European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday april 13, 1986 Western reporters Friday viewed this mock up of the Mir space station at Star City . A photo soviets say new space station in t ready for continuous use Star City . A the Mir space station billed As the world s first permanently manned space lab is not ready for continuous occupation nor can the soviets yet Send women to the station on Long haul missions space officials disclosed Friday. The statements came during a rare visit by invited journalists to this walled settlement Northeast of Moscow a 345 acc area housing 50 cosmonauts and their families and some 3,000 other workers on the secretive soviet space program. Asked repeatedly whether the Mir opened up by cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Soloveva on March 15, would now be permanently manned it. Gen. Vladimir a. Shatalow head of cosmonaut training said there will be a break after the current Crew ends its Mission. The task of that Crew is to put the space station into working order Shatalow said. He did not say when the Mir would Start operating As a permanently manned space lab or reveal How Long Kizim and Soloveva will be on Board. Their program is changing literally by the week making estimates on the length of the Mission difficult Shatalow said. One cargo vehicle with 10 tons of lab equip ment has already been sent up to Mir and More cargo will need to be sent aloft before the station is fully operational As a permanent research Center he said. Kizim and Soloveva who set a 237-Day space endurance record in 1984, will not be going for a new record Shata Lov said. Shatalow who also is an aide to the commander of the air defense forces was one of five ranking officials meeting journalists on a trip arranged by the soviet foreign ministry. Gen. Georgy t. Bergovoy head of the Star City Cen Ter said three women Are among the 50 cosmonauts now trained for space missions. He said however that women cannot yet go on Long haul missions. He attributed it to the differences in male and female phys ologies. Bergovoy said the soviets had invented space clothing that helped men counter the effects of Long term weightlessness on their blood pressure and circulation. This clothing is unsuitable for women he said saying it caused blood to Rush from the abdominal cavity. He said the suit also could prompt menstruation. The soviet Union has sent two women into space Valentina Teres Kova in 1963, and Svetlana Savitskaya who spent eight Days aboard the salyut-7 space station in 1982 and 11 Days in space in 1984. Pointing to a life size training Model of the Mir station Bergovoy said unspecified extra amenities would have to be added to the station before women could stay there longer. The soviets have said the Mir station offers improvements Over previous salyut models with individual sleeping quarters for Crew members. The station 33 feet Long and 20 tons at lift off provides Docking for up to six other Craft four modules and two spaceships or one spaceship and five modules and could weigh up to 130 tons with these additional Craft attached Bergovoy said. In an interview with the associated press in new York Roald z. Sageev head of Moscow s space research Institute said Friday a new sophisticated module for astronomy will be sent to Mir later this year. He did not say exactly when this would happen. Bergovoy rejected a suggestion from one reporter that the soviets have now moved ahead of the . Space pro Gram saying each nation does certain things Well. He said All soviet cosmonauts were saddened by the explosion of the . Space shuttle challenger. Kizim and Soloveva headed for Mir on March 13 in a faultless launch that was televised worldwide. This first live broadcast of an All soviet launch was part of a new thrust to publicize the soviet space program. On monday Western journalists went on a rare trip to the Mission control Center outside Moscow for a news Confer ence linkup with Kizim and Soloveva. Last week a soviet newspaper revealed that cosmonaut Valentin v. Bondarenko died in an Accident three weeks before Yuri Gagarin made the first manned space shot 25 years ago. Asked Why it took so Long to reveal this Bergovoy indicated it would have been inadvisable to mar the space program in its infancy by publicizing the Accident then. The soviet space Effort is still veiled in secrecy and on Friday journalists did riot see any of Star City s scientists or cosmonauts at work. They also were not allowed to look inside the Mir Model. Security guards Scurry to expel furry intruder from Castle Bonn a South korean president Chun Doo Hwan s heavily armed Security guards scrambled to Chase an intruder from the visiting president s Castle residence a Small Gray Field mouse. Reporters accompanying German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher to an Early morning meeting with Chun found the guards in a state of As reporters watched guards chased the mouse into a Hall of the Gimnich Castle the official German govern ment residence used by foreign dignitaries. The guards finally succeeded in temporarily cornering the mouse in a Hall away from the room where Chun was meeting Genscher. But the mouse slipped away apparently through some Loose floorboards. A few minutes later reporters sighted what appeared to be the same mouse outside the Castle. The animal again eluded the guards. One of the German staff employed at the Castle was overheard warning the guards Don t you shoot the poor Little animal the Fate of the mouse and its whereabouts remained mysterious. Chun is on a state visit to Germany As part of his first West european tour. Spain pays $6 million to keep artwork from being auctioned London up in an extraordinary agreement Spain has paid a British lord $6 million for a Goya masterpiece rather than see the painting auctioned for a prob Able world record Price the two parties said. It s a very satisfactory Deal for both said lord Wim borne who bought Francisco Goya s 1805 portrait of the Marquesa de Santa Cruz As an investment three years ago. Christie s Art auction House had been scheduled to sell the Goya. Experts expected it to top the world record $12.15 million paid by California s Getty museum last year for Mantegna s adoration of the but Spain took extraordinary Steps to Block or disrupt the Sale. Ownership of the 4 /2-by-6 /2-foot masterpiece was never challenged. But Spain which has Tough rules on Export ing works of Art contended that the Goya had been smuggled illegally out of the country with bogus Export documents. Anti drug addiction program ordered by Moscow officials Moscow a Moscow authorities have ordered a citywide program to combat drug addiction in what is believed to be the first such Effort in the soviet Union. The report in the capital s daily Moskovskaya pravda Moscow truth on the planned fight against narcotics abuse indicated that Moscow and perhaps other areas Are suffering from a problem usually presented Here As a Western phenomenon caused by youth unemployment and other strains of capitalist society. Reporting on a meeting of the communist party com Mittee governing Moscow Moskovskaya pravda said it reprimanded City Legal and medical services for past mis takes and ordered them to track Down drug addicts. Union in Britain bans actors from working in South Africa London up the British actors Union equity has voted to ban its its 32,000 members from working in South Africa. Equity president Derek Bond resigned in protest saying it is not the Union s right to Tell its members in which countries they could work. Supporters of the ban do not want actors to work in White ruled South Africa because of apartheid Ern ment s system of racial segregation and discrimination against Blacks and mixed race people. . Gives philippine panel Marcos personal data Manila Philippines a . Officials have Given personal documents concerning former philippine president Ferdinand e. Marcos to a commission try ing to recover funds he allegedly misappropriated the panel s chairman said sat urday. Marcos took the documents with him when he went into exile. Jovito Solon a in a statement released through the presidential Palace called the release by the state department a break through that frees his commission from attempts to acquire the papers through Legal action. . Officials previously gave the com Mission on Good government Many of the documents Marcos took into exile on feb. 26, but they retained some they characterized As personal records of birth death marriage and divorce and other papers. Solon a voiced dissatisfaction on april 3 with . Assistance in the commission s efforts to regain from $5 billion-$10 billion that Marcos allegedly deposited overseas during his 20-year Rule. He called on . Officials to turn Over All of Marcos documents noting that mar cos s private papers could involve Public matters. Meanwhile presidential spokesman Rene Saguisag characterized claims by Marcos that he remains the Legal president of the Philippines As Legal Marcos attempting to regain control of Money and possessions he took into exile filed a document last week in a Federal court in Honolulu that claimed he is the de Jure philippine president. Any two bit lawyer would have advised him to say that Saguisag said. It s the duty of a lawyer to raise All possible
