lmmm -- I Sunday's flight C-141 Water Usage Thursday, Oct.12 Guantaanamo Bay 11:05 a.m. 12:55 p.m. NAS Nlorfolk, Va. 3:45 p.m. Storage: 14.16 ML Goal: 825K See page 3 Consumption: 877K I Guantanamo Gazette Vol. 45 -- No. 193 -- U.S. Navy's only shore-based daily iewspaper-- Friday, October 13, 1989 'No deal' for Medellin drug cartel Farmers solving the Iowa jet crash puzzle WIRE REPORT legal protection." WIRE REPORT son Allen's farm. The national transportation The suspected top drug lord of Co- radio reported the drug organiza- Investigators now have all the safety board says a visual inspec- lombia wants to make a deal. tions were continuing their reign pieces of a jig-saw puzzle that tion found a crack on the disk Thirty-nine-year-old Pablo Esco- of terror by gunning down two may help show what went wrong that experts believe existed bar wrote an open letter yesterday to a undercover governmental drug on a United Airlines DC-10 that before the crash. The disk is Colombian newspaper. Escobar, the agents in the town of Cali. South Korea - Six South Korean crashed in Iowa. under the scrutiny of about 40 reputed head of the Medellin cocaine President Virgilio Baroc said students invaded the residence of A discovery on a farm field industry and government experts cartel, said peace can come from a in a statement the government the U.S. ambassador in Seoul early near Alta, Iowa, yesterday com- looking for flaws. Friday. Armed with gasoline dialogue between the government and would continue battling the co- pletes a broken engine part that's bombs, tear-gas canisters, iron the drug dealers. caine cartels and anyone who uses considered the key piece of evi- Finding parts of the plane pipes and paint thinner, they Escobar asked for "physical and violence to try to get their way. shouted anti-American slogans for dence in determining why an en- has become a cash crop in Iowa. an hour before being arrested by gine exploded July 19, severing One farmer says the awards paid South Korean police. Capital gains tax cut hopes dim hydraulic controls. The plane by General Electric produced crashed while trying to land at their best corn WIRE REPORT . Dole of Kansas said last night the harvest ever. Panama - A report says the Bush GOP probably will offer the pro- Sioux City, killing 112 people. Alice and Dale Sorenson col- a Administration is compiling posed cut as an amendment to the Harold Halvorson became the lected $116,000 for part of the policy report to be sent to The Republican party may yet get deficit reduction bill now before second farmer this week to find engine found on their farm Tues- Americans in Panama. It instructs its capital gains tax cut onto the floor of part of a key titanium fan blade them on helping local dissidents the Senate for debate, but it probably the Senate. day. Halvorson's wife, Lucille, topple Noriega in the event of an- will need some Democratic help. disk. Halvorson made the discov- says General Electric promised other insurrection. Senate Republican Leader Robert Please see BUDGET, page 3 ery while harvesting crops on his them a generous reward. A top financial analyst in Panama says the government's drastic new economic policies that suspend bonuses to government Fischer named recipient in national merit program workers and cut back other Corporation, which conducts the Commended Students scored expenditures reflect a dramatic BY JOSN CHRIS CORBIN decline in the country's money competition, was presented to slightly below the level required to supply. The principal of W.T. Sampson Fischer at an assembly Thursday continue in the 1990 competition for High School, Dr. Arnold Watland, mornmg. Merit Scholarships, but they have East Germany - Leading East Ger- announced Thursday -that Lucienne About 35,000 Commended shown exceptional academic prom- man communist party officials and Fischer has been named "Commended Students nationwide are being se. academicians have joined a growing Student in the 1990 National Merit honored for their outstanding per- An official of the Merit Program chorus of calls for dialogue and re- Scholarship Program." formance on the 1988 Preliminary stated that "to be designated a Com- form amid speculation that hard-line Lucienne is the daughter of Mr. and Scholastic Aptitude Test/National mended Student in this extremely leader Erich Honecker may soon Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test competitive program is an attain- retire. Mrs. Jim Fischer of TK housing. Mr. Fischer works as an liberian at W.T. (PSAT/NMSQT), which ranks ment deserving of publicrecognition Soviet Union -- A well-placed Sampson High School and Mrs. Fischer them in the top five percent of and is a credit to these young people source in Moscow says a defect in works at the Family Service Center. more than one million students and their schools. the docking section for a module A letter of Commendation from the who entered the 1990 Merit Pro- addition to the MIR Space Station is school and National Merit Scholarship gram by taking the qualifying test. Please see STUDENT, page 3 Lucienne Fiscrier postponement of its launch by at least 40 days.another setback for Soviet space program. Juniors working hard to aid victims of Hugo By JOC BILL DOUGHERTY students. "I brought it up at the cane hit us (in Guantanamo). "Just think what it would be like meeting and they saw the impor- The students agreed to donate 50 if you hadyour home completely de- of their profits to help relief stroyed," explained Davison. "There USA In an effort to help the victims of tance of donating both money and percent Hurricane Hugo in Puerto Rico, the relief supplies." efforts inPuerto Rico. During the car is so much that you would need. News W.T. Sampson High School junior wash, according to Davison, they That's why we are asking the com- class has planned a car wash from 10 Davison said the news and will be accepting donations of baby munity for both money and relief a.m. to 2 pm., Saturday, Oct. 14. their meeting got the students clothes, disposable diapers, children supplies, we want to help in any way New York - Two thousand resi- thinking about what Hurricane to adult clothing, canned food and we can." dents of Glenville, N.Y., were "I was sort of responsible for get- Hugo did to Puerto Rico and what miscellaneous items that could be of There are 37 students in the W.T. evacuated from their homes ting the students attention," said Bev Thursday night and are waiting in Davison, junior class sponsor for the would have happen had the hurri- use to people in Puerto Rico. Sampson High School junior class. temporary housing while crews clean up a train derailment that leaked a toxic chemical. Live-fire testing critical in Gitmo's defense New York - President Bush went crew protection to realis- for Guantanamo's 1st Lieutenant's gress. The Defense Acquisition BY TIM DOWNEY and intended to New York last night and tic hostile fire, taking into equal office said that during training pilots Board considers the test results. JOSN CHRIS CORBIN plugged an underdog republican consideration the susceptibility to on the Leeward side do live-fire test- The two issues that get substan- candidate for Mayor. Bush called attack and combat performance of ing with their aircraft's. tial attention are vulnerable and le- Rudolph Giuliani "America's Live-fire testing plays acritical part the system," O'Byron said. "For Although there is no actual esti- thality. Vulnerability refers to the greatest crime fighter" and said he in the Defense Acquisition Board's a could bring New York back. munitions, we must be sure they mate on how much live-fire testing potential of the weapon system, say assessment of a weapon system's per- fighting vehicle, to keep on formance under the mile-stone review produce the intended lethality takes place in Guantanamo Bay, Bradley Washington - HUD Secretary process. against appropriate opposing Murrayhas confidence in the pro- fighting after it is hit. Lethalityrefers Kemp ran into flack from members James O'Bryon, director of live- threat vehicles or structures." gram. to the potential to inflict damage on of a house committee. They say fire testing in the Office of Defense Many observers consider live- Reporting to the Undersecretary the enemy. Kemp may be going too far in trying Research and Engineering (Test and fire testing especially important of Defense for Acquisition, O'Bryon "We have a saying in this busi- to reform HUD when he decided Evaluation), testified before Congress because it determines whether a is responsible for examining the re- ness," said O'Bryon, referring to the to chop a popular program.the in March. "Live-fire testing and evalu- system will perform in conditions sults obtained fromrealistic live fire- importance of live-fire testing. community development block an independent "'Better to swear in peace than to grants. ation is planned throughout the devel- similar to those in war time. test. He also writes opment process to ensure that the re- Petty Officer 1st Class Rich- report for the Secretary of Defense bleed in war.' Live-fire testing does Florida - NASA says shuttle tech- sulting production system provides the ard Murray, ordance supervisor and the defense committees of Con- exactly that." nicians at Cape Canaveral are working to replace a faulty computer aboard the shuttle Navy women expanding roles in nation's defense Atlantis.a frustrating repair job that has delayed the space plane's By JOSN LISA M.