European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d stalker1 suspect linked to satanic themes Page 2 n states Eye increases in cigarette taxes Page 5 d Navratilova wins fast meet with Cecchini in . Open Page 21 the stars  vol. 44, no 138 tuesday september 3, 1985. Ahmed Force in doll and Sundo d 8693 a Elena now a major Hurricane Cedar key Fla. A unpredictable Elena after being stalled at sea for two Days strengthened to a major Hurricane with sustained winds of 125 Mph sunday and headed toward the Gulf coast where the second evacuation in four Days was ordered. Some 250,000 people in Florida s Panhandle were told to flee the storm sunday As were 175,000 people on Ala Bama s coast. Evacuations were ordered in one Southern Louisiana Parish where about 10,000 people live and were being carried out in Mississippi s three coastal counties. Hurricane warnings were extended Westward from Yan keel own below Florida s Panhandle to grand Isle la., about so Miles South of new Orleans. The warnings Cov ered More than 500 Miles or coast. Sunday night the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables estimated Elena s Eye was about 105 Miles South cast of Pensacola. Elena was reclassified As a category 3 Hurricane up one step on a 1 -to-5 scale said storm forecaster Hal Gerrish. The storm blamed for at least one death was expected to hit land by Daybreak Between Pensacola and Mobile ala., if it sustained its 10 Mph movement said Hurricane Center forecaster Mark Zimmer. Elena had forced evacuation in the Panhandle and in Alabama s two coastal counties on thursday before veer ing toward Florida s West Central coast. An estimated 1 million people were evacuated from that area late Friday and saturday. Panhandle and Alabama residents Actu Ned Home As the storm wobbled 80 Miles West Southwest of Cedar key in the Gulf of Mexico on saturday. The Eye has already passed Apalachicola and is going near Panama City about 50 Miles farther West in the Central part of the Panhandle Zimmer said later sunday. What we re emphasizing to people is that Hurricane Force winds arc occurring now from Apalachicola to Panama  about 250,000 people were affected in the five Florida Panhandle counties where the governor ordered the vac lation said Bob Nave an official with the department of emergency management. Alabama officials estimated 175,000 people were affected by evacuation orders Sun Day. The Louisiana evacuation was in the sparsely populated see Elena on Page 28 Pierre Kennedy emerges from Haj Houseboat in Tampa Fla., As he assesses damage done by Elena. At right Indian rocks Fla., police chief Sam Heath studies damage. No nerd a Var trigger Weinberger jays Washington a american Are not controlled by a hair trigger firing me and would not be forced to resort to a preemptive nuclear strike in the event of a crisis with the soviet Union according to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger s reassurances were contained in a letter released sunday by sen. William Proxmire a wis. Proxmire had written to Weinberger to Inqui Reah the status of the system controlling the nuclear weapons. Proxmire s letter came fre Wake of two recent books one by  the other by Bruce Blair raising ques top -6out the system known As com Mand control and  Weinberger said the two books were full of " cd and inaccurate info nation i Imit c. Saying i Dinou Eji Rene department of Daren pkg would Ejof it oilily to them by publicly refuting int a a Lions or their   Saiol tsp eeds to be done to improve of system  weapons. However i can stale Une Fumju that the present system despite its c Trent  our National policy of deterrence and does not Forem Hurst to absorb a nuclear attack As suggested in Blair Scab a Sions or resort to the preemptive strike implied As net Cussary by Ford. _ i what has to be done to redress existing lems Weinberger said. He declined to go into detail of the highly classified area. Ford author of the Button formerly served As executive director of the Union of concerned scientists a Washington based Public interest group that frequently has criticized . Nuclear weapons policy. Blair a former minus can missile launch control officer worked As a defense policy analyst with the Brooking institution a Washington think tank before joining the defense communications Agency. His Aca Emic study strategic command and control was cd by Brookings. I space Wilkers return satellite to orbit Cape canaveral Fla. A space shuttle discovery s two space walkers completed electrical repairs on the syncom 3 communications satellite sunday and re turned the 7w-ton Craft to its own orbit. It looks Good. A Good steady spin astronaut James Van Hoften said As he manually spun the satellite out of the space shuttle s cargo Bay and watched it Drift away. Now he and his fellow space Walker astronaut Bill Fisher must wait two months. When a signal is sent to syncom motor to learn if their two Day Cifor Nisja off. Van Hoften standing on a platform mounted on the end of the shuttle s 50-f robot Arm manually spun the Satelli rate of about three  and let it go 230 Miles am one Pacific Ocean at the Equator. On the  saturday Van Hoften Hadjik cd out with his gloved hands  he disabled satellite. Van Hoften and Fisher treating protective suits Noa cd my tithe shuttle s Airlock at 8 14 Imus finish what they started moved to a work station while As Trona like lounge operating from a re Mote Post inside the Cabin mane Vered the  a end of the robot Arm. The Craft Rema Don the Arm overnight. After switching on Blower to the electrical connections they Nylk saturday the astronauts disengaged the Sawlit and spun it up for release. Deployment came three hours after Sun Day s walk began. The firing is being delayed to give ground controllers a Chance to Man Euver syncom 3 in the Sun to thaw out ils fuel. Some of the fuel has Frozen during the four months the satellite has drifted through space As a derelict. If the fuel docs not thaw properly the see satellite on Page 28