European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes monday March 9,1992 the space shuttle endeavour is transported saturday from its hangar at Kennedy space Center in Florida. Gleaming shuttle looks great As it nears inaugural voyage Cape canaveral Fla. A Nasa moved its new space shuttle endeavour from the hangar to the Assembly building saturday in preparation of the spaceships Maiden voyage in May. Hundreds of Kennedy space Center workers cheered and snapped pictures As the shiny White and Black shuttle emerged from the hangar and crept toward the nearby vehicle Assembly building. A recording of Kate Smith singing god bless America boomed from loudspeakers. A it looks great a said launch director Bob Sieck. A you can Teri by the smiles on everyone a faces that they re real proud of  endeavour will spend about a week in the giant Assembly building where workers will attach twin solid rocket boosters and an external fuel tank to the orbiter. The shuttle then will be transported to the launch pad. A test firing of endeavours three main engines is planned for Early april. The shuttle is scheduled to lift off on a satellite repair Mission in Early May. The we Klong flight will be highlighted by three spacewalks. During one walk astronauts will attach a motor to a communications satellite stranded in a uselessly Low orbit. Two other spacewalks will allow astronauts to practice space walking techniques. Endeavour was built at a Cost of $2 billion to replace challenger which exploded shortly after liftoff on Jan. 28,1986, killing the seven Crew members aboard. Endeavour manufactured by Rockwell International was shipped to Cape canaveral last May. Workers were immediately faced with several problems including scratched and gouged structural beams crossed wires exposed electrical connectors and dirty fuel lines. 147 lawmakers petition top court to reaffirm key abortion ruling Washington apr the supreme court should protect the rights of All american women by reaffirming its 1973 Roe is. Wade decision legalizing abortion 147 members of Congress have told the court. A for two decades Roe is. Wade has been part of the fabric of our National Law permitting All women to live secure in the knowledge that difficult and personal reproductive choices will be theirs to make a the legislators said. A and so it should  the 29 senators and 118 House members joined in a a Friend of the court Brief written for them by Duke University Law professor Walter Dellinger in a closely watched Pennsylvania abortion Case. The court will hear arguments in the Case april 22 and is expected to announce a decision by july. Activists on both sides of the abortion debate have said they expect the court to use the Case to undermine if not overturn its Roe is. Wade ruling. The current court is far More politically conservative than it was in 1973. The Brief filed Friday warned of the a harsh consequences of such action. A a myriad of conflicting state and local Laws will continuously subject the health and lives of women throughout the country to the vagaries of the political process a it said. Even if some states decide not to outlaw or severely restrict abortions the legislators said a there is nonetheless a compelling need for a National constitutional  picked to head top secret organization from wire reports Washington a one of the Navy a Best known intelligence officers has been selected to head one of the United states most secret organizations it was announced. The Pentagon said president Bush had nominated rear adm. John m. Mcconnell for promotion to vice Admiral and appointment As director of the National Security Agency. Mcconnell was seen by millions of television viewers during last years persian Gulf War when he served on the Pentagon briefing team headed by it. Gen. Thomas w. Kelly. At the time both men were serving with the joint chiefs of staff. Mcconnell is currently Deputy director for joint chiefs of staff support. If confirmed by the Senate Mcconnell will have a considerably lower profile in his new Job. Asa whose initials Are sometimes jokingly said to mean a no such Agency a intercepts and decodes foreign communications. The Agency is located at fort Meade  leaders sentenced Chicago a five leaders of the Al run Street gang were sentenced to Long prison terms after a crackdown on the gang Ponce say controlled drug trafficking on the City a South Side for 25 years. The leaders were sentenced Friday by . District judge Harold Baker on a variety of racketeering narcotics and weapons charges. Prosecutors say the Al runs used murder and other terrorist tactics to control illegal drug traffic. Melvin Tillman 35, got the stiffest sentence a life in prison a because he had two prior narcotics convictions. The others received sentences ranging from 33 to 55  to be abandoned Kivalina Alaska a this 140-year-old Village on a slender coastal spit on the Chukchi sea has run out of room to grow so villagers have voted to pack up and leave. Kivalina population 300, has no place to build no More room for outhouses and no More space in the City dump. Arctic Waters meanwhile Are eating away its Banks at a rate of 2 feet a year. Last week the towns residents voted 74-7 to relocate the whole Village although local leaders Are unsure How the move would be made who would pay for it or where they would go. Squeezed on a 5-mile-Long, half mile wide strip of land in Northwest Alaska Kivalina grew from a Hunting and fishing Camp to a full time Village. The Village has no running water a a Little bit of electricity a a school a native food store and not much else said City councilman Victor  of sloth found Ruskin Fla. A a Pale oncologist said tie has uncovered in a Sand pit the fossilized remains of a 12,000-Pound prehistoric sloth that roamed Florida about 2 million years ago. Frank Garcia said he first saw Large rib Bones poking out of the pit thursday. Sifting the dirt with his hands he uncovered the Core of a sloth claw a tooth and an ankle Bone the size of a Bowling Ball he said. He found More ribs and leg Bones by Friday and expects it will take about a week to excavate the rest of the animals remains. Judging from the size of the Bones the sloth was at least As big As an elephant he said. Ski whistle Blower remains on leave boi8e,stop1sen,ence Washington apr a scientist who originally was fired after making allegations of waste and fraud in the multimillion Dollar strategic defense initiative program has had his administrative leave extended while the Pentagon continues to review his charges the army said. Army officials who want to fire Aldric Saucier say he is incompetent. However Saucier says the army wants to fire him from his $75,500-a-year Job because he is a whistle Blower. Several members of Congress have intervened on Saucier a behalf. An investigation of Saucier a complaints by defense Secretary Dick Cheney is expected to take at least 60 Days. Army Secretary Michael . Stone asked Friday that Saucier a superiors at the strategic defense a god defer their decision until the investigation is Complete. Saucier originally was fired by the Pentagon but then got a reprieve of administrative leave with pay while the army Secretary reviewed the firing. Army col. James f. Roberts defense command chief of staff notified Saucier that he would be kept on administrative leave a until further  Roberts also said the office had not changed its mind about wanting to fire Saucier. The strategic defense come is the army a component of the strategic defense initiative a missile defense program commonly known As a Star wars a and receives most of the projects Money. Mobile Ala. A a boy whose Misdemeanour conviction in the shooting death of a teen Ager ignited a courtroom Melee has been Given the maximum sentence of one year in prison. James Douglas Gonzalez 15, was tried for murder but convicted feb. 5 of Only criminally negligent homicide in the death last year of 18-year-old Matt Hall or. When the verdict was delivered the victims brother leapt Over a courtroom railing and punched Gonzalez in the face. Screaming spectators fled. About 100 people had shown up for the verdict. The victims brother and father spent a night in jail on contempt of court charges. Gonzalez remained jailed saturday on $25,000 Bond