European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse It 0izio unofficial Pui Littion of t vol. 48, no. 268 wednesday january 10. D 8693 a Columbia blasts it Down sate Fife flames glow under he space shuttle Columbia As it takes off tuesday at Cape canaveral la. Cape canaveral Fla. Apt space shuttle Columbia opened a new decade of space Hidahl tuesday As it rocketed into orbit on a 10-Day miss Fol to Chase and retrieve a satellite before it Falls toward is the 115-ton winged spaceship lifted off with a of five at 7 35 . Starting what is to be the second longest shuttle flight yet. As Columbia Rode a 700fl on Friday the astronauts arc sch Dulara to capture the satellite an orbiting science Labo Javory thai weighs11 tons and is As big As a Small school bus. If the astronauts fail it will burnu0"in the atmosphere in March its experiments . The Laboratory has been in orbit for nearly so years. The Crew was Alsa fac Dulce to put a Navy communications a Tulliu Imo orbit wednesday. Skies Werc partly Cloudy As tens of thousands watched tour Columbia lift off just after Dawn on the 33rd in Ixion by a shuttle. I Don t think i be Ever seen a cleaner countdown 2 Fop Noriega aides take Refuge in peruvian embassy Panama City. Panama a two of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega s top associates have taken Refuge in the peruvian embassy government officials said and late monday . Troops ringed the embassy grounds. The two arc Cape. Gonzalo Chalo Gonzalez com Mander of the Machos do Monte company that provided Security for Noriega s Headquarters and it. Col. Luis Parpo Cordoba identified by Noriega s foes As one of the men who interrogated and tortured prison ers of the regime. Gonzalez and Cordoba arc considered the most wanted men on the list of former Nortiga officials sought by the . Army and by Panama s new Security forces since the . Invasion of dec. 20 ousted monday first vice president Ricardo Arias Calderon said Panama s Security Force will include specialized military units but they will not be big enough to threaten the government. The government also said it had sent a letter to Washington seeking . peruvian embassy residence surrounded by . Soldiers at noon remained ringed monday night by a Small detachment of minister Julio Linares said Cordoba was in the embassy. Another government source confirmed that Gonzalez As Well As Secretary Marcola Tazon and her son plus another High ranking former government see aides on Back Page naval action Crealo rift Irb Bogota gov rement Bogota. Colombia a Aike Sion was re ported within the colombian Over in creased . Naval activity in the carib � against drug traffickers and the foreign minister i to be preparing his resignation. However in an interview late monday Wail Kadio i Caracol from Washington Colombia Saim Cassador to the United states. Victor Mosquera Rivaux said for eign minister Julio Londono vaster had told him he was not resigning. The Bush said publicly in washing ton it was not Plann Juga naval blockade off Colombia As pan of the Dru War and the government of presi Dent Virgilio Jeffco said it received private assurances As Well. The Uprate b states said earlier it was increasing in International Waters and Barco was pl6rtcdly in favor of the action. But protests came Tom Colombia s opposition conservatives and leftist patriotic Union party. Protests were expected because Barco s Monlh-old Fonfer oblation with Colombia s powerful cocaine bar on brewed As courageous elsewhere has received Urcla support in Colombia. Colombia s position on the .action a statement sunday by Londono that the any attempt to search colombian ships. ?.-. Some International nem sports based on his com ment considered it to mean Barco was angry with the see Btu quota on Back Page and launch Richard truly administrator of the National afro Nautis and space administration. What in Arclous Way to Start the 1990s." Sci Feighl director Al Pennington said Columbia cared into a perfect orbit to catch the satellite which was streaking about 1,500 Miles ahead of the astro202 Miles up and dropping at a rate of about nil a Day. Acca Litof its slightly lower orbit. Columbia is Tak ing less term to Circle the Globe than the satellite. The shuttle is expel a to catch up gradually while com Mander Dan brain Stcin and Pilot Jim withe race guide it through a Serif Fricky Maneu vers. Dan is one of the Finck Jick handlers we be seen and Jim is not far behind Penu Egton said. The Mission is the first of to we cd in 1990 Sanasa continues its recovery from explosion that killed seven astronauts four fears ago this month. 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