European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes shuttle Crew readies for next Blastoff Cape up Jake and six Crew mates flew tuesday to the Kennedy space Center for shuttle discovery countdown to Blastoff Friday on a satellite launching theres never been a Crew that been better prepared to go or More anxious to Garn he will serve As a congressional observer during the five Day which has been delayed several the Only problem is Fri Day int discovery countdown began at 2 est wednes if All goes it will end at Friday with the spaceships thundering launch on the 16th shuttle mis commander Karol Copilot Donald Williams and Crew members Rhea Jeff Hoffman and David Griggs landed at the Florida shuttle port about after flying Over the launch pad in their t38 subcommittee chairman chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the space Agency annual and Crew mate Charles an Engineer with Mcdonnell Doug Las astronautics arrived about 30 minutes ear Seddon was flown by her astronaut Rob Ert who served As Copilot aboard the shuttle challenger last my husband flew about a year ago and told me 1 was going to enjoy she he was kind enough to Fly me Down Here today and told me that and believe 1 plan discovery launch will Mark Only the second shuttle flight this year because of a variety of technical problems that have made a shambles of the space Agency planned launch month the shuttles payload is made up of two satellites that were to have been launched separately on mis Sions that were cancelled earlier this the arrival of discovery Crew kicks off a flurry of activity at the Florida shuttle about two hours before the Start of discovery workers planned to haul the shuttle challenger from its Han Gar to the vehicle Assembly building to ready it for flight around april on the West Rockwell International technicians were preparing the new shuttle Atlantis for the trip to Florida on weather with the exception of Garn and company discovery from Griggs and a photo had been scheduled to take off aboard the shuttle Chal Lenger on 20 along with Frenchman Patrick Bau continuing repairs of challengers heat shield tile system forced a delay into March and the flight ultimately was cancelled because of trouble with an on Board to minimize the Impact of the repeated delays on the shuttle launch Nasa decided to Combine two payloads into one aboard Walker was added to the Crew to operate a drug Baudry was reassigned to a june army lab identities remains of 6 killed in Vietnam by Norman Black Washington a an army Laboratory has identified the remains of six american servicemen killed during the the Pentagon announced the identifications were made Over the past month at the army Central identification Laboratory in Honolulu following the return of the remains to officials in said spokesman Michael four of the six identified were air Force officers who were shot Down Over North Vietnam and listed As missing in the others an army sergeant and a Marine corps sergeant were listed As prisoners of War who were known to have died after being the Penta gon two of the individuals were captured in the South and the vietnamese reported them As being detained in the Burch these Are the first sets of remains that weve gotten from that Keith an army spokes said there Are 35 other men listed As having died in Captivity in South Vietnam whose remains have not been in releasing the the Pentagon said the six would be transported by plane to California on wednesday from Hickam fab in we appreciate this return of and combined with the recent vietnamese agreement to hold a minimum of six tech Nical meetings per we Hope it Marks the beginning of the fulfilment of the vietnamese pledges to accelerate their search the Pentagon according to the before the latest identifications were there were americans listed As missing in action in Southeast Asia As a result of the Vietnam of that were servicemen and 42 Are Hanoi maintains it is not holding any american the Pentagon said the newly identified men were air Force Melvin of Council reported lost Over North Vietnam on air Force Cleveland of reported lost Over North Vietnam on air Force Chambliss Ches of Little reported lost Over North Vietnam on air Force Michael of reported lost Over North Vietnam army Gerasimo of puerto reported As having been captured in South Vietnam on March and dying in Marine Robert of reported As having been Cap tured in South Vietnam on june and dying in be reports action taken to Correct Dod troubles Sands of time Washington a general elec tric moved tuesday to convince the Pentagon to end a ban on its receipt of new defense saying it has corrected problems that led to a Federal indictment two weeks air Force Secretary Verne Orr announced March 28 that be was being barred indefinitely from receiving any new Pentagon contracts because of its indict ment on fraud charges two Days Orr said in a letter to be chairman John Welch that the suspension would re main in effect pending completion of the Legal proceedings or until be convinced him that Steps had been taken to Safe guard against a Jack a be said the company took advantage of orrs offer tuesday by submitting information aimed at assuring the air Force that general electric is a responsible defense contract Batty refused to elaborate on the documents delivered to the Pentagon tuesday beyond saying they outline the Steps we have already implemented or will implement to improve contracting he said the company response was accompanied by a letter from Welch offering to meet with Orr to Dis cuss the the air Force confirmed tuesday that Orr had received the be but said no Date had been set for a meeting Between the Secretary and in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday april 1945 an official of the new government declared at Kosice that cooperation with the soviet Union would keynote Czechoslovakia future foreign the official added that the establishment of Friendly relations with Yugoslavia and the new democratic Poland was of utmost 30 years ago foday april 1955 an earthquake of moderate magnitude Shook a wide area of Eastern Missouri and Southern the epicentre of the quake was about 35 Miles South of 20 years ago today april 1965 actress Linda died in a Veteran of 50 was burned Over 80 percent of her body in a fire at the Home of a 10 years ago foday april 1975 a Battle for the key City of Xuan 40 Miles East of headed into a third in Cambodia insurgents drove to within two Miles of phenom penh their deepest penetration Field reports