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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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:
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to determine his movements.
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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.
The newspaper described itsi
cle as a special report from th«
byan capital of Tripoli. Al-Ahr
has no representatives in Libya.
Al-Ahram’s report, which was not
attributed, came amid increased ten-
Egypt and Libya have been
odds since the late President An»
Sadat rejected a Khadafy offer
1972 to merge the two countries.
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