European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2, the stars and stripes tuesday september 20,1994 it at a glance the Cia inspector general has identified More than a dozen Active or retired officials who either ignored warnings or overlooked complaints about Aldrich Ames during the nine years he spied for Moscow sources say. Sec Story on Page 6. Girl attacks attacker an 11 year old girl who was being attacked at knife Point by a convicted sexual offender grabbed the knife and slashed him before escaping authorities say. Page6 Thomas suffered Clarence Thomas was so tormented during the Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings in 1991 that he often sobbed before friends a Book says. -. " 7 -. Page swedes vote swedish voters have brought the social democrats Back to Power. Page 8 . Regains Lead the United states has dramatically reclaimed its leadership in various important technologies a study says. Page 14 Mickey s new act Mickey mouse is about to go rap. Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds. 21-26 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 computers. 10 crossword 20 faces n places 15 focus. 16-17 Horoscope 24 Jumble. 4 letters 12 Money matters 14 sports 25-32 to listings 31 weather. 11 discovery Crew f i n is it hard to come Back Down to a space Center Houston a Nasa kept shuttle discovery and its six astronauts in orbit an extra Day monday because of thick storm Clouds Over the Florida Landing site. Mission control called off two afternoon Landing attempts and told shuttle commander Richard Richards to try again today when there were opportunities to land at either the Kennedy space Center in Florida or Edwards fab in California. The plan is to land somewhere Tomor Row Mission control told Richards. Flight directors earlier monday decided not to divert discovery to Edwards opting for the extra Day in space if Nec Essary. Nasa favors Kennedy because of the time and Money saved ferrying a shuttle from coast to coast usually takes week and costs about $1 million. It was the second time on this trip that the Landing was postponed. Nasa decided last week to extend the flight an extra Day to give the Crew More time to do experiments. Discovery Pilot l. Blaine Hammond or. Said the Crew was looking Forward to inmates take Over part of prison Jarratt a. A inmates of a state prison s maximum Security Section set fires in a Cellblock and briefly occupied an exercise Yard monday before Security forces regained control. No staff members were injured at the Greenville correctional Center authorities said. About 170 inmates from one of the prison s three Cellblock began the disturbance at about 9 30 a.m., said Jim Jones executive assistant to the director of the department of corrections in Richmond. Paper was set afire in the hallways of Cellblock a and because of the smoke the inmates were evacuate d to a Yard Jones said. They then seized the Yard and dam aged the innermost of three fences sur rounding them corrections officials said. Prison Security officers ended the uprising before noon gov. George Allen said. It s no big Deal Allen said. Prison guards using dogs brought the disturbance under control said state Public safety Secretary Jerry Kilgore. He said he did not believe any shots were fired. He said the most significant damage was to the Chicken wire Fence. The paper fire did not cause any damage to speak of Kil Gore said. Kilgore said the prison will be under a lock Down for an unspecified period while the cause of the disturbance is investigated. At least one inmate was taken to greens Ville memorial Hospital. A treatment area was set up at the prison to handle other in juries said Hospital spokesman David a Pruder. The maximum and medium Security prison Only about 5 years old is one of the state s newest it has a population of about 2,000 inmates with a capacity of 2,100. It is in Southeastern Virginia some 20 Miles North of the North Carolina line. The disturbance began As Virginia legislators gathered in Richmond to consider a proposal to eliminate parole. There was no immediate indication if that had any effect on the disturbance but inmates and prisoners rights groups had predicted that eliminating parole would increase tension and prison violence. Some earthly pleasures showers for one. " it s pretty fatiguing up Here Ham mond said sunday. I think a lot of us Are looking Forward to getting Home getting a Good Shower and some Good old Earth bound things we enjoy. However of course i think Given an other Day or so to be up Here if we had the Chance we d All jump at it just be cause it s an Opportunity so rare he said. \ the astronauts launched into orbit sept 9, achieved everything they set out to do. They released and retrieved a Sun gazing satellite collected data on shuttle exhaust plumes and assisted ground con trollers with a weather scanning laser. The High Point was Friday s seven hour spacewalk by Mark Lee and Carl Meade using a slimmed Down version of the Jet pack employed in the last untethered spacewalk 10 years ago. The new pack is intended to be used As an emergency Rescue device for future space station Crews. Lee described the spacewalk As a once in a lifetime special there s a mix Between having to concentrate very hard on Maneu vers to make sure you do them right. And the exhilaration of seeing some sights that i m probably never going to see again and never experience Lee said. A $25 million laser machine spent More than 50 hours flashing Light pulses at Clouds atmospheric particles and the Earth s surface. A Telescope of Board gathered the reflected laser Light for a study of global climate. One target was typhoon Melissa in the Pacific Ocean discovery flew directly Over the storm s Eye allowing atmospheric scientists to record Cloud Heights and densities throughput Melissa. Such information eventually could help meteorologists gauge the strength and life Span of such storms said project scientist Pat Mccormick. The first . Robot in space a 250 Pound machine called romps zipped through its work in discovery s cargo Bay. It removed 100 semiconductor crystals from storage Racks and placed them in furnaces while the astronauts slept. Robert Reich a file labor Secretary taken ill on plane Washington a labor Secretary Robert Reich returned to Washington for medical care on monday after being taken ill aboard an air plane about to take off Forgoston. Reich had symptoms consistent with kidney stones a condition he has suffered in the past said spokeswoman Jenny Watson. She said the Secretary was consulting with his personal doctor and was expected to return to work sooner rather than Watson termed the episode nothing los Angeles a . Simp son s defense monday implored a judge to dismiss double murder charges con tending Simpson was victimized by Sloppy police work lies by investigators and nonsensical prosecution theories. We Are faced with a situation where a lot of rhetoric has been used a lot of speculation has been used but a Case where the evidence is greatly lacking to allow this Case to proceed defense at Torney Robert Shapiro said at the Start of critical pretrial hearings. But Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark asserted there was More than enough evidence to put Simpson on trial. She specifically defended police who con ducted the initial investigation at the crime scene and Simpson s estate searches that yielded much of the Evi Dence against him. The police moved in a very logical consistent manner totally in line with All their objectives Clark said. Each Short coming cited by defense attorneys amounts to nothing of Legal significance she said. Monday s hearing marked the first court appearance for Simpson since aug. 31. Sit Ting at the counsel table Simpson took notes and occasionally whispered to Shapiro and co counsel Johnnie Cochran or. Citing problems with the police investigation Shapiro said the victims times of death could t be determined because police waited too Long to notify the Coroner office. We have been left in a position where the prosecutors have deprived us of the right of putting on any real defense Sha Piro said. He said prosecutors also failed to offer any reasonable theory to support their Contention that Simpson dropped a bloody Glove behind a guest House and left a blood Trail on his driveway after committing two slam is evidence presented during the preliminary hearing including the bloody Glove and blood drops the size of the tip of an Eraser head did t sufficiently Point to Simpson Shapiro said. Shapiro using three charts set up in the courtroom said it did t make sense for Simpson to drop the Glove and then Duck into his front door when he could have Sim ply entered through a Side door eluding a waiting limousine Driver who reported see ing a Black person also Shapiro contended before Superior court judge Lance Ito that the blood drops on the driveway were nowhere near where Simpson would have been walking after he supposedly dropped the Glove
