European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday january 8, 1992 panel probing pow Mia Issue to hold hearings in Indochina by Barbara Crossette the new York times Washington a the special Senate committee that is looking into cases of americans still missing from the Vietnam War is planning to take the unusual step of going to Indochina to conduct investigations and hearings in february a committee spokeswoman said monday. The senators Hope to visit Laos Cambodia and Vietnam feb. 7-18, said the spokeswoman Deborah do Young. It will also meet with american officials in Bangkok assigned to investigate information about the 2,273 americans still unaccounted for. A resurgence of interest in the Issue last year led to the formation of the panel the Senate select committee of pow Mia affairs. At about the same time new suggestions that Hanoi May have been withholding information on americans began to emerge from the crumbling soviet Union which supported Vietnam in the War. A former Kab officer Gen. Oleg d. Kalugin who claims soviet interrogators interviewed americans after 1973, when Hanoi said it had returned All prisoners of War was challenged on monday by another Kab official who served As an interrogator in Vietnam after the War. The second officer Oleg Nechiporenko was interviewed with Kalugin on the Abc program today. Nechiporenko said he had Heen in Vietnam twice once at the time of the american peace treaty in january 1973 Cape canaveral Fla. Up Nasa managers trying to chop $500 million from the shuttle budget flan to eliminate some 5,000 jobs across the nation by 996, but an Agency official said safety will be maintained despite the cuts and a higher launch rate. Former astronaut Robert Crippen who took Over Jan. 1 As the new director of the Kennedy space Center told reporters monday that attrition alone will not save a noun Money to meet the projected budget and that an undetermined number of contractor layoffs will be required Over the next few years to make up the difference. A a we re talking about cutting out of the shuttle program approximately $500 million by the time we get to �?T96,�?T�?T he said. A you can translate that into approximately 5,000 jobs across the country. We re going to be reducing across the country the number of people we put on  the goal announced late last year is to Cut the shuttle budget by 15 percent or about 3 percent per year Over the next five years. At the same time the space Agency is attempting to increase the number of shuttle flights conducted each year while maintaining strict safety standards. Crippen agreed that it will not be easy. But he said Nasa s Post challenger emphasis on flight safety will remain just As High in years to come As it is at present. A the re be Heen some insinuations that my arrival Here at Csc was going to put a different focus on Safe Lansing Mich. Apr thieves broke into the mausoleum of Auto Pioneer . Olds and stole the remains of six family members police said monday. The theft at the Lansing mount Hope cemetery was discovered Friday but it Wasny to known when it occurred Lansing police it. Sam Campbell said in a statement. Evidence indicated the break in was recent he said. Police Are looking for a number of missing items Many with the name of the deceased engraved on them. They include two stainless steel boxes one Pinewood infant casket one Bronze Box and two grecian urns Campbell said. The urns boxes and casket contained the remains of and again around 1976. He said he spoke with an american Only once in 1973. On the later trip he was Given information on other americans he said but did not interrogate them. He said he could not support Kalugina a Contention that at least three americans were interrogated by soviet agents from 1975 to 1978. A former Cia officer in Vietnam Frank Snepp did come to Kalugina a defense monday. Snepp the author of decent interval a Book that accused the United states of having left intelligence agents behind at the end of the War said in an interview that Quot Kalugin cannot be easily  he said one of the three people Kalugin had referred to in interviews May have been Tucker Google Man a retired Cia agent who died in 1977 under what Snepp in his Book concluded was soviet interrogation. A Kalugin May be the first of several people who come Forward with new information not Only on this Issue but on other issues a Snepp said. He said agents from other former soviet bloc countries May also have information that will shed new Light on the Issue. The Senate committee has begun taking depositions from former officials and relatives of families of missing americans who have done Independent research. The committee will hear from Kalugin sometime in the next week or two. Kalugin will also meet members of the Bush administration on a visit to Washington this week or next the state department said. To a Crippen told spaceport employees earlier monday. A Well i d like to borrow some words from the president. Read my lips. Safety is our number one concern and it will remain  asked How he could maintain flight safety while implementing budget cuts and increasing the flight rate Crippen said a we have redundancy in several different areas. We believe there Are some places in those that we can eliminate some of that redundancy without compromising the hardware or assuring that its Safe and ready to Fly Quot Nasa launched six shuttle flights in 1991 while at least eight missions Are on tap in 1992. Crippen said eight to 10 flights Likely would be the maximum the Agency would be Able to support in a Given year. Crippen took the Helm at the Florida shuttle port Jan. 1, replacing retired air Force it. Gen. Forrest Mccartney who was forced to step Down after five years on the Job by William Lenoir associate administrator for manned space flight. Crippens arrival in Florida coincides with the implementation of a variety of proposed management changes in the shuttle program. The changes Are the result of several outside studies that called for moving shuttle program managers now based at the Johnson space Center in Houston and the Marshall space flight Center in Huntsville ala., to the Kennedy space Center. Leonard Nicholson a top manager at the Johnson space Center recently was named to replace Crippen. Quot we re going to move that Job from Washington Here to Kennedy a Crippen said. A and during this upcoming year we re going to be looking across our management of the shuttle program to look at what other areas of management wed like to move to Csc both government and contractor. The who what where and when of that has not been  six relatives. Police would t specify who they were. . Olds crypt was not disturbed the message said. Lansing police Are offering a $1,000 Reward for information leading to the arrest of the thief or thieves Campbell said. A the real question Here is that if Money was the motive How come we Haven to seen any other crimes like this so i done to think Money was the motive a said it. Mike Wahl. Olds founded the Oldsmobile company in Lansing in 1897. It joined general motors corp. Shortly after pm was founded in 1908. Olds stepped Down As . Olds Mobile president in 1933, and he died in 1950 at age 86.  s bomb joke empties plane Airport from wire reports Lynchburg a. A us air plane was evacuated and Lynchburg municipal Airport was closed for More than an hour after a passenger made a joke about a bomb. A the flight attendant going through offered to take his briefcase and he made a remark something to the effect of a let me make sure its right so it does t go off a a a said David e. Blain Airport manager. Police were called on sunday and blocked three main roads leading to the Airport. Blain would not identify the Man a passenger on flight 3044 to Pittsburgh saying the Fri and police had interviewed him and decided against filing charges. The embarrassed passenger one of 17 on the plane apologized and boarded a later flight to Pittsburgh Blain said.63 dogs bodies found Chandler Ariz. A employees of a fruit company found the carcasses of 63 racing greyhounds while Clearing a Remote Orchard that had t been worked in three years. The carcasses were in various stages of decomposition and their left ears were removed said Chris Ippolito a Foreman for Empire fruit co. Greyhounds bred for racing carry identifying tattoos on their left ears. Seven carcasses were discovered sunday in the 240-acre Lemon Grove bringing the count to 63 during the past week. The dogs had been shot in the head police said.8 killed in Van crash Rock Falls Iii. A a Van crashed into a Highway Bridge abutment monday killing eight people and injuring two others authorities said. The crash happened late in the afternoon on interstate 88 about 10 Miles West of this Northwestern Illinois City said Doug Wiersema spokesman for ugh medical Center in Sterling. A we be had a lot of fog out Here. We done to know if that was a contributing Factor to the crash a Wiersema said. He said the vans occur ants were returning Home from their jobs at a ref processing Plant in nearby  burglaries Mineola , a an unemployed Church organist has confessed to stealing religious artefacts from As Many As 500 churches and1 synagogues in the Northeast police said monday. Oather James Blocker 45, used his knowledge of Church operations to break in after hours and steal such items As Gold lined chalices and a torah Pointer said detective Bernard Havern of the Nassau county police department. Blocker was arrested Friday and jailed without bail on charges he burglarized two churches last year in Woodbury on Long Island stealing More than $30,000 in  woman raped Milwaukee a two men sexually assaulted a woman who was nine months pregnant police said. She gave birth less than 48 hours later and she and her daughter were reported in Good condition sunday. Two men were arrested in the attack. The victim was headed Home from a store late thursday when a Man approached her and pushed what she said was a gun into her Back police detective it. James Ardis said. The woman told police the Man forced her to walk to an apartment building where he and another Man sexually assaulted her several  House repairs new York a contractors began work monday on restoring the 191-year-old Hamilton Grange a country House built by Alexander Hamilton the nation s first Treasury Secretary. The two Story wooden House for years a museum and Community Center needs repairs badly National Park service officials said. Hamilton was an aide to Gen. George Washington during the revolutionary War and later a congressman and Treasury Secretary. Shuttle program to Cut 5,000 jobs but maintain emphasis on safety Crippen remains of 6 family members stolen