European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 14, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 investigators doubt bomb caused crash by the new York times Houston a Federal investigators thursday focused on the possibility that a mechanical or structural failure caused a Continental express commuter plane to burst into flame in midair wednesday killing All 14 people on Board. Agents of both the Fri and the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms were at the site of the crash about 75 Miles Southwest of Houston on thursday in an Effort to determine whether foul play was involved. But Rolando Moss a spokesman for the Houston Field office of the Fri said thursday afternoon a we have found no evidence that would Lead us to believe that some kind of incendiary device or bomb caused the  the aircraft a brazilian made pm Braer 120, crashed into a Cornfield shortly after 10 . While on a regularly scheduled flight Between Laredo Texas and Houston. Airline and Federal officials said that just before it went Down the aircraft was flying at an Altitude of 11,800 feet in Clear Calm weather and that the Pilot had reported no difficulties. A senior Federal official at the scene of the crash said that investigators were focusing their attention on the aircraft a left Wing and its engine which Tore off the Wing and landed 75 to 100 Yards from the rest of the wreckage. The planets left Wing came Down with other major parts of the wreckage and was folded under the right Wing which investigators said was highly unusual. The official who asked not to be identified said that evidence collected on the ground had confirmed reports by witnesses that the plane had caught fire while in the air. Investigators were still trying to establish the cause of the loud bang heard by those witnesses. The senior official said that after an initial inspection investigators had concluded that the housing of the left engine showed no evidence of an explosion or of the kind of massive engine failure that would have sent pieces of machinery piercing through the housing. Investigators said thursday night that they had recovered from the wreckage about $500,000 Worth of diamonds that was in the Luggage of one passenger. They said that they had looked for the gems after a business associate of the passenger called to inform them that the diamonds were on the plane. Federal Law enforcement officials were called into the investigation of the crash on wednesday because of numerous reports by witnesses that a loud sound like that of an explosion had preceded the aircraft a fiery descent Moss said. Commander John Creighton front and Crew members Mark Brown left and Charles a a same Acmar leave to Board discovery. Shuttle starts Ozone Mission Cape canaveral Fla. A discovery thundered along the East coast and into orbit thursday evening carrying five astronauts and a Complex research satellite that scientists Hope will help them learn Why the Earth a Ozone layer is shrinking. Scientists on the ground cheered As it sped away with the upper atmosphere research satellite a $740 million Effort to study Earth a deteriorating Ozone layer and other stratospheric elements. It is the first in a series of satellites planned for Mission to planet Earth a decades Long probe of the environment from space. Nasa said initial checks of the Observatory showed it to be in Good shape. People along the Eastern Seaboard especially those in the South had a rare Opportunity to see an ascending spaceship. Discovery hugged the coast As far As Cape Hatteras n.c., then arced sharply out Over the Atlantic on its Way to a 336-mile-High orbit. Scientists said it had to take that unusual path into space to reach the orbit necessary for its Mission. The missions hours a an evening liftoff and the first night Landing at Kennedy Early wednesday a also Are required for the precisely timed release of the satellite Midway through the five Day flight. Commander John Creighton and his Crew have worked after hours for months putting in virtually All their flight training at night. Fridays bedtime was As usual at Dawn. Makeup was in the afternoon. The menus primary Job after reaching orbit was to Check the 14,500-Pound Observatory and the shuttles mechanical  which astronaut Mark Brown will use to deploy the satellite late today. Friday evening in preparation for the satellite release Creighton and Pilot Kenneth Reightler or. Planned to Man Euver discovery to an Altitude of 351 Miles one of the highest for a shuttle. The Observatory is to spend at least a i years studying the Ozone layer located in the stratosphere six to 34 Miles above Earth. Scientists believe Man made chemicals Are destroying this band of oxygen which filters out ultraviolet rays that could wipe out life on the planet. The satellite also will make the first measurement of stratospheric winds and Monitor the atmospheres chemical composition solar Energy and energetic particles. Several experiments were on the Agenda. Friday night Brown and James Buchli planned to set up liquid filled cylinders that were to be shaken to see How fluids react in the absence of Gravity. The results will be applied to space station design work. The Crew in particular Charles a a same Gemar also is keeping an Eye on eight 30-Day-old rats the subjects of muscle studies. Launch director Bob Sieck said the successful liftoff of nasal a 43rd shuttle Mission capped one of the smoothest countdowns Ever. There were Only two snags a Brief interruption in communications Between the launch site and Mission control at Johnson space Center in Houston that resulted in a 14-minute launch delay and the temporary shutdown during ascent of a system used to dispel heat from the  s lawyer now after passing bar on 48th try by David Margolick the new York times it happened with the frequency and regularity of the equinoxes. Every year twice a year year in and year out Maxcy Filer took the California bar examination. Every year twice a year he failed it. Every year twice a year his wife Blondell filled out the form for the next go round and he would begin studying again. Along the Way Filer took every bar review course East of the san Andreas fault dropping $50,000 in fees. He journeyed around California like father Juni Pero Serra taking tests in san Francisco Glendale Oakland Riverside Carson los Angeles and san Diego. Someone approached his son once to say he had taken the bar exam with his father. That was no big Deal the younger Filer replied. Anyone who had taken it in the last 25 years could make the same claim. The results of the february 1991 test the 48th exam he had taken since 1966, arrived As the february test results always did in late May. Filer left the envelope for someone else to open As he also almost always did. This time his son Anthony a lawyer himself did the honors As Filer went into the living room to watch Matlock. Soon Andy Griffith was not the Only older lawyer in the House. A i heard All this commotion a a daddy passed the bar daddy passed the bar a a Filer recalled. A i stood there looked at some Champagne and said a a in a High enough. I done to need anything  a when Filer was sworn in last june becoming the latest of californians 128,261 lawyers he got a standing ovation from new colleagues. A bar official said Filer personified three keys to Success a persistence persistence  now at the age of 61, he is practising criminal and personal injury Law with another lawyer son Kelvin. Filers Odd Odyssey from a segregated childhood in Marianna ark., to the bar is another example of the  with which he a tackled everything in his life a from raising seven children to fighting for civil rights. To others particularly those who have repeatedly fallen Short of some cherished goal his Story has been an inspiration. For the City of Compton where he served As a councilman for 15 years his achievement was a civic event a a the fourth of july and Christmas combined a said Gwen Robinson Secretary to the City Council. Why the repeated failures Filer said it was his syntax. A i knew the Law but it did no to flow Quot he said. Robinson speculates that he turned his exam essays into soap boxes a postulating on Law not As it was but As he wanted it to be