European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday april 17,1989 vision of world War Iii motivated whistle Blower los Angeles a a Northrop division that Imide electronic guidance components for cruise Missi let Wasa place where get ing along meant going along Wilh incompetence and shoddy work a former employee says. Lot Cnoc Ca Slanda was one of three former North Rop employees whose repeated complaints finally got the attention of Federal investigators resulting in charges filed last week. She said she was Molina cd by her worries Over nuclear weapons Wilh bad guidance systems that could be the Start of world War 111," the los Angeles times reported saturday. Castaneda a senior assembler technician certified by the National acro Anulies and space administration for a variety of electronics work said her struggle has left her feeling alienated and mistrustful of the Aero. Space Industry. From the Day she started work at Northrap s West Ern services department in Al Monte in october 19s3. I Manda said she was appalled. She saw employees in an electronics clean room smoking cigarettes eating lunch at work stations and watching soap operas on televisions she told the times ,. Northrop corp. And five current and former employees were indicted tuesday on charges of conspiring to defraud the government in assembling part of the air Force s cruise missile guidance system and a component for the Navy s harrier Jet fighter. Northrop spokesman Tony Cantafio said saturday that the company acted on complaints about the Plant two years ago. We fired the plan manager and three other employees in 1987," Cantaro said. And in december 87, we shut the Plant Down. Thai is the action that we look when it came to our  the indictment charged that Northrop and the five including Castaneda s Boss conspired to Msall parts far the cruise missile s flight data transmitter Hal failed to meet government specifications. The terrain hugging cruise missile one of the most versatile weapons in the . Arsenal is capable of carry ing either a conventional or nuclear warhead. Castaneda said she began by complaining to her Superior Charles Gonsalves one of those who was fired and later named in the tuesday indictment. Among her complaints was the Lack of code for component wires a Standard procedure in the aerospace Industry to Trace the wires origin. V when 1 started to raise concerns or. Gonsalves told me thai if i just did my work like everybody else we would get along Castaneda told the times. But a Nephew in the air National guard arranged a meeting with agents from the air Force s office of special investigations Castaneda said. She invited Fel Low workers Locadio Barajas and Patricia Meyer. Barajas later was fired after confronting Gonsalves and he and Meyer eventually filed a lawsuit against Northrop alleging the firm had defrauded theg Vern men by improperly testing the missile parts. The jus lice department Laie joined i hair suit. \ Castaneda Well on temporary disability from Northrop in april 1985 because of stress and a Back injury. Castaneda Lold the times that a psychologist had. Been assigned to her through Northrop s insurance and. Jul scr. His message to her was to forgive Northrop and to forgive or. Gonsalves to ask god to forgive them and to Joist go Back to work 1 she said. Castaneda left Northrop for Good in april 1987. Chicago fire destroys Gal erf is housing Art cd Ueck in millions Chicago a a spectacular fire saturday engulfed a Century old building thai housed Art galleries and several other shops destroying Art that gallery owners reported was Worth millions of dollars. Fire officials blamed a construction firm rehabilitating the building for taking actions that contributed to the severity of the fire but a spokesman for the build ing owners said construction at the site was All Lega fire department spokesman Tom Sheppard said officials had not determined a cause of the fire but they were looking at the pos Sibi Lily of arson. We lost our investment and that does t even count the value of the Art itself said Carol Jones owner of East West gallery. William Vanstraalen owner. Of. The Van Straaten gallery which was in inc building said it would be hard to put a Coil to the artwork destroyed by the fire. It s hard to  he said of his losses. Some where Between two three four million  the fire in the seven Story one Square Block build ins burned for More than three hours before being brought under control.  firefighters were reported slightly injured the Blaze sent a thick plume of Gray Black smoke soaring above the City s Skyline and several streets in the fashionable River North neighbourhood were blocked off to Case firefighters efforts the building built in 1s85, was being rehabilitated by the owners Mesirow really management inc., into a mixture of residential lofts galleries and shops offi Cial said. A. Sheppard blamed Lac severity of the Blaze on con tractors who disconnected systems designed to bring firefighting Walcer into the building. He noted that fire fight cars were called to the building on thursday for a fire that took an hourly put Oul this would t have happened if they had t Cut Comers he said la s so foolish now they have Noah. Gerald Levin president of the real estate division of Mesirow said the contractor had done Good work on the  understanding was that there were hookups for Waier in the  Levin said. Our design has been Al every stage approved and inspected by the fire department. Stud end off ins of 2 unvers of is spotlight costs minority concerns by the associated press. Students at the University . Mexico in Albuquerque and Wayne state University in Detroit occupied buildings saturday in sit ins aimed at rolling Backa tuition increase and boosting Black studies. Unm president Gerald May whose outer office has been held since tuesday said Friday that the school s regents would meet As soon As possible to reconsider a. S5q-a-�mester tuition increase to help pay for faculty raise protesters said they would continue the sit in but promised to tidy mais office which has become cluttered with Bedroll books and paper  began camping out in the office on tues Day after regents approved an increase that would bring tuition and fees to s686 a semester about 40 students took part saturday. May has continued to use his inner office. In Detroit Black students have occupied a Wayne slate building since wednesday. They said they will meet with administrators monday to discuss their de mands for stepped up minority student and faculty recruitment and a requirement Hal each faculty Mem Ber Leach a course in an african related subject. They agreed to the meeting after receiving Assur ances that protesters would not be removed while their leaders were away. At least 70 slide nos were in the student Center University spokesman Robert warmer said late of Day. The school suspended operations at the building where students Register for classes pay fees and apply for student  Gotham Book Mart founder Frances Steloff Dies at 101 new York Frances Stuloff whose Gotham Book Mart was the place to browse work and buy books for Many great american writers died saturday at the age of 101. Sle loft who celebrated her birthday on new year s eve died of pneumonia at mount Sinai Hospital said Andreas Brown who succeeded her As owner of the Bookstore. She had been hospitalized Tor about a week he said. Steloff achieved a Small Miracle Brown said in founding the Book mat in 1920 with very Little support or backing and sustaining in through the depression and world War ii. Her customers included Ernest Hemingway James Joyce Dylan Thomas , Cummings we. Auden Gertrude Stein. Anais Nin John Dos passes and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis state cites safety removes crash memorial from Road radcl1ff, by. A a memorial erected anonymously at the she of a bus crash thai killed 27 people has been removed by the state As a safety Hazard. -. ".-. It s a real kick in the Teeth to a whole group of people who Are still hurting said the Rcv. Don Tennison of the first Assembly of god Church in the victims Hometown can t understand Why bureaucrats can t have More com passion.".  crosses surrounded by Flowers appeared in the median of interstate 71 shortly after the Accident last May in which a Church bus collided head on with a pickup truck going the wrong Way near Carrollton. Kenny French head of the state Highway department s District office in Covington ordered the memorial removed late last month. Mark Mcdaniel a spokesman for the depart ment of transportation said a tractor trader Driver complained of nearly rear ending a car thai slowed to look at the memorial hundreds Mark Centennial of father Damien s death Kalaupapa Hawaii a father a flan Ien de ecu scr who minister cd to lepers on 1h Remote Peninsula a Century ago was. Remembered saturday by hundreds still moved by his compassion for society s outcasts. Some hew in and others hiked Down imposing Cliffs hat isolate the Kalawao Hanson disease settlement on Molokai Island to participate in ceremonies marking the Centennial of the Bel. Gian priest s death guests including Prince Philippe of Belgium Hawaii gov. John Waihee and members or the de Custer family from trem Cloo Belgium gathered at St. Philomena Church belter known As father Damien s Church.". Damien came to Hawaii in 1873 and served at Kalaupapa for 16 years before dying of Han sen s disease or leprosy at the age of 49. He not Only attended to spiritual needs but treated patients and helped construct houses and churches for the settlement. The Catholic Church has declared Damien venerable one of the final phases in the pro Cess culminating with Elevation to sainthood chemical tank drained to prevent leak of fumes new York not fearing a leak of to Toni rally fatal fumes chemical experts drained a in too gallon tank of liquid ammonia saturday at the site of a defunct Long Island Industrial Plant where radioactive materials were discovered this month. In an emergency declared by the coast guard police and fire vehicles cordoned off the neighbourhood surrounding the 19 acre site in Glen Cove on Nassau county s North  medical vehicles were posted near by in Case of a teak. And Little league practice Al the City s baseball stadium across a Creek from the former factory was cancelled for tie . Jay Young of Silver Spring. Md., an inde pendent consultant on chemical safety said the chemical anhydrous ammonia can be fatal if High concentrations of ils fumes Are inhaled