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NASA says booster seals
sound but not infallible
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A NASA offi
cial told a presidential commission
Tuesday that the sealing design for
the space shuttle’s rocket boosters
was deemed “safe and adequate,”
but that after recent ground testing
and minor cases of past-flight ero
sion, “we felt like it could be im
proved.”
NASA’s David Winterhalter testi
fied that the shuttle was safe to fly.
During the second day of public
testimony on Challenger explosion,
the investigating panel focused on
whether NASA had prior warning
of a problem with the design and
material that joined the four seg
ments of its rocket boosters.
Winterhalter, acting director of
NASA’s shuttle propulsion group,
told the panel that NASA engineers
were not satisfied with the safety
margins they found on testing of the
seals.
“We’re always striving to make
things perfect,” he said.
“We're always striving to
make things perfect. ”
— David Winterhalter,
acting director of NASA’s
shuttle propulsion group.
He said tests were conducted dur
ing most of 1985 to determine what
changes could be made to the seals
and that the testing “intensified as
the year went on.”
“At no time during that period
did any of my men come to me and
give any indication that there was a
safety or flight problem in their
area,” he told the commission.
Lawrence Mulloy, head of the
solid booster program at the Mar
shall Space Flight Center in Ala
bama, told the panel that analyses,
which followed each of NASA’s 24
successful shuttle flights had deter
mined erosion had occurred in six of
171 primary sealing rings.
He said there had never been a
failure that spread to the second
level of sealing protection.
The commission, however, re
leased a letter dated July 22, 1985
from a supervisor in the rocket pro
pulsion section of the agency, warn
ing that the design and the method
used to check the O-ring seals must
be improved.
CBS News said Tuesday evening
that NASA is studying films of two
previous launches for evidence of
malfunctions. The network showed
a film of the Nov. 26, 1985 launch of
Atlantis that appeared to show a sec
ond flame at one of the boosters af
ter it separated, and a film of Aug.
30, 1984 that appeared to show bur
ning fuel above and around one of
Discovery’s booster skirts.
Malloy said past indications of
erosion were not disturbing from a
standpoint of safety, adding that
NASA hadn’t seen any erosion in the
joints between the rocket segments
in the year before the Challenger
flight.
Rights panel
divided over
hiring quotas
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Lawyen
for the Equal Employment Op
portunity Commission have been
told to stop demanding numeri
cal hiring goals and timetables in
settlements with companies and
unions accused of discriminating
against women and minority em
ployees, officials said Tuesday.
Johnny Butler, the EEOC’sact-
ing general counsel, said he di
rected regional attorneys not to
bring any more cases that indude
them, although the five-member
commission has taken no formal
vote on abandoning use of such
race- and sex-conscious goals.
The administration is sharplv
divided on whether numerical
goals and timetables are synonv
mous with “quotas,” Butler said
Because of this, Butlersaid.be
told the regional attorneys to stop
including the numerical goals in
proposed consent decrees.
Bars raise prices to protest insurance
Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — “Happy
Hour” became a time for imbibers to
cry in their beer rather than unwind
Tuesday when about 400 New
Hampshire restaurant and bar own
ers staged an “Unhappy Hour,”
charging from $14 for a beer to $32
per martini.
Operators were trying to drama
tize and gather support against sky
rocketing increases in their premi
ums for liability insurance. Rates
have soared nationally because of in
creased litigation and jury awards in
liability cases, and one Keene bar
owner said much of that was due to
drunken drivers.
Bar owner Dewey Mark said the
participating tavern operators would
discount prices back to normal for
patrons who joined the protest and
signed postcards urging the insur
ance commissioner, governor and
state lawmakers to back legislation
limiting personal injury awards to
$250,000 in an effort to hold down
rates.
The establishments raised prices
for drinks by the same percentage
their liability insurance rates have
risen — 2,000 percent in some cases.
At Mark’s restaurants in the resort
towns of Gilford and Glenn, a beer
was $14 during “Unhappy Hour”; a
martini, $32; a snifter of fine
brandy, $40 plus.
Moe Mozier, owner of Henry Da
vid’s Restaurant in Keene and presi
dent of the New Hampshire Hospi
tality Association, said his bai
focused on more common drink
such as a bottle of beer for $14.
Insurance Commissioner Louii
Bergeron said the publicity sur
rounding “Unhappy Hour’ wasmii
leading. What’s needed, he said, in
discussion of the problem radiei
than a splashy publicity event.
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Slander charges
against Walesa
dropped Tuesday
Associated Press
GDANSK, Poland — The state
dropped slander charges against
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa on
Tuesday, and Walesa hailed the de
cision as the first step toward com
promise by Poland’s Communist
government since it crushed the in
dependent trade union.
At the opening day of Walesa’s
trial, the prosecutor said the 12 elec
tion officials who filed the complaint
were “satisifed” by Walesa’s
statement in court that he did not in
tentionally slander them when he
gave voter turnout figures for na
tional elections lower than the offi
cial count.
The three-judge panel in Gdansk
provincial court suspended the case
indefinitely.
Walesa was in high spirits at a
news conference after the trial and
said he was happy the government
recognized that “political trials are
not in the interest of Poland.”
He called it “the first step toward
compromise since the 13th of De-
ipror
tber,’
cember,' 1981. That was when the
government imposed martial law
and crushed Solidarity, the first free
trade union in the Soviet bloc. Soli
darity was outlawed the following
year.
The case arose from an October
parliamentary election boycotted by
Solidarity supporters. Solidarity set
up its own voter counting operation
to counter the government’s claim
that the elections had wide popular
support.
When the government said the
turnout was nearly 79 percent, Soli
darity issued figures saying only 66
percent of voters went to the polls.
Western diplomats, who spoke on
condition they not be identified, said
it appeared clear the authorities did
not want to risk international dis
pleasure by trying Walesa at a time
when Poland is seeking new trade
credits and is hoping to gain entry to
the International Monetary Fund.
Mardi Gras continues
despite icy weather
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Icy winds
kept normally risque Mardi Gras
costumes bulky and sedate, but
the uproarious pre-Lenten cele
bration shifted into high gear Fat
Tuesday as parades turned much
of the city into a free-wheeling
street-party.
Crowds jammed shoulder to
shoulder on Bourbon Street and
the other routes of the five pa
rades planned in the city.
“C’mon, you stuck up folks!
Let’s party!” a young man
shouted at the bunaled-up fami
lies who lined St. Charles Avenue.
Both jazz clarinetist Pete Foun
tain’s Half-Fast Walking Club and
the Zulu parade were delayed a
bit by the weather, but the Rex
parade — the swankiest of the
Carnival season — rolled right on
time.
Parade-goers’ costumes, with
some stalwart exceptions like a
young man in bikini underwear
and goose bumps, were dictated
by the weather: around freezing,
with a 17 mph wind that made it
feel like 9 degrees.
Bright satin and sequined
capes, worn over warm pants and
bulky coats, were the most popu
lar costume in the French Quar
ter.
Five friends dressed as oysters
on the half-shell — sportint
heavy gloves, grey sweatsuits, ana
white satin-covered foam shells
strapped to their shoulders.
Although Mardi Gras is cele
brated in cities from Galveston,
Texas, to Mobile, Ala., New Or
leans has the biggest show.
People spend an estimated $50
million to put on and participate
in the parades and balls for the
five weeks leading up to Lent.
The celebrating officially ends
at midnight, but French Quarter
bars will be rocking for hours af
ter the arrival of Ash Wednesday.
Fat Tuesday is the biggest Car
nival day since Sunday when Bac
chus and 10 other krewes pa
raded.
During that parade, two men
were shot and wounded, another
was knifed and two other men,
apparently drunk, fell from trac
tors that were pulling floats.
In the most serious Carnival-
related episode, a Houston man
was fatally stabbed Friday night
Italian mayor fights to rid Palermo of Mafia influence
Associated Press
PALERMO, Sicily — “If you let
fear stop you, nothing will change,”
says Mayor Leoluca Orlando, who is
trying to rid Palermo of Mafia influ
ence that has been woven into the
city’s fabric over centuries.
The mayor feels that success will
come only through the people’s will
and the state’s unwavering commit
ment.
When the trial of 474 alleged Ma
fia members began Monday, Or
lando was in the courtroom, sitting
in a show of solidarity with the wid
ows and children of men who were
killed fighting the pervasive criminal
society.
“You fight the Mafia with repres
sion but also with economic devel
opment,” he said in an interview.
Italy’s poor south is ripe prey for
organized crime, he said.
Since taking office in July, the 38-
year-old Christian Democrat has
earned a reputation for boldness,
honesty and courage.
An example of Orlando’s ap
proach to the job is his decision that
contracts for city services and con
struction be granted by competitive
bidding.
The previous system, considered
ideal for the Mafia, was to give the
jobs to those who had previous con
tracts with the city, regardless of cost
or qualifications.
The Mafia’s strength hasbeenai
tributed in part to a Sicilian distruii
of outsiders inspired by centuriescf
foreign exploitation that led peas
ants to turn to bandits for protet-
tion, for a price.
Orlando says that arrangementi- 1
weakening and the wave of killing
of police officials, government lea^
ers, journalists and judges investigat
ing the Mafia has convinced manyof
Palermo’s people that their worH
must change.
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