European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 28, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5 father never lost Faith in Hartwig s innocence Cleveland not through it All ear Hartwig never wavered. He was certain that his son Clayton had been wrongly accused of intentionally causing the explosion that killed him and 46 other sailors aboard the battleship Iowa last Spring. As a father he says he knew some things that Navy investigators with All their reports interview Sand theories could never know. I know my son Hartwig a 63-year-old retired Railroad worker said in an interview saturday. I know what Type of boy he was. There Are somethings you just  so what Hartwig also knew was that a Navy Board of inquiry had reached the wrong conclusion when it announced last september that the explosion had Proba Bly been an act of suicide by a desperately depressed gunner s mate 2nd class Clayton m. Hartwig. The explosion occurred in a gun Turret during a firing exercise 330 Miles Northeast of puerto Rico. That finding has been under attack for months in Congress where critics have charged that it was based on the flimsiest evidence. The attacks were renewed late last week after mechanical and chemical tests performed by congressional and Navy experts had raised further doubts about the finding and bolstered the possibility that the explosion was in fact an Accident. Here in Clayton Hartwig s Hometown the latest tests and the Navy s reopening of its investigation have been greeted by the Hartwig family Earl and his wife and daughter with Relief a sense of vindication and a simmering rage. They Haven t come right out and said they re sorry said Hartwig whose own service As a gun Ner s mate aboard a battleship in world War i inspired his son to join the Navy. When they say they re sorry Well feel a whole  the late Sailor s sister Kathleen Kubicina said of the recent turn of events in t that what our family has been saying All along i be tried to be Cool and composed she added but i m really bitter. The Navy took away my brother and then tried to destroy his  during an interview at her own Home Here Kubi Cina stared at a collection of photographs of her brother on the Wall and smiled wryly. A plaque that the Navy gave the family soon after the blast read the United states of America Hon ors the memory of Clayton  she said she would never have cooperated with naval inspectors if she had it to do Over. In fact she blames herself in part for not disa busing the investigators of the notion that her brother was a homosexual. That notion helped Advance the conclusion of Sui cide by Hartwig who the theory went might have recently been rejected by a shipmate. When they asked me if it were possible that Clayton was a homosexual i said it did t  Kubicina said. The investigators really went to town with that  Kubicina said her Young children had had a difficult time trying to understand what has happened. Her 4-Ycar-old son Mark would just Light up whenever Clayton came to the House in his uniform she said. Now the boy wears a to shirt Embla one with the slogan remember the Iowa 47." the seventh Day adventist Church that the Hart wigs attend has erected a plaque to Honor Clayton. Friends have also stood by the Hartwig family although every now and then the House receives an angry letter or phone Call. Kubicina said she believes that the naval investigators might have viewed her brother As unstable because of his strict religious upbringing. When other children were watching cartoons or playing outside on saturdays Clayton was in Church she said. He attended a Church run boarding school. Mount Vernon Academy in Southern Ohio. Kubicina said the ordeal had devastated her Mother Evelyn Hartwig who told a reporter sat urday i just can t talk about it  Tutu pleasantly surprised by s. Africa s stance Cincinnati up anglican Church archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said saturday that a rally in his native country that attracted 40,000 White supporters of apartheid was insignificant compared with the government s new bold stand against apartheid. I m not surprised by an apartheid rally the surprising thing is that the government has broken Loose from that kind of thinking said Tutu. The govern ment is willing to take a  in South Africa on saturday More than 40,000 Whites rallied to protest president Frederik de Klerk s proposed Dis mantling of apartheid. Tutu said Whites who support apart Heid will be better off if they Back de Klerk and his announced intentions to give full political rights to Blacks. Whites who think they would lose everything if apartheid ends need to see How much they have to gain said Tutu. A repressive government is based on conditions that Are fundamentally unstable. The Only place you have Freedom is where everybody is free and you can share it. People Are made for  Tutu said South Africa stands at the archbishop Desmond Tutu attends a news conference with episcopal g. Black after Tutu s arrival in Cincinnati on Friday night. A Bishop William threshold of world historical significance if it can shake free of apartheid. It will show the world that nothing is intractable he said. If we can sort out the problems in South Africa it might provide the world a paradigm. If we can get it right then we May help people in other places. The world must stand up against racism. Racists Are bullies. They Are cow Ards. When a Community stands up against them they fold  Tutu said that despite racial problems in America they Don t begin to compare with the Legal apartheid that is still in place in South  i look in the streets in America and i Sec people walking around without ten Sion he said. It s a sense of How wonderful it is to live in a free country a country that seeks to be even More free. In South Africa because of the Legal constraints you Aren t free to use your talents no matter How great your talents might  Tutu is in Cincinnati As a guest of the episcopal diocese of Southern Ohio and Cincinnati reaches out. An Agency involved in african Relief work. About to be launched Astro will fill in holes Hubble misses Sands of i Iii in the stars and stripes Cape canaveral Fla. A Columbia will be making the first shuttle flight in five years devoted entirely to scientific research when it lifts off this week on a Mission to study the stars a Comet and other celestial matter. Launch is set for 12 38 . Wednesday two weeks later than planned because Nasa had to replace a bad Cooling valve in Columbia s payload Bay. Columbia s payload a $150-million Observatory called Astro will provide a much More thorough study of ultraviolet Light than the Hubble space Telescope. It will be the first Mission since 1985 to use space lab a scientific research facility carried in the shuttle s payload Bay. It also will be the first of five space lab missions dedicated to a single subject astrophysics. It will be the first time direct radio communication is made Between . And soviet spacecraft. Colum Bia s astronauts plan to talk by radio to two Cosmo nauts aboard the soviet space station Mir. During the 9 to 10-Day Mission 218 Miles above Earth Astro s four telescopes will make nearly 1,000 observations of up to 230 sources of ultraviolet and x Ray radiation Short High Energy wavelengths absorbed by the atmosphere. At least four observations Are planned of Comet aus tin making its first journey through the solar system. Astronaut Samuel Durrance a research scientist at Johns Hopkins University said it s hard to predict what Astro might uncover on its first Outing. But he added every time we Point the telescopes it could change the Way astronomers  the ultraviolet imaging Telescope will provide wide Angle photographs of the sky. Unlike Hubble a $1.5 billion Observatory astronomers Hope will explain How and when the universe was created. Astro won t be focusing on any mind boggling question said astronaut Ronald Parise a scientist at computer sciences corp. In Silver Spring my. The Hopkins ultraviolet Telescope will examine Ultra Violet wavelengths some of which have never been Stu died in detail. Much of what is seen eventually will be examined in greater detail by Hubble s telephoto Eye. The Wisconsin ultraviolet photo Polaris ctr Experiment will measure the brightness and orientation or polarization of ultraviolet Light from stars. Astro s fourth scientific instrument is the Broad band a Ray Telescope. It will probe the elusive spectrum of x rays and track remnants of exploding stars or Supernova. May 28, 1950 the United states ordered communist Czechoslovakia to close its new York Consul ate. At the same time the state department announced the . Consulate in Bratislava would be closed. 30 years ago today May 28, 1960 pro Western army officers threw out turkish Premier Adnan mind Eros government in a bloodless coup to establish a clean and honest democratic order As fast As possible. 20 years ago foday May 28, 1970 Stock prices made record gains with the Dow Jones Industrial average adding 32.04 Points its Best one Day showing in history. I0 years ago foday. May 28, 1980 Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of aus Tria said on returning from Tehran Iran that new . Sanctions against Iran would further delay the release of the american hostages. The Carter administration was considering a fresh attempt at adding . Pressure against Iran