Marysville Yuba Sutter Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - January 28, 1986, Marysville Yuba, California Vol. 116-No. 5 126th Year JL M. Twenty-Eight Pages Jan. 213,1986 Calif. Single Copy 250 Fireball consumes spacecraft Crew believed dead in mid-air launch disaster By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE Fla. - Space shuttle Challenger exploded into a gigantic fireball 75 seconds after liftoff apparently killing all seven crew including schoolteacher Christa Fragments of the billion one of four in shuttle fell into the Atlantic Ocean 18 miles southeast of the Kennedy Space Center launch There was no announcement of the fate of the crew but it appeared there was no way they could No American astronaut ever had been killed in The explosion occurred as Challenger was 10.35 miles high and speeding toward orbit at 1.977 see President Reagan told reporters at the White a horrible thing all of us have I can't rid myself of the thought of the sacrifice of the families who were there at the Cape and watching this tragedy I can't help but think what they must be going The President cancelled his State of the Union address that had been scheduled for NASA administrator William R. Graham was meeting with congressmen on Capitol Hill about the NASA budget when they saw the disaster on officials told the congressman it doesn't look like any lives were said Steve an aide to Rep. Manuel The other crew members were commander Francis R. 46. pilot Michael J. 40: Judith 36: Ronald E. 35; Ellison S. 39: and Gregory B. 41. The billion one of four in shuttle was Parts of the ship fell into the Atlantic 18 miles southeast of the launch On a slow-motion video rerun of the it was difficult to determine the source of the But when the huge fuel tank with nearly 500.000 gallons of volatile propellant it tore See Back SHUTTLE } Space Shuttle Challenger explodes in mid-air 75 into its flight AF silent about Beale man Weather defense data release probe Rain High i day was 62; the overnight j low was 46. j Details U.S. says Cuba worried by Libyan adventurism Air Force officials remained tight-lipped today about a Beale Air Force Base airman who faces criminal charges for allegedly trying to pass highly sensitive defense Airman 1st Class Bruce D. 25. of was arrested in Davis last week -on suspicion of attempted unauthorized release of national defense said Capt. Joseph a base public information Saxon said Ott was arrested of the Air Force Office of Special in cooperation with the The FBI office in Sacramento directed all inquiries about the case to the FBI in in directed all questions back to officials at is part of an ongoing military judicial and it would be premature and inappropriate to comment on the details of the case at this said Daryl another Beale Formal criminal under the Uniform Code of Military were filed not able to release specific charges at this said Senior Airman Edward Rekowski of the Beale Information Saxon yesterday said he could not describe the information Ott tried to pass or to whom it was allegedly Saxon said Ott was an administrative clerk in the orderly room of the 1st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron at the The squadron is the only unit in the world flying spy The planes carry sophisticated and cameras and sensors capable of sweeping more than 100.000 miles in an Beale is also home of PAVE a radar system designed to detect ballistic missiles and monitor satellites in where a University of California campus is is about 40 miles southwest of Last Davis resident Jerry Whitworth was arrested and charged with being part of a family spy ring that passed defense secrets to the Soviets for 17 Whitworth s and John A. Walker a retired Navy communications specialist pleaded guilty to espionage and He faces a life Walker's also pleaded guilty while John Walker's was convicted by a Whitworth awaits Last 11 spy suspects were arrested in the United Ott is being confined at Saxon Green said he had no information about whether there have been any previous arrests of Beale personnel for He said that information is generally not made public 7- -t ' * Index Financial Vital WASHINGTON - Cuba is appalled by increased Libyan support for Latin American revolutionaries and has warned at least one hemispheric country to take precautionary security according to U.S. intelligence The officials said Cuba recently sent a message to military leaders in Panama urging them to guard against a possible attempt to sabotage the Panama The who insisted on said yesterday that Cuba regards Libyan leader as an irresponsible adventurer who might unwisely provoke American military Libya long has supported the Sandinista government in Nicaragua but recently has provided small amounts of assistance to rebels in El Honduras and the officials They said Libya also is supporting two insurgent group in Colombia and recently sent a large sum of money - said to be well up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars - to Chile's Leftist Revolutionary known by its Spanish initials MIR In Libya passed on a smaller amount to a leftist party in the Caribbean country of headed by a staunchly the sources In the officials high-level officials from Colombia and Ecuador met to discuss their common concerns about Libyan activities in the among other Libya's base of operations in the hemisphere is a former Dutch colony on South America's north coast which has been ruled by an authoritarian government since 1980. the officials The officials said the Surinam which once had close ties to apparently is allowing Libya access to the country in return for sorely needed hard cash Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead said Monday the economic campaign against had the support of at least nine allied countries and was making the Libyan leader so nervous See Back CUBA |