European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 2,1989 Black woman selected for shuttle flight a Clos when selected for the astronaut program in 1985. Named to Fly with Jemison were air Force col. Mark c. Lee and n. Jan Davis. Other Crew m will be picked later. A. He astronauts were named for. Light Fth late 1990 Cape canal final Fla. A Nasa on Friday named astronauts cd Bow for five space shuttle mis Sions including the first 6l8�lijioman selected for space . Mac c. Jim tsp 32. A physician was  ast As a Mission specialist to a flight aboard the shuttle am3tbht%-. Discovery scheduled for june 1991. The Mission will n capt. Rie or Risha his will command a conduct experiments on life sciences and the .  j ,-\.\. Ing of materials. Jemison was bom in Decatur ala., but considers Chicago where her parents live to be her Hometown. She received a Bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from California s Stanford University in 1977 and a doctorate Ift Medicine from new York s Cornell University in 1981. October 1990-Afanlis Mission  the Ulysses spacecraft to study the Sun. The Otic she was working with Cigna health plans of Cali fornia and was also a general practitioner in los an Liam m. Shepherd coast guard cmdr. Bruce e. Mel Nick and air Force maj. Thomas d. Akers. Mulnick Isth first coast guard astronaut to be picked for a flight. Navy capt. Michael l. Coals will command the Crew of the discovery on an unclassified defense department Mission set for november 1990. Other Crew members arc  Wojt i Blanc Hammond jr.,. Richard j. Hieb and Charles Lacy  d. Sullivan and c. Michael Foale were named to a March 1991 flight aboard Columbia to study the Sun and Earth s atmosphere. Picked earlier for this flight were Michael l. Lampion and Byron . Other Crew members will be named later. Vij a Tayva cmdr. Robert l. Gibson will command the atlaiitfsoifimavl99l flight to deploy and then re Trieve a package or Huil instruments developed bythe european space a  Nirol liar an Esa astronaut will join Gibson As will to astronaut Jeffrey a. Hoffman and Franklin r. Chang Diaz a native of Costa Rica who has already made a shuttle flight and is training for another scheduled for launch next month. News updates Mecham lawsuit Phoenix a the Arizona supreme court on Friday rejected former gov. Evan Mech am s lawsuit seeking reinstatement and More than $600,000 in Backway and expenses. The court said it has no Power to overrule the Arizona Senate which removed the first term re publican from office last year. It convicted him on civil impeach ment charges of misusing Money in a stale protocol fund and trying to obstruct an investigation. Spy s wife on leave Danbury Conn. A Anne Pollard the jailed wife of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard left the Federal prison in Danbur for a 12-Day furlough to spend Rosh has Hanah and yom kippur with her family a prison spokes Man . Pollard sentenced to five years in prison As an accessory after the fact to her husband s crimes left the prison thursday and is to return oct. 9, spokesman Joseph Kellcy  husband is serving a life sentence at the Federal prison i Marion 111., for Selling secrets to Israel when he was an intelligence analyst for the . Navy. Mrs. Pollard has been earning a10-Day-pcr-month reduction in her sentence for Good behaviour an will probably be released in March said Joseph Kravisky wit the . Parole commission in Washington. Mrs. Pollard s request for Early parole was denied in Early septum Rushdie Survey London a forty per cent of British booksellers responding to a Survey by a Trad publication said they would t sell a paperback edition of Salma Rushdie s the satanic  they simply Don t think there would be demand for it and there Are problems of what might Hap pen if they did Stock it Rodney Burbeck associate editor of the weekly publishing news said Fri Day. Forty percent of the bookseller replying to the Survey also said they opposed the publication of paperback edition while 44 per cent said they favored it. Publishing news said 455 Book Sellers responded to a question Naire that was mailed out to 1,000shops two weeks ago. One store in three said it had the hardback edition in Stock but Only 2 percent said they did not Stock it because of threats or complaints. 10 positions if offensive Aranka Rathet Thailand a non communist guerrillas on sat urday said Iky have launched a major offensive in of Ebodia that has capture two towns and a other positions from the pro . The claim came soon after Vietnam said its last troops hid pulled out of Cambodia where the eyed fought the guerrillas for More than inc cad. The Battle is now being  of the government install Why Viet Nam. Also on saturday a Vietnam Agency report monitored in bang Thailand said Cambodia s Gover mint in phenom penh plans to Hole general elections at the end of the year even if a political solution to the insurgency has not been found. A spokesman for the Khmer peo ple s National liberation front Abdulgaffa Pang myth said 5,000 rebel overrun towns captured cambodian Rebek claim fighters attacked five towns and other positions along Highway 69, which parallels Cambodia s Western Border. Gen. Dick Del acting commander of the front said his fighters knocked out tanks overran 10 army positions a Western Diplomat said the front May a limed the push with Simuta  by its guerrilla coalition a Rufers the communist Khmer re High and a group Loyal to resistance Bader Prince Norodom Sihanouk in flanking the Highway and seized a Dis bother areas along the thai cambodian strict capital thar Puok. The vict  army left that town six Day the front claims to have 16i000 fighters. The strongest guerrilla group the Khmer Rouge Fields up to 40,000, according to Western estimates. Vietnam which invaded Cambodia and ousted the Khmer Rouge in late 1978, said it had completed withdraw Al of its troops tuesday. But the guerrillas said thousands of vietnamese have stayed behind. Some diplomats say the poorly trained and equipped cambodian army May not be Able to beat Back the guerrillas without vietnamese support. Ago at the town of Banta which Dick Del said was t turd a warehouse with 1,1ons was seized he said. Dien Del said the attackers sustained Light casualties cd inflicted heavy losses on Cam Duia s forces which were estimated at 4,500 sol " ers. He said one soviet built t-54l was destroyed to disabled and a found captured. Hit claims cot Ltd not be inc pc from now on government checks ii must be Cash a within one year Washington a you have just one year to Cash your Federal govern ment Check. Until now a government Check was Good indefinitely. But As of oct. 1, a new Law requires recipients to Cash their checks within 12 months. Americans Are sitting on More ll_$2.5 billion of . Government Chc cd More than a year old according to a id Montgomery a spokesman for  sury department s financial Muf nag mint service. There Are nearly 6 Millio Jbf those checks put there in boxes desk draw ers attics you name it he ipod. Some arc decades  4the financial management service said that 427 pre-1956 checks averaging $65.42 were presented t0f payment Dur ing 1988. Many of the Fern it said were found by recipients of Lhoir estates who Zanutto the service to def Tominc whether the checks were still Good a he oldest Check was of cud to a Oman in Nebraska on a prints 1919, $1.01 in interest on Wor Filwar i Liberty Bonds. She was not id Coli a. The largest Check was made jump Michigan Man for $8,606 in unspecified compensation on april 9, .1954. To smallest was a 2-Ccnt tax refund issued to a Massachusetts Man on april 19, 1946. To remind recipients of the new Tim limit for cashing government checks checks dated oct. 1 and later will Bear the phrase void after  the new Law also requires that checks written before oct. I be cashed no later than sept. 30,1990. The financial management service emphasized however that the time limit docs not affect the government s liability. But if the time limit is exceeded the person holding the cancelled Check win have to apply to the Agency that wrote it for a replacement rather than just take it to a Bank and Cash it. The new Law also allows a one Yea period in which a claim involving a lost or stolen Check May be filed. At the same time the Treasury department has 18 months to begin recovery from a financial institution of fund involving a forged or unauthorized  management service com Misc inner w. E. Douglas said the new Law wings the Federal government More in Lin yith business and local govern ment  of to is it a poor business practice to keep Ink government s  forever it to also expensive to maintain the records to said. And it s the tax payers who hav Filp pick up that  turned rudder suspected in Usai crash new Yorita the flight re Corder of the us air plane that crashed at new York s i Guardia Airport on sept.20 indicate Iltha the plane s rudder was misaligned before the aborted Takeoff Accordi runo a newspaper  voice recorder shows that the pilots while conducting a  found that the cockpit gauge showed the rudder was properly can cd the new York times reported in fiting unidentified Industry sources. The times said the evidence raised the question of whether the discrepancy was due to a mechanical problem or whether the Crew made a mistake in Reading the the flight recorder steadily record data on 70 of the plane s conditions including the position of the  rudder position on the 737-400 has become the focus of an investigation of the sept. 20 crash in which two Pas sengers were killed and 45 of 61 inboard were Hurt the paper said. The National translation safety Board earlier last week Slid the trim actuator operated from 1st cockpit an which helps position the rider had been found in the extreme a position on the wreck. " that would have made the Bute veer to the left during Takeoff As Nix been reported by the Captain of the Jet. \ the Pilot has said the veer and Anun usual vibration he Felt led him to Tai Over the controls from the co Pilot a abort the Takeoff