European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 9, 1998 the stars and stripes Page 9 photo stands in for jailed Groom in India new Delhi India a a 23 year old sikh woman married an Assas sin of prime minister Indira Gandhi in a bizarre ceremony during which a photograph stood in for the bridegroom a newspaper said wednesday. The statesman newspaper said surinder Kaur was married May 2 to Sal want Singh in a Village in Punjab state. Satu ant Singh could not attend the wedding because he is in jail on death Row. The marriage was performed by a sikh priest the newspaper said but i is unclear whether the ceremony had Legal or religious Sanction. Kaur pin a Garland around a photo graph of Satwant Singh and earned it around a fire seven limes inc newspaper snid. The Bride and Groom customarily walk around a fire in orthodox sikh weddings. Satwant Singh and Kaur Iliad been encased since 1983. In 1984, Satwant Singh was assigned to guard the prime minister. On oct. 31, 1984, he and another sikh body guard shot Gandhi in inc Garden of her residence in the capital. Sat ant Singh now 25, was convicted of murder and sentenced by a special court to be banged. An Appeal is pending before the supreme court. The statesman said Kaur went through with the marriage despite opposition from her parents and Salwan Singh s parents. I tried everything i could do to Stop  Kaur s father Wirra Singh was quoted As idling inc newspaper the paper said the parents yielded after their daughter threatened to commit suicide if not allowed to marry. Satwant Singh was informed of his marriage two weeks after the ceremony when his parents visited him at new Delhi scentral jail the paper said. To did not report his reaction. Whatever happens i stand by my acl of marrying him the statesman quoted the Bride at saving. If unhappy Ness is to be my lot then let it be  Satwant Singh is one of Ihrck people facing the death sentence for the assassination apparently carried out in re Venge far inc government s decision to storm the Golden Temple the holiest sikh shrine in june 1984. At least 1,200 people most of them sikhs were killed when soldiers stormed the Temple in 1984. The shrine in Amritsar 260 Miles Northwest of new Delhi was being used As a base by sikh militants a cuing for an Independent Homeland. Soviet cosmonauts bulgarian blasted into space Moscow al1 two soviets and a bulgarian rocketed into space tuesday on the first manned flight of 1988, Riding a column of Orange flame on live television Courtesy of Mikhail a Gorbachev  Alexander Alexandrov 36, from the bulgarian Lown of Omu tag had waited More than nine years for the night. The soyuz tm-5 space capsule lifted offal 6 03 . Moscow Lime from the Bai Konur cosm drome in soviet Centra Asia. Alexandrov and cosmonauts Viktor p. Saving Khz 48, and analogy y. Solovyov 40, arc scheduled to Dock thursday with the space station Mir whose name Means peace in russian already aboard the Mir arc cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Sanarov the last men to enter space. They reached inc station dec. 23. The broadcast on stale television showed flames spewing from a Vostok rocket Booster that lifted the capsule into a nearly cloudless Blue sky. I feel excellent Alexandrov said from inside the capsule seconds after the launch. The shot in Black and White showed him in cramped quarters. About two minutes into the flight the first stage of the Booster dropped away and plummeted toward Earth. Before Gorbachev became the soviet Leader with his policy of openness in selected areas launches customarily were broadcast Only when successful and Only on tape after inc fad. Tuesday s live coverage lasted More than an hour and other Media also featured the Story. Tass Carrr cd 10 reports on the launch and inc soviet manned space program. The Sovil program thrives while . Manned flights stalled after tic january 1986 explosion of the space shuttle challenger which killed seven astronauts. Several other soviet manned missions Are planned yen to promote state goods leads governors to Japan Washington a when governors pack i hair bags and grab their passports where do they go in 1987, they headed most often to Japan according 10 a Survey by the National governors association ii said governors from 43 Stales and territories made 87 overseas trips during 1987, often stopping in More than one country. But inc most frequent destination was Japan 36 trip followed by Korea 19taiwan and England both 17west Germany 13china and France both 9canada Italy and Hong Kong All 6and Switzerland Belgium and the Netherlands All 3. Honduras Panama and the Sovil Union were each visited twice. Countries that Drew a single governor were an Guilla Australia Austria Denmark Ecuador Egypt Finland Ireland India Israel Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico new Caledonia Saipan is. Lucia Sweden Thailand Venezuela and Western Samoa the association said governors usually go abroad to encourage . Exports increase foreign investment and promote tourism. Alexandrov Botto saving Khz Middle and Solovyov say Farewell before boarding their spaceship for this year including Crew members from France and Afghanistan. During the broadcast tuesday. Alexandria s family was shown in Bulgaria watching inc launch on a television screen Sel up in a Street. I wish him a Happy journey and a Safe return Lite any Mother his Mother told a television reporter minutes after the launch. The broadcast showed cheering waving crowds in the streets. Bulgaria s defense minister was among the dignitaries watching at Bai Konur in the Republic of kazakh. In a 10-Day Mission aboard inc Mir. The five men arc to conduct about 40 experiments some using bul Garian equipment. Tass the official soviet news Agency said they involve space physics Remote sensing of Earth space biology and Medicine. Among items the new cosmonauts arc inking to the Mir is an Orchid grown on Earth from seeds planted on the space station. Inc Agency add Viktor a. Svirkin a shift director Al the soviet mis Sion control Center in Kaliningrad Northeast of mos cow told reporters the Mir s amenities include a i  recorder so the cosmonauts can watch movies. The last bulgarian Sovil flight in april 1979. Was marred by a failed attempt to Dock with the salyut space station. The bulgarian cosmonaut on that flight Georgy Ivanov Lold Sovil television this Lime he had one wish for Alix Androv thai he Only hear the word Normal during his Mission. Ivanov got his wish. Mission control said repeatedly thai All systems on the soyuz tm-5 were operating normally. Alexandrov was the backup bulgarian for the 1979 Mission. He has been training for this night site Las year. Relief Navy Gulf Force faces test of defending non-. Flag ships aboard the destroyer John Hancock a the . Navy has yet to lest its expanded policy of defending non-. Flag vessels in the persian Gulf. The policy has been in effect for More than a month. But the Prospect of facing that lest is not lost on the officers and men of ships Tike inc John Hancock As they arrive to take up inc Navy s main Mission of escorting .-Flaggcd kuwaiti tankers plying the Gulf. The John Hancock was beginning its first such assign ment on tuesday charged with shepherding the Gat Princess a 46,723-ton liquefied Petroleum Gas Carrier Down the Gulf and out through the Strait of Hormuz. Cmdr. Robert b. O Donnell skipper of the John Hancock said that when the destroyer passed through the so called silkworm envelope to enter inc Gulf Lor the first time saturday our adrenalin level went  but he said that his Crew of 330 Felt they were Well prepared and ready for any eventuality Hal we might face Here in the persian Gulf the Convoy was the 34th of this year and the 56th since the Reagan administration agreed last year to re Register 11 of Kuwait s stale owned Oil tankers under the stars and stripes and provide them with Protection from attack in the Gulf where Iran and Iraq have been Al War for nearly eight years. The John Hancock a destroyer based in Mayport is ra., is one of five warships thai arrived in the Gulf in the past few Days As part of regular rotation. In an interview with members of a Pentagon news Media Pool on the Hancock s Bridge o Donnell described its Mission As not Only protecting vessels under the . Flag but scr Vingas a Symbol of the american presence. We re Here to let the Petty tyrants and despots of inc world know Hal icy should t fool with the United states of America and specifically inc United slates  Bui he steered away from discussion of the recent expansion of the . Rules of engagement that permit american commanders to go to the Aid of non-. Flag ships that Are under Aii ack and Appeal for assistance. Since inc change went into effect May 3, iranian gunboats have carried out four known attacks on Neu Iraq merchant vessels in the Southern Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz Gateway to inc Gulf. Bui All were too far away for patrolling . Warships to intervene. In the nearest thin to a direct .-Lran encounter the guided missile Cruiser Vincennes found itself in the role of a curious and frustrated observer last thursday when an iranian frigate stopped boarded and then escorted away a cypriot Flag freighter apparently suspected of carrying War connected cargo. Navy sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said although the Vincennes received no distress Appeal from the freighter the Cruiser followed the iwo vessels for some Lime As they headed toward the Irani an port of Bandar Abbas