European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 3, 1985 astronauts build Tower Pyramid in 2nd walk space Center Houston a Atlantis Astro nauts on sunday completed their second successful space walk test of construction skills building a four Story Tower and a Large Pyramid in the shuttle s open cargo Bay. Astronauts Jerry Ross and Sherwood Spring assembled a 45-foot Metal Tower and a 12-foot Pyramid from alumni num struts and Ihnn skilfully mane Vered them about the cargo Bay. The excursion lasted 42 minutes longer than the planned six hours. After disassembling the Tower the astronauts built the Pyramid weighing about 384 pounds and twirled it around holding the Bulky Geometric shape by its Apex. They had difficulty detaching the Pyramid from its base and dropped behind their schedule by More than half an hour. Ross said it appeared the base was distorted by heat and he used a spare attachment. Television views showed Spring holding the lower at its midpoint. Fic appeared like a toy figure playing with a Metal framework Many times his Sec. But he moved it and controlled it easily. There also were views of Spring playing with the Pray mid. He was Able to twirl it like a lop in slow motion As it floated in weightlessness. Ross stood on a platform on the end of Atlantis robot Arm As the Tower was released into his hands. He moved the Bulky 200-Pound Structure around and was even Able to keep it pointed at the Moon As the spacecraft raced along 220 Miles above Earth. The astronauts built the lower from 93 struts of alumni num tubes 1 Inch in diameter. The Pyramid was made of 6 aluminium struts 12 feel Long. The parts for both Struc Tures had sockets to snap together. On Friday the astronauts built and disassembled the Tower and Pyramid in a five hour 32-Minutc spacewalk. They raced ahead of schedule and were Able to build and disassemble the Pyramid eight times. During much of Friday s work the astronauts floated free but for sunday s work one of the astronauts stood on the end of Atlantis robot Arm controlled from inside the shuttle by astronaut Mary Cleave. David Akin of the Massachusetts Institute of technology directed development of the Pyramid Structure and Douglas heard of Nasa s Langley research Center was in charge of the Tower materials. Nasa plans to construe a permanent space station during the next decade creating in effect a Village in orbit. Plans Call for a series of modules containing living quarters and laboratories joined by beams or trusses to communications and Power modules. Shuttles and other spacecraft could ferry equipment and supplies to and from the space station connecting at airlocks like ships in port. The station could be constantly occupied with Crews rotating every few weeks. Atlantis we Klong Mission ends tuesday with an afternoon Landing at Edwards fab Calif. Ver from Page 1 ounce her candidacy formally this week. She has said she believes Marcos is the no. 1 suspect in the murder. Marcos has said ver who took a leave of absence before his indictment on feb. I would automatically be reinstated As chief of staff if acquitted but hinted that he would soon be moved elsewhere As part of a Broad reorganization of the military. The United states has lobbied hard against the general s reinstatement arguing that it would set Back military reforms that Are vital to combating a growing insurgency. Sen. Paul Laxalt r-ncv., who brought Marcos a message of concern from presi Dent Reagan in october said reinstatement would cause a firestorm of reaction in Congress. Testimony in the seven month trial which followed 11 months of hearings by a fact finding Board has not settled the Many questions surrounding the assassination and has led to a widespread sense of cynicism about the proceedings. I shall just wait for Justice after or. Marcos is no longer head of our govern ment Aquino said recently. The assassination was a turning Point in Philippines affairs setting off huge Public demonstrations that fuelled a political shift in the nation toward radicalism and gave impetus to a steady weakening of the eco nomic situation. Although Marcos Rode out the immediate storm of protest his position was weakened and continued pressure from his opponents and from Washington led to his Call for Early elections. Halted 37 times by postponements the trial heard testimony from 108 witnesses in just 51 Days. From the Start there were accusations that the prosecution under pressure from above was not pursuing its Case vigorously. Several key witnesses including friends of Galman and members of his family and airline employees who had said they witnessed the shooting disappeared before or after giving testimony. A mistrial motion remained pending even As the verdict was due to be announced with a group of prominent citizens charging that the court had not acted impartially and had been subject to pressure from the presi Dent. The prosecution Drew a rebuke from the american embassy when it summarily rejected evidence by six . Air Force offi cers who said the Philippines air Force had scrambled two jets on the morning of Aqui no s flight from Taiwan. Officers from Page 1 m"5e an adminis Lral in addition it was Devcic ton that . Military personnel should accompany the egyptian commandos. This decision was taken after Egypt s defense minister la. Gen. Abdul Halim Abu gha Zala told the . Ambassador to Egypt Nicholas a. Veliotes that Egypt wanted some form of american presence As a Ges Ture of support for any possible action in Malta according to us. Officials. The idea never was that these thre would participate in any Way and did to said one administration another adminis Ralio Fri Ian said that the military office Toafa have been Able to help . Assist Ance Toji egyptians if it were needed. But the official said that the military officer were sent without any specific idea of what they would be used an administration official said that the decision to Send the three officers was taken after discussions among civilian leaders in Flagon representatives of the joint Jyh Jakil a jars of the National Security the White House. One officiat7"v3 Lions were raised from the Pentagon a the plan of action. Another of there was some "puz?.lcm� j0wnt"tne Pentagon about Jujj Hutto Send the military offi of the . Officers went in uni _ but one later changed into civilian clothes the officials sad. According to the official in. Malta the three arrived in full Bat the dress. Two of the officers left the Airport and went to the is. Embassy the officials said but one initially stayed in the c-130. He later left the plane and went to the Airport Tower so he could communicate with . Officials administration officials said. An american official said the fact that . Officials would accompany the egyptian commandos to Malta had been passed on to Malta. A maltese official said on sunday however that the american offi cers arrived without having advil maltese govern _ to vials also said declined to allow anti terror ism listening equipment to land in wbb Sifri Litows air Craft. At one Point the equip me on an italian helicopter but Malta Salt would not allow the helicopter to land Accord ing to an administration official. Malta then decided to admit the equipment in a private aircraft but the approval came too late according to a maltese official. The assault led to the death of 60 people and to questions about whether the 25 egyptian commandos who stormed the Israel Frd full turnover of documents sought by the americans. Commentators and officials were quoted by the Post and two other newspapers As suf resting that . Officials especially into Federal Bureau of investigation met played to is Rael by i will Ali Milih Iii i in nov. 21. Unit Bli fkr senior israeli officials quoted by the Post disputed suggestions Pollard was used to spy on the United states itself. They contended he was not providing information that pertained to us. Security. May technically have spied makes i tartly Clear in Street the an Lar lie Post and other papers claimed that part of the material gathered by Pollard including information on soviet weaponry and Arab states should have been shared with Israel through regular intelligence channels As part of a routine Exchange of information. Israel s Cabinet met sunday but min ister of communications Amnon Rubinstein told reporters the Pollard Case Iii i h the pol lard affair not in the full plenum of the Cabinet but in a different Way he said. A bib Ali official who spoke on Condi Tion that Mcnac hem defens ministry had left a tales As head of a group scheduled to ho3 talks on strategic cooperation. Pasadena from Pago 1 frocks drumming out a beat on Bedpan and the marching Leech Kazoo band. Several groups were marching puns including a group of tap dancers dressed As cans of Beer called Beer on tap and Citi Zens for the right to Bare arms waving mannequin limbs As they marched by. Two groups imitated the Bhagwan Shrek a Jneese and his followers with one of them carrying a make believe guru on a litter under a sign Reading my other car is a the Parade even had a few clowns this year although Only at the Doo Dah would the clowns hand out toilet seat covers while extolling the Virtues of cleanliness. In a nod to the upcoming Holiday season Santa Claus zoomed by on his roller skates wearing Bright red shorts. Among the veterans of past Doo Dah parades was the precision briefcase Drill team with members wearing business suits and waving suitcases in intricate routines and a group called Toro Toro Toro push ing Lawn mowers in formation. As usual this year s Parade had no theme no prizes no official order of March and Little sanity. In do have a Queen and grand marshal drinking buddies Jerry Collins and Willie Bowman of the Loch Ness Monsler pub. Local legend has it that the Doo Dah Parade was conceived at the Loch Ness by regulars grousing that the City s famed Rose Parade would smell a Little sweeter with a healthy dose of disrespect. Plane had bungled the operation by using explosives that were too powerful. Despite the Large loss of life some administration officials considered the action a positive step. They said that some action had o be taken because the hijackers i of the pass Ngum _ Ternent the Latt Ting of a passenger took place 10 hours before the commando assault. One official said that a . Rescue might have resulted in less loss of lil e but might have subjected the United states to criticism because some hostages might have been killed. Ilso said thai the handling of a has helped improve . Egyptian Achille Laura affair in which to so minted an egyptian plane carrying italian cruise ship. We believe t trans did us a favor and we Are standing them said a High ranking official who said the response to the hijacking would help .-egyptian relations. 50 47 lot a 74 s4 Miami 0 10 my inc 40 74 new 70 8s Orla 44 6i 4a so pal 41 is Ali Aalia Bilof Chicago Cle Elano Allai Denver Derroll Honolulu Hoilo Ngantai Civ Lai venal recorded s 4am 4p Onlo. C Vancouver such lid by la
