European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 19, 1992 the stars and stripes Page 3chief touts boldness of spaceflight Money Well spent endeavour commander says by William j. Broad the new York times the commander of the space shuttle endeavour Back on Earth after a daring satellite Rescue argued sunday that the problems and needs of americans cities were no reason to divert Money from nasal a annual budget of $14 billion. If anything said Navy capt. Daniel c. Brandenstein a Strong space program is needed to inspire Young people to High achievement and Hopes for the future. Last week Brandenstein led a Crew of astronauts who risked possible disaster in manually snagging a wayward $150 million satellite after two previous Rescue attempts with a mechanical device failed. He and his Crew landed safely saturday. Brandenstein was asked sunday on the Abc program this week to comment on the billions of dollars spent by Nasa when a arguably the cities need that Money  Brandenstein replied that voyages of exploration were a vital social investment today and centuries ago. The endeavours namesake an 18th-Century ship commanded by British explorer James Cook sailed at a time when towns in his country had serious poverty he said. A yet they had the foresight to invest in him sailing three years around the world on an exploration a Brandenstein said. A we ought to look to the future and also make that  asked about dangers on his flight he noted that the 4.5ton, 17-foot-Long satellite captured by his Crew weighed nothing in space but represented a huge mass with substantial momentum. A so if you get it moving in one direction a he said a getting it stopped is relatively  during endeavours Mission the three astronauts who snagged the wayward satellite were careful to hold it steady getting a feel for its mass and potential momentum he said. They also sought to keep it from gaining acceleration that could Send it crashing into the shuttle. Brandenstein dismissed the idea that there might be similar risks for nasal a planned $30 billion space station which is to be 350 feet Long. A the danger is minimal a he said but he added that Nasa had a big lessons to learn from last weeks Rescue. Also appearing on the show was nasal a new admin capt. Daniel c. Brandenstein Center leads his Crew from the endeavour after Landing at Edwards fab Calif. Istratov Daniel s. Goldin who echoed some of Brandenstein a arguments about the social value of space exploration. He noted that the rewards were hard to quantify in Advance but always materialized. He said that his sister taught at is 76 in new York a school on the upper West Side of Manhattan and that her pupils found last weeks Mission to be inspirational. A she told me they were so motivated so alive that their learning experience was improving a he said. The improvisational nature of the Rescue Goldin said was a lesson in the benefits of taking risks. The message that children will take away he said is a expand reach out try a and if a problem arises a you get up and do it again. But taking risks is Good. America is a country based on boldness and looking into the future not looking out the Back of the  Navy or expert Harold Miller 89, Dies by Bruce Lambert the new York times Harold b. Miller an aviation Pioneer who became a Public relations expert As an Admiral in the Navy and later As a corporate executive died Friday at the americana nursing Home in Overland Park Kan. He was 89. Miller who lived in Shawnee Mission Kan., died of multiple ailments his family said. In his varied career Miller was an innovator in combat news coverage headed radio free Europe and was an author government official and College administrator. He transformed coverage of the Navy in world War ii As a publicity aide to adm. Chester w. Nimitz and in a Public relations Post for the entire Navy that was created for him in 1945. He was assigned the Job by Navy admirals who envied the publicity garnered by Gen. Douglas Macarthur of the army while the Navy stories were lost in bureaucracy censorship logistics and weeks Long delays. He was promoted to rear Admiral at the age of 42 a the youngest person to hold the title then. Removing a a do not enter sign at his office he told reporters a it will be our policy while i am Here to Tell you just what the hell is going on. If National Security is involved we will Tell you that too and try to explain Why. My office has three doors and All of them will be open All  he authorized More correspondents and photographers to Battlefront and set up radios and couriers. He had enlisted members report to Hometown papers. He used Edward Steichen the famed photographer and recruited 20th Century Fox to film the fighting lady a documentary. After he left the Navy in 1946, with a legion of Merit and a Gold Star he became trans world airlines vice president for Public relations. He also was director of the congressional aviation policy Board and president of the National committee for free Europe. His longest tenures were several years As the american Petroleum institutes information director and the Oil Industry information committees director 11 years As pan am a Public relations director and six years As a vice president of Hofstra University in Hempstead n.y., where he retired in 1974. He was a past president of the Public relations society of America. Miller was born in Newton Iowa and grew up in los Angeles. He entered the . Naval Academy in Annapolis md., in 1920. His first marriage to Jean Dupont ended in divorce and his second wife the former Mary Emory Hodgkinson died. He is survived by his wife of 38 years the former Mary l. Mcgee a daughter Joan Ingalls of Fiddletown Creek Calif. Two sons Harold b. Miller or. Of Chapel Hill n.c., and Barry Miller of Lambese France five grandchildren and two  Metal workers reach pact Avert strike Berlin apr the giant Metal workers Union and factory owners struck a tentative agreement monday averting what would have been Germany a second major strike in less than a month. The Accord Calls for 5.8 percent raises in the first year of a 21-month contract for the 3.7 million members of the 1g metall Union. The raise betters the 5.4 percent increase won by Public service workers in an 11-Day National strike that ended May 8. In metall had said the Union would vote on a strike if no agreement was reached sunday with next monday the Likely Date for a full scale walkout. In Metallis last strike in 1984, virtually shut Down Germany a Auto Industry for five weeks. Franz Stein Biihler chief of the Union said the 5.8 percent Deal a thwarted the turnabout in labor issues that the companies have been striving  when sundays Marathon Clay of talks started in the Southern City of Karlsruhe in metall was seeking 9.5 percent pay increases and the employers were offering 3.3 percent. Average pay in the metalworking Industry is about $3,350 a month for a 37-hour workweek. The government is trying to keep wage pacts Low to avoid fueling inflation which Rose to an annual rate of 4.8 percent in March partly due to higher taxes and other levies imposed to finance German unification. Inflation in april was a bit lower at 4.6 percent. The Public workers strike closed airports stopped Many trains and buses shut some Hospital services and hailed garbage pickup and mail service. The Union rank and file however voted Down the 5.5 percent raise leaving the situation unclear. Radar Pioneer Page Dies at 88 Edina Minn. A Robert m. Page a Pioneer in the development of radar died Friday of arteriosclerosis. He was 88. Page was known As the a radar idea Many since the late 1930s, when he built a transmitter that could Send a Quick series of radio signals and a receiver that could detect the signals As they bounced Back from an object. Radar permanently changed the courses of War and travel. During world War ii radar enabled Allied forces to detect enemy ships and planes and was a major tool in the defeat of Germany and Japan