European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 m of the stars and stripes thursday february 13,1886 shuttle boosters called Safe and adequate Washington a a . Space Agency official told president Reagan s challenger investigating commis Sion tuesday that the Agency had Felt the space shuttle rocket boosters to be Safe and adequate. But the official. David Winterhalter also asserted that after recent ground testing and minor cases of erosion we Felt like it could be it Safe to Fly asked commissioner Neil Arm Strong a former astronaut who was the first Man to Walkon the Moon. It was testified will Rhalter Nasa s acting director of the shuttle propulsion the second Day of Public testimony on the Jan. 28 explosion that destroyed challenger and killed it seven member Crew the investigating panel focused on whether the National aeronautics and space administration had prior warning of a problem with the design and material that joined the four segments of a rocket boost ers. The probes will take the Day off wednesday then Flyte Cape canaveral fla., on thursday for two Days of inspections at the Kennedy space of the disaster showed a flame apparently emerging from the area around one of the seams on the right rocket Booster. Despite the emphasis on whether the seals were properly assessed by Nasa however commis Sion and Agency officials both say the probe into challenger s explosion is not focused exclusively on the commissioners returned to concern that cold Flor Ida weather might have been a Factor in the explosion Andone Nasa official said that the Agency still does t know if the flame was a cause or an Winterhalter told the panel that Nasa Engineer were not satisfied with the safety margins they found on testing of the seals adding we re always striving tomake things he said tests were conducted during most of 1985.16 what changes could be made to the seals an that the testing intensified As the year went at no time during that period did any of my men Cometo me and give any indication that there was a safety or flight problem in their area he told the commission. Reagan from Page 1 face of unprecedented fraud and an obvious total steal Reagan declined to answer re asking one of those if questions and i m not going to answer those questions he said. Reagan said the administration is concerned about the violence that was evident there and the possibility of fraud. It could have been All of that was occurring on both american observers who returned from Manila on monday have expressed concern about reports of fraud and intimidation by the Marcos forces but have voiced no such concern about Aquino s partisans. One member of the observer group Kerry d-Ma-ss., sharply attacked Rea Gan within moments of the end of the new conference. Citing hard evidence of fraud Kerry said we cannot be a party to from the filipino on the Summit the president said he evidence that soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev is trying to get out of the Summit scheduled for later in the year. Asked about the release earlier in the Day of soviet dissident Shch Aransky Reagan said he talked at great length about human rights with Gorbachev at their Summit last novem Ber. He said he thought there had been a increase in such emigration since then and added i Hope that this is a beginning sign of what s going to Lake on another foreign policy Issue the presi Dent said the United Stales Only involvement in the downfall of haitian president for life Jean Claude Duvalier was in providing an air plane to Fly him into exile in president opened his news conference with a pitch for his 1987 fiscal year budget and took note of critics who say it is doa dead on he said those critics Only want a tax increase to reduce deficits and Aid any such increase would be Voa vetoed on on another Domestic political question the president warmly praised vice president George Bush who has embarked on a Campaign to win support from conservatives in Advance of an expected bid for the 1988 nomination. ? he has been the heart and soul in support of everything we re trying to do and i am con Vinced of his sincerity in that rapport the president said of Bush. He is a part of every Reagan repeated his opposition to mandatory numerical hiring quotas goals and timetables and said he did not believe that View is harmful to women and Blacks who have benefited from such if he thought that he would be president today if he were born Black or a woman he said with a laugh i did think i d be president today when i was born or for a great Many years free from Page 1 wearing a fur hat baggy trousers an Over coat and a Broad smile. The Snow had been cleared from a 4-Inch-wide line in the Middle of the Bridge that Marks the Border Between East an West. When he saw the line Shch Aransky Laid in English look no Wall and took giant step Over it. He was met by Richard Burl . Ambassador to West Germany and they Shook hands on the Span West germans Call the Bridge of Burt towered Over Shucha Ransky. A Small balding Man of 38 who is a computer expert and temperature was 25 degrees and an icy wind few across the River As Burt Handsh Sharansky walked to a limousine and drove off toward the Wall that has divided Berlin since 1961. Shch Aransky brought no personal posses Sions no Luggage nothing said Ludwig Schlinger a German government official who accompanied Burt and was Bonn s negotiator in the had not been told he would be released until he arrived in East Berlino monday officials said. did not complain of health problems officials said although reports have indicated his health suffered during his time in prison and labor . Shch Aransky 34, arrived in Frank Furt two hours before her husband. She had left the soviet Union soon after their marriage in 1975, with the understanding that he would soon follow and began her world wide Campaign when the Kremlin refuse to let him go. Peres called Shch Aransky by his hebrew name Natan and said of him he has fought heroically alone against so Man tribulations As a proud jew As a Man with a Mission As a devoted said to Reagan in the Tele phone conversation which was broadcast by Israel television i know How great was your role in this greatest event of my and my wife Slife. We Are very grateful to you for Reagan declared himself delighted Bysh Sharansky s release and at one poin Mazel Tov hebrew for congrats in ions. Vote from Page 1reports of fraud which we take seriously and by election related violence has killed More than 90 people since the Campaign began in Early latest victim was former gov. Evelio Javier chairman of Aquino s Campaign inthe Central philippine province of antique who was shot dead by unidentified me tuesday outside the antique provincial Ca Altol building. In the Assembly tuesday the number of legislators dwindled to below that required for a quorum As opposition assemblymen slipped out to meet with Aquino. There s a very great possibility that we would be cheated out of this Victory. So we prepared a caucus to take counteraction an see what we can do said opposition member Roy Padilla explaining Why opposition Mem Ben had left the Assembly Hall. They had tried to delay the official vote canvass but were voted Down by the mar cos party the new society movement. Aquino supporters applauded from the galleries As speaker Nicanor Yniguez adjourned the six hour session until 3 . ubide chanted Cory has won the Assembly spent 414 hours debating procedural matters. Then Security men toted 13 ballot boxes into the chamber lat tuesday night to begin what Marcos peo ple said would be a non Stop procedure to. Determine who won the election. Opposition assemblymen immediately objected to returns from one province i Marcos Home Region because the tally Sheet did not have the proper Seal. Other tally sheets also lacked seals or did not Bear the required authorizing signatures. The absence of a Seal is a criminal of sense which can be prosecuted protested opposition assemblyman Marcelo Fernan but removal of envelopes containing tally sheets continued with Yniguez saying Only that the objection would be noted. It was Only after the opposition note that the Assembly no longer Nad a quorum that Marcos party agreed to Call off the canvass. A Roll Call showed Only 78 of 190 Assembly members present. Only four wherefrom the opposition. The new society movement holds a two thirds majority in the Assembly but Many members either did not attend or left Early. Iran says its forces near Kuwait Border Nicosia. Cyprus a Iran claimed tuesday its forces swept across the South Ern tip of Iraq to near the kuwaiti Borderon the second Day of its new offensive and both nations reported killing thousands of enemy soldiers. Kuwait called on All Arab nations to joining defending Iraq saying the iranian attack was shaking stability and Security and aggravating tensions in the persian Gulf re Gion. Although both warring nations Are mos Lem Ibartt people Are persian and Iraq s Are arabic. Iran s islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia claimed 5,000 iraqis were killed or wounded and 1,100 capture since the iranian offensive began sunday night. It said 10 iraqi planes were shutdown tuesday and told of pushing across South Iraq. For its part Iraq said More than 1200iranians were killed in Iraq s 3rd army corps sector of the 730-mile Battlefront an that countless thousands More died in other areas. It is impossible to verify the claims be cause reporters Are rarely allowed to visit the combat zones on either Side. Iraqi information minister Latif Nasi Jassem called completely baseless Iran s claim that it captured Iraq s Southern Oil port City of Faw and said iraqi forces were driving the attackers Back into their own territory. Faw at the Southern end of the Shalt Al Arab waterway has been out of action As an Oil Export terminal since the War began in september 1980. Sch Haransky made a Brief statement i English on this happiest Day of my life i am not going to forget those whom i left in the amps in prisons who Are still in exile or who still continue their struggle for the right to emigrate and for their human rights.", after the Airport Welcome the Shch Arans keys went to a rally at a nearby terminal at tended by 5,000 people. Then they drove to Jerusalem where huge throngs waited. Hundreds of students from religious schools danced the traditional Hor and blew trumpets made of rams horns. They carried the freed dissident on their shoulder to and from the wailing Wall which is the last remnant of the ancient Temple built Bykin Solomon. A us. Official in Berlin identified the prisoners freed from the East As Wolf George Frohn of East Germany Jaroslav jaw Onti of Czechoslovakia and Dietrich Nestroy a West German All held in East Germany. He said those sent East were Jerzy of Poland Yevgeniy sem Iakov of the soviet Union Detlev Scharfenort of East Ger Many and Karl f. Koecher and hit wife Hana of Czechoslovakia. The Kuechen had been held in the United Stales and the Othen in West Germany. Temperatures Artono. Puff Len la , in . Olhow Mil Rel. Imo Kow i Otto. Toronto d Vancouver d 1 supp Nad up Pill Cloudy a of oud hair a Ulni i
