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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August 1985 shuttle closes in on crippled satellite Cape up the discovery snap walking repairmen closed in on a crippled but fully fuelled communications satellite Friday for a weekend service Call to hot wire the relay As the discovery steadily narrowed the Gap with the target syncom 3 the shuttle Crew trained television cameras on Hurricane Elena for the second Day in a commander Joe Englc said the storm was astronauts James Van Hofton and Wil Liam Fisher checked out the million spacesuits they were to Wear and again possibly when they try to repair the stranded syncom 3 radio relay the shuttles Cabin pressure was and the space walkers spent 45 minutes breathing pure oxygen to help flush nitrogen from their a routine procedure to prevent ill effects from working in Low pressure Van Richard Covey and John lounge faced a relatively Light schedule Friday As the Dis covery relentlessly gained ground on syn com by the discovery was less than Miles behind its target and was catching up at about 130 Miles with each flight director Jay Greene said the space shuttle was cruising with Only minor the Chase began in Earnest with two rocket a third was planned Friday to slightly increase the shuttles four More rocket firings were planned for Early saturday to com plete the the discovery Crew thursday launched syncom a redesigned version of the crippled satellite they Hope to and two communications satellites effects from working in Low pressure syncom an million satellite owned by Hughes communications and leased by the has been stranded in a useless orbit since when its automatic self starter failed to engage after the satellites launching from a for the repair Van Hoften plans to stand on the discovery robot Arm to manually stabilize the sat which May be once syncom 3 is a bar will be attached to its Side with a fixture that will allow the mechanical Arm to Latch then Fisher and Van Hoften will begin in stalling electronic gear to bypass the faulty automatic timer that failed to activate the Craft in after the repairs Are Van Hof ten will climb Back on the robot Arm and fling the satellite if the spacewalk takes two Days to com As the discovery will make a predawn Landing tuesday at Edwards if the repair work takes a single the discovery will be cleared to land deposed spy chief fears Germany has More moles in government posts Elena from Page 1 Bonn up the deposed chief of West German intelligence says East German spies Are probably still lurking in High positions in the West German a West German newspaper reported Heribert asked by the Bild newspaper whether he thought the East Ger Man secret service still had agents in High places in West replied i am a and i have to say they have Chancellor Helmut Kohl fired Hellen Broich on wednesday from his Post As chief of the Federal intelligence Agency in the aftermath of the defection of Hans Joachim the country top counterspy Deal ing with East German officials say Helle Broich failed to relieve despite signs that the Man had become a Security drinking run Ning up debts and suffering bouts of de Helle Broich was replaced by Hans Georg West Germany Ambas Sador to who once held West Ger Many top diplomatic Post in last weeks defection of Tiedge was the most damaging of eight espionage cases that embarrassed the Kohl government at Home and abroad As they came to Light in rapid succession during it was feared that Tiedge could Compro Mise West German agents in the East bloc while providing East Germany with inti mate details on the Workings of West Ger Man Hellen Brichs warning about further slum Bering moles came As the Kohl government was claiming credit for a coup by its own demoralized secret service the defection of an East German Diplomat in Bild said the defection of Martin Wink 44yearold charge affaires of the East German embassy in could cripple East Germany espionage network in latin Kohls government has said Winkler is being debriefed in it disputed persistent reports that he was All along a West German agent whose crossover was Trig gered by fears that Tiedge might have com promised his Africa from Page 1 maintain that int the the Issue is that repression in this climate does not defuse the he what is clearly needed is talking and negotiating and constructive signals to build a better not mailings and beat Ings and bombings and he the remarks came three Days after presi Dent Reagan praised the South african government As a reformist the remarks indicated an administration desire to cast South african authorities in a More negative Light than Reagan the official defended Rea Gans remarks by noting that the South african government has implemented changes and that the administration has a duty to Call attention to them when they the official also said the administration remains sceptical about the usefulness of sanctions against South but he said Reagan will await the completion of con Gressional action before deciding whether to veto sanctions legislation now the governor of South Africa Central Bank is arranging talks with banking officials in an apparent attempt to gain some Relief from his country foreign South Africa is scheduled to repay More than billion to Banks in the United states and elsewhere next a task made More difficult by a plunge in the value of its currency from More than three years ago to a record Low of cents this state department officials confirmed that Gerhard de Kock would meet with Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volck but neither they nor fed officials would say de who also plans a meet ing with Deputy assistant Secretary of state Frank has been in Europe for similar although South Africa debt in the United states is mostly to private Volcker and other Federal regulators Wield considerable influence with and Gas stations to Stock up on Gaso canned distilled water and lamp Florida Bob Graham declared a state of emergency in seven Panhandle counties and called out 250 National guard troops to help with about people were evacuated from coastal More than vacationers and Resi dents of Lowling areas fled the coast of where George Wallace declared a state of Elena chased thousands from Louisiana marshy threatening to flood escape routes with Waters driven by High Edwin Edwards declared a state of emergency in 14 helicopter companies frantically airlifted offshore Oil workers from rigs in the path of the about workers staff Gulf of Mexico temperatures l h August 29 l h recipient of artificial heart stable a the youngest person to receive a jarvik7 artificial heart was stable and winning a Battle for survival but his doctor said it will take weeks for the patient to regain the strength needed for a human heart even if a human heart were to become available in the next few Days for Michael implant surgeon Jack Copeland said he would not accept my Choice right now would be to seek stability and maintain stability for a period of four or five at and then Start looking perhaps for a donor said who headed the implant team during thursdays Drummond was in critical but stable condition unchanged since late when officials reported improvements in his blood lung condition and blood said Hospital spokeswoman Jeannie the assistant supermarket manager had been Given 12 to 24 hours to live without the he was the victim of a viral infection that attacked his Drummonds heart deteriorated rapidly after he was transferred monday to the University of Arizona medical Center from a Hospital near Copeland 58 69 97 los Angeles 63 94 87 Louisville 51 58 90 Memphis 71 84 86 Miami Beach 67 85 Atlantic 70 65 85 91 Nashville 57 84 89 new Orleans 69 87 85 new York 60 95 88 Norfolk 64 71 94 Oklahoma City 57 71 87 Omaha 50 66 88 Orlando 76 86 84 Philadelphia 60 86 110 Phoenix 68 83 78 Pittsburgh 58 83 74 60 80 80 70 96 79 Providence 58 92 88 Raleigh 68 83 90 Reno 63 80 89 Louis 50 59 89 Petersburg 54 65 95 Salt Lake City 61 79 83 san Diego 77 89 68 san Francisco 74 88 89 san Juan 59 83 76 Seattle 75 91 67 Syracuse 67 88 Kansas 107 Tucson 76 109 Las 85 Washington 68 92 Little 97 Wichita gunman who killed 4 is believed insane Germany up police said Friday a Man who shot and killed four people and wounded five in a frenzied drive apparently is they also said he apparently was motivated by a hatred of in a 30minute wild drive in a stolen car thursday night through Karlsruhe Markus a 32yearold unemployed lathe fired 50 revolver shots at police killed were a 43yearold a Fco year old woman and her 29yearold son and a 61yearold four men and one woman were a police spokesman said who told interrogators he always Felt rejected by has a history of mental Bitsch was captured by police who blocked roads with police cars directed by a police he rammed three police cars with his vehicle before he was he told interrogators that he had planned to rape a steal her car and hold up a he drove up to a filling station on a moped and tried to overpower a woman in her but she he then Tore the Auto keys out of the hand of a Man and took off in his shooting out the window As he police said he shot a 43yearold woman cyclist in the stomach several times and then got out of the automobile to fire sever Al More times to make sure that she was european weather forecast for saturday fair to partly Cloudy skies Over most of Germany and the with partly to a Clouds Skles Northern a Chance of there f fog Germany and the High temperatures Midas to mld70s lows to Sunset saturday Sunrise sunday Outlook for sunday expect ii he with temperatures about the same temperatures recorded Friday f 75 90 Copenhagen i ii fuss Salt 54 79 f 72 79 p 59 77 64 84 Madrid f 68 93 f 57 77 Munich f 48 73 p 59 77 f 59 57 81 f 68 82 7h weather other worldwide temperatures High Low High Low i 93 75 cd 68 so f a a lwont0 r 62 64 of 66 90 by the associated of far Doudy partly Cloudy a rant  
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