European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday August 14.1989 s. Africa strikes end Johannesburg South Afri Ca a Wildcat strikes at Volks Wagen and South i african motor corp. Ended Friday with 8.500 workers promising to go Back to work monday if try companies re turned to the bargaining table. Toyota South Africa ltd., with 3,600 employees of strike was the Only major Auto  remaining shut Dov Toyota has Balkco at demands by the Black National Union of metalworkers of South Florica that it join Industry wide wage Figot nations and has tired the . Volkswagen and South african motor corp. A Alcor which manufactures Fordland Mazda had been participating in the talk but closed their plaits when they were hit by  in the midst of negotiation Volkswagen drop cd out of the talks wednesday Aid threatened to fire its 5,500 pm Floyces at the Plant in Wilc Nhac incas Lorn Cape province if they disc t agree by Friday to return to work. Surge by Japan Washington a Japan s Purchase of . Commercial real estate has surged ahead since 1986 and its holdings last year were estimated at $10 billion far larger than any other country a the . Genera accounting office reported. Most countries positions have remained somewhat stable with the notable exception of Japan which in just a few years has grown from a relatively modest share to almost double that held by the United kingdom said Allan i. Man Dulowitz the director of the office for Trade Energy and finance issues. Japanese holdings increased 64.3 percent in 1987, he added. Mendelowitz statement came in a letter to sen. Quentin n. Bur Dick. Britain s figure for 1988 was Given As $5.32 billion. It was Fol Lowed by Canada with $4.2 billion the Netherlands with $3.34 billion and the Netherlands Antilles with $3.2 billion. The letter to Burdick updated an earlier report that listed the Netherlands Antilles a group of five Small Caribbean islands As one of four identity havens use to conceal the names of actual owners. The others were Switzer land Liechtenstein and Panama. Chrysler recall Detroit up Chrysler motors corp. Said Friday it is Recal Ling about 500,000 1981 -1983 front a Eccl drive cars operated in North Ern states for work reinforcing the front suspension Cross member. Chrysler said Road Salt corrosion could weaken a control Arm attachment area and possibly resulting its failure. Failure of that attachment causes the control Arm to partially separate from the Cross member Chrysler said making it difficult to maintain Consol of the  will reinforce the Cross member at no charge by install ing two brackets to strengthen the attachment area of the front sus pension control arms to the Cross member Chrysler  in the recall Are 1981, 1982 and 1983 Plymouth reliant and Dodge Aries models 1982 and 1983 Chrysler Lebaron an Dodge 400 and 1983 Dodge 600 and Chrysler new yorker and a Gass models. Replaced fan Assembly fails nooks grounded again Chuck Vinch Viking ton Bureau Washington for the second time in two we pcs a system failure in one of the Arr rvs ch-47d Chinook medium lift Helix caters has resulted in the grounding Owoc Fleet. The latest probe cd involves the fan Shaft in a new combining transmission cooler fan Assembly Tomt was installed to Correct an earlier Roblum maj. Nancy Burl an army  in the Pentagon said Friday the fan Shaft broke Apaul in a cd 47d at fort Campbell by wednes Day prompting the new bunding. Burl said. Army officials Oro cd the original grounding aug. 1 aft Kan incident at fort Bragg n.c., in which the Oil cooler fan Shaft in one of the old assemblies also broke apart. 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-47d5 by the end of december Burt said. Before the fort Campbell incident the army a allowed is ch-47ds that had beef equipped with the new fan Assembly to resume flying but those arc Iyow grounded along with the other 214/d-Modcl chinooks in the Fleet by said. Then Assembly that failed at fort Campbell has been shipped to Boeing for Ajr Lysis Burt said. Army safety action team is con Sij firing ways to Correct the problem luding the possibility of developing 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 Afefe exploded in orbit lost 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-ton 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 Tbs failure of isms 2030, the sorts also Are continuing to test a different Type of advanced reconnaissance satellite they Launol feed july 18," aviation week said. I the la Urf of Columbia s payload both if . And the .s.r.wow five new strategic spacecraft Ndoc dding test in space at the same til the Magl Jefic said the soviet Union is inf Liged in an accelerated program of ranch military imaging spacecraft Aid few civilian Earth observation Sallitt wed t and 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 ii truck accidents 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 t the Arkansas municipal police Assoc lion cited a yearlong Nosb study which truck Drivers involved in Fata laes were tested for 44 drugs. & the safety Board has not yet  the results but Burnett said the will demonstrate a very High rate of Ding and alcohol use in accidents in whih truck Drivers Are killed. The final Jota will show that marijuana abuse in Factor has caught up with  investigators also Are finding the pics acc of cocaine amphetamines and Neth amphetamine All stimulate Burrnett said