European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 1,1988 soviets space shuttle looks like . Model Moscow a the soviet Union released the first photos of its secret space Shurle thursday in a move that appeared limed to Socal some Thunder from the launch of discovery. Photos of the soviet Craft which looks just like the american shuttle moved on the wires of the official ass news Agency about the time the discovery was scheduled to last off from Cape canaveral Fla. Along with the photos the Agency transmitted a Brief dispatch on the american launch. The soviet shuttle previously was not Sii own to in soviet or foreign Public although Western reconnaissance photographs of the Craft or mock up version have been taken. The Tass photos showed die soviet spacecraft against a Twilight sky with its Black lipped White wings and fuselage. The letters cd of russian for .s.r. Arc written in red on the left Wing. Stale run soviet television did not broadcast the discovery Hunch live but showed a film clip of the american Craft silting on the launch pad in  announcer read a report on the Blastoff during a regularly scheduled newscast minutes later. The evening television news program a Cmya which is watched by millions of soviets showed still pictures of the soviet shuttle As its third hem and said thai ground tests of its equipment were continuing. It showed film of the discovery launch about 20 minutes later. Radio Moscow s International newscast also juxtaposed reports about the . Launch with updates on the soviet space station Mir meaning both Earth and peace with three cosmonauts aboard. Despite repeated comments by soviet officials that their shuttle has a distinct design and capabilities the Tass photographs indicated that it was Juile similar to the american version. The soviet shuttle under development since at least 1982. Has Delta shaped wings Bocc us american counterpart and is mated to its Booster rocket the enc Gia. In a similar Way As the american Craft. In the photos the Booster and shuttle stood upright on Tarmac apparently at the Bai Konur cosm drome in soviet Central Asia but it was not Clear whether it was stationed Al a launch pad soviet officials have said their shuttle will relaunched by year s end. They have acknowledged however thai technical problems Are causing de lays. They also pointed to the Jan 2j, 1986. Explosion of the . Shuttle challenger which caused a 21/1-year suspension in the . Manned space program As an example of the hazards they Are trying to pre vent. The soviet shuttle s first flight is to be unmanned. The Enervia Booster has been tested once on May 1s. I"s7, when it carried aloft a Dummy spacecraft. The soviet program also has had difficulties this month. Soviet officials said they lost radio Contact Tass photo shows soviet shuttle mated to launch rocket with one of two Mars probes launched in july. In Addi Tion the re entry to Earth of 11 soviet and an afghan aboard a space capsule that docked with Mir nearly failed because of equipment problems and human error. The soviets main goal has been to maintain a continuous manned presence in space. Cosmonaut Crews have been aboard the orbiting space station Mir with out a break since february 1987, Yuri Romanenko set a space endurance record last year by staying in space 326 Days and officials have said they expect the cosmonauts aboard the Craft to break Romanenko s record. World today de Gaulle s son Calls to series manipulation Paris up Gen. Charles do Gaulle s son criticized on Friday an ambitious television documentary about his father thai millions of French arc watching avidly each week. Adm Philippe do Gaulle told be Figaro news paper that the series de Gaulle he eternal Challenge seeks to remake history starting with the vision that the socialists would like to give it the fourth of the six instalments is to be shown on the of i Channel wednesday night tis based on a 2,550-Page biography by leftist journalist Jean Lacouture. "1 have seen the first instalments along with the other spectators. They have no soul the general s son Saivii. He accrued Ueo lure and the producers of the film of a manipulation of his tory for political  first woman from . Climbs mount Everest Katmandu Nepal up America first and the world s seventh woman scaled mount Everest the ministry of tourism said Friday. It said Stacy Marie Allison 30, from Portland,ore., reached the 29,028-foot Summit Al 10 38 . Thursday having followed the Normal Southeast Ridge route. She was accompanied by Sherpa guide Pasang by Alzon 26, the announcement said. Japan agrees to pacts protecting Ozone layer Tokyo a Japan Friday joined two International agreements aimed at regulating the production Ana use of chemicals thai damage the Earth s Ozone layer a government official said. The Cabinet approved the decision following the passage of a Bill by the diet parliament earlier this year to limit Domestic production and use of chlorofluorocarbons or rfcs begin Ning next january said Toshikazu Tadokoro of the Trade ministry s chemical products division. The International agreements arc the 1987 Montreal protocol requiring nations using rfcs to Cut Domestic use 50 percent by 1999 and the 1985 Vienna agreement to protect the Ozone layer Tadokoro said. Twenty one countries so far have joined the Vienna treaty that went into effect thursday while seven countries including the United states arc already members of the Montreal protocol which will be put into effect at the beginning of 1989. Pope Calls sex Bias sin bars female priests Vatican City a Pope John Paul h Friday issued a major document on women that Calls sexual discrimination a sin reaffirms a ban on female priests and says women s personalities Are formed essentially by maternal characteristics. The 120-Page document touches Only briefly on the institutional role of women in the roman Catholic Church a controversial Issue in Western countries particularly the United Stales. But it will Likely have a significant effect since in provides the theoretical framework for decisions on women Dur ing the rest of John Paul s papacy. Muli Cris Dign Tatem latin for on the dignity of women is in the form of an apostolic letter meaning that in is in tended As Church teaching but is not considered infallible. In the introduction the Pope said he i responding to a Call by a Bishops Synod last year Lor further theological and anthropological study of what in Means to be a Man or woman. It is Only by beginning from these bases. Hat one is Able to speak of their women s Active presence in the Church and in society he wrote John Paul concluded that the sexes arc equal but fundamentally different an that women Are distinguished by such feminine characteristics As sensitivity to other people. Lie says women particularly fulfil their vocation through motherhood either actual child rearing  motherhood in which some women such As nuns remain celibate and devote themselves toothed people. Vatican officials speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity said the Pope regarded the document As a very person Al statement and apparently did not consult outside experts on in. It came As the Vatican is facing in creasing pressure from women Lor a greater role in the Church. The women Issue dominated the 1987 Synod and has Arisen recently with the ordination of a woman Bishop in the episcopal Church in the United states a move the Vatican has described As a Roadblock to Christian Unity. The document was More conservative in tone than a draft pastoral letter re leased last Spring by . Roman Catho Lic Bishops. The draft recommended that women play More of a leadership role in the Church and suggested that the Church be More responsive toward the Many Catholic women who practice artificial birth control. In the Vatican document the Pope emphasizes repeatedly that men and women Are equal and sexual discrimination is a sin. Thi revealed truth concerning the creation of the human being As mate an female constitutes the principal argument against All the objectively injurious and unjust situations which contain an express the inheritance of the sin which All human beings Bear within them selves he wrote. But he said that women s struggle for Equality must not under any condition Lead to the masculine Patton of  the personal resources of femininity Are certainly no leu than the resources of masculinity they arc merely different he said. However he said the very difference Between femininity and masculinity mean women should not be priests. Christ he says Only chose men to be his apostles and to consecrate the eucharist the ceremony that celebrates Christ s sacrifice of his life for the Church. Since Christ in instituting the eucharist linked it in such an explicit Way to the priestly service of the apostles it is legitimate to conclude that he thereby wished to express the relationship be tween Man and woman Between what is feminine and what is masculine " the document said. The Pope rejected the argument that Jesus chose men As followers because of sociological factors of his Day saying that Christ had a highly unusual rapport with women that did not conform locus Tom