European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6the stars and stripes saturday May 25,1991 Nasa s system to failed with sensor by Kathy Sawyer the Washington Post Washington a nasal a system for catching potentially catastrophic flaws in the space shuttle said to have been strengthened after the 1986 challenger disaster broke Down in the Case of a defective sensor design discovered this week the Agency Stop safety official said thursday. Even though the problem was first suspected eight months ago it was not confirmed until after five More shuttles had flown with faulty parts and was not reported to launch controllers until barely a Day before Columbia was to lift off on the latest flight. Three months of delay were attributed to a contractor mistakenly sending a suspect sensor to the wrong subcontractor for analysis the National aeronautics and space administration will create a new investigative team to review How Well the system worked in. Addition to another team of technical investigators already at work on the hardware problem according to George Rodney associate administrator Tor safety and Mission Quality. A a there a no question in my mind we had a deficiency in the system a Rodney said. A we should not be in this . Thompson nasal a Deputy administrator said a anytime you put yourself in a position where parts can get into those Turbo Purris its time to get a Leaky Hydrogen line temperature sensor removed from the shuttle Columbia in september was in a category of hardware designated a criticality one a meaning its failure could cause loss of the vehicle arid Crew quo the investigation will focus on several contractors and at least two Nasa centers As Well As on people who Are supposed to track Quality and reliability in Nasa itself Rodney said. His office was strengthened and expanded As a watch dog following the challenger Accident. Fire breather bums up Case Tampa Fla a a fire breather who blamed his occupation for the alcohol on his breath was cleared of Drunken driving charges after performing for a sgt. Bill Fairbanks said Paul Domeneche struck swerved from one Lane to another and the fire breather smelled strongly of alcohol. Domenech blamed the alcohol smell on a mixture of rubbing alcohol and gasoline used Ini fire breathing demonstrations. To illustrate his Point he wigged the mixture took a Torch in hand and blew a Ball of fire for jurors outside the Hillsborough county courthouse. . To president Bush announces his pleasure with the House vote to give him leeway to negotiate a Trade treaty. Washington a president Bush won authority from Congress Friday to conduct amendment proof Trade agreements with Mexico and other nations. In a 59-36 vote the Senate followed the houses Lead in extending the so called a fast track Quot authority for two years. A a. V a a a. Bush who was in Boston to deliver a speech on Trade had maintained he needed the fast track Power to proceed with talks to tear Down barriers Between the United slates and Mexico and other trading partners. Sen. Ernest Hollings d-s.c., led the opposition saying a free Trade zone with Mexico will destroy the ailing textile Industry in his Home state. He said South Carolina could lose 1.4 million jobs in the next decade As companies move to Mexico where labor is cheap. A that is Why we Are so desperate a hoi Lings said during the debate Friday the fast track concept effectively bars Congress from changing a Trade agreement once it is signed forcing lawmakers to make a take it or leave it vote on a Nugo tinted treaty. The House approved the proposal thursday 231-192. Sen. Don Rigte d-mich., who also opposed Bush said he will not abandon his fight. He intends to push legislation that will allow Congress to change any agreement with Mexico to ensure american jobs and the environment Are protected. A this free Trade agreement is really a jobs program for Mexico Quot he said Quot what is Clear is tie United states needs a jobs program for this Bush on thursday said he a a could t be More pleased with the House action on an Issue he has called vitally important to the hemispheres future. Bush says foreign governments would not talk with the United states about Tariff reducing measures unless . Negotiators had the flexibility and Power to make deals a without having them changed by con gross., a a. A sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas chairman of the Senate finance committee and a crucial Bush ally in the Trade fight said the vote was a a momentous occasion for the Senate a determining whether the United states chooses to a move Forward or backward As a a there should be no mistake about it a the stakes arc High a Bentsen said before the vote. He noted that fast track affects talks not Only with Mexico but also the Uruguay round negotiations with 108 countries under the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Bentsen supports the View advanced by . And mexican governments a As Well As the business Community a that a free Trade agreement removing tariffs will Benefit the United states by opening up new Export markets and boosting the Economy. A North american free Trade zone comprising the United states Mexico and Canada would form the largest consumer Market in the world with an annual output of $6 trillion. Hollings argued the fast track is a like a gun to your head once a treaty is completed. It also represents an abdication of congressional responsibility he said. Hollings said he wanted to Monitor Trade agreements that might Hurt the a hard working people of my state people who have been devastated by a environmentalists and Farmers also opposed a free Trade pact with Mexico. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum a Ohio said companies that have already moved to Mexico where pollution standards arc lax have polluted Border s hidden children come out of hiding of cow York a the jewish children who survived world War ii concealed in sewers attics convents and Christian Homes knew suffering certainly but it w As Long overshadowed by their eiders tales of brutal concentration Camps. Now. Jews who were adults during world War in Are dying out and the hidden children Many Only in their 50s. Feel compelled to speak out it As the remaining witnesses to the holocaust. About 1,500 of them will share their memories sunday and monday at a conference in Manhattan arranged by Mem tiers of the hidden child a new York of based organization. Among participants will be Kristine Heier. A Denisi who. At age 8, began living m a sewer with nine others in Lvov Poland w elicit is now part of the soviet l in on. Kerens Ial Hei gave everything he owned to a sewer worker who brought them us of. They staved in the sewer for months stooped under a 5-fool-Hlgh Cei Hng. Sleeping on boards befriending rats As pets and Cath drowning when for the first time Many of us can say Quot we re not Abraham Foxman the water Rose above the children a Heads during Spring floods. After the War Keren said Quot sometimes 1 was very afraid of water. But i fought she became a Champion swimmer on a team from Krakow Poland. A a lot of us lost family in the concentration Camps and their experiences seemed to to much worse than ours Quot said Nicole David a conference organizer who was adopted by belgian catholics at age 6 after her Mother was deported to Auschwitz. Quot we kept being told that we were the Lucky Quot the hidden children Felt they had no complaint a agreed Magda denes a psychoanalyst who hid As a child with 400 others in a basement that could comfortably accommodate 40, Quot were you in the Camps no then you had it the conference participants Hope to find recognition for their courage their suffering and the Benevolence of their rescuers. Abraham Foxman National director of the anti defamation league of by Nai b Rith was Given by his polish jewish parents to a Catholic Nanny to save him from the nazis in 1940 when he was a year old. Quot she risked her life Quot he said. Quot i m Here because of Foxman was raised Catholic thinking the Nanny was his Mother. His real parents managed to survive the War and in 1945 they reclaimed him. The Nanny sued for custody and he was kidnapped twice a once by her and once by his parents who then kept him and raised him As a jew. Meeting others this weekend whose childhoods were similarly painful will be a catharsis for him. A for the first time Many of us can say we re not alone a a Foxman said. A Well he Able to share some of the anxiety some of the anger some of the guilt a and hopefully shed some of it Quot raffia Eliach a professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College estimates there May be up to 100,000 adults who were hidden children. Some May not know. Eliach tells of a polish nun w to recently Learned she was Horn a jew and hidden in a Convent As a baby during the War a Eliach. Who spent two years of the War a hiding in a dark Cave under a pig Sty Quot was one of 39 people to survive a september 1941 massacre of 3,500 jews in Lithuania. When the germans ordered them to assemble Eliach s Catholic baby Sitter brought her to the killing Field. But when she realized what was happening she wrapped the 4-year-old girl in her shawl and ran Home. Quot a
