European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a the stars and stripes sunday october 21,1990 news update shuttle goof Cape canaveral Fla. Apr human error caused a 9-foot-Long aluminium beam to be left inside the engine compartment of the space shuttle Atlantis damaging the Craft investigators concluded Friday. The beam was discovered oct. 3 when the shuttle was lifted into an upright position in an Assembly room said la. Kump a spokesman for Lockheed space operations . Of Titusville. The company is nasal a primary shuttle contractor. The beam part of a work platform banged around inside the compartment and caused about 25 dents and dings. The damage was not expected to delay a secret military flight by Atlantis set for around nov. 10. A nine member Lockheed team blamed human error and not worker fatigue experience or scheduling Kump said. The team based its finding on employee interviews. Kump said a appropriate disciplinary actions would be taken against the employees involved. He refused to elaborate. Hugh Harris a National aeronautics and space administration spokesman described the mistake As serious. The incident would be taken into account in the Agency a next evaluation of Lockheed a performance Harris said. . Temperatures october 19 Albany,f, Amarillo a Anchorage a Atlanta Atlantic City i Baltimore Birmingham a Bismarck Boise i Boston to Brownsville a Burlington vt.,c Charleston,s.c.,Charleston,w.va.,i Charlotte Cheyenne i Chicago a Cincinnati Cleveland a Columbia,b.c.,Columbus Ohio a Concord n.h., 1 Dallas it Dayton Denver Des Moines c Al Evansville Fairbanks s Fargo i Fla Stalm grand rapids a great Falls Greensboro,n,c.,Hartford helena.honolulu Houston a Indianapolis jack5on,mlss.,Jacksonville Juneau Kansas clty.las vegas Hilo 50 32 78 47 83 53 40 31 64 33 7 46 56 35 77 55 57 36 56 34 7 39 55 36 51 23 61 42 85 65 50 31 50 31 50 30 89 56 56 32 64 44 62 31 52 42 55 37 49 33 69 40 53 35 59 34 75 56 52 36 77 32 62 48 51 36 39 35 84 64 60 35 33 17 49 39 60 32 50 34 50 22 63 39 55 3b 50 29 91 75 73 51 53 36 73 38 79 68 43 39 69 52 75 50 Little los Angeles Louisville a Lubbock a Memphis Miami Beach a Mldlami-odessa.milwaukee a mils so Paul a Nashville a naw Orleans a new York Norfolk, North Oklahoma Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh a Portland Maine Portland,ore.,Providence Raleigh-durtiam.rapid City Richmond Sacramento St Louis a sail Lake City san Antonior san Diego san Francisco san Juan,p,r.,Santa fe.is Ste Marie a Seattle a Shreveport a Sioux Falls Spokane Syracuse Tampa St ptrsbo.topeka Tucson Tulsa a Washington o.c., i Wichita a Wilkes Barre Wilmington Dell Lair a Cloudy a rain i Inow a Miuling european weather Viu Iii _ la j sunday 5 23, Eun Nso monday Luw monday continued portly Cloudy occasionally mostly Cloudy srsstew0� a Atter Quot a a 1 he a temperatures recorded saturday 4am 4pm 68 81 Copenhagen Adana a Amsterdam in Athens in Valano Berlin a Bremerhaven i 52 61 57 54 54 55 Frankfurt 72 London i 60 Madrid 54 Munich i 52 Paris hit rails in Brussels to 54 64 Rome the prov Deddy a 13,2nd weather Wing Graben Taibach. 4am 4pm 48 47 46 52 45 50 65 64 64 63 61 52 66 63. Other worldwide temperatures Cairo f Dhahran f Dublin Helsinki Jerusalem Lisbon 95 57 36 79 68 High Low 64 Manila 70 Montreal 54 Moscow 32 Oslo 59 Toronto 59 Vancouver n�?zi., supplied by the associated puss a Cloudy fair a rain la Fig the thunderstorm hi-ha2e. At 50 48 48 52 52 73 48 43 36 39 41 palestinians safety in Israel May be focus of . Report United nations apr the . Chief says that if Israel proves intransigent he May have no recourse but to report to the Security Council on ways to protect palestinians from israeli abuses. . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar said Friday he will not Send envoys to investigate the oct. 8 police killings of at least 19 palestinians in Jerusalem unless Israel decides to cooperate. A the Only thing on which i can report if my Mission does not go to the area is on the Protection and the safety of the palestinians a he said. However Perez de Cuellar gave the United states and other nations More time to try to persuade Israel to go along. Israel contends that letting in the . Investigation team would infringe on israelis sovereignty in Jerusalem. He said he is not pursuing further efforts to win israeli cooperation but noted that he believes a some countries would like to exert some influence on the israelis so that they end up by accepting the the Security councils president British ambassador sir David Hannay said the Council will take up a statement or Resolution monday urging Israel to cooperate. Palestinian protesters threw rocks on jews praying at the Western Wall also called the wailing Wall. Security forces fired tear Gas rubber bullets and then live ammunition killing at 19 palestinians and wounding 140. About 30 israeli police and civilians were injured in the incident. On oct. 12, the Security Council unanimously condemned israelis Security forces Over the incident. The Resolution a one of the few anti israeli measures backed by the United states a expressed regret that worshippers were injured its Only reference critical of the palestinians. The Council requested the Secretary general to Send a team to investigate the killings and report by the end of october Israel has said . Officials could enter As tourists but Secretary general has rejected travel on anything less than an official level. On Friday israeli troops shot and wounded at least 10 palestinians in the occupied Gaza strip during a protest of the killings on the Temple mount one of the holiest Sites to moslem and jews. Palestinians said the oct. 8 stoning began when rumours spread that jewish zealots planned to March on the Temple mount which is under moslem control. A ban on Frankenstein Bash brings out spirits most foul Hilo 64 48 74 60 58 39 b4 56 69 44 b6 76 81 59 50 44 54 41 64 38 71 45 58 42 63 52 76 41 72 54 69 50 86 70 59 42 69 64 48 30 64 33 60 44 58 38 64 40 66 36 55 24 62 39 73 48 61 45 50 34 78 57 73 62 68 52 09 75 72 43 40 31 55 40 72 42 63 38 48 30 48 34 8b 71 72 57 88 61 70 54 58 40 74 55 50 37 57 36 by Mary Neth staff writer Darmstadt Germany a a pack of costumed ghouls marched around Frankenstein Castle saturday protesting a ban by local officials of this years halloween spook show. Brian Hill the organizer of the annual event at the Hilltop ruins said local environmentalists have refused him a permit for the festival on the grounds that the Castle is in an environmental Sanctuary and that the crowds will spook the Forest wildlife. The monsters protest signs denied the charges a thirteen years of Frankenstein halloween and rabbits and Deer still Happy a read one sign. A no limit to the number of visitors allowed Here weekends a read another. A Herr Baurle the real monster a asked another. Mannfred Baurle is the head of the environmental office that has banned the annual event. A the is Adamant and wont discuss the matter with us a Hill said. A the has refused to allow it to come up for environmental committee debate. He wont even put it on the Hill said he had arranged for parking in nearby towns and free shuttle bus transportation to and from the Castle to answer complaints of too Many autos going up and Down the Hill. But he does no to believe that environmental hazards Are the real reason that this years festival was rejected. A Baurle has been quoted in the local German press As saying that the festival is nothing but a big commercial event a Hill said. A Well the officials May not like it but the Public sure does. We pull in 45,000 visitors each year Hill said adding that the event has been aired on television programs All Over the world and been written about in leading . And German publications. A probably if the festival Hadnot got so popular we be having All these problems a Hill said. The halloween fest which Hill claims has 80 percent German attendance began As a German american Kontak club project he originated while stationed in Darmstadt As a 20-year-old service member. This years show was to have taken place Over three weekends in october and november. Hill is fighting the ban through his lawyer and Hopes the last weekends of the fest can still be held. A if things keep going the Way they have a he said a we May end up holding a Post halloween fest sometime around Christmas top marijuana smuggler sentenced to 25 years Seattle apr a Man described by prosecutors As the single biggest sup. Elier of Southeast asian marijuana to the United states was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison and fined a maximum $6.25 million. Brian Daniels 44, a new York native who lived in Thailand for 10 years had pleaded guilty to smuggling tons of marijuana into the United states from Southeast Asia Between 1984 and 1988. The shipments included Multi ton deliveries to Seattle Southern California Oregon Nevada British Columbia and Mexico according to court documents. Among them was a shipment of 72 tons of High Grade laotian marijuana seized in june 1988 aboard the oin Supply vessel encounter Bay off the Washington state coast. . District judge John Coughenour said he was impressed that Daniels had admitted his guilt Coughenour also noted that Daniels Nad ample Opportunity to become involved in the illegal Trade of cocaine and heroin but refused. Prosecutors contended however that Daniels parlayed drug profits into $10 million in personal assets which have not been recovered by the Federal government. A marijuana regardless of what anyone feels about it is illegal and it makes you Money a Coughenour said. A you have to keep in mind there Are a lot of kids in this country affected by marijuana a and for whom the first step to drugs is defense attorney j. Williams Beard said that most of Daniels assets were in thai real estate holdings and that attempts to turn them Over to the . Government had failed. Beard said Daniels first wife holds the property deeds and refuses to surrender them. Daniels who has been held in jail in nearby Tacoma pleaded guilty last december to one count of operating a continuing criminal Enterprise. In september he pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy involving schemes to import 17 tons of marijuana to san Diego and 42 tons of the drug to Reno Nev. Daniels was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 25 years for the Reno conviction and 15 years for the san Diego offence. 3 to destroy or. Rogers fake tapes Kansas City to. A three men have agreed to destroy recordings of racist and anti Gay Telephone messages that imitated the voice and speech of a mister Rogers from the children a television program. The men signed settlement agreements Friday with Fred m. Rogers and his family communications inc., owners of the trademarks and copyrights that protect the show. Rogers and family communications sued the men a Adam Troy Mercer Edward e. Stephens in and Michael Brooks a and the White knights of the Kun flux klan in Federal court to Stop the playing of the tape recorded messages. The recordings imitated the sound effects and theme song of the a mister Rogers neighbourhood a show and Rogers voice and speech patterns
