Sunday, July 25. I W), THL DAILY HliRAt.I), Frovo, Utah NATIONWORLD Protesters demand Shuttle commander too busy for history U.S. leave By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer island By MANUEL ERNESTO RIVERA ' ' Associated Press Writer ? VIEQUES, Puerto Rico Waving white flags and handing bags of soil to a Pentagon delegation, hundreds of pro- testers demanded Saturday that the U.S. Navy stop its war games on an inhabited Puerto Rjcan island. f. Demonstrators chanted as the delegation created on orders of President Clinton visited Vieques, where a civilian security guard was killed in a Navy bombing accident April 19. Hi 3 m mm m 1 RAMON KOKFF The AsxKialed Press War games: An unidentified demonstrator holds a salvaged piece of munition during a protest outside of the Vieques City Hall in Puerto Rico, as a panel on U.S. military operations in Vieques meets inside, Saturday. when two bombs dropped by an fighter missed their target and struck an observation post inside a Navy bombing range F-1- 8 "Don't lose hope!" Manuela "Santiago, mayor of this island off eastern Puerto Rico, urged the noisy crowd, which waved Puerto Rican flags and banners as the commission held hearings into the controversy. His death galvanized years of resentment over the Navy exercises in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory where residents have long complained they are often U.S. cittreated as second-clas- David Sanes Rodriguez, a Navy employee, was killed The Navy insists its bombing range is the only place where on Vieques. s izens. its Atlantic fleet air, land and sea forces can train simultaneously with live munitions. The Pentagon panel is to determine whether alternatives exist. On Saturday, panel members visited the pockmarked range and heard testimony from Vieques residents at the island's city hall. Santiago and activist Miriam Soba presented them with bags of soil, urging them to allow Vieques "to live in peace." Santiago testified that the Navy had failed to live up to a 1983 agreement in which it pledged to promote the island's economic development. Vieques' unemployment rate is close to 50 percent. "We, the people of Vieques, firmly believe in the concept and idea of a common national defense but never at the cost of our human and civil rights," Santiago said, drawing cheers from the crowd listening outside. Clinton says GOP tax cuts will hurt nation ! : ASPEN, Colo. (AP) President Clinton, mingling with Democratic described the donors, Republicans' plan in doomsday terms Saturday, saying it would "imperil the future stability of the country." "It doesn't make sense," Clinton said in his weekly radio address, asserting that the GOP program would soak up big-mone- y tax-cuttin- g money needed to fix Social Security, Medicare and other social programs. In reply, a top Republican praised the $792 billion tax cut passed last week as returning surplus federal money to the people to keep it from being spent in Washington. Clinton arrived early Saturday morning in this swank resort town of million-dolla- r vacation homes for what was supposed to be a leisurely weekend of hobnobbing with contributors who gave at least $50,000 to the Democratic Party. But the president decided to cut the Colorado weekend short compressing two days of schmoozing into about five hours to fly overnight to Morocco for Sunday's funeral of King Hassan II. He was to be accompanied by his wife, Hillary. The president praised Hassan as "a great friend of the peace process" and a personal friend. Hassan, who helped forge Middle East peace and ruled Morocco for 38 years, died Friday of a heart attack at age 70. He was succeeded by his Sidi son, Crown Prince Mohamed. Despite warning, hijacker won When a (AP) young man who longed to fly warned authorities about a security loophole at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, they TOKYO troubled took - Page A5 it seriously, officials said Saturday. But all their consultations, and a change or two, weren't enough. The man put his theory to the test just over a month later, hews reports said, when he kitchen smuggled an knife aboard a jumbo jet, killed the pilot and took the helm himself. Yuji suspect Hijacking Nishizawa, 28, pointed out security flaws at Japanese airthe in a letter ports Ministry Transportation received on June 21, ministry pfficial Masanori Gennai said. Representatives from the ministry, airports and airlines discussed it and determined that they needed to take said another minAtsushi Sugiyama. istry official, Nishizawa also repeatedly ,. ," phoned the security company responsible for Tokyo's Haneda Airport to demand it increase its staff and employ him as a guard, Gennai said. In his letters, also sent to airport officials and the Kyodo News agency, he described a scenario to smuggle a weapon onto a plane, national broadcaster NHK said. Police and airline officials refused to confirm the reports on how Nishizawa managed on Friday to smuggle the knife aboard All Nippon Airways Flight 61 at Haneda, saying they were still investigating. But if he followed the scenario outlined in the letter, he collected a knife at Haneda from a bag he had checked earlier that day when he flew from Osaka to Tokyo. There was no security checkpoint between the baggage-claiarea and the for lounge departure Nishizawa's flight to the northern city of Sapporo. After receiving Nishizawa's letter, officials had ordered air "I couldn't have asked for a better Fla. -- CAPE CANAVERAL, The first weman to command an American rocketship, Eileen Collins, has been so busy in orbit she hasn't had time to think about her new spot in space history. "I guess I'll have to worry about history a little bit later," Collins said Saturday from space shuttle Columbia. "I'm just happy that we pulled this mission off. We still have a few more days, so the pressure isn't off yet." The Air Force colonel said she was "extremely happy" when she and her crew reached orbit Friday, but even happier when they sent the $1.5 billion Chandrar Observatory on its voyage to search for black holes and peer at galaxies, quasars and exploded stars. As a longtime astronomy buff, Collins said, "I couldn't have asked for a better misy five-yea- sion." Chandra, now flying up to tens of thousands of miles than Columbia, higher remained in excellent shape. The first of five engine firings, needed to put the world's most powerful y telescope in an orbit extending one-thir- d of the way to the moon, was per? formed late successfully Saturday. In typical test pilot fashion, Collins downplayed the electrical problem that occurred five seconds after Columbia blasted off. A momentary short circuit knocked out the prime controllers on two of the shuttle's three main engines; backup controllers immediately kicked in. saw the flashing Collins mission. Eileen Collins, astronaut warning light in the cockpit and knew something was wrong. After being notified it was an electrical short, she felt "very confident" because she had practiced before the flight for just such a problem. If another electrical system had shorted out, an engine could have shut down, Collins said. And that would have meant an emergency landing, something never attempted in 18 years of space shuttle flight. NASA has yet to determine what caused the short. Nevertheless, it is expected to have no impact on the rest of the shuttle flight, said director of misStone, Randy sion operations. Engineers also are perplexed over the slightly premature cutoff of the main engines following liftoff, which left Columbia seven miles short of its intended orbit. They initially suspected an inadequate load of liquid oxygen, but now they're not so sure. With Chandra on its own, the astronauts used a small ultraviolet telescope to observe other planets, tended to plant experiments, and practiced shuttle maneuvers to be used misduring a sion in September. Collins took time out for TV as did Cady interviews, Coleman, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who prepared Chandra for release and pushed the ejection button. five-da- y radar-mappin- iiRWitiiiiffitfiiim g ursine port guards to stop suspicious-lookinpeople in that area, and they were considering changing the layout and adding a metal detector, Sugiyama said. g Nishizawa, a fan of flight sim- ulation games, was tackled by cabin crew after he took control of the Boeing 747. The jet returned safely to Haneda, and none of the lf A 7lh 503 passengers was injured. The suspect, who suffered from depression and told police he wanted to fly a real plane, was arrested shortly after the jet landed. There have been 20 hijackings in Japan since 1970. Friday's was the first to result in a killing. Pilot Naoyuki Nagashima, 51, bled to death before the plane touched ground. His body was taken to his home for a wake on Saturday. The attack led to tightened security at airports around Japan, ANA spokeswoman Hidemi Hayashi said. The measures so far have not caused any flight delays. 'WD Amtrak train partially derails at New York station RENSSELAER, N.Y. (AP) An Amtrak passenger train derailed as it approached a train station Saturday afternoon, injuring 16 people on board, officials said. Three cars slipped off the tracks when the train slammed into another train it was partially -- , attempting to hook up with, witnesses said. Twelve passengers and four members of crew the "Lakeshore Limited" were taken to local hospitals. None appeared to be seriously injured, according to John of Brennan, superintendent train operations for Empire and of Albany Rensselaer, a division of Amtrak. A witness said the train, which was coming in from Chicago and bound for Boston, was going too fast when it collided with the second train at about 5:30 p.m. Services Si lift li Ml' C I i--i At ' i 0 n 9 1 : I III Plane hits mountain in Fiji; 17 dead SUVA, Fiji (AP) A plane Air Fiji's chief executive Ken trashed into a mountain in a McDonald said there were 15 gemote area of the Pacific passengers and two crew on tourist island of Fiji Saturday, board. The victims included five killing all 17 people on board. Air Fiji The Brazilian-buil- t Bandeirante went down in rugged jungle near Nasevou village on Fiji's main island of Viti Levu, about 40 miles northwest of the capital, Suva, police operations director Jahir Khan said. , POOR COPY HI i nvt mm Australians, one Japanese, one Chinese, one from New Zealand and nine from Fiji, officials said. The plane crashed about 15 minutes after taking off from the regional Nausori Airport. 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