European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 20, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 of Delta ii rocket launched into orbit Cape canaveral Florida up an air Force Delta ii rocket chalking up its i hit straight Success hurled a $65 Mil lion military navigation satellite into orbit Friday in a spectacular pre Dawn flight Visi ble for Miles along the Florida coast. If All went Well a solid fuel motor aboard the 3.67 5-Pound Nav Star global positioning system satellite was to fire Early sunday to put the spacecraft in a 12-hour, circular orbit 12,500 Miles up. The Gas satellite s 126-foot Delta rocket flashed to life at 1 58 . Friday and shot away from launch pad i7a at Cape canaveral arcing cast Over the at lactic Ocean atop a Brilliant Tongue of flame and smoke. About a minute after liftoff the solid fuel boosters were jettisoned creating a fire works like starburst in the night sky As they plummeted toward the Ocean. Three More boosters fired and fell away a minute later and the rocket continued the ascent under the Power of its first stage main engine. Twenty five minutes after liftoff the solar powered go s satellite was ejected into its preliminary egg shaped orbit. The $65 million go s Nav Star satellite is the third in a planned Constellation of 21 such space beacons. When the full system is in place military units around the world will be Able to pinpoint their position and Altitude to within 53 feet. The next Delta launch was scheduled for saturday when Mcdonnell Douglas space systems co. Planned to launch a British communications satellite. That flight would Mark the first major Post challenger com Mercial space launch by an american rocket company after a Reagan administration decision to ban commercial payloads from Nasa s space shuttle in a bid to encourage development Ofa private launching. Under its air Force contract to build Delta us for the Gas program. Mcdon Nell Douglas also agreed to provide com Mercial launch services and the flight saturday was to be the first such Orbital Mission in the Post challenger Era. The go s satellites equipped with atomic clocks accurate to one second in 300,000 years continuously broadcast radio signals coded with timing  the Complete system is in orbit four such satellites will be in View from anywhere in the world. Signals from three satellites arc sufficient to pin Down the position of a ship at sea for instance but signals from a fourth satellite arc needed to compute Altitude. Back from the dead Carrie strip Nitlow an 87-j ear old Blind resident of a Springfield Ohio boarding Home. Is carried from mercy medical Center in Springfield to be transferred to a nursing Home. Stringfellow lost consciousness aug. 5 and was mistaken fur dead. She nits taken in a funeral Home where she revived As a mortician pre pared to Mel Mem her. Doctors say she apparently re members nothing if the events at the funeral Home. Couple in Florida get prison terms for Coupon fraud fort Lauderdale Fla. A a couple who were the Only two of 62 defendants who went to trial Ina $12 million Coupon redemption fraud have been Given stiff prison sentences. William Winokur who refused to plead guilty for his part in the scheme was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Winokur s sentence by Broward circuit judge Leroy Moc was the maximum sentence under state guidelines and was More than triple the sentence the Coupon fraud s Mastermind Larry Krasnick. Received after admitting his guilt in a Pica bargain. Winokur s wife Florence who turned Down Testate s offer of five years probation in return for a guilty plea was sentenced to seven years. She could have gotten nine years. Besides the prison Lime Moe ordered the Winokur to pay $230.000 in restitution and serve 10 years probation. The state offered Winokur a 2 a year sentence when he was arrested More than a year ago. I would have loved to give him 2 i years Moe said before he sentenced the Winokur. The Winokur were convicted three weeks ago on charges of racketeering grand theft and conspiracy. They operated stores in Dade Palm Beach and Bro Ward counties in 1986-88 to redeem to redeem $200,000 Worth of coupons for products never sold. The stores had products on their shelves but the wino Kurs Seldom made a Sale prosecutors said. The Enterprise which involved 81 stores bought coupons from charitable organizations and had people clip sort and crumple Cou Pons to make them look handled by Consumers. I i murderer receives stay of execution Salt Lake City a a Federal appeals court saturday stayed the execution of William Andrews just three Days before he was to die by lethal injection for three 1974 torture killings dubbed the i i  a three judge panel of the 10th . Circuit court issued the stay for an Drews the nation s longest standing in mate on death Row. It came after failed appeals in Federal and state courts and the slate Board of pardons rejection of his Pica for clemency on Friday. Defense attorney Robert Anderson said Andrews had been informed shortly after the order was issued about 10 . Anderson said he Andrews was very grateful and was very relieved. He still considers this matter very  the three judge panel which had convened Here for a hearing later saturday issued the stay based on Andrews latest writ of Hareas Corpus. This was done despite a Federal Magis trate s recommendation thursday that procedural rules barred the . District court from hearing it. The document did not include a Rea son for the stay but said a More detailed order would follow later. The order was signed by judge Mon Roe Mckay on behalf of fellow judges Stephen Anderson and Bobby Baldock. Special state prosecutor Robert Wal lace who had gone to the Federal court House to gel the order declined to Dis cuss it except to say i have some thoughts but 1 really Don t want to make a comment at this  Andrews 34, of Jonesboro. La has been on death Row for nearly 15 years for the slayings of two women and a Man during a robbery of the i i shop in Ogden. Five people were forced to drink liquid Drain cleaner and were then shot two of them survived. His co defendant Pierre Dale Selby admitted that he shot the victims after Andrews left the store. Selby was executed in August 1987. In his writ Andrews had argued that his rights were violated at trial by inadequate defense counsel. A judge failed to instruct the jury it could find Nim guilty Ofa lesser offence. That a mistrial should have Bee declared when a juror saw a note saying hang the  the jury was All while both defendants were Black. . Homeless roasted in Middle of the night raid new York a port authority police awoke scores of homeless people from their cardboard boxes and piles of blankets Early Friday to drive them from the streets around Manhattan s port authority bus station. Why do they want to push All the people out Ida Rodriguez asked As she folded the Sheet that served As her mattress. Then she picked up her dirty purple Teddy Bear shoved her bandaged foot into a Lac class sneaker and limped away. The six port authority police officers who moved about 100 homeless people out at about 2 . Were said to be opposed to the operation but acting under orders. The six officers were followed by 10 men with brooms and garbage bins to collect possessions left behind. The first vagrants to be evicted had about five min utes to pack up the blankets they had draped from scaffolding on the Side of the building. Others saw the police coming and had More time to pack. An eur Katy woman stacked her blankets and belong Ings into a shopping cart. I m  she said Over and Over again. Then she said they re not going to throw this in the garbage. It s against the  a 16-year-old girl was taken to nearby covenant i Louse which helps those under age 21. The area in and around the bus station has a Large homeless population ranging from the needy who have nowhere else to go to a younger tougher crowd involved in drugs and prostitution. During Friday morning s operation 16 men agreed to go in a Van to a shelter on Ward s Island run by the volunteers of America. One Man refused to leave his pile of cardboard saying he was scheduled for a fool operation the next Day an was to be picked up at the bus terminal. Police appeared sceptical until he produced his Hospital appointment papers from a paper bag. Inspector James Roni Ito who directed the operation finally persuaded him to leave Inan emergency medical services ambulance. "1 Don t think we re overstepping our Bounds i Don t think we re doing anything inhumane Romito said. This is part of our Job. What inc police arc supposed to do is maintain