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Engineer testifes
Says NASA budget for safety diverted
.13y JIM ROWLEY
Associated Press Writer
'WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) One of the Morton
;Thiokol engineers who tried to stop the fatal
launch of the space shuttle Challenger claims the
company received money from NASA to hire 18
quality control and safety people but "the money
was used instead as a slush fund for Thiokol."
Engineer Roger Boisjoly said also, in a paper
filed with U.S. District Court, that his warning in
July 1985 of possibly catastrophic failure of seals
on the shuttle booster rockets was immediately
classified as "company private" by Thiokol and
withheld from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
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The Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986 after 73
seconds of flight, killing the crew of seven. The
Rogers Commission that investigated the disaster
found it was caused by a leak of hot gases stream
ing from the ship's right booster rocket.
Boisjoly is suing the company on his own behalf
and on behalf of the taxpayers. He accuses Morton
Thiokol the sole manufacturer of booster rock
ets for the space 'shuttle of fraud by falsely
certifying the safety of the rubberlike 0-ring seals'
at places where rocket booster segments are
joined.
Efforts to reach company officials by telephone
for comment were not immediately successful.
The firm said also that it "will explore all legal
means to redress any damage to its reputation"
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stemming from Boisjoly's charges.
The engineer's charges were contained in a
paper that had been held under seal by U.S.
District Judge Harold Greene since it was filed . on
April 2. The government had requested the docu
ment be withheld from the public so that Morton
Thiokol would not know that the FBI had begun a
criminal investigation of the company.
During a conference between the government
and Greene on March 11, also under seal until
Thursday, Justice Department lawyer David W.
Long said employees of Thiokol had gone to the
FBI with "substantial allegations of fraud."
The FBI began a criminal investigation of Mor
ton Thiokol after the allegations were made to
agents in Salt Lake City on Jan. 17.
FCC tightens
obscenity laws
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The
Federal Communications Commis
sion yesterday asked the Justice De
partment to consider prosecuting a
California radio station for broad
casting an allegedly obscene pro
gram and issued warnings to two
other stations including one airing
controversial morning -show person
ality Howard Stern.
The actions put radio stations
across the country on notice that the
FCC will be imposing a stricter stan
dard for adherence to laws prohibit
ing the broadcast of indecent or
obscene material over the airwaves.
The FCC vote took aim at areas of
broadcasting formerly considered
safe harbor by radio programmers —,
programs aired after 10 p.m. and
material that merely avoids repeated
use of obscene words.
The five-member commission
agreed that material broadcast by
Pacifica. Foundation Inc.'s KPFK
FM, Los Angeles, containing graphic
depictions of sex acts was indecent
"and may have crossed the line" to
obscenity. The commission voted to
refer that case to the Justice Depart
ment for possible prosecution.
Inquirer cops three
Pulitzers for 1987
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK The Philadel
phia Inquirer won three 1987 Pulit
zer Prizes yesterday, including
two for investigative reporting,
and The New York Times and the
Los Angeles Times also captured
two of the 6restigious awards.
The Pittsburgh Press won the
public service award for its reve
lation of the inadequacy of the
Federal Aviation Administration's
medical screening of airline pilots.
The work by Matthew Brelis and
Andrew Schneider led to signifi
cant reforms. Schneider also
shared the 1986 award for special
ized reporting.
The Inquirer's John Woesten
diek won a Pulitzer for his prison
reporting, including an account
proving the innocence of a man
convicted of murder. Woesten
diek, who had been one of three
finalists in the general news re
porting category, was given the
investigative reporting award.
A second investigative award
went to Daniel R. Biddle, H.G.
Bissinger and Fredrick N. Tulsky
of the Inquirer for their series
"Disorder in the Court," involving
scandals in the Philadelphia court
system. The stories led to federal
and state investigations.
The Pulitzer Prize for feature
writing was awarded to Steve
Twomey of The Philadelphia In
quirer for a profile of life aboard
an aircraft carrier.
The Inquirer newsroom burst
into cheers and applause as the
official announcements came.
Sam McKeel, publisher of the In
quirer, called it "a great day, a
great year and the continuation of
a great trend."
The specialized reporting prize
to Alex S. Jones of The New York
Times was for "The, Fall of the
House of Bingham," which was
described as "a skillful and sensi
tive report of a powerful newspa
per family's bickering and how it
led to the sale of a famed media
empire." The Binghams' owned
The Louisville Courier-Journal
and The Louisville Times.
The Times' other Pulitzer was
for national reporting and went to
its staff for its coverage of the
aftermath of the explosion of the
space shuttle Challenger, includ
ing "stories that identified serious
flaws in the shuttle's design and in
the administration of America's
space program."
"This place has been popping
for the last half hour," said Max
Frankel, executive editor of The
New York Times. "We're excited,
we're exuberant, we're proud as
can be."
The other national reporting
prize went to the Miami Herald
staff for its coverage of the Iran-
Contra scandal.
The explanatory journalism
award went to Jeff Lyon and Peter
Gorner of the Chicago Tribune for
a series on gene therapy.
The prize for general news re
porting was awarded to the Akron
Beacon Journal staff for its cover
age of the attempted takeover of
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by
a European financier.
The international award went to
Michael Parks of the Los Angeles
Times for his coverage of South
Africa.
"South Africa is one of the more
difficult countries to cover, given
the present restriction on the
press," said Alvin Shuster, foreign
editor of the Times. "Parks is a
true professional and has provided
our readers with unique insight
into that society," Shuster said.
state news briefs
Dwyer' widow seeks House seat
HARRISBURG (AP) The widow of state Treasurer R. Budd
Dwyer will return to western Pennsylvania and run for a state
House seat, according to a report published yesterday.
The Philadelphia Daily News reported that Joanne Dwyer, 47, of
Hershey, would move home to Meadville, Crawford County, and
seek the seat held by Connie G. Maine, a first-term Democrat.
Reached at home yesterday afternoon, Dwyer declined to discuss
the report. "I have no comment right now," she said, adding she
didn't have time to answer questions,
Man charged in daughter's death
ERIE, Pa.' (AP) Police in Erie filed criminal charges yester
day against a 33-year-old city man who allegedly left his infant
daughter locked in their second-floor apartment, where she died in
a fire.
Magistrate Kay Pohl arraigned William King on charges of
involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and endanger
ing the welfare of a child. She ordered King jailed in lieu of $25,000
cash bond.
A complaint filed by Erie police Det. David. Bradley says King
left his daughter, Marietha King, 6 months, and Taywan Beason, 3,
April 7 in the apartment they shared with the children's mother.
The fire killed the girl. The boy was rescued by passers-by. King
was found in a tavern, and the only exit from the apartment was
locked, police said,
Program simulates acid rain cycle
STATE COLLEGE (AP) A new computer simulation program
developed for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could
allow scientists to track acid rain from smokestack to lake and give
policy-makers more information for setting emission-control stan
dards, project researchers say.
The Acid Deposition Modeling Project is a $5 million research
effort, which began in June 1983, by the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Penn State Universi
ty.
Federal environmental researchers are already working with a
prototype of the project, and should begin full testing on a more
comprehensive model later this year, said Julius Chang, director of
the EPA-funded project at the private research center in Colorado.
nation news briefs
Hinckley denied leave from hospital
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Presidential assailant John W.
Hinckley Jr. lost his chance to leave a mental hospital unescorted
to spend Easter Sunday with his parents following an uproar over
revelations that he corresponded last year with triple-murderer
Theodore Bundy.
St. Elizabeths Hospital withdrew its request for a 12-hour pass for
Hinckley, who was committed to the mental hospital after his 1981
attempt to assassinate President Reagan.
The hospital said it wanted to take a detailed look at documents
taken from Hinckley's room "to assess the clinical significance of
writings and other materials belonging to Mr. Hinckley which were
heretofore unexamined by the hospital staff."
Cancer ranking scale developed
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Scientiks have developed a scale
for ranking the potential hazard to humans of natural and man
made chemicals that cause cancer in animals, a measure they say
takes into account real-life exposure to the substances.
Researchers at the University of California, in Berkeley, said
yesterday that their system which, for example, rates a daily
glass of beer as a greater cancer hazard than some pesticide
pollution is designed to help people assess the dangers of the
many carcinogens they hear about.
Ames, with Renae MaGaw and Lois Swirsky Gold of the universi
ty's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, said their scale rates possible
cancer hazards to people based upon the known potency of a
substance in animals and the likely human exposure over a
lifetime,
FCC votes to up phone line charges
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Federal Communications
Commission voted yesterday to increase the monthly line charge
paid by residential telephone subscribers by $1.50 over the next two
years, beginning with a 60-cent boost in July.
The increase which sets the charge at $3.50 by April 1989 won
unanimous support of the five-member commission as a way to
further reduce long-distance rates and discourage large business
users from leaving the public phone network to build their own
networks.
world news brie s
Tutu defies speech restrition
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Archbishop Desmond
Tutu and 46 fellow Anglican clergymen today defied new restric
tions on anti-apartheid actions and appealed to President P.W.
Botha to free detainees or bring them to trial.
Meanwhile, a judge today set an April 28 hearing on a challenge
to some of the restrictions.
Emergency regulations imposed by police last weekend prohibit
organized appeals or campaigns to release detainees.
"With respect sir, we believe the valid response that law-abiding
citizens should make to these regulations is openly to disobey them
as we are doing now," the clergymen said in an open letter to
Botha. "We do so deliberately and consciously, out of Christian
conscience." •
S. African court overules police ban
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) A court overturned a police
ban on an anti-apartheid meeting shortly before it was scheduled to
start, and the Rev; Allan Boesak went ahead with a speech
denouncing tightened restrictions on dissent.
"This government is a danger to this country," Boesak said. "We
do not let dangerous people run around the streets. . . . Why do we
let criminals into Parliament to do what they want?"
The meeting Wednesday night was sponsored by the United
Democratic Front and attended by about 650 people at Cape Town's
city 'hall.
It had been banned by the regional police commissioner as a
potential threat to public safety. The ban was overturned by a
three-judge panel of the Cape . Town Supreme Court following an
appeal by the United Democratic Front, the country's largest anti
apartheid coalition.
Rev. Moon assaulted in S. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A close confidant of Unification
Church leader the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was pelted with stones
and eggs at a university yesterday by students who called him a
"pro-American flunky," witnesses said.
The witnesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Park
80-hi was unhurt but at least one of his bodyguards was injured. A
young man took off his jacket and put it over Park's head, and Park
was escorted out an hour later.
Park, a retired army lieutenant colonel, was to have spoken at
the privately run Korea University on "Korean Unification."
"We don't like the Unification Church because it is close to the
government," one student said.
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