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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 of a  the stars and stripes saturday february 1,1986 bases expecting Cable to by summer by Dave Dichl . Bureau Raf Milde Nisall England Cable television will be installed at most . Military housing areas and bases in England by the summer. Air Force officials say. Raf Chicksands will be the first . Base to receive what initially will be up to eight or nine channels in housing areas dorms clubs and some work areas capt. Stephen Gonzales said. A second contract for the other bases is expected to be agreed on by May. Chicksands residents May be watching pay to by May Gonzales said. The first service to the other bases will begin by june he said. The air bases in Britain will be among the first recipients of Cable television Gonzales said. Contractors Are particularly interested in the american installations by cause i i cause of the density of the communities. Be majority of television viewers in England re Civ a British broadcasting corp. Channels and two com Mercial channels. Because Cable television is a new concept in Britain Only a few companies offer the sen ice Gonzales said. Parliament made Cable television Legal last year. Gonzales said subscribers probably will pay $25 to$30 per month for the service. Contract negotiations include requests for lower prices for subscribers such As dorm residents he said. Dec civil fro com 1 Del w a main concern is to ensure that housing areas away from bases will to included. Some bases like Raf Mill Den Hall have Only a fraction 6f family housing on base.1 uth other family housing As far As 30 Miles Awa a the air Force is requiring each contractor to provide at least one Channel for use by the air Force. Gonzales said Public affairs offices will be in charge of program Ming for the channels. American forces network or armed forces radio and television service programming May be broadcast on the Channel Gonzales said. However problems in inc Vimini Ocif  a i. Or the Ai rce will Pav the monthly Tab for  like eluding running and sending them Over a pay to system dormitory Day rooms and 24-hour work centers he said just be worked of fire. The systems will probably have at least one Rucci dish at each base or housing area. Gonzales  said he would like to have the service in every one of about 1 2 housing areas in the 3rd air Force shuttle from Page 1 son of the coast guard said the Cutter Dallas reported finding a Large piece and that there appeared to be parts of the cock pit on the surface. Asked whether Here was any sign of the bodies of the seven astronauts who died in challenger when it exploded Nasa spokesman Hugh Harris said  Simpson would not give the location of the sighting but said it was far offshore. They had multiple sonar hits indicating there is something Large on the Bottom he  also were examining a piece of Bone that washed up on a Beach and was found by a private citizen. A Bone with Blue fabric attached washed up on a Beach and medical technicians examined it to see if it belonged to one of the seven astronauts killed in tuesday s midair  Bone was found near Indialantic 35 Miles South of Cape canaveral and taken to a Hospital at nearby Patrick fab. Harm said the Bone and tissue fragment was four inches ions six inches wide and one Inch thick. Nasa officials did not know what kind of Bone it was and there nothing was to link it to an astronaut. An Anonymous citizen found a Navy Blue sock with what appeared to be burned Bone fragment attached to it at 11 30 today at the High water Mark on the each said Steven orcs an Indialantic police communications officer. He said police called Nasa which instructed them to refrigerate the find then"20 minutes later they told us to take it to the Hospital at Patrick air Force  Jim Mizell a spokesman for the Kennedy space Center called the area offshore the missile graveyard of the world be cause it contains the wreckage of scores of failed rockets and the discarded first stages of hundreds More. A will take some real expert to take pieces and say it s not snark Redstone penning Atlas and on and on he said. Snark and Redstone Are two of the Early missiles of the 1950s. Thousands of pounds of Small pieces of debris found floating on the sea were aboard ships running search patterns Over 8,000 Square Miles northward from Cape canaveral to Daytona Beach. To my knowledge no personal effects of the astronauts have been recovered said Simpson. Challenger with five men and two women aboard including schoolteacher Christa Mcauliffe was 8.9 Miles High and 8 Miles off the coast at the time of the explosion but the nearly 2,000 Mph Speed scattered debris Over a vast distance. Also found were two Cone shaped objects described As about 10 feet in  had an attached Parachute indicating it came from one of the solid fuel rocket boosters blown up by the Range safety offi cer. Each Booster is 12 feet in diameter and contains four parachutes designed to lower the spent rockets to the Ocean Tor retrieval. The ships have begun picking up a great Deal More debris larger and More varied pieces Simpson said. One ship alone i bringing in 1,000 pounds of debris. They re finding tubing they re finding electronic looking  experts had not studied the electronic control panel to see from which part of the shuttle it might have come. There Are Many such panels on the night deck and Middick and also on the fuel tank and Booster rockets. At the Kennedy space Center on the Road to challenger s launch pad someone planted seven american flags to Honor the dead Astro nauts. A memorial service attended by president and mrs. Reagan was to be held Friday at the Johnson space Center in Houston where the astronauts trained for their ill fated flight. Reagan planned to meet privately with the families. In addition to the Navy ships seven other ships and 13 helicopters were running search sweeps up and Down the coast line. The new search area expanded from the original 5,500 Miles extended 50 Miles from Shore in water 50 to 1,200 feet deep. Both at the Florida launch site and in hous ton where the ascent is directed engineers studied computer tapes that recorded performance of the shuttle s systems every one one thousandth of a second. Officials said they might be the most Cru Cial piece of evidence in the investigation. The tapes could reveal whether the fireball was caused by something that went wrong with the spaceship s huge external fuel tank or whether the fault Lay with one of the two rocket boost ers. In a sonar search an audio tone is bounced off the Ocean floor. An operator can gauge the distance by the time it takes to return. The operator also can Tell whether it has hit a solid object. Hours from Page reasonably close to each other to give patrons seven Day shopping. The main thing is we Don t want to Cut service to our customers Leah said. For example since Ramstein and Vogel Weh Orbi Tburg and Span Dahlem Are Colowit Gihr or. It May be possible to have Obj we Operon a Given Day and close Thurser one. That Way shoppers Canji itt and a commissary within a  be planned to make similar shifts in schedules As necessary. He said employees schedules May be shifted to keep stores open the same number of hours each week with a smaller  Are a lot of places wherein  full trims Smars in the store at St Taaj flir we May be abletousem4  example and reduce s Kours that Way. Leach said other possible effects of the directive to Cut hours May be that stores will close on midweek us. Holidays. Another possibility Leach said is to Cre ate a Central Core of line items to reduce the number of hours needed to Stock store  is a direct tie Between the num Ber of  the number " a expend he said. As an example suppose we carry six brands of Cut Green Beans. A we reduce that to the four brands which Are our Best sell ers we will have to spend proportionately restocking. By doing that we can the possibility of having  John Russas a spokes Flipi the Navy resale and services support office in Long Island n.y., said Navy commissaries Are not taking any action that would Impact on our  Trade c Washington _ Trade deficit widened billion in 1985, As alone outpaced Export. Government reported Lur Day. The december deft Ever. For the first 11deficit bad averaged is in Advance of Thun Many economists have peaked last year n imports gradual with declines in the Vali but the Commerce 1 Dise Trade report Shiv round had not material i by year s end. The 1985 Trade Del it was up 20.4 per cent from the then Rard $123.3 deficit of the year  All us. Imports in 1985, up 6 Perce year. Exports totalled i2 percent from 1984 Japan accounted Foi the Overall deficit 1m elicit soared to $148.5 billion in 85 p the  a record $148.5 a arts in december y $17.4 billion the needed Export by $4.7 billion in 1985. Up that matched an said hat be me Steif was the highest tooth of 1985, the billion a month. Y s report however la the deficit May could head Down As m More expensive Ruth Dollar. A Artmont Smerchak that such a Tuma from $37 billion the the us. Deficit 1985 was $27.4 Canada. $13.1 $11.4 billion with nation of Petroleum december s Trade cent from the $13.7exports during the i cent to j17.0 billion by 8.7 percent to double the Export tales $361.6 billion rom the preceding 13.1 billion falling be report said. Highly one third of its from Japan sex wards were5.9 percent from the meanwhile agric in december by 0.22 lion while Oil Imi percent to $3.5 Bill in a separate re. Part mint said that the dictators the future economic activity percent in december. Before. Western Europe in$22.2 billion with with Taiwan anthers of the organi sporting  at was up 27 per i of  fell by 5.3 per Rhile imports soared billion More than Iber deficit up new car imports up before. I exports declined sent to $2.5 Bil 1 increased by 10.1 s Commerce de i of leading in it s main gauge of. Rose a Sharp 0.9 was the largest Sina january 1985. Part of the Nati balance has been Bla of the is. Dollar on changes. A Strong August increase that a 1.3 percent Rise in s surging Trade med on the High value foreign currency sex Illar makes imports Iper.  value of the Dollar has declined i about 24 percent against other major cur-1 Prencie from its Peak last March. However economists said to often takes six months to a year before declines in currency values translate into Trade balance changes. Is. Imports have climbed More rapidly than exports since 1981. The United states did not run a surplus with any of its major trading partners lost month. For december the is. Trade balance showed deficits with Japan of $5.5 billion with Western Europe $3.7 billion Canada ,$2.9 billion open $1.6 billion Taiwan s1.2 billion Mexico $800 million Korea million and Brazil $200 million. $600i l ind Sli Lpes be calling soon your payment ready l h-4 a Albany 30 63 albugue20 24 Anchor Aga 27 is atlanta14 31 Allan la City 9 25 Baltimore 33 Buff los 37 64 birmingham32 o Bolh 13 u boston7 ii Buffalo -5 16 burlington3 a Chort Aslon. . 19 41 Charleston. W.v13 90 Chicago 19 33 cincinnati7 22 Cleveland 40 64 Dallas-fi.worlh26 is Denver 11 23 desmolnet13 2s Petroll -25 -10 Fairbanks a 9 Fargo 7 21 hartford63 76 Honolulu is 77 houston19 21 Indianapolis a jacksonville16 32 Kansas City 39 6142 62 Liviu r  Mampil Miami Biacan Mlnn-5l, new Orlea Snaw Vork Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando  Portland will Portland Ora. Providanci Ruttgen is.  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