European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 11, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5officer s Lead footed daughters quite a ticket Sacramento Calif. A you Are californians top traffic officer and your adult daughters Are racking up tickets for Drunken driving speeding running Stop signs and drag racing. What do you do that a what state officials and some aggrieved police officers Are asking Maurice Hannigan who besides being dad to heavy footed offspring is the commissioner of the California Highway patrol. At Issue is whether Hannigan put his foot Down a not on his daughters driving but on the officers who wrote their tickets. Highway patrol officers have complained that they were interrogated and intimidated by senior Highway patrol officials after citing Hannigan a daughters for traffic violations. The allegations Are the biggest blot in Hannigan s otherwise successful 29-year police career. He s spent All but two years in the Highway patrol quickly moving up the ranks. So far internal reviews Are being conducted by the state business transportation and housing Agency which oversees the Highway patrol and by the Sacramento District attorneys office. Hannigan declined an interview until the reviews Are completed. Last month he said he believed he was the target of a smear Campaign. He denied any interference with his daughters tickets and said he has told officers to cite his children when they deserve it. But some officers in the North Sacramento station claim that senior officials forced changes in an Accident report and harassed officers who cited or arrested Hannigan s eldest daughter Maureen. One officer who ticketed her went on stress disability leave. The Captain who commanded the station has been reassigned. Maureen Hannigan 23. Was a involved in an Auto Accident in december 1989. A arrested in july 1990 on suspicion of Drunken driving but not charged. A ticketed in april for running a Stop sign a the same one she was cited for running a year earlier. I her Sisters driving habits also have caught officers notice. The Highway patrol warned Kristine Hannigan 19, for allegedly drag racing last August for the second time in a year. A third daughter Colleen 20, challenged a speeding ticket in june. The California association of Highway patrolmen has come to the commissioner s defense. Quot commissioner Hannigan is without a doubt one of the Best commissioners the cup has Ever had a said Andrew Legg. President of the labor group. A the commissioner s conduct is and always has been exemplary Quot Legg. Said. A there May be some individual officers who do not share this View but they Are clearly in the  Thi Tsan Francisco chronicle reported recently however that a consulting firm hired by the Highway patrol found Hannigan unwilling to listen to members of the 6,300-officer Force or to his division commanders who. In turn had become afraid to speak out for fear that they would be  Beluga whale appears to be nursing Natasha a 9-year-old Beluga whale swims with her Newborn calf at the new York aquarium on wednesday. New York up a the Newborn Beluga whale at the new York aquarium seemed finally to be suckling its Mother Friday much to the Relief of anxious aquarium officials. A i done to want to be Overly optimistic but if this keeps up things should go Well a said aquarium spokesman Rick Miller in announcing that the calf seemed to begin nursing Early thursday evening. The 5-foot calf the first offspring for 9-year-old Natasha had been exploring its mothers body since its birth Early wednesday but not feeding causing officials to fear it would succumb like seven previous belugas born in Captivity. Hie pair Are confined to a 50-foot tank filled with 180,000 Gallons of Ocean water on Coney Island. The Small White specie of whales usually lives in inlets around the Arctic Circle. The calf estimated to weigh Between 150 pounds and 185 pounds seems to stay on its Mother s nipple for up to 11 seconds at a time every 30 to 40 minutes said Miller who described that As Normal feeding behaviour. A the calf is swimming Well and keeping up with its Mother. But we wont know until it grows if is getting nutrition a Miller said. N the stars and stripts10 years ago aug. 11,1981 a the National league unleashed a barrage of Home runs to defeat the american league for the 10th consecutive year 5-4. The game reintroduced the major league season after a 50-Day strike.20 years ago aug. 11,1971 a snipers picked off soldiers flames levelled Homes and hundreds of refugees fled to the Irish Republic As 17 people were killed in one of Northern Ireland s worst outbreaks of violence in 50 years.30 years ago aug. 11,1961 a the Senate passed a Bill making air plane hijackers subject to a possible death penalty and providing stiff penalties for other crimes in the sky.40 years ago aug. 11,1951 a As armistice meetings resumed in Kaeson North Korea communist negotiators refused to consider anything but the 38th parallel As the demarcation line Between communist and United nations forces in North Korea. Sailor s family deserves apology for Iowa explosion attorney says Cleveland up the Navy should apologize to the family of Clayton Hartwig for a piously and pompously accusing him of causing the explosion that killed 47 sailors on the battleship Iowa a Hartwig family lawyer says. Attorney Krucig Brusnahan made the statement after an investigation by the Navy and Independent scientists revealed that the battleship explosion which killed 47 people including Hartwig could have been an Accident the Cleveland Plain dealer reported Friday. In a separate news conference thursday rep. Mary Rose Oakar a Ohio called Navy investigators a really Rotten people for their handling of an investigation that blamed Hartwig a United Fli gunner s male second class for the 1989 explosion. Brusnahan said the family from Cleveland a demands an apology from the Navy brass who so piously and pompously accused this Young  the attorney said the apology is warranted because the original investigation was a hopelessly flawed and because the Case against Hartwig was based on a Trumor conjecture and  a Over one year later the Navy is ready to admit the Iowa explosion could have been an accent Quot Brusnahan said. The family has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Navy. Navy investigators told the new York times that they believe an Accident might have caused the explosion on the Iowa because of. New discoveries including the existence of Navy stockpiles of Gunpowder bags. The first conclusion by Navy investigators was that the blast was caused by suicidal sabotage by Hartwig 25, said to be in an unhappy homosexual relationship with another Sailor the Plain dealer said. Oakar said the new Independent investigation is a very very critical of the manner in which the Navy chose to investigate  a in every instance they have Lorn apart the theories offered by the Navy a she said. Attendants of new pact Chicago up a United airlines and the association of flight attendants reached agreement Friday on a new labor agreement that ended almost four years of negotiations officials said. The agreement covers the airlines 16,000 flight attendants and will be submitted to the Afa master executive Council this week. United said. Details of the agreement were not released pending ratification. The association of flight attendants Al Cio represents 30, my members on 18 airlines and is the largest flight attendant Union in the world. United a air  pilots association members ratified a three year contract. The association which represents 7,679 United pilots was the first of three unions to come to terms with the airline. United s unionized flight attendants had been working under a contract that expired nov. 1, 1987, and have not had a raise in five years. United a contract with the machinists Union which represents 26,5 m United workers expired nov. 1, 1989