European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A packages to go free under Apo plan Page 2 d Venice starts Battle to push Back sea Page 3 d army seeks to instil Community Pride Page 8 g Bush and Dukakis different visions Page 16 us official pubic idiom of the . Omeo forces Woodmo Mingl vol. 47.no. 195 sunday october 30, 19b8 in a Suh d 8693 a . Spurs icelandic protest Reykjavik Iceland Al Iceland has strongly protested to the United slates after a . Official wed to gel Japan 10 Slop buying icelandic whale products ii country s biggest newspaper reported saturday. Foreign minister Jem Valdvin Hannibal son called . Ambassador Nicholas Rusc to the foreign ministry on Friday and a Mcd him a strongly worded proc so the newspaper Morgun bladed reported. Also in proc so the paper said. Hannibal Ion can celeb a planned meeting with inc commanders of theato base in nearby Nas Kcf Lavik which is manned by about 3,000 . Navy personnel. The foreign ministry said that by approaching the japanese to Stop buying whale products inc United slate was going Back on a Promise Hal Secretary of stale George Shull made to Hannibal son in Washington less than two weeks ago thai the United slates would Honor its agreement with Iceland last year Over Iceland s whaling lie paper said. The United Stales dropped its threat to impose eco nomic sanctions against Iceland in september 1987 after Iceland agreed to submit its 1988 and subsequent whale research programs for review by the talc Nalion us whaling commission and to follow the recommendations of Hal Agency. Iceland had proposed taking up to 78 whales in 1988 for scientific research. The foreign ministry was closed saturday and no spokesman was available to comment on the no spa. Per report. According to Lii paper Bill Evans director of Fth fish eries department in the . Department of comic acc. Approached japanese government officials in Tokyo oct. 21 and offered them certain benefits if they slopped buying whale meat and other whaling products from ice land. The paper did not elaborate on inc benefits. The japanese government refused inc offer and notified inc foreign ministry in Reykjavik Morgun Bla did said. The foreign ministry in Reykjavik according to the paper regards the . Efforts to get Trade sanctions against Iceland through Japan As serious. Light moments As Campaign time dwindles with the end of a inn Campaign in sight candidates take Lime for humor. At a rally Friday in Austin Texas the democratic vie presidential candidate. Sen. Lloyd Belsen left pm Trio Waves copy of the 1948 headline mistakenly declaring president Truman decal Bent sen has compared the present Duskis Bush a to the Truman upset. Republican presidential candidate George Bush right photo is presented a big sold Star from California s guv. George Deukmejian at right. Bush was declared the cop s Best Friend Friday when he visited the Highway patrol Academy in Sacramento. See related stories. Pages 4,28. Soviets Holt shuttle flight just before liftoff Moscow Al seconds before the scheduled Blastoff the Maiden voyage of hi1 soviet space shuttle was delayed saturday because of trouble with ground equipment. It was the filth setback this year for the soviet space program. Soviet officials did not announce when a second attempt would be made to launch the Huran on its unmanned leu flight. _. Tass inc official sen ice news Agency said scientist at the Bai Konur cosm drome in Central Asia traced saturday s Snag loan equipment platform thai failed to pull away from inc Booster rocket. With 51 seconds logo. A computer stopped the countdown Becaum the looser known As Energy a would have hit the platform during liftoff. Toss said Hal a computer that senses no elements of the launch system halted the countdown and Hinl thousands of tons of liquid fuel were being drained from enc Gina. The report quoted Bai Konur s Lesl control chief air Force maj. Gen. V. Zudilin. Zudilin was quoted As saying he did i think it would be Long before the launch would be attempted Aguin but he said an analysis of inc problem would have to be  Shullie which looks like the , space shuttle was scheduled to Orbil the Earth Isicc and land on a runway Highl Miles from inc Blastoff site. The flight was to be controlled by computers and was meant 10 Tysl launch and Landing equipment and procedures Soviel news reports said there was no indication Hal the Shullie was to have deployed any satellites. Buran can carry 10 people four cosmonauts an six passengers. It is attached to ener Piya. The world s most powerful launcher and four liquid fuel boosters. Saturday s delay was inc latest in the series of prob lems Hal have dogged soviet space nights since Spring ground controllers lost Contact in april we a soviet nuclear powered satellite Cosmos-1900, and Western europeans expressed concern that it would release radioactivity when it re entered the Atmo sphere. The satellite burned up safety upon re Coniry oct. 1. Soviel cosmonaut analogy Levchenko. A 47-year old lest Pilot for the Shullie program died aug. 6 of a brain Luxor. Levchenko had been among the Candi dates to Fly the shuttle on its first manned Mission. His death leaves Igor Volk As the Only cosmonaut known to be in line for a Shullie flight. A ground controller sent an incorrect signal to the unmanned soviet space probe i hobos i on aug. 29, freezing the Craft and ending its radio Contact with Earth the probe was on its Way to Mars on a Multi million Dollar Mission to unlock the mysteries of the panel. On sept. 6, an afghan and a Soviel cosmonaut were stranded in Orbil aboard a soyuz tm-5 capsule Wilh diminishing air and food after two unsuccessful attempts to land. The cosmonauts Cven dually Over came human error and equipment problems to reach Earth