European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 o the stars and stripes Friday november 29, 1985 shuttle deploys communications satellites space Center Houston a Atlantis Astro nauts taking care of paying customers first launched communications satellites for Mexico and Australia on wednesday but they still have one More to go before turning their attention to a pair of pioneering spacewalks. Aus Sal ii an australian satellite spun out of the shuttle s cargo Bay at 8 20 . Est and the astronauts re ported the launch went Well. We got a Good deploy said astronaut Sherwood Spring who supervised the Spring ejection of the ssi Mil lion satellite. It looked like it might have gone a Mission control told the Crew of six men and a woman you Guys and Gal do Good the Crew launched a mexican satellite the Morelos a earlier wednesday morning just hours after the spectacular nighttime liftoff of the shuttle from the Kenned space Center in Florida. On thursday the cargo Bay would be emptied with the launch of the Ria sitcom k-2 satellite. That would Clear the Way for the two astronauts to practice spacewalk techniques that May be used to build future space stations. The three satellite customers Are paying Sio million each to the National aeronautics and space administration for the launch services. Mission commander Brewster Shaw tested All systems aboard Atlantis and reported that one of four videotape recorders was not working. "1 can t seem to make it come to life he said. Mission control gave him permission to Lake apart an electronic Cabinet to look for a wiring flaw but Shaw reported i Don t see anything that is obviously wrong with later following directions from the ground Shaw cycled a circuit breaker and reported happily Bingo that seems to get Power to except for that minor problem Mission control told Shaw it seems like Atlantis is working yeah he agreed. We re really looking for things. It s hard to find for thanksgiving he astronauts were to get a traditional meal of sliced Turkey Cranberry sauce and pumpkin cake. Nasa officials said the Morelos b successfully rocketed itself into a storage orbit 22,300 Miles Over Earth. The Craft will be allowed to Drift unused until it reaches ill final stationary position in 1989. The mexican government asked that the satellite be stored in orbit until it was needed. A satellite twin More los a was launched from the shuttle in june and ii provid ing new Telephone and television service to Many Remote areas in Mexico but Only half the satellite capacity it in use. The recent mexican earthquake damaged some of the nation s ground communications facilities and there is no Money now available for their repair. Mexican officials chose to store Morelos b in orbit because launch Cost for the satellite could increase to four limes the amount that Mexico paid Nasa for wednes Day s Orbital delivery. Athens air controllers beginning to collapse Athens Greece a air traffic controllers who have been reporting to work without sleeping or eating for the past three Days in a dispute Over pay and benefits began collapsing wednesday officials of flights were cancelled and some airports were Katsimalis head of the air traffic controllers association of Greece told the associated press that More than 120 of the 400 controllers throughout the country had collapsed from exhaustion and were hospitalized. Olympic airways the nation s Flag car Rier cancelled More than 100 International and Domestic flights. The control Tower a Athens Airport reported Only three olym Pic flights had departed. We Only handled 10 percent of our daily Load of about 300 flights at the Athens Airport today while Only 100 planes passe through our flight information Region in Stead of our usual 1,000 or so Kasimi Lusaida. He said most of Greece s 35 provincial airports had closed. Officials at the nation second largest Airport in Salonic. Laid no air plane landed there foreign airlines cancelled nights to Greece and rerouted flights away from greek airspace officials Laid. We bad no flights into the country today and we have to play it by car Tomor Row said a British airways official who spoke on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for one foreign airline said officials were wary of using Athens Airport and greek airspace. There is Only one con troller sitting in the Athens control Tower and he does t look very awake Laid the official who also demanded anonymity. The controllers stopped eating and sleep ing monday. They Are seeking an increase in their allowance for specialist skills retirement after 20 Yean instead of 35, and More overtime and Holiday pay. The aver age controller earns $530 monthly. Katsimalis said the controllers would continue their protest until the government be gins negotiations. Greek police seek 3 Young bomb suspects Athens Greece a police searched the capital wednesday for three youths suspected of detonating a bomb Laden car that blasted a passing police bus killing one officer and wounding 14. Police said they believed the youths we remembers of the november 17 organization an underground terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for at least six assassinations since 1975. A caller claiming to represent november17 phoned the pro government Athens newspaper Elefther Otylia and said it was responsible for tuesday s attack said a police source who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. Nicholaos go Gakopoulos a 24-year-oldmember of the Athens riot police died shortly after the blast. The explosives were packed into a Volks Wagen Van parked near the luxury caravel and Athens Hilton hotels and detonated by a 495-foot Cable attached to a car Battery police said. Officials said the bus carrying 22 office Shad just left a nearby police station to take the officers to their night shift assignment when the bomb was detonated. Seven offi cers escaped injury. Police reported that some residents said they noticed three youths near the car a few hours earlier. November 17 is named after the nov. 17,197student uprising at Athens polytechnic Institute against the former military dictatorship. The rebellion led to the col lapse of the authoritarian regime eight months later. Crypt from Page 1 wednesday issued a stall the extradition request was mad Puki can be tried under egyptian since this is Egypt s right under International Mifsud said Marzouka had been questioned by police but his health condition has not permitted yet any in depth on tuesday before the news Agency re port Mifsud said Malta will have to whether any extradition request honoured. Egypt s state Security pm Fawdry Ragaa Al Araby said that of plaited Marzouka could face charge jew order espionage an endangering with penalties to lengthy imprisonment bile autopsies completed on More than half the Egypt air Hijack victims show nearly All died in the smoke and flames that swept through the Cabin after egyptian commandos stormed the plane sources said refused to reveal the results of the autopsies ordered for the 59 four hijackers. Urges including a it oud Anhthu Sipras involved in the Mcd fam mss Libra said 30 autopsies bad wednesday evening a mowed had died of and the c t inhalation., sources spoke on condition they i be survivors have said commandos began shooting at people who fled the Burn ing plane. Mohammed Elwakil of Alexandria Egypt said he hurled himself to the floor when the raid began then fled unhurt through an emergency exit. Until this moment i was not Hurt. But suddenly the egyptian ump med to shoot me. They Phouam Spir one of the terrorists he Uttmi Etnis Hospital is Recola App Mai Bullet wounds to his homed Are you a Dummy i m Antian citizen " he said and then they stopped denied again wednesday that it was involved in the hijacking in a govern ment statement distributed by its official Jan a news s Leader. Col. Moa mar Aba Day repeated the denial in an interview with pcs to s Macneil Lehrer news hour. It strange to look for any relation be Hiya and this. Sad event. I am lure,tflavm0relalioiuhipbetween Libya and this. He said. President of Egypt claimed tuesday that pm a connection to the hijacking was very cum kit he offered no proof. Egypt has said then Wickera were renegade palestinian Libya. Backed by Waite from Page 1 be had met in the United states with general Javier Perez de Cullar and with episcopal and presbyterian Church officials. The four who wrote to Runcie Are Terr Anderson 38, of Lorain Ohio chief mid dle East correspondent for the associated press David Jacobsen 54, of Huntington each calif., director of the american University Hospital in Beirut the Rev Lawrence Junco 50, of Joliet 111., a roman Catholic priest and Thomas Sutherland,54, scottish born Dean of agriculture at the american University. Two kidnapped americans did not Sig the Appeal to Runcie. They Are is. Diplo mat William Buckley and librarian Pete Kilburn. Islamic jihad or islamic holy War the moslem extremist group thought to be hold ing the americans has said it lolled Buckley 57, of Medford mass., but has not produced his body. There has been no recent word of Kilburn 60, of san Francisco the librarian a american University of Beirut Waite has helped negotiate Freedom freight britons and anglican missionaries held in Iran and Libya since 1982. He was credited with a role in the september re lease of the Rev. 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