European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 a a news updates the stars and stripes thursday july 26,19903 leave embassy Mexico City apr three dissident cubans who sought Refuge in the Swiss embassy in Havana voluntarily left the building wednesday the government news Agency no Timex reported from Havana. The departure leaves 18 cubans in the Spanish embassy and four in the Home of the italian ambassador. The cubans entered the lightly guarded embassy sunday evening. No Timex quoted cuban foreign ministry spokesman Michel Pace As assuring Swiss authorities no reprisals would be taken against the three. Nine of the cubans in the Spanish embassy Are threatening a Hun Ger strike to protest what they say is poor food. The Spanish and italians have refused to give up the Asylum seekers which has led to a deterioration in cuban relations with both countries. Cuban officials said tuesday that relations would not improve until the dissidents who want to leave Cuba Are out of the Zembas.  about Rushdie London apr prime minister Margaret Thatcher has refused to intervene in the Row Over a decision to ban a film that portrays the death of author Salman Rushdie. The Independent British Board of film classification has banned the pakistani film a International guerrillas a on the grounds it is criminally libellous of Rushdie. British moslem groups have denounced the ban on the film and accused the Board of hypocrisy because Rushdie a Book of the satanic verses a which they say Bias themes islam was not banned. The 3 i hour film depicts Rushdie As the agent of an International conspiracy against islam and shows him torturing and killing moslem until he himself is killed by a Bolt of  to discharge go charged in sex Case Derheim West Germany a amps a a Soldier who had been charged with carnal knowledge for allegedly having sex with a child younger than 16 is being discharged from the army. Pvt. I Kerry l. Collins of co a 12 engr in in Derheim is being Given an administrative discharge in the incident an 8th inf div spokesman said wednesday. Collins and three other soldiers from co a were charged with carnal knowledge for engaging in sexual activities with an american girl in Wiesbaden feb. 18. The other soldiers pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms in earlier courts martial. Pfc. Stanley j. Smith pfc. Ivan a Brooks and pfc. Andrew Robinson received four year 18-month and 10-Ycar sentences  shuttle flights threatened anew 1 w after leak turns up in Atlantis Cape canaveral Fla. A Nasa detected a Hydrogen leak wednesday during testing of Atlantis fuel tank which could mean a trip Back to the hangar for the shuttle and another setback in the Agency a 1990 flight plans. Wednesday mornings test was the third filling of Atlantis external fuel tank in Hopes of pinpointing the leaks source. The shuttle had been scheduled to blast off in a classified Pentagon flight in mid july. The leak appeared to exceed allowed amounts and was similar in size to previous tests said _ National aeronautics and space administration spokesman Bruce Buckingham. It was found in the same area a Flange in a pipe that carries liquid Hydrogen from the tank to the main engines a we Are continuing to Analyse the data and we will be having a better understanding of that information hopefully later today b u Kingham Sai d. Space Agency workers had tightened bolts in Atlantis porous fuel line but officials doubted that would be enough to Correct the problem. The space shuttle Columbia also is crippled by a Hydrogen leak and is being fixed. If no leaks had occurred in Atlantis wednesday Nasa would have tried to launch it in mid August and Columbia in september. The possibility of launching both shuttles in the next two months was Uncertain after the leak reappeared Atlantis leak was discovered during the first so called tanking test on june 29. That prompted Nasa to temporarily ground its three shuttle Fleet. The leak also appeared during a More elaborate test two weeks later. Columbian a leak believed to be larger and in a different place was detected during fueling for a May 30 launch attempt the Leaky plumbing has been replaced with components from the new shuttle endeavour under construction in California. If Atlantis goes Back to the hangar Nasa could attach a new external tank and Roll the shuttle Back to the launch pad for a september liftoff or move Columbia out to the pad for a september flight with the Astro Observatory. Nasa officials want to get at least one of the shuttles up before discovery a october Mission with the Sun probing Ulysses satellite. Discover must liftoff Between oct. 5 and oct. 23 or the Mission will be delayed 13 months when Earth is in proper alignment again with the Sun and Jupiter. Satellite Heads for orbit Cape canaveral Fla. Apr a newly repaired Atlas rocket blasted off wednesday with a satellite that will splash the sky with colourful Cloud displays while illuminating Earth a usually invisible magnetic Field. The ,143-foot unmanned rocket roared into a Clear sky on time at 3 21 . From Cape canaveral air Force station. The satellite was expected to separate from the Booster 28 minutes later. It was the fourth attempt by Nasa and rocket builder general dynamics to launch the Atlas. Workers on tuesday replaced a bad Power Transfer switch in the Atlas rocket. Mondays scheduled launch was called off after the Atlas failed to Transfer Power just before liftoff. Bad weather forced postponement of sundays launch attempt and a helium leak was responsible for fridays unsuccessful attempt. The rocket carries the $189 million combined release and radiation effects satellite bound for an elliptical orbit 217 Miles by 22,236 Miles h High. The satellite is a joint program of the National aeronautics and space administration and the defense department the 2-ton satellite contains barium Lithium and other chemicals that will be ejected into space at various altitudes Over the next year. The suns ultraviolet rays will ionize the chemicals creating Large glowing Clouds that will spread along Earth a invisible magnetic Field lines. The Clouds Are expected to resemble the Aurora boreal is or the Northern lights. The displays will be visible on Earth to the naked Eye. The first canisters will be released in september Over american Samoa in the South Pacific releases will be visible in parts of North America in january and next summer. The satellite originally was to have been deployed by astronauts aboard challenger but the shuttles destruction in a 1986 explosion pushed Back All shuttle missions Nasa and the air Force opted for a quicker ride aboard a commercial Atlas rocket and the satellite was redesigned to fit inside it. Terror suspect returns to w. Germany 1/adi cd t talc in in i. A Karlsruhe West Germany apr a suspected red army faction terrorist accused of involvement in the bombing of a . Air base was returned from East Germany on tuesday the Federal prosecutors office said. Henning Beer 31, was flown to Karlsruhe from East Germany after consenting to be returned to West Germany to face charges said Hans Jirgen Forster a spokesman for the prosecutor s  is accused of attempted Mur Der hostage taking and membership in a terrorist organization. He is also accused in connection with a 1981 bomb attack at Ramstein a in which 17 people were seriously injured. He is the fifth suspected red army faction terrorist to return to West Germany from East Germany following a series of arrests in june. Under a new West German Law accused terrorists can be entitled to reduced sentences if they cooperate with authorities. East Germany a ousted regime allegedly provided Sanctuary to red army faction terrorists. One of those already returned to West Germany Susa nne Albrecht has told authorities she was provided with a new identity by the disbanded East German Secrel service officials in East Berlin have said. The red army faction waged a terrorist Campaign against West German capitalism and nato in the 1970s and 1980s. Berlin police give up grenades machine guns berlins amps a the West Berlin police department is giving up its hand grenades and machine guns because the destruction of the Berlin Wall has rendered them Unne Cesary a department spokesman said wednesday. Until 1978, All West German police departments had such weapons spokesman Peter Wietzke said. The Allied forces which retain ultimate authority for police and Security issues in the City had the West Berlin police keep the weapons for a special situations a Wietzke said. The wartime defense of Berlin would have been a Likely special situation. Another City official said the department would have come under Allied forces command had the City been attacked. Now that the rocket to unification has made another Battle for Berlin unlikely hand grenades and 7.62mm Crew served heavy machine guns have no place in the City police department Arsenal the offi Cial said. The hand grenades will be returned to it the French military Wietzke said but i does no to know what will be done with Thi 1,365 West German machine guns there Are 1,283 police officers in Wes Berlin another department spokesman said. Wietzke said a City official suggested that the guns be melted Down into Serai Metal a More useful alternative Wouk be to give them to the West German army for spare parts he said the unit for a service member who pleaded guilty to a number of crimes including larceny and forgery was incorrectly reported last week. Pvt. 2 Frederick e. Mitchell was assigned to he co 37th trans come in Kaiserslautern West Germany. Trial Date set in death of a co a Daub the bad Kreuz Nach. West Ger mum Coldir a i. Bad Kreuz Nach West Germany a amps a the trial of a Mainz Soldier accused of murdering his 8-year-old daughter will begin monday in bad Kreuz Nach. Staff sgt. Ricardo Valdez has been awaiting trial at the army jail in Mannheim since late March. The 8th inf div Soldier was charged March 30 with murder and child neglect in the death of his daughter Michele two Days earlier. Doctors on duty at the air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden when Michele was brought in said the girl May have been battered to death and malnourished army officials refused to release the autopsy results saying publication in 7 Mars and stripes would interfere w Valdez a right to a fair trial. Jury selection will begin at 9 . In 8th inf div courtroom at. Rose Barrac the trial is expected to last two to three a Valdez is a Mortaman assigned to 1 co 4th in 34th Armor