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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday october 1987 cosmonaut sets space endurance record Moscow of a cosmonaut set an endurance record wednesday after spending More than 237 Days in orbit soviet Media said. It s Only inc beginning Light com Mander Yuri Romanenko declared from spare in a televised Hookup with the Mir Orbital platform. Romiti Nonko -12. Wasted into spate on feb. 6, along with night Engineer Alexan Der la Voikin. They began a series of experiments aboard the Mir the soviets second generation space station launched 19 months ago i Voikin. However showed signs of heart rouble and was replaced by Alex Ander Aleiandro in Laic july after a we Klong visit in the Mir by a soviet syrian Crew. Soviet evening television news Broad East an interview with to Manczko wednesday nigh after he passed the inv a Mark set in 1984 by three other soviet spacemen Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solo Vav and olog Askov Romanenko dressed in Blue coveralls bobbed up and Down slightly in the Mir Zero Gravity As he thanked he state enterprises and agencies associated with his night. Soviet television said that after orbit ing the Earth for More than 237 Days to Manczko had travelled the equivalent of More than half he distance to Mara. There has been no announcement by soviet officials of when Romanenko and Alexandrov will return to Earth aboard the sour to a capsule left behind at the Mir by the soviet syrian Crew. But it is Likely hey will stay aloft until oct. 4, when the soviet Union will Cele brate the 30th anniversary of the launch of sputnik 1, the first manmade object sent into space. Roald said Cycz director of the space research Institute of the soviet facade my of sciences told a news conference tuesday that Romanenko As Well As per forming experiments was also an object and participant in an Experiment of the medical  apply to women who travelled to Pajala Sweden from England dance with town citizens during bachelors1 week. Swedish town comes Olive when bachelors Hove their party Pajala Sweden a when bachelors week began in looked As if most of Pajala s 700 unmarried men would have to remain Content with Hunting and sitting at Home with their mothers. But by midweek dozens of women had answered the invitation to visit Pajala a town of 8,600. Where men outnumber women 2-to-l, the town is located about 50 m Iles North of the Arctic Circle. Many women apparently stayed away at first be cause of the heavy publicity. Of the 50 women from a half dozen countries expected to arrive by charter bus monday Only nine showed up. And they were heavily outnumbered by reporters. But word spread closer to Home and women have been coming from the Forest communities of Northern Sweden and Finland. At first everybody thought it was a crazy idea said maj Brill Nilsson a local Gas station employee. But we changed our minds because Pajala has come  about 2 so people danced unlit Midnight tuesday in a Community Hall so crowded that organizers had to turn late comets away. The town Atso arranged dinners and sightseeing for those who braved the Media scrutiny. Town leaders coordinated the festival with Pajala s 400lh anniversary " think we have to be prepared to arrange for this every year from Nowon said tourism official Aina enc Small. Forestry is the main Industry in the finnish speaking  Ich offers few jobs traditionally held by women. Many of the old bachelors Don t Sec in the female shortage As a problem said Church social worker Karin Angstrom. They re Happy slaying in their cot tages free logo Hunting any time. Bui for Many of them Unis results in passivity and social i inca a City. There is a serious drinking problem  they re Happy Silling at Home Wilh heir mothers taking care of them said Ragnvald Nilsson. A local married Man. That s not what i would do if i were a  englishwoman Carol Hunt said she had no idea Pajala would be so exciting. It was a Shock to step off he bus she said. We just wanted an exciting Holiday with a lot to  but she and others complained that the week was being portrayed As sexually oriented and said thai was not the intention. The whole Community has been wonderful to us she said. Ortega cease fire will Start oct. 7 Managua Nicaragua a president Daniel or Tega said the government will declare a one month cease fire in its Battle with the Contra rebels starting oct. 7, Ortega said on National radio wednesday night thai during the cease fire government troops Wilt withdraw from areas of Northern Nicaragua covering a total of 530 Square mites. He said the unilateral cease fire will Stan at Midnight oct. 1, and end at Midnight nov. 7. Al this Lime there is fighting in these areas an fighting will continue until oct. 7," he said adding that the sandinista were declaring the cease fire be cause it was in their interest to prevent further blood shed and in compliance Wilh a new Central american peace plan. Ortega said the cease fire would be in effect in a240-Square-mile Region in the province of Nuva Sego via 180 Square Miles in pinot Cha province and 160 Square Miles in the Nuva Guinea Region of the North Eastern Claya province. Nueva Segovia and i Noriega Are near the Borde Wilh Honduras where the  contras have bases and Supply Camps. Ortega said the sandinista army will withdraw fro the three areas but warned the military Wilt hit Back hotly at any rebel attack on fanning cooperatives or civilian communities. World today egyptian officials impound pro soviet party paper Cairo Egypt a authorities impounded wednesday s first edition of an opposition party newspaper because it allegedly broke a judicial ban on reporting about a group blamed for attacking diplomats. Hussein Abdel rack editor of the weekly Al Wahaly said Security authorities allowed the newspaper to publish a second edition after the article was removed about 7,000 copies of flip first edition had to be withdrawn from Newsstands in Cairo he told the associated press in a Telephone interview. Ai Wahaly is the Organ of the pro soviet National unionist progressive party one of the nation s five Legal opposition groups. Abdul rack said the first edition carried an account of n Telephone Call the newspaper received last saturday from a Man claiming to represent the Wilra nationalism Egypt s revolution group which has claimed responsibility for at tacks that have killed an israeli Diplomat and injured several . Diplomats since 1984. Austerity plan going Welt in Nigeria Leader says Lagos Nigeria a president maj.  Baban Gida said thursday that Nigeria s structural adjustment program is working an that the benefits have outweighed the hardships nigerians have suffered the news Agency of Nigeria reported. His comment came during a nationwide radio and television address marking Nigeria s 27ih anniversary or Independence. The austerity program which included a major devaluation of the country s currency the Naira has already bad a positive Impact on National behaviour he said. Firms including Banks have become More Cost conscious and More concerned about heir competitiveness. These Are some of the desired elements of a restructured Economy Baban Gida said. Government is of course aware that some residual problems exist in the operation of the program Jund i wish a assure you that we will not relent in our efforts to address these problems promptly and  emigration of soviet jews declines for 2nd month Geneva a the number of jews Emi grating from the soviet Union declined for the second straight month in september with soviet authorities allowing 699 to leave an Agency said thursday. The intergovernmental committee for Migra Tion an Agency which helps jews resettle said in a statement that 171 jews chose to resettle i Israel. The rest of the emigres moved on toothed countries. Since he beginning of this year soviet a Thor Liei have allowed 5.380 jews to leave with 1,351 of those settling in Israel the statement said. In August 782 emigrated compared wit i 807 in july. More than 250.000 jews have left the soviet Union since the resettlement program began in 1971. In 1984, jewish emigration reached a record Low of 904. The resettlement program reached a Peak in 1979 when s1,330 jews were allowed to leave  
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