Thursday, June 14, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 Drilling ship hearings reopened United Press International HOUSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday reconvened its hearing into the October sinking of a drilling ship near Vietnam amid a report that one of the 81 crew mem bers presumed dead was seen alive in a Vietnamese prison. Also Wednesday, an official with Houston-based Global Marine Inc., which owns the Gloxnar Java Sea, testified he ignored a request from the captain of the ship to increase staffing aboard the vessel during the typhoon season because he consid ered it unimportant. Austin attorney Douglas Pierce, die father of missing crewman John Pierce, said he has received a letter from a Vietnamese refugee who claims to have seen his son and five other Americans in a prison in Da Nang on Nov. 19 after the Glomar Java Sea sank Oct. 25 in the South China Sea during Typhoon Lex. Divers located the bodies of 34 crewmen. The other 47 are pre sumed dead. Pierce said Vietnamese industrial engineer Nguyen Hun Chanh, 35, who is now in a refugee camp in the Phillipines awaiting a move to Cali fornia, sent him the letter after see ing one of several advertisments Pierce placed in South East Asia publications which displayed his son’s photograph and offered a re ward for any information about his fate. “I confirm to you that your son, when I met, looked exactly like in the picture,” Chanh’s letter read. The information contradicts a U.S. State Department conclusion that there is no evidence of survi vors. “I believe him because he’s some one I can touch, reach and smell. Secondly, he doesn’t want any money and he already has a sponsor for himself and his family Califor nia,” Pierce said. “I am convinced my son is alive and I’m going to do everything pos sible to find him.” Pierce said he has hired an Ameri can-based international security firm to investigate Chanh’s claim and to try to locate the Vietnamese prison where he believes his son and others may be held. Chanh’s letter, translated into En-^ glish by two Vietnamese people, said the Americans were questioned at the Da Nang prison and then moved to Hanoi. Pierce said if he is able to confirm his son’s location in Vietnam, he will do “whatever is necessary to get him out." Pierce disclosed the letter as offi cials of the Coast Guard and the Na tional Transportation Safety Board reconvened three days of hearings into the cause of the sinking of the Glomar Java Sea. The board has held three previous hearings in Houston and Hong Kong. The cause of the sinking has not been determined, although divers found cracks in the hull of the dril ling ship. Officials, however, said a final ruling is not likely for several months. NASA picks crew for Oct. 1 shuttle United Press International WASHINGTON — A Navy oceanographer has been added to the space shuttle flight scheduled to begin Oct. 1, raising the num ber of crew members to a record seven, the space agency an nounced Wednesday. NASA said Paul D. Scully- Power, 40, has joined the four men and two women preparing for the eight-day mission. Scully- Power is a native of Australia and now works as a civilian scientist at the Naval Underwater Systems Center at New London, Conn. The shuttle Challenger is scheduled to fly farther north and south as it orbits Earth than most missions and thus will give Scully- Power a unusual opportunity to view three-fourths of the globe’s seas, NASA said. “The objective of flying an oceonographer with such experi ence is expected to result in more effective use of the shuttle for ocean-related missions,” the agency said in announcing Scully- Power’s addition to the crew. Scully-Power was born in Syd ney and was educated in Australia and London. 43-year-old man convicted of passing counterfeit bills United Press International CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man wanted in six states for various sex crimes and murder was convicted Wednesday of passing counterfeit I I money in North Carolina, and pros ecutors say evidence of criminal sex acts will be introduced at his sentenc- N,Kib ■ skleeffa I >wn. las been Dtentialhii f healthy ■ going tol v i>e a to COllCffl have oik Straus. In court documents unsealed af ter James M. 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Defense attorney Keith Stroud said the decision not to present evi dence was “just a matter of trial strategy.” Sentencing was delayed until July 6 at 10 a.m. A court document described some of the items the government planned to present at the sentenc ing. The document was a notice filed June 5 by Andresen. In it the gov ernment said it intended to show at the sentencing that Debardeleben manufactured counterfeit money that was of a “high deceptive qual ity,” and had passed $160,000 worth of bogus bills. The notice also said two firearms were found in Debardeleben’s pos session when he was arrested in Maryville, Tenn., May 25, 1983, and storage lockers he had in Manassas and Alexandria, Va., contained “equipment, material and parapher nalia used in the manufacturing of counterfeit currency, which in cluded negatives, plates, and a print ing press.” “The United States Secret Service also seized pornographic material from defendant’s storage lockers, in cluding photographs of victims whom the defendant had brutally sodomized,” the document read. “In addition, the Secret Service seized notes written by the defendant which described in detail the acts of sodomy and sexual torture. The agents also seized tape recordings made by the defendant of the actual acts of sodomy and sexual abuse....” Debardeleben already has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for counterfeiting in Tennessee. 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