European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes Nese new Yea see Page 3 d Saloga arrives at gaffes Page 2 d 4rny rejects 400 aids test Page 5 Irginia tech upends Aphis state Page 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication vol. 44, no. 290 monday february 3, 1986 m. Armed Force in Dolly pm Sot Joy d 8693 a Campaign promotes s. Afr Feals Refon Johannesburg South Africa up president Pieter w. Botha pledged sunday in double Page newspaper advertisements to share Power with Blacks and he said i Don t intend to Stop in the second round of an unpriced Media offensive to promote hemp a of separate but equal South Junior Blackland Whites Botha said two South african will be excluded Panull political my Ecjpe Anent and i Are committed to Botha said. We arc committed to equal treatment. And i Don in jail Gocci of Reform is to newspaper Campaign follow statements Friday on the state owned Black radio and television channels to explain plans announced in parliament for limited reforms of apartheid. Police said in Pretoria sunday that anti government Black violence continued Dur ing the weekend with two women shot and killed when they threw stones and gasoline bombs at officers patrolling in Black Ghet tos. A policeman and a Black Ritter were wounded and 26 people were arrested in the s saturday near Johannesburg Prato police said in a routine report on Satu Fommo be said two Blacks were shot and officers and Blacks threw gasoline a into a depart see Reform Fabage 28 /7m shows apparent cause of shuttle Blasi Cape canaveral Fla. Up a Jet of name spewing like a Blowtorch against the challenger s fuel tank from the breached Side of a Booster rocket apparently triggered a Chain reaction that blew apart the shuttle Nasa tracking film shows. However Hugh Harris a spokesman for the National aeronautics and space administration said saturday that a Board of investigation stressed that the initial Caus of tuesday s disaster is still unknown and neither the Board nor Nasa will speculate As to the cause or effect of this the previously motion picture film and still photos clearly show flame spewing out of the lower Side of the right hand Booster rocket a View not seen from Nasa s television film of the Brief flight. The 5,900-Dcgrcc Tongue of flame shooting against the Side of the thin walled aluminium i canal tank presumably caused it to rupture spewing explosive Hydrogen into the rocket exhaust. The photos which started 58.32 seconds after launch show that the deadly sequence of events took 15 seconds although it was possible the breach of the Booster rocket Wall occurred earlier. Independent computer enhanced videotape showed amass of vapor spewing from the Hydrogen Section of the tank. Gas poured from the top of the tank and streamed Down into the Hydrogen. Sources said this undoubtedly was oxygen and could have come from a pressure Relief valve. The previously released tapes of the other Side of the shuttle show the first evidence of fire near the Bottorof the 154-foot fuel tank 71.37 seconds after launch. Hydrogen burst from the Bottom of the tank 72.77seconds after launch. Almost simultaneously a Stream of oxygen poured Down the Side of the tank. The flame turned into an inferno 72.85 seconds into the Mission. At 72.87 seconds there was an explosion Midway up the tank. The whole tank blew up 72.98 seconds after launch starting with a Halo of White at the tip of the tank that turned into an Orange fireball. Nasa sources in Houston said the Tongue of flame roaring through the Side of the Booster could have heated the liquid Hydrogen in the external tank to such an extent that immense pressure blew out the base of the tank olo sequence from top shows Jet of flame i jul
