European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse If stripes military Medicine of the different countries different methods see pages 7. 8 and 9 d army Lightens Rule on custody Page 2 d Bear Bryant named to College hop Page 21 d today s Dollar buys 2.40 Marks. Page 27 the Simand ripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Humid Pouch vol. 44, no. 292 wednesday february 1986 i do,., onion d 8693 a libyan passenger plane forced Down by israelis Tel Aviv Israel a israeli air Force warplanes intercepted a libyan executive Jet tuesday in an attempt to Cap lure terrorists and forced it to land in Northern Israel the military command announced. The command said it intercepted the Jet believing that it was carrying people involved in planning attacks against but there apparently were no guerrillas aboard the Gulf Stream ii plane which car ried nine passengers and three Crew Mem Bers according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity they did t find who they were looking for said one source adding that All 12 people would be freed. A Check of the plane and passenger was carried out and the plane will be re leased the command announcement passengers and the plane arc receiving proper Israel radio said the plane had landed Al continued on Page 28 shuttle problems reportedly were relayed Washington a seconds be fore the space shuttle challenger exploded Mission control computers recorded a series of problems but they were not Dis played on ground controllers consoles in time to save the astronauts according to published report tuesday. An unidentified source at the Johnson space Center in Houston told the washing ton Post that the information automatically was transmitted to Mission control but it was not Clear that the controllers were aware something had gone wrong. Such information generally takes three to five seconds to appear on controllers com Puter screens and about the same amount of time to be comprehended by the Eye and mind the Post said. Flight controllers could do nothing be cause by the time the information was presented and digested the explosion had occurred the source said. I m not sure i d have told the Crew any thing the source said. Maybe it s Bette that they died the Way they did flying supersonic and outward bound from Earth on their Post source said sensors detected ready to investigate disaster president Reagan front monday mined for act Secretary of state of flt Rogers right to be chairman and former astronaut Nell Armstrong Center to be vice chairman of a panel that will investigate last we s space shuttle catastrophe. The space Agency s act ing administrator William Graham left also attended the White House ceremony. About a s percent drop in internal pressures exhaust gases escaped through a rupture that occurred in the starboard solid fuel rocket Booster. Film released by the National aeronautics and space administration shows the rupture which spewed flames onto the external fuel tank occurred about is seconds before last tuesday s explosion. The sources said the Booster lost about 100,000 of its 2.s million pounds of thrust. Attempting to compensate the Booster nozzle turned to change the Angle of thrust. The sources said the three main engines suddenly were deprived of oxygen a Sig that the pipe carrying oxygen from the top of the external fuel tank to the main engines had been penetrated by flame from the , in Cape canaveral fla., the search for wreckage of the space shuttle challenger focused on the Bottom of the sea tuesday As the surface search was Cut Back significantly because so Little floating debris is being found. The search has been scaled Bac today said it. Cmdr. James Simpson a spokesman for the coast guard. Soviets demanding $2 million to free dissident paper says Hamburg a the soviet Union has demanded about $2 million for the release of soviet dissident Anatoly so Baransky As part of an East West prisoner Exchange the Bild newspaper reported tuesday. The Hamburg based mass circulation newspaper on sunday was the first to report that a prisoner Swap was in the making. . And German government sources have Laid the Exchange is expected to take place next week on a Berlin Bridge. However in a telex sent to the news Media tuesday the Bild said it had Learned Moscow is now demanding about 5 million Marks j2 million for soviet regime critic Shch Arans it Aid the demand was completely unexpected the newspaper added that jewish groups in Antwerp Belgium and the United states Are ready to raise the Money for the release of the prominent jewish dissident. However the Bild said the soviet Union refused Locon Sider an offer of a sum of millions for the release of Nobel peace prize Winner Andrei Sakharov. So far die Kremlin has said yet " the Bild said. Bild political affairs editor Hans Erich Bilges told the associated press the information came from a source close to the negotiations. He declined to be More specific. Bild said the report would appear in wednesday s House and German officials have refused to see soviets on Page 28 storm related death toll rises to 38 in s. Europe London a rescuers in Italy tuesday found the bodies of four people Frozen in Snow Cov ered cars bringing the death toll to 38 from a blast of wintry storms across Southern Europe that have caused widespread Power and Telephone outages some flooding and blocked roads. Italy reported 19 weather related fatalities France 11 and Spain eight. Floodwaters were receding in the Northern italian Lagoon City of Venice where High tides reached their third highest level this Century at 5 feet 3 inches. The highest this Century in Venice was 6 feet 2 inches. Authorities in Spain and France reported Many highways blocked by snowfalls of up to six feet in the past week and helicopters were being use tuesday to Fly food to isolated hamlets and flocks of sheep in the Arteche Region in Southern France. Three american businessmen who were killed monday in a traffic Accident in Italy were counted among the weather related casualties. Their car was crushed Between two trucks when fog suddenly see toll on Page 28 4 injured in Paris As second bomb in 24 hours explodes Paris a a bomb exploded tuesday evening in a Bookstore on the left Bank and injured four people officials said. It was the second bombing in 24 hours. A third bomb was defused. A preliminary investigation by police indicated the bomb went off in the lower level of the Gilbert Jeun Bookstore one of Paris biggest. The blast which caused a fire that spread through much of the building occurred just after the store closed. The explosion happened in the record department said an employee of the Bookstore. After a violent blast there was quickly a lot of at the time of the explosion police still were trying to determine if a blast monday night at the Galerie Clang shopping Arcade on the champs Elysee was connected with another bomb that was found and defused atop the Eiffel Tower. Eight people were injured in the champs Elysee Inci Dent including five who were hospitalized. A letter received by the French news Agency Agency France Presse said the committee of Solidarity with Theara and Middle East political prisoners was responsible for the mall bombing at Galerie Claridge. The group demanded Freedom for an Arab an iranian and an armenian now in French jails
