteering at the shelter preparing meals for the men and women who Stop in to escape the col Winter winds that blow through the empty lots and abandoned buildings inthe Bleak West Side neighbourhood. Tucker 34, now lives with his 32 year old Bride and her two children in nearby Public housing project. She works As a school crossing guard but heis still unemployed and spends a Good Deal of time at the shelter helping Totake care of the 150 to 200 people who eat there daily. Things la be better for them he looks pretty Happy so we re Happy said Tucker s brother Reginald. I thought he was t going to do it added their beaming Mother Irma Tucker. Now he s got a Beautiful wife and he s  Roosevelt Tucker said the wedding was a Good first step toward getting Back on his feet after being homeless off Andon for seven years. He said he planned to look for a Job but that until he find something he was Happy to help out at the shelter that had Given him a Chance. I enjoy doing it and i feel if i can bring myself up from the Street i can help other people too Tucker said. Anti abortion arresters include traffic officer by the associated press a police officer was arrested for joining an anti abortion protest outside a clinic in Las vegas saturday and eight protesters in new Jersey chained themselves together inside a clinic As More than 350 people were arrested in anti abortion protests nationwide. Bristol Tenn. Cranston . And St. Petersburg Fla. Also were Sites of demonstrations by groups that have been protesting regularly since last summer out Side abortion clinics. Anti abortion protests by apparently unrelated groups were held in Columbia s.c., and in fort Wayne ind., where about 350 pro Choice activists ral lied across the Street from More than 5,000 anti Abor Tion demonstrators. In Las vegas traffic officer Chet Gallagher was As signed to duty elsewhere but Rode a police motorcycle to the protest site and joined the group after his Rol Call said police it. Steve Gammell. One of the persons arrested was a metro police officer who was on duty at the time and in uniform said Gammell. He chose to join the protest and be came one of the protesters in an unlawful Assembly. He refused to remove himself and he was arrested like everyone else Gammell said. Police arrested 91 people he said. Gallagher defended his action in a statement follow ing his arrest saying i have a sworn responsibility to protect human  Gallagher was placed on paid leave until an internal investigation determines whether disciplinary action should be taken. The protest was staged by the Southern Nevada operation Rescue a chapter of the National anti Abor Tion group that has moved to close Down abortion clinics by blocking their entrances. In Woodbridge n.j., eight anti abortion protesters chained together by their necks and legs inside a women s clinic later were dragged out of the building by police who brought special equipment from new York to break the shackles. Police arrested 17 others sitting or lying without chains inside the medical care Center and charged them with trespassing for not obeying an order to leave the grounds said Woodbridge police it. John Demarest. Many protesters were from operation Rescue s new Jersey new York chapter. But none of the eight chained protesters was from the group. The last two people removed from the Center were chained together for 12 hours police said. At Cranston ., about 60 protesters blocked the doors of an abortion clinic closing the facility for 2 /2 hours before police carried them away. An additional150 demonstrators picketed on the sidewalk in front of the women s medical Center. Thirty two demonstrators in Bristol Tenn., we rearrested on trespassing charges outside an abortion clinic police said. At the clinic in Woodbridge administrator Ellen Samuel said business continued As usual during the protest and All the patients with appointments showed up and were treated. She said the protesters violated a civil order barring them from the property and that the Center planned to pursue the matter in court. They always protest Here on saturdays and the March peacefully and in the past they have respected the civil order she said. In Columbia s.c., nearly 2,000 people Marche from the University of South Carolina to the statehouse on saturday in a delayed protest of the anniversary of Roe is. Wade the . Supreme court decision legalizing abortion. The rally was held six Days after the anniversary of the decision because several organizers had travelled to Washington to participate in a National March. Police in St. Petersburg Fla., arrested 150 abortion protesters charged with trespassing during a sit in at an abortion clinic said Tom Kovalcik a police spokesman