European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 b the stars and stripes saturday june is Yyi _ shuttle Columbia lands safely saturday june 15, 1991 Edwards fab Calif. A shuttle Columbia its Crew and critters swooped to Earth on Friday after a space lab Mission to help future astronauts endure Zero Gravity during Long space flights and trips to other planets. A now that was a great Mission a space shuttle program director Robert Crippen declared after Columbia completed its nine Day 3.8-million-mile flight. A machines done to Fly any better than the shuttle touched Down under sunny Mojave desert skies at 8 39 . After carrying seven astronauts the space lab Experiment module 29 rats and 2,478 jellyfish around the Earth 146 times. Twenty six minutes later the astronauts walked into a 49-foot-Long a people movers to take them to Quick medical checkups. In the vehicle the astronauts reclined on Plush chairs so doctors could measure their vital signs before they fully recovered from weightlessness. The astronauts were in Good condition and the orbiter appeared a in Superb condition a Crippen said. Shuttle commander Bryan of Connor Pilot Sidney Gutierrez and Mission specialist Tamara Jernigan were scheduled to Fly to Houston about six hours after Columbia landed. The four other astronauts faced a week of medical experiments at Edwards including wild rides on rotating chairs exercise bicycles and sideways accelerating sleds As part of the Mission to study How Zero Gravity affects earthlings about four hours before Columbia landed on a Concrete runway its 60-foot-Long cargo Bay doors closed safely despite of Connors concerns last weekend that Loose weatherstripping might hinder the closure i v the shuttle crossed californians coast near late publisher William Randolph Hearst a Castle at san Simeon twin sonic booms heralded columbian a arrival Here. It was greeted by 7,500 cheering spectators. Crews rushed to retrieve perishable samples of the astronauts blood urine and saliva which had been shuffled Back and Forth Between space lab a refrigerator freezers. The coolers worked Friday despite earlier malfunctions. The four astronauts remaining at Edwards until june 21 or 22 Are cell Biolo Gist Millie Hughes Fulford and doctors James Bagian f. Andrew Gaffney and m. Rhea Seddon. They will undergo blood and lung tests ultrasound pictures of their hearts and other experiments that duplicate those conducted on Columbia. After some Post flight maintenance Columbia will be mounted atop a jumbo Jet for a two Day piggyback ride to Cape canaveral fla., starting thursday. A in mid August it will be flown Back to Rockwell International in Palmdale Calif., to be outfit Tecl with a drag Chute and new brakes for safer landings and with equipment that will let it spend 16 Days in space. The next shuttle flight is. Scheduled for late july. . Mayors say fiscal woes to scuttle ads care programs san Diego up a the mayors of major . Cities have concluded that they will be unable to Cope with the steady growth of aids cases because of a Lack Almoney a report released Friday said. Of dollars to Rescue mismanaged and corrupt financial institutions it certainly can expend a fraction of that amount on the crisis in american cities a the report referring to the savings and crisis said. The report released by the . Conference of mayors aids task Force at the groups annual meeting in san Diego said there will not be enough Money available for City health agencies to either care for the growing number of aids patients or adequately fund prevention programs aimed at High risk populations. The release of the report by the task forces chairman san Francisco mayor Art Agnos coincided with the 10th anniversary of the first aids cases reported by the centers for disease control. In the years since aids first surfaced in the United states some 110,000 people have died of the disease according to the report. The report said the cities budgets for aids have nearly doubled to meet increased needs and that the problem was aggravated by Federal Aid cuts of Between 60 and 70 percent during the 1980s. A if the Federal government can spend Many billions the report included surveys of 26 major cities said to have been hit the hardest by aids including new York los Angeles san Francisco and Chicago. Fifty six percent of the nations aids cases were found d to be in the 26�?osurvey cities along with Between 51 to 66 percent of the estimated 1 million people infected with the his virus. While homosexual males accounted for most of the cases the report concluded that service shortages were the greatest for drug abusers women and uninsured patients. A a Quot. A seventy six percent of the cities said Federal reimbursements for Low income patients would not meet demand this year. A the wave of the epidemic has been constant and escalating a the 30-Page report said. A there can by no debate on the Impact of aids in our cities this year is worse than last and next year will be even conference delegation Cut Washington apr health and human services Secretary Louis Sullivan has dropped another 100 scientists from the . Delegation to an aids conference in Italy next week a spokesman said thursday. Sullivan Cut the number from about 300 to 200 after a House subcommittee last week demanded that the list be trimmed and threatened to Cut Federal funds for aids programs. A a we re sensitive to the concerns of Congress a said has spokesman John Gibbons explaining the further Cut. The department originally had planned to Send 400 people to the conference in Florence at a Cost of $1.5 million the same amount that was spent to Send 730 people to last years in san Francisco. The list was pared to around 300 after aids activists criticized the department for extravagance in a time of tight budgets and a worsening aids epidemic. Has officials said that would save about $150,000. V. Some members of the House appropriations subcommittee for health and human services Are seeking a further reduction in the in l.a., leaving 3 dead los Angeles up a a police helicopter with engine trouble crashed and burned across the Street from an elementary school killing the two officers aboard and a third person on the ground. The crash reported at 11 22 ., thursday sounded like a a big Rig out of control and generated a huge fireball Pauline Smith an official at a Day care Center at the Normandie Avenue school said. A dozens of children were playing in the schoolyard at the time of the crash but none was Hurt the helicopter plunged into a parking lot across the Street front the school after hitting a Light pole police chief Daryl Gates said. A l ire engulfed the aircraft As Well As several cars in the lot. An adjacent duplex was charred by the flames. The Pilot was identified As Gary Howe 41, a 20-year Veteran who worked in the departments air support division since 1976. His observer was identified As Otti cer Charles r. Champe 46, who had served with the unit for 11 years his most recent assignment beginning in 1986. Champe joined the department in november 1973, left in 1982 and returned to the Force in 1985. The name of the Man killed on the ground was not immediately available. Mayor Tom Bradley ordered All City flags lowered to half staff in Honor of the two police officers. Gates said the chopper Crew had just taken off to begin patrolling the area when the Pilot radioed a engine a the helicopter then struck the Light pole and came Down next to the duplex a Gates said. Los Angeles firefighters and police gather near the wreckage of the helicopter soldering near a covered body. He aircraft was one of the police department or models a French made Aero spatial As-350b the aircraft was one of the police departments new dozens of parents flocked to the elementary school after hearing of thursdays crash. A i Wasny to scared because i knew god had me in his hands a one girl said. Lucille Burrus a crossing guard who witnessed the crash said a a the copter hit the ground and burst into flames. I was close enough to feel the Charles Proctor principal of the school said the crash a almost Felt like an he said some parents took their children Home especially those who had witnessed the crash. A crisis intervention team was to counsel the children Friday. Federal officials were investigating the cause of the crash. 1
