European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. August 22, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 satellite retrieval May come Early by Wiljam j. Broad new York times As an 11-ton scientific satellite slips Back toward Earth faster than expected the space Agency is racing to retrieve it before it crashes. Last week a solar storm heated and expanded the atmosphere increasing the drag on the Low flying satellite and raising the Odds for a blazing re entry. A retrieval of the satellite which is about the size of a City bus by the space shuttle Columbia is scheduled for dec. 18 but could come earlier officials say. Nasa is putting two shuttles on launching pads for the Rescue Mission in Case of a hold up for either on and May also ask the defense department to postpone a shuttle Mission this year so the Rescue attempt can be moved up to november. The errant satellite is to be seized by the shuttle s 60-foot robot Arm. Stowed in the spaceship s cargo Bay which is big enough to hold two such satellites and returned to Earth. The chances for this plan were rated by Nasa experts at 60 percent or better. The uncertainty arises because precise re entry time is impossible to predict. We d like to demonstrate that we have a depend Able spacecraft we can use for routine  Saidur. William h. Kinard chief scientist for the wayward Craft at Nasa s Langley research Center in Hamp ton a. If the big satellite docs fall to Earth experts say 5.600 pounds of debris might survive re entry but few Ameri cans would be in danger As it would pass Over Only Hawaii Southern Florida and the Southern tip of Texas. However most of Africa. South America. India Southeast Asia and Australia could be struck by fiery debris. Ten years ago the skylab space station fell from orbit raining debris on the Indian Ocean and austra Lia. The $14 million satellite the Long duration expo sure facility is conducting 57 scientific experiments Many of them to record How spacecraft materials hold up to intense bursts of cosmic rays solar radiation and micrometer its. The satellite has no Central Power no Antenna no radio or no Large solar panels. Each Experiment is self contained providing its own Power and data recorder if needed. Space Agency experts say the satellite s unique col Lection of data is crucial for the design of new space Craft meant to last decades rather than years. Without this data Kinard said future spacecraft will have to be designed with considerable conservatism which could mean increased weight Cost and risk both to the Mission and to men aboard the spacecraft in the Case of the space station. The satellite was taken aloft by a shuttle in april 1984 and deployed 293 Miles up. It was meant to be picked up a year later but a scheduling delay let the retrieval slip to 1986 and it was stranded after the challenger disaster grounded the shuttle program for 32 months. Since the satellite was launched its orbit has decayed about 45 Miles As measured earlier this month. Black Rhino born in Texas fort Worth Texas a fort Worth zoo officials still Aren t sure what sex their new baby Rhino is. But they know its significance. The 100-Pound Black Rhinoceros calf is the first born under a program designed to save the Spe cies from extinction through Cap Tive Breeding and biologists Hope it will be the first of Many bom in . Zoos and ranches. The baby is about the size of a Large dog and has a bump on its nose that will later grow into a Large Horn. It was closely tended by its Mother new Etc. One of 10 Black rhinos brought to the United slates last month from Zimbabwe. No were gave birth Friday eve Ning and the event was immediately hailed As a Milestone in the Effort to try to preserve the Spe cies. Dole meets angolan rebel Leader pledges continued Aid to guerrillas Washington a Senate minority Leader Bob Dole sunday met with angolan rebel Leader Jonas Sevim by in Rabat the capital of Morocco an pledged continued congressional Aid for his group s Freedom fighters an aide Wall Riker said. In Afghanistan Congress stuck with the resistance until the soviets had to withdraw while in Nicaragua Congress pulled the plug on the contras and As a result i m afraid we be lost a lot of our leverage on the sandinista. I Hope in Angola we follow the path we did in Afghanistan not Nicaragua the Kan Sas Republican said in a statement from Rabat read by Riker. Dole was in Morocco on the first leg of a four nation trip that will take him to soviet Armenia Poland and the Netherlands. Sav Imbi was there for meetings to explain the position of his National Union for total Independence of Angola known As Unita about recently convened talks aimed at ending Jonas Sav Imbi Angola s 14-year civil War. Sav Imbi and angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos agreed on june 22 to a cease fire and negotiations. The guerrillas have been fighting to share control of the government since the marxists took Power and declared a one party stale shortly after Angola s Independence from Portugal in 1975. Under the terms of a .-Mcdiated peace agreement signed in Angola Las december South Africa and Cuba pledged to halt Aid to the guerrillas and Grant Independence to Angola s Southern neighbor Namibia. In return about 50,000 cuban troops supporting the an Golan government began a gradual with dra Alfrom Angola. The United states has continued to Supply Sav Imbi s group with about $15 million a year. Our goal has always been the establishment of a government in Angola that really reflects the will of the people Riker quoted Dole As telling Sav Imbi. Chief of chaplain fears vets will be forgotten Las vegas a a generation of americans has grown up without realizing the sacrifices made by the nation s veterans members of the veterans of foreign wars were told in memorial services sunday. Maj. Gen. John Mcdonough the air Force chief of chaplains said he was fearful that memorial Day a Day set aside to Honor America s War dead May be losing its meaning to the nation s Young. Who will keep alive the dreams of Freedom and Justice in the future when the veterans of our wars arc no longer alive he asked. Mcdonough made his comments in me Morial services marking the Start of the90th annual vow convention. Some 25,000 members arc gathered Here for one of the largest turnouts in recent years. Vice president Dan Quayle was scheduled to address the group monday morning. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney and vet Erans affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski arc also to address the convention. Mcdonough told a memorial service for the convention also will Honor . Navy pilots who shot Down libyan Mig jets in a confrontation Over the Mediterranean sea on Jan. 4, 1989. Monday afternoon the veterans were to begin considering some 500 resolutions covering a wide Range of  the list will be Flag desecration. A supreme court ruling june 21 said burning the american Flag As a political protest was protected of the first amendment guarantee of free speech. Thieves posing As police get $4 million Worth of Art new York up two thieves posing As police conned their Way into the apartment of a Painter and Art restorer handcuffed him and stole $4 million Worth of Art police said sunday. Police spokesman sgt. Peter Berry said Raicu Yonescu 67, answered a Knock on his door in the Jackson Heights Sec Tion of Queens Friday night and found two men who identified themselves As police officers. After the men persuaded Yonescu to let them inside they pulled guns knocked Lon ecu to the floor handcuffed him As he Lay face Down and covered him with a Blanket. They then stripped the Walls of paint Ings and took other paintings Yonescu had been restoring taking a total of 50 pieces Berry said. Witnesses told police they saw three men loading paintings into a White Van near Yonescu s apartment building shortly after the robbery Berry said. Yonescu said some of the stolen paint Ings were masterpieces of  and flemish Art sent by collectors for restoration. None of the paint Ings was insured he said. He said that since the thieves might have a hard time reselling the paintings in the United states they would Likely try the Black Market in Europe. Fallen comrades that new generations of americans who have not experienced War cannot appreciate the sacrifices of Ameri Ca s veterans. Each generation must take up the duly of safeguarding the nation and that sense of obligation comes from remembering those who fulfilled that duty in the past Mcdonough said. The convention is expected to be the largest in recent memory according to Wade Laduc Public relations director of the 2 million member organization. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday aug. 22, 1949 in a formal note to yugoslavian leaders the soviet Union threatened to use effective measures to protect soviet citizens arrested in i Ugo Slavia on charges of spying. 30 years ago foday aug. 22, 1959 in a ceremony in Washington president Eisenhower pro claimed statehood for Hawaii making the Pacific Island group the 50th state. 20 years ago foday aug. 22, 1969 Secretary of defense Melvin a Laird announced Pentagon spending cuts of $ 1.5 billion including a 100,000-Man reduction in the armed forces and deactivation of 00 Navy ships. J 0 years ago foday. Aug. 22,1979 the italian Navy and air Force set up operations to Rescue More than 10,000 tourists stranded on the islands of Lampedusa. Lino a and Sardinia by a strike of ferryboat crewmen