European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 14, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 Snow starved resorts finally had something to cheer about monday morning. A snowfall of several inches a Little late but whee ended weeks of frustration in Alpine areas. The Man sweeping his car in Davos Switzerland smiles slightly asap he goes about his work. And on a slope in the Tyrol near Innsbruck Austria a Happy girl is All set for sledding. 2 astronauts got waivers paper says Houston a the astronaut who commanded the first Post challenger Mission was not medically qualified Tolly and another astronaut who is col orb Lind received a waiver so he can go int space a newspaper reported sunday. The Johnson space Center medical qualification Board recommended last year that space shuttle discovery com Mander Frederick h. Hauck be disqualified because of kidney Stone problems but the Board was overruled the hous ton chronicle reported. Sources who asked not to be identified also told the newspaper that Daniel c. Brandenstein chief of the astronaut corps failed an Eye test in 1987 but has received a waiver so he can Fly again the newspaper said. In both cases the sources said rear . Richard h. Truly Nasa s associate administrator for space flight inter ceded. The sources Are Active members insight Crew operations and in the space and life sciences directorate which includes the flight Medicine clinic and medical operations Branch at the space enter the newspaper said. In Washington truly declined to comment on individual medical cases Friday. I try to do two things truly said. Itry to make sure from the management View that the medical process works that individual health problems Are treated fairly by the medical qualification Board and management and secondly to protect the rights of the individual involved and the major objective is to get healthy astronauts to the launch pad for the  Aaron Cohen director of the Johnson space Center said neither Rick Hauck nor Dan Brandenstein nor any other astronaut for that matter has receive preferential treatment in the consideration of medical  sources said the space Medicine Board grounded Hauck Early in 1988 be cause of a kidney Stone problem but the recommendation was later overruled. Brandenstein failed the Farnswort lantern color perception test in 1987, sources said adding that he received the Only waiver Ever issued to an astronaut for Colo blindness. Some of the most important of about2,000 circuit Breakers and switches on the shuttle orbiter Are color coded. Gunmen kill Belfast Catholic lawyer protestant group claims responsibility Belfast Northern Ireland a a protestant vigilante group said monday that its gunmen murdered a prominent roman Catholic lawyer in his Home and Irish nationalists accused a British government minister of creating the target. Patrick Finucane 38, who had acted for clients involved in the outlawed Irish Republican army s Campaign against British Rule was shot to death sunday night by three men who stormed his Home in North  wife Geraldine a protestant was shot in the ankle but was in satisfactory condition in a Hospital. Their three children were not Hurt. On monday the outlawed Ulster Freedom fighter telephoned a coded message to the British broadcast ing corp. In Belfast claiming responsibility for the at tack. The Uff said it shot Pat Finucane the provisional Ira officer not Pat Finucane the  while the provisional Ira threaten and shoot Loy West Germany to set up hot line with soviet leaders Bonn West Germany a West German and soviet leaders have agreed to set up a hot line designed to strengthen and deepen Trust Between the two nations. Chief government spokesman Friedhelm Ost said the hot line would allow Chancellor Helmut Kohl and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev to be in close personal Contact As officials prepare for a Gorbachev visit in june. Alist protestant construction workers removal Menand those who simply share their lunch boxes the inevitable retaliation will take place the Uff statement said. The Ira has targeted workers who do maintenance and construction work for the police and the British army in Northern Ireland. Danny Morrison vice president of the Ira s Legal political  sinn fein said Junior Home office min ister Douglas Hogg had provided the pretext for the slaying of or.  Hogg had told a parliamentary committee Dis cussing an anti terrorist Bill that certain Northern ire land lawyers were unduly sympathetic to paramilitary organizations. He made the statement Intlehouse of commons on Jan. 31. Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King the Britis Cabinet minister responsible for the province said monday that he believes Hogg s comments had Noth ing to do with the murder. Not at All King said. I think that or. Finucan Ewas Well known for the work he did for the clients he  London Hogg called the murder tragic and wicked and he said he Hopes the killers will be found and brought to trial quickly. A taxi used by the gunmen was hijacked in a protes Tant area of Belfast and was found abandoned by police in another protestant area. British news reports said Finucane was the first at Torney to be murdered by extremists in 20 years of sectarian violence although five members of the Judic iary have been killed by the Ira and others have been attacked. Cracks disrupt concorde flight Paris a a supersonic concorde Jet in route to new York with 69 passengers returned to Paris after cracks appeared in a porthole Ashe plane was about Halfway across the Atlantic air France said monday. It was the second recent incident involving cracks in the concorde. Air France flight 001 was at 59,000 feet and had just reached supersonic Speed sunday when the cracks were noticed at the top of the outer most of four Glass plates in one porthole said air France spokesman Laurent Kressman. He did not know who first noticed the cracks about 90 minutes into the three hour and 45 minute flight. The Pilot slowed the Jet dropped to 32,000 feet and returned to Charles de Gaulle Airport Kressman said. Passengers were put aboard another con Corde but the plane was delayed and travellers arrived about nine hours after the Normal air France flight to new York. The window was repaired and the Jet was scheduled to make its regular 11 . Flight monday he said. Air France has seven of the 100-seat supersonic jets. British airways has just completed a maintenance Check on its seven jets after Small cracks were found in the roof Structure of on plane