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4 J' Afl Astrology Blfl Classified B5 Comics Rift Crossword 1ft Editorials A -A Obituaries A 2 Religion A 4 Sports TV Lops Bl5 I- Honolulu, Hawaii May 10, 1986 54 Pages, Three Sections MOTHER'S DAY Five generations gather in Sunday's Star-Bulletin Advertiser. Faith leaders talk of their mothers. A-5. USA WEEKEND Find out what the class of '86 thinks of its colleges and plans for the future. Also in today's magazine celebrities tell what they like best about their mothers, and Alan Alda talks about his new movie and his acting career.

SPORTS 'Bows beat Wyoming, stay alive in WAC playoffs, face San Diego ogain today. Big league averages. Section B. Oahu 35 Cents Neighbor Islands 40 Cents mmm Gannett Pacific Corp. All Kiyhis olice Release fit? Pi5' Man Arrested in Pesce Prbe wit Deputy City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle and two other deputy prosecutors met with detectives in the task force Thursday before Gay was arrested.

Carlisle was at the police station again yesterday before Gay was released. He declined to comment on any aspect of the case. The same "probable cause" standard is set for police filing charges as for a grand jury issuing an indictment, attorneys agreed. "That's not debatable," acknowledged Deputy Corporation Counsel James Ross. ACCORDING TO the law, police must release a suspect immediately after deciding that the arrest was in error because of lack of sufficient evidence.

"There are specific facts that surround each event and subsequent event" in such cases, said Vanessa Chong, head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii. "It really varies from case to case." Gay was not complaining yesterday as he left the police station at 2:20 p.m. "They had plenty of good Turn to Page A-8, Col. 5 By Mary Adamski and Lee Catterall Star-Bulletin Writers Honolulu detectives released an Ewa Beach man from custody yesterday afternoon, about 10 hours after he was arrested in the investigation into the slaying of Linda Pesce, 36. Howard Andrew Gay, 43.

was booked at the Honolulu police station at 4:40 a.m. While in custody, he talked with members of the special task force of detectives assigned to investigate the April 29 Pesce death and the deaths of four other women. "He was released pending investigation. The investigation is continuing." said Wes Young, police spokesman. BEYOND THAT, police refused to answer all questions about the arrest and the release.

Sources indicated that the city prosecutor's office raised questions about whether there was "probable cause" to make an arrest in the investigation. Legally, police must establish probable cause that a person committed a crime before they make an arrest. SWINGERS A whirling swing is one of many attractions at the Star of the Sea School carnival that runs through tonight. Star-Bulletin Photo by Dennis Oda. NASA Shelved Shuttle Leak Problem Reagan Supports Senate Panel's Tax Revision Bill lem.

We did not recommend that we stop flying." A NASA document released by the commission showed that the O-ring erosion problem indications that hot gases were slipping by the seal and eating it away had occurred on seven flights and posted a "launch 'Well, it's possible to tolerate that, we still have a margin Commissioner Robert Hotz asked Lawrence B. Mulloy, head of Marshall's booster rocket team. Mulloy answered yes, but that he felt the seal would hold. "Wasn't there any time in this history of the flight that you or On Jan. 23, the NASA report noted that studies to improve the seal would continue, but "this problem is considered closed.

Five days later Challenger exploded. as $600 to $900 more income per household each year. Jobs could rise an additional 4 million over that period. In the Democratic response, Rep. Stan Lundine of New York told Reagan, "Democrats are prepared to work with you in a bipartisan spirit to achieve the most significant tax reform in 30 years." "We'll work on a compromise with the Senate so the By W.

Dale Nelson WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan said today the tax revision bill proposed by the Senate Finance Committee is "a giant step forward" that could boost the average family's income by $600 to $900 a year. The president's remarks in his weekly radio address from the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland were would continue, but "this problem is considered closed." Five days later Challenger exploded. there is no signature on the report. Mulloy's removal from his job was announced by NASA late yesterday. MEANWHILE, the failure of a fourth type of U.S.

space vehicle this year has come to light. The Associated Press learned yesterday that a small NASA research rocket misfired April 25 over the U.S. Armv Missile Range in White Sands, N.M. While not an accident of the magnitude of the. Jan.

28 explosion that consumed the space shuttle Challenger, the small Nike Orion had a record of 120 straight successes, a scientist working with NASA said. It followed failures in the formerly reliable NASA Delta and Air Force Titan rockets. Also yesterday, NASA acquiesced to the demand that outside experts be called in for the booster redesign. Sources familiar with the sometimes acrimonious session Turn to Page A-4, Col. 1 By Michael J.

Sniffen WASHINGTON (AP) Five days before the ill-fated Challenger launch, the NASA "problem assessment system" decided to worry no longer about serious leaks in shuttle booster seals and issued a report that said, "This problem is considered closed." Documents and 300 pages of transcript released today by the presidential Challenger commission show that officials at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama accepted proven leaks in the booster's primary O-ring seals because they thought a backup seal would hold. The transcript came from a closed session held by the commission on May 2, when it heard witnesses from Marshall and from Morton Thiokol, which makes the booster rockets. A leak in the right booster is blamed for the explosion that destroyed Challenger and its crew of seven on Jan. 28. "When you experienced more than maximum anticipated O-ring erosion, you waived the flight (constraints) and said, anybody else connnected with the solid rocket booster said, 'We are getting things that are outside our original predictions and shouldn't we take a look at it and stop flying until we've fixed it, or have a better feel for what is actually happening to the Hotz persisted.

SAID MULLOY: "We continually emphasized to the contractor that we need to put more emphasis on resolving this prob- This meant the problem had to be looked at after each flight and recommendations made for the next flight. The worst erosion on a seal, 0.171 jnch, was seen after a Challenger liftoff on April 29, 1985. For four subsequent flights, the record shows, the assessment system said the problem posed "no constraints." On Jan. 23, the report noted that studies to improve the seal President Reagan and his wife could get a more than 20 percent cut in their income taxes if the Senate Finance Committee tax plan became law, the Boston Globe reported today. If a plan recommended by the Senate committee had been in effect last year, the Reagans would have paid $95,478 in taxes instead of the $122,774 they paid for 1985, the newspaper said.

The Globe said it engaged the accounting firm KMG Main Hurd-man to go through the Reagans' tax return, using both the current law and the proposed changes. Hands Across America Team Expects Millions for the Poor final legislation will be an accomplishment which will benefit America. In turn we expect you to work with us to address our disastrous deteriorating trade situation. Two million American workers lost their jobs last year alone due to the imbalance of imports over exports." Meanwhile, Sen. John Warner, told a Business Council meeting in Hot Springs, today that "this strategy to get the tax bill through the Senate is to start it on the day the Senate goes on national television and shows America how the Senate is dealing with the tax bill.

You tell me which senator is going to get up and try to plug a corporate loophole with 80 percent of Americans in the 15 percent tax bracket." HE SAID THE strategy came up when he and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and others "were sitting around in a circle" discussing the situation. Although he said the bill was "not perfect," Reagan did not specify what parts he would like changed. his first detailed discussion of the bill, although administration spokesmen have said he was pleased with it. "The people won," Reagan said, speaking of the Finance Committee's work. "America today stands poised to lift off into a new age of opportunity, powered by one of the most exciting economic changes of my lifetime." He said the bill "will sweep into the trash bins of our past literally scores of unfair, unwise, unproductive tax shelters" and "will make an enormous contribution toward tax fairness." "Of course, this bill is not perfect," he said.

"But several months ago I wrote several members of the House specifying the conditions that must be met for my support. This bill meets those conditions. As far as I am concerned, it is a giant step forward." REAGAN SAID his Council of Economic Advisers had concluded that the bill "is pro-growth and pro-opportunity" and that "added incentives and efficiencies could increase America's growth rate nearly 10 percent over the next decade." "That could mean as much in an interview. "This is an operation designed to make it happen." KENNY ROGERS, Lily Tom-lin. Woody Allen, Bill Cosby and other celebrities have endorsed the event, but Hands America is equally interested in a high school student's efforts to organize his classmates to join the route, Kragen said.

Hands Across America's carefully nurtured non-political image has earned it endorsements from the governors of the 16 states it will traverse as well as from law enforcement and local government officials. The 4.152-mile route begins in Long Beach, and ends at Battery Park on the tip of Manhattan in New York City, passing through 16 states and the District of Columbia. It will cross about 1,400 miles By Richard De Atley LOS ANGELES (AP) Two weeks before 5.4 million volunteers are needed to form a human chain across the (Mainland) United States, the promoters of Hands Across America remain optimistic that the Memorial Day weekend event will raise $50 to $100 million for the nation's hungry and homeless. Ken Kragen, a show business promoter and USA for Africa founder who organized Hands Across America, predicts success for the May 25 event, even if the chain is broken in places. The event's organizers claim that 1.5 million people have already signed up and that momentum is building.

"This isn't a bunch of guys sitting around wishing this is going to happen." Kragen said of Southwestern desert. Those who want to be in the line will pay $10 to $35 for laces as far as 50 miles from ome. Or they can go to hard-to-fill spots such as New Mexico, where organizers estimate the line will need 529,320 people or almost half the state's population of 1.3 million for an unbroken chain. Organizers are counting on volunteer help from transportation companies and car pools to get people in place. PARTICIPANTS ARE supposed to line up, join hands at 3 p.m.

EDT (9 a.m. Hawaii time) on the Sunday before Memorial Day and sing three songs: "America the Beautiful." "We Are the World" and Across America." The whole event will be over in about 15 minutes. Each mile of the route needs 1.300 participants, a fig- Reader ure that staggers many local organizers. "It's really beyond anyone's comprehension." said JoAnn Shafer. town organizer in Cisco, 111.

"They have a feeling that it's not really going to happen. That's my dilemma. I know it's going to happen." Kragen, too, admits the idea Turn to Page A-8, Col. 4. i.