European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday october 2,1990 stateside Dugan Given High level Job As assistant to of Secretary wrong body to mortuary a a h m1q a Clr / and _ of Ira in tin medical examiner sends Washington up Gen. Michael j. Dugan former air Force chief of staff fired for discussing bombing plans against Iraq is working now As special assistant to air Force Secretary Donald Rice a spokesman has said. In firing Dugan As air Force chief of staff sept. 17, defense Secretary Dick Cheney told reporters that the four Star general would be retired from the air Force. But an air Force spokesman who asked not to be identified said Dugan 53, has been Given a High level Job in the Pentagon As a special assistant to the Secretary of the air Force. A this duties include performing an assessment of rated officer requirements and the air Force officer evaluation system Quot the spokesman said adding he did not know How Long Dugan would hold the new Post. A general Dugans retirement Date has not yet been established Quot the spokesman said adding that it was still Cheney a intention to recommend to president Bush that Dugan be retired in the Grade of general. The retirement of three Star and four Star generals and admirals requires a presidential nomination and confirmation by the Senate. The air Force spokesman said the Job Given Dugan appeared to be an attempt to give him a a reasonable amount of time to get his affairs in order., instead of putting him out on the Street when he Wasny to even planning to  Dugan a 32-year Veteran who had been promoted by Cheney to air Force chief of staff in july was fired by Cheney for remarks he made to reporters during a return flight to Washington from saudi Arabia. The Washington Post and the los Angeles times reported that Dugan said the joint chiefs of staff had concluded that in Case of War air strikes a including a massive bombing Campaign against Baghdad that specifically targets iraqi president Saddam Hussein a were the Only effective option to Force iraqi troops from Kuwait. Cheney said the remarks showed a poor judgment at a sensitive time and could possibly be seen As a violation of a presidential executive order against planning the assassination of foreign government officials. Tampa Fla. Apr two bodies were switched at the medical examiners office and the mix up went undetected until relatives went to a funeral Home and saw a stranger in the casket. A it was a Nightmare a said Velma Romeo who had expected to see the body of her balding 76-year-old Hus band Anthony. A when i came up to View the casket i saw a Man with a full head of hair. He was dressed in my husbands clothes and he had on my husbands  the body was that of a 53-year-old Tampa Man who died of cancer on the same Day Romeo died of heart disease at his Home in suburban Seffner Romeo a body was later found in the Hillsborough county morgue. Quot we re very very sorry that it happened a said Betty Buchan interim director of the county medical examiners office. A a we re very sorry for the emotional trauma the family went through. We re still trying to figure out what went  s Alma mater has memorial balloon launch remembering James Dean Nicki Bazooka whose real name is unknown sunday earlier at the Back Creek friends Church in Marion to leads hundreds of James Dean fans to the cemetery in Mark the 35th anniversary of Deans death in a traffic Marion ind., where the actor is buried. Fans gathered Accident. Boise Idaho api a Beirut hostage Jesse Turners High school sent 1,343 balloons Loose at its Homecoming football game a one balloon for every Day of his captive a slip of paper in each balloon carried Turners name and Date of capture from the Beirut University where he taught Jan. 24,1987 a 1,343 Days before the game. A i Hope god listens and i Hope these balloons reach him so that he will be Back soon a said his wife Badr Turner a lebanese native who was watching her first american football game. Turner graduated from Boise High school in 1965 and his Mother Estelle Ronneburg still lives in town a we want people to know that we Haven to forgotten Jesse a said Libby Shivers who attended Boise High with Turner and organized the launch. Turner is among six . Hostages in Lebanon. There Are seven other Western captives four britons two West germans and an italian.2 Gay men sue airline Over companion ticket Atlanta up a two Gay men have filed suit against Continental airlines because their request for a frequent flier companion ticket was rejected when they could not produce a marriage certificate. The suit was filed in . District court by Joseph Preis 53, and Larry Hiller 50, both of Atlanta. They claim they have lived together for 32 years have joint Bank accounts and a each considers himself to be the spousal equivalent and family of the  the suit contends the men wanted to take a we Klong trip to London on dec. 1,1989, and Continental offered a free companion ticket through its one pass program. When Preis called to make reservations the suit said he was told the free ticket would Only be issued if he and Hiller a could produce a marriage  Continental spokesman Dave Messing said the companion tickets Are for family members Only a and that couples who live together Are excluded. Nasa optimistic about launching discovery Cape canaveral Fla. A after months of embarrassing failures Nasa will try again this week to launch a shuttle this time with a nuclear powered satellite that will study the suns uncharted  abounds and with some reason the shuttle scheduled to lift off saturday morning a discovery a is the most recent spaceship to have flown and the Only one in which fuel leaks have not been found. A right now i done to even feel weather can hold us up because we be been just doing everything right on time a said astronaut Bruce Mulnick one of five men assigned to the upcoming Mission. Columbia has been grounded by dangerous Hydrogen leaks since May Atlantis since june. The National aeronautics and space administration tried four times to Send Columbia on an astronomy Mission before stopping two weeks ago to make Way for discovery a High priority flight. Nasa has until oct. 23 to launch discovery with the european Sun probe named for the legendary greek adventurer Ulysses. Otherwise the $750 million Mission will have to be put on hold for 13 months when Earth is aligned properly again with the Sun and Jupiter. The four Day Mission already is More than four years late. It originally was scheduled for May 1986 but was delayed indefinitely following the challenger explosion earlier that year. The fact that discovery has a a real clean history is encouraging said astronaut Tom Akers. Discovery s april flight that put the Hubble space Telescope into orbit was smooth and trouble free. New fuel lines have been installed Between the orbiter and external tank the has caused any damage. _ six hours into the flight As discovery orbits 184 Miles above Earth Akers will switch on the system releasing the satellite from the cargo Bay a series of rapid engine firings will Send the 807-Pound spacecraft hurtling toward Jupiter at a Speed of 34,450 Mph making it the fastest manmade object in relation to Earth. Ulysses is expected to reach Jupiter m february 1992. The giant planets Gravity will whip Ulysses to an unprecedented orbit Over the solar poles. The closest the spacecraft area where Hydrogen leaked in the other two shuttles Nasa officials said. But Little work was performed in discovery a engine Compa. Ening Ulysses science coordinator for the european space Agency which is conducting the Mission with Nasa. Scientists plan to examine the suns Corona and magnetic Field and solar wind and flares. So tar measurements have been made Only Oyer the suns Equator. To reach its destination Ulysses will use electricity generated from nearly 23.7 pounds of decaying plutonium 238. The Only other time such a Generator has flown on a shuttle was in october 1989, when Atlantis carried the Jupiter bound Galileo into space. Environmental activists opposed to nuclear powered spacecraft asked a Federal judge m Washington on Friday to Stop the launch. Nasa which says it has no will come to the Sun is about 120 million Miles a 27 million Miles farther away from the Sun than it is now on the launch pad. Ulysses is expected to pass Over the suns South pole in 1994 and the North pole the following year work was per Birned in discovery a engine a almost anything we learn with Ulysses compartment following the last flight fess will be real learning. Its new we be news re it Quot eng the Likely Good Fiat any repair work been there  said Edgar other option was to respond by tuesday. The activists contend a challenger like Accident could Shower deadly plutonium Over Florida. Nasa officials insist the is extremely Small