European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 6, 19b9 the stars and stripes Page 3 of finds lubricant loss in bib wings by Norman Black a military Riler Washington the air Force has discovered a problem Wilh lubricant lev Els in a Wing gear Honn is d-1b bomber Fleet thai is slowing the Clurn of the bombers to the air. Ilic pc lagon said tuesday. The Fleet had own grounded after a fuel tank lore on a bomber March 27. Dan Howard the Pentagon s chief spokesman said the strategic air come had cleared the Biu Fleet o Clurn to flight status sunday us individual planes underwent a final safely Check. During the final safety checks however air Force mechanics began discover ing a problem with gear boxes that arc part of the Assembly that moves the wings Back and Forth the spokesman continued Howard said the air Force now expects roughly 50 of tic 97 a lbs to be certified for flight operations by the weekend. -. The problem involves a toss of the lubricant contained inside a. Sealed gear Box thai handles what is known is the Angle gear drive shall Howard said. That Angle gear drive Shaft is a key component of the Wing moving Assembly the air Force said thai of the 80 b i is thai so far received the final safety inspection 70 showed insufficient lubricant Levels inside thai Gearbox. Howard denied tuesday thai the air Force had uncovered any evidence show ing that a loss of lubricant in that gear Box was the cause of he March 27 Inci Dent thai Ted to u we Klong grounding of the a in Fleet. In that incident a b-1b, undergoing apr flight Check Al Dyess fab Texas suffered a tear in a fuel tank when the left Wing swung too far Forward. Howard disclosed tuesday that invests probing the incident had discovered a fractured Quill Shaft in a main Wing gear to and a fractured Angle gear drive  other sources who insisted on anonymity said inc air Force docs now suspect Thill a lubricant scat problem led to the March 27 mishap probably by Al lowing too much Loretic pressure to buildup on the  at first Blush that s exactly what we believe caused inc Wing logo Loo far said one source there s a very definite connection. ,. Howard referring to inc two Fra Clurid shafts said we Don t know what sequence those occurred in. We Ilon l know what the first cause was yet whether it was a procedural problem a maintenance problem or a hardware problem. Out simply in the course of investigating every possible problem that they could have had the did discover this potential problem with the lubricant the air Force said the scaled gearboxes were manufactured by the sunds Trand corp. When mechanics found on with insufficient lubricant it was re placed and sent off to the con Ravior for  think it s fortunate we had the Inci Dent at Dyess on inc ground because that led to the kind of detailed investigation thai enabled us to catch something that we might not have  added one air Force  four engine re is the first add Tion to the manned bomber Force in More than 25 years. To improve its performance the plane features wings that can be swept Forward or backward inight. The air Force built 100 of Lac planes during the Reagan administration to modernize inc old b-s2 bomber Force while it developed the new b-2 stealth bomber. Three bibs have been lost in accidents leaving 97 in the Fleet. Pursuit forces suspect to boil out of plane Miami Al j a suspected marijuana smuggler being chased by Federal agents bailed out of his aircraft prompt ing Norad to launch an air Force f-16 to shoot Down inc pilotless plane officials said tuesday. But the sophisticated military Jet was t needed be cause the twin engine acc Shcraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico about 190 Miles West of Naples on monday n ight footage of the plane slamming into the sea was filmed from a . Customs service plane one of five aircraft involved in the Chase. Ronald Arthur Cox 42, a Pilot from Miami set his plane on automatic Pilot and making his first jump parachuted out Over Highlands county in South Centra Florida said coastguard puny officer Luis Diaz  he almost took his head off. He was upside Down and the cables were around his neck when he pulled the Cord Diaz said. In custody later com said a companion whom he refused to identify bailed out before him. We Don t know any thing about a second person said customs spokesman Michael site Shari. A coast guard Black Hawk helicopter in Pursuit of the acc Shcraft saw cose swing into a a turn and bail out Over land just North of Lake Josephine Shechan said. They saw a Large object with a Parachute leave the plane he said adding thai agents weren t Curlain it first what went out the door at 7,500 feet they landed and took Coxe in to custody Cox charged with smuggling marijuana by aircraft was taken before a magistral a tuesday and ordered held without Bond pending another hearing Friday a passport Sei cd from Coxe indicated he left Belize on monday officials said. A 2-Foflt-Lall hand of Amun outrun god of Luxor Temple to the bust Preseau d if is  piece of sculpture found in a pit inside the ample. J5 More Sfa Fues Jtj dug up inside Luxor Temple Cairo Egypt a excavators live uncovered an additional 15 statues of ancient Roy c ally and gods from a pit inside Luxor Temple that yielded five magnificent statues earlier this year. The Overall find is As significant As the Dos Cov cry of the Tomb of tutankhamen in 1922, which yielded enormous amounts of Gold and other precious objects said say cd Tawfik chairman of the egyptian antiquities organization the Tut Iamb was wonderful bul gave us information Only about the Art of the Day Taw Fik said tuesday. This find will answer Many questions about Many periods of  he said one of inc new statues is unlike any Ever found a 42-Inch-High White Granite cobra probably representing Merl Sager the goddess of silence. Her Job was to keep secret the location of Royal tombs in the Bone dry valleys of the Kings and Queens across the Nile Kivor opposite Resini Day Luxor 450 Miles South of Cairo Tawfik and other egyptian officials said work ers trying to take the search deeper hit Walcer Al the 10-foot level. The water endangers a Row of towering columns nearby Tawfik said. Luxor Temple built More than 1,300 years ago suffers greatly from rising water and other natural  said the earliest find appears to be an Alabaster Sphinx dating from the rcign.,or. Tutankhamen the Young pharaoh who died in 1323 . After a 10-year reign. Bush nominee under fire Over club membership Washington one of pre sident1bush a first nominees1 for inc Bench is coming under heavy lire on Ca Pitol Hill with sen. Alan Cranston urging his defeat Over membership in a san Francisco club that excludes women. I urge that the nomination of Vaughn Walker not be  Cranston said tuesday in by Tuti to Senate judiciary  Joseph Diden a pc Cranston s action represented a Sharp setback for Walker a san Francisco at Torney since negative recommendations from Home slate senators have proved in some cases to be fatal to candidates for inc Federal  wus no certainly however that Cranston s recommendation would wreck the chances of Walker. Walker was among five judicial Nomi nees of president Reagan who were stranded last fall when lawmakers adjourned and whose names have been re submitted to the Senate by Bush he was nominated  District court in san Francisco Crar Tsion look aim at walkers membership in san Francisco s olympic club which until recently barred Blacks from membership and still excludes women. One of us Best known members was supreme court Justice Anthony Kennedy but he resigned a month before his 1987 confirmation hearings. Cranston said Kennedy s stand stood in Stark contrast to Walker s attitude toward the club. Walker could not be reached for comment. His office said he was in court "1 have reached the conclusion hat his actions with respect to his membership in a discriminatory club arc Dis qualifying Cranston said learning of Cranston s action an aide to California s other senator republican1 Pele Wilson said the attorney had re signed from the club a month ago. Me said he wanted to enact reforms internally and if he were unsuccessful in gaining the changes he wanted then he would resign from the club press Secre tary Bill Livingston said. Wilson has Long been a Champion of Walker s cause. Cranston press Secretary Murray Flander responded that nobody on inc judiciary committee has been old that and even if True it would t change Alan s mind because he. A just Loo slow in his letter Cranston said Walker s pers Sli in refusal to in minute his membership in this club and his testimony regarding this Issue. Demonstrate an attitude and an insensitivity which is unacceptable for a member of the Federal  the senator quoted Walker testimony june i3 a forc the judiciary Corn Miniec that in the Post there had been no for Mal exclusion of Blacks or indeed any other racial  said Lihzis was contradicted by an aug.1 b letter to the judiciary committee in which George Riley a special assistant to the san Francisco City attorney said the club s bylaws resin iced membership to Only White male citizens of inc unite states of Good moral character integrity and  the policy was challenged in 1967 by Community groups and the club dropped the ban against minorities a year later Cranston said Walker Lold the panel that the club Rud made substantial change in regard to this policy when according to Riley the club had announced thai it had admitted two Black men into its membership of More than 4.700