Capital, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Annapolis, Maryland m CAPITAL Apr 3 im 3 air fears on safety WASHINGTON Astro- the biggest risk takers in are taking complaints to the presidential Challenger com- mission about the survival procedures and the dangers of landing on a con- crete runway in Florida The best-known of the witnesses called to the public hearing today was John whose six space flights make him the most experienced American astronaut He charged in two highly that NASA put schedule above safety Before according to a source close to the Young had voiced concerns about flight safety to Vice President George who relayed them to the investigating panel Young and Bush had a conversation during the first shuttle flight and met several times at the Johnson Space Center in Houston The source said the astronauts had complained that brakes on the tle had been damaged on nearly all 24 landings and that there were no provisions for aborting a flight in the early minutes while the shuttle is climbing toward orbit Young also had complained that the runway at the Kennedy Space Center was subject to extensive crosswinds and therefore not as safe as the at Edwards Air Force Base on the Mojave Desert in fornia The Kennedy runway is 300 feet wide and flanked by ed while the desert allows great room for error in ing The charged with making its report to President gan by June already has started writing it The who spoke on condition of said the report will be in two volumes one stating the conclusions and the other supplying technical data Before today's hearing one commissioner said the panel believes even its own independent tests will never show how the Jan 28 explosion that killed all seven crew members began said the com- Richard P they should point the way to a safe redesign of the booster rocket People IN THE NEWS Hair-raising show AP photo Boxing promoter Don at Johnny Carton's spoof of his unusual hair style last night on Fast ATLANTIC Paal Newman diverted blers attention from slot chines and roulette tables when he showed up at a casino hotel to film part of his new of Newman plays Eddie whom he first in his 1961 film The directed by Martin Scorsese and also starring Tom includes a trip to tic where Newman's acter participates in a pool tournament It is to be released in December Newman was filmed day walking from the walk into the Resorts International Casino Hotel and strolling through the casino Cosby honored Mass an BIO Cosby has another rate from the University of an honorary one to go with one he earned want to tell everyone at this university please under- stand me I am proud to be a graduate of the Graduate School of said a Shelburne resident who received a rate in education in 1977 Other alumni presented orary doctor of fine arts de- grees yesterday were Bruce a composer and newly appointed dean of the Julliard School of jazz composer and tor Billy Lois B an art collector and tron Back in fashion cartoonist Berke Breathed is dropping a few hints about a plot for his comic strip now that he's back at work after from a broken back suffered in an airplane crash would be willing to say there's a possibility one of the maybe Steve the strip's womanizing a broken back by taking a picture of Sean Breathed says After seven weeks of the nationally syndicated resumed cation of new strips Monday in roughly 700 newspapers Reagan orders reform in military purchasing SANTA Calif President Reagan yesterday ordered what the White House called some of most extensive reforms of the defense establishment since World War Among other things the changes would be aimed at strengthening the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and calling for pointment of a new high-level cial with experience in industry to oversee Pentagon purchasing Officials said the president would send a message to Congress within a few days calling for legislation to take steps that will require a change in the such as establishment of the new post of under secretary of defense for acquisition An administration ing on condition he not be said the proposed position at the Pentagon would be powerful for deciding what it is we should Reagan's orders and tions to Congress embrace virtually all of the recommendations of a commission he ed to study Pentagon management recommendations of the commission are among the most extensive reforms of the defense establishment since World War said White House spokesman Larry accompanying Reagan on his Easter vacation at his ranch near here At the Deputy Defense Secretary William H Taft IV edly stressed that the administration did not view the as a slap at ger's management endorse the Taft said is consistent with the things that we have been doing in this department over the past four or five years It builds upon them It goes further We think that they will be very of the key problems with these commission reports the is that they have not been followed up Taft said is being followed up Rep Ike a member of the House Armed Services said the significant obstacle to Pentagon re- form has been removed by Reagan's endorsement of the proposed changes in the military command and weapons acquisition 11 die in Air Force crash An Air Force airplane crashed in a ball of flames day in a desolate area of west-central New killing all 11 authorities said The plane was assigned to Air Force Base at said Kay spokeswoman at the base George deputy director of public affairs at confirmed the deaths of those aboard The dead were identified as Lt Col Stephen J Van Capt David S Capt William L Tech Sgt Antonio C Las Staff Sgt Johnny Sgt David Tech Sgt John R Fort Staff Michael D Citrus Staff Sgt Robert W Kimbrel Sgt Leo M and Sgt Arther Calif Pearce said the airplane was on a routine training mission and the crew was performing low-level tion exercises Ms Peterson initially said there were six but later updated the figure to 11 Rudy state police dispatcher in said the wreckage was over a mile at the scene 10 miles north of Magdalena Bob spokesman for university of New Mexico said the hospital's helicopter ambulance was dispatched to the scene but not come back with Joe a ranch said he witnessed the accident from about 10 miles away saw a big ball of then another then a big ball of he said was a big old like a forest States hit clean water failure WASHINGTON The ure of Congress to renew a major environmental protection law ens the ability of at least 31 states to meet a deadline to reduce water a national tion says in serious straits right said Linda deputy director of the State and Interstate Water Pollution Con- trol Administrators She said in an interview yesterday that because Congress has not the Clean Water 20 states will run out of money on April 30 to construct new municipal waste water treatment facilities needed by July 1988 And she warned that unless the House and Senate soon resolve in their reauthorization by the end of June another 11 states could also find themselves without money to start plants Lawrence head of quality programs for the mental Protection said that while the EPA had not done its own he thought the association's was accurate The Clean Water already credited with improving many U.S sets water quality dards and provides federal grants to pay about 55 percent of the cost of local treatment facilities In recent Congress has dis- billion in construction aid to the states But in the fiscal year that began last Oct only million has gone into the pipeline because of delays on Capitol Hill FACTORY GRAND AM SED LT GRAND AM SED GRAND AM LE SED GRAND AM SED GRAND AM LE SED GRAND AM SED BROUGHAM SED MAROON BONNEVILLE LT BLUE 11432.40 BONNEVILLE LE SEDAN MED BONNEVILLE BONNEVILLE SEDAN GRAND PRIX DARK GRAND PRIX LE RED 11879.02 GRAND PRIX LE DARK GRAND PRIX LE DK GRAND PRIX LE GRAND PRIX LE LT GRAND PRIX If HERO RED BLACK SILVER 12476.14 13066.57 white 17778 white TRANS AM BLACK TRANS AM WHITE TRANS AM 14571.88 14576.21 1000 SDR 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