European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n Navy air Force to cooperate on stealth warplanes Page 5 d Mcaa basketball tourney opens Page 21 n divers recover shuttle recorders Page 28 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 330 saturday March 15, 1986 Ooisy and sunday d 8693 a Halley s Comet cd Ray Snowba full of a formation by . Kominicki staff writer Darmstadt Germany the heart of Halley s Comet is a cratered Peanut shape Lump of ice crusted with Carbon traced with rings and cracks and billowing jets of Gas and dust in Short the dirty snowball scientists always suspected. That confirmation is among the first of what scientists Hope will be a steady Stream of data resulting from Fri Day s Early morning visit of the european space probe Giotto to Halley s nucleus. Scientists at the european space Agency control Center in Darmstadt Are calling the Mission an outstanding Suc Cess despite a sudden loss of radio Contact with the Craft seconds before Giotto was to have made its closest approach 320 Miles from the Comet s nucleus. Contact with Giotto was re established 35 minutes later but by then the Craft had rocketed several thousand Miles past the Comet s Core and had suffered damage to six of its 10 experiments. We have received a very Large number of science data More than we could have hoped for said Ruediger rein Hardt science director for the Giotto program. And while it is unfortunate that we lost Contact with the spacecraft the High Quality of data More than compensates for the loss of the closest  much of Giotto s most spectacular data was collected by the Craft s multicolour camera a computer controlled device that snapped 2,000 photos of Halley s icy nucleus before bombarding dust particles destroyed its Mirror mechanism. Camera project chief Horst Keller said he was Over whelmed by the Quality of the collected photos while Mak ing initial studies of the images. What we have Are very stunning and thanks to very see Comet on Page 28 the nucleus of Halley s Comet. Horst Keller head of the Giotto camera control team holds a computer photo taken from 930 Miles away and beamed 90 million Miles to Earth. Gao report blasts military charter flights a photos Washington a two charter airlines continued to carry thousands of . Service members for months in 1984, although Faa inspectors had urged that the carriers be grounded for safety violations congressional investigators revealed thursday. The finding prompted rep. Charles Ben Nett d-fla., a ranking member of the House armed services committee to Sug Gest that service members refuse to Board aircraft they believe to be unsafe and Send him a collect Telegram if their protests cause trouble. The record shows we cannot rely on the Faa to ensure military charter safety said Bennett. The lives of . Soldiers were endangered because it took Faa so Long to act on its own  Bennett who is pushing legislation that would require the defense department to conduct its own safety inspections of Char Ter Craft said neither the Federal aviation administration nor the Pentagon is making certain that military people Are transported safely. The Pentagon last year spent $453 Mil lion on contracts with scores of airlines both Large and Small to transport its personnel around the world according to general accounting office investigators. Concerns about the safety of military charter flights Drew widespread attention last december after 248 american soldiers were killed in the crash of an Arrow air see charter on Page 28 Market closes big week with another surge new York a Stock prices soared again Friday closing out one of the biggest weeks yet in a rampaging Bull Market. Analysts said the latest upsurge was caused in part by dramatic new evidence of the decline in the inflation rate. Trading was so heavy late in the session that final statistics on new York Stock Exchange activity were delayed. The government reported Friday morning that the . Producer Price Index of finished goods fell 1.6 percent in february taking its largest drop since the labor department began compiling the Index in 1947. Wall Streeter had been expecting a decline but not such a Large one. Falling Oil prices As expected played a Large part in the Index s snowing. Economists also noted however that other elements in the Index signalled an absence of any significant inflationary pressures. Other government figures meanwhile reinforced Evi Dence of a sluggish american Economy which would presumably allow room for further declines in . In Terest rates. The Federal Reserve reported a drop of 0.6 percent in Industrial production last month. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials jumped 39.03 to close at 1,792.74, winding up the week with a record net gain of 92.91 Points. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by about five to three on the new York Stock Exchange. Volume totalled 181.87 million shares against 171.48 million in the previous session. The nose s composite Index Rose 1.69 to 136.17