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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 25, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 shuttle flight Manifest released Cape canaveral Fia. T Nasa s new Hull la Light schedule in Complete because of unresolved military requirements shows an even Mil of High priority Pentagon and science pay loads at least in rough october 1990. The new shuttle Manifest released thursday is the result of months of negotiations Between the department of defense and he National aeronautics and spare administration which is struggling to rebuild its shuttle program in the Wake of the challenger disaster. Only 19 shuttle missions have been assigned actual launch dates because of unresolved issues involving military needs. Is of the 9 flights Are classified Pentagon Mission with another 13 classified shuttle launches re queued by Mili tary planners through 1991. Nasa s voc Raj launch schedule also shows is unclassified military payloads scheduled for launch through i99s, three aboard shuttles and he rest aboard unmanned space Agency rockets. As expected three shuttle missions rescheduled Tor 198 8, with discovery still set for Blastoff june 2 on the first Post challenger night. Eight flights arc planned for 1989 and another eight through october 1990. As for unmanned rockets some 49 flights Are planned through 1995, including two Star wan payloads and four in inti rented lest vehicles which would serve As targets for Ami Date Lille weapons if Congress approves the  of the challenger disaster grounded military payloads have lop priority in the new flight schedule. But of Tome 207 payloads identified for shuttle launch through 1997, the majority Are civilian payloads including 20 lights dedicated to building a permanently manned space station. According to the Nasa document space station managers have requested a shuttle launch in january 1994 for the first Assembly Mission. The 20th flight which would Complete the initial phase of station construction would be launched in january 1997. For the scientific Community hard hit by delays caused by challenger s destruction the schedule shows several major science payloads set for launch in the first 19 missions. The Magellan Venus radar mapper the Hubble space Telescope the Galileo probe to Jupiter and the european Ulysses probe to the Sun Are scheduled for flights 5,6,9 and 19, respectively. Mathematician Dies Moscow a Andrei n. Koloc Guarav a leading soviet mathematician has died at the age of 84, the soviet news Agency Tass reported. By capsized boats Puzzle japanese Asp thou searchers from maritime safety Agency patrol boat stand on the Bot Tom of the 538-ton huge Mitsumi which Cap Slud Friday Oft Japan s Sekou Island with a Load of gravel. Nearby a 19-ton tugboat not shown id photos also found upside Down. Three bodies were recovered and i search was on for seven other Crew members. Rescuers were puzzled because the weather was Clear and there had been no distress Calls. Investigators were checking � report that another boat May have caused the capsizing a. . Defector wife Given permission to move to East Germany next week Moscow uple . Army de Serter Wade Roberts who defected to the soviet Union last Spring said Friday he and his wife Are unhappy with life in the country and arc moving to East Ger Many As soon As next week East Germany has agreed to accept us and we will be leaving the soviet Union by next week by wednesday or thursday Roberts said in a Telephone interview we were told by the red Cross that it is of to go there that the East German foreign ministry has agreed to accept  he said. Roberts 22, went absent without leave from his army unil in West Ger Many in March. He was assigned to Bury a 3rd in 79th Field arty in Gic Ssan. The unil now is designated 2nd in 32nd Field arty Rygl. Roberts and his then pregnant West German Girlfriend pc Ira Neumann defected to the soviet Union claiming he was being treated unfairly by he army. The two were married in a soviet Cere Mony after inc defection. Roberts a native of san Bead Ino calif., said he had been mistreated by his commanding officers. Although he is unhappy with his life inside the soviet Union he has remained unrepentant about his defection. In a previous interview he said he wanted his expected son to be an Ameri can citizen. On Friday. Roberts said his wife could have the child any Day and he was growing More concerned. The couple decided id iry to leave the soviet Union because they Are worried Aboul the Stan Dards of soviet maternity hospitals. The couple originally settled in he turkmen Republic in the soviet Union where he was employed As a Snake catch or but cultural differences and the remoteness of the Republic which Borders Iran made them unhappy. Anti drug stunt leaves Man up Creek without paddle Washington a after 164 Days of paddling a surfboard 4,090 Miles from Chicago to the nation s capital californian Larry Capune had expected some attention for hit paddle against drugs Endeavor. But he was disheartened when he emerged from the frigid Waters of the Potomac River on thursday and was greeted by Only three reporters and one photographer. He Dawdle in the water a half hour waiting for promised television cameras that never appeared and surfer turned motivational speaker. This is a prime example to kids Why do something positive if nobody pays attention " one thing he had to look Forward 10 was a Comfort Able night s rest with his twin brother Marty at the Home of Elhel Kennedy the widow of the Fate sen. Robert f. Kennedy before heading Home to California Friday Melody Miller a spokeswoman for sen. Edward , d-mass., confirmed that the Cape pcs had been invited. Capune a lifelong Republican said he met the Ken Nedy family during a paddling trip in 1972 when he came ashore at the family compound at Hyannis port,mass., and the family matriarch. Rose Kennedy inspired him to continue his work. They enjoyed his Effort ,., and Lac encouraged him Miller said. Capune who lives on Balboa Island in Newport Beach calif., said his trek was intended to show Youn people they can Challenge themselves and do some thing that Geis attention without turning to drugs. He bemoaned the Lack of attention to it betas he said that sends the wrong message. This was Capuno s second Ion Gesi trip after a 4,253 Milc voyage from Portland Maine to Corpus , in i97j, but he said in was the hardest. I n addition to some bad weather a storm when he was in the is. Lawrence River and a waterspout out Side Cleveland Capuno said he encountered some badly polluted water. The Potomac several Miles South of Washington was one of the dirtiest Waterways he paddled through he said second Only to Quebec s Lachine canal. His 1 Wool Long 80-Pound Board resembles a surf Board although it has a rudder and is is inches wide and 9 inches thick. Capune wore a wet suit but no coverings for his hands or feel and the creature com forts affixed to his Board consisted of Peanut butter bananas cola drinks a Compass a radio and a Small  american Flag. Capune s trip which began in Chicago on May 11,look him through Lake Michigan Lake Huron Lake Erie Lake Ontario the St Lawrence River the Gulf of St. Lawrence Down inc Atlantic coast to the Chesa Peake Bay and up the Potomac to Washington. He was accompanied on land by his brother who picked him up in a Van at the end of each Day  
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