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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 4, 1978 Russ e. German return from salyut Moscow up two cosmonauts including the first East German spaceman returned to Earth sunday after a week of experiments aboard the salyut space lab the Tass news Agency reported. Tass said cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jaehn landed in the kazakh Stan Republic 86 Miles Southeast of the town of Zez Kazan. Bykovsky the soviet commander and Jaehn an East German were launched aug. 26 aboard the soyuz 31 space ship. They linked up with the manned space j 7 killed in Canadian air crash Vancouver British Columbia a eleven persons nine of them japanese tourists were killed saturday evening when an air West airlines Ltd. Twin engine Otter crashed into Vancouver s Coal har Bor at Stanley Park. The seaplane was carrying 11 tourists and two Crew members when it crashed in a Channel in the Royal Vancouver yacht club Moorage. It did not hit any of the yachts. City police inspector Vic Lake said the two Crew members and nine passengers were killed. He said two of the tourists sur Vived and were hospitalized with undetermined injuries. He said one of the survivors was thrown Clear when the plane crashed and a second was rescued by police divers from an air pocket in the wreckage. No names were released. Broke into two pieces Lake said 10 of the bodies were recovered and one body remained in the plane which broke into two pieces on Impact floated briefly then Sank in about 13 feet of water. An unofficial report said the plane had been chartered by a Japan air lines group but an. Air West spokesman said the plane flight 138 from Victoria was a regular flight that had been booked by a tour group. He would not confirm if Jal was involved. The spokesman said the flight which left Victoria at 5 18 . And was scheduled to arrive Here at 5 48 ., crashed two minutes after it contacted the Harbor Tower for Landing clearance. He said the Pilot gave no indication of problems before the crash and that weather and visibility were excellent. Witnesses said the plane came in Low Over the Trees of Stanley Park veered sharply to the left and went into the water. Award winning reporter Dies Omaha neb. A Don Ringler an award winning farm writer for the Omaha world Herald has died at the age of 51. Ringler who joined the world Herald in 1967, was chosen in March As the National Winner in farm news writing Competition sponsored by the newspaper farm editors of America. Lab the following Day joining cosmonauts Alexander Ivanchenko and Vladimir Kovalenock who have been in space since june 17.bykovsky and Jaehn were the second pair of cosmonauts to visit the space lab since Ivanchenko and Kovalenock moved in. A soyuz 30 Crew including a polish cosmonaut docked with the space station for eight Days in late june returning july 5. Bykovsky and Jaehn returned to Earth aboard the original soyuz 29 spacecraft that took Ivanchenko and Kovalenock into space. During the Mission the four concentrated on photographing Earth. Tass said technological experiments also were carried out to study the effect of weightlessness on the formation of new metallic and nonmetallic materials. Space officials said results of the experiments will make it possible to obtain High Quality crystals and Glass. The flight was part of the program of co operation Between the soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries in space experiments. Jaehn 41, graduated from East Ger Many s military flying school and served in various positions in the East German air Force Tass said. I in 1966, he was sent to the soviet Union f to study at the Gagarin air Force facade my from which he graduated and continued his career As a flight inspector. Bykovsky 44, is a Veteran cosmonaut who made his first flight in 1963 aboard  was commander of the soyuz 22 spaceship in 1976 in an eight Day flight. Many evicted from chairs at Vatican Vatican City up italians and tourists who hoped to get one of the 20,000 chairs set on St. Peter s Square for the investiture of Pope John Paul i sunday were ordered off them several hours before the ceremony by Vatican  people had been sitting on the chairs for hours in the hot Sun in front of St. Peter s Basilica but Ushers told them the chairs were reserved and ordered them to the other Side of barricades hawkers sold folding plastic chairs and Cool drinks to the ejected visitors. Some of the visitors curled up to doze near the Square s fountains and egyptian obelisk. Others crowded into the shakier left Side of the Square that can hold 250,000. An evicted tourist Susan Dashiell 21, a Loyola University student of san Jose Cal if., said at first i was sitting in a seat at the front but then they came and kicked us out. But even this far Back i feel like i m close to something  airman Randy Smith 21, an electronics technician from Union ., based at Brin Disi in Southern Italy said after sitting Emblem of leadership italian Cardinal Pericle Felici places the Wool pallium around the neck of Pope John Paul i during installation ceremonies in St. Peter s Square for the new pontiff. The pallium is a Symbol signifying that the new head of the roman Catholic Church is the True Shepherd of his flock. A photo aussie papers deplore Nixon plan Sydney Australia a several newspapers gave front Page coverage sunday to former president Nixon s apparent decision to visit Australia even though prime minister Malcolm Fraser won t see him. One compared him to a conniving cartoon character. Invited or not Nixon is coming headlined the Sydney morning Herald. " til still visit you says Nixon said the Melbourne  australian government turned Down Nixon s request to meet with Fraser in late september or october because of other commitments but the former presi Dent s chief aide col. Jack Brennan said Nixon was coming anyway on a private visit. In an editorial entitled must you come or. Nixon the Melbourne he Rald said or. Richard Nixon is like a comedy cartoon character not discouraged by disintegration let alone by conventional Rebuff. The foul Aroma of watergate and the disgrace of resignation from the presidency of the United states appear to have left his ego and ambitions  the paper noted that while Nixon was quoted As saying he had great admiration for Australia his recent memoirs of Over 1,000 pages gave Only eight lines to his 1953 visit Here As vice president. The suspicion must be that or. Nixon wishes to use us the editorial said. The australian government does not want Hamas a vip. He cannot be prevented from coming As a private person but it would be better if he stayed  More than four hours under a broiling Sun i m getting More and More excited about j being Here. At first i could not have cared less about seeing the Pope but now i feel like f m really in on something  i fellow airman Arthur Barnes 25, of \ Long Beach calif., said he had come to the � ceremony at his wife s orders. I she s Catholic and she s been trying to i convert  Barnes said. I figured this j was As Good a Way As any to find out what the religion is All about. I la have to take Alp lot of pictures so Shell believe i was  Carter prays for Success in quest for peace Washington up president Ter on the eve of his departure for the Camp David Summit on the Middle East prayed sunday for participants to be without selfishness and personal Pride in the quest for peace. Carter s extemporaneous prayer at the close of the sunday school lesson at the first Baptist Church touched on this week s Summit without mentioning israeli prime minister Menachem begin or egyptian president Anwar Sadat. But the Mes Sage was Clear. Let every heart involved be cleansed of selfishness and personal Pride the presi Dent said. Carter also attended a special service o Christian jewish and moslem Praye reminiscent of a service held last Nover Ber when Sadat journeyed to Israel to i Nite world Hopes for a peace Accord to a 30 years of on again off again conflict. The Summit at the presidential rear in the Maryland mountains begin wednesday is a dramatic Effort Bjo Carter to revive the momentum toward peace that has steadily waned since the euphoria of late 1977. Carter was scheduled to Fly by helicopter monday from the White House to Camp David. 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