NATION AND WORLD
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University Daily Kansan, September 12, 1984
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Microchip delayed shuttle
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A faulty microcircuit sparked a computer failure aboard the space shuttle Discovery in June, forcing a postponement of one day of the countdown for its maiden voyage, a top Pentagon official said yesterday.
Donald Moore, deputy executive director for quality assurance of the Defense Logistics Agency, cited the tiny, pronged electronic part as one of 15 million produced and 'imadequately tested' by the CIA. Court and toold to the IBM plant at Oswego, N.Y., during the past eight years.
He said the 15 million microcircuits that are "potentially suspect" as faulty were components in more than 50 weapons, including two late models of the B-32 bomber - the prime U.S. airborne weapon designed to carry nuclear bombs.
Norman Neureituer, Texas Instrument's corporate staff vice president, acknowledged the company made the vital failed microchip, but denied the company's "testing irregularities" caused a delay in Discovery's launch.
"It is erroneous to say TI was responsible for the delay in the race while" he said in Dallas.
"A tire goes flat, a light bulb burns out under certain circumstances," he said. "We and IBM (maker of the shuttle computer) view it as a random failure."
Neuretiere refused to link the shuttle delay to recent disclosures that a number of key tests apparently were improperly conducted on microcircuits used in a vast array of military hardware.
Other weapons affected by the suspected faulty microcircuits include the new B-1B bomber, the F-111 bomber, the F-15 fighter, sonar aboard the Ohio class submarines carrying missiles and the Los Angeles class attack subs. Navy's A-6 and A-72 bombers and the P-0C Orion aircraft that has submarines, industry sources said.
In the latest and potentially most damaging quality control problem
plagging the defense establishment, the Pentagon has halted acceptance of weapons and other military gear from defense contractors who may have used them in war. In instruments until it is determined whether they are faulty.
"Any weapon that might contain sophisticated systems could be involved." Moore said.
Moore was asked whether a Texas Instruments semi-coordinator, which was not manufactured to military specifications, was responsible for the failure of the IBM's $12.2 million backup coordinator at the Disc Computer Company that led to a one-day postponement June 25 in the countdown.
"That's absolutely correct," he replied. He said the component caused a circuit to break in the computer.
An engine problem that surfaced later in the countdown forced a two-month delay in Discovery's maiden voyage.
Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch cited the possibility of a criminal investigation.
CHARLOTTE, Teen. — Mary Ann Garton Bass married her son and his kinship from him for six years because "she did not want any other woman to have him," a prosecutor said yesterday.
By United Press International
"The son just discovered the true relationship about two weeks ago after hearing rumors and talk from relatives," said Assistant District Attorney General Dan Cook. "He was very emotionally upset and distracted when he found out. It's just bizarre."
Incestuous marriage news to son
BASS, 43. WAS CHARGED with felonious criminal incest for marrying Danny James Sullivan, 26, in 1978. A separate legal action has been filed to have the marriage annulled.
The woman pleaded not guilty and was released Monday on $5,000 bond.
Bass was seeking psychiatric help for an "obsession" with her son, officials said.
The penalty for criminal incest is imprisonment for not less than five and not more than 21 years.
BASS WAS SULLIVAN'S natural mother and she had also formally adopted him. He was unaware of either fact, officials said.
When he was 18, Sullivan became curious about his natural parents and returned to the Charlotte area to look for them. Someone suggested he talk to a kid calling him she was his mother. Cook, Sant, and Sullivan went to visit her.
They dated, fell in love and married on Jan 29, 1978. Stullin wished to stay.
ANOTHER BIZARRE TWIST was added, Cook said, by a court petition"filed by Bass and her ex-husband, Charles Bass, who was not the child's natural father, to formally adopt Sullivan as their son.
Couple convicted for letting daughter die
By United Press International
David B. and Kathine C. Bergmann, Ligonier, Ind., whose 9-month old daughter died June 7 of what a doctor called the worst case of meningitis he'd ever seen, are the third and fourth members of the Gauche family in Indiana in the past month of allowing a child to die without treatment.
ALHION, Ind — A fundamentalist couple who prayed, fasted and quoted Scripture over a dying infant daughter without calling a doctor was convicted yesterday of reckless homicide and child neglect.
The Bergmanns' secretive church, which teaches reliance on prayer and faith in God for healing and rejects medicine and doctors, rarely allows members to discuss their beliefs in public.
"I didn't kill my daughter," Mrs. Bergmann, 27, told jurors in closing arguments."
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