European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q cops break up Berkeley apartheid 5 d april in Paris cuisine and Magazine Kings Complete move to 17 is authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 1 april 1985 be Ooisy Ond q 8693 a astronauts fail to save satellite Cape a covers astronauts twice snagged a Power switch on a crippled satellite with their robot Arm but the Man Euver failed to restore the payloads and they abandoned it As an million space you did everything you possibly Mission control communicator Dave Hil mers told the analysis of the Effort showed that the switch was not at but that something else caused the satellite Power loss when it was launched from the shuttle on after studying televised pictures of the Salvage Steven presi Dent of Hughes communications which owns the said we have now proved that it want the lever that caused the we just dont know what is at he complimented Nasa for its incredible ingenuity and determination in trying to save the syncom when we looked at the it appeared that the lever was fully said flight director Jay but we maybe it just had a couple de Grees to go to trip the Power Micro so we went ahead with the opera if the lever were we hit it with enough Force to move with the shuttle flying 30 feet from the astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon guided the 50foot Arm so that a makeshift Flyswatter like tool on the end brushed against the Side of the slowly rotating pay a live television shot showed the device twice Snag the switch Only to pass Over without budging one rung of the three rung plastic device broke under the pres Seddon had Only a six minute period in which to do the when that time killers the window is closed perform the separation a photo to picture shows broken rung on Flyswatter upper right above satellite compensation considered we had hard physical Contact on at least two commander Karol Bobko it was a great Hilmers if Power had been turned an Antenna would have extended after 80 seconds and the payload would have spun up to 33 revolutions per minute after 6 Seddon had a second six minute 90 minutes in which to try to turn on the but controllers had told the Crew to quit if they made hard Contact the first time and failed to turn it there will be no further said Mission control commentator Steve nes Jake Garn of Utah Charles a Mcdonnell Douglas Engineer who is operating a drug processing a did not participate in the Bobko and Pilot Don Williams had spent the morning guiding discovery to the Ren they did a 90minute Fly around inspection of the million satellite to make All was they reported that it was spinning at one revolution every 36 seconds and that the Power lever was partially extended to about 90 Mission control said the lever would not turn the electrical Power on until it reached 110 degrees and told them to proceed with the Bobko and Williams then held the shuttle and Seddon extended the Arm in the unsuccessful Effort to turn the Power but the failure of the lever to move indicated it had after discovery pulled away from syn controllers gave Bobko a Choice of returning to Earth wednesday or staying up until Bobko said he would like More time than the three hours available wednesday to Complete Cabin stowage Well stay the commander Reagan tries soviets no More shootings appease i m m m m m Al Washington up the soviet responding to the killing of army Arthur Nicholson by a soviet sentry in East will not use Force in similar cases in the the state department said the soviets also have agreed to refer a demand for an apology for the March 24 shooting and for compensation to Nich olsons family to higher a department statement the department disclosed monday that Usa eur commander Glenn Otis met last Friday with Mikhail the commander of soviet forces in to discuss the Nicholson Case and How to prevent a he did not disclose details of the the department statement issued tues Day said the meeting occurred in East the Headquarters of the military Liaison to which Nicholson was attached when he was we obtained agreement from the Sovi ets that they will not permit use of Force or weapons against the members of our Mili tary Liaison Mission in the they also agreed to refer our demand for an apology and compensation to the Nicholson family to higher the statement a spokesman said the two generals agreed that discussions would the spokesman it is too Early to judge the results of the first we that the soviets did agree to take Steps on their Side to prevent use of Force against the members of the military Liaison on the other the questions of compensation and apology Are open and under those issues will be pursued by the administration at a political the spokesman Secretary of state George Shultz and soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin agreed March 30 that Otis and Zaitsev would meet to discuss the shooting and seek ways to avoid a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said april 2 that the United states should wait to meet the soviets until they made some kind of apology for the he said the next Day that soviet Bompensa see soviets on Page 24 vets Washington a president Reagan is trying to make amends with american jews and veterans by adding a visit to a concentration Camp site to his German travel plans next but a site will not be chosen until White House spokesman Larry Speakes said wednesday that a decision on an appropriate site for a presidential visit will be made after a top level White House team headed by Michael Deaver returns thursday or Friday from West the team is studying possible places for Reagan to Deaver visited the Park and memorial at the former Bergen Belsen concentration Camp wednesday said Ferdinand see Reagan on Page 24 part two of your move pages 8 and 9