European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o expo 86 opening Day is a Royal Success Page 2 q Santa be Railroad struck Over non Union workers Page 5 q Ferdinand is upset Victor in Kentucky Derby Page 21 and stripes authorized unofficial publication j vol. 45, no. 18 monday May 5, 1986 . Armed forces Dolly Ono Sunoy 0 8693 a rocket destroyed after going awry 2nd failure of . Spacecraft since challenger Cape canaveral. A. A an unmanned rocket carrying a weather satellite went Oul of control and was blown up by ground command shortly after launch saturday the second failure of n . Spacecraft since the explosion of the space shuttle challenger. Just Over a minute after liftoff the Delta rocket s Mai engine shut Down for unknown reasons leaving it without guidance and careening out of control at 1,400 Mph said Bill Russell Nasa s Delta manager. Safety officers then sent a do struck command and finished the Job Russell said at a news conference. Saturday s launching followed the Jan. 2k space shuttle explosion that killed its seven Crew members and the april in explosion in California of an air Force Titan 34drocket thought to have been carrying a spy satellite. The Delta the space Agency s most used and most dependable rocket had been launched successfully 43 times stretching Buck to september 1977. The next scheduled launch from Cape canaveral is Anatlas Centaur rocket scheduled to Power a Navy communications satellite into orbit May 22. Charles Gay head of Nasa s expendable rocket program said he did t know whether the Delta loss would affect plans for that Mission. We have had a loss of the vehicle. There is a breakup of the vehicle launch com Munler Lisa Malone said As the 116-foot rocket broke apart. The flight appeared Normal through the first minute with the first set of solid rockets being jettisoned at 64 and 65 seconds Russell said. We were flying along and at about 71 seconds the main engine. Shul Down he said. It s a very Sharp shutdown almost As though it were a commanded shut Down. Once you lose that of course the rocket has no stability after the shutdown the rocket began Drifting creating an Angle of attack great enough that the shield that covers its nose Tore off. There was no indication that a command had been sent see rocket on Page 28 bomb kills 21 aboard sri lankan jetliner Colombo sri Lanka a an explosion apparently caused by a Lime bomb Tore through an air Lanka jetliner at the Colombo Airport saturday us passengers were boarding killing 21 people an wounding dozens the government an japanese and at least a half dozen europeans from Britain. L ranch an Germany were among the victims Accord ing to state radio and other reports. No identities were Given. The government issued a statement blaming tamil militants but police said no group or individual had asserted responsibility. It is. Suspected that a separatist terrorist group has been responsible for this explosion that claimed the lives of so Man innocent people the statement said. This is Plain terrorism said National Security minister Lalith who visited the scene accompanied by senior military officials. The official sri lankan news said the blast was believed to have been caused by a bomb in the rear of the plane. The explosion broke the plane in two sent plumes of Black smoke skyward and shattered Glass panels in the Mam tar see bomb on Page 28 i spews from inc wreckage of a sri i Jinan jetliner after a blast Ore in in half at the Airport in Colombo sri Lanka. High level soviet officials inspect disaster site Moscow not three politburo members inspected the arcu of the damaged chernobyl nuclear Power Plant saturday marking the first Public demonstration of concern Over the Accident by the top soviet leadership. The government news Agency Tass said that the area was visited by prime minister Nikolai i. Ryzhkova by Yegor k. I Gachev the second ranking party Secretary after Mikhail s. Gorbachev and by Vladimir , the ukrainian Leader. In the company of other officials the three were said to have checked on the condition of evacuees and made unspecified decisions on additional measures to expedite the meanwhile a four Man . Army team arrived in Moscow saturday to measure the radioactivity Levels under which the 450 american residents of Moscow arc is 4so Miles from the nuclear Acci Dent site. The dispatch of Ryzhkova and men close to Gorbachev represented an unusually High level for such an inspection team. Western diplomats could not remember a previous disaster that rated so High ranking a delegation. In sending the two men from Moscow the soviet leadership seemed intent on demonstrating a High level of concern and per haps on preparing inc Public for the fac that the Accident was Graver than the Bland official announcements had suggested. The latest government report gave no further information on the situation in the area of the chernobyl Power station whereas unspecified Accident occurred a week see soviet on Page 28 Italy bans vegetables because of radiation Levels Rome not a ban by the italia government on the Sale of Leafy veg cables and on inc consumption of milk by childrens a result of the soviet nuclear Accident unleashed angry protests from Farmers sat urday and expressions of bewilderment from Consumers. The italian Farmers association said3,000 tons of vegetables were Likely to be wasted during the two week ban wit Farmers losing up to si00 million. At Rome s wholesale produce Market City officials said trucks bearing nearly 400 tons of Leafy vegetables had been turned away by police. Angry truckers shouted at policemen an consoled each other As they saw their Day s profits Giacobbo a Farmer from Cerveleri North of Rome said he had sacrificed 4,500artichokes and 60 cases of fennel saturday. The damage is worse for me he said because besides having to throw away this loud i have seven acres of land ready to health ministry announced the ban on Friday because of a Rise in radiation Levels As Clouds of radioactivity from the soviet nuclear Accident passed Over the country. The government emphasized that the lev Els were far below danger Levels. Giuseppe Zar Berletti the minister of civil defense said the Steps were Only according to the government s measurements radiation Levels on Friday were about twice Normal in Northern Italy and 40to 50 percent higher in Rome. The prime minister s office announce saturday that radiation was dropping faster than vegetable ban covered the Sale of All see radiation on Page 28
