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Star-Bulletin' A-4 Tuesday, January 8. 1991 POLICEFIRE From the Seoul: Mi Rha Chang, on chroma harp, Mi Hee Kim, center, and Eun Hee Choi, on mandolin, perform yesterday at Ala Moana Center as part of the Yum Kwang Bobae Singing Mission troupe from South Korea i I "HI. I 1)t: A.t Cratg T. Kojlmo, Stor-Bulietin Chicago-nabbed suspected master forger wanted here Unlocked door proved as jo? tragedy cause By Tim Ryan Star-Bulletin Three months of extensive examlna-! tion of United Airlines Flight 811's cargo door backs up federal investigators' original suspicions that the door opened in flight because it was not completely locked. "The door opened suddenly because it was not fully latched," said Brent Bahler, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board.

"The evidence is conclusive in this regard." Nine people died in the Feb. 24, 1989, accident when they were sucked out of the New Zealand-bound Boeing 747 Jet The cargo door opened at 22,000 feet shortly after takeoff about 100 miles south of Honolulu Airport. The plane was able to return to Honolulu and land safely. The door was recovered in October, 14,100 feet below the ocean surface. Bahler called the door's retrieval an investigator's dream because it allowed hands-on examination.

In April, the NTSB issued a probable i cause findingconcluding that the lock sectors caused the accident by allowing the door to appear closed when it was not They recommended strengthening the sectors. Investigators do not anticipate making any new safety or design recommendations, Bahler said. "They feel the previously adopted recommendations are sufficient to prevent this kind of accident from happening again," he said. But investigators are puzzled because certain mechanisms in the door's locking system were open, while others were locked, Bahler said. Boeing had designed the lock system to be error-free, using hooking pins, latch cams and lock sectors to bind it to the plane's fuselage, Bahler said.

The door first is pulled shut by the hooking pins. Eight C-shaped latch cams then rotate around steel latch pins mounted on the fuselage to lock the door against the aircraft The L-shaped lock sectors then swing over the latch cams to prevent them from rotating open. "The door latch cams were found very close to where we expected to find them: not in the fully latched position. But lock sectors found in the locked position, driven past the fully locked position were not in the condition that investigators had suspected they would be," Bahler said. i The cause of the "back driving" has not been determined although there can only be two reasons: mechanical or electrical failure, Bahler said.

Damage to the latch cams may have occurred when the door hit the water or from lengthy submersion, he said. 1 NTSB officials do not know when their final report will be completed or if human error will be blamed. 1 Investigators are "very close" to com- i pleting mechanical, metallurgical and electrical examinations of the door, i Bahler said. FIrcv.erks kept city firs ty Oahu firefighters responded to a total of 67 fireworks-related alarms on the last day of 1990 and first day of this year that caused an estimated $367,950 in damages. Dlegal aerial fireworks not firecrackers are suspected of doing most of the damage, said Capt Dennis Clement of the Fire Prevention Bureau.

Firefighters responded to 42 fireworks-related alarms on Dec. 31 and 25 calls the following day. The heaviest damage was reported at a twostory house in Kalihi, $175,000, and at a Waipahu home, $155,000. Structural damage in the other cases ranged from $200 to $5,500. There is no ban against importing aerial fireworks in Hawaii but it is illegal for the general public to sell, purchase or use them.

Only licensed pyrotechnicians are allowed to use aerials for public displays. Ewa Czz cf lories A 64-year-old man, struck by a car in Ewa Beach on Dec. 28, died last night at Queen's Hospital. The medical examiner's office identified the victim as Harold Rawlins of Ewa Beach. His death was classified as the 89th traffic fatality of 1990.

Rawlins was walking east on Pohakupuna Road at 7:25 p.m. on Dec. 23 when he was hit by a car going in the same direction. The 35-year-old driver told police he was temporarily blinded by bright lights from a vehicle going in the opposite direction and did not see Rawlins, who was wearing dark shorts and no shirt 7-Elevsa stera KsCtfly rctbsd A 7-Eleven store in the McCuily area was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money this morning by a man who threatened the clerk with a knife. Police said the robbery at 1208 Artesian St.

took place at 1:34 a.m. No injuries were reported. Wehiewa rcsn rested ia fassify flop Charges of first-degree terroristic threatening and abuse of a household member are pending against a 32-year-old Wahiawa man, who threatened to shoot his 33-year-old wife last night during a domestic quarrel. The man was disarmed by another family member after pointing a rifle at his wife, police said. HonFed's KcpfcJsni trench up A robber got away with an undisclosed amount of money from the Kapiolani branch of HonFed Bank yesterday, according to Jim R.

Freeman, special agent in charge of the Honolulu FBI office. The bandit entered the bank at 1283 Kapiolani at about a.m, handed a note to a teller demanding money and threatened to use a weapon. After receiving the money, he ran kokohead on Kapiolani Boulevard, Freeman said. Witnesses described the robber as' 5-feet-6 to 5-feet-8 inches talk 140 pounds; thin; with short black hair. He was wearing a long-sleeved denim jacket, camouflage cap and trousers, and what appeared to be thick prescription glasses.

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 521-1411 or call police. Drunken-driving rests up in 1 CC0 Police arrested 6,579 Oahu motorists in 1990 for drunken driving, an increase of 3.6 percent from 1989. There were fewer arrests, however, during December compared with the previous December. For the month of December, police arrested 461 drivers for driving under the influence as compared to 555 in 1989, according to police statistics. Overall in 1989, 6,349 drivers were arrested for drunken driving, police said.

However, 89 people died in traffic accidents last year as compared to 79 in 1989. Reported by Star-Bulletin staff By Rod Ohlra Star-Bulletin Police may have finally caught up with a master forger, whose list of scams range from cashing fake checks to falsifying court documents. Todd Mueller, 23, was arrested last week in Chicago with another former Oahu Community Correctional Center inmate, 27-year-old Roy Hartsock, for trying to cash stolen checks. Honolulu police had been looking for Mueller on forgery warrants. Forging "Bank of Iowa" checks last year are among the scams Mueller is suspected of pulling off in Hawaii There is no Bank of Iowa and even though the location of the branch was listed as Boise which is in Idaho some fake checks were cashed.

In June 1988, Mueller tried to hang himself at the Halawa Medium Security unit. He had been convicted of first-degree theft in August 1986. Hartsock, meanwhile, is wanted locally for prison escape. In prison for robbery and drug convictions, he was released from Oahu Community Correctional Center last month on orders signed by Circuit Court Judge Marie Milks. It turns out that Milks' signature was forged.

Hartsock was cleared for extradition today and will return to Hawaii to face charges, possibly by this weekend. Mueller is still being held in Chicago. In Chicago, Mueller and Hartsock allegedly tried to cash stolen checks at a bank last week but were refused. They returned a short time later, however, and opened a checking account using the stolen checks, police said. They were arrested after trying to withdraw money from the account.

"It was similar to the kind of scam that was being run down here," said Honolulu police Capt. Louis Souza, head of the property crime detail. Honolulu police have also completed their investigation into cases involving the use of forged court documents and judges' signatures to steal money from the estates of two people who died recently. Mueller is also suspected of using a forged seal of a notary public. ft sleypre fit: Women's colleges still relevant to women, as opposed to coed schools where men command more attention.

The encouragement of leadership. ik, li St a typical year, Wellesley has 18 female physics majors more than many of the best universities. The 50-50 e- malemale faculty ratio. The "old girl network" of alumnae often offers young women practical experience, The special fe By Marry Engle Star-Bulletin Women's colleges are here to stay and still relevant, Nan Keohane Says. She is the 11th president of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, which opened in 1875 to educate both the "calico" and "velvet" girl.

It's an exclusive school, with admission by competition, and 70 percent of the students have financial aid of some kind. Keohane's best source of information is her students, she said last night Keohane is in Hawaii on a fund-raising trip. Many Wellesley women go their junior year and return, "telling chapter and verse why it's so important to go to a women's college. At Wellesley, they like: The way professors pay attention mencement last spring, Keohane said. Many students objected because Mrs.

Bush's main claim to fame is being the wife of President Bush. "By graduation day, the atmosphere was very euphoric, and there was a sense of wholeness," Keohane said. The protesters had made their point, and the other students had let them exercise that right. So, is Keohane Hawaiian? No, that's the married name of the tall, Arkansas-born woman, but her husband isn't Hawaiian either. Keohane is an Irish name, pronounced like a Jewish one, "KO-han, just like George Cohan," she said.

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