European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday. November 10. 1985 cosmic comeback Comet Halley returns after a 78 year journey through the heaven. Comet finder Chart big dipper Little dipper Polaris North Star Northern Cross Pegasus path of Halley s Comet look for Halley s Comet High in the Southern sky at Sunset gradually Bright ening and moving lower in the sky through january. A news graphics Halley s Comet Sparks upswing in Telescope sales Tokyo Dpi japanese Telescope sales Are skyrocketing worldwide As Amateur astronomer prepare to catch a glimpse of Mailer s Comet when it makes its closest approach to Earth next year manufacturers said saturday. One japanese producer capitalizing on Amer ican interest in Halley s reappearance after 76 years started exporting its telescopes to the United states in March. Exports of astronomical instruments including telescopes which totalled 3.83 billion yen $18.6 million last year reached 4.93 Bil lion yen $24 million by the end of August the finance ministry s Export division said. The Japan economic journal reported that japanese Telescope exports which account forbore than half of the world Market Rose from 410,000 units in 1984 to 460.000 in the first eight months of this year. Is. Shipments most of the instruments were shipped to the United states Australia and Italy. Domestically retailers Are reporting a Boom in Telescope sales and manufacturers trying to meet the soaring demand say they have a Back log of orders ranging from two to three months. They expect the High demand to continue until next Spring when Halley s Comet is expected to make its closest approach to Earth. Nikon which manufactures telescopes Cost ing about 150,000 yen $730mostly for Domestic use said its sates have doubled this year. A Nikon spokesman said the company was producing at full capacity but that it was no increasing production because after the Comet passes sales will go Down Back to  doing quite Well we re doing quite Well said a spokesman or Kunko a Tokyo based Telescope maker that Only began exporting to the United states , but already boasts it is the no. I exporter to America. The spokesman said Kenko was expected to sell about 40,000 telescopes averaging about is 50 each to the United states this year. Domestic Telescope sales have gone up three or four times this  a company spokesman said. It takes two to three months to fill order Snow because we Are All out of  on nov. 2,7, Halley s Comet makes its closest approach to Earth during the inbound leg of its orbit around the Sun passing some 58 million Miles from the planet. The Comet passes closest to the Sun on feb 9, 1986, and then swings Back toward the Depths of the solar system making a closer approach to Earth on april 11 when it will be about 39 million mile away. World today private plane forced to land at cruise missile base in England London a a Light aircraft was forced to Mab an emergency Landing at the us. Cruise missile but it Green Haro common on Friday after developing equal Pine failure Britain s ministry of defense said. It was a totally genuine aircraft emergency Aid i defense ministry spokesman who spoke on condition k not be identified. Ben Lyons the Pilot of the Cessna 175, was flying Fijn Bedfordshire North of London to Hampshire in Southern England when his navigational equipment failed. I understand that it we dark and the Pilot could t he where he was going and. As he saw the Bale s Airport lights he decided to head Down there said be spoke Man. The Pilot taxied up to the control Tower and waited for the Security staff of come out to  Lyons waited Ai the cruise missile Hue until his company s managing director arrived to pick him up Sere Al hours after the Landing. The plane remained at the Ameri can base for repairs. Planned ban on tricycle taxis leads Drivers to leave Jakarta Jakarta Indonesia a some 600 driven of tricycle taxi Are leaving Jakarta rather than risk Satiu their muscle powered vehicles thrown into the sea As put of an official crackdown a newspaper has reported. The tricyclic which dominate Public transport id on poorer sections of the City will be banned because the pm declared to be inefficient inhumane and a cause of to Alec jams. In september 5,000 tricycles were thrown into Jakarta Bay and officials said 15,000 More seized in Midi would be disposed of in the same Way before january when us ban goes into effect. Driven who Chow to leave the capital tiled put the North Jakarta administration office in a leave Tatum ceremony Friday the Berita Buana newspaper mid. It Asje most chose to return to their hometowns in Central Java. An estimated 8,000 tricycles remain in operation. Jet makes unscheduled Landing because of insistent smoker London a a Twa Airliner made an in Sbei. Used Landing at London s Heathrow Airport after a a rious disturbance involving a nun who insisted of amok ing a Cigar in a no smoking area police said. The alleged smoker a 52-year-old american from Man sus Ippi whose name was not Given was arrested for angering the aircraft police said. The Boeing 747, route from Athens Greece to new York continued Oft a journey minus the smoker after a four hour delay pow they gave no other details but said the Captain be fwd the Row could Only be quelled by making an  at Heathrow. A Twa official who declined to be identified i id a do not allow Cigar or pipe smoking on any of our fill in and when asked this Man refused to put Hii Cigar out 475 mafia suspects indicted As Sicily continues crackdown Palermo Sicily a ending More than three of Nve a Tion. Sic magistrates have indict475 mafia suspect. Police have described it As the largest crackdown 0italy s criminal underworld. The indictment was handed Down by investigating jft4�antonio Caponnetto of the Palermo tribunal. The indictment charges the suspects with criminal nation. More than two thirds of them were also charged who narcotics trafficking and armed robberies while 24 my accused of murdering 90 people Over the past five Yeti