European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 o the stars and stripes sunday november 3, 1985 Spain base is shuttle backup Landing site by Tony Naurot ii staff writer Zaragoxa a. Spain when the Spisic took Uff wednes Day limn in a Fri Jhaj a in northeastern Spain was sta1 in Case an emergency land no was Nec Essary. If something goes wrong in the first 12 minutes of a shuttle flight. Nasa officials can abort the Mission and bring the space Craft safely Back id Giarth. If officials decide to abort a Mission within two minutes after liftoff the shuttle returns to Cape canaveral. A decision made Between iwo and 12 minutes liftoff Means the shuttle most land at one of two depending on shuttle is Fly ing a northerly Bush cry arc across the atthe Field is either Zarago a the Cyr Ili l of Senegal on he West coast of Africa. Air Force col. Ward Boyce commander of the 406lh combat support group at Xii ago a. Is the on site commander when Ever the northerly route is taken. He pre shuttle recovery team of Ore s. Security police and others from i Iff a Jiin Fol by Nasa in shuttle Landing proc a handful of advisers and Nasa and the no part wot defense Are also on hand i Rene launches. R s twice delayed july 30 Hajj than the shuttle s main engine Nasa officials came within 30 ones of aborting. Boyce said it lakes Only 30 minutes for the shuttle to travel from Florida to Spain. It got a Little exciting during that launch Boyce said. . Col. Chuck Williams normally chief of operations and training for the 40mh. Becomes the Airfield support coordinating officer during shuttle operations if sits in the Airfield to wer and acts communications link Between vials in the United stay0tfvoycc. Who is parked Wii Hajj a Eric los at the end of the a peso Long runway. Lams said the shuttle needs at least feet of runway to land safely. Dur hcs eight xenon lights that put out each arc set up at the end of flehdlut4llpng with other pieces of equipment. A helicopter Rescue team Waits to we isl possible injured shuttle Crew members to a modern Hospital in downtown Zaragoza. Boyce said the team practices recovery operations regularly but never with a shuttle. The Cost would be astronomical he said. If the abort Field is Ever used Normal base operations we said. _ try thing would be geared to the shuttle and getting it Back to the states be said. Between Zaragoza and Moron a3. It s the secondary abort Field for both primary Sites. On site commander maj. Jim Burrescia said the same preparations arc followed at Moron As at the primary site just in Case. Because a stiff wind anywhere from to 60 knots frequently blows along i Landing Field. Moron is often in the primary abort Field. Burre Flemm Akar also has weather problems while Calm. That july launch really opened our eyes Burrescia said. Twenty eight min utes later it challenger could have been in our of bars Rockwell from getting new contracts Force citing a guilty plea by Rockwell International corp. To charges of voc Billing the Pentagon suspended the company thursday from receiving any new defense department contracts. The suspension accompanied a notification to the Fiji Ulm pm Mph _ a company from Tulare contracting with the executive air Force Rockwell will now have 30 Days to arguments in its defense. Of however it will the Pittsburgh based Rockwell is the United states s second largest defense con tractor having received awards totalling s6.2 billion in fiscal 1984 alone. Ajor weapon contracts include the 8-1 tile guidance systems. The f contractor on the space shuttle. The timing of the order could be critical. For More than a year the company has been fighting in partnership with the plus Scy co. Of Britain for a huge $4.3 billion army combat Telephone contract. Plessey and Rockwell have been compete French conglomerate i horns i is and the get supposed to have been been held up in part by " Campaign conducted by both and French governments. . Pessimistic on Philippines future unless Marcos makes drastic changes news update Washington a increasing civil unrest and a grow communist insurgency will Force c of the Philippines Witlin h years unless pc Sidcot for dint and mar makes major Reform sea new assessment concluded Friday. The prediction by t committee marked Ai pessimistic . Force of the Philippines a Senate intelligence Ither in a series of and the Home of the \ military bases outside in the two years s Benigno Aquino a stepped off a plane o from the United Slat become increasingly cos future. Last month presic Paul Laxalt r-ncv., Manila to deliver a m the United states wan last Wick top s Pentagon officials to about the future y . Pacific ally biggest american foe United slates be opposition Leader assassinated As he his return to Manila . Officials have interned about mar it Reagan sent sen. S a personal envoy to stage to Marcos that de Reform. Ite department and the Senate foreign relations Commil Lathat the former . Possession is headed toward civil War on a massive scale unless Marcos makes drastic changes. I sen. David Durenberger r-minn., chairman of the single intelligence com Mittee told a news conference Friday that i am hopeful Marcos will step but the ailing Marcos who has ruled since 1965, has shown no signs " seriousness of the threat to his government Durenberger admitted. All we re getting from him is a Public relations barrage Duran Berger said. While he said he does t know what should be done Durenberger said i m not Sug Gesting that the United states should use Covert action to destabilize Marcos govern ment or should take other Steps to ensure mar cos successor is Friendly to the United states. The communists who fight under the Deaver s wife appointed to Fine arts commission Washington a president Reagan has appointed Carolyn j. Deaver wife of former White House Deputy chief of staff Michael k. Deaver As a member of the Federal commission on Fine arts. Mrs. Deaver is a consultant to a Public relations firm. Her husband one of the president s closest confidants opened his own consulting firm this year. Name new Peoples army spa control or Are contesting areas inhabited by 10 Mil lion of the 53 million pc Ole in the Phil y years since nation the spa has it now poses a credible i the from a total Force armed guerrillas in 19 grown to probably Over in a somewhat larger null regulars the study the communist move and there is no avid plied with weapons or Union the report said i lion to events m the Phili on the the communist ii Home grown movement Ai probably be hesitant to b the u5.s.r. For arms a avoid doing a the report besides the communists communist moderate change through democratic and the various groups i Hopes on next year s local presidential election the f " Aquino Assassin so rapidly that t to the survival of it said. A few thousandth spa has ,000 regulars and of part time in idea. It is indigenous it has been sup Ley by the soviet it soviet Allan Ines is certainly is very much a its leadership will me dependent on funding if it can lured. Significant non Ilion seeking i exists pinned their Lions and the to year. Warning on wine Bonn a the Federal health ministry has renew its warning to Consumers again rink ing austrian wine saying m might contain dangerous additives it said there was a possible by that the wine had been a port to West Germany but did not re Brt if any had been found Here f austrian authorities id they impounded about 100,010 Gallons of bottled wine to Check for illegal preservatives. Agriculture ministry spokesman Kurt Bober said in Vienna the wine is being examined for traces of podium azide and Brome acetic i 3 charge in deaths la Najm Cyprus a three Nyale Linian gunmen a Bri ton and two arabs have been charge Faith murder in the slaying of the israelis in the Warnaca Man Tom bar. Gunmen appeared in the chs id court building Only a Cou of Hundred Yards from the Mari i where the three israelis were shot and killed aboard their Small yacht. Chemical traces found in reunite wines Washington a Consumers arc being advised to return to retailers Sev eral brands of imported italian reunite wine in which traces of the chemical die thy ice glycol have been found. The chemical commonly used for Indus trial purposes and As an ingredient in anti freeze can be harmful if consumed in sufficient amounts Stephen b. Higgins Din of the Federal Bureau of " and firearms said thursday but Carmel president of Banfi producjs-corp., which imports the wines said medical experts have told the company the chemical has been found in such Small amounts that no harmful effects would result. Higgins said Banfi Brookville ii i Giehll i ii the following brands Jennite Bianco 750 Milli ,40tfcttl24-re reunite Rosato code 1124-re reunite Rosato Mer code 3321-Br reunite lambrusco Dell Emilia 750ml, code 1124-re and reunite a Yumante 750ml, code 813-re. . Army class i stores Cany the lambrusco and Bianco brands a usar eur spokesman said Friday. Sales Stop of be tested Moo request of German authorities he added. If testing shows the wines Are not tainted class i stores will resume Selling them the spokesman said. A Safe spokesman said the suspect wines have been pulled from the shelves of All class i stores in Germany the nether lands Italy England and Turkey. He said they Are being tested to deter mine if they Are tainted correction the headline and tint paragraph of a Story in 1ay � editions of the stars and Stripe con j i error. Guidelines on instruction of dts aids were not issued by be overseas a cation association which rep resents two Tif Lebof department of defense dependents Schoow caches but by the National education Assoc pm the sea s Parent organization. Stars and safes regrets the error. In an air Force Roundup Tho Day the name of one of the recipients of thex Aien Del Raven awards for commissaries inadvertently left out. Diana Maxwell Ramstein a Germany won the award Best customer service manager. 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