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Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday September 3, 1985 Tuesday ' " ' 7’' J " ' ' ■ M 11111 Shuttle crew pleased with satellite health Associated Press SPACE CENTER, Houston — Discovery’s astronauts, basking in the news that the satellite they re paired now seems in good health, spent much of Labor Day cleaning their spacecraft and preparing it for ;-da a pre-dawn landing today in Califor- Mission commander Joe Engle, explaining that “a clean ship is a happy ship,” set his four-man crew to scouring the decks, walls and ceil ing of their spacecraft, getting it re ady for a 9:15 a.m. EDT touchdown today on a dry desert lakebed at Ed wards Air Force Base, Calif. The crew was happy about the rapidly improving health of Syncom 3, the $85 million communications satellite that they repaired with two daring spacewalk salvage efforts over the weekend. Hughes Communications Inc., owner of the satellite, said the Syn com 3 batteries and liquid-fueled rocket systems were in good shape, despite spending four lifeless months in tne intense cold of space. Signals received from the satellite by Hughes engineers showed that only about a fourth of the liquid fuel froze in a rocket thruster system on Syncom 3. Officials said this pre sented no problem. The thrusters proved they could work when, on command from the ground, they caused the satellite to spin up to 6 rpm. Astronauts James “Ox” van Hof- ten and Bill Fisher repaired Syncom 3 during a record seven-hour, eight- minute spacewalk on Saturday and a shorter excursion on Sunday. Hughes officials said the craft will be permitted to warm slowly over the next two months. They said there was still a question about the condition of a solid rocket on the craft. On Oct. 29, commands will be sent to fire the rocket engine and send Syncom 3 to its working station 22,300 miles above the Earth. Engle and pilot Richard Covey will start Discovery homeward Tues day morning by firing powerful rocket engines, causing the shuttle to slow and tall to earth. Discovery was launched Aug. 27 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In addition to repairing Syncom 3, the astronauts launched three satellites, including Syncom 4, a twin to the salvaged satellite. They also successfully conducted a crystal growth experiment for the 3M Corp. Terrorist Pilots identify photograph of hijacker who shot diver SHO Associated Press WASHINGTON — The terrorist who killed Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 was identified in a photograph shown to crew members by FBI agents, the plane’s co-pilot says. The FBI is conducting an invest gation in an attempt to gatlit enough evidence to obtain a feden id indictment against lli grand jury terrorists for the hijacking and tk murder of Stethem, according government sources who spoke condition of anonymity. First Officer Philip G. Maresca said he and two other crew members picked out a picture of the hijacker who shot and killed Stethem, 23, a passenger aboard the plane that was hijacked June 14 after takeoff from Athens, Greece. Stethem was beaten and shot June 15 in the plane’s cockpit, and his body was dumped on the tarmac at Beirut International Airport. During a telephone interview last week from his home in Salt Lake City, Maresca said the terrorist’s, pic ture was on a sheet of six mug shots that FBI agents showed crew mem bers following their release from 17 days of captivity. “A very thorough investigation going on,” one source said. Network videotapes from tdi vision coverage of the 17-davhijaa ing ordeal were subpoenaed by fe eral prosecutors along wii photographs taken by The Aa ciated Press. The news agency ai furnished audio tapes of new con age transmitted over the AP Rat network. Where Am I? Photo by Frank Hada Ftennis Davenport, a freshman computer science Many newcomers on campus have made good use ‘‘■I 01 * r °ni Waller, looks at a map of Texas A&M. of the maps while searching for their classes. maps searching Maresca declined to identify the gunman by name, saying only that “he was very well groomed, you would never bave guessed he would be a hijacker.” The two other crew members, Capt. John L. Testrake and Benja min C. Zimmermann, the flight en gineer, could not be reached for comment. FBI agents interrogated the 36 passengers and three crewmen after they were released July 1 by Shiite Amal militiamen and flown to a mili tary hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany. These materials are being viewed by federal agents, anotk source said. After the hijacked Boeing 727 flown from Beirut to Rome b month, FBI agents poked throiij the badly damaged TWA jetlini dusting it for fingerprints and 11 ing photographs, the source said Due to the sensitive nature o case, Justice Department and officials are refusing to commenn the government’s investigate which is being directed by tneo partment’s criminal division. Secretary of State Georgt Shultz and a number of Reagan ministration officials have said l authorities believe they know! identities of the terrorists who jacked the plane, which was cam 145 passengers and eight crew nr bers. ‘Night Stalker’ suspect’s gun sought by police Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Police pleaded for the public’s help Monday in find ing a gun they believe the “Night Stalker” used in some of the 16 slay ings attributed to him since Feb ruary. Richard Ramirez, who was ar rested in the case Saturday, is be lieved to have dropped or thrown the gun as he was being chased by angry East Los Angeles residents who captured him. “If we don’t find (the gun), it may be impossible to link some of the homicides to the suspect,” said sher iffs Lt. Dick Walls. Prosecutors worked through the weekend to decide how much evi dence they have and how many charges they may file against the 25- year-old drifter, who was born in El Paso, and recently lived in Los An geles and the San Francisco area. Prosecutors expect to file charges against Ramirez by early Wednes day, said Chief Deputy District At torney Gilbert Garcetti. Garcetti indicated that the initial filing, required within two court days of arrest, may not include all the charges to be brought against Ramirez. Ramirez was being held under constant surveillance in a high-secu rity section of Los Angeles County Jail for investigation of murder. Garcetti refused to discuss reports that Ramirez has been linked to Sa tanic activities. According to news accounts, victims may have been mu tilated and ritualistic feasts con sumed in their homes. sion Viejo to San Francisco, some 400 miles to the north. Despite a recent heat wave, many residents shut their homes tight at night and locksmiths and gun shops reported a surge in sales. matched the description of Night Stalker, said Smith. Thefi ily said the man had been in tht Francisco area around the time accountant was slain and his» shot in that city, he said. The victims were shot, blud geoned, stabbed or had their throats slashed by an assailant who sneaked into darkened homes through un locked doors or windows. The killings attributed to the Night Stalker ranged from the Orange County community of Mis- On Monday, authorities said jew elry stolen in San Francisco and sold in Lompoc in Santa Barbara County provided a crucial link in the case, with fingerprints linking the jewelry to Ramirez. San Francisco authorities term the tip “a very hot lead,” and finf ifn prints identified the friend as 1 A Lompoc family, which asked not to be identified, told authorities it had purchased some jewelry from a friend identified only as Rick, who The Daily News of Los Angti reported that Ramirez spent i days before his arrest in Ariac and authorities have asked Phoe: police to contact friends of Ramr to determine his movements. Ce va Americ person Mi for Labor music and In Ne resenting raded up the creatk “This ii working p New Yorl marched i to remerr played in recall wh: unions. Cardin viewed th St. Patrick “It’s ab: the conce ive,” O’G “It’s so e were like 1 In El Lane Kiri pie at a unions, as are threat imports. “What roots up i aged lab "The labo of defensi of progre this count Mir Wham! bodyguard arrested for assault Associated Press I.OS ANGELES —Neither member of the British singing duo Wham! was involved in a scuffle that resulted in the arrest of their bodyguard on charges of e a pnc climbed an escalator to take their picture. assaulting a photographer, police say. According to the photogra pher’s account, Peter Gauchi, the bodyguard, followed him up the escalator and grabbed him. Wham! members George Mi chael and Andrew Ridgeley were iday at boarding a plane Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport, en route to Oakland for a concert that evening when David Elkouby “I didn’t know he was behind me,” Elkouby, 21, said. “He took me in a headlock. I thought he was going to throw me off the stairs.” Mutiny against Libyan leader foiled Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt — Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy crushed a mutiny and arrested 43 military officers who refused to pre- E are to invade Tunisia and tried to omb Khadafy’s residence, a Cairo newspaper said Monday. The semi-official newspaper Al- Ahram said Col. Mohammed Barg- hash, commander of a Libyan air base near the Tunisian border, re fused to order his pilots to carry out reconnaissance flights over Tunisia as a prelude to an invasion. It said he — along with 12 other airmen — in stead tried to fly their warplanes to bomb Khadafy’s residence. Another colonel, Khalifa Khadr who was the commander of the land forces that were to attack Tunisia, also refused to carry out the orders and tried to march on Khadafy’s headquarters, Al-Ahram asserted. It said the effort was foiled and Khadr and 29 of his senior officers were ar rested. day, the day before the Libyan leader celebrated the 16th anniver sary of the coup that brought him to power. sion over Libya’s expulsions of tl* sands of Egyptian and Tunis workers. Egypt and Libya have had strained relations for years, and Al- Ahram and other Cairo publications frequently carry stories critical of Khadafy. According to Al-Ahram, the anti- Khadafy uprisings occurred Satur- Tunisian authorities have pro tested what they said were repeated violations of Tunisian air space by Libyan warplanes. A spokesman in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, said one Soviet-made Libyan fighter-bomber flew 30 miles over Tunisia’s south ern desert Saturday. He said two Li byan warplanes also violated Tuni sia’s airspace on Aug. 18. It said that under Khadafy’spli about 2,000 Tunisian workers guised in Tunisian military unifoi were to have formed the vanjjui of the attacking Libyan forces. 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