European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday december 10, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 9 los Angeles county sheriffs sgt Phil Hansen Speaks to metro link passengers on the 4 15 . Train to Santa Clarita calif., before its departure from los Angeles on wednesday. Metro link was adding at least one Deputy to each scheduled run As a precaution in response to tuesdays mass shooting on a new York commuter train. Of the 5 33 aboard the Long Island Railroad apr in Days past this commuter train from new York City has been a Refuge a nightly Sanctuary of safety and Calm Between two worlds City and suburb. Commuters could climb aboard at Penn station sink into the seats pull out a Book or a pair of headphones and leave behind the jangle of Manhattan and the stresses of their jobs. Speeding East they could watch the hulking apartment buildings give Way to neat tract Homes drab factories yield to Bright strip malls. After a while the Roll and rhythm might Lull them to sleep. Not on wednesday not on the 5 33 to Hicksville. The landscape changed As usual but the faces of the passengers remained the same a rigid almost lifeless portraits of anger Shock and grief. The night before a gunman had quietly and calmly walked through the aisles shooting passengers. Five people were killed and 18 wounded. On this night the survivors returned. Some did it out of habit for others,.it was a deliberate act of catharsis. A i was still reliving it a said Esther Confino who had avoided being shot the night before by falling to the floor by her seat. A logically i was saying a it can to happen again. But i was still reliving the Long Island rail Road stationed employees in every car and attempted with mixed Success to keep a crowd of reporters and photographers from entering the train. Counselor were available to discuss the massacre police made their presence As conspicuous As possible. The railroads president Chuck Hoppe roamed the Colin Ferguson is escorted to his arraignment wednesday on tour counts of intentional murder and four counts of depraved indifference murder stemming from a shooting aboard a Long Island rail Road commuter train tuesday night. Train reassuring passengers listening to their fears. �?�1 just want to let you know that we re All hurting today but we re doing All we can Quot he said. A a we just want to let you know that this was a Freak incident. This Hasni to happened for 159 moving to resolve Mia Issue by the Washington Post a Washington a the state departments top Asia hand will travel to Vietnam next week to press for information on missing american service members with an Eye toward laying the Issue to rest and opening Vietnam to . Business. The trip by Winston lord assistant Secretary of state for East asian affairs will be an Effort to get a the fullest possible accounting of soldiers missing from the Vietnam War state department spokeswoman Christine Shelly said wednesday. President Clinton has made a full account of the missing a condition for lifting a . Embargo. But in Goodwill gestures he went along with granting International Loans to the country and authorized delivery of humanitarian Aid. In remarks to a forum of state department officials this week lord said Clinton continues to Pul the Mia question first. But lord also noted the potential toss to business a if we delay lifting our embargo lord said the vietnamese have been cooperative on the Mia Issue. A they have been going All out. I think its fair to say this is the single Best year in terms of. Cooperation and so on we have had since the . Officials say lord will seek continued cooperation in searching for remains of missing airmen along the Vietnam Laos Border where Many crashes took place. In addition he will press for documentation clarification of disputed cases of missing soldiers and return of Job on Hubble completed space Center Houston a High flying mechanics on a record fifth spacewalk used a Little muscle thursday to finish repairing the nearsighted Hubble space Telescope. The final spacewalk of the endeavour Mission turned out to be the most trying. But the astronauts aboard the shuttle completed All the tasks that Nasa had set. During the spacewalk p. Story Musgrave and Jeffrey a. Hoffman had to pry Loose the two solar panel arms from the sides of the Telescope after motors railed to do the Job. Ground controllers could not get the arms to drop into the position necessary before the electricity generating panels can be unfurled. Musgrave tugged lightly at the base of each and they dropped slowly into place a incredible a he said. Just before the seven hour 21-minute spacewalk ended the Golden coloured solar panels were unfurled to a full 40 feet by ground controllers. Quot All right a Hoffman shouted. The main Antenna also had to be deployed. The $1.6 billion Telescope is scheduled to be released from endeavour today and the shuttle is set to return to Earth in monday. Earlier this week the Crew installed corrective mirrors and a new camera with corrective optics to allow Hubble to see the universe with a Clear Eye. But astronomers wont know if those repairs worked until after two months of testing and Fine tuning. Hubble launched in 1990, had a misshapen Mirror that prevented it from discerning the More Remote objects in the Cosmos. A manufacturing error was to Dame. The endeavour Crew set a . Spacewalk record with its five outings. No previous Nasa Mission had More than four spacewalks. Nasa spent $629 million on the repair Mission the first of several planned Hubble service witness finds right defendants on 2nd attempt by the new York times new York a witness in the world Trade Center trial who failed to recognize two defendants in court White testifying for the prosecution on tuesday changed his mind wednesday. The witness Willie Hernandez moosh then was Able to Point out one of the suspects White he was being Cross examined by the suspects attorn by. Later asked by a prosecutor if he had had a better Chance to look around the courtroom at District court in Manhattan after his misidentification on tuesday moosh picked out the other Man whom he had failed to recognize. Moosh was called to the stand tuesday by prosecutors who Are attempting to spin a web of circumstantial evidence around the four men on trial in the Trade Center bombing. Moosh who worked the night shift at a Shell filling station in Jersey City n.j., said that Between 3 . And 4 . On feb. 26, or about nine hours before the bomb went off he pumped gasoline for a yellow Ryder rental Van and a Blue Lincoln Sedan. Such vehicles Are linked to the bombing. Mooshy a testimony wednesday marked what seemed to be something of a setback for the defendants Mohammed a. Salameh and Mahmud Abou Halima who had been spared recognition by moosh the Day before. And yet despite Mooshy a belated ability to spot the two suspects in the courtroom it was impossible to know How much credibility the jury would attach to him As a witness Given his failure to notice the two men tuesday. In addition moosh was caught in several contradictions by defense attorneys and often seemed either unable or unwilling to understand their questions
