European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes february 1981 coun Cape up the countdown was under Way tuesday for a 20sccond test firing thursday designed to prove the space shuttles troubles arc Over and the Columbia is ready for flight in engineers began the trial countdown at est monday after bypassing a Las minute stumbling a faulty electrical unit that for a while threatened a fou Day the Start of the exercise already had been set Back three times and another delay would have led to yet another postponement in the initial Orbital flight of the winged unmanned test firing of Columbia rocket plane will put space shuttle on target Tor launch the Columbia is targeted for launch april although officials say a delay to mid april is the flight is More than two years behind astronauts John Young and Robert who have been training for the Mission for three will be among the spectators at the Kennedy space Center when the shuttles three main engines Roar into the which will be unmanned for the will remain locked to the Launchpad for the firing but will operate As if it were heading toward the exercise will serve As a substitute for the unmanned test flights that previous rockets underwent before being committed to manned the problem that developed sunday involved one of two units that Supply electricity to one of two computers controlling each the device was supplying about half the voltage a marginal an identical was working nor Mally and officials decided to rely on it for the test if the primary unit should fail during the firing and the secondary system does not Supply enough the engine will shut Down space Agency officials the shuttles propulsion system is the most advanced yet designed by the United the engines computers Monitor All Power Plant operations so times a if such measurements As temperatures and pressures become which would be a possible indication of an Immi nent the computers would shut Down the engine before it endangered the space the three engines Are to operate for minutes to push the shuttle into the ship would be Able to achieve orbit with one engine out in some if it could reach its pilots would be Able to turn around and Glide to an Emer gency pole Confer students Union gets of from press dispatches Warsaw communist party Leader Stanislaw Kania met his East German Erich near East Berlin on tuesday to discuss Poland new government Kania also assured Hon Cockcr that the party could solve to lands labor the official news Agency Pap the Surprise Kanias second with an East bloc Leader this came As new Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski met a five member delegation of Lodz University students in Warsaw in an Effort to halt a student strike spreading across the meeting ended with the government recognizing an Independent students settling the main Issue of the strike movement that had spread to 20 universities and higher education institutions during the Day and threatened a new Chal Lenge to its the meeting of Rakowski and the delegation brought agreement on the unions status after 316 hours of discussion of the students the higher education Janusz who joined the session part Way told reporters afterwards that the students accepted our he said the students agreed to acknowledge the Paramount authority of the communist parly in the Union charter and to accept rules requiring a majority vote of members for today we will probably Register the students he the signing of the agreement will be a spokesman at student Headquarters in Lodz confirmed agreement Between the two but he said he had no any details on the there has been a lot of confusion Here since we heard from the spokes Man for the agreement on the Union meant easing of the major remain ing disturbance marring an atmosphere of detente with activist groups that has come since last weeks naming of prime min ister Wojciech Jaruzelski to head the gov on tuesday the student strike that had entered in Lodz since 21 had spread to a dozen cities and had threatened to become private Farmers in Rzeszot expressed optimism that an agreement ending their seven week strike for agricultural reforms would be signed wednesday and said they would Shelve demands for an Independent Union and pay and pension peasants and Independent Farmers continued a Satin now in its sixth week at the Headquarters of a government Union in but negotiations appeared to be going smoothly on the list of their de until the situation was eased by the student strikes were the major Challenge to the authority of the six Darold government of who has asked for a strike free honeymoon to give him time to tackle the nations Dollar drops slightly Gold has moderate gain London up the Dollar tuesday fell slightly on european exchanges with traders opting for Short term profits on the eve of president reagans statement on the american Gold had a moderate closing in London up from mondays in Gold fetched against a previous close of a gain of Gold staged a moderate rally following the decline in the one Bullion dealer business was fairly the British Pound sold for opposed to mondays Price of a for eign Exchange dealer for Barclays Bank International said the Market was a Little nervous for the Dollar in front of reagans speech he also said the in step with a decline in eurodollar Deposit met appreciable in where the Dollar closed at Marks against mondays a West German banker said Quick Selling was prompted by a feeling that the american currency was theres been a certain he when the Dollar went Way Down in 1977 and that was soviet expert Levine Dies a Isaac Don be Russia born writer and authority on soviet died at the age of his books include his eyewitness to and the russian revolt its gone Back up and its getting Over valued in the same exaggerated in the Dollar closed at Swiss Down from in the currency closed at against a previous close of the Dollar closed Down in belgian francs against in the Dollar fell to from a previous close of americans travelling and residing in Europe enjoyed the dollars sudden but stockbrokers in London earlier tuesday warned the state of the Economy provided a sober backdrop to the rapid Progress of the currency Over the last few temperatures Rock Angeles Beach Paul York Orleans City Louis Petersburg Diego Francisco news update britons May be tried new Delhi a there Are no special conditions for release of the four britons held in but they May be tried As nonpolitical a top aide of revolutionary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said Here they shall be tried in our courts according to the Laws prevailing in our country and according to our cons Titu but if the government and the peo ple decide to condone their crimes and forgive they shall be Ayatollah synd a a member of Iran supreme Council of said at a news when pressed As to whether or not the four definitely would be placed on he said we cannot anticipate that with any the four British nationals held since last August Are anglican medical missionaries John Coleman and his both Jean Secretary to the no exiled anglican Bishop of and businessman an Drew a helicopter company Pacific balloon hop Tokyo a american transatlantic balloonist Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman and two others plan to take off around March 1 in an attempted Maiden balloon voyage across the pacify the team said and who with Maxie Anderson became the first men to Cross the Atlantic in the double Eagle ii in August will be joined by japanese entrepreneur Rocky and american balloonist Ron when the double Eagle v lifts off from the Nagashima hot Springs in Cen trial Anderson and fellow american balloonist Don Ida made an unscheduled Landing in Northern India end ing an attempt to make the first non Stop balloon voyage around the they left Egypt thursday but were unable to gain sufficient Altitude to Clear the Himalayas Captain of the transpacific undertaking and the other Crew Mem Bers told japanese reporters they plan to reach san Francisco in three Days and if possible float Onward to the East coast in another two or three Gas in hot water Washington a the Gen eral services in an at tempt to save turned off the hot water in 60 Federal buildings in the Washington area last despite a Rule that requires hot or tepid water in work the occupational safety and health which issued the says it is not a High priority item for Rodgers an official in the Gas regional said if Osha pressed the the hot water might be turned Back but he told a columnist for the Washington maybe it would just be cheaper to pay the the maximum Fine is Miami cop can resign Miami a a former Dade county policeman who was fired after the beating death of Black insurance executive Arthur Mcduffie will be re instated and allowed to officials Ubaldo charged As an accessory in the was granted a directed verdict of one Day be fore an ail White jury found innocent four other a officers charged in the that verdict ignited three Days of racial rioting in Miami last eight Een people died in the riots which did More than million in Deltoro was mentioned infrequently during the six week trial in Tampa and said he was preoccupied with a Flat tire on his police Cruiser at the time of the he was charged with helping in an alleged coverup of the at the trial of the four police another Charles Veverka testified that police brutally beat my then falsified reports to make it seem As if he died in a motorcycle Acci