European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 3, 1989 co  re chord so can and emergency workers inspect bomb damage at the rive Rule press in to Tow York. Fri to Aid booksellers Justice def. A so probing satanic threats Washington a representatives of publishers and booksellers met with the attorney general and Fri director wednesday and said they arc satisfied with the Federal response to threats of violence related id Salman Rushdie s Book the satanic verses thirteen publishing and boo Selling executives met for an hour at the Justice department with attorney general Dick Thorn Birgh and Fri director William sessions. Afterwards Lawrence Hughes chairman of hears Trade books group and Ilic association of american publishers said i m satisfied they re fully committed to Pul whatever resources they can into combating this terrorist threat Hughes whose group represents 250 publishers who put out 7s percent of Fth nation s books added thai the executives had called Tor the meeting be cause the response from the government had  slow up to now. There was no immediate re Spoor to Ayatollah Khomeini s death threat. It was quite a few Days before anybody in the government mid  on tuesday bombs exploded in two Berkeley Calif bookstores and the offices of a weekly news paper in new York afterwards president Bush or dered the Justice department to gel involved. Justice spokesman Loye Miller said the Fri has opened a criminal investigation of the three blasts. After inc meeting Thornburgh said every re source available will be committed to ensure individuals and organizations in this country will be protected in the exercise of their first amendment rights he said the group discussed How the. Fri can gather intelligence Anil How people outside govern ment can help. Bernic Rath executive director of the american booksellers association which represents owners of 7,000 bookstores said 100,000 copies of the Book will be shipped this weekend and Only a Quarter Inch of Plale Glass will stand Between the Bon Siil Sicri ideals and what s happening on the streets he predicted virtually All bookstores will sell the novel. The stabs and stripes base closing panel defends suggestions Washington a members Ofa presidential panel wednesday defended their plan to close s6.u.5. Military bases telling lawmakers the decisions were based on military  former sen. Abraham Ribicoff. D-conn., and for Mer Kep. Jack Edwards. R-ala., who Are co chairmen of the commission on base realignment and closure also disputed lawmakers claims that the decisions were based on faulty data or conclusions. Ribicoff and Edwards testifying before the House subcommittee on military installations and facilities. Defended the panel s dec. 30 report we did not just Pluck these recommendations out of midair Ribicoff said. Disputing charges that the commission played poll tics. Edwards added military value is really inc Touchstone of the  the panel recommending closure of 86 installations and the partial closure of five others expects its recommendations to save $5.6 billion Over 20 years. Congress is scheduled to Vole within weeks on he recommendations which must be either endorsed in whole or refused in whole. Most criticism has come from lawmakers facing base closings Iri their areas. Some lawmaker say the decisions Are based on bad conclusions and that trans Fer of some doomed bases functions will Cost As much or More Money than Wil be saved. Rep. Larry Hopkins Ray said he originally sup ported the legislation. But Hopkins said he has been concerned by calculations that show the closures might not save Money i we Ronot i m not going to support in hcs Aid. For example the commission estimates reductions at fort Dix n.j., will save ��4.5 million a year. A report by inc Secretary of defense s office predicts the change will Cost $190 million in new military construction and $182.million in other implementation costs. Deputy assistant defense Secretary Robert Stone who provided the Cost estimates defended them. There is an old adage that it lakes Money to make Money. For base closures it takes Money to save Money Stone told the subcommittee. Ribicoff Sald the commission made its recommendations after serious  criticism was expected he said. Change is not always welcomed. In fact it can be  rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., the subcommittee chairwoman asked Edwards about speculation some of the decisions May have been motivated by politics. We were not Only bipartisan Vic were non parti san Edwards replied. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 3. We a Bucharest. Romania radio station broadcast a decree from the country s supreme presidium announcing the government was confiscating All land of the former Gentry without compensation. 30 years ago  3. 1959 the cuban government led by Primc minister Fidel Castro began redistributing land under its new agrarian Reform Law including 18,000 acres owned by an american tobacco company. 20 years ago foe a. March 3, 1969 the soviets warned that they could not guarantee the Security of Allied planes carry ing West German lawmakers to Berlin to participate in the presidential election in Defiance of East German ultimatums. 10 years ago today. March 3, 1979 the Energy department said it bad adopted a new fuel pricing plan that would let average gasoline prices rite at much As 12.4 cents a gallon in the next two years to $ i a gallon stealth missile photo released Washington a the air Force continued a relaxation of Security shrouding its newest weapons wednesday by releasing a Polo graph providing a limited View of its new stealth cruise missile. The Black and White photo shows a b-53 bomber lying with four of the new missiles tucked under each of its wings. The picture shows the missile has flattened sides instead of a rounded Sli pc that the Chine air Inlet is Cut into the top of the missile instead of sticking up on a Pylon from the fuselage and that the wings and Tail ins arc folded up against the missile body until it is fired. But the Angle from which the photograph was i docs not allow any other details of the weapon s design Toic discerned and the air  was not prepared to say. More. Production schedules budget figures arid tentative dates for Fielding All remain classified said it. Col Riek bpm a defense department spokesman the release of the photo of the stealth cruise known formally As the advanced cruise missile or am is the third such move in 10 months including id a poor photo 7a stealth Jet an artist sketch of the Wing design an photo graph of the sup Secrel of ii lighter. Engine defect will delay discovery launch Cape canaveral fat. A the launch of the space shuttle discovery will be delayed at last two Days until March ii because of a crushed electrical part on a main engine Nasa officials said. The delay apparently will resolve a conflict that had been brewing when a classified military launching threatened to bump the shuttle from its thursday tar get Dale. The space Agency said wednesday during a Readi Ness test of discovery s three main engines a control Ler on engine no i shut Down prematurely. The prob Lem was traced to a crushed solenoid on a valve a solenoid is a Coil of wire that acts like a bar Magnet when carrying n current. A replacement part was flown to Cape canaveral late wednesday and was to be installed and checked out Over the next 24 hours. Officials said that will mean a slip of at least two Day sin the launch shuttle managers planned to meet thursday and Friday to set a firm launch Date. Discovery is to carry a Creyi of five Asir Nauls which is to deploy a Large communications satellite and con duct medical and scientific experiments during five Days in orbit