European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 18, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7countdown starts for Atlantis launch Crew of 6 to View us. Military Sites Cape canaveral Fla. A six astronauts bound for space this week on a sem secret Pentagon Mission will drop off a missile warning satellite then do a Little reconnaissance of their own. For 1 i weeks the Crew of the space shuttle Atlantis will View naval ships ports and . Military compounds to determine How much detail can be made out from 224 Miles up. The astronauts also will talk by radio with tank commanders and other officers who pass within camera View. A if we Are Able to make out things on the ground with any kind of detail or Resolution that would be something of significance should that information be needed in time of crisis a said astronaut Mario Runco or. Atlantis was scheduled to blast off on nasal a 44th shuttle flight at 6 51 . Tuesday. The countdown began at 12 01 . Sunday. A a five been waiting a Long time for this and in a anxious to get going on tuesday night a Runco said after the Crew arrived at Kennedy space Center on saturday evening. It will be the ninth time a shuttle has gone up at the defense departments Behest. The first seven military missions were secret. Not even launch times were made Public until nine minutes before. This time like the eighth military Mission last Spring almost everything is open to Public scrutiny to save the multimillion Dollar spy satellite program. Still there Are secrets such As the final destination of the $300 million defense support program satellite the number of Asp Craft already in orbit and the military Sites to be observed by the astronauts. A the techniques we use in our data collection operations in the military we certainly Don t want to give that to other people a said Thomas Hennen an army imagery analyst who will conduct one of two observation experiments. The 10-Day flight s main event release of the surveillance satellite will be an open affair despite two decades of secrecy surrounding the air Force s detente support program. It is the first time a Asp satellite is going up on a shuttle unmanned rockets provided previous rides. The 5,200-Pound satellite will be ejected from Atlantis six hours into the flight. An attached rocket is to boost the satellite to a 22,300-mile-High orbit where it will join other Asp Craft in alerting the Pentagon of nuclear detonations and space and missile launches. The satellite has 6,000 infrared sensors to detect heat from missile plumes. It is designed to last five years. It. Col. James Mcleroy of the air Force space systems division said recent Steps toward world peace do not diminish the need for surveillance from satellites and if possible spaceships. A the american Public would want us to exercise and explore every Mode of defense in the future and Why not the shuttle is going and we can use it for an experimental platform Quot Mcleroy said. Besides testing their surveillance skills the astronauts will conduct radiation monitoring experiments and numerous medical tests. Terence Quot Tom Quot Llen risks will be the first shuttle Pilot to Wear blood pressure monitors during atmospheric re entry. Astronauts often experience faintness once Back on Earth and doctors want to better understand the body s re adaptation to Gravity. Is a Jamie Ann Tellier 13, is hauled off by police during an anti abortion protest outside a Dallas women a clinic. A 105 protesters arrested at clinics by the associated press anti abortion demonstrations saturday resulted in the arrest of More than 100 people in Milwaukee and Dallas. Police arrested 07 people during a protest outside a women a clinic in Milwaukee. I Hose arrested included a Volunteer clinic worker who was accused of shoving a woman a 8-year-old son police said. Demonstrators were detained when they blocked Access to the clinic. Affiliated medical services police said. Officials estimated that More than 100 people took part in the protest. In Dali As eight anti abortion demonstrators including a 13-year-old girl were arrested for blocking Access to a clinic police said. The teen Ager Jamie Ann Tellier smiled As police handcuffed her while she clutched a Book of prayers. A if 1 had a second Chance. I d do it again Quot she said. At the height of the protest about 250 people marched around the Knuth Street women a c Linic. The eight who were arrested were among 35 designated a a rescuers who blocked entrances. About a dozen others blocked the clinic periodically but left when ordered away by police. The protesters marched in a Circle around the clinic carrying signs that read Quot its a c Hild not a Choice and singing. Anti abortion activists said the protest kicked Oil a week of demonstrations called a Days of Rescue. . Probing Dea disclosures about Quayle. A i. Ii, i it it Ilir men s room to Conby Michael is1koff the Washington Post Washington a the Justice department is investigating the disclosure of a confidential investigative file a involving allegations of cocaine use by vice president Dan Quayle a to a newspaper controlled by members of Quayle a family a department official said. The Indianapolis Star whose publisher is Quayle s Uncle published an article wednesday containing new details from a 1983 drug enforcement administration investigation that cleared Quayle of allegations he had purchased cocaine and Quaal Udes from an Indianapolis drug dealer. The newspaper said it was shown the file by John j. Thar an assistant . Attorney in Indianapolis who was quoted As saying he was disclosing its contents to the newspaper a with approval. But after the Star s report appeared thar declined to take phone Calls from other news organizations seeking to in Spect the file. A Secretary to Deborah j. Daniels the . Attorney in Indianapolis said Daniels would not respond to inquiries relating to the file. A we have no further statements a said Bonnie Allison Secretary to Daniels. It is a Federal crime to disclose the contents of Justice department criminal investigative files. In the past the Justice department has threatened employees with criminal prosecution for such disclosures and authorized the Fri to investigate them a most recently in a 1989 leak involving an investigation involving then rep. William h. Gray Iii a a. Quot its unclear at this time if the disclosure was authorized and if so by w Hom said Paul Mcnulty a Justice department spokesman in a statement released i i Day night. A the department has taken this matter under review and is considering appropriate action. The file s disclosure comes amid a continuing controversy Over a series in the satirical comic strip dihn Asbury suggesting that the Dea covered up the existence of a file involving allegations of cocaine use by Quayle. Quayle s office has called the comic strip Quot despicable Quot and Quayle recently accused its author Garry Trudeau of waging a a personal vendetta against  but since news of the Dotin Shury strip broke two weeks ago the Dea has confirmed that it did investigate allegations of cocaine use by Quayle stemming from a 1982 Capitol Hill drug probe and found the charges to be false. In its article wednesday the Star said thar a file showed that the allegations against Quayle then a . Senator were made by an Indianapolis resident Charles Parker. After his arrest on drug charges Parker told the Dea that one of his customers had been Selling cocaine to Quayle. Parker claimed to have been present in the Spring of 1982 when his customer drug dealer Terry c. Carson met Quayle at the bar of the Indianapolis press club and then followed him to the menus room to conduct a cocaine Sale. But when thar and a Dea agent interviewed Carson the drug dealer said he had made up the Story and then passed a polygraph test. A Carson explained that he fabricated these statements while under the influence of drugs for the purpose of impressing his friends Quot the Star said thar a report of the interview concluded. In the Star report David Beckwith Quayle a spokesman was quoted As welcoming the disclosure of the Dea Lile. But Beckwith said Friday that the vice presidents office a had nothing to do Quot with the decision to disclose the tile and was not aware of it until the office got a phone Call from a Star reporter seeking comment. The Star is owned by ventral newspapers inc., a company founded by Quayle s Grandfather Eugene c Pulliam i he vice president owns about $300,9 111 Woith of Stock in the company but is not involved in its newspapers operations