European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday october a 1966 the stars and stripes or Page 9 Weinberger Tours China rocket pad Yichang China a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Friday poured he no frills rocket pad from which China has contracted to launch several american commercial satellites Over the Neil two years Weinberger an a ivc Day visit to China was escorted by army officials through the command control renter display Center and lest Center and took an elevator to the top of the 11-Story launch Tower. There Are very extensive and very impressive plans to improve the Infra Structure and the other facilities that will be done before the tint of next year he said after the visit. The launch Lite consists of spartan Gray and pastel buildings scattered among Rice paddies and mud hut villages about 40 Miles North of the Small City of Yichang in Sichuan province. China has launched 19 satellites with Only one failure since beginning a launching program in 1970. It announced its entry into the inter National business last october and since then has signed agreements to launch satellites for swe Den and two american companies the Houston based Teresa inc. And Western Union. China Laid 17 other countries Are Dis cussing the possibility of using its launch service. Officials say the chinese charge 10percent to is percent less than competing launch services and also have Bee Given a boost by major failures of the . Space shuttle and other american and european launch systems. The reporters travelling with Wein Berger were the first foreign journalists allowed id visit the site. The area usually is closed to foreigner. Weinberger impeded a reclining Long March 3 rocket China s Moat sophisticated and the oae designated to launch defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Al a banquet Given by chinese defense minister Zhang taping in peking. Foreign satellites. In the display Center a computerized Board monitors launches. Launch data is displayed on a Wall of lighted digital screens with a huge video screen in the Center for viewing launches. Member of the american delegation were astonished by the contras Between the Center s High technology and the Pov erty stricken Countryside around it. Farmers wearing threadbare clotting Many of them Barefoot worked with water Buffalo in the Fields and hauled heavy loads in baskets on carrying poles. The area ii heavily populated by members of the i minority and is considered one of China s most backward regions officials said. It was chosen for the rocket base be cause of jts remoteness Hill that make it easy to defend and its mild climate including dear Winter Days Ideal for launches officials said. Weinberger was scheduled to leave saturday for Pakistan Italy and Britain. 2 Larouche masterminds held without Bond Alexandria a. A two top aides to Polit ical extremist Lyndon Larouche Are being held with out Bond on obstruction of Justice charges and prosecutors say another indicted Larouche associate is cooperating with the government. Jeffrey and Michelle Steinberg charged with conspiracy to obstruct Justice by trying to thwart a grand jury s investigation of the Larouche organization were ordered by a Federal magistrate thursday to re main in custody and to be taken to Boston where they face arraignment oct 12 in Federal court. At thursday s Federal court hearing an Fri agent also testified that a Farmer Kun Klu Klansman who dotted with Larouche and who is cooperating with aut Acrive 4m told of a conversation in which la Rcw Che arid the Federal prosecutor handling the Case should get a Bullet Between the Federal prosecutors argued that although the Stein Berg faced Only single count each carrying a Narei mum five year prison term there was a substantial risk they would flee or resume efforts to impede a Federal investigation into alleged fraud by the Larouche or . Attorney Henry Hudson called the couple Ofa scheme to frustrate a Federal grand jury probe i Boston. The government contended that at the Steinbergs direction Larouche fund Raiser who were targets of the fraud investigation were enl to Steinbergs have been involved in a continuing course of conduct to thwart and disrupt the judicial process 1 he said. The Steinbergs were the ones who directed organization members not to testify before the grand jury not to cooperate he added. If anyone s willing to go to the ends Michelle and Jeffrey Steinberg have to Cru Strale Justice for Lyndon Larouche just think what they la do for themselves Hudson said. Prosecutors presented evidence against the Stein bergs during their hearing before magistrate w. Harris Grindley including notes by Michelle Steinberg that were seized in a massive raid on Larouche Headquarters in Leiburg a on monday. Larouche is a frequent fringe candidate for presi Dent espousing bizarre conspiracy theories who sits atop a multimillion Dollar network of corporations organizations and committers. Five corporations Ana committees linked to him were indicted along with 10 followers in a 117-count Indk Tenent charging fraud conspiracy to on Trucl Justice and criminal contempt. The indictments charge that $1 million in a Cautho to Ted credit curd charges were made by Larouche Fol Lowers involving More than 1,000 people nationwide in 1984. Fri agent Richard Egan testified that one of those charged with obstruction former Kun Klu klan Leader Roy Frankhouser had begun cooperating with the government and talked with him wednesday accompanied by a lawyer. Egan also testified he had information from other defectors from the Larouche organization who have not been charged. He said Frankhouser described a conversation in which Larouche spoke of William Weld the former . Attorney in Boston where the credit card fraud investigation was begun. Weld is now assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division of the . Justice department. The Fri agent said that Frankhouser told him la Rouche had said of Weld the son of a Bitch does not deserve to live. He should get a outlet Between the Bill Moffit attorney for Jeffrey Steinberg said in was inappropriate to hold them without bail on a single Omi auction charge. He said the government s sources were proven liars and that they not the Stein bergs urged efforts to obstruct the grand jury. E. Germans foil 1 escape try another succeeds Berlin a West Berlin police said Friday that East German Border guards apparently opened fire to Stop an escape attempt Over the Berlin Wall while bavarian officials reported a successful escape to the West by an East German family of four. The family s flight brought to at least 16 the number of East germans who have fled to Welt Germany in the last 20 Days. Residents of West Berlin heard a series of shots on the communist Side of the Berlin Wall at 8 . Thursday Fol Lowed by an alarm Siren police in West Berlin said West Berlin civilian and Allied Mili tary police rushed to the scene and Weast German sentries combing an area on the Eastern Side of the Wall with searchlights authorities said. Western police could make out no fur ther details in the darkness but said the East germans appeared to have foiled an escape attempt with the gunshots. The incident occurred at a Section of the Wall near the Dehlendorf Section in the southwestern part of West Berlin. The corny until Bush Berlin Wall a thick Concrete Structure seals off the Western enclave of West Berlin from the City s communist controlled Eastern Tec Tor and the rest of East Germany. East German sentries guard the Boundary around the clock. Meanwhile Bonier police in Munich said t 44-year-old Man his Wile 37, daughter 12, and son 7, made it across East Germany s fortified Frontier to West Germany s Bavaria state in Friday s Early morning hours apparently without being selected by communist Border guards. A police spokesman who declined to be identified id Border escapes by entire families with children arc very rare. The spokesman declined to give fur ther details of the incident in keeping with West German policy to avoid helping the Easi German government adopt measures to prevent future Bor Der escapes
