Show CHEATING OH BENEFITS GAO says some veterans are lying about their incomes Page 3A SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE OGDEN UTAH TAKING A SHINE TO FACETING CONSTRUCTION DOWN Hi IS 87 Richard Glismann has ‘We’re hoping we’ve hit a jewel of a hobby Page ID bottom and will bounce back up Page 6B 1888 50 CENTS Trop movement! criticized Democrats label deployment to Honduras ‘overreaction’ WASHINGTON (AP) — The first of 3200 American infantry and airborne troops flew to Honduras today in the most dramatic show of US force in the Nicaraguan war Senate Democrats said President Reagan was guilty of “overreaction" The White House described the movement as “an emergency deployment readiness exercise triggered by what it called the invasion of Honduras by 1500 to 2000 Nicaraguan forces pursuing Contra rebels six-ye- ar But the Nicaraguan government said again today that its troops had not crossed the border and called on the United Nations and the Organization of American States to “establish what the facts are" Shortly after 7 am two battalions — about 2000 troops — of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg NC flight to began leaving on a three-hoPalmerola Air Force Base in Honduras about 125 miles from the reported ur Those troops and an additional two battalions from the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord Calif due to leave later in the day will be stationed at Palmerola The 2000 men from the 82nd Airborne were “excited" said Lt Gen John W Foss adding “but I would not say they were nervous" Most of the men being ferried on 26 intransport planes leaving at tervals were flying directly to Palmerola See TROOPS on 2A te APStandard-Examine- r graphic ThioEtol disputes report by state By JENNIFER corporation answered ques- PAUL staff tions and discussed its own inSALT LAKE CITY — Mor- vestigation of the MX fire at a press ton Thiokol “vigorously" dis- missile-motagrees with alleged violations conference today at the Ogden of safety standards cited in a Hilton state report released WednesUtah Occupational Safety and Health officials claim Thiday following an investigation of a Dec 29 MX missile-motokol should have followed or fire that killed five workers adopted procedures to miniat the plant said Tom Russell mize time workers spent inside corporate spokesman buildings where propellant is The company didn’t seriouspoured and cured inside MX ly or willfully violate any state missile motors “The UOSH standards state safety standards he said this morning State officials in a workers should do as much as report released Wednesday possible by remote control or propose fining Thiokol for other means to minimize per“willful serious" violations of sonnel exposure" said Doug safety standards McVey UOSH administrator “Those classifications are inThe USOH investigation was supportable in both law and concerned only with violations fact" Russell said “They indiof state safety standards and cate the company knowingly procedures' concerning exploviolated Utah Occupational sive materials The state agenSafety and Health standards" cy didn’t look into the cause of Thiokol disagrees with two the fire Morton Thiokol has 30 days specific citations concerning certain procedures inside the to appeal $31700 in fines levbuildings where MX missile ied for six alleged violations of motors are assembled The See THIOKOL on 2A Standard-Examine- r or or Building at Morton Thiokol’s Brigham City plant is shown after being destroyed by fire M-5- 97 state electricity for Thiokol’s deadly fire Air Force blames statement summarizing the By SCOTT BONTZ Standard-Examine- staff r Discharge of static electricity or friction heat from grit probably caused a Dec 29 missile motor fire that killed five Morton Thiokol workers Air Force investigators said in a report released today “Procedures were poorly written and crew discipline procedural discipline and enforcement of both were poor" said CapL Suzanne Chapman a spokesman at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland She read from a prepared Standard-Examine- staff SALT LAKE CITY — Joii Huntsman a millionaire businessman who recently contributed to Gov Norman Bangerter’s campaign has decided to challenge Bangerter for the Republican nomination State GOP Chairman Craig Moody said today he was surprised at Huntsman’s announcement and the governor said he was shocked Huntsman said Wednesday he decided to enter the race because he didn’t think Bangerter could defeat Democrat Ted Wilson in November Bangerter trails Wilson by 25 percent in the latest poll re- ge port Air Force investigators briefed Utah Rep Wayne Owens Wednesday “They’re trying to piece it together as best they can but there aren’t too many pieces left" said Art Kingdom press secretary Owens a Democrat representing the 2nd Congressional District In a Wednesday briefing for Owens the Air Force investigators also reported the workers violated written procedures by entering a building to remove an internal mold “hard-to-under-sta- Huntsman to challenge Bangerter for GOP nod By PHIL JENSEN 634-pa- Moody said Huntsman has the clout to get out of the June 1 Republican convention and force Bangerter into a primary election in September Huntsman must hold Bangerter to under 70 percent of the delegate votes at the convention to force a primary But Moody said Huntsman’s surprise challenge does not necessarily hurt the party’s prospects cf returning a Republican to the statehouse next year Bangerter disagreed “This will hurt my chances for and it will hurt the Republican Party’s chances" Bangerter said “There are no friendships in politics just coali-Se- e RUN on 2A 10-1- from ah MX missile motor filled with 100000 pounds of volatile solid rocket fuel Kingdom said The removal was supposed to have been done by remote control from another building a guideline set after a previously unpublicized partial ignition of MX motor fuel at Thiokol last May Kingdom added “Obviously the crew people would still be alive" if they had been inside the remote control building he said “They might have been deaf but they’d still be alive" More Kingdom said the Air Force investiga- tion to be released in published form today or Friday found the motor was not properly grounded by wires to dissipate static electrical charges Such charges the result of dissimilar materials rubbing can increase in electrical potential until they are finally released in a spark hot enough to ignite rocket fuel Kingdom said Air Force investigators told him and Owens that electrostatic discharge was the cause of the partial ignition in May warning" Damage in the December fire at Thiokol was great killing four of five workers instantly and blowing building parts more than 100 yards Kingdom said he did not know how many grounding wires were not connected He said investigators reported the See PROBE on 2A charges possible Iran-Cont- ra WASHINGTON (AP) — Independent Counsel Lawrence E Walsh is leaving the door open for further criminal charges in the affair after the indictment of Lt Col Oliver North and three others on charges of “deceitfully exploiting" US weapons sales to Iran The indictment charging that North former national security adviser John Poindexter and two weapons dealers engaged in a criminal conspiracy “is simply an interim report” of the grand jury’s investigation Walsh told reporters “The grand jury is not finished" Walsh said Wednesday after the panel returned the But the only burning was of a normal fuel overflow from the main mass of poured propellant Kingdom said No one was injured He said the incident was “probably a response” to the latest develop- ment in the scandal Iran-Cont- ra en-er- al 23-cou- nt North Hakim aid to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels “by deceitfully and without legal authorization” setting up a clandestine private arms supply network It also says the four conspired indictment against to defraud the government “by North Poindexter and arms deceitfully exploiting for their dealers Albert Hakim and reown purposes and corrupting” tired Air Force Maj Gen Richthe US arms sales to Iran that ard V Sccord were approved by President Grand jurors will continue to Reagan in an attempt to win remeet because “they have unlease of American hostages in completed investigations” Lebanon Walsh said refusing to say if The US government was more criminal charges would be cheated out of its rightful proceeds from the sale of $30 milbrought The indictment charges that lion dollars worth of weaponry the defendants circumvented a to Iran the indictment said statutory ban on US military The government received only th 101-pa- said spokesman Marlin Fitzwater North who was fired from his White House post in No- vember 1986 was named in 16 counts He also was charged with obstructing Attorney C Edwin Meese Ill’s investigation between Nov 21 and 23 1986 by making false statements and destroying National Security Council documents Secord and Hakim were additionally charged with conspiring to pay North illegal gratuities by $200000 agreeing to set up Swiss bank account for the Marine officer’s family and to pay for the installation of a security system at North’s home North was accused of accepting the security system and pocketing $4500 of $90000 in travelers checks he received from a Contra leader to cover expenses of helping the rebels The gratuities were offered to “encourage North to continue in his position" at the White House so Secord and Hakim “would continue to receive opportunities for substantial revenues and profits" from the arms sales the indictment said Secord Poindexter $122 million All four defendants were charged with conspiracy theft of government property and wire fraud stemming from the diversion of arms-sal- e profits to the Contras to Swiss bank accounts controlled by Hakim and Sccord Together these charges carry sentence a maximum and each of the three counts has a potential fine of $250000 25-ye- ar The indictment raises the question of whether Reagan will issue pardons to those charged or convicted as a result of the affair Reagan who has refused to rule out pardons for his former aides “had no Iran-Cont- ra ( t |