European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The  auth0ri2e0 unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 271 saturday. January 13, 1990 a 25 Darby and sunday d 8693 a inside stripes a flu shots urged for elderly  2 a Fri focuses on Georgia suspect in mail bomb  5 a paratroopers return with fort Bragg  6 a Barkley Jackson fined $5,000 by Aba for  27 remembering romanians heroes a romanian woman shakes her list in front of her daughter s grave at the heroes cemetery in Bucharest. Her daughter a student and other victims of the revolution that toppled president Nic olae Ceausescu in december were honoured Friday during a National Day of mourning. Related Story. Page 28. Gorbachev vows nationwide vote on secession Issue Vilnius .s.r. Apr president Mikhail s. Gorbachev promised a National vote on soviet republics right to secede and then travelled to the Countryside Friday in an Effort to Stop Lithuania s Independence movement. Gorbachev his voice cracking with emotion at times predicted that lithuanians would opt to stay in the soviet Union once they realized the difficulty of secession and the hardships it would place on ethnic groups in their Republic. Quot now. People Don t know what awaits  he said. A they be been told fairy tales. Russian fairy talks and lithuanian fairy  itis comments made thursday night were broadcast Friday on lithuanian television. The Kremlin Leader is in the Middle of what has so far been a futile Campaign to Stop the secessionist movement probably the worst political crisis he has faced in his nearly five years in office. Gorbachev said that the soviet Constitution guaranteed each of the country a 15 republics the right to secede and that the first draft of legislation detailing the process of secession had been written. He promised a National discussion and referendum on the legislation which continued on Back Page shuttle astronauts Rescue space lab Cape canaveral Fla. Apr Columbia s astronauts salvaged a valuable space Laboratory Friday snaring it with a 50-foot robot  and saving it from a fiery doom in the atmosphere. Quot you be made several scientists quite Happy Quot Mission control told the space shuttle Crew. Quot def is finally coming  the astronauts rescued the Long duration exposure facility by steering Columbia alongside it and having Mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar reach out and grab it with the wire fingers of the spaceship s mechanical . The capture occurred 201 Miles above the Earth As the two spacecraft raced in formation at More than i7,400mph. Astronauts have recovered orbiting satellites before but never one As big As this one. Which is 30 feet Long and weighs 11 tons. Had they failed to Rescue the space lab trackers said the 57 experiments on Board would have been lost As Gravity would have pulled the satellite to a flaming reentry into Earth s atmosphere about March 9. Dunbar reported that some of the experiments had t he space shuttle Columbia s robot  lower right Corner reaches out to grab the space lab. Suffered Wear and tear from their six years in space after being pounded by  blasted by cosmic Raj s and corroded by atomic oxygen. That s exactly what scientists and engineers wanted to know. Determining How the materials and experiments withstood the Long exposure will help them design America s space station Freedom and other future Long duration spacecraft. The successful retrieval ended a celestial Chase that began with Columbia s launch on tuesday and covered 1.3 million Miles during which the astronauts circled the Globe 50 limes. The satellite had travelled 854 million Miles since it was launched by another shuttle Crew in 1984. Television beamed from the shuttle during the approach showed a stable satellite silhouetted strikingly against a Blue Earth and looming Ever larger As commander Dan Brand Stcin and Pilot Jim wether acc made the final Maneu vers. Sunlight gleamed Oft its trays of science and technology experiments. The five astronauts arc expected to spend a week processing medical materials observing Earth and conducting other experiments before returning Home Jan. 19, when a Landing in darkness is scheduled for 2 27 . At Edwards fab Calif. Warriors forging new path with computer by David Tarrant staff writer Schwabish Hall. West Germany a when about 70.000 soldiers Square off in a mock Battle South of Here monday. There won t be a Lank in sight. Instead the . Army Europe will deploy a weapon that will make this Cher disc dramatically different from others of its kind in the past. The Light. Can be safely stored in either a reinforced Concrete silo or grandma s House. It is a computer. Weapon is Mobile and during the annual exercise called return of forces to Germany or re forger. Such Battles have traditionally been a Muddy full scale dress rehearsal of the military s ability to rapidly reinforce and defend Europe in wartime. This year s Battle dubbed Centurion shield 90, relics heavily on computer simulation. A because we use the computer to simulate that the tanks Are moving from place to place you done to actually need the tanks Quot Gen. Crostic e. Saint the commander of the .  in Europe said recently. A was Long As the report of tanks comes in As Long As the person who a out there still requests the fuel still requests the parts still requests the ammunition you done to have to have the actual tank out there Quot Saint said. A in fact that a the Beauty of the whole  but Centurion shield will differ from previous re forger Battles in other ways too. In the past the army has used the exercise to train All ranks in a brass to Bottom air and land Battle scheme. Although realistic such Maneu vers can also be very expensive damaging to the environment and inefficient said Gen. John r. Galvin nato s top military commander in Europe and the head of the . European come. Centurion shield will mostly focus on the training of higher Levels of command. Quot we think sometimes in the past we have tried to train everybody from the top to the Bottom All in the same  Galvin said. Quot we re not sure you really can do that As effectively As we might have thought. Quot we think really its better to use the computer to simulate the smaller forces so they Don t get into the a hurry up and Wail phenomenon of so Many  the army can also adjust the computer to give any kind of opponent strength it wants he said. Quot we Are looking at different sizes of opponents different capabilities of opponents a he said a so that we can look out into the future and get some options and see what things might look like under a variety of circumstances As we try to maintain the deterrence and  the exercise will blend both simulation and reality. For example in previous exercises a staff officer in a command Post located in the Woods or a Field near inc Battle site continued on Page 9