European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 27,1990 Iraq refuses to Bend to . Pressure Baghdad Iraq apr the iraqi govern Jupt wednesday said it will not be intimidated by . Pressure in its Oil dispute with neighbouring Kuwait and president Saddam Hussein summoned the. . Ambassador for talks. Official iraqi radio said that Saddam summoned . Ambassador april Glaspie for talks wednesday. The report gave no details on what discussed. Although Iraq has massed troops along the kuwaiti Border diplomatic sources in Kuwait said that Saddam has Given assurances he will not use a military Force if Kuwait agrees to pay compensation for $2.4 billion Worth of Oil Iraq claims it Lias stolen since 1980. In a show of support for Kuwait . Warships and aircraft arc holding a a a sport notice exer Rise Quot 600 Miles la the South in the persian Gulf with the United Arab emirates. Participating in the exercise were two air Force?Kc-135 refuelling planes and Ope c-141 cargo plane plus six american warships already patrolling m the Gulf. The . Aircraft flew to the Gulf from West Germany 1 a european Ortyl spokesman in Stuttgart West Germany said he could not comment on the aircraft that flew from West Germany. Saddam moved to pops to the kuwaiti Border after accusing Kuwait and the . Of exceeding their organization of Petroleum exporting countries production quotas and driving Down Oil prices. He threatened to use military Force if they did not adhere to open guidelines. A delays Atlantis launch ast ditch try to fix Cape canaveral Fla. Apr nasal a last ditch Effort to fix Atlantis Hydrogen leak on the launch pad failed wednesday forcing trouble plagued Agency to postpone the space shuttles flight until later this Yea. Nasa engineers Wadk had avoid a Long launch Del b the problem 5 billion Hubble the leak on the pad said Thi shuttle must a cd More work. Hoped to by repairing. Set be returned to the hangar it had been scheduled for a secret Milt tary Mission this month. \ the. Shuttle Columbia undergoing repairs for a different sort of Hydrogen leak which scrubbed a May launch willbe the next to Fly. It is scheduled for an Asl Rono my Mission in Early september Vand Nasa said it expects its leak to be Fried in time. V a1 a a. The developments came As a Spac amp Agency team began probing the cause Ofle nasal a highest profile flawed Mirror on the $ 1 space Telescope. The seven member team led by Lew Allen director of nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory took testimony in secret wednesday at Hughes Danbury optical systems inc., which made its mirrors. The flaw has halved the effectiveness of the Telescope which was put in orbit on an april shuttle  facing mounting criticism in Congress because of the string of setbacks got one piece of Good news wednesday. A thence delayed Atlas rocket launch got off without a flaw. The rocket carried a device designed by Van Allen radiation Fields. Ignec to study electric Fields in space Ana the the Atlas launch had been delayed three times because of a Power problem bad weather and a helium teak. Experts had hoped Atlantis problem could be solved by launch pad repairs. But the leak reappeared during a test wednesday find after analysing the data engineers concluded they still did no to fully understand the problem. A we have Learned More so we will Roll Back smarter a said William Lenoir head of nasal a space flight program. A Nasa will  for november on Atlantis classified Pentagon flight. The latest leak detected when liquid Hydrogen was pumped into Atlantis external fuel tank was about the size of the leak detected in two previous tests and was in the same area a Flange in a pipe that carries liquid Hydrogen from the tank to the main engines. Officials now Hope to get Columbia ready for the launch pad in Early August said shuttle director Robert Crippen. Illumination 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 pod or just before liftoff. / Btl weather forced postponement of sundays launch attempt and a helium leak was responsible for fridays unsuccessful attempt. V the Racket carries thv$189 million combined release and radiation effects satellite bound for an1 elliptical orbit 217 Miles bft22,236 Miles High. The Satelli is a joint program of the National  and space administration and the defense department. The 2-ton sat Fite 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 Alt 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. Lakenheath club plane terror suspect returns to w. Germany or ref Kar i i a _ _ a crashes during Takeoff Raf Lakenheath England a amps a an Raf Lakenheath flying club plane was damaged tuesday when it crashed on Takeoff at a civilian Airport an air Force spokesman said. British instructor Pilot Andrew Baker and a1 Sullivan an air Force commissary service worker escaped from the crash uninjured. Baker who was flying the two scat Piper Tomahawk was trying to take off at 8 27 , when the Accident occurred at the Coal Aston Airstrip in Derbyshire about 200 Miles North of Lakenheath. The plane ended up in the shrubs at the end of the runway. The single engine training plane which belongs to the base Aero dub suffered damage to its nose and lost its left Wing a department of transport spokesman said. A Derbyshire police official said that it was one of two air plane mishaps at the Small Airfield tuesday. Another plane flown by a British woman suffered a damaged nose gear earlier after a hard Landing. Civilian investigators will look into the cause of the accidents the spokesman  the unit for a  who pleaded guilty to a number of crimes including larceny cd forgery was incorrectly reported last peek pvt. 2 Frederick e. Mitchell was assigned to he co 37th trans omd in Kaiserslautern West Germany. 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 prosecutors office. / Beer is accused of attempted my Der hostage taking and membership in a terrorist organization. A is also accused in connection with a 1981 bomb attack at Ramstein a in  17 people were seriously injured he is the fifth suspected re army faction terrorist to return t6 West Germany from East Germany following a series of arrests in june. Utter a new West German Law accused terrorists can be entitled to reduced l Lenien Ces 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 Susanne Albrecht has told authorities she was provided with a new identity by the disbanded East German secret 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 is 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 Quot 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 the French military Wietzke said but he does no to know what will be done with the 1,365 West German machine guns. There Are 1,283 police officers in West Berlin another department spokesman said. Wietzke said a City official suggested that the guns be melted Down into scrap Metal. A More useful alternative would be to give them to the West German army for spare parts he said. A co a trial Date set in death of daughter 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 the stars and stripes would interfere with Valdez a right to a fair trial. Jury selection will begin at 9 . M me 8th inf div courtroom at Rose Barracks. The trial is expected to last two to three a it s. Valdez is a mortar Man assigned to Liq co 4th in 34th Armor