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Skylah life: Shrimp, stereo and jury -rigging Trouble for the Skylab started early. Congress was on an economy kick, and the space station had to be assembled out of parts left over from other missions. In an editorial, the New York Times noted that the station had been created on a shoestring, "out of existing bits and pieces of available equipment." The Saturn 5 rocket used to launch the station in space, a duplicate of the rockets usel for the moon shots, was at least six years old. Associated Press science writer Al Rossiter, who covered Skylab from its first launching, said cornpo-nents of the space station included a rocket stage "taken off an assembly line," a converted hydrogen tank, leftover rockets and equipment left over from an airlock module. The project malfunctioned from the start.

But even before the first rocket went off, there were problems. A newly-organized union of tracking station employees went on a 13-day strike. It ended May 9, just five days before the scheduled blastoff. The first shot, unmanned, launched the space station into orbit 294 miles above the earth. The shot was a partial disaster.

Thirty seconds after takeoff, an aluminum asteroid shield, designed to protect the craft from space debris and the rays of the sun, ripped off. At the same time, a solar wing needed to develop (Continued on A-4, column 1) Third of five parts By LEONARD METZ Sun Staff Writer Aboard the Skylab space station, the astronauts dined on steak, lobster and shrimp. They wore $2,000 outfits of gold-colored fabric that were discarded after only one week of wear. They had private bedrooms and a shower bath. They had two-way communications with earth, and they had a stereo set, playing cards, books and a dart game to keep them from becoming bored between assignments.

Freed from the constraints of gravity, they grew an inch in height. But they also had to spend time in airless space plying crowbars, poles, wire cutters and battery the 'sky'lab is falling jumper cables to get Skylab operating properly and keep it liveable. They brought pets with them two common garden spiders named Anita and Arabella, six pocket mice, two minnows and 50 minnow eggs, and an assortment of insects. There were nine spacemen, occupying the spacecraft three at a time. Each crew had different tasks, and each experienced different problems in space.

city final high cloudiness weather details on A-2 20 Cents A Gannett Newspaper Serving the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, California 4 Copyright 1979, The Sun Co. nmmiMwmumiHMiam Tuesday, June 26, 1979 trmsent nuke rules PJLi i DroDosec meet the new standards, Mattson said. The "Three Mile Island Lessons Learned" task force, comprised of 22 members, also called for creation of senior "commanders" to be assigned to the control rooms of nuclear reactors 24 hours a day. Currently, the senior official can 5 ft SWA. SU tf's (Continued on A-3, column 1) Srd-Ward recount ordered iiiiSi.i'C;, 3W i J.

Ai'ijt AP wiraphoto Soldiers look over the damaged car in which small bridge in Obourg, Belgium Monday. The guards for NATO commander Gen. Alexander guards' car was following Haig car. Haig was Haig were riding when a bomb exploded on a not hurt, but the guards were slightly injured. Blast nearly gets NA TO chief WASHINGTON (AP) A Nuclear Regulatory Commmission task force responding to the Three Mile Island accident proposed on Monday the immediate shutdown of any reactor that violates stringent safety procedures.

Dr. Roger Mattson, an NRC official, said about 30 incidents a year now take place nationwide that would require such shut-downs under new safety guidelines proposed by the task force. lold jha. five-member that the financial penalty of a shutdown between $300,000 and $600,000 a day would force corporate officials to concentrate more on reactor reliability and quality control. "We feel there needs to be recognition of the severity of (safety) violations," he said.

A plant would remain closed until senior utility officials discover the cause of safety problems, present solutions directly to the NRC and obtain commission approval to reopen, Mattson said. The task force also recommended about 20 design and test changes that would cost utilities millions of dollars per reactor. The shutdown recommendation and all but two of the design changes could go into effect without the commissioners' approval as early as July 1, Mattson said. Some specific steps could be implemented within weeks, while others would take up to IV2 years, Mattson said. Actual cost of the safety changes was not immediately calculated, but Mattson and several other NRC officials estimated they would average in the millions of dollars per plant.

About 70 nuclear plants currently are operating, while six others are expected to obtain operating licenses this year. Those now on line would have to be altered to By ALAN ASHBY Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Luther T. Fair's court challenge of Ralph Hernandez' 3rd Ward city council victory will begin with a recount of the election, a judge ruled Monday. Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Morris, noting that both sides claimed in court documents that there were irregularities in the election process, granted Fair's request for a recount.

Fair is to pay the expense. The judge appointed County Registrar of Voters William H. Clinton as a Special Master to supervise the recount, which will be conducted by Clinton and members of his staff. Attorneys for both sides agreed on Clinton's appointment. The recount began Monday afternoon and is expected to be concluded by this evening.

At Clinton's request, City Clerk Shauna Clark also is present during the (Continued on A-3, column 1) crashing down, they said. Haig told reporters his Mercedes 600 was lifted off the ground by the blast. "Huge pieces of the roadway were falling like rain," he said. He jumped out of his car to see whether there were any explosives beneath it. But a policeman from the trailing car, lying injured on the ground, motioned to him to move away, Haig said.

Two Belgian policemen and a U.S. Army guard in that auto were slightly injured, treated at a hospital and released. Haig and the two other men in his car his driver and a guard were unharmed. The trunk and exhaust of Haig's car were damaged. The third the file, was not affected.

The general estimated the explosive device must have weighed between 100 and 300 pounds. Haig's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe said they had no firm leads. Haig, who served as Richard M. Nixon's White House chief of staff, is often mentioned as a possible 1980 Republican presidential candidate. Police said the bomb attack occurred soon after the general, in a three-Mercedes entourage, left his home in nearby Obourg for his office at the SHAPE in this southern Belgian town.

As the automobiles crossed a small, narrow bridge over a ravine at about 8:30 a.m., an explosion blasted an eight-foot hole in the pavement between Haig's car and the following car of security men, police reported. The trailing car was almost blown off the roadway and its roof was crushed by pieces of. concrete CASTEAU, Belgium (AP) Mysterious terrorists exploded a remote-controlled bomb under a country bridge Monday as Gen. Alexander M. Haig's limousine rolled over it, slightly injuring three of his guards but leaving the supreme NATO commander unscathed.

The bombers' timing was off by a split second in the apparent assassination bid. The detonation came just a moment after Haig's Mercedes-Benz passed over the device. The 55-year-old American general, scheduled to retire this Friday, told reporters later he believes he has been targeted for death by a "specific" terrorist organization. He did not name the group. No one claimed responsibility for the attack immediately, and police investigators and officials at Out-of-work actress (age 2) CadwelPs death cause is clouded Police said the mine was wedged between the undersurface of the bridge and a culvert covering a conveyor belt that runs below the bridge.

Wires from the bomb ran alongside the road coming off the bridge, then underground to a detonator 550 feet away. Next to the detonator police found a construction worker's hardhat and a walkie-talkie radio. Asked whether he thought he would have been killed if the mine exploded a split second earlier, Haig said, "Yes, I think so." "It is obvious that whoever did it was trying to kill Haig," a Belgian police spokesman said. "He or they almost succeeded." A source at SHAPE said the general normally uses "three to seven routes to work." Haig said his limousine is not armor-plated. "Today's incident had a very fortunate outcome," Haig said at the news conference.

"But it also served as a very sober reminder to all of us that these terrorist forces are strong today." He said there had been indications over the past year that terrorists were plotting to kill him. "I felt I was the specific target of a specific organization," he said. The SHAPE chief, who was an infantry brigade commander during the Vietnam War, managed to maintain his humor after the frightening experience, quipping to reporters, "They say when you get through Monday morning, the rest of the week is easy. So I am optimistic." index (Two News Sections) Bridge A12 Business A18-19 Classified Bll-18 Comics A16 Crossword A12 Editorial B6 Living Metro B15 Obituaries B4 Sports B711 TV-Theater A14-15 Vital Records Bll can't collect unemployment said. "We don't keep tabs.

We just don't keep records on that. It would be discriminatory." "As a ballpark figure," Rinehart said, "I would say we have maybe 20 children under 18 who have qualified," and an equal number whose applications have been rejected. An individual must be at least a year old to collect the benefits, which are based on earnings throughout an entire year. Elizabeth's application was rejected because she had not worked enough days, the supervisor said. According to regulations, she added, applicants must work long enough developing a skill during 12 previous months to make it likely they would be hired again.

Elizabeth, who began her career at 9 months and shot her last commercial eight months ago, didn't meet this qualification, Rinehart said. "On the average, we figure they should have a minimum of 15 days (of work during the base year) to show an attachment to the labor market," he said. Elizabeth's mother, Judith King of Los Angeles, said she would appeal. and then inhaled fireworks that is a possible sequence of events." The issue was further clouded when Cadwell's private physician said the man had had at least three prior asthma attacks for no apparent reason and that each was serious enough to require immediate hospitalization. An autopsy report previously prepared by Scott determined Cadwell had died from an acute asthmatic attack induced by the inhalation of pulmonary irritants.

These irritants were described by police as chemicals "identical" to the contents of two fireworks found near the body. Police have said the fireworks were tossed into the enclosed, rear porch of Cadwell's home at 722 Alvarado Street during a neighborhood teenage party. As a result, two teenage boys (Continued on A-3, column 5) By KATHY REBELLO-REES Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Fireworks previously believed to have been the primary cause in the death of an elderly Redlands man may not have necessarily triggered the acute asthmatic attack that killed him, a pathologist testified Monday. Testimony given by Dr. Harry Wayne Scott added an element of doubt about what killed Raymond Cadwell, 64, a member of an early Redlands family who died March 16.

Scott said the attack was "brought on by inhaling an irritant. That irritant was compatible with the history (that) he had been exposed to fireworks-type apparatus." But in the next breath the pathologist added, "Had Mr. Cadwell been having a spontaneous attack for some other reason HOLLYWOOD (AP) Many parents have sought unemployment benefits for their actor children, state Employment Development Department officials said Monday after denying 2-year-old Elizabeth Alexandra King's claim. Admittedly the toddling, lollipop-licking veteran of three Fischer-Price Toys commercials was a bit young to stand in an unemployment line. But Cliff Rinehart, assistant manager at the Hollywood EDD office, said she's not the youngest out-of-work actor seen there.

"It's not unusual," said Rinehart. "We've had younger ones. I can remember having at my desk someone who was about IVi years old, with a parent." "We've had babes in arms coming in to file claims, or whose parents want to file claims for them," said one supervisor, who asked that her name not be used. No precise figures are available on how many little ones seek unemployment benefits. EDD spokeswoman Gera Curry said the phenomenon is "indigenous to just the (film) industry," since children are rarely employed in other fields.

"We don't ask people for their age," Ms. Curry.