European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes March 1985 mystery of fire1 streaks across night sky Washington a a lightning Quick Ball of fire streaked across the Southeastern night sky brighter and big Ger than a shooting but authorities were at a loss to explain in Federal aviation administration Faa spokesman Dennis Feldman said air traffic controllers re ported sighting a fireball As far North As and As far South As i saw it fall from the said ten Nessee Highway patrolman Harold Mung who said he was about 10 Miles East of Chattanooga when he spotted a Bright Fly ing object around 8 it appeared to be a Ball of fire and seemed much brighter and bigger than a shooting Munger it had fire streaming from behind my concern at first was that it might have been an air Craft in it hit the horizon and went behind a Mountain in front of i didst see an explosion or it just Digap he Munger said the fireball appeared to be moving Low and was very but he said no injuries from falling debris had been people As far North As Southern Illinois also reported seeing Bright lights in the Faa air traffic controllers at our Jacksonville Center and the Atlanta Center have received reports from pilots about this so called As far As we it was not an Feld Man we have no idea what it was this is All fragmentary he adding that no aviation accidents had been in an Faa spokesman said pilots passing Over North Alabama reported witnessing a sudden Flash that caused Static on their three pilots reported seeing a Streak of Light that changed from red to Green to said Ken the Faa supervisor at the Huntsville adding that such color changes Are typical of a mete in Faa duty officer John Whiteside said pilots saw flames coming out from around even experienced people Are totally amazed at the and the fact that it came straight Down rather than at an he based on pilots National weather service meteorologist Howard at the Faas air traffic control Center in said the object was probably a meteor that entered the earths commander William a duty officer at the North american air defense commands Cheyenne Mountain Complex in there is a possibility it could have been some meteor the which tracks All objects in had expected some debris from a soviet rocket body to make a flaming re turn into the but it Doest correlate with the time of the reported Ranzinger pilots May take too Many chances in agile newspaper reports fort Texas a the air forces new est fighter the is so agile that pilots Are flying it into Maneu vers that can induce potentially fatal Black a newspaper reported the air Force suspects blackouts Are to blame in nine fatal crashes in recent the fort Worth startle Gram four involved the the most of any air Force officials the blackouts occur when the tremendous g forces generated by extreme acceleration or a tight turn Force blood from the pilots in today we can demand More is More rapidly and sustain them longer than pilots could in for Mer said a recent article in an inhouse air Force publication warning pilots of the we Are seeing a Nasty byproduct of that capability fully functioning aircraft Are flying straight into the dirt after the Pilot pulls Back on the control stick and takes an unscheduled it the problem with the built in fort Worth by general has Only recently come to the Star Telegram we had an awful lot of accidents that were of an undetermined we could not understand Why a Guy would Fly this Good air plane into the said Edsel a safety officer at tactical air come he at Langely the f16 is built to withstand nine or nine times the Force of Normal in tight turns and the newspaper but few pilots can remain conscious for Long under such have we built a plane that too hot asked Gary a Las vegas attorney representing the estates of two f16 pilots who were killed in the which Are called induced loss of consciousness or typically last about 30 according to videotapes made during air Force tests with a which can duplicate High g forces on the thirty seconds is Long enough to according to air Force if youre in a level turn or slice when you pass the aircraft May be screaming earthward in Short the air Force article in one fatal crash described in the the entire Man Uever preceding Impact took less than 30 according to the air Force officials have made the problem a top the air Force is considering designing new suits that keep blood from pooling in the lower body and increasing Centrifuge train ing and instruction in special breathing French Diplomat kidnapped in Lebanon Beirut up gunmen kidnapped the director of the French cultural Institute from his Home and an islamic terror group claimed responsibility for the a police a group of armed men burst into Gilles Sidney Pey Rolles Home in the port City of 42 Miles North of in the Early hours picked him out from his roommates and took him police communique signed by the lebanese armed revolutionary factions was delivered to a Western news Agency in Beirut on monday the group demanded the release within 48 hours of a terrorist suspect being held by French was the fourth French citizen kidnapped in Lebanon this while announcing responsibility for the arrest of the French Gilles Sidney we make conditional for his release and preserving his life the immediate setting free of our Comrade arrested in Abdel Qader and consider ourselves absolved of Safe guarding the safety of the French Diplomat 48 hours from the issuing of this the communique the group said italian citizens May also be kidnapped because italian authorities Are holding two other members of the Abdullah Almansour and Josephine we will consider any French or wherever he May a the communique adding that future retaliation will be More severe and will bring catastrophe to inhabitants of Paris and Eyrolles is the eighth foreigner to be kidnapped in moslem areas of Lebanon this a mostly sunni moslem is controlled largely by the fundamentalist Lawheed Unity whose Prince Saeed has Strong links with reduced reserves raise Gas prices los Angeles a gasoline which Bot Tomed out in recent continued a steady Rise nation wide and average about three cents per gallon More than a month Oil Industry analyst Dan Lundberg open is apparently holding the line on and resources in refineries must be restocked at this Lundberg said the results Are higher prices at the pump and a Sellers Market for crude he Lundbergh weekly Survey of service stations showed that the average Price for All grades of gasoline was up slightly More than three cents from the average Price figured Tor the week of refineries depleted their Stock in anticipation of increased Oil exports from the organization of Petroleum exporting Lundberg but open nations instead have decreased their output in an Effort to control prices during a worldwide Oil Lundberg said Many refineries change their production priorities from heating Oil to gasoline during the Lundberg said the amount of Oil imported into the United states has increased steadily Over the past 12 months to about on third of Domestic the same level that was imported before the 1973 Arab Oil embargo Lundberg said his Survey shows that the average prices for gasoline at self service which now control 75 percent of the retail Are for regular leaded for regular unleaded and for Premium the consumer Price Index issued last week by the labor department noted a percent drop in gasoline prices for and the Price Rise began later that Lundberg news update Ira execution Dublin up a Man found shot dead in county Cork saturday night was killed because he was a police the outlawed Irish Republican army the body of John was found in a sleeping bag in a Field near the Village of just West of he had been shot through the police in a statement issued in the Ira said Corcoran was executed after admitting that he had operated As a police the statement said Corcoran gave police information about a 1981 Post office robbery that led to the arrest of three Ira Irish police in Dublin refused to comment on the Ira police in county Mayo said they seized an Ira arms Cache at a the Cache contained eight four an unaddressed letter eight timing devices and training police Sudan raises prices Sudan a the sudanese govern beset by a deteriorating Economy and food shortages saturday increased prices of bread and some other foods in shops around the capital by about one shoppers found that a loaf of bread which had sold for 15 piastres 6 cents now Cost 20 piastres 8 the increase was imposed without prior but the government daily Alsa Hafa said saturday the decision was taken because of rising costs of imported the increased prices came amid growing Public Discon tent Over the state of the nations last year president Jaafar Numeir imposed a five month state of emergency after engineers and other professionals went on strike to protest rising prices and economic hard tiny liver patient Dies England a Ben Britain youngest liver transplant died saturday after his second transplant in 14 months at Addenbrooke Hospital administrator Laurence Pullar who suffered from biliary an incurable received his first liver on 23 last year after an Appeal for a donor on the British broadcasting Tele vision consumer program that he was Given the liver of a 2yearold boy who had died following an unsuccessful heart and lung Pullar said that although Ben made Good the liver was not a perfect match and a second transplant was carried out bolivian workers end strike la Bolivia bolivian workers have accepted the governments offer to raise the Basic minimum wage More than and have moved to end a 16dayold general the government increased its offer to a minimum weekly wage of after the roman Catholic Church intervened and urged the government and labor leaders to resume while the increase will mean More than a percent increase in wages for some it will translate into Only 15 to 60 percent More for the majority of the coun try s million workers because each Industry uses a different method to calculate the total monthly at a meeting of striking workers some labor leaders were critical of those who had prolonged the strike by mixing wage demands with