European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Navy Iun aay May.5,�?T 1991 inc a Siam and stripes edit Hosp in a Quot the Navy on Friday handed the electric boat division of general dynamics hn3la<cca0istra-n wort an estimated si.8 billion inc uding $615 million this year to build a second sea it Volt nuclear powered attack submarine fact a boat currently is building the first sea Wolf designed to replace the los Angeles class attack sub win the second contract in a bidding warts. Newport news shipbuilding and dry Dock go. In Virginia. In turning to electric boat once More the Navy Mav have shut Newport news out of the submarine business. That at least was the cry of Union officials and v,r8,n Aja makers one of whom sen. John Warner protested that defense Secretary Dick Cheney had overruled the Navy s preference for Newport news the Navy has projected its total sea Wolf Purchase to nine vessels at about one per year. Warner ranking Republican on the Senate armed services committee immediately asked the general accounting office to investigate the decision. I know for a fact that the Navy wanted to award this submarine contract to Newport news to preserve the Industrial base and provide for Competition a which saves taxpayer dollars a Warner said. Warner a former Secretary of the Navy said electric Quot boat under bid Newport news by about $90 million. There s a serious question Mark As to whether Thev Aca i act the Boa at that pc and in masking the Gao to look at that Warner said. Connecticut and Rhode Island lawmakers expressed satisfaction Over the decision. A a if Ever there was an ex-?p, Victory from the jaws of defeat this is it said sen. Christopher Dodd d-conn., noting that a year ago word leaked that the Navy was planning to award the second sea Wolf to Newport news. _ electric boat s Groton conn., shipyard and its quonset Point r.i., Frame making Plant will do the primary work on the second sea Wolf. The contract awarded Friday was. For a $614.7 million outlay this a Aoa Iserer e of the contract the project is Worth m.8 billion to electric boat according to the naw. The total Cost of the sea Wolf is an estimated $2.3 billion making it the most expensive submarine Ever Dir chased by the Navy. In Rhode Island gov. Bruce g. Sundlun and the in tire tour member congressional delegation greeted workers at the quonset Point Plant. T rep. Ronald k. Machtley r-r.i., called the decision a Sweet Victory As he pulled a chocolate in the shape of a submarine from his pocket and took a bite. Second sea Wolf contract Sci Ytje a Pill in. Ii my \ \ s an artists rendition of the Navy a $2 a billion sea Wolf nuclear powered attack submarine a even though electric boat won the contract the Yard s future and that of its 22,000 employees is by no Means secure. 3 v recent testimony by top officials with electric boat indicated  Rhode Island and Connecticut complexes would have to Cut their work Force in half by late in the decade when submarine contracts already awarded. Are. Completed. Without the new sea Wolf some said the facilities might have to close. A for Newport news the decision will Likely mean a Sharp cutback s work Force but not outright closure. I hat vast Virginia Yard also builds surface ships such As aircraft carriers. A a oth Yards have Large enough backlogs that the sea Wolt announcement will have no immediate effect on their employment Levels. Electric boat is the largest employer in Rhode Island and second largest in Connecticut with 22,000 workers designers and engineers in the submarine building division. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a. Newport. News Virginia a largest private employer has about lw.,500 workers building submarines and a work Force of about 28,000 Overall. Newport news president Edward j. Campbell said he was extremely disappointed with the award announcement but added that the Yards work Force would remain stable through next year. But Union officials at the Virginia Yard said they feared the decision would mean Newport news will have to eliminate its entire submarine work Force. Or m a pc r s j r o m the Northeast have argued repeatedly that electric boat should win the contract because its sole business is building submarines. Newport news they argued could survive on its surface ship  in the stars and stripes 10 years ago May 4,1981 a postmaster general William f. Bolger said he wont try to Force a nine digit zip code on americans but insisted that voluntary use of the longer code would Cut postal service costs and would catch on relatively quickly. 20 year Sago May 4,1971 a the supreme court ruled that juries in capital cases have unlimited discretion to pronounce life or death and that a single trial May both determine guilt and fix a sentence. The decisions could free states to proceed with the execution of prisoners who were Given death sentences. 30 year Sago May 4,1961 a plumber Joe Simonton complained about the deluge of letters keeping him from work since he announced three visitors in a flying Saucer had traded him some Quot space pancakes for a Jug of water three weeks ago. 40 years ago. May 4,1951 a in his first Day of Senate hearings Gen. Douglas Macarthur said that if he had been permitted All out use of his air Force when the chinese communist forces entered the War the chinese would have been thrown Back. W a a.  a Lull a ii Hill sex Marine found guilty of murder in Case linked to Home computer from Wiro Ronny pc ,. From wire reports Alexandria a. A a former Marine accused of writing a lurid a recipe for murder on a computer and killing his wife was convicted of murder by a Federal jury even though the woman a body was Neyer found. Robert Russel 33, showed no emotion As he stood with his two defense lawyers while the first degree murder verdict was announced Friday. Some of his relatives cried. A a a a. A. \ . District judge James Cacheris set sentencing for aug. 2. Prosecutors said Russell killed his wife Shirley at her Quantico a Marine base quarters and dumped her body in an abandoned coalmine in Pennsylvania after a reconciliation attempt failed and she served him with divorce papers. But the body of the Marine Captain was never found and defense witnesses testified they saw her alive after she was pit reported missing March 4, 1989 the government based its Case largely on circumstantial evidence including a document found in the Ollice computer of Robert Russell who was Dis honorable discharged from the Marine corps in february 1988 for misconduct. A prosecutors called the computer file a 26-step a recipe for murder a but Russell said it Only contained notes for a mystery novel he wanted to write. The jury of four women and eight men deliberated about 15 hours Over three Days. The panel considered testimony from 62 witnesses and More than 50 exhibits. Two jurors said afterwards the deliberations were troublesome. The jury began deliberations wednesday. Its Foreman sent Cacheris a note i thursday saying the panel could not reach a verdict. He let the jurors recess for lunch gave them a Quick Pep talk when they returned and sent them Back behind closed doors. In our minutes later they asked him Tor a definition of a reasonable  Russell was tried in . District court because the murder occurred on government property. I he defendant who was free during the trial on $50, a a bail was arrested two months ago at the Pennsylvania correctional institution in Grater a Ford where he was working. Two Marine aides found the a recipe for murder file in russells computer when they were cleaning out his office following his  attorneys promised an Appeal within 10 Days. A prosecutors said Russell was jealous of his wife who was also a Marine Captain and remained in the corps after he was discharged. Prosecutors said she was shot in quarters they shared on the Quantico base in Virginia in March 1989 and dumped in a Pennsylvania Coal mine. Memphis Tenn apr the owner of two pit bulldogs that ripped a woman to death in front of horrified onlookers was convicted Friday of criminally negligent homicide. Edwin Hill 44, a former policeman faces up to two years in prison at his sentencing Juhe 7, said prosecutor Don Strother. Prosecutors described the june 1990. Owner convicted of death of teacher Betty Lou Stidham 57 As being a beaten  a Stidham was one of 24 people killed by dogs nationwide last year said Ann Joly of the humane society of the United states in Washington. Light of those fatal attacks were by pit bulls. Since 1986, she said the humane society had recorded prior manslaughter convictions for dog attacks in California North c Arolina and Georgia. Stidham was attacked in a Yard separating her residence and Hills police said. Ambulance attendants were held at Bay by the dogs while the animals continued to tear at her body trial witnesses said. Police eventually ran the animals off by shooting and wounding one of them. The animals have since been destroyed