European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday May 3.1989 Sailor missing for 9 months found Safe in Italy Fror Repage 1  and left the facility about 4 or jsyn., according to both ital Ian police Anc naval investigative serv ice sources. Italian police suspected foul play and conducted their probe along Host lines. The Navy while actively Coo Ealing with the italian police search did stat Rule out the possibility of foul play my thought it More Likely that Muir disappeared on her own. When naval investigative service agents entered the Case in september a source close to their probe said Muir s activities on the evening of july 28 and the morning of july 29 possibly could have led her to believe she could be in trouble with italian or Navy authorities. He declined to provide any information about those activities. Agents were certain that the missing Sailor had been reliably sighted several times since her disappearance. Tom Muir and a reporter from the stars and stripes appeared sunday night on the television program which at tempts to Trace missing persons. 2 a hour program featured a re mint of the missing woman s actions be fore her disappearance and "6oncludcd with an Appeal by torn Muir for information about his daughter. Following the program Muir said he was t hop cuff that viewers would be Able to she Pliny Light on the Case because an italian policeman escorts Jennifer Muir at the Villa san Giovanni police station. He feared his daughter had been killed by americans inline Barracks at Capodici no. Shortly after 7 . Monday he Tele phoned the reporter and said they be found Jennifer. She s being held by the police in Reggio Calabria i be just had a Short conversation with her and she said she s  Muir said that when he asked his daughter if she was being Well treated she did not reply and their conversation was Cut off. He immediately left his hotel in Rome to catch a flight from the italian capital to Reggio i Calabria. Italian press reports said Muir was reunited with his daughter later in the Day at the police Headquarters but gave no further details. On monday afternoon it. Paul j. Weishaupt. Asa Naples spokesman said italian police had taken into custody an american female identified As Jennifer  Weishaupt said the woman had an swered a number of questions put to her by phone by american investigators that indicate very strongly that she is indeed Jennifer Muir. Italian authorities will transport her to Naples later today where she will be questioned by an ital Ian magistrate and then it is expected that she will be turned Over to . Mili tary  contributing to this report stall write Candida Sart tone in Naples Pfob err reported in furred seconds before Iowa blast by the Washington Post Washington a Crew member in the gun House of the battleship Iowa s no. 2 Turret issued a terse warning that there was a problem seconds before three explosions Tore through the huge gun Turret killing 47 men do april 19, according to Navy officials. " us of. We be got a prof them Here the Crew Mem Ber reportedly said Over a sound activated phone connected to several circuits throughout the six level tur ret officials said. All circuits within the Turret went dead within Sec news Brief Bush will nominate Rice to be air Force Secretary Washington a president Bush said monday he will nominate Donald b. Rice presi Dent and chief executive officer of the Rand corp., to be Secretary of the air Force. Rice 49, has been head of Rand a think tank since 1972. For the past five years he also has been a senior consultant to the defense Sci ence Board. If confirmed by the Senate Rice will succeed Edward c. Aldridge or. Ones. Before the Crew member could explain what had gone wrong according to optic gals. The Sailor was among the 47 men killed in the tur ret. The naval Board of in Quay investigating the Inci Dent assisted by numerous gunnery and explosives experts has been Able to Picov together far More clues about the devastating acid Tel than Navy officials originally anticipated according to authorities familiar with the probe. Even though All Eyck incs and much of the inside of tee Turret was damaged severely. Navy officials said Trey arc optimistic investigators will be Able to identify the six member Board of i . Richard d. Milligan coi Stroyer group two already a luminary report on the incident,1 naval officials have decline cause of the explosion which during the loading of the Center 2 Turret. Officials believe the loaded into the Breech burned Losion and sending a fireball t on its four battleships be f red pending the outcome of the investigation. An engineering team also is aboard the Iowa As Sessing damages to the Turret officials said. The huge Turret which had been co cd to the starboard Side of the ship since the acid i to this weekend was moved on its own Power to its no Inal position facing the Bow of the vessel Navy officials said. In cause of the blast. Quiry headed by rear Landgrof Cruiser do begun writing its pro officials said to speculate on the Urr cd at some Point 6-Inch gun in the no. Is of powder being using the initial sex Ough the Turret that Bush from Page 1 set off two additional explosions y eleven men in the lowest in vol of the Turret the powder magazines and loading room five Levels below the gun House survived by climbing ladders through several smoke filled spaces. The Navy has ordered that none of the 16-Inch guns president s trip to Honduras. However there is no Campaign to publicize information Fitzwater said. In his chamber of Commerce speech Bush said that to made Clear to Goi Bachch in a meeting with the soviet Leader last fall to lat we wanted to see perestroika succeed and likewise we want to Sec Success for the economic reforms in  the president Interj Ted the remarks about the so Viet Union in a speech that otherwise focused on the Domestic Economy. Even the socialist 4orld is beginning to see that socialism in t just another economic system. It s the death of economics Bush said. Nations the world Over arc coming to realize and to recognize that free Enterprise is the wave of the  history from Page 1 " Lions with the soviet Union at the Mirrle did the Bear survive who shoved it out of the plane and did he survive in its never ending quest for truth the stars and stripes put Laughton s queries to the staff at the air Force museum at Wright Patterson fab Ohio. The eight pages of response provided some of the details that should satisfy Laughton s curiosity. First of All no the Cha was not killed by its sudden release into the Atmo sphere. It gently drifted the nearly seven Miles to Earth in 7 minutes and 49 seconds none the worse for Wear according previous tests with rocket  used chimps and bears  n men. Do the sleds could i produce the same effects As the tall Rehg. R. The tests went airborne in late 1961.ratory simulators had Given researchers a ref first four ejected a Dummy at sub bits and pieces of information but nth supersonic speeds. In january 1962, a ing  lab could re create tupac Celcra Chimpanzee was ejected from a plane Fly. ,. ,. A _. Ring 630 Miles pc hour on fcb 28 a Man was ejected for the first time. Three weeks later the Bear took Center stage. The question was would mysterious things happen above the Speed of Pund that did t happen below the mag ical arced of 720 Miles per hour the Bra Ivanas ejected at the Speed of Mach 1.3. That so s considered a Suc Cess in that the accelerations were mild to the information supplied. The Experiment was part of the work being done to understand the Impact High Speed High Altitude ejection would have on a Pilot. Up to that Point Labo lion Caplov deceleration Ino tumbling of a real Csc co it pin the b-58 ejection capsule. F "��.,. Why Staicar Well this Xii no Job for Lac cowardly lion from the wig Foz obviously. In fact the Bear s weight provided in air Force parlance a i Able  that Means a Bear s ratio of Organ mass to body mass is similar to that of Man s. In English it Means that whatever happened to a Bear in this test would closely resemble what would happen to a Pilot. There were More tests a Sec -."dear, but our information does not Tell us if it was the same Bear. On the next test a Bear was dumped into the sky at a Speed of Mach 1.6. This Bear sustained some injury because of excessive pitch of the ejection capsule. The next test used a Chimp but five subsequent tests used bears. The results were not included in the information from the museum. It has been 27 years since the first supersonic ejection test. Given a Black Bear s life Span of 15 to 30 years it is Safe to assume that the heroic Bear has passed away. But perhaps America s other great bears Yogi Smokey gentle Ben should make room for this nameless Bear who unflinchingly the Bear was lightly anaesthetized pushed Forward the development of Man s victories Over flight