European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday january 19, 1986 shuttle lands on California desert runway Edwards fab Calif. Up the space Shuttl Columbia floated through predawn darkness to it Londing saturday on a Mojave desert runway after bad weather blocked a third Florida Landing try possibly delaying the ship s next  by twin shot unlike sonic booms the 105-Lon space vessel wanted Over the sprawling California flight test enter and glided toward a brilliantly floodlit 3-mile ribbon of  commander Robert Hoot Gibson and co Pilot Charles Bolden at the controls Columbia hit the runway 72minules before Sunrise and the ship quickly rolled to a Slop in Only the second shuttle Landing in darkness in 14 mis  Back to Earth you seasoned space veterans radioed astronaut Frederick Gregory from Mission control in Houston. Columbia s next flight faces delay up the spa Shullie Roger that Houston seasoned by an extra two Days of Scheldt a Dawn darkness l a replied Gibson. A Wai Inna  runway after bad weather a soon Board were Franklin Chang Diaz the  Ine  us air panic american Ait Ronal Steven Ria Engineer Robert Cenker tithe first his a Mui in Dii Miili Winji a Woji --1j t jct i Iti i in it and rep. Bill Nelson d flo., a congressional observer whose District include to Kennedy space Center in Florida. The touchdown the i8lh shuttle Landing in California was a disappointing conclusion to a six Day 2.s-Millian-mile voyage thai was 25 Days late getting started and iwo Days late coming to an  space Agency wanted to avoid a California Landing because Hal will add six Days to the processing flow for Columbia s next night which probably will delay the shuttle s March 6 launching on a showcase Mission to study Halley s , a continent away the shuttle challenger stand posted for Blastoff next saturday to Lake a High inca into orbit tin the second of1986. Gamble on fowling delay and Bolden were Uia 10fell Flat and Gibson their computer for a the decision Vor a California Landing came just 18 min utes before Columbia would have been commit Edlo a Florida touchdown. Bui Gregory Ini Mission control,.toldthe Crew the weather was Loo close to Call and to head for after a one orbit delay Gibson and bolder fired Colum Bia s Bia braking rockets Over the Indian Ocean near Mada Gascar w drop out of orbit. The Shullie knifed across the coast of California near Santa Barbara and swooped to a picture perfect touchdown. 111 Noil is dti., atom of or in a. Or a us. Firm s shareholders re eco Sikorsky bid London a shareholders of Culland Britain s ailing helicopter manufacturing firm on Friday rejected on american led Rescue package that sparked a political crisis in prime minister Marga ret Thatcher s government. The Deal needed the support of 75 per cent of Westland s shareholders to be accepted but Only 65 percent were in favor of the bid from Sikorsky the giant american helicopter company in association with Fiat of Italy. The vote was a. Victory for Michael he Sci line who resigned As defense Secretary on Jan. 9 and charged that Thatcher had tried to stifle his Campaign against the is Kinky Deal in favor of a rival european Rescue it Wai a defeat for a Culland chairman sir John Cuckney who bad urged share holders to accept Iob Sikorsky offer became it would be an association with  after the Vole curl they Laid the europeans should withdraw their Offerle avoid further damage to the. Company. Shareholders had not been asked to Cowder the european bid. In � related development. Sir Raymon Lygo. Chief executive of British aerospace one of the companies in the european consortium sought to Patch up a. Dispute with Trade and Industry Secretary Leon Brittan. Lygo and Britten had Given differing accounts of a meeting about the Westland affair but on Friday they exchanged letter saying it had been a misunderstanding. Also on Friday a Public opinion poll indicated that the political crisis had Hurt Thatcher s popularity. And Home Secre tary Douglas Hurd agreed that the Contro Versy had damaged the government s stand ing for the  vote left Westland s future in double with the company still in urgent need of capital reconstruction Cuckney said add ing that the Board would Cit monday Low Ork on new proposals for share hold is. Sikorsky vice president Bill Paul said his company would not withdraw from the res Cue Battle despite losing the vote. David Home spokesman for the euro Pean consortium said he was delighted with be result which is better than we  Bui he could not say whether the european bid would be withdrawn. Headline had argued that allowing a american company to buy a 30 percent share of Britain s Only helicopter manufacturer had defense implications that would not be in the National interest. He resigned after accusing Thatcher fusing unconstitutional methods to Block the european bid. Statue s miraculous tears blood were elaborate hoax paper says Sentinel sketches , Quebec a statue of the Virgin Mary that its owner claimed shed blood sweat and tears has been banned from Public Dis play after the owner reportedly admitted smearing it with Oil and his own  chief Michel Beauchemin said Friday that the statue s owner Montreal Railroad worker Jean Guy Beau regard asked for psychiatric help and was taken loan undisclosed location where he ran rest and not have any  2-toot-High statue was displayed at a House in this Lakeside town on Montreal s Northwest outskirts. Police estimate it attracted 12,000 devout or curious people in less than a week after television newscasts and Montreal newspapers reported Beauregard s claims. The journal de Montreal reported Friday however lha Beauregard had told its reporter and police he made the Ila tue appear to cry and bleed by applying blood from disown Finger and smearing the statue with of. The newspaper said Beauregard claimed he did this while hypnotized by Maurice Girouard in whose Home tic Ilalue Wai displayed. There was no immediate Confirma Tion of the report from police.  on Friday obtained a temporary court in Junction ordering Girouard and his wife Claudette to close their Home to the Public remove the statue and make no Public statements on the subject. None of the three could be located for comment. A Signon the girouards1 door Friday read closed for the Day. No journalists. No photographers.  Beauregard had said his statue began weeping on dec.8, the feast of the immaculate Conception. When the statue began to attract curious crowds Beau regard landlord asked him to move it. He took it to the  Home of the cirouard who put it in their private shrine 10 the Mother of Christ. In january the Girouard told reporters the Virgin Stears began to mix with blood and Many of the icons crucifixes and statues in the shrine also reportedly started weeping and bleeding. Even temperatures of u below Zero did not Stop people from lining up for hours to gaze and Pray in front of the statue and icons. But on wednesday the French language television net work of the Canadian broadcast corp. Borrowed Fin icon and look it to a Laboratory where scientists said the found in Wai coated with pork and beef fat that would Liquefy in droplets and run like tears once the room warm dec slightly. Also on wednesday or. Augustin Roy president of uie corporation of Quebec phys Ems said Maurice Girouard had been twice convicted of illegally practising Medicine by promising to cure ill through hypnosis. Roy described the bleeding statue As a pure and simple fraud a hoax an imposture and collective hysteria Girouard responded by telling reporters modern Sci ence always wants to destroy anything  he suggested thai the animal fat could have been added to the icon after it was taken from his Home. Unit comes to the Rescue of flooded reformer troops Vohen Strauss Germany if Soldier from a 1st inf 0iv unit had stayed in their contracted quarters 12 Miles from the czechoslovakian order for certain Sentinel 86, they would have been up to their waists in water. In a demonstration of cooperation Between us troops stationed in Germany and their reformer com patriots the 78th mail co 1st main in from bomb Lingen came to the Rescue of he co material manage ment come. They brought 33 tents 66 Potbelly stoves,300 cots and lots of soup and Coffee said capt Frank Mathis 78th main co commander. They set them up in a Snow covered and slush covered soccer held. It was a Case of blood being thicker than  1st mail in commander it. Col. Gary la Grange is a former commander of the division support command which is the flooded unit s Par ent organization. He was stationed at fort ,kan., Home of the in inf div. From 1981 to 1984, we were glad to help out it Orange taut once a big red one always a big red  a Dkl Tilus 1st inf div Public affairs office . Official to seek greek support for libyan sanctions Athens. Greece a . Deputy Secretary of state John c. Whitehead Muring Europe in search of support for sanctions against Libya for allegedly Back ing International terrorism arrived Nathens on saturday from Turkey. The . Official was to meet with foreign minister Carrios Papouras sunday but government officials said no meeting had been set with Premier Andreas Papandreou along with other . Allies in Europe Greece has rejected president Reagan s a peal for economic sanctions against Libya saying they would be  a government spokesman has said Greece will continue negotiations for the Sale of arms 10 Libya under a bilateral Trade agreement. Papandreou developed Friendly personal re lations with libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy several years before his panhellenic socialist movement came to Power in 1981. Whitehead was to meet Interior minister agamemnon Koutsogiorga and Deputy Premier Yiannis Haralampopoulos on monday government officials said. His arrival coincided with separate visits tothe greek capital by libyan Deputy foreign minister Ahmet Sahati and soviet Deputy foreign minister Vadim p. Loginov. Both Greece and he libyan embassy declined to comment on Shaunti s arrival but foreign ministry sources said he would meet with Papoulis Over the weekend. Lopinot delivered a letter from soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to the greek Premier on Friday outlining a new proposal Lor com plete nuclear disarmament by the year 2000. The Sovil official was to meet with Papou Lias monday foreign ministry sources said. Papandreou and the leaders of Menico Tanzania India Sweden and Argentina Are participating in n five comment nuclear Dis armament initiative that began in i9s4