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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside striped d american kids enjoy Fasching Page 3 d Stallinga named cards coach Page 21 d today s Dollar buy a 2.36 Marks Page 27 Autho Mif o unofficial publication ran Thi . Mid Ron it vol. 44, no. 299 i Roii on so or wednesday february 12, 1986 d 8693 a tomorrow despite the network of . Mili tary hospitals from England to tur key american service members and their families sometimes find them selves being cared for by european doctors in local medical facilities. Tomorrows a medical writer Judy Sarasohn reports on he cultural difficulties americans face in those facilities. Soviets free Shch Aransky dissident Hies to Israel after prisoner Swap in Berlin Tel Aviv Israel a analogy Shch Aransky inc soviet human rights activist who was imprisoned As a spy crossed a snowy German Bridge to Freedom tuesday an flew to the spiritual Homeland he had never seen. The East West prisoner Exchange on Berlin s Glic Nicker Bridge also included five alleged soviet bloc spies Trade for three westerners held in the East. Prime minister Shimon Peres and foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir embraced Shch Aransky in a welcoming ceremony at bin Gurion Airport that was broadcast liven radio and television. How arc you Peres asked. Everything is of was the response from Shch Arans by a dissident soviet jew who spent nine years in prison and labor Camps. Both spoke in hebrew. Shch Aransky clenched his hands Over his head in a sign of Victory then held hands with his wife Avital who lives in Israel and spent More than a decade working for his Freedom. She met him in Frankfurt Germany. About 3,000 people gathered outside the Airport Termi Nal building to Greet Shch Aransky. Shch Aransky went into the Airport terminal with Peres and they telephoned president Reagan. We thanked him for his tireless efforts out of a deep feeling for the jewish people and an inner conviction that the jewish people deserve to leave the soviet Union Peres said. The 45-Minutc Exchange was the latest of several Pris Oner swaps on the Glic Nicker Bridge a Green Metal Struc Ture thai spans inc Havel River Between West Berlin and Potsdam in communist East Germany. This one came 24years and one Day after american u-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers and Kremlin master spy Rudolf Abel were exchanged at the same spot. Shch Aransky was freed first. Both the dissident and the see free on Page 28 analogy Shch Aransky gives a Victory sign after arriving in Tel Aviv. At right is israeli prime minister Shimon Peres. Observers report fraud in philippine election Washington a leaders of a . Observation team gave president Rea Gan eyewitness accounts of violence and fraud in the philippine presidential election and advised him to be wary of accepting president Ferdinand Marcos Victory claim. He clearly has the ability in my judgment if it s his will to manage the results sen. Richard Lugar r-lnd., said of Marcos on tuesday after reporting to the president for 35 minutes. Lugar was the Leader of a 20-Mcmbcr team of . Elec Tion observers. Lugar and rep. John Murtha 0-pa. Returned to Washington late monday to report on what they saw in last Friday s balloting and in the aftermath of the disputed election Between Marcos and Chal Lenger Corazon Aquino. Both Marcos and Aquino have claimed Victory. The White House has concluded privately that Marcos who controls the National Assembly that will declare the Winner will emerge victorious. Yet the two lawmakers who spoke to reporters after their White House meeting with Reagan and later at a news conference said the election process is still continuing. The lawmakers appeared to urge that the administration refrain from casting Marcos As the Winner. Lugar said they did not ask Reagan for his views and there was no immediate Indi cation from the White House on How the president reacted to the report. Reagan was to hold a news conference tuesday evening and was certain to be see observers on Page 28 Nasa says Booster seals were no prelaunch worry Washington a Nasa told a presidential commission tuesday thai no concerns were expressed about solid rocket Booster seals before the launch of inc ill fated space shuttle challenger last month despite erosion on earlier flights of some rings used to join sections of the rockets. Even As the commission bored in on seals acting Nasa administrator William Gra Ham testified that Agency experts Are still looking across a Broad Range of issues to try to establish whal actually happened. Panel member Richard Feynman raised one of them whether sub freezing launch Day temperatures might have affected the Booster  Mulloy solid rocket Booster project manager at the Marshall space flight Center said inc space Agency had found erosion on six of 171 of rings used in earlier space flights presumably the effects of the gases produced by the burning solid rocket fuel. He said it was t disturbing from standpoint of safety adding that Nasa had t seen any erosion for a year before the flight ended in an explosion that destroyed challenger and killed its seven member Crew. But Mulloy was swiftly contradicted by Richard c. Cook a Nasa budget analyst who told the panel he understood there had been some erosion of the rings last year. Cook said thai during development of the solid rocket boosters the of ring Char see Nasa on Page 28 tainted tylenol kills woman supermarket recalls product Yonkers . A a Young woman died after taking extra strength tylenol from a bottle found to contain capsules laced with cyanide officials said and a supermarket Chain pulled the pain killer from its stores in 25 states and the District of Columbia. A a pulled extra strength tylenol capsules from shelves in its More than 1,000 stores on monday after police said Diane Elsroth 23, of pc skill was found dead saturday about 12 hours after taking two tylenol capsules officials said. After the deaths of seven people in the Chicago area who had taken cyanide laced capsules of extra strength tylenol in 1982, its manufacturer and others look Steps to make packages Tam per resistant. Authorities said other Cap Sules in the bottle she used contained cyanide but Yonkers police Deputy chief Owen Mcclain would not com ment on whether the tylenol Container found after Elsroth s death had been tampered with. Elsroth. Who was visiting her boy Friend took u couple of tablets the night before because she was not feeling Well Mcclain said in a monday night news conference. The bottle was bought at a Bronxville a a but no other bottles at the store showed signs of Lam see tylenol on Page 28  
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