European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page shuttle cameras film military Sites on Earth commander Frederick Gregory left helps Mission specialist Story Musgrave wire up a space pressure Experiment aboard the shuttle Atlantis in this television picture. Space Center. Houston a an Atlantis crewman photographed military installations at Pearl Harbor and on the Midway islands in a Pentagon Experiment designed to test astronauts Powers of observation from space. Losing special cameras. Mario Runco or. Spotted runways buildings and storage tanks As the shuttle zoomed 224 Miles above the Pacific on tuesday night. The Experiment and a similar one also being conducted aboard Atlantis Are part of an Effort to learn if astronauts can be used in wartime. Runco a first target tuesday night was Pearl Harbor code named Quot Long shot Quot the next was the Midway islands or  As the shuttle approached the Midway islands ground commanders asked him to look for two runways buildings storage tanks and aircraft. When the Navy lieutenant commander said he could not find any aircraft ground commanders radioed Back that there weren t any at that Lime. A Nice Job a said Midway ground commanders. The Crew blasted into space sunday night accomplishing the missions main goal Early monday with the release of a $31x1 million spy satellite. After undergoing a series of tests the satellite will Woik with other satellites in alerting the Pentagon to missile launches and nuclear explosions astronaut Thomas Hennen also has been working on a surveillance Experiment and has had to share window space with Runco. Roth tests will continue through the 10-Day Mission which ends Dee. 4 with a Landing in Elorida. Hennen was assigned to the flight because of his expertise in army imagery analysis. The live other Crew members Are full time astronauts. The Pentagon has conducted the Mission without the usual secrecy imposed when spy satellites Are put in orbit. Hut lion non s conversations during his Experiment were often blacked out and his satellite maps and charts could not he shown on Nasa television. Although Hennen has focused on several targets with a Telescope he could not see Cape canaveral Ida. Maputo Mozambique or the . Embassy in the Philippines because of Clouds and Haze tuesday. Haze Early wednesday also obscured his View of Bulawayo Zimbabwe. Quot i sure Hope the weather starts getting better Quot he  signs defense package social legislation from wire reports Washington president Bush signed a defense spending Bill tuesday night that was sent to him by Congress in a Rush to adjourn before the thanksgiving Holiday. Bush also signed two major appropriations Bills tuesday providing $205 billion for health education and labor programs. The $270 billion defense appropriations measure for fiscal 1992 marked another Post cold War step in the shrinkage of the nation s military might by about 25 percent in the mid-1990s. On saturday when the Senate gave final approval to the defense Bill sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., warned that the refusal to build More Al 17a stealth fighters could endanger the country in any com in thl stars and stripes ing War. Nunn chairman of the Senate armed services committee said Quot i predict that we will Sec the Day when we regret this decision. It the Al 17a was the Star of the persian Gulf  the Senate voted for two additional f-117as, but the provision was dropped in negotiations with the House. The Bill provides $4.15 billion for the strategic defense initiative which now has been Given the goal of having a missile defense system ready for deployment by 1996 at grand Forks . The measure also includes Money for an additional b-2 stealth bomber but the funds will not be spent on the plane until a second vote by both the House and Senate next Spring. Of the $3.4 billion for the plane $1.8 billion will be used to keep the production line open and $1.6 billion for research and development. The legislation provides Money to upgrade the f-14 fighter and the i tank. The labor health and education appropriations Bills boost the National institutes of health budget for fiscal 1992 to $9 billion up from $8.3 billion including $2 billion for cancer research. It provides $1.9 billion for aids research education and treatment. The education budget includes $6,7 billion for the governments chapter one program of remedial education for students from poor families. That is a $632 million or ii percent increase Over 1991. The appropriations for the depart ment of health and human services provide $148 billion for such programs As medicaid Aid to families with dependent children and guaranteed student Loans. It does not include the larger medicare and social Security programs entitlements that Are funded separately. The legislation appropriates $1.8 billion for Job training $1.5 billion for the Federal centers for disease control and $1.8 billion to help poor families pay Utility Bills. But $40 1 million of that Low income Energy Aid would not be available until sept. 30, 1992, the last Day of the fiscal year. Congress included that provision As a budgetary gimmick to make the Bill appear less costly.10 years ago nov. 28,1981 a . Security agencies bolstered their bodyguard forces and tightened Border controls after being warned that libyan or other Arab a hit teams Quot were out to assassinate president Reagan and other top . Officials.20 years ago nov. 28,1971 a three Young Blacks fleeing charges in new Mexico in the slaying of a state trooper hijacked a Jet Airliner to Cuba after allowing its 40 passengers to get off during a fuel Stop at Tampa fla.30 years ago nov. 28,1961 a Western Powers were disappointed with the soviet unions proposal to ban All nuclear tests in the air underground and underwater because there still was no sign that Moscow would accept an International control system to prevent cheating.40 years ago nov. 28, 1951 ground fighting slowed to almost a standstill in Korea As truce negotiators signed an agreement on a cease fire  official indicted in Iran Contra affair by the new York times Washington a Federal grand jury tuesday indicted Duane r. Clar Ridge a former senior official at the Central intelligence Agency charging him with seven counts of perjury and making false statements. The charges Stem from a secret missile shipment to Iran in november 1985 that was one of the first Steps in Clarridge the Iran Contra affair. Clarridge directed the Agency a Covert operations in Europe at the Lime of the events outlined in the indictment. He had been a swashbuckling Clandestine agent who became a favorite of William a Casey the Cia Dirc Clor under president Reagan. His hard charging efforts to build up Nicaragua s anti sandinista forces a though Legal at the time and not a subject of the indictment a was a Factor that led to the congressional ban on direct military Aid to the Contra rebels in 1984. Tuesday s indictment accused Clarridge of misleading Congress and a presidential review Board about his knowledge that .-made Hawk missiles which belonged to Israel were flown from Israel to Iran. Clarridge testified that he believed the aircraft carried Only Oil drilling equipment. The missile shipment look place As officials in the Reagan administration were being drawn deeper into an arrangement to Swap american hostages for arms to Iran. The Deal temporarily threw Reagan s presidency off balance and created an outcry in Congress when the arms shipments became Public in late 1986. The indictment continued the Zigzag trajectory of the Iran Contra investigation led by Independent prosecutor Lawrence l. Walsh. Two weeks ago a Federal appeals court threw out All five convictions against former National Security adviser John m. Poindexter. Coming in the Wake of Walsh a decision to abandon the ease against Oliver l. North the former National Security Council aide the ruling seemed to signal the final defeat in Walsh a live year Effort to prosecute White mouse officials for wrongdoing in the affair. Live Mike confirms questions to Bush scripted by the new York times Washington a White House microphone accidentally left on after president Bush completed a closed Cir Cuit broadcast has confirmed what reporters had Long suspected some of Bush a seemingly spontaneous exchanges with the Public Are scripted. On tuesday the president complained about the scripted exchanges after a question and answer session with the association of Christian schools International a teachers group holding its convention in Anaheim Calif. Bush spoke from the while House a technique he frequently uses in Quot appearances before Small conventions and his remarks were carried on speakers in the White House press room. But Bush a microphone remained open after the television broadcast had ended and reporters heard the president grouse that the questions his audience had asked him had not come in the order in which his staff had apparently prepared him. Quot these questions Quot hush told an unnamed aide. We Vegol to get this sorted out Here. In happened last week too. Something s going awry Here. I mean if i just listen to the question i can answer whatever in is. Hut if i think ii s going to be on Here j done to listen to the question. 1 just look at this Quot he said referring to a prepared answer. Marlin hit water White House spokesman said such questioning Quot was never intended to be