European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday March 29,1989 Star wars rocket tracker fails Early test by the new York times a  salcl1ile launched Friday failed one of its first tests. Pentagon officials said monday the $ 140 million satellite was mean to observe the firing of a nearby Racket in space but was unable to do so because a Lens Cap blocked its View. Officials in the program to develop an anti missile system stressed i hat the spacecraft was no functioning perfectly and that us Mission was in no danger. Over several months sensors on the three ton sat. Elliec Are to see what the exhausts of various rockets look like against a variety of backgrounds testing whether similar sensors could rack enemy its sics and warheads so thai space based weapons could at tack them. The satellite s first observations were to have occurred Friday when  of the second stage Delta rocket engine thai had ferried it into space. The initial part of the Experiment worked the Sec Ond stage engine separating from the satellite floating away and Ihnn firing is engines for about a second. Those flames were observed perfectly by the satellite s  the next part of the Experiment the satellite was to track the second stage engine As it drifted away and 45 minutes later make observations As it fired its in Pines for about 10 seconds to Send itself plunging Back into Earth s atmosphere. Out that test failed when the Lens Coyer stayed on a sensor too Long blocking in from tracking he second stage engine As it drifted away in space. As a result the satellite was pointed in the wrong direction to View the longer of the second stage firings. Or. Michael d. Griffin head of technology for the Pentagon s strategic defense initiative said the unsuccessful Experiment was riot critical to the Success of the anti missile Mission. In was important Grill in said. We wanted it. But it s a six month Mission with Many experiments going on. You have to judge a pain i ing by the whole Canvas and not each and every individual Brush  he added that contingency plans were being studied that would allow the spacecraft to observe the firing of another Delia second stage from a rocket flight unrelated to the anti missile Mission. Griffin stressed that the satellite was now hum Ming along like a Fine Swiss  in months ahead it is to observe several planned rocket firings including the launching1 of other Star wars experiments and Small rockets from such places As Wallops Island off the Virginia coast. It is also to observe targets of  such As military and civilian space launch Ings and firings of the  shuttles. V the satellite test is the first Star wars space Raper mint of the Bush admin it ration and the first one Ever in the anti missile program to Las More Thim a few hours. Labor Secretary targets dropout programs Atlanta a labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole urged monday that1 bureaucratic barriers be broken Down be tween programs aimed at preventing school Dro Nouis saying a fragmented piecemeal programmatic approach does t work. Dole who began a to City fact finding our of labor department regional offices is meeting wit officials and students in youth Job training and employment pro Grams. The Lour ends april in Boston we need a Way to tic together the programs both federally and most definitely at the Community level she told civic leaders teachers and students in Atlanta s exodus program founded  1971 to combat Georgia s 34 percent dropout rate. The program is now in 31 cities. She said her Lour is designed to help learn which programs work and which everyone can have a Job today who wants a Job if he has the skills. But you be got to have the  Elizabeth Dole Don t. Dole said the information will be used to Start programs to identify individual students needs in to 2 cities that will be chosen later these arc to be converted to Model programs in live cities. She said current programs often Over Lap or duplicate each other and Lack Fol Low up studies. Dole said she believe her. Primary goal is to ensure that the United slates has the Best trained labor Force in the world. Bui she noted that youth unemployment nationally is 16 percent and that minority youth unemployment is 35 percent or higher in some areas she said she will urge other Ted Cral de. Part mints such As education and health and human services to tic programs to Gether with the labor department. Arc we training people for the jobs of yesterday or the jobs of tomorrow she asked. Dole said much of what she referred Loas the skills Gap and the motivation Gap is rooted in a Lime when there were ewer Job possibilities for Young people and expectations were lower. Everyone can have a Job today who wants a Job if he has the skills she said. But you be got to have the skills. It s a new Day Dole said. We be got a real Mission Here  americans fail to heed Bush s Coll to sep up Charity work poll finds Albany. . At americans Aren t responding to president Bush s thousand Points of Light message by giving More time and Money to Charity a poll released monday Days. Most of the .010 people polled by the Marist Institute. Of Public opinion said they planned no changes in the time they Volunteer to Charity or Money they give said Dennis Murray president of Marist College in Pough Kerpsie flush As part of his Cah for a Kinder and gentler Amer Ica has asked americans id Jive More time and Money to Charity most people feel that they arc giving at their limit and Are jiving a fair amount said Murray author of the guaranteed i und raising system.". H Alf the people polled said they donate time to a religious civic or Community Oiga Bizalion. Eighty five per cent of americans contribute Money to churches charities or civic groups the poll found slightly More than tvo thirds of Lite respondents said they d give the same amount of Lime and Money to Char ily in i9s9 As they did last year. The Survey found 19 percent planned to give More Money this year and 12 percent would give less lately because they had More or less Money to spend. Eighty three percent of those who Don t Volunteer time now Don t plan to change their habits the Survey found. The people who Are in positions of leadership in this country be they religious political  Leaden,.Are going to have to Moke a very Clear Case for additional giving and additional involvement Murray said. The Survey conducted by Telephone in the lower 48. States from Jan. 29 to feb i also found that women arc More Likely than men to give time or Money to Charity. The margin of error was plus or minus 3,5 percentage Points. Pollard s jailed wife seeks Transfer Minneapolis a the wife of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard says that she is isolated and mistreated at a Federal prison Hospital where she is the Only female inmate  she should be transferred. I m hated by administrative and medical person Sci Anne Henderson Pollard told judge Harry Maclaughlin i feel i be been in segregation the two months i be been  said Pollard who weighs less than 100 pounds and appeared frail and in pain during men. Day v  Pollard is serving two concurrent five ear prison terms on charges related to her husband s spying Jona than Pollard. 34, was sentenced in 1987 to life in Pris on for supplying classified documents to israeli agents. Pollard 2s, and her lawyers argued that she should be transferred to a Federal prison Camp in Danbury,.conn, which they said would be less stressful. They said her physical condition is worsening at the Federal medical Center in Rochester. . Magistrate Janke by Dochych has recommended that Mac Laughlin deny Pollard s request. Assistant . District attorney Robert Smalt argued Hal Rochester was the Best place to i cat Pollard s medical problems. He said the woman has made herself sicker by limiting her in take of food and water. The prison Hospital placed pol lard  24-hour surveillance. To Monitor her food intake but the surveillance has been lifted. Pollard told Marla Upham that the surveillance was her most stressful humiliating experience., she said i could hot sleep. 1 could not even have the dignity of going to the Lorilei without someone watching  Pollard stateside woman left Mother s body on sofa for up to 2 years Gainesville feb. A the body of a woman who May have been dead for two year was found monday on a sofa fully clothed at the Home Ofa daughter police said. The woman identified As Clara Peters Whit ing would be so if alive said la Sadie Darnell an autopsy will be performed to determine a time and cause of death Darnel said adding that foul play was not suspected a son Charles whaling of Mcl Rosc who had been trying to a his Mother for several weeks discovered the body Darnell said. The daughter Myra Joyce Vickers did not Tell authorities Why she had left her Mother s body in the Home Darnell said. She really did t know what to do Darnell said Darnell said police have not decided whether to file charges against Vickers for not reporting the death. Passing ship finds Barge that eluded huge search Boston a a missing sludge Barge that eluded searchers for Days even though in was As big As 3 football Field and brightly lighted is towed Back to new York after being discovered off Ber Muda a coast guard official said monday. Tic empty Barge the Princess a drifted to sea during a storm feb. 25. It was found March 17 by an Oil Tanker i to Miles West of Bermuda and Lowed Back to new York Harbor on saturday. Even though coast guard officials spent a week searching 6i, Square Miles of Ocean for the Barge which has Strong floodlights and a homing device it was found by a passing ship thai was not looking Tor it,1 " coast guard Petty officer David Jersey said in Boston ii should never have drifted so far. We Don t know what happened to it