European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 17, 19bt the stars and St Lopes Page 3 " i court Martiale Soldier joins contras duty in . Army was lot of talk no action san Jose Costa Rica a says his our of duty with the i array in Germany was a lot of talk and no so the former waiter from Columbus Ohio went awol in Central America pot court Martia fed and discharged adjoined toe .-Backcd Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua leftist sandinista government. He is nought to be the Only . Citizen among the rebel fighters. You Are always moving from on combat 1o the nest. Your whole goal in life is to free the country Mcalister 27, the aug cited press in an interview. He Taid lie rebel Are fighting to free the country from the cuban and soviet invader and their puppet army 1 Mcalister said he fights with the nicaraguan democratic revolutionary Alli Ance known As arde. He said the group has about 4,000 men operating in Southern Nicaragua although Independent estimates put arde s fighting strength at test than 1,000. Last week he was in san Jose talking to journalists at pan of an arde Campaign for More . Aid. Most americana id to the Coo Titi has gone to the Hon Duras based n car Guan democratic Force the largest Contra faction. Arde appears to have lost considerable strength since longtime Leader Eden pasto to the former sandinista revolutionary known As commander Zero gave up the fight against his former comrades in May 1986, Mcalister said that in the last two months arde fighters killed 240 Sandi confirmed that Mcalister spent three months this year on the War 3 Southern front. He said Mcalister was the Only .citizen Tai own to be fighting with Nicara Guan rebels. I m fighting no and that s the differ ence Between this and the , army said Mcalister. If he were still in the army he said i d be patrolling the Border betwee the two germaries and i see nobody doing anything just letting that Wall stand. How can you beat this As an Opportunity to learn about life to improve to have a great time Steve Mcalister flt Sla soldiers and blew up in Bridges. Heals claimed they shot Down a helicopter and Sank a patrol boat. His Battle accounts could not be independently verified. But be showed video tapes and photographs of himself wit people he said were rebel fighters at Bat the scenes and standing Over bodies of what he said were nicaraguan troops. Arde spokesman Francisco do Vadillo on the other Side Hungary Czecho Slovakia and Poland just get trampled underfoot by the Cornomi Nisis he said. His interest in the contras began in1985 when he saw a German television special on the War in Nicaragua and wanted to do something to help free Dom against communism. He spent his leave that August visiting rebel leaders in Costa Rica. On his re turn to his base in Germany he began sending supplies and Money to the re sent $4,000," he said and at least 40 uniforms and 40 pairs of boots lots of bandages and miscellaneous military items that i collected from my february 1986, Mcalister was on leave and in route to a new assignment inform Polk la. Instead he said. He entered Nicaragua to travel with the rebels and did t report to fort Poue until he Fead been absent without leave for 2vi 501 caught up in an offensive said Mcalister who was trained As an infantry mortar Man. But they would t take that for an recon do show Mcalister was court Martiale and served 20 Days in the Stock Ade at fort Polk. He was Given a general discharge last october and within four Days Wai Back in Costa aka he said he went again into Nicaragua in late january and returned to Costa Rica in mid april. For now he wants to talk to . Congressmen about More Adfor the Contra. Later he said he plans to go Back into Nicaragua with arde can you beat this As an Opportunity to learn about life to improve Mohave a great time he asked. 2 voyagers make Best yet surveys of stardust Pasadena is if. A two voyager spacecraft made the Best measurement yet of cosmic Ray near the solar system s Edge a method that will reveal More about the gaseous stardust that makes up the Sun stars and life Fonnis the . Space Agency say. Researchers want to know the Chemi Cal makeup of stardust which they calling Entella Gat because it s part of our undemanding the origin of All the element Here on Earth including those in every living thing Laid Edward Stone voyager project scientist for Nasa s Jet Pra Tufton Laboratory. The explosion of stars into supernovas Over Button of years of the univ rce history filled interstellar space with Star dust Stie Tuu Call real dust particles in ten Tellar dust what is popularly colled stardust actually is a Gas made of individual atoms of chemical element formed in the tremendous blasts this interstellar Gas sometimes or condemn to form another generation of Stan including our own Sun and our mar system and even us Sandstone who Alto is chairman of physics math and astronomy at the Californi Institute of technology. What we be done is improved a new Way of determining the abundance of the chemical Ete menu in thai interstellar Gas he said. Voyager a Nam Pitt cat most previous measurements to study the makeup of gaseous stardust were made using telescopes on Earth or Earth orbiting spacecraft. By Mea Suring How the Gas filtered Light from Distant stars scientists tried to figure out the abundance of various elements in Ibe Gas which is outside of the Sola system. The voyager 1 and 2 space probes exploring different sections of the Sola system More than 2 billion Miles from Earth indirectly studied the makeup of Gas like stardust for n year starting i october 1985, by measuring cosmic Ray particles. When the stardust starts to enter the solar system it is converted into cosmic Ray particles so the probe studied the particles to learn More about the stardust that produced said the twin probes famed for their planetary explorations made the most precise measurements yet of the makeup of cosmic Ray particl., finding How Many of them were made irom the enters or nuclei of atoms of helium Hydrogen , oxygen and Neon. The voyagers also detected nuclei of Carbon and argon atoms the first time Thote substance were found in cosmic Ray particles by detectors aboard space Cratl. Stone said. He said the makeup of stardust that exists outside the solar system today May not be the same As the material the Sun was made of 4w billion years ago. That s what s interesting about trying to understand it learning the makeup of interstellar Gas or stardust also will help researcher understand More about various forms of radiation outside the solar system since the radiation can alter the dust voyager 2, which has explored Jupiter Saturn and uranus is now speeding to Ward an August 1989 flyby of 1 explored Jupiter and Saturn and 19 now Hying toward interstellar space. Both voyager probes should leave the solar system in about 20 Yean and will be Able to directly Sample stardust for the first time. The National aeronautics and space administration said it expects both space Craft us d will be operating then. Population of world will soon reach 5 billion London a the birth of a baby sometime inthe next few months Wilt bring the world s population to 5 billion raising new questions Attoul whether i Hearth can Cope with its rapidly multiplying masses. The fact thai rapid population growth can Lead to environmental deterioration economic decline and political instability i no longer a hypothetical Case said Lester Brown president of the world watch Institute a Washington based think tank. We can see it happening in ail Loo Many places inthe world he said during a three Day . Seminar on population according to projections by the . Fund for population activities world population will pass the 5 billion Mart in mid-1987 and will probably hit 6 Bil lion by 1999. Every minute world population is growing by Iso every Day by 220,000. And the United nations says that somewhere in those statistics Wilt be the 5 billionth inhabitant name and country unknown. In 200 million years the population of the world reached i billion. Now it is rising by 1 billion in approximately 12 to 13 years and successes Are measured in falling growth rates said Hetnor Wilikin the . Fund s Deputy executive director in just under half of the world Western Europe North America the soviet bloc Australia new Zea land China and Japan population growth has virtually come to a halt or is at i percent or less. Brown said. In just Over half the world Southeast Asia Lali America the Indian subcontinent the Middle East and Africa growth rates Are booming at between2.2 and 2.3 percent he said Many countries in these areas Are unable to sustain economic Guyth because of the tremendous Popula Tion pressures and Are now witnessing the destruction of forests soil erosion and the creeping inroads of the desert As people search far food and fuel he said. In Africa per capita food production and income have been declining since 1970. In latin America Liv ing Standard have been slipping since 1982, and the Region is almost certain to fish the decade with a lower Standard of living on average than it started with in 1970, he said. Whether the same Fate awaits the Indian subcontinent remains a key question he added. Already Brown said the seeds of political conflict and civil strife arc evident in such culturally diverse countries As Mexico and Egypt As the effects of rapid population growth severely Strain their economics. In Central America he said 1950-70 was a period of Prosperity but the icon my lost momentum in the 1970s As deforestation and the loss of topsoil hit two key e ports Forest and agricultural products
