European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday september 12. 1985 satellite travels safely through Comet s Tail r _.1 i a. " Nikii itt Nih . My. Ai an american satellite sending a constant Stream of valuable data emerged intact after slicing through the Tail of a Cornet wednes Day the first encounter of a Man made object with a Comet. We have successfully gone through the Tail of a Comet for the first time in history said Jim Elliott of the Odilard space i Light Center in this Washington suburb. Everything is i making Good he said. Scion Isis Vul surprised at indications that the satellite spent about 15 minutes crossing the Tail of the Giacobini inner Comet the trip was expected to take Only about 5 minutes. Indications from the satellite were that the Tail was 9.000 or 10,000 Miles wide instead of the 3.000 scientists had calculated. The plasma Tail May be five to six times larger than expected said Mai Nice nor a Cornet scientist. Plasma is composed of electrically charged particles of Gas. Plasma forms one of two tails that Trail behind the Comet s head when it is near Ilic in. The other Tail is composed of dust. Scientists Ere worried that the satellite s solar Power cells might be come clouded reducing the electrical output needed to Send data Back to the Harth. I think i overestimated the Haard a Little  said night director Robert i Arquhar. We Haven t seen any dust at All. I m very  after the spacecraft left the Comet s Tail scientists pronounced it out of danger but they noted the possibility of Small rocks nearby and added we could still run into a Golf Ball or something like that but it looks  the data from the satellite still must be Analysed but the Early reports indicate that much new information was gained about magnetic Fields around the Comet.  evidence suggests that the magnetic Fields were clearly much smaller than the magnetic Field of the  we arc getting sign Iciano scientific data that has never been found before. Elliott said. The satellite travelled seven years and More than a billion Miles toward its encounter. It crossed the Comet s Tail an estimated 4,900 Miles behind the Comet s icy be irly 12 hours before the encounter scientists believed Thuv saw indications from the spacecraft that it was noticing the Comet s presence. Instruments showed the it the spacecraft encountered the Comet s Bow Shock while the satellite was still 117.000 Miles from the Comet and closing in fast. Bow Shock was described by scientists As being much like the Waves made by a boat plunging through  antennas around the world were tuned to the encounter area to take scientific data from the satellite called ice for International come iry explorer. Tracking stations at Arecibo puerto Rico Goldstone Calif. And Madrid Spain were locked onto the satellite during its historic moment. With its 16-Inch Telescope the Observatory at Cerro Tolono in the chilean Andes was photographing the meeting. Murder attempt photographed by Amateur Miami a an Amateur photographer snapped o series of pictures As an assailant dragged a stabbing victim to the Edge of a Bridge spanning the Miami River and dumped him in. Police said tuesday. The witness who photographed the murder attempt from across the Bridge monday helped police find the attacker after a passer by pulled the seriously wounded Man from the River officer Juan Santos said. The photographer a 39-year-old architect said that he was Riding his bicycle Home from work when he saw a Man dragging Pedro Rivero along the South Side of the South West first Street Bridge. According to Santos Rivero and Boris she Chuc who was arrested in the attack had been arguing when Shiv Chuc stabbed Rivero in the stomach with a Butcher knife. The photographer who asked not to be identified said every so often the Man who was dragging Rivero would Stop and beat him this happened four or five times by the time he got to the  the photographer said he was standing on the North Side of the Short Bridge when he look the pictures. After Rivero was dumped into the River the other Man just walked calmly away the photographer said adding that he did not try to inter Sci. Because he was frightened. After dumping Rivero into the water the Man walked into a nearby boarding House where the photographer s Girlfriend lives. The photographer followed the Man in to warn his Girlfriend then directed police to the building where they arrested Shevchuk 48, who was charged with attempted murder. Rivero 38, was reported in serious condition in Jackson memorial Hospital. The assailant throws Pedro hero off a Bride in Miami after subbing him in the stomach. Caribbean Force fessed in exotic Palm exercise Castries St. Lucia a hundreds of ., British and Caribbean sol Diers and sailors have begun a mock assault on this Island nation the first test of the regional Force financed by the United states since the 1983 Grenada invasion. The five Day operation exotic Palm War games opened tuesday As members of St. Lucia s special services unit secured the International Airport on this Caribbean is land s Southern lip. The exercises called for troops to answer a Call for help from the government of the fictitious Island nation of Linus because of a threat from externally supported  insurgents arc supposedly supported by two marxist Leninist nations in the Region. More than half of the assault troops arc american and the remainder come from the newly formed  counterinsurgency units of the Caribbean islands. . And British warships also Are participating. Among the Caribbean nations sending troops or police to the exercises is Grenada which was invaded by  And Caribbean forces on oct. 25, 1983, after leftist prime minister Maurice Bishop was executed and a More Radical military Junta seized Power. Fun Stoiko a Tuktuk Occam Catt Mam a my tinkle . 0 other islands involved arc Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica and St. Kilts Nevis. Immediately after the Grenada invasion. Prime minister Tom Adams of Barbados called for creation of a Caribbean army to provide regional Security. Adams proposal unleashed widespread criticism within the Region called the Brit ish West indies before the islands began gaining Independence in the 1960s. Many islands complained of militarization and said Money proposed for guns would be bet Ter used for economic development. The United states eventually backed away from supporting a regional army mainly because of the Cost but last year donated $20 million in Light weaponry a Kol boats and training to the seven Eastern Cail Oban nations whose combined population is less than 1 million people. . Army experts have trained coun to insurgency units and most islands now have special services units of 80 people each. Grenada s will total about 120. Only Barbados with some 400 soldiers and Antigua and Barbuda  about 100, have armies. The other islands have Only police forces