European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 25, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Navy launches 2 More Iowa probes inquiries censer on ship s officers firing fess b George f. Wilson the Washington Post Washington the Navy investigation of the explosion on the battleship Iowa enters a new phase this week As one Admiral conducts an inquiry on whether the Captain and several fellow officers should be punished for lax practices and a second Admiral aces in on who is to blame for the dangerous and unauthorized experiments conducted on the battleship. In addition to those two follow up Navy investigations. Kathy Kubicina of Cleveland said saturday that she will go to Washington Early this week to lobby for congressional reviews of the Navy finding that her brother. Gunner s mate 2nd class Clayton m. Hartwig. Most probably sabotaged the 16-Inch gun on the Iowa he was loading on april 19. Selling off three fiery explosions that killed him and 46 shipmates. Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn. A a. Has said he will review the Navy s investigations. Kubicina said she Hopes to inspire a House investigation As Well. Vice adm. Joseph s. Donnell Iii. Com Mander of the Atlantic Fleet s naval sur face Force has been ordered to conduct an Admiral s Mast on the Iowa which is now in the Mediterranean to determine whether battleship skipper capt. Fred p. Moosally three fellow officers and master chief Petty officer should receive reprimands or other minor punishments for the Way they ran the ship. Rear adm. Richard f. Milligan who headed the Navy investigation on the cause of the blast faulted Moosally. Executive officer cmdr. John p. Morse weapons officer cmdr. Robert j. Kissin Ger gunnery officer it. Cmdr. Kennethm. Costigan or. And master chief Petty officer Stephen p. Kellcy for their performances on the Iowa but did not blame them for the explosion. Although the Navy often suspends a Captain if something goes wrong on his ship Moosally is still commanding the Iowa. Milligan criticized the officers for fail ing to qualify enough sailors to Man the battleship guns and for breaking safety rules. He expressed astonishment that Skelley who was not qualified to operate 16-Inch guns determined what loads went in them often without notifying the skipper and apparently without higher authority. The Milligan report disclosed that Only 19 of the 37 sailors operating Power equipment or handling explosives in the Turret that blew up were fully qualified for their jobs. Moosally in defending his manpower policies before the Milligan panel portrayed Navy leaders As disenchanted Wilh the four world War ii battleships brought out of Mothballs during the Rea Gan administration the Iowa. Missouri new Jersey and Wisconsin. The ships arc getting the Leavings when it comes to manpower Moosally complained to Navy investigators according to Tran scripts recently released. Navy leaders have lost interest in these ships Moosally said. I m rather disgusted. I am concerned about the Quality of officers they re sending me. I just had an officer that spent a year on limited duty because of psychological problems. The battleship has not been properly taken care of As far As Manning goes in the wardroom or the enlisted area. I be got Guys that were Dopcus marginal performers constant was unauthorized absences rear adm. Ming e. Chang. Navy in Spector general has been ordered to delve into How the Iowa became a gun Nery research Laboratory and who authorized it. The relationship Between Kellcy and the naval sea systems come s naval surface warfare Center at Dahl Gen. Va., for which he was conducting tiring experiments aboard the ship Isone of the Central questions. Gone fishing president Bush gets in some fishing saturday on he Kennebunk River in Maine before heading for Massachusetts to address the archdiocese of Boston Catholic lawyers Guild. Majority in Congress Hocking new modern look for Money Washington a reach into your pocket fora Quarter two or three years from now and you May find a different portrait of George Washington on the front and a Flag instead of an Eagle on the Back. A majority of the nation s senators and representatives Are bored Wilh the nation s Money not How it s spent but How ii looks. They re tired of the Eagle. Thomas Jefferson s Home and the Lincoln memorial on the reverse or tails Side of quarters Nickels and pennies and believe americans want new coins not so fixed in the  at least 260 of the 435 House members and 66 of the 100 senators have signed on As co sponsors of legis latin originated by the . Commission of Fine arts calling for new coins. Under a Bill approved by the Senate without opposition in june now working its Way through the House the Treasury department would be required to modernize its designs beginning Wilh Quarter. The weight size and color of each Coin would not change. And portraits although not the same ones of Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Franklin d. Roose velt Washington and John f. Kennedy would still adorn the obverse or Heads sides of the Penny Nickel dime Quarter and half Dollar. But the Eagle now emblazoned on the reverse Side of quarters and half dollars Monticello on the Nickel and the Lincoln memorial on the Penny would be replaced by themes celebrating the Constitution and the Bill of frights. Similar legislation was approved by the Senate last year with Hopes of having the new coins in circulation for the 1989-91  of the Constitution. It never got anywhere in the House because of opposition from rep. Frank Annunzio d-Iii., then chairman of the House banking committee s subcommittee on Coin age. Annunzio who now chairs another subcommittee likes the present designs and looks upon efforts to change them As spurred by Coin collectors and of Little importance. Changes in our Money make americans very very uneasy he said. We have plenty of serious issues confronting us that need our attention. A Trade in convict seeks victim s life insurance Syracuse . A a Man who pleaded guilty to homicide in his Girlfriend s death has filed a lawsuit to collect a $ 10.000 share of her life insurance benefits. Paul Britton 41, pleaded guilty in february to criminally negligent homicide in the death of Donna Sla Niec 27, admitting Only that he slapped the woman two Days before she died. A medical expert testified that Slanich died of head injuries in a fall or from a blow with an object. Britlon contends that he is entitled to the Money As co beneficiary on Staniec s $20,000 policy because he never admitted to intentionally causing her death in 1987. Swaniec s Mother Ann Swaniec is the other beneficiary named in the policy Wilh Aetna life insurance co. She already has received her $ 10,000 share. "1 think it s just sick that a cold blooded killer can do this said Kathy Proulx Staniec s sister. Brilton was placed on probation in March but he later was sentenced to one to four years in prison for violating probation. He is free on $2.500 Bond pending Appeal. Brilton s lawyer Robert Tisdell said his cd incl de serves the Money regardless of his guilty Pica. He s the beneficiary. I Don t feel they can deny paying him Tisdell said. If it was intentional he could t col Lect and i never would have brought the  balance a budget deficit a drug epidemic an Educa Tion crisis. On a scale of importance from one to 10. Coin design change rates a  his successor As the panel s chairman rep. Richard Lehman. A Calif. Has no Strong views one Way or theother. But after an emotional hearing this summer he wants to proceed cautiously. There Are some people who Are very vocal about redesigning coins but there s no Public clamor out there for it Lehman said in an interview. The Treasury is not Loo keen on inc idea even though the department calculates in would raise an additional $250 million in sorely needed government revenues Over the next six  revenues would be in the form of senior age the difference Between the face value of the Coin and what in costs the . Mint to produce in. For example it costs the mint Only three cents to strike a Quarter creating a senior age of 22 cents. Mint director Donna Pope said officials anticipate that a new design would slightly increase the demand for coins in circulation raising senior age revenues assume people hold on to either the old or new editions. But the revenues arc not great enough to alone justify a change she maintains a Point echoed by some congressmen. I think the Public would be very cynical of our efforts if that s Why we re doing it said rep John Hiler a and. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 25, 1949 american scientists said it would be several years before the soviets possessed a Stock pile of atomic weapons despite a recent disclosure that they had just exploded their first atomic bomb. 30 years ago foday. Sept. 25, 1959 during a trip across the United states soviet Premier Nikita a Khrushchev inspected a steel Mill in Pittsburgh one of the few steel Mills in the country not shut Down by a 2-month-old strike. 20 years ago foday. Sept. 25, 1969 Hanoi radio reported that ton due thang. 81, had been elected by the North Viet Nam Csc National Assembly to succeed the late to Chi Minh As president. 10 years ago foday ,. Sept. 25. 1979 in a major Concession at the Zimbabwe Rhodesia peace talks in London guerrilla leaders accepted a British demand that the White minority initially be Given 20 percent of the scats in a new parliament