European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes july debrief czech Diplomat who defected Washington a authorities arc continuing an intensive debriefing of a High ranking czechoslovakian Diplo mat who defected to the United states two months government sources who spoke on the condition they not be identified said thurs Day that the interrogations by Fri agents and other officials began May 14 when the United states granted political Asylum to Milan the 2 Man in the czech embassy in it could not be Learned immediately what Svec has told Svec was the Deputy chief of the czech Mission in the United states and carried the rank of minister Counselor at the time of his the sources would not elaborate on Why Svec but they said he was willing to have his defection made Public they declined to describe the govern ments reasons for granting Asylum in this but in political Asylum is available to those from hostile countries who might be persecuted for their political beliefs if they returned one official said specs family also had been granted Asylum in the United the official would not say How Large the family is or provide further specs willingness to allow his defection to become Public suggested that he might not have close relatives remaining in launch control computers abort liftoff of challenger with just seconds to go asked about Jaroslav the second Secretary at the czech Milan Svec is not any longer with the he has left on May Kubista declined to say where Svec what had happened to him or to comment on the report that Svec has defected to the United it could not immediately be Learned How old Svec is or what posts he had held previously in the czech sanctions from Page 1 Cape a the launch of the space shuttle challenger was aborted just seconds before liftoff Fri when launch control computers detected something wrong and stopped the firing of the shuttles engines in mid Seq we have a we have an abort of this launch launch control commentator Jim Ball the shuttles Sevenman Crew sat tensely atop Gallons of volatile monitoring gauges to make sure All systems were All indications preliminarily Are that All systems Are Ball we have no indication As of this time precisely Why we had this we got approximately Down to the three second he As the countdown reached the three main engines at the base of the shuttle began firing in suddenly they commander Gordon Copilot Roy Crew mates Story Anthony Karl Henize and civil ians Johndavid Bartoe and Loren Acton had boarded the shuttle for a countdown that rolled along without a hitch until just before once the vehicle was declared the astronauts returned to their quarters to await another Day when they will ferry into orbit to carry out an extensive science mis Sion studying the stars and Distant a the Crew was to spend a week doing re search and Sun using a million Telescope Pointer so accurate it can Zero in on a dime two Miles it was the second time in 19 shuttle mis Sions that a liftoff has been aborted after engine the challenger suffered a similar abort june two Black boxes returned to India London up two Black Box recorders plucked from More than a mile under the Atlantic Ocean were flown to on but aviation experts fear India is ill equipped to examine them to determine if a bomb blast caused the air India Jet the cockpit voice and flight data record ers from the jumbo Jet that crashed off the Irish coast last killing All 329 were scaled into special Metal containers for the they were recovered on wednesday and thursday a feat likened to finding a Needle in a Haystack by a Remote con trolled submarine that prowled feet deep along the Ocean floor and located them within 500 Yards of each the recorders were taken by boat to and then flown to London Heathrow where they were put aboard a scheduled air India flight for there they will be studied by aviation crash investigators to try to determine Why the jumbo Jet suddenly vanished from radar screens june 23 and plunged feet into the Atlantic 110 Miles Southwest off there has been conflicting evidence on whether the crash might have been caused by a Indian investigators maintain an explosion is the most Likely explanation for the crafts sudden descent and the pilots radio Canadian crash experts assisting the inquiry say no evidence of a bomb or bomb damage has been found to support the Britain two major television channels reported that several major International eager to learn what caused the devastating were opposed to sending the instruments to the airlines indicated they preferred the data be Analysed in Britain or the United arguing that the two countries could properly conduct the the news re ports Indian insist the recorders data must be Analysed in India and said there Are adequate facilities to study the junes wholesale inflation rate was Zero Gold piece minted in South Edward every new Dollar that flows from the United states to South Africa is a Brick in the Wall of to do nothing today is tantamount to a vote of approval for but conservative opponents got a last minute mane vering the Senate into voting 902 against the tougher House version that some senators said privately that they Senate opponents of the measure joined Kennedy and others in denouncing South african racial but Barry said it was a blight against the United states to take this action against an a Friend in every Goldwater also complained that human rights Bills such As the sanctions measure make no mention of the soviet Union and two communist countries that he said have been responsible for the murder of 100 million but two conservative led attempts to impose restrictions on the soviet China and countries violating human rights were and a proposal to Block the imposition of the sanctions if they would result in unemployment among South african Blacks was and thus temperatures july 11 Washington a moderating Energy prices combined with another de Cline in food costs to keep the wholesale inflation rate for june at the govern ment said that enabled the Economy to finish the first six months of the year with an annual wholesale inflation rate of the Flat figure for june came after four consecutive months of slight increases in the Overall fuelled mostly by higher Energy retail sales fell a Sharp percent in the biggest decline in 11 the Commerce department said retail sales totalled billion in com pared to billion in May All the figures arc seasonally with consumer spending a driving Force behind the current economic the disappointing june sales performance was Likely to Spur fears about the durability of that food which have been falling steadily since were Down Only percent last month because of higher prices for beef and veal and fresh fruits and but the Energy component fell 2 percent in june after a percent increase in May and a percent jump in analysts had been saying that those big april and May fuel Price increases would taper off As lower world crude Oil prices filtered through the but the 2 percent drop last month was larger than wholesale prices Overall were up per cent in May and percent in the percent inflation rate for the first half of the year compares to a percent increase in the comparable period for but wholesale prices Rose at an annual rate of Only percent in the second half of most analysts had been projecting at least some increase in the june inflation fresh fruit prices shot up percent last month after declines of percent in May and percent in fresh vegetable prices were up percent last month after a percent decline the previous beef and veal prices Rose percent in june after falling 3 percent in May and percent in gasoline prices inched up percent in june after a percent increase in May and a percent jump in prices for consumer goods other than foods and Energy increased percent in june after a percent increase in the wholesale Price Index for june was percent below 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Rickover was reported in Sta ble condition thursday at Bethesda naval where he is recovering from a David a Navy confirmed that had suffered a but he referred questions to officials at the Hospital in suburban a Hospital Charles updo said Rickover was admitted july 4 in serious but Updegrove declined to provide further saying Only that Rickover condition had improved to Sta Updegrove also said he had no information on when Rickover might be re known As the father of the nuclear retired in earlier this year he was censured by Navy Secre tary John Lehman for accepting in gratuities from general dynamics a major defense forecast for saturday locally dense fog dissipating by late the afternoon will be hazy with partly Cloudy High temperatures from the mid to upper lows in the Sunset saturday Sunrise sunday Outlook for sunday morning afternoon Haze and partly Cloudy skies with increasing cloudiness for Northern Germany later in the temperatures slightly temperatures recorded Friday 4am 4pm 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