European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Collection Iff time your stars and stripes Carrier will be calling soon. Please have your payment ready. Authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 16 monday april 30, 1990 a a 25c daily and sunday d 8693 discovery lands smoothly Edwards fab Calif. Up a the shuttle discovery swooped to a smooth Mojave desert Landing sunday closing out a five Day Mission and leaving the temperamental Hubble space Telescope behind in orbit. With the Light of the rising Sun glinting off its wings the discovery gently floated out of the Dawn sky and settled to Concrete runway 22 at 6 50 . After a suspense filled morning of concern about High wind and a last minute decision to proceed with re entry. As the discovery barrelled Down the runway at More than 225 Mph its commander Loren Shriver gently pumped the shuttles new Carbon brakes in a final test slowly bringing the speeding spacecraft to a Stop. The successful Landing ended a five Day voyage of 2,068,213 Miles highlighted by the deployment wednesday of the Hubble space Telescope. A Houston discovery wheels stopped a Shriver radioed Mission control. A Welcome Back. Congratulations on a super Mission and the world is looking Forward to reaping the benefits of your Good work through the next 15 years a replied astronaut Steve Oswald from Houston. Shriver 45 co Pilot Charles Bolden 43 Steven Hawley 38 Bruce Mccandliss 52 and Kathryn Sullivan 38, immediately began shutting Down various shuttle systems and preparing to leave the $2 billion spacecraft. The decision to Clear the discovery for Landing was up in the air until the last moment because of High winds across the Mojave desert Landing site from a slow moving front. But conditions improved As the morning wore on and Rookie flight director Wayne Hale in Houston cleared the ship for re entry. While sailing through space 384 Miles up Shriver see discovery on Back Page turning a Mil speak into a civilian Job lithuanians take to the streets of Vilnius on bicycles to show support for their  getting More soviet Gas Moscow apr the soviet Union unexpectedly eased part of its economic blockade against Lithuania almost doubling the amount of natural Gas flowing into the Baltic Republic Lithuania said sunday. Residents of the Republic which declared its Independence March 11, organized a bicycle rally to show their Defiance of the Kremlin a decision to shut off Oil supplies. The Republic s television and radio stations also planned to play Beethoven a ninth symphony As a Symbol of Hope and Freedom. Announcement of the sudden easing of the Gas restriction came after both president vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania and a spokesman Tor president Mikhail s. Gorbachev praised a proposed Compromise to see Lithuania on Back Page by Dave Walczak staff writer say for instance that an 11-Bravo e-6 Estes and goes conus. At a Job interview he tells a chair borne Type that he ted a Bradley through two Graf rotations then moved up to battalion where he was acting Nolc of the s-3 shop. He had a 125 on every Eer. That might impress a military promotion Board but a civilian surely would think he was interviewing a Job applicant from Mars. Job placement experts say that serv ice members have several advantages Over their civilian counterparts when competing for jobs. But those advantages often Are squandered by a jargon filled vocabulary that is unintelligible outside the defense department. For that infantry squad Leader getting out of the army Job Hunting will be was with budget cutbacks and troop reductions looming some service members and government employees Are Uncertain about their futures. Today a articles by Dave Walczak on Page 1 and David Tarrant and Rosemary Sawyer on Page 3 give tips to help plan for the future whether you want to stay with the military or venture into the civilian Job Market. Ice if he simply tells prospective employers that he was in charge of eight people and $1.5 million Worth of equipment in a High stress around the clock environment. He moved up to the Headquarters of a 600-Man organization where he was the acting office Foreman in the daily see civilian on Page 3 Gorbachev rejects German nato plan Moscow apr East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere met for two hours with Mikhail s. Gorbachev on sunday but said he failed to allay the soviet leaders concerns about a United Germany a membership in nato. A Gorbachev insists that East Germany not become a member of nato whereas our position is that this is possible if nato develops a new strategy a de Maiziere told a news conference. Still he called the meeting a very constructive a and told reporters that it would ease rather than complicate German reunification. De Maiziere accompanied by ministers of defense foreign affairs and economics travelled to Moscow for one Day of talks preceding reunification talks that open May 5 in Bonn West Germany. Representatives of the two Ger Many As Well As the four victorious world War ii allies a the United states the soviet Union Britain and France a will take part in the talks. The West says a United Germany should be a member of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze said in an interview published saturday in Ireland that a United Germany should be non aligned and that it could belong to both nato and the Warsaw pact. De Maiziere says he opposes German neutrality. But he also opposes the stationing of nato soldiers on East German territory until a new All european system of Security can be arranged. German neutrality a would be contrary to the spirit of the times corresponding instead to the old mentality of blocs a he told the official soviet news Agency Tass in Berlin on saturday. But despite repeated questions sunday he did not describe what that Security system should look like. However he did say it should guarantee soviet Security As Well. A Gorbachev did not accept our nato see nato on Back Page