European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Side stripes u americans lend hand to vandalized pet shelter Page 2 d new German traffic rules effective today Page 3 o Dallas woman wins High jump Gold Page 21 o . Lodges protest after Panama seizes ship Page 28 the stars and stripes vol.47,. No. 166 saturday october 1,1 988 Good morning d 8693 a shuttle team gets to work Cape canaveral. Fla. A discovery s astronauts having consigned the world s muss sophisticated communications satellite to ill 22.300-Milc-High culpa so turned their Allan lion to science Friday As they whirled around Earth in their stockinged led. Related stories photo Page 5. Back a Cape canaveral the Rede signed blaster rocket thai powered the first Post challenger launch toward orbit thursday were towed into port and div Ert who inspected them said they appeared in perfect condition. The five astronauts were quickly prov ing to be a quiet Businesslike Crew As they looked Down from their 184-mile Perch at interesting Ocean currents observed soil erosion in Mexico caused by Hurricane Gilbert watched How solutions separate in space and did just Plain sightseeing Over the Blue Globe below. Conversations were confined to essentials with Little banter. But when a Tele vision link with the ground failed to work the Antenna refused to move into usable position commander Frederick h. Hauck offered to help say ing Well enjoy using our mechanical the astronauts All have been in space before and there were none of the gee Whiz expressions that have been a Staple of the shuttle program. But the astronauts surprised Mission control by playing the music of heard it through the Grapevine As they were Caling lunch. It was a rejoinder to the Day s Wake up Call from the ground go of morning. Taiwo Verj Kobin Wil Liams who perfected his deejay routine in the movie Good morning Vietnam prepared the a televised science lesson from space astronauts George d. Nelson and David c. Ii miners demonstrated an Experiment involving cell separation in weightlessness. Hiltnersr explained it could have medical applications such As a be satellite drifts away from discovery after its deployment. Separating malignant from non Malig Nant cells. In Earth s Gravity when materials such As the astronauts Are testing Are mixed the lighter material lends to float to the top. H timers said thai in Zero Grav Ity the relationship Briw can materials is More like that of a Yolk floating inside the egg while. The 2 ton tracking and Dola relay satellite released by the Crew from discovery s cargo Bay late thursday was in its proper orbit after a journey of 22,000 Miles. The satellite will serve As an Orbital switchboard for up 10 24 other satellites including some that will transmit coded military information. The successful deployment was a major boost for Nasa s tors program which has had trouble from the Start. The first satellite almost did t make it when the lacing rocket lost its steering ability. In an almost miraculous Rescue controllers inched it to its High orbit Over a two month period by using Small steering Ilir usters inc size of a Garden Hose nozzle. In 19s5, Nasa removed a second tors from its shuttle cargo schedule for redesign because of problems with one in orbit. The next attempt to launch the satellite was in 1986. Ii was in the cargo buy of the challenger a lion it exploded after launch. Nasa and the Pentagon considered inc satellite so important it was scheduled As the cargo for the first Post challenger mis Sion. Another is set for launch in january the second Day s flight plan was deliberately conservative to enable the Crew to carefully Check the scores of system modifications made in the spacecraft since the challenger explosion. We re not breaking any new ground Pilot Richard Cove said before the launch. Discovery s four Day Mission is to end with ii Landing on he desert runway at Edwards fab in California at 12 33 . Not on monday. Gromyko leaves politburo in major soviet Power shift and it i a. Grom j to Moscow a j president Andrei a. Gromyko retired from the ruling politburo Friday in a major Power shift on the first Day of a hastily called meet ing of the policy making Central committee Gromyko s retirement from the politburo will Likely set the stage for his removal from the presi Dency which could Clear the Way for soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev to seek election to a new More powerful presidency. The move was followed by a series of personnel changes that Mark the largest shake up in the ruling Circle since Gorbachev became party Leader in 1985. The Central committee appeared to demote the Kremlin s no. 2 Leader Yegor k. Liga Tiev who was assigned responsibility for agricultural policy in a reorganized committee apparatus Migachev had been responsible for party ideology and had been seen As a principal conservative rival to Gorbachev. He retained his politburo Job and will be responsible for policy in what Gorbachev sees As a sector of the Economy crucial to reforms but he Likely will have less influence in the party. The changes were announced at the meeting. Which was arranged on Short notice and required several lop officials including foreign ministered Uard a. Shevardnadze to Cut Short foreign visits and Rush Home. Analogy f. Dobrynin the longtime ambassador 10 Washington was sent into retirement from his Post As communist party foreign affairs Secretary. Kab chief Viktor m. Chubrikov was named a Secretary of the Central committee to go along with his politburo status and three new alternate Mem Bers of inc politburo were named said Vadim a. Medic Day a committee spokesman. Mikhail s. Solomont Sci 75, also was retired from his position As a full member of the politburo and head of the party control commission Mcd Videv said. Gromyko and Solomeno Sci were holdovers from previous leaderships that have been criticized under Gorbachev s policy of glasnost or openness. Medvedev himself was elevated to full politburo status he said. Interior minister Alexander v. Vlasov inc Nasce Gromyko on Back Page
