European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page & 1 the stars and stripes thursday. August 1986 m shuffle almost launched while Short Ofiel Washington a Nasa came within 31 seconds of launching inc shuttle Columbia last january without enough fuel to reach its intended orbit because of human error caused partly by overwork and fatigue lie Rogers com Mission disclosed tuesday. The incident occurred on Jan. 6. Just 11 Days before the shuttle challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch killings seven Crew members Columbia Wason Jan. 12, after  delays. Among its or car jeep. Bill Nelson d fla., top 80mmcniber of Congress to Fiu Tlle. The first was sen. Jake ii is Brizuis Cam Rulah. The Rogers commission a presiden tial panel hat investigated the challenger explosion said the Jan. 6 scrub of the Columbia flight resulted when 18.000 pounds of liquid oxygen fuel Verl Cully drained from " Vernal Lank due i Fig alive report on Theck heed space operations a Ciles operator fatigue As one of he major factors contributing to this  in an interview. Nelson said he was told about the error and the lass of fuel when it was discovered but i Haven t heard about fatigue related to this  Nelson said heti Adibi pop Ira varying  have Hap had launched. One personae we would have gone into a lower orbit than intended. Others said we would have run out of fuel before achieving arts and would have had to make an emergency Landing on a 10,000-foot strip in Dakar Senegal which you Don t want to do in a fully loaded  Nelson said be had thanked the opera Tor who was Alert enough to discover the error but if there is worker fatigue Down there it ought to be a  Jers commission s disclosure my in a previously unpublished study it made of workloads at the Kenned space Center in Florida it concluded that there is no system at Kennedy for monitoring overtime from the safety per  the study blistered the National aeronautics and space administration As Well As Morton think pm inc. And Lockheed the contractors primarily responsible for shuttle launch preparations at Kennedy for excessive overtime multiple shift changes and Long periods without a payoff. It said those circumstances rep resent a potential threat to safety and worker  Michigan gop primal Lansing Mich. Ned Michiale publicans went to the polls tuesday to eth precinct delegates in a primary that posed Fie firs major test of vice president George ban s ability to survive Early challenges to Zama for the presidency from his party s Consun Jevc Wing while the votes were being Tab Ted tuesday night the results of a poll by Nlle news and the Wall Street journal showed by to be the Over whelming presidential Choi of the Michigan republicans who voted Tinay. Bush who has spent Csc to $ i million in this race was named by tire than 40 percent of2,532 primary voters is lined As they in the polls. His two Chellg Flors in the Michigan con test rep. Jack of of Ftp of new York and the Rev. Pat Rob Crumri the television evangelist from Virginia a each named by 9 percent. Other press Hirial choices named were  Dole of Ansas named by 9 percent and former sen Oward h. Bakerjr. Of Tennessee,7 percent Mcvon percent of those questioned named Otma candidates and 1 5 percent had no opium in he poll was said to have a margin terror of plus or minus 2 percentage Lucas the Wayne county executive is 10 become the nation s first elected k governor appeared to be leading in the for Michigan s Republican gubernatorial lamination. Vigil Over Schroeder Louisville by. A the family of the world s longest living artificial heart recipient William 3. Schroeder kept a bedside Vigil wednesday after he took a turn for the worse a Hospital spokeswoman said. Schroeder condition stabilized tuesday night after deteriorating sharply earlier in the Day said Donna Hazle spokeswoman for he Mana Hospital Audubon. Palti Schroeder Schroeder s daughter in Law Laid her husband Mel bad stayed at the Hospital overnight. The family was called to the Hospital tuesday morning Hazle and family members said. We Don t know for sure what s happened we just know that it is serious and that it was important for them to come to the Hospital said Patti Schroeder. Bush Back from Mileaf Washington vice George Bush returned to the wednesday with a statement Frodo Jalel Jordan and Egypt of common Soals place in the Middle East but Jordan a Jame minister con tended the paper does Noank new ground. At a news conf idea Fri Cairo Egypt before flying Home from i to Day Mideast tour bus Laid i am compared that there is enough com Mon ground Progress to be made in the  later with reporters As he flew Beckair Force ii Bush said there arc not. Times when you get three countries in this and age to agree on  Kansas demos pick Dole opponent Topeka Kan. A Kansas democrats nominated an unemployed schoolteacher to Challenge sen. Bob Dole in his bid for a fourth learn while statehouse speaker Mike Hayden won the gop gubernatorial primary. Guy Macdonald 46, of Wichita did a minimum of campaigning in his Hometown and virtually none else where but Defeated three much better known contend ers in the democratic senatorial primary on tuesday. Dole handily Defeated a political newcomer in the re publican race. Hayden s Victory tuesday Over Wichita business Man Larry Jones pits him against it. Gov. Tom Dock ing in a Battle to succeed gov. John Carlin who was ineligible to succeed himself for a third term. Docking whose father and grand father served As governor of Kansas won the democratic nomination without of Chi Jon. Our hats Are off to you Hayden 41, an insurance ent told supporters Early wednesday. You Alt Are i ones who made it possible and we just want to say you thank you thank  a with 97 percent of the votes counted Hayden had96,321 votes or 35 percent to Jones 83,604, or 31 percent trailing far behind were Secretary of stat Jack Brier Gene Bicknell of Pitsburg and Richard Peckham of Andover. Bicknell a millionaire with a franchise pizza restau rant Empire spent about is million of his own Money on his Campaign and had Only 10 percent of the vote to show for in Guy Macdonald 46, a native of Philadelphia was not working when he filed for the . Senate in june. He did a minimum of campaigning in Wichita an virtually none elsewhere but Defeated three much bet own contenders. 965 graduate of St. Joseph s University with ale in French Macdonald said he had spent two in the peace corps and formerly taught. He Sidtis Only political experience was As a precinct commit i Man about 20 years ago. He sprang the biggest upset of the Kansas primary when he Defeated three far better known contenders Darrell ringer Lionel Kunst and Bill adding Lon to claim the democratic senatorial nomination. In the democratic senatorial primary with 97 per cent of the vote counted Macdonald had 31,492 votes or 27 percent followed by ringer with 29,427,or 26 percent adding Lon with 20,808, or 18 percent and Kunst with 18,520, or 16 percent. A fifth contender Jim Oyier got 12,341 Voles or 11 percent Dole Senate majority Leader and a Likely contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, rolled up 219,891 votes or 84 percent to 41,252 Voles Ujj 6 percent for Shirley Landu of Kansas City. Slut i m not going to take anything for ranted Hoklai from Washington. I also winning  was us. Rep. Dan Glickman of Wichita a Democrat who crushed the Rev James sail a Wichita organizer for the Rev. Jess Jackson s Rainbow coalition. Thousands recall 1 St a bomb attack Hiroshima Japan a Hiroshima fell silent wednesday morning As thousands recalled the horrify ing moment 41 years ago when the world s tint atomic bomb attack devastated their City in i Flash of heal an blinding tight. On a humid summer Day thousands of people crowded into peace memorial Park to offer prayers for the estimated 78,000 to 140,000 people who died when the 20-Kiloion bomb was dropped on aug. 6, 1945, by a . B-29 bomber the Enola Gay. The Bour Long ceremony opened with the sprinting of a memorial Cenotaph with water. The last wish of Many of those who died was for water. Victim were killed by the bomb s intense heat and the fires it ignited. Black Clad mourners deposited inside the Cenotaph tablets inscribed with the names of 4,941 i Bakuhn japanese for a bomb victims who died during the past year. Their names brought to 143,590 the number of bombing victims and those who died subsequently whose names have been inscribed Al the site. There Are about 365,000 survivors of Hiroshima and a second . Atomic bombing at Nagasaki on aug 9,1945, in Japan today according to government statistics. Their average age is around 60. At 8 15 a.m., anniversary of the moment the a bomb hit Hiroshima with the Force of 20,000 tons of int bereaved family members sounded a Gong an the crowd in the Park and people around the City stood in silence for one minute. Soon afterwards some 1,500 doves symbolizing peace were released and their flight dotted the sky As they circled the Park. South Africa from i ivern ment called the Mea Centary cures racist. Under apartheid. South Africa nillion Blackshare no vote in National affairs. The Sam ill while control the government and Economy an separate schools and health services. Foreign minister . Botha on tuesdaviij0krm-Babwe and Zambia to impose  South Africa and said levies and Contr Amrud be impose Don their imports. Both countries a winged the West to impose eco nomic Sanction a just South Africa but both arc landlocked it depend heavily on South Africa for Trade  links. I said wednesday that levies of 3 percent to 100 percent bad taken effect monday on it sports to Zambia but said the levies were instituted because of customs fraud not because of Zambia s stance sanctions. He said the levies were re Fundab reach the country of Deti Nali a Gid be impose Don goods of any Chouju Piso atoms fraud. Britain sajdij0miarequei1 an immediate voluntary Jummey investment in South Africa and a tend to promotion of tourism to South Afri s minister Margaret Thatcher also pledged notto Opp tons on the imports of South african Iron Coal and nah the european common Market decides to irn Posehn we month. The six other  countries agreed tout air links with South Aru withdraw consular facilities except those serving Fzli Jan citizens ban imports of agricultural goods Una Del Coal Iron and steel end government Aid for Trade  Africa and ban new Bank Loans