European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday january 7,1966 shuttle liftoff again delayed third grounding in 19 Days. Is. I 986, and theim Cape canaveral Fla. Up1 better window launching director Gene the shuttle Columbia was grounded Mon Thomas told the Crew. We re sorry this Day for the third time in 19 Days because of happened to us. We tried As Best we Cuoio mechanical problems. The delay in liftoff to make the count despite a Down to the were Effort to launch the spaceship. Another launching try was scheduled for tuesday. Well look Forward to trying it again inthe morning commander Robert Gibson told ground was a bitter disappointment for co Lumbia s seven member Crew including rep. Bill Nelson a Fla. The shuttle fliers experienced a similar frustration dec. 19,when the countdown stopped 15 seconds before Blastoff because of electrical prob lems. The final blow monday came when officials in charge of the satellite in the ship s cargo Bay said they had to be off by 8 47a.m. In order to have the satellite deployed under the proper conditions. Nasa did not have enough time to meet that deadline. Blastoff had been scheduled for 7 05a.m., but a series of snags delayed the countdown As engineers scrambled to come up with a Way to get Columbia airborne before its launching window request to postpone the liftoff came from Ria american communicationsinc., owner of the $50 million Ria sat pm communications satellite in Columbia spay Load Tay. We be gotten the decision that the Cus Tomer prefers not to go today without a the other Crew members Are commander Robert Hoot Gibson co Pilot Charles Bolden Steven Hawley George Nelson Ria satellite Engineer Robert Cenker and Franklin Chang Diaz the first hispanic american astronaut. Columbia s countdown proceeded flaw Lessly throughout the morning until four minutes before the planned launching time when engineers stopped the countdown be cause a liquid oxygen propellant Drain valve failed to close on computer command. The valve was reset manually but the initial trouble had allowed too much frigid liquid oxygen into the ship s main engine propellant inlets dropping temperatures below allowable limits and the countdown was slopped again at 7 10 a.m., just 31 seconds before the planned launching. Engineers did not give up and the count Down was recycled to the to minus 20-mm Ute Point in the Hope of getting the shuttle airborne before the Day s launching Opportunity re going to try to Recycle and go today that s terrific said Gibson when told Mission managers planned to proceed with the launching attempt. It then was postponed at Ria s request. Columbia s flight scheduled to end witha Landing in Florida is the first of a record 15 missions planned for 1986, am i the pm pact of monday s delay has not been deter 01 net Hampshire social studies teacher Sharon Christa Mcaulffe and six o he Crew members were scheduled to Climo aboard tic shuttle challenger ear tues Day for a practice countdown to Clea ship for launching Jan 23. The Mol countdown will have to be delayed. Nelson 43, was invited to Fly aboard the Columbia in his capacity As chairman of the House subcommittee that oyers Osasa s budget. Sen Jake Garnr Utah who is chairman of a similar inthe Senate made the first such flight in Columbia America s first space shuttle last new in december 1983. Since then t has been in the shop for a major overhaul and its return to service would Mark the first time Nasa has had an operational four shuttle Fleet. The first item on the Agenda when co Lumbia s Crew reaches orbit is the launching of the Ria satellite the second or a planned Fleet of three capable of handling More television traffic than any others in s original launching Date was dec. 18, but unfinished work at the launch ing pad forced a 24-hour delay and on dec. 19, electrical problems with a solid rocket steering system were detected by ground computers just 15 seconds before Takeoff and the countdown was aborted. . Delegation inv Sfigas no Las meets Tor 3 hours with Hanoi officials Hanoi Vietnam a the highest level . Delegation to visit Vietnam in a decade met for three hours with Hanoi officials monday to discuss How to Speed up the accounting for americans missing in action during the Vietnam War. Specific contents of the closed door ses Sion were not disclosed. The us. Delegation led by assistant Secretary of defense Richard Armitage was scheduled to meet with foreign min ister Nguyen co Thach on 1 tuesday. Ill just say thai both sides engaged Inan in depth discussion of All aspects of the american prisoner of War and missing inaction Issue to include How we might Accel Erate Progress toward the Resolution of this Issue Armitage told reporters. Deputy foreign minister Hoang Tichson who headed the vietnamese Side added Only i agree with or. Side wants to say More Vietnam has promised to resolve themia Issue within two years and it is believed that details of Steps to be taken Are Amajor item under discussion. Washington lists about 2,400 us. Hulitar personnel As missing in action in communist Indochina with 1,797 of them in rest Are in Cambodia and Laos. Vietnamese officials insist that they like the americans regard the Mia As a Sepa rate humanitarian Issue but they also Nav stressed that Hanoi seeks normalization of ties with the United states something Washington says is not possible As Long As Hanoi s troops remain in for the matter of normalization we think it is a very Good thing but there is difficulty from the american Side Thach told a group of visiting american teachers Over the weekend. I would say there has been some Prog Ress some evolution of relations even though the is. Side says that relations Are limited to the mias minister of state in charge of foreign affairs to Dong Giang told reporters monday while the talks were under Way. Vietnam pursues its consistent line of not using the search for mias As a bargaining Chip toward normalization or improvement of when asked if ties were forthcoming he replied maybe yes maybe he indicated that recent improvements relations might favourably affect the ties Between Hanoi and told Hanoi based correspondents last saturday that Hanoi would insist on setting up a Liaison Mission in Washington d.c., if the United states established a per manent Mia office in Hanoi. . Assistant Secretary of state Pau Wolfowitz who is also a delegation Mem Ber told a us. Congressional committee Inmid-1985 that the United states would con Sider the question of a permanent presence in Hanoi Only if Vietnam s cooperation on the Mia Issue increased presence of this Type would of course be entirely separate from the question of diplomatic relations Wolfowitz said. News update Liberia s Doe sworn i Monrovia up1 Liberia Leader Samuel was sworn in to president monday shedding the uniform he has worn since leu ing Power As a master sergeant Lead ing a military coup six years ago. Doe 35, was nominated president after his National democratic party of Liberia was declared the Winner Ofa presidential election last october. His opponents said the election had been fraught with irregularities and charged that the count had been , amid rising tensions less than two weeks later a bid was made to oust Himin a coup that failed. His running mate. Harry dumb Moniba a career sworn in As vice president of Liberia. Ship bomb scare new York a the Crew of the once hijacked cruise ship Actave Lauro recently dumped overboard Simillion Worth of new gambling equip ment after the ship received Abom threat according to a published report the trimmed Crew feared the crates might contain a bomb and jettisoned the equipment while cruising in the Aegean sea Newsweek said in its Jan. 13 edition. The scare turned out to be a hoax. The italian liner was hijacked by terrorists in october in an ordeal that resulted in the death of an american the same Story Newsweek said an olympic airways Captain refuse to take off when he Learned that a prominent member of the Palestine liberation organization was aboard an Athens to Cairo . Akrivos Tsolas feared the israelis might intercept his flight in Retalia Tion for the Rome and Vienna Austria Airport attacks which had occurred the previous Day dec. 27, the Magazine said. The Captain held out until theol Security chief Hayel Abdel Hamid was escorted off the Magazine said. Heart patient stable Minneapolis a a lighter More portable Driver has been used to run the artificial heart implanted into Mary Lund and doctors say the 40 year old woman has begun to spend Short periods in a chair. Despite the apparent Progress Lund the first woman to receive an artificial heart was listed in critical but stable condition at Abbott Northwestern . Lund s Jarvik-7 total artificial heart was operated with a lighter More portable Driver for 214 hours said or. Marc Pritzker of the Minneapolis heart Institute. She tolerated this quite we the device called a Heimes Driver weighs approximately 12 Pound Sand is about the size of a Small Cam Era bag Pritzker said. Soviet informant unmasked Many agents writer says Paris up1 a High ranking officer of the soviet secret service in Moscow provided French intelligence with about 4,000 documents that led to the expulsion of dozens of soviet agents from Western countries the newsmagazine be Point said sunday. Be Point in excerpts from a Book by journalist Thierry Wolton to be released Jan. 10, said a soviet official code named Farewell Inan 18-month period in 1981 and 1982 turned Over to French agents the most secret documents Ever to come into Western the documents included detailed lists of Kab officers throughout the world working on Industrial espionage the identities of agents recruited by the Kab in at least lows Stem coun tries including the United states West Ger Many and France and the plans and Cost savings of soviet military equipment built with technology stolen from the West. The article said Farewell s information led tothe expulsion of 148 soviet diplomats working in embassies around the world in 1983, including 88 from Europe and the United states. It was the greatest number of soviet embassy workers expelled in a single year. It said the information led to the discovery and arrest by West German counter espionage agents in october 1984 of Manfred Rotsch senior official for West Germany s largest manufacturer Messerschmidt Bolkow Bloehm who had provided detailed information on systems to the soviets for 17 Yeara. The documents also led to France s discover that All its coded telex messages sent and received from its Moscow embassy from 1976 to1983 had been intercepted through a bugging device planted by the Kab Lepoint said. Be Point said president Reagan whose administration sharply criticized Francois Mitter Rand for naming four communists to his cab inet after his election in 1981, warmed considerably to the French president after Mitterrand handed him a file of Farewell s ume Ntsasa meeting in Ottawa later that year. The article said Farewell was a senior offi cer of the t division of the Kab s head office who worked at the Center of intelligence service sin Moscow the said he had Access to All the files on scientific and technological espionage that t division it called Farewell a francophile who had ?1?1 to soviet embassy in Paris in the1960s. It said he remained deeply attached to the West after he was sent Back to Moscow an was denied further postings abroad. It added to Natch was probably opposed to communism. Be Point said Farewell first contacted the French counterintelligence service the direction de la surveillance do Territ oin St through two letters delivered by an unnamed French citizen. St agents made Contact with Farewell to Moscow in the Spring of 1981 and began regularly to receive top secret documents. However the Row of documents which had reached bottle 4,000, stopped abruptly in november 1982, Beday after the death of soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and the ascension to Power of yur Andropov. The article said the lost Contact coincide with an announcement in Moscow that a senior Kab official suspected of involvement to a Case
