European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 4, 1991. The stars and stripes b Page 3bush gets report on Cravei policy president says Sununu has his full support Washington a the White House Legal staff has made its recommendations to president Bush on whether to change travel policy for top officials As chief of staff John Sununu prepares to release More details on his use of military planes an administration official said Friday. President Bush underscored his defense of his chief of staff by telling reporters he Hopes Sinunu remains on the Job. A a everything a Fine a Bush said when asked about Sununu a Job Security. Asked if Sununu would stay on for the next two years Bush told reporters travelling to St. Louis with him on air Force one a i Hope so. I Hope he will. He has my full White House counsel Boyden Gray on thursday gave Bush the results of his review conducted after disclosures of Sununu a use of government planes for personal and political travel said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity. A a he a got the options. He a got to review it before making decisions on whether to change the policy directing that Sununu and the National Security adviser should travel on government aircraft at All times. As the controversy Over use of government aircraft satellite eyes Northern lights from discovery Cape canaveral Fla. Up the discovery astronauts hoisted a Star wars satellite above the shuttles cargo Bay Friday and trained its electronic eyes on Earth a atmosphere and the shimmering Northern lights in ongoing missile detection research. Chalking up one of the most successful flights in shuttle history discovery a seven Man few worked like clockwork through a full slate of strategic defense initiative experiments and reviewed plans to fix one of the few problems that has occurred during the shuttle Mission. A we have completed All of our category one data sets and we re ecstatic a said Howard Stears an official with the strategic defense initiative organization. A we have gotten tremendous data so far. They Are beginning to produce results and they Are seeing phenom Cna they did not expect and Ite very while discovery a two primary payloads a the spas-2 satellite and an infrared Telescope a have worked flawlessly three secondary experiments were derailed by the failure sunday of two data recorders. The astronauts planned to attempt a repair Job saturday that was expected to solve the problem. The Crew wrapped up the primary goals of the flight thursday when they completed a Complex series of observations using the $94 million Spaa-2 strategic defense initiative satellite to study multiple shuttle rocket firings from up to 61/2 Miles away. Closing out a 38-hour Orbital duet commander Michael Coats and co Pilot Blaine Hammond mane Vered discovery to within 50 feet of the 1-ton spas-2 satellite thursday and cremate Richard Hieb operating the shuttles robot Arm carefully plucked the spacecraft out of orbit. Joining Hieb .35, Navy capt. Coats 45, and air Force it. Col. Hammond 39, aboard discovery were Gregory Harbaugh 35, air Force col. Guion Bluford 48, air Force it. Col. Donald Mcmonagle 38, and Charles Lacy Veach 46. A a Quot. A a using the Arm again Friday the astronauts lifted spas-2 out of discovery a payload Bay and positioned it above the shuttle to kick off 24 hours of planned observations focusing on Earth a atmosphere More shut tie rocket firings and other Phenomena. The satellite remained attached to the Arm. Quo the astronauts interrupted their observation schedule to aim the satellite at an unusually Aurora. An infrared Telescope in discovery a cargo Bay made extensive auroral observations during the first two Days of the flight giving elated scientists More data than they had expected. A a Early Friday astronauts launched the third in a series of Small satellites built to release rocket fuel into space so scientists can study its appearance. Such research is critical to strategic defense initiative scientists who Are trying to find out How to differentiate enemy missiles from the naturally occurring space the White House on thursday leaped to the defense of vice president Dan Quayle who flew on a military Jet for an overnight Golf trip to Georgia last week just hours after Bush asked his Legal staff to review the policy covering Sununu a travel. Quayle like Bush uses military aircraft for All personal official travel a a due to Security and communications requirements. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. A the american people do not ask their elected offt vials to give up their lives to take these positions Quot Fitz water said when asked if Quayle a travel was appropriate. A the american people done task them to live like hermits.�?�. A a a /. A a. A a lbs news said Quayle a Golf Outing with transportation Secretary Sam Skinner along As a guest Cost taxpayers $27,000, including housing and feeding the planets flight Crew and secret service detail. David Beckwith the vice presidents spokesman called the $27,000 figure a a Blind estimate nothing a a a a. A a. A a v ,. A. A it was a guess a Beckwith said. �?o1 done to have any Cost estimates but if they had said twice what they said or half that it would have been the same to Fitzwater said the review of the policy covering Sun unus use of military jets was expanded from looking at the policy itself to probing the accuracy of the records Sununu submitted on reimbursement for non official travel. Meanwhile the american ski federation a lobby organization has corrected the improper reimbursement it made to the government to cover the Cost of a ski. Trip to Colorado for Sununu a wife. Nancy said the groups president Joe Prendergast. He said an affiliate foundation the ski industries of America ski endowment foundation has paid the ss02 reimbursement from its Treasury of Quot several million Quot dollars. The. Federation initially paid for the ticket but the White House told the organization that it could not a a capt the payment because it was illegal for Sununu to receive reimbursement except irom a charitable or educational organization. Prendergast said earlier reports that another foundation the american ski foundation was to have made the payment were erroneous because that was an old foundation that was taken Over by the ski industries of Quot America ski endowment foundation. Boys town mayor Sarah Williamson 16, is congratulated by Mike Moten elected mayor of the 550-student Village. She is the first an instructor at boys town in Nebraska after she was female mayor in the town s 75-year history. Opponents ask High court to overturn Seabrook s License a Seabrook . Up a opponents of the Seabrook nuclear Power Plant have asked the . Supreme the plants License an attorney for an anti nuclear group said Friday. I. A Seabrook spokesman said the Appeal was without Merit. A \ a Quot 7 a a a a i a Seabrook received its full Power License from the nuclear regulatory commission in March 1990, and that License was upheld by an appeals court in january. But the opponents contend that the arc violated its own rules in granting operating authority to the $6.6 billion Plant. The Appeal was filed by the seacoast anti pollution league the new England coalition on nuclear pollution the town of Hampton n.h., and the state of Massachusetts. Robert Backus the attorney for the seacoast ant pollution league said the arc ignored its rules when it granted the License. Quot the Issue is whether the arc can License that Plant without any evidence that any effective plan to Backus said. Quot the key a is the fact that the arc ruled As irrelevant the radiation dose consequences of an Accident at he said the appeals court ruled the arc had the discretion to interpret its regulations so As not to require evidence in the effectiveness of emergency plans. Seabrook spokesman Rob Williams said those issues have already been settled. Backus said the court would first have to decide whether to hear the Case before any further arguments Are made. He said the court could make that decision As Early As next month. If the supreme court refuses to hear the Case Quot that a the end of the line Lor appeals of the Seabrook License. Backus said. Quot if they done to Well just have to wait for the inevitable Quot he to a Accident at Seabrook. Quot its going to
