European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 9, 1966 the stars and stripes of pa9" sabotage probed in ariane failure Paris up european space Agency officials said monday i Haj Are investigating whether a Saboteur was responsible Tor the failed launch of an ariane rocket a month ago but they have no direct evidence to support the theory. The officials said during a nes con Ference Hal a technical flaw in the third and final stage was the most Likely reason for the May to failure of an ariane rocket 4 minutes and 36 seconds after liftoff with the loss of a $55 million Intel Sal communications satellite. Frederic d Allcut. Chairman of ariane space the French led International consortium that builds markets and launches the ariane said the tact thai two of the last four ariane rocket launches were aborted due to malfunctions led them to theorize the problem could be sabotage rather than mechanical failure. Both failures resulted from the inability of he third stage to ignite properly and both had to be detonated automatically from Mission control. The third stage s propulsion system is the Only entirely French built part of the Rock constructed by the company social a eur rope nne de propulsion or sep. The last ariane failure the fourth in 18 launches has left the West without a reliable Means to Bunch satellites. After the Jan. 28 . Shuttle challenger tragedy an unmanned . Air Force Titan 34d rocket blew up april is shortly after Blastoff and May 3. A Nasa Delta rocket was destroyed on ground command after its first stage engine shut Down prematurely. Since february 1 b4, 13 satellites have been lost during launch or because of malfunctions during Orbital operations. Eleven of Thow were american payloads and two were launched by ariane. The failures have left the soviet Union is the Only country Able to Send heavy payloads into space. It announced recently thai it would establish a system to launch commercial satellites. I can confirm Touy Hal with the knowledge we have i Terc is not much to attach to the try Ory of sabotage d Al list said. You can never Rule out anything 100 percent. There could be a very intelligent form of sabotage putting something in the right place at the right time. As of today All our checks give no positive indication of sabotage or ill in Terest sabotage seems to be a very very weak possibility but we have not finished our studies on  Allesi said. D Allesi said after the news conference that Security officials at the French Span Center in Kourou French Guiana were investigating employee records particularly those with Access to the launching pad. We Trust our people but we Are Tak ing precautions to make sure we can continue trusting  d tallest said d Allesi said he and defense minister Andre Giraud were both in the United Stales last week bul they did not discuss the sabotage theory with . Officials. The evolution of the automobile of apparent As two vehicles drive an a test track in ending near Munich. The front vehicle was the first German a to finish the they be come a Long Way tour de sol through Switzerland a six Day 238-mile race far solar vehicles. Owned by Michael Trykowski the Sun powered car placed fifth Overall in the world if Philo championship race. The old timer following built is years earlier is a British a is powered by a six Cylinder engine. Nero Wolfe reviver had to be of Stout heart Chicago a the Tate Rex Stout created the detectives Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin in 1933, and his millions of readers agree it took Genius now Robert Goldsborough has re created them and it took guts. Murder in e minor the first Nero Wolfe novel since Stout s death in 1975, was published this Spring by Bantam books and is Selling briskly. Its Road to Publica Tion though was far from smooth. Goldsborough the executive editor of advertising age got the idea for the. Novel after seeing Stout s obituary in the Chicago Tribune where he was then  the time of his death at age 89, Stoul had written 46 Nero Wolfe novels which were translated into 22 languages. They be sold 45 million copies. I showed the obituary to my Mother who had been a great Rex Stout Buff and i a i if cat to Hitaf weren l to into to be i books Osborough said. Thought Well maybe there could be just one  he wrote three chapters but let them sit until 1977, when he was reviewing John Mcaleer s biography of Stout for the Tribune. On a whim be showed the chapters to Mcaleer who encouraged him to continue. He completed the novel in Lime to present a bound typescript to his Mother Wilma for her last Christmas in 197b. She died in 1979. I know it s a cliche bul it was a labor of love he said. Stout s estate which held the rights to the characters was initially encouraging bul Drew Back in the Wake of a television series that the Stout family Felt distorted Archie and Nero. The series starring William Conrad As Wolfe and Lee Horsley As Goodwin ran during Early 1981. Then in 1984, soul s daughter. Bar Bara read the completed novel and gave her approval in order to be published Goldsborough s re creation had to satisfy the estate. To succeed though it had to satisfy an organization of Stout fans the feared Wolfe pack. Casual mystery readers know that Wolfe is fat drinks Beer and lives in a Manhattan Brownstone where he raises thousands of orchids and Hal Archie is Lough drinks milk and lives there too along with chef Fritz Brenner and Orchid Gardener Theodore Horstmann. Pack members though see Nero and Archie As real people and their Brownstone on West 35lh Street As the last bastion of True civilization. They know where Wolfe keeps his Beer bottle Caps in his desk drawer the color of his pyjamas Canary yellow what he likes on his Shad Roc sorrel sauce and what state he visited to learn the recipe for Sau misses Minuit West Virginia. They know what Sedan Archie drives a hero where he lakes his Many lady friends dancing at the Flamingo or a private Booth at Ousterman s restau rant and his favorite newspaper the new York Gazette. They even study orchids and give Spe Cial dinners out of the Nero Wolfe Cookbook published by Viking press. The 48-year-old Goldsborough has been Reading Nero Wolfe novels for years but he admits the pack had him running scared. Since publication though he says the reaction has been mainly favourable. Small nits have been picked he said but nothing Loo major someone old me Wolfe was drinking too much Beer another said there weren t enough references to food and someone else said my menus were to pedestrian. I also got caught letting Wolfe make a mistake in  Goldsborough has since written another Wolfe novel which Bantam will bring out Early next year. His suggested title is death on deadline and it involves murder at the Gazette. Goldsborough recently met members of the pack at a Book signing party at Otto Pniler s mysterious Bookstore in new York. The meeting was a Success. One woman came in and said 1 was prepared to hate vow Book but 1 done " he recalled. She bought 21 copies had me autograph All of them and then ran out saying she was