European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1978 Russ space Crews conduct tests Moscow a four soviet cosmonauts carried out a full and varied program of scientific and technical experiments aboard an orbiting space lab thursday after the first linkup of three spaceships in Tass the soviet news Agency said the Fourman experiments would continue for five then the cosmonauts who arrived aboard the station wednesday would return to Earth with mail from their comrades and scientific it was not known How Long the two other cosmonauts would stay they have been in space 33 and Western space experts in Moscow said now that their sup plies have been they might try to break the soviet endurance record of 61 Days in space or the record of 84 Tass said the workday for the four men began at 8 the program of the Day includes medical and biological technical preventive inspection and checkups of individual aboard systems of the station and the movie and still photography and television report Tass the report said the equipment aboard the space Complex was functioning conditions close to those on Earth were being and the cosmonauts Are feeling the program of work in the terrestrial orbit is being implemented Tass the linkup occurred wednesday when the woman soyuz 27 capsule docked with the salyut 26 where two cosmonauts sent up a month ago aboard soyuz26awaitcd it was the first time two space capsules were connected with the same space the smiling newcomers brought mail and newspapers to the then All four drank a Cherry juice Toast squeezed from Small telecasts beamed to Earth the soviets did not say where the linkup occurred in relation to the but a television diagram of the procedure appeared to show it taking place Over the soviet the newcomers Are commander Vladimir a 35yearold air Force lieutenant colonel on his first space and Hight Engineer Oreg a 45yearold civilian and space waiting for them were commander Yuri Romanenko and Georgy who were fired aloft aboard soyuz 26 on Iff and docked the next Day with salyut Greshko took a space walk 20 to determine whether an abortive Docking try by soyuz 25 two months earlier had damaged the ports of salyut he said the ports of the space Laun Ched were in Good the space cation is the first soviet one to have ports capable of handling More than one space capsule at a three american skylab missions in 19734 involved a station that could handle three but Only one at a time soviet commentators say they envision colonies of space linked together As the wave of the future in space american held by israelis a grief stricken track Driver hides us face in hand in horror after his truck horror on the Highway car collided on Highway in new Foury Earold Eddie Webster i burned to death in the a Jerusalem up an american student whose family lives in the occupied West Bank town of Tlam Allah is being held by israeli authorities on suspicion of con tact with an Arab guerrilla his sister Sami a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Michigan state was arrested 21 at Ben Gurion Airport when he came to visit his dying said the Basima he had a Christmas vacation and our father was dying so we called him to miss Esmail said in a Telephone in the charges against her brother have not been he is being defended by Felicia the attorney who represented Terry Fly Jan a 23yearold former Texas coed us tended last week to five years in jail Orist who Andrews girl papers keep guessing London up Prince Andrews real Girlfriend is Blond american sue bar the daily express said quoted fellow students at the Gordonstown school in and s me year old sue ranks on tour with Andrus mandate jeered by farm strikers great up vice president Walter Mondale was greeted in two Western cities wednesday by farm strike picketers carrying signs calling him and two Cabinet secretaries Carters comedy team and telling them to go three who swung from grand june to great in his Lour of the West with agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland and Interior Secretary Cecil Annu admitted at a meeting with about 250 Montana Farmers that the administrations farm Bill and other actions dont get an Joyce of Teton county called the administration farm at Best planned poverty and at worst in a great Falls agricultural conference with Bergland and she called for 100 percent of parity on farm prices and for a halt to farm imports until such parity is As Bergland drove from the Airport to the trucks lined the Roadway for a Quarter of a some signs demanded his resignation and another said Mondale go Home we can find our own another sign said dying Farmers Are sick of floury in grand 20 Farmers gave Mon Dale a bumper sticker saying crime pays better than farming strike they parked a dozen tractors across from a convention Hall where Mondale held a town meeting to discuss water and other issues with Community a Colorado Farmer told Mondale the Carter administration has made him ashamed to Bea Montana Farmers complained about beef imports and called for formation of an inter National group for regulating wheat and other Mack of the Montana farm complained about the appointment of former consumer advocate Carol Foreman As assistant Secretary of saying she represents the con rather than the said he recommended her and that in 27 years As a he considered the consumer my customer the person who uses those things we h express w Enes that Andrew took sue to meet the Queen during the Holiday but she1 been kept a secret up to special grand jury asked to probe supper club fire Louis Ball said that a
