European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes july 1985 firefighters gaining on Western blazes by the associated press armies of firefighters saturday edged toward containment or control of fires that have turned hundreds of thousands of acres across the Western part of the United states and Canada into Fields of soot and and some were Able to begin mopping up and move on to other fires continued to Burn in Ari South Washington and with nearly people either working on the fire lines or in support since june firefighters have battled nearly Many started by in the Western United Scott Brayton of the National inter Agency fire Center in the Forest service and Bureau of land management Are spending a combined total of million a Day to fight blk director Bob Burford said Burford and Forest service chief Max Peterson had flown to the Boise fire Center com Mand Post for a weekend tour of fire in hardest hit where thou Sands fled Homes and at least three people were the fire in the Santa Cruz mountains South of san Francisco was no longer an immediate threat to Struc Ture or said Charles Walter of the state department of he said it was about 90 percent contained after firefighters in helicopters dropped blobs of napalm left Over from the Vietnam War on the fire in what experts called a Gamble that paid the napalm started a controlled Burn to head off the main Blaze and stopped flames from reaching the towers atop mount Loma said fire Ken the communications towers Are vital to coordinating firefighting about firefighters remained at work battling the Wheeler fire that burned near but they had managed to contain 98 percent of Forest service spokesman Pete Libby Early last one Canadian fire had forced More than people to flee the Community of canal and by Friday another Blaze was out of control just Over 12 Miles from the Forest ministry officials said fire fighters worked across British Columbia on and 733 fires were about 40 of them out of there were fewer than 10 fires in each of the other except for with and the Northwest with faulty mechanical device suspected in shuttle abort Cape up engineers suspect that fridays dramatic launching pad abort just seconds before Blastoff of the space shuttle challenger was caused by a faulty mechanical device in a rocket engine fuel valve officials said related photo on Page they dont know that Treyve located the but they have a Nasa spokesman Jim Ball said after a meeting with challengers planned Takeoff was aborted three seconds before liftoff because of a malfunction in a valve that diverts liquid Hydrogen fuel to the com Bustion chamber of one of the shuttles three main the space shuttles four inboard computers ordered the engines to shut Down before the shuttles twin solid rockets in which would have committed Chal Lenger to Ball said engineers worked through the night to identify the problem and come up with a new schedule to permit a second launching try As soon As he said engineers believe the abort was caused by a mechanical linkage called an actuator that was responsible for moving the valve on computer trouble with a different valve in an engine aboard the shuttle discovery forced a similar abort june delaying its Maiden ground Crews Friday quickly worked through the abort sequence with Weller hearted precision to ensure the safety of the Crew and the billion seven members of the Crew left the space ship 40 minutes after the commander Gordon Copilot Roy Bridges and Crew mates Karl Anthony Story Loren Acton and Johndavid Bartoe had planned to spend a week in orbit studying the Sun and earths space Henize and who joined the space Agency in have waited 18 years for their first Reagan from Page 1 at Reagan met with key advisers and approved the letter temporarily transferring presidential authority to rejecting an option to invoke the 25th amendment naming Bush As acting who had been vacationing in was in route to Washington when the decision was he was informed by phone by White House staff chief Donald in his addressed to leaders of con Reagan said i am about to undergo surgery during which time i will be briefly and temporarily incapable of discharging the constitutional Powers and duties of the office of the presi Dent of the United vice president George Bush shall Dis charge those Powers and duties in my commencing with the administration of an Ethesia to me in this i shall advise you and the vice president when i determine that i am Able to resume the discharge of the constitutional Powers and duties of this As he signed the letters transferring the president joked to his i am signing these but youre still my first Speakes the president was expected to remain at the Hospital for seven to 10 White House aides were setting up communications and National Security offices so that Reagan could run the government from the the who had been described Early saturday by Speakes As being in top notch was telling Speakes complaining Doodna tiredly about the discomfort remaining from fridays intestinal Reagan told his after All you did this ought to be a Oiler was assisted in the operation by Bimal a Navy commander and head of surgical oncology at the hos Pital who is chief of surgery at the National cancer Institute in be Thesda Lee a professor of sur Gery at George Washington University and John assistant White House much of Africa still in grip of famine temperatures july 12 Kenya Apas the worlds Rock luminaries performed sat urday in London and Philadelphia to raise Money for african famine the drought which has devastated much of this continent was still taking a deadly reports continue to be received of wide spread malnutrition and deaths from Star the food and agriculture organization said in its latest report on of Ricas food the rom based body listed 13 african countries As still facing exceptional food Supply difficulties despite a massive inter National Relief Effort that got under Way late last when the world at Large be came aware of the extent of the the food emergency is most the Fao in niger and primarily because of logistical problems in getting the food that has arrived to the people who need unless these problems shortage of port civil War Are concert from Page 1 feeds shown on huge video screens from a Hal dozen other including a so Viet its gyrating singers flashed onto the screen at 4 live from under a picture of the British and soviet in the streets of the were comparatively empty for a summer saturday and sounds of the live concert could be heard blaring from apartment other groups which participated with live feeds by satellite included performers from Austria and the nether the brainstormed who has been making popular music work for Africa since last october when he was stunned by to pictures of starving said it was the Best Day of his Geldof persuaded some of the biggest names in Rock music to take the mar athon show has been called the greatest show on Earth by the British broadcasting pops greatest Day or global Juke by among the oddities of the Phil col Lins Sang the London Bill with Elton Paul David Nik style Alison Moyet and Many then Collins hopped the Atlantic super sonically on a concorde Jet to sing again in Philadelphia with the Beach Eric Mick Tina Turner and Duran Good children of the this is your and it is Long Joan Baez announced in outside Juk police arrested Sev eral people for Selling counterfeit the official shirt was Selling for the stages in Philadelphia and London were linked by a bit of technological wizardry which Geldof called his Glod Al sorted the Agency the situation can be expected to deteriorate further in the coming it is from these five countries that Fao is currently receiving reports of severe Mal nutrition and deaths from the report in for the Fao said As of late about tons of Grain had piled up at the country red sea ports of assay and Massaway and at the Harbor in neighbouring an estimated tons of food destined for ethiopian victims was at Anchor awaiting the other countries still affected by food shortages to varying degrees Are Cape to Senegal and Botswana is in its fourth year of the Fao and food production is still severely impaired in Angola and Mozambique because of civil the Fao had some Good in its it said the food crisis was Over in eight of the 21 nations which it had originally listed As facing exceptional food Supply problems in the countries now out of the Agency Are Zambia and the drought has been the weather conditions have favored 1985 main season and the food Supply Situa Tion is Back to the Fao report the drought is the main topic under Dis Cussion at a meeting of the 50member organization of african Unity now under Way in Addis l h 46 77 Albany 67 95 Albuquerque 55 60 Anchorage 71 93 Atlanta 70 62 Atlantic City 67 83 Baltimore 67 87 Billings 66 91 Birmingham 69 91 Boise 65 79 Boston 73 77 Buffalo 47 70 Burlington 76 89 69 90 61 85 Chicago 64 86 Cincinnati 60 81 Cleveland 70 96 Worth 66 94 Denver 72 80 Des Molnes 60 82 Detroit 56 69 Fairbanks 59 87 Fargo 54 84 Hartford 71 90 Honolulu 75 92 Houston 60 84 Indianapolis 72 92 Jacksonville 70 92 Kansas City 85 112 Las vegas l h 74 99 Little Rock 70 87 los Angeles 64 89 Louisville 73 96 Memphis 78 86 Miami Beach 63 91 Paul 70 95 Nashville 74 88 new Orleans 70 82 new York City 69 83 Norfolk 74 97 Oklahoma City 72 87 Omaha 71 94 Orlando 64 83 Philadelphia 61 83 Pittsburgh 53 76 Maine 61 85 Oregon 58 85 Providence 68 90 Raleigh 54 93 Reno 72 89 Louis 74 92 Petersburg 70 93 Salt Lake City 72 79 san Diego 54 64 san Francisco 58 77 Seattle 48 77 Syracuse 81 109 Tucson 70 84 Washington 72 106 Wichita european weather forecast for sunday Patchy Light fog in Lowling areas in the skies fair to partly a Chance of isolated thunderstorms in the late afternoon for the High temperatures from the High 70s to High lows in the upper Sunset sunday Sunrise monday Outlook for monday Patchy morning fog and fair to partly Cloudy for the Eastern half of the Benelux and Western portions of Germany will be partly to mostly Cloudy with isolated Little change in tempera temperatures recorded saturday f f f f f f f 4am 4pm 68 93 59 79 72 82 64 84 61 81 61 77 59 81 4am 4pm m 61 75 f 52 79 f 59 82 f 68 97 f 55 77 f f 63 84 68 a mostly Cloudy by det 7th weather tra Bentzar