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Tuesday, January 29, 1991
The Battalion
Seventy-three seconds of silence
Americans commemorate tragedy of Challenger disaster
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — Space center workers who
will never forget where they were
five years ago
fell silent for
73 seconds
Monday to
honor the
seven astro
nauts who
died in the ex-
plosion of
space shuttle
Challenger.
All activity
at NASA’s . . . ..„
Kennedy McAullffe
Space Center halted at 11:38
a.m., the time of Challenger’s fi
nal liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986. It ex
ploded 73 seconds later over the
Atlantic Ocean.
The dead included Christa
McAuliffe, the Concord, N.H.,
schoolteacher who had planned
live lessons from orbit for the
nation’s students. She was the
first ordinary American to ven
ture into space.
At Concord High School,
where McAuliffe taught, stu
dents and faculty also paused for
a moment of silence. Five years
ago, cheering students had
jammed the school’s auditorium
watching the launch on tele
vision before their joy turned to
horror.
At Firestone High School in
Akron, Ohio, where astronaut
Judith Resnik graduated in
1966, attentive students listened
to a commemorative account of
her life. “You could hear a pin
drop,” said Principal William
Hoik.
At the cape, Kennedy Space
Center’s director, Forrest Mc
Cartney, in a message televised
throughout the launch site,
asked employees as he has each
anniversary to “remember and
honor the crew of Challenger
and at the same time recommit
ourselves to excellence in every
thing we do.”
Thirteen missions have been
accomplished safely since shuttle
flights resumed in September
1988 and “these have been five
years of accomplishment of
which we can all be proud,” Mc
Cartney said.
Workers stopped whatever
they were doing and bent their
heads in offices, cafeteria lines
and on sidewalks. Security
guards slowly lowered flags to
half-staff.
No official observances were
held at Johnson Space Center in
Houston or at NASA headquar
ters in Washington. But NASA
Administrator Richard Truly, in
a written message to employees,
said the seven would never be
forgotten.
“It has been through your
tireless efforts in the interim that
we have profited from the im
portant lessons we learned,”
Truly said.
A leak in a joint on Challeng
er’s right solid rocket booster
caused America’s worst space di
saster. The shuttle and booster
have since been extensively re
designed.
Shuttle director Robert Crip-
pen, a former astronaut, and
about 100 people attended an
observance at a granite memo
rial to the Challenger crew in
Arlington National Cemetery in
Virginia.
The adjoining grave of mis
sion commander Francis “Dick”
Scobee was decorated with a pot
of zinnias and a single rose with
a card from “Your wife, June,
and the children.” Crippen
added a white carnation.
The other four Challenger
crew members were Michael
Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald
McNair and Gregory Jarvis.
A
State revises policies
concerning sex, abuse
at schools for retarded
DALLAS (AP) — The rape and
pregnancy of a profoundly retarded
resident of the Lubbock State School
has prompted the state to revise poli
cies on sex and abuse at schools for
the mentally retarded.
Debra Lynn Thomas, 33, who
doctors say has the intellectual ca
pacity of a 2-year-old, gave birth to a
boy Jan. 1. Her brother-in-law,
Jimmy Wooten, 40, was charged
with rape. He has proclaimed his in
nocence.
Last week, the Texas Department
of Mental Health and Mental Retar
dation announced that it was chang
ing its policies on sexual relations
and investigations of sexual-abuse
allegations in state schools.
The announcement came after 17
years of haggling in a Dallas-based
federal lawsuit over treatment of
state school residents.
A new “human sexuality policy”
that prohibits sexual intercourse be
tween unmarried residents of state
schools and other state facilities for
the mentally retarded took effect
Friday, MHMR Commissioner Den
nis Jones said.
State schools also adopted a “cor
rective action plan” to improve med
ical treatment and care of residents,
he said.
The policies were developed from
the recommendations of a four-
member review team appointed by
the commissioner after Thomas was
raped.
“I’m very happy that some good
has come out of the tragedy ot De
bra Thomas,” said Philadelphia law
yer David Ferleger, who represents
Thomas and other state school resi
dents in the federal lawsuit.
Thomas, who was a resident of
the Lubbock State School when the
crime occurred, has been placed in a
private home under state supervi
sion. Her baby was placed in the care
of her sister, Dori Wooten, wife ol
Jimmy Wooten.
Jimmy Wooten is being held in
the Lubbock Jail on $250,000 bail.
Police charge two Irving teens
in slaying of four at Taco Bell
IRVING (AP) — Two teen-agers
were charged Monday with capital
murder in the slayings of four peo
ple who were gunned down execu
tion-style in a restaurant freezer
during a weekend robbery.
Mike Green, 17, and Jessy Carlos
San Miguel, 19, both of Irving, were
charged with one count each of capi
tal murder. Three additional capital
murder charges are expected to be
filed against each on Tuesday, Ir
ving police Capt. TJ. Hall said.
They remained jailed without bail in
Irving.
The bodies, including those of
three employees, were discovered in
a Taco Bell walk-in freezer after po
lice officers stopped the driver of a
pickup on suspicion of drunken
driving early Saturday morning and
spotted a take-out Taco Bell sack
stuffed with cash.
Green worked at the restaurant
part-time in this Dallas suburb. San
Miguel, who was driving the truck
when they were stopped by police,
was out on bail facing trial on three
burglary charges when the crime oc
curred.
Theresa Fraga, 16, of Irving, her
cousin Frank Fraga, 23, of Dallas,
restaurant manager Michael J. Phe
lan, 28, of Fort Worth and Fraga
family friend Son Trong Nguyen,
35, of Irving, were fatally shot at the
Taco Bell restaurant.
Nguyen was at the restaurant to
pick up Fraga, who was several
months pregnant and had a 1-year-
old son.
The slayings bring to nine the
number of people killed during late
night shifts at restaurants or food
stores in Dallas County since Dec. 4.
Police seek information in multiple
Bryan department store burglaries
Brazos County Crime Stoppers
and the Bryan Police Department
are asking for information about
three separate burglaries at a Bryan
department store.
During the week of Dec. 7- 13, the
downtown Bryan Woolworth store
was broken into three times. In each
case, the thieves entered the build
ing by smashing in a glass door.
Once inside, the suspects grabbed
several items before leaving the
premises. Woolworth representa
tives report that several sewing ma
chines were stolen along with several
stereo radio-cassette players, a 20-
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shirts and 20 wrist watches. Wool-
worth representatives estimate the
store’s loss to be more than $6,500.
Bryan police detectives believe the
same persons committed all three
burglaries and these people have
been attempting to sell or trade
these items in the local area.
Five weeks ago these burglaries
were featured as the crime of the
week, since that time Crime Stop
pers has received only one call re
garding the offense. Investigatoi s
also have exhausted all leads.
If your call leads to an arrest and
grand jury indictment, Crime Stop
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cash. Crime Stoppers also pays cash
for information on any felony crime
or the location of a wanted fugitive.
So call Brazos County Crime Stop
pers today at 775-TIPS.
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