Page 10-Tuesday, July 31, 1979-Th Hearin ROSEMONT, III. (AP) - Maintenan- ce procedures blamed for a crack in a DC-10. pylon saved American Airlines about 50 man-hours each time it serviced an engine, a metallurgist testified yesterday at the start of hearings into the nation's worst air disaster. Michael Marx, a metallurgist for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), testified as the board opened a two-week hearing into the crash of Ameriean Airlines Flight 191 onntake- off from Chicago's O'Hare Inter- national Airport May 25. The left engine fell awayas the plane lifted off and the jet plunged to the ground, killing 273 person. A CRACK in the pylon which suppor- ted the engine beneath the wing was caused by the airline's maintenance procedures, Marx said. Marx, whose testimony concurred with earlier NTSB reports, said American's maintenance crews removed both the engine and its pylon as a unit rather than separately. Then, in order to re-attach the engine to the wing, the crew had to force the The said tuberculosis was hopeless. They said polio was hopeless. They said smallpox was hopeless. Cancer is only a disease. Even when most people considered the struggle against polio hopeless, the people who worked in medical research believed they would someday find the answer. The same was true for tuberculosis. And for smallpox. The same is true for cancer We know because we hear from people doing medical research in laboratories all over the country. They talk to us because they all need support. They are all excited because they all think they're on the right track. And that the work they're doing will unlock a secret and lead to asolution for cancer. And you know what? At least one of them is right. But which one? We must support them all. American Cancer Society We want to cure cancer in your lifetime. e Michigan Daily gs begin on DC-1O air disaster connection to fit, making a bend in the DC-10 during its last maintenance told his supervisor about the problem. engine mounting structure which even- check in March admitted that he and HE SAID THAT to his knowledge, a tually led to a crack, he said. other mechanics did not follow exactly representative of McDonnell Douglas BY REMOVING the engine and the the sequence of steps in a work order never observed the removal of the pylon together, American Airlines-was issued by American. engine-pylon unit. able to save about 50 man-hours of time Mechanic William Robinson said the American, however, contended in a on each engine it services, Marx way the company ordered the engine statement to the NTSB that personnel testified. and pylon to be removed could not be from McDonnell Douglas were on hand Later in the day, a Tulsa, Okla.-based followed step by step. He said he per- to observe removal of the units mechanic who worked on the ill-fated formed the tasks out of order, but never together. Milliken says prison report not secret LANSING (UPI) - Gov. William Milliken said yesterday findings of a so-called "secret report" on homosexual assaults within the state prison system have been public record since 1974. "The allegation that the state has in any way suppressed or attempted to hide the findings of a State Police investigation of sexual harrassment and intimidation in our prison system is false," Milliken said of a story in the Detroit Free Press Sun- day. THE ARTICLE charged the foot- thick study substantiates claims that indifference or fear of retaliation keepsguardsfrom repor- ting homosexual attacks on inmates by other prisoners. MIlliken ordered the study in 1974 after Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Gordon Britten refused to return to prison several escapees who said they had been victims of homosexual pressure at Southern Michigan Prison in Jackson. The governor said that a five-page summary of the study was made public, but most details of inter- views with 410 inmates and 160 em- ployees were not released. "THE GUARANTEE of confiden- tiality was important to assure a thorough investigation and to assure the safety of those prisoners and employees willing to cooperate," he said. Milliken said that while names of those interviewed were not revealed in the full report, "enough significant details are included to- allow easy identification of inmates by others in the prison." According to the article, the study summary attempted to minimize the extent of sexual harrassment within the prison system. It charged that the state would accept as homosexual assaults only those in- cidents in which there were wit- nesses. BOST( power li a gener power f about 4( setts an( said. Earlie hour ou ditioner system. weather the prob LIGHT conditioa towns, Power failure hits 400,000 in East ON (AP) - A tree falling on a Massachusetts and Rhode Island with shutting off current across the region. ne and a mechanical failure at Connecticut. STEVENS SAID the breakdowns of ating plant caused a massive About a half hour later, a malfun- the transmission line and power plant ailure yesterday that affected ctioning safety device intended to were coincidental. 00,000 residents of Massachu- guard against excess bearing wear shut "In any given day, we will have a d Rhode Island, utility officials down a large generator at Everett, normal number of breakdowns," he Mass. Within 15 minutes, this loss of said. "Occasionally you get two very r officials had blamed the two- power caused an overload at another serious problems at the same time, and tage on overuse of air con- generator in Somerset, Mass. that's what happened today." s that overloaded the power Because of this sudden loss of power, He said that if air conditioners had However, they later said hot officials of the New England Power Ex- not been running, the power system aggravated, but did not create change, which operates the region's would have been able to operate, lem. electrical network, were forced to begin despite the breakdowns. TS FLICKERED off and air ers died in dozens of cities and including Boston, Worcester, Br w tps c uiu l Mass., and Providence, R.I. Theoutage began at 10:30a.m. As the regional power network began to break down, utilities switched off power to about 15 per cent of their customers to keep the blackout from spreading further. JOHN STEVENS, a vice-president of Boston Edison, said the outage was triggered when a tree fell across a 345,000-volt power line that links 5th Avenue st Libet St. 761-9700 Fornmy Fifth Forum Theater COME MFOR THE OtDY ALLEN DIANE KEATON MICHAEL MURPHY MARIEL HEMINGWAY ENDS MERYL STREEP SOON! NNE BYRNE wed. Sot. Sun. (Adults $1.50 til3:0) 2:30, 4:20, 6:20, 8r10, 10:00 Mon. Tues. Thurs. Fri. (Adults $1.50 til 6:.30)6:-20,8:10, 10:00 into presidential campaign (Continied trom Pages5) definition of exploratory, and so Brown informed the committee. Brown's move toward a challenge to Carter comes at a time when the president is down in the polls. But Brown also facesproblems, not the least of which are the difficulty of challenging a president of his own party and the potential candidacy of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Kennedy says he supports Carter, but active draft-Kennedy movements have sprung up in several states, and the polls show the Massachusetts Democrat easily beating either Brown or Carter. FOR ANOTHER thing, Brown is bet- ter known nationally thai when, he plunged into presidential politics in 1976, a little over a year after starting his first term as governor. That can be a plus, giving him better name recognition, but it can also be a minus. Brown's positions on such volatile issues as abortion, nuclear power, and arms limitation are better known now. In contrast to Carter, he opposes limits on government-funded abortions for poor women, is a strong critic of nuclear power, and opposes Carter's bid to build the MX missile. "Jerry Brown is in a much different position now," says Tom DAlessandro, a Maryland Democratic leader and key Brown supporter in 1976.. "He was .a mystery then, this unique young man from out West who came in on a whirlwind. There was a lot of curiosity about him then. There also was a Republican president. "NOW WE'VE got a Democratic president. People now either like or dislike Jerry Brown. The mystery is gone." However, D'Allessandro says if Brown can do well in an early primary where both Carter's and Kennedy's names are on the ballot, "he's on his way. But if he loses, it's all over." Pollster Lou Harris concluded recen- tly that although it would take a "miracle" for Carter to win the Democratic nomination, his soundings find that Brown is "bombing out" as a challenger. BROWN'S FERVENT, post- Proposition 13 support for spending cuts and a balanced federal budget and his pattern of being liberal on some issues and conservative on others, gives people the feeling he is "very op- portunistic, hypocritical, even unprin- cipled," Harris says. Davis disputes that, saying that while Brown doesn't fit into any political mold, he does have predictable positions on many issues. "When he first came to office, he talked about an era of limits, about not enough cookies in the jar to fund all the programs of the 60s,".Davis said. "He's been very consisteht on fiscal issues.