European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q Earmy officer suing to get rank 2 d Atlanta braves fire Haas wine takes Over 21 d today Dollar buys Marks 27 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 132 August 1985 is Doh Ono d 8693 a York gun system scrapped program terminated after billion spent Over 7 years by Norman Black Washington a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said tuesday he is killing immediately an army program to Field a new Ai defense gun because the weapons performance is not Worth the the army had already invested billion in the York gun system and will now have to Salvage for parts the 65 guns already the Secretary the one of the most dramatic Midstream halts to a Pentagon weapons program in recent will save roughly he told i have decided to terminate the York diva army Ai defense weapon Weinberger adding that recent Independent operational tests demonstrated that the systems performance does not effectively meet the growing military the tests demonstrated also while there Are marginal improvements that can be made to the these Are not significant compared to the capability of current Ai defense weapons not Worth the additional so we will not invest any More funds in this York weapon system during a photo Channel buggy a photo a Franz of Cologne Hopes to get across the English Channel and into record books by driving this specially modified the which has a waterproofed motor compartment and tires More than seven feet in is taking to the water for the first time in rechannel crossing tests at the known More formally As the division air defense or has been under development for More than seven designed to protect armoured vehicles from air it consists of two 40mm Cannon mounted atop a modified tank Chassis linked to a computer and Weinberger had until the end of this week to inform Congress whether the nicknamed after a popu Lar world War i meets or exceeds the performance specifications of its without that Cert the army was prohibited from spending any More Money on the Weinberger said the army had signed contracts for 146 of the guns and had so far received 65 from the prime the Ford aerospace communications he said that the army would not accept any More of the guns and that he had ordered an immediate halt to the the defense Secretary said he acted with some reluctance in killing the program because the problems with see York on Page 28 shuttle finally rockets away Cape a the space shuttle discovery found a Hole in the Clouds and took off at last on a satellite Salvage Mission then developed a problem that could Lead to Early deployment of one of the three communications satellites in the cargo the weather conditions were the worst Ever for a shuttle with heavy rain belting the launch pad before and just after two hours after the astronauts reported trouble in closing by Remote control a Sun shield intended to protect an australian one of three communications the astronauts said they were confident they could overcome the the shield is made of lightweight tubing and the Crew said the tubing apparently brushed against a camera on the ships robot Arm and then snagged on a satellite Mission control said it was considering using the Arm to nudge the shield open and then Advance the launch of the aus sat satellite to tuesday afternoon to minimize the exposure of its electronics to the deployment had been set for wednesday the Crew also reported an indication of difficulty with a joint on the mechanical dont worry about All this Little stuff Well get it see shuttle on Page 28 terrorist group admits killing go for id card by de Reavis staff writer Germany leftist terrorists tuesday claimed responsibility for the murder of an american Soldier for his id which it used in carrying out a car bombing at Rhei main a earlier this a spokesman for the Federal prosecutors office said spokesman Alexander Prechtel said the Frankfurter Mundschau newspaper received a letter tuesday signed by the red army in which the group admitted it murdered 4 Edward Pimental in order to obtain his id which it used to gain Access to the air Pimental body was found 8 in a Woods near shortly before the car bombing that killed two people and injured Prechtel said the letter was postmarked on 25 in the same town from which the red army faction mailed a letter and Pimental id card to the Reuters news Agency in Frankfurt on experts believe the letter is genuinely from the judging from the wording of the letter and the which Only they Prechtel Prechtel said the letter confirms the earlier suspicion of with the Advent of this admission on the part of the red army it is Safe to say that weve entered a new dimension in leftist terrorism where the average sol Dier is now fair game for planned terrorist he it Doest Rule out attacks on or any other soldiers for the same the earlier red army faction strategy of concentrating on attack ing so called decision makers alone is no see terrorists on Page 28 85 College football schedules pages 23