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Thursday, November 6, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Houston NASA official named new director of shuttle program
WASHINGTON — One of the highest-ranking NASA officials involved in the decision to launch Challenger was named director of the shuttle program yesterday as part of a significant management overhaul requested by the Challenger disaster commission.
Rear Adm. Richard Truly, associate NASA administrator for space flight, announced that Arnold Aldrich, manager of the shuttle program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, would move to Washington to become director of the overall project.
The action tightens the lines of communications within NASA — another recommendation of the Challenger commission — and has the effect of reducing the Houston center's authority in the shuttle program. NASA earlier had taken similar action with the new space station project.
In addition, astronaut Robert Crippen, veteran of four shuttle flights, was named Aldrich's deputy for shuttle operations, including all aspects of launch. He will be based either in Houston or at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Richard Kohrs, formerly deputy manager of the space transportation system in Houston, will serve as Aldrich's deputy at the Johnson Space Center to oversee day-to-day operations of the shuttle program.
The management changes resulted from an extensive review conducted by Crippen of the Jan. 28 Challenger explosion. The review was in response to recommendations from the presidential commission headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers.
VIENNA — Superpower arms control negotiations appeared to move back on track yesterday with a long meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
Superpowers meet in Vienna
The two men met alone, except for interpreters, for three hours at the U.S. Embassy.
Shultz and Shevardnadze agree to have U.S. and Soviet arms control experts confer through the night and report back when they had a second meeting this morning at the Soviet Embassy, U.S. officials said.
The experts were instructed to try to establish exactly where the superpowers left off at the Reykjavik summit in October and where and how to pick up in the next set of negotiations.
Shultz and Shevardnadze are in Vienna to represent their governments at the start of the 35-nation review conference of the 1975 Helsinki agreement on European security and cooperation.
The day began with both men publicly attacking the other side for violations of human rights.
Iranian stories of mission vary
Iran issued conflicting stories yesterday about a secret diplomatic mission to Tehran by former national security adviser Robert McFarlane, who reportedly was detained by Iranian authorities.
One story said the former White House aide showed Iranian authorities a passport to prove his identity. Another said officials in Tehran may have mistaken him for someone else.
Both reports differed from a dispatch by the official Iranian news service Tuesday, which claimed McParlane was detained in September while on a secret mission for the Reagan administration.
In two earlier reports, the Iranian news agency quoted Iran's parliament speaker, Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, as saying McFarlane and the other four men arrived aboard a plane carrying spare weapons parts and had phony Irish passports. Iran says the five were detained for five days and then expelled.
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Donald Regan said yesterday that the United States would not buy the release of the American hostages in Lebanon nor would it meet outrageous demands for their freedom.
Hostage release efforts continue
McFarlane could not be reached and U.S. officials refused comment.
Regan, interviewed by Cable News Network, said the United States was pursuing efforts in many different channels to obtain the release of at least five Americans still missing in Lebanon and refused to discuss any contact with Iran.
The administration refused to comment on reports that former national security adviser Robert McFarlane illegally flew to Tehran on a secret White House mission in September and was detained with other members of his delegation.
Administration officials asserted a discussion of such matters could endanger behind-the-scenes efforts to deploy the camera.
Regan used the word "negotiating" to describe those efforts, but insisted that does not mean the United States was prepared to offer concessions. Other officials have said in the past that the United States would be willing to talk with the kidnappers but not negotiate.
Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite complained yesterday that interference and speculation were threatening his efforts to win the quick release of more American hostages.
Reagan to sign immigration bill
WASHINGTON – President Reagan intends to sign a landmark immigration reform bill today that will grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and clamp down on the rising tide of foreigners shipping across the border. White House aides said yesterday.
It was one of the few remaining bills passed in the maning days of the 99th Congress. Still pending is the $18 billion extension of the Clean Water Act, which
Reagan is still undecided about signing and which aides are urging him to veto.
indies are arguing that the long-awaited immigration bill grants amnesty to otherwise law-abiding aliens who came before 1982 and are still living in the United States.
The legislation also seeks to end the increasing flow of illegal aliens by strengthening border controls and by imposing both civil and criminal penalties against employers who knowingly hire them.
The new law also makes it illegal to discriminate against either citizens or legal aliens on the basis of national origin and sets up a special office in the Justice Department prosecuting job discrimination charges
Con man, girlfriend escape prison
PLEASANTON, Calif. — A con artist who escaped federal prison a week ago flew back in a hijacked helicopter yesterday, plucked his bank robber girlfriend from a recreation yard and swept away before startled guards could prevent it, authorities said.
"They were boyfriend and girlfriend in prison," Deputy U.S. Marshal Dick Bippus said. "It sounds like something out of a TV series."
The helicopter swept over a wire fence at midmorning at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton, hovered a few feet off the ground while the woman inmate climbed aboard, then roared away, witnesses said.
Bippus identified the woman as Samantha Dorinda Lopez, 37, serving 50 years for a Jacksonville, Fla., bank robbery and kidnapping. He identified the man who staged her escape as Ronald J. McIntosh, 42, who vanished Oct. 28 when he was given a bus ticket to transfer from Pleasanton to another minimum-security prison in Southern California.
McIntosh told Aris officials that he needed the helicopter and pilot for aerial surveying near the prison, but once in the air he pulled an arm and forced pilot Peter Szabo to land on a mountain peak behind the community of Danville, about 15 miles northwest of the prison, Sullivan said.
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