European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes sunday August 13,1989 s. Africa strikes end Johannesburg South Afri Ca a Wildcat strikes at Volkswagen and South african motor corp. Ended Friday with 8,500 workers promising to go Back to work monday if the companies returned to the bargaining table. Toyota South Africa ltd., with 3,600 employees on strike was the Only major Auto manufacturer remaining shut Down. Toyota has walked at demands by the Black National Union of metalworkers of South Africa that it join Industry wide wage negotiations and has fired the striking workers. Volkswagen and South african motor corp. Sam co which manufactures Fords and Mazda had been participating in the talks but closed their plants when they were hit by Wildcat strikes in1 the midst of negotiations. Volkswagen dropped out of the talks wednesday and threatened to fire its 5,500 employees at the Plant in Wilc Nhac in Eastern Cape province if they did t agree by Friday to return to work. Replaced fan Assembly fails chinooks grounded again by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington for the second time in two weeks a system failure in one of the army s ch-47d Chinook medium lift helicopters has resulted in the grounding of the Fleet. The latest problem involves the. Fan Shaft in a new combining transmission cooler fan Assembly that was installed to Correct an earlier problem maj. Nancy Burt an army spokeswoman in the Pentagon said Friday. The fan Shaft broke apart in a cd 47d at fort Campbell ky., wednes Day prompting the new grounding Burt said. Army officials ordered the original grounding aug. 1 after an in u. S. Temperatures 1 August 11 Hilo Uta Haj  Amanno  Allan la a Atlantic Fly Jau Sturc gift Nam  bona.1 Boston bad Latoc  c a ,c  . 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No one was Hurt in the two incidents which occurred on the ground. But officials found that debris from the broken shafts could have damaged the assemblies that synchronize the Chinook s two rotors and keep the Rotor Blades from hitting each other. Army officials and engineers from Boeing which makes the Chinook had hoped to fix that problem by speeding up an existing contract under which new combining transmission cooler fans were to be installed in All ch-47ds by the end of december Burl said. Before the fort Campbell incident the army had allowed 51 ch-47ds that had been equipped with the new fan Assembly to resume flying but those arc now grounded along with the other 214 a Model chinooks in the Fleet Burt said. The fan Assembly that failed at fort Campbell has been shipped to Boeing for analysis Burt said. An army safety action team is considering ways to Correct the problem including the possibility of developing a shroud for the fan Shaft that would contain debris if the Shaft broke she said. The groundings do not affect the army s 144 ch-47cs, Burt said. Soviet spy satellite exploded in orbit last month aerospace Magazine says Cape canaveral Florida up an advanced soviet spy satellite exploded in orbit 10 Days before the shuttle Columbia carried a High tech american reconnaissance spy Craft into space tues Day an aerospace Magazine reported Fri Day. Aviation week and space technology Magazine reports in its aug. 14 edition that the Cosmos 2030 satellite an operational soviet reconnaissance station apparently was blown up on radio com Mand after the 7.5-Lon spacecraft went out of control. The satellite was launched july 12 by an sl-4 soyuz Booster fired from the preset so launch site in Northern Russia. While investigating the failure of Cosmos 2030, the soviets also arc continuing to test a different Type of advanced reconnaissance satellite they launched july 18," aviation week said. With the launch of Columbia s payload both the . And the .s.r. Now have new strategic spacecraft undergoing test in space at the same  the Magazine said the soviet Union is engaged in an accelerated program to launch military imaging spacecraft and new civilian Earth observation satellites. We Don t know Why the soviets have accelerated the launch of Mili tary reconnaissance satellites at the same time their relationship with the . Is improving and they face in creased pressure for reducing space program costs an unidentified space analyst told aviation week. The shuttle Columbia s five Man All military Crew successfully launched a new imaging reconnaissance satellite tuesday sources say to spy on the soviet Union and other targets of in Terest around the world. In the five Post challenger shuttle flights to Date two involved deploy ment of top secret reconnaissance satellites. Marijuana reportedly now equals alcohol As Factor in truck accidents european weather Jonesboro Ark. A marijuana has caught up with alcohol As a Factor in fatal traffic accidents involving truck ers a National transportation safety Board member says. James Burnett speaking last week to the Arkansas municipal police association cited a yearlong Nosb study in which truck Drivers involved in fatalities were tested for 44 drugs. The safety Board has not yet released the results but Burnett said they will demonstrate a very High rate of drug and alcohol use in accidents in which truck Drivers Are killed. The final data will show that marijuana abuse As a Factor has caught up with  investigators also arc finding the pres ence of cocaine amphetamines and  All stimulants Bur Nett said. Drugs most abused by truck Drivers arc the ones they perceive As those that can help them make it through the night so to speak he said. Burnett said he s not suggesting that Many truck Drivers use drugs Only that drugs or alcohol Are present in a very High percentage of those accidents in which they kill themselves or  he said fatigue is another major Factor in accidents that kill about 800 truckers each year. Studies indicate a Sharp increase in accidents after a trucker drives eight hours or six hours pulling two trailers he said. Another study indicates that economics is a Factor in Driver fatigue Burnett said. Drivers being paid by the mile or trip had an incentive to keep going to maximize their  this is not to say that most driven arc fatigued Burnett said but among those lulled Many worked beyond the Legal limit. Burnett said local police need to be. Trained to inspect truckers logbooks and have the authority to bring charges when infractions of Drivers rules Are discovered. 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Government scientists said b-9, which in addition to being the longest iceberg in the world was the fourth larg est in area originally measured 99 Miles by 25 Miles when it broke off from the Ross ice shelf in october 1987. It was reduced to 87 Miles by 22 Miles in december 1987 when a piece broke from it. Noaa scientists said satellite photo graphs from two . Polar orbiting satellites Noaa-10 and Noaa la revealed that the two new icebergs measure 47-by-22 Miles and 59-by-22 Miles. B9-b, the larger of the two has a sur face area of nearly 1,300 Square Miles and is now considered the fourth largest iceberg in the world. B-9a, which carries a satellite tracking Beacon is now the fifth largest iceberg at More than 1,000 Square Miles. The new icebergs have drifted near inc sea lanes that Supply Mcmurdo Sta Tion the . Science outpost in ant Aruca said Navy capt. Thomas Calla Ham. Commanding officer of the joint. Ice Center. ? but Callaham added that the icebergs pose no threat to shipping since the sea lanes Are now closed during the Antarctic a incr. We will continue to track the new bergs at the ice Center and predict that b9-a and b-9b will have moved West of the Mcmurdo sea lanes by the time ship Ping resumes in january ",."--