European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june 1985 laser tracks discovery in Star wars7 test Cape a bluish Green laser beam flashing through the darkness from a win whipped Moun Tain Peak in Hawaii successfully tracked the orbiting discovery on Friday in the first space shuttle test of president reagans Star wars the Low Power laser was triggered by the air Force As the shuttle and its seven per son Crew streaked 220 Miles overhead at slightly faster than a missile we have the target in astronaut John Fabian reported As he sighted the darting its it pulsed for a while and locked on steady for Short sounds like we got some definite track Mission control reporting later that the air Force had termed the test a they definitely tracked the there very the astronauts later relayed a dramatic recorded television picture of the laser As it pulsed and flashed vigorously in the Atmo accompanying it with the music of Tchaikovsky 1812 were fascinated with your Light the control Center the laser target was a Many angled Mir ror the size of a dinner it is mounted in a shuttle the reflector was to Bounce the beam Back to the ground station atop mount a Peak on the decision to fire the laser was made at the last just half an hour winds up to 80 Mph buffeted the and air Force officials said the laser equip ment probably would not operate under those they gave the godhead when the wind Speed it was a second try for the the first failed wednesday because ground control lers made a sending the disco Erys computer instructions in feet instead of nautical the air Force will Analyse the data to determine just How Well the test the the first of scores of Star wars experiments planned for the could help determine How Well a laser can track a fast moving missile for a Jaser weapon to destroy or disable a it must focus on it Long enough to heat its Interior the laser test also was to gather data on How much the Light diffuses while travelling through the atmosphere and How corrections to such spreading can be to be a laser beam must remain concen the exercise also could contribute to an other plan under study in which ground lasers would be fired at orbiting which would redirect the beams to strike missiles and the Star wars research is aimed at determining whether a combined space and ground based system can intercept and de stroy ballistic missiles in the pro Gram is formally known As the strategic defense the astronauts on thursday made it four Farfour on satellite launches a re Cord for a shuttle Crew by dispatching a House oks billion for space asks Dod of provide More information Washington a the House voted thursday to increase Money for Star wars research and ordered new studies to try to answer questions about the Effort to develop a futuristic shield against nuclear the 256150 vote topped off More than seven hours of it came after the chamber had rejected other proposals to freeze approve president Rea Gans original request or go along with other proposed budgets for the program formally As the strategic defense the figure finally approved representing a billion increase Over current spending for Star wars research was recommended by the armed serv ices committee last the House also voted to direct the de sense department to provide More information about what types of moves the soviets might make to defeat Star How much the system will Cost and whether it is a Good idea to give the information to the As Reagan who announced the program two years requested billion for the 1986 fiscal year compared to the current billion but the Senate Cut that to the democratic controlled House is working its Way through a Bill providing most of a proposed billion Pentagon budget for fiscal which starts the total freezes spending at current lev with no provision for the Republican controlled Senate Al ready has authorized defense spending of and differences Between the two the Star wars will have to be worked out later in a conference body unearthed in Brazil is International medical experts conclude Sao Brazil a International medical experts Friday unanimously concluded that a body unearthed two weeks ago is that of infamous nazi Josef the so called Angel of death at the Auschwitz concentration Camp in world War we have a reasonable scientific certainty that the body is that of Josef Lowell Levine of the new York police a member of the investigating told newsmen packed into a Federal police he read from a report he said would be submitted to a Levine delivered the in the name of the Justice department and the Simon Wiesenthal a los Angeles based Antinazi to the Brazil Ian Federal then he told newsmen its theres no Way its not Romeu the chief brazilian invest said the Complete official findings would be released but he gave no head of the Federal police in Sao from an investigative Point of View there is absolutely no doubt that the body belongs to anyone other than Josef As reporters crowded Tuma held up a facial reconstruction of Mengele made from a study of the body by West German and israeli the search for the most hunted nazi fugitive reached Brazil in Early when Federal police followed tips from the West germans that led them to austrian Immi Grants Wolfram and Liselotte the couple admitted to sheltering Meng ele during his 18year stay in this South american country and led police to a Weed covered grave in the colonial town of 17 Miles from Sao they told police that the nazi doctor died while swimming at a nearby Federal police exhumed the taking 208 Teeth and tattered i believe with the experts of the Caliper we have you have to accept the said israeli police officer men Achem a leading authority on Mengeler and one of the foreign specialists aiding the brazilian Wilmes a member of the brazilian forensics said the conclusion was brazilian police had said from the Start that they were 90 percent sure the body belonged to blamed for atrocious human experiments and the murders of about people at the Auschwitz concentration Camp in Poland during world War Daniel Munoz of the brazilian Foren sic team said the conclusion was based on comparisons of physical evidence and medi Cal records and he specifically pointed to a separation in the the height of about 5 feet 8 and the and also to an abnormality found on the Pelvic the number of coincidences found in the Skeleton exhumed indicates that it is highly probable that the Skeleton exhumed belongs to Josef in other it is highly improbable that another person would have so Many Points of similarity and no Points of Ellis a forensic anthropologist from the University of Maryland who was on the investigating said the Odds of the body being someone other than Mengele were air Force puts Jet tankers on recall status Jet tankers from an Arizona air National guard unit in Spain for Maneu vers have been ordered to be ready for the Phoenix Gazette has the 161st air refuelling groups pc 135e tankers were placed on 12hour recall status at Moron a in Southern according to the which had a reporter and photographer accompanying the tankers on a two week deployment to eur an air Force spokesman in Washington who did not want to be identified said the service would not comment on any operational movement of its David commander of the group in told the newspaper that neither he nor his unit was torn Why they were placed on recall the similar in size to Boeing 707 commercial left Phoenix last sat the unit is to return to Arizona next science payload named spartan to scan for sources of rays and hot Gas in a Large Cluster of galaxies in the Constellation per seus and in the Center of the Milky one goal of the spartan is to examine a suspected Black Hole in the Center of the Milky scientists believe Black holes Are created when a massive Star or Galaxy exhausts its nuclear fuel and suddenly these mysterious celestial objects suck in nearby Gas and dust with a gravitational pull so Strong that not even Light scientists the galactic material swirling into the Hole forms a huge disc that heats up and radiates much of it in the form of on the astronauts will Rendez Vous with the spartan and retrieve it with the shuttles robot the satellite stores its data for analysis Back on the astronauts successfully deployed communications satellites for the mexican government and a consortium of 21 Arab news update squatter gives up London up a syrian Diplomat who squatted for two years in the apartment of a London leaving them has agreed to leave after Queen Elizabeth and the foreign office intervened in the Dis lawyers for Ahmed Walid Rajab said he would vacate the London apartment by the foreign office earlier summoned the syrian ambassador to Tell him Britain would press for Rajab Transfer if he did not give up the apartment to the John and Suzanne East returns Washington a John is Back on the Job with permission from doctors to work several hours a Day while recuperating from a severe thyroid Condi East became ill six weeks ago and has been at Home since being re leased from Bethesda naval Hospital on May the firs term senator suffers from inability of the thy roid to produce sufficient hormones to regulate his Salmonella tied to Deli up a Delica Tessens failure to properly reheat corned beef before serving it caused a Salmonella food poisoning outbreak linked to More than 350 reported health officials officials have said the Skokie Salm Onella outbreak is unrelated to an Epi Demic earlier this Spring that killed two people and sickened More than in Illinois and five other that outbreak was blamed on tainted milk produced by a jewel companies Dairy in Melrose Kaufman Delicatessen reheated cooked corned beef bought from a supplier to 100 Skokie health director Lowell Huckleberry before serving the Deli should have heated the meat to 140 degrees to prevent the growth of Salmonella he corrections an article about service members getting married while stationed in Europe misidentified James Millers Miller is assigned to the army element at he the stars and stripes regrets the