European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 i kit the stars and stripes june photo by Gus Schuettler scale Model of the Grumman x29 Forward swept Wing aircraft on display at the Paris air Yeager says the right stuff int what makes the test Pilot Paris a Charles the first Man to Fly faster than the Speed of says that except for timing and destiny he might have been thirty eight years after his historic climb in the Bell al beyond that invisible Wall that scientists feared would shatter the human Yeager has been reborn As a but he scoffs at those righteous qualities ascribed to him in the Book that has returned him to the ranks of americas current had he been born in another the al Job would have been left to someone he and the right that near magical Combina Tion of grit and the hand of god ascribed to Yeager and other test pilots in Tom wolfes has no that Means nothing to a test Yeager said in an More important is to be there at the right place at the right if i was born in 1963 i would have been there would have been no al for me to in Paris for the cites air does not mince life was Basic and direct people said what they meant and meant what they i Learned face he writes in his written with Leo the Book is to be published next month by Bantam there is no such thing As a natural born it takes he said in the the right stuff is being at the right place at the right and to put it a dont have to be Good to be a legend in the test Pilot All youve got to do is yet in his compares test piloting to being a a one none encounter Between Man and the asked if his Breed was being superseded by the sophisticated technology of the space age in which sur Vival increasingly depends on he replied in some cases Man int As was demonstrated with the Early space but Treyve since shown that Man can pay his Yeager is a survivor of two killing numerous close Calls and a near fatal Accident in though retired from the air Yeager is still flying in his work As consultant to the air Northrop and Lear Siegler Yeager flew the Piper Cheyenne 400 is from Washington to Paris via setting three world records for a plane of its weight class along the he put it through its paces for the Paris air show Yeager said he flies Northrop f20 the unsophisticated Jet about one week per i dont sit around drinking Beer and getting fat and i have world today Star wars chief not bothered by allies7 refusal to Back plan London a the director of the Star wars pro Gram said saturday he was not at All discouraged by natos refusal to endorse americas research into space based de lenses against nuclear James director of the formally called the strategic defense quipped that he did not expect the allies to say i love you every at a meeting on Friday in nato foreign ministers did not endorse the program in their final communique because of objections by Denmark and speaking at a news said that about two teams of officials from nato countries were going to Washington every week to inquire about possible participation in the he did not name the he that no contracts on specific projects had been let to firms in other nato countries since defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last March invited participation in the ski Abrahamson said he expected some contracts will do let Abrahamson on Friday conferred with British defense Secretary Michael Heseltine about British conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher is the Only Allied Leader who has clearly backed joining the Abrahamson said there is nothing definite yet about How British firms or scientists would take part in the three Allied Norway and have announced formally they will not take part in ski the refusals partly reflect West european fears that if the United states finally acquired and deployed a space based de sense against soviet missiles it would touch off an arms race in Abrahamson said he envisages Brilliant teams of creative people from Allied nations taking part in the ski research he indicated that West europeans might take part in re search projects concerning defense against Short Range the ski program As originally conceived was envisioned As a space shield against Long Range ballistic but officials have since said that defences against Shorter Range missiles would also be 72 arrested by italian police in huge anti mafia operation Italy a police have arrested 72 persons in a nationwide anti mafia Milan court officials the massive operation involved hundreds of policemen in several Northern and Southern italian cities and in police acted on 186 arrest warrants issued by Milan Magis sixty warrants were served to persons already in among the arrested were reputed mafia Bosses Antonio Giuseppe 34 and Giro 37 believed to be involved in narcotics illegal Gam bling and prostitution in Northern the sources British navys harrier jets brought Home from falklands London a Britain harrier vertical Takeoff which played a key role in recapturing the Falkland islands from have been brought Home because the islands new Airport can take conventional officials the five Royal Navy harrier jump jets based on the South Atlantic islands were dismantled and returned for service in Britain and West said a defense ministry spokesman who declined to be the which Britain reported shot Down at least 30 Argentine aircraft during the 74day conflict in provided the main Coyer for the Royal Navy task Force sent to recapture the disputed Italy to Convene parliament june 24 to elect president Rome a Italy will Convene parliament june 24 to elect the next president of the a Post now held by 88 year old socialist Sandro it has been the head of state will be elected by a joint vote of Italy senators and representatives of Italy 20 re Certini has not indicated formally whether he will seek reelection to the largely ceremonial Australia enacts policy against South african construction firms Australia a the government says it will no longer allow South african construction Compa Nies to work on government projects in Bill the foreign affairs and Stewart the construction said at a joint news Confer ence that the ban will apply to construction companies with a majority South african it takes effect immedi Hayden said the ban will strengthen the governments policy to remove avoidable official assistance to Commer Cial relations Between Australia and South How private business contacts Between the two countries will not be trespassers attempt to break into Bunker built for Goering West Germany a unidentified trespassers tried to break into a sealed Bunker built for nazi air Force chief Hermann Goering in an apparent attempt to blow up the underground authorities the bavarian state criminal office said the trespassers unsuccessfully tried to gain Entrance to the but abandoned the attempt after Boring a Hole into the Struc Tures exterior authorities said they had no motive for the they added that their investigation was 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