European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday february 12,1990 Craft carrying 2 cosmonauts blasts off for space station Moscow up cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov Ander scr Brov. Who arc in their sixth month of and Alexander Balandin blasted off sunday for the Mir ing in orbit and who arc expected to return to Eai Black history month so Lovvo space station on the sixth manned Mission to the giant orbiting Complex. The Silver lipped. 184-foot soyuz tm-9 rocket rum bled off the ground at the Bai Konur cosm drome in the soviet Central asian Republic of Kazakhstan at 9 16 . The official Tass news Agency said. Flight commander Solovyov making his second trip to the Mir. And Engineer Balandin. On his first space Journo and also trained to Fly the soviets Buran shuttle we re feeling Well. Tass reported three hours into the Mission. The soyuz s inboard systems were work ing normally it said. The three stage rocket carrying Solovyov 41. And Balandin. 36. Trailed an Orange flame As it left the Sam desert launching pad from which Yuri Gagarin became the first Man to enter space on april 12, 1961. Engineers filled the soyuz earlier sunday with the liquid fuel kerosene arid liquid oxygen that the soviets claim harms the Earth s Ozone layer less than the solid propellant used by the United states. The soyuz tm-9 spaceship was launched from Bai Konur cosm drome at 9 16 . Moscow time  Tass said. The Crew is to Dock the spaceship with the soviet Orbital Complex Mir and then replace the Crew of the fifth main expedition. Alexander Vik Torenko and Alex e. German protest residents of Prenzlin East Germany protest in front of the soviet embassy in East Berlin on sat urday. The demonstrators who numbered about 100. Carried signs against the alleged deployment of helicopter gunships in their Community. This one reads. Soviet helicopters in Prenzlau no and. Work in t Earth on feb. 19." the spaceship was scheduled to Dock with the Mir on tuesday bringing the 22nd and 23rd cosmonauts to the Complex since it was launched feb. 20. 1986. And opening the next chapter in the soviets troubled space station program. As Solovyov and Balandin streaked toward the Mir. American engineers at the . Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Calif., tried to determine Why the main camera on the $1.4 billion Galileo Jupiter probe malfunctioned saturday after an otherwise flawless flyby of Venus. A cosmonaut for 14 years and a communist party member since 1971, Solovyov did not make his first space flight until 1988 when he commanded a join soviet bulgarian Crew on the space station. He will turn 42 on thursday Balandin also waited a Long time for his debut mis Sion after reaching the rank of cosmonaut in 1978. He has belonged to the party still a near requisite for Success in the soviet Union despite Mikhail Gorba Chev s democratization drive for nine years. The soviets 68th manned launch comes in a period of unprecedented criticism of he entire space program by newly emboldened lawmakers who under Gorba Chev s political reforms have questioned its direction and annual Tab of $ 17.1 billion. Mass rally Marks Iran s revolution Athens. Greece up Iran marked the Lith anniversary of its revolution sunday with marches and a mass rally in Tehran official reports from the Irani an capital said. President Akbar Hashemi a Sfanjani. One of the architects of the revolution addressed the rally in Azadi Freedom Square and paid tribute to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the state run islamic Republic news Agency said. The rally culminated 11 Days of ceremonies in Teh ran where the anniversary celebrations were held for the first time since Khomeini died on june 2. Tehran radio monitored in Athens said massive crowds marched through the streets chanting slogans and carrying huge photographs of Khomeini who led the revolution against the Shah in 1979. The authorities replayed on a Public address system a speech Khomeini made at a Chisht Zahra cemetery near Tehran on feb. I 1979, the Day he returned to Iran after 15 years in exile. Tehran radio quoted a reporter who viewed the crowd from a helicopter As saying an estimated 5 Mil lion people turned out an apparent exaggeration. Independent estimates of the crowd were not immediately available. During the past 10 Days Iran celebrated what is officially known As the "10-Day Dawn marking the period Between feb. I 1979. When Khomeini re turned and feb. 11, when he seized Power. Military Maneu vers a film festival an islamic con Ference special plays and Book and picture exhibitions marked the occasion. On thursday the state department issued an Alert to . Citizens that pro iranian Hezbollah terrorists might be planning attacks on . Interests in Western Europe to Mark the i Ith anniversary of the revolution. Garret Morgan the noted Black inventor won a Gold medal at he 1914 International exposition of sanitation and safety for his Gas  two years later the in Alator helped Rescue men from a Tunnel explosion in Cleveland. Garret Morgan also in vented a Belt Fastener for sewing machines in 1901 and an automatic traffic signal in 1923. This is another in a series of paintings by spec. James Scott appearing in the stars and stripes this month. World Toda n. Korean nuclear plants May have been expanded Tokyo a officials at a japanese research Institute have said that satellite photographs indicate North Korea has secretly expanded its nuclear facilities possibly violating an International treaty. The facilities located North of North Korea s Capi Tal have been dramatically expanded since 1986. Said Toshifumi Sakata. Chief researcher at Tokai research and information Center in Tokyo. Sakata said the expansion was seen in photographs taken in 1986 and 1989 by the French satellite spot which is capable of identifying objects from an Altitude of 520 Miles. Sakata said the expansion could be in violation of the International treaty on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons which North Korea signed in 1985.under the treaty. 140 countries agreed to prevent the Transfer of nuclear weapons and the expansion of facilities used to make them. Magazine says germans Aid saudi secret project Hamburg. West Germany a West German experts Are helping saudi Arabia develop surface to surface missiles and anti tank rockets in a secret project the newsmagazine Der Spiegel said saturday. Der Spiegel quoting from what it said was a confidential report by the West German intelligence service said the project was headed by a West German. The production site is disguised As a non Campus department of the University of Riyadh Der Spiegel said. West German experts working for the saudis have been trying to buy component parts for the missiles in West Germany the Magazine said. Baby who received heart surgery in womb Dies London a a 5-Wcck-old baby who underwent heart surgery before birth died saturday officials at Guy s Hospital announced. Doctors had described the operation on the unborn child As the first successful prenatal heart surgery. Baby Michele Vermilio died within 45 minutes after life support systems were turned off. Said Michael Tynan professor of pc Dalric cardiology at the Hospital. He died in his parents arms. We were doing our Best to ensure he did not have any unnecessary suffering Tynan said. He said the decision to turn off the ventilator that assisted the child s breathing was made jointly by medical staff members and the parents. Ann and Bernard Vermilio. If the ventilator had not been turned off. He would not have died but he would have continued to suffer Tynan said. We had to take that into consideration because despite the ventilator an painkillers he had been very distressed. He continued to be very  Tynan said the heart condition dam aged the baby s kidneys. Dialysis treat ment was stopped Friday. The surgery was announced Jan. 30 by Lindsay Allan the doctor in charge of the fetal cardiology unit at the Hospital. As far As i know this is the first Success Ful operation of its kind she said at the time. She said that although the child was seriously ill we have Given him a Chance he would not otherwise have  the baby suffered from a rare defect called critical aortic stenosis a blockage birth do not survive More than a Day. She said the surgery involved inserting a Catheter or slender lube Down a hollow Nee dle directly into the Chest Wall and heart once in place the tiny plastic balloon measuring .11 of an Inch was inflated with a Saline solution to open the heart valve. Allan  Mother received a local aesthetic and was awake during the  was no indication that the of the aortic valve in which blood cannot Man a a n.y�. Be pumped at the right pressure trigger fetus Felt anything said Parry mail ing heart failure. Well director of the Hospital s fetal medi Allan said most fetuses with the defect " j die in the womb and the few who survive Cine unit who monitored the surgery with an ultrasonic scanner