European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday. September 1, 1986 news update inspection results Salt Lake City the maker of shuttle solid fuel Booster rockets performed satisfactorily in some areas hut Only marginally in its safety and Engi Neering activities according to a report issued Afler the challenger Accident. Trie report bated on a review in june., was obtained by the dts Cret news in Salt Lake City under inc Freedom of information Aci. Morion Thi Okol s Wasatch operations in Ulah received the High est rating of satisfactory in six operations areas by government inspectors but needed improvement in engineering Anil safely according to a contractor operations review of Thi Okol. The presidential commission thai investigated the Jan. 2h Chal Lenger disaster blamed the fiery explosion on a rupture in a joint in the shuttle s right Side solid fuel Booster build by Morton Thiodul. Ship Accident Moscow a a Leningrad coun has handed a four year sus Pended be mince and a targe Fine 10 thu senior navigator of a soviet cruise ship that Sank off new Zea land in february press reports said. The cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov Sank feb. 16 after striking a reef All Bui one Crew member from the 739 passengers and Crew men aboard were saved. Bomb explosion Cologne. Germany us 1 a bomb planted by leftist terrorists exploded Early sunday Ai a government building housing files on resident aliens in Germany. The German news Agency Ufa said the leftist terror group revolutionary cells took responsibility for he bombing in a Jeiter delivered to its Dusseldorf news Bureau the letter described the documentation Center for foreign Resi dents As a racist and totalitarian Register thai contained information on to million pc Pic the Agency said. 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To Ota i Toyama f vow Wurm cd 57 h a � at Shaam by int Macii Ted pc Cloudy a Mosty Aoudy a Jan High Law 71 � it mis ii 72 u h m americans Mark labor Day Al celebrates 100th year new Vork map the labor Day weekend Drew americans in droves to campgrounds beaches and end of the summer parties a Azurduy. While organized labor marked the 100th anniversary of he founding of the american federation of labor. For Many americans in the Eastern half of the nation an unseasonable chill in the air and record lows in nearly 50 cities served As a reminder  summer is drawing to a close and autumn is Only a few weeks away. Union members commemoration the founding of the Al held an hour Long Parade saturday through downtown col Umbus Ohio. The Al. Predecessor to the Al Cio labor Union was founded in Columbus on dec. 10, 1886, when delegates from the knights of labor and the federation of National Trade and labor unions elected Samuel Gompers As its first president. The Organ i a i Ion merged with the Congress of Industrial organization in j955. The,-\fl-c1o, which has 13,1 Mil lion members considers Gompers inc father of the modern labor movement Chicago also had a Parade and festival saturday celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Illinois and Michigan canal Bui h from 1836 to 184h, which linked Lake Michigan with the Illinois River opening Inland water travel from new York to new Orleans and fueling rapid economic growth for the Chicago and Jalil areas. If people did t go to the statue of Lily it Celebration they Chin come to this said Edward Hanig. Project director for the Celebration. This canal is More important than the statue of Liberty and it s 50 years  the canal fell into disuse and was eventually abandoned with the Rise of the railroads and inc sanitary and ship canal a broader and deeper Channel. But. In i9jw. President Reagan signed a Bill authorizing a National Park to be Cre ated along its 100-mile path. Today Al Cio president Lane Kirkland will be grand marshal for Chi Cago s labor Day Parade expected to attract 40,000 marchers. 30 bands and 60 marching units. Chicago s Grant Park was the Lite of a typical Holiday event. A weekend festival commemorating the 174th anniversary of Mexico s Independence from Spain was scheduled to feature Folk music dancing carnival rides and demonstrations on How to make pinatas and tortillas. Contras plan to use Aid from . To enlarge size of Force operations Tegucigalpa Honduras a with $100 million in , Aid almost in their pockets. Contra rebels say they plan to nearly double the size of their fighting Force and expand their guerrilla warfare to three fourths of Nicaragua in the nest year. The rebels say that with the right training and equipment they can improve the effectiveness of the hit and miss style of fighting. The contras Are fighting Nicaragua s leftist sandinista government which the United states has accused of undermining Central America by trying to Export revolution the rebel leaders insist they Don l want . Soldiers fighting alongside hem just Nicaragua wins will be fighting. We arc fighting those who Brou Ehi int a Lional terror to Nicaragua. We do not Waul to make the same mistake said Frank Arana a spokesman for the nicaraguan democratic Force known by its initials in Spanish. Fun. The fun the largest Contra group claims to have 18.000 fighters with about 10 percent operating inside Nicaragua and the rest encamped in an Esti mated eight Clandestine bases along the Border in Honduras. Military1 analysis in the Region put the number lower some estimating that there Are As few As 10,000 fighters Arana said the fun plans to have about 30,000 fighters within eight months of receiving the . Aid Proba Bly starting some time in october. If we have he equip enl there will be no problem in increasing the Force to that size. That always has been the prob Lem before the Lack of equipment Arana said the fun also plans to increase its activities in Nicaragua according to Arana. He said the rebels now operate in about 40 percent of the country con stantly on the move in the Northern provinces and along a North South Corri Dor in Central Nicaragua. We will establish a permanent m Hilary presence in Nicaragua and we will cover militarily 75 percent of the Nicara Guan territory nol to control the territory but to have military operations against the sandinista Arana said in in interview Ai an fun Safe House in Tegucigalpa. He said the fun Hopes to comply be the expansion within a year the Aid package Calls for . Military personnel to work with the contras but details Are still being worked out in Washington. A . Diplomat in Tegucigalpa speaking on condition of anonymity said one possibility is to have . Train ers instruct rebels already in the Field and provide Basic training to new recruits. Honduras Al Salvador and Panama All have said they do not want the con Las on their soil. It really docs not matter where it is done. Whal mailers is that we get the training said Aristides Sanchez on of seven members of the ruling directorate of the fun. Fun fighters now gel 45 Days of train ing in guerrilla warfare use of weapons and human rights Arana said. The con Rai already have a list of equipment Icv want 10 buy with the . Aid. At the top arc surface to air missiles. The contras Are thought to have about e dozen soviet made Sa-7 missiles but they want the.  stinger in guile arguing thai the Sa-7s Are unreliable in tropical humidity. The contras also want heavier Artil Lery including 105mm howitzers plus rifles machine guns grenades mines and ammunition. Arana said the fun Hopes to buy a c 130 cargo plane to help resupply fighters deep inside Nicaragua. With resupply now infrequent the contras in Nicara Gua often must scavenge for food and take weapons and ammunition from sandinista killed in Battle. Sharp earthquake jolts Balkan area Bucharest Romania a a Strong earthquake struck the Balkan re Gion Early sunday damaging buildings and driving people from their Homes in fear. The soviet news Agency Tass re. Ported some casualties in the soviet re Public o Moldavia. Tass did not give numbers or specify if there were any deaths. No casualties were reported in neighbouring Romania where the Quale was entered. It measured 6.5 on the Richier scale according to the official romanian news Agency age pres. In addition to Romania and the soviet Union the quake was Felt in Bulgaria Yugoslavia Greece and Italy. Age pres said it struck Ai 12 28 . And had its epicentre in the Van Cha re Gion about 100 Miles North of Bucha rest the romanian capital Many Bucharest residents remembering a 1977 earthquake that killed 1,570 in Romania led their Homes to wait out the night in City Parks when the temblor struck. Compared with the killer quake which measured 7.2 on the Richier scale sunday s Shock caused relatively minor damage. The Richier scale is a gauge of Energy released by an earthquake As measured by inc ground motion recorded on a Seismograph. Every increase of one number on the scale indicates a ten fold increase in ground motion. Sunday s quake knocked chunks of masonry from buildings and cracked windows Nihro Ghoul Bucharest. Some of the rubble obstructed a passageway near the . Consulate but the Complex appeared undamaged. There were no remarkable damages age mrs said. Bucharest radio which is usually off the air after Midnight came on again to broadcast terse reports of the quake. It first announced that the Shock measured 7.5 on the Richier scale Bill liter lowered the figure to 6.5. In Kishinev the capital of the soviet Republic of Moldavia East of Romania ambulances were seen cruising the City through the night suggesting that some people were injured. The local radio however said there were no  plaster fell from the ceilings of rooms in a 17-Story in tourism hotel in the cily Center and hundreds of guests rushed for exit doors and stairwells some screamed As they rushed downstairs during a min Ute of severe tremors a police officer said he was walking near the hotel in the City s liberation Square when the quake struck. When i looked up the whole Hole was rocking Back and  he told an awol rated press reporter