European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 14, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7 a year after failure launch of Booster rocket succeeds by Lee Siegel a science writer los Angeles a the air Force says it has successfully test fired a new Booster for the Titan in rocket which launches . Spy satellites. An explosion ruined the first attempt More than a year earlier. The upgraded Booster a test fired Friday at Edwards fab a will allow Titan ivs to carry heavier payloads. The Titan in americans most powerful unmanned rocket was developed in the mid-1980s to reduce dependence on the space shuttle for placing heavy military payloads in orbit. A Complete Titan in consists of two of the solid fuel boosters strapped to a two stage liquid fuelled rocket topped by the payload. The Booster was held in place during the test firing at Edwards in the Mojave desert about 70 Miles North of los Angeles. The test which lasted More than two minutes sent a plume of smoke 1,000 feet High. Five Titan in rockets have been launched with secret payloads since june 1989 three from Cape canaveral Fla., and two from Vandenberg fab Calit. But trouble has plagued efforts to upgrade the Titan los Angeles apr four High school students involved in a secret club were arrested Friday in the execution style slaying of a member considered disloyal police said. The arrests capped a four month investigation into the death of 16-year-old Alexander Giraldo whose strangled and stabbed body was discovered feb. 2 in a Ravine at Royal Palms Beach in the City a san Pedro area. Giraldo had turned another club member in to police for a theft in the weeks before his death feb. 1, police said. Schulyer Macpherson 18, two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old were arrested by los Angeles detectives and Long Beach police said Bill Frio spokesman for the los Angeles police department. The youths Are students at polytechnic High school in Long Beach. Police said they would try to have the three juveniles prosecuted As adults. Larry Kallestad a los Angeles homicide investigator said the secret club called a face of Spades a had Ives boosters. The first attempted test of an upgraded Booster exploded after ignition on april 1, 1991. No one was Hurt but the Accident caused $40 million in damage to a 200-foot rocket test stand and delayed Booster development. Quot the Accident was blamed on a design flaw which subsequently was fixed. Quot a Crane at the test site collapsed sept. 7, 1990, dropping a Titan in Booster segment which then caught fire. One worker was killed and nine others were injured. California safety officials cited and fined the boosters maker the Crane operator and another subcontractor. Existing Titan ivs can carry payloads of up to 38,780 pounds into Low orbit or up to 10,000 pounds into a 22,300-mile-High orbit where a satellite appears to hang Over one spot on Earth. Upgraded boosters will increase the capability to 47,s00 pounds for Low orbit and 11,500 pounds for the higher orbit air Force spokeswoman Betty Ciotti said. Fridays Booster test had been scheduled for a week earlier but was repeatedly delayed mostly by unfavourable wind conditions. About a dozen members and had a a super militant  members believed they were a going to be the military leaders of the world a he said. Principal . Green said he first heard of the a face of Spades in september 1991 when the name a eared in Graffiti on school grounds. He said Giraldo and been a mild mannered average student. Turning in another member of the club was considered a a Complete violation of loyalty Kallestad said. Club members had been arrested before the death for assaulting Giraldo Frio said. He said the murder was planned Well in Advance. Neither police department released details of the prior theft and assault arrests. Police initially said All the youths were members of the schools Reserve officer training corps program but Roth instructor maj. Mike Carpenter said Only Giraldo had been in the program and Nad dropped out about two months before his death. About 280 of the schools 3,600 students Are in Roth.  school captures academic championship from wire reports Houston a the Booker t. Washington High school academic team from Tulsa okla., won the Texaco Star National academic championship on Friday along with $50,000 in scholarships. The teams Victory at Rice University ended seven Days of correctly answering questions. The Tulsa team outsmarted a team from Clinton High school in Clinton s.c., to capture the National title. Clinton High won $25,000 in scholarships for second place. The championship at Rice University started with 82 academic teams. Championship team member Jim Steichen 15, described the Victory  a it took hard work and a Little bit of Luck and doing our Best. This is just incredible a Steichen said minutes after winning. Other team members included Sarah Bruce John def Unbaugh and Matt  trains crash Greenwood miss. A two freight trains crashed head on in Northern Mississippi injuring six people and derailing six engines and 14 rail cars authorities said. One of the Illinois Central Gulf trains managed to come to a halt thursday night before the other train struck it at about 25 Man on a switching track near Money about 90 Miles North of Jackson said sheriff Ricky Banks. Diesel leaked from the derailed engines one car was leaking vegetable Oil and several cars containing liquid fertilizer overturned but did not appear to be leaking said Floyd Peeples Leflore county civil defense director. Liquid fertilizer and diesel when they Are mixed can be explosive if ignited. The southbound train was going from Chicago to Jackson and the other one which stopped was bound for Memphis tcnn., from new  Back Home Washington a conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan was released from a Hospital Friday a week after undergoing surgery to replace his aortic valve. Buchanan greeted staff and supporters outside the Washington Hospital Center around noon and went Home with his wife Shelly. Spokesman Dan Giroux said the prognosis for recovery is Good. The Republican presidential candidate still plans to attend the Republican National convention in August he said. Giroux said Buchanan will rest at Home until then. Doctors had recommended in april that Buchanan have surgery to replace the valve damaged during a bout with rheumatic fever when he was a , plane land of Orlando Fla. A a saudi arabian jetliner was under repair Friday after dropping a wheel in the Ocean and making an emergency Landing in Orlando. The Boeing 727 carrying Prince a1 Waleed bin tabal and 11 employees landed on the Page a Jet executive terminal runway thursday night without its right Wing wheel one of six Landing wheels. The Pilot capt. Marvin Ennis said the plane dropped the wheel As it left the Cayman islands earlier in the Day. Ennis 52, has been flying for Prince Waleed More than four years. The Prince on his Way to Orlando for business in banking and construction was Calm and smiling but did not want to talk to reporters or be  kills Camel Miami a a Camel was apparently killed by lightning that struck a tree in its enclosure at a zoo officials said. A metro zoo keeper found Malaka a one Hump Camel dead Friday after a rainstorm. No one saw the lightning strike but assistant curator Ron Magill said a we assume that she was trying to hide from the rain and stood under the Pine tree that was  i to other camels in the enclosure survived. Senior skydiver Ruth Hammen 75, of Williamsburg mass., makes David Strickland. Spread out beneath them Are the her first jump with the help of skydiving instructor towns of Northampton and Amherst mass. 4 arrested in club member s death