European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q . Wants to give up Marcos financial data Page 2 d Twa says it s flying 75 percent of schedule Page 5 d Swiss turn thumbs Down on . Membership Page 8 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 332 monday March 17, 1986 i  and sunday d 8693 a French rightists apparent winners Paris a the two main conserva Tive opposition parties with the help of minor rightist groups won an absolute majority of seats in sunday s National Assem Bly elections to end five years of socialist Rule according to computer projections. The Victory if confirmed Means socialist president Francois Mitterrand will be forced to govern with a hostile parliament and Premier for the last two years of his term. The biggest Surprise was the performance of the extreme right National front projected to enter the National Assembly for the first time with about 30 seats. It carved a Large slice out of the majority won by the Neo gaullist rally for the Republic apr party and the centrist Union for French democracy uhf. The National front was projected to win 10.1 percent pulling level with the communists who plunged to a historic Low of 9.9 percent. If the figures Are confirmed the communists will have lost half their support in Only eight years. Apr and uhf leaders reaffirmed that they would not join with the National front to form a government and projections made it appear that would not be necessary. The major polling organizations showed that the apr and uhf and minor rightist parties that vote with them would win 293 to 294 seats. At least 289 seats Are needed for a majority in the 577-seat National As Sembly. The National front was expected to win 30 seats fewer than the communists because National front votes were concentrated in certain areas. On the left the socialists were projected to win 211-214 seats remaining the largest single party in France the communists 40 and Small leftist parties two. If the projections were Correct it would be the first time since the fifth Republic was formed 28 years ago that France s president and prime minister will come from opposing parties a situation dubbed  the cohabitation Issue was the most important of the Campaign no one is sure How a president and prime minister who both hold Broad overlapping constitutional Powers and different political programs will share Power. The French fear the situation could result in paralysis. Mitterrand who does not have to face see rightists on Page 28 Szuc fens score vat refs talking with soviets by Mary Hladky education writer Wiesbaden Germany for Many of the High school students sitting in a television studio in Mainz Kastel saturday night was an evening of  first time on television first time talking with a soviet official and a soviet dissident first time their faces were seen in Homes across America. Fifty students from american Ca Nadian French and German High schools in Germany fired questions at the soviet official the dissident and an american congressman in Washington . The event that led the students to a new level of understanding about . Soviet relations was a Day of discussions topped by a satellite telecast 1 /2 years in the planning. All we want to do is live peacefully together with the soviets said Noel smart a Heidelberg High school soph Omore. We Learned we want to. We Learned to strive to. Hopefully we can help reach that  we Are the future leaders said Michele Peterson a we Bruecken High school Junior. This is a Good step to our eventual negotiations with the so  it was fantastic said Ansbach High school Junior Mike Gilbert As the hot television lights dimmed after the live broadcast. It is the first such Tele cast from Europe Ever. And it Nap see soviets on Page 28 r i j i to ii i a i. M / v is photo by Tracy bake German students Elisabeth Schlag Center and Sonja Klotz listen intently to . Consular official Tom Johnson. Raised debris May be part of Booster Cape canaveral Fla. A a Salvage ship sunday plucked from the Ocean Bottom a 3,250-Pound chunk of debris that might be part of the right solid fuel rocket Booster suspected of causing the challenger explosion. Related stories on pages 3,7. The Stena Workhorse which has a lifting capacity of 10 tons hoisted the 6-by-l8-foot piece aboard after a robot submersible attached lines to it at a depth of 400 feet a Navy spokeswoman said. The ship then moved from the site about 28 Miles East Northeast of Cape canaveral to another location four Miles away. There the Crew sought to retrieve what May be another part of the right Booster a 4-by-5-foot Section 650 feet Down. This piece if part of the right rocket could be critical to the investigation because it might contain the segment joint believed to have started the Accident. We still Don t know if they Are parts of the left or right Srb said it. Cmdr. Deborah Burnette spokeswoman for the Navy search and Salvage operation. Investigators have focused on a joint Between the Bot Tom two segments of the right Booster. Photographs taken on launch Day show a puff of Black smoke spewing from the area of the joint on liftoff and a plume of flame escaping from the same area 58 seconds later. The space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, killing the seven Crew members. Theories to explain a possible joint failure include that cold weather robbed synthetic rubber of ring seals of their resiliency that the seals were damaged when the segments were mated or that they were improperly manufactured. Rough seas which had stalled search and recovery efforts for two Days subsided sunday allowing a Fleet of 10 ships and two manned submarines to resume operations. In another part of the search zone divers battled Strong currents 100 feet below the surface As they worked to retrieve More debris from the Crew Cabin of the challenger. Most of the Cabin wreckage and astronaut remains Are already on Shore sources close to the investigation have said. Military pathologists were identifying and examining the remains in a Laboratory at Cape canaveral air Force station. Burnette said the recovery operation plans Call for the Ocean Bottom of the search area to be charted by sonar and for any object thought to be a part of challenger to be examined by either a manned or unmanned submarine. Then a determination will be made on whether or not to recover that particular piece she said