European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. December 13. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 european space Paris apr Arian space a the european space transport company marked its 10th birthday. Tuesday with criticism of its competitors in the United states. The company also said it is anxious to ensure that sat cd Lite launch vehicles made by non Market economies such As China and the soviet Union won t be dumped on Western markets. Arian space s chief executive Charles bigot told a news conference that the company wants Access to the protected . Market. He said . Government satellite contracts provide 80 percent of the business for ariane spaces main . Competitors general dynamics me Donnell Douglas and Martin Marietta because these . Firms Are so Busy catering to their government clients non american customers Are becom of elves help ing increasingly disenchanted by Long delivery times and second rate service bigot asserted. He described the satellite launch Market As fragile and said it could be disrupted by soviet and chinese made rockets that undercut prices in the West. A he voiced concern about a contract recently won by the chinese to launch the arabs at telecommunications sat cd Lite. The Price charged by the chinese was Only half the Cost of a ariane launch he said. The chinese have signed an agreement with the europeans and the United states limiting themselves to nine launches of Western satellites Over the next six years but the financial terms of the arabs at contract violates that agreement bigot said. Heric Loiscau. Ariane space a finance director said the aim at . Company s 1900 profit will be close to million Down slightly from 198. Revenue for 1990 will he about $78 1 million up from $7h0 million last Vear. Bigot said that excluding the United states which accounts for two thirds of the world satellite Market there Are Likely to he from 15 to 20 satellite launches annually Over the next five years Arian space has hooked orders for 89 satellites from 27 customers in the it years since it was created. The company has launched 53. Satellites of which 48 were successfully put into orbit. French interests including the French National space research Cento. Control 5ti.6 percent of Arian space. Other partners include aerospace companies and Banks from Germany Belgium Denmark Spain Britain Ireland Ilalov. Netherlands Sweden and Switzerland. Arctic Village Alaska up Santa Claus and a band of air Force helpers descended on americans northernmost Indian settlement to celebrate Christmas two weeks Early passing out presents to every child giving the Village a washing machine and feasting on Caribou. Athabaskan Indian children in Thisbe note outpost 120 Miles North of the Arctic Circle greeted Santa As he emerged from the belly of a c-130 air Force cargo plane in 25-below-Zero weather at Dawn a which arrives around noon these Days. In Winter this far above the Arctic Circle the Sun never actually rises but offers a few hours of not yer i Bright Daylight. The Sun set dec. 7 and comes up again Jan. 4. During Santa a visit the temperature never got higher than about 15 below Zero a but that a the warmest its been Here in weeks. The children oblivious to conditions that Are. Normal for them could no twist for Santa to make the frigid mile Long snowmobile trip to the Village for a Christmas party in the warm school gym. Many of Arctic villages 125 adults and children hopped on their snowmobiles or a  As they re called in Alaska to Greet Santa at the Snow covered Airstrip. 7 Quot .7 a a   Santa obliged the eager bundled up children by staying outside at the plane to talk and be Jolly for a while before hitching a snowmobile ride to one of the most unusual Christmas parties this Side of the North pole. / a a a a a a. A the Early Christmas celebrated monday in Arctic Village is a 24-year tradition linking a Small air Force Squadron based near Anchorage with this isolated settlement the Village nearly 600 Miles to the North in the Foothills of the Brooks Range is the northernmost settlement of the More northerly band of indians in America the a Wichy in athabaskan. The 17th tac Airlift so 105 men based at Elmeri Dorf fab answered a plea for help in 1967 when Forest fires drove away migrating Caribou a Arctic villages. Chief source of food. Every year since then the Squadron raises Money to buy Christmas presents and a dozen airmen a with one As Santa Fly to Arctic Village to celebrate Christmas and feast on Caribou and other native foods. The Village has 36 schoolchildren ranging from preschool to Grade 10. The younger ones serenaded their visitors with a Carol in the a Wichy in language. The c-130 Pilot capt. Todd Wood House put on a magic show that distracted the youngsters from the presents waiting to be handed out. Staff sgt Carl Warrings concealed in a Well padded Santa outfit that convinced younger kids and kept Warrings warm passed out gifts to every child by name and said later a i had a blast.�?�. Every year the Squadron gets a list of All children under 16 and that they want for Christmas. A a a a a in a so Happy a said Cindy Gilbert 6, who got the cabbage Patch doll she wanted. A a a a / / a 7 Quot in All the air Force Squadron brought 1.50q pounds of Christmas gifts including a rare treat of fresh fruits and vegetables a apples oranges and potatoes a As Well As five turkeys and there was the new washing machine for the Village a Squadron fund raisers earned enough to buy the presents said it. Robert Allen a c-130 Pilot and project Leader. A 7 singing tree american and German dependents from the . Military Community in Frankfurt Germany rehearse As part of the 10th annual singing Christmas tree at Central Chapel the tree is formed by singers standing on various Levels of 5-foot-Iaii Rostrum decorated with Pine Needles. The choir under the direction of Linda Horowitz performs every weekend through Christmas room to remain London a the British museums celebrated domed Reading room a where Marx Lenin and Gandhi pondered ways to change the world a will stay the hushed preserve of readers and thinkers the museum said tuesday. .7 a. The announcement ended half a Century of argument Over the Fate of the Reading room beloved by generations of scholars for its cerebral but cozy atmosphere. The Reading rooms 18 million books will be moved to the new British Library in the next three years the museums director David Wilson announced. But the circular chamber with its Cathedral style windows and concentric rings of reference books will remain a Reading room. The room built in 1857, will even be redecorated in its original 19th-Century style. A a a i Hope this will Settle the argument a Wilson said. The Reading rooms Fate had been Uncertain since just after world War ii when the museum proposed to Knock Down 7 /2 acres of surrounding historic Bloomsbury for a new Library and modern Reading room. The plan was quashed by the  1967 after objections from residents and conservationists. In 1978, when the government approved building the. New British Library scheduled for completion in the mid-1990s, was fresh uproar about the potential loss of the Reading room. \ devotees feared it would become just another display area in the museum or even face eventual demolition. Academics and writers set up a committee to keep the room As a Library and prevent a a considerable loss of amenity and historic  7 Karl Marx and Vladimir l Lenin used the Reading room Lenin a application for. A a a Reader a tickets a needed to use the room a is on display signed under his alias Jacob Richter. The Reading room was also a haunt of Indian Independence Leader Mohandas k. Gandhi playwright George Bernard Shaw historian Thomas Carlyle and novelist Thomas Hardy. Poet Algernon Swinburne once fainted in the Reading room on being a overcome by the close atmosphere a an official recorded. Wilson made his announcement about the Reading rooms future in unveiling a $155 million plan for using Quot we the new space the museum will acquire when the books arc moved to the new National Library half a mile away after the Reading rooms collection of books is moved Wilson said some of the 100,000 volumes be longing to the museums ethnography department would be housed there. 7 7 he also said books on a one or two other subjects which arc in demand would be available in the Reading. Room / a a a 7 7&Quot a a a a a. 7. 7 and it will be open for study of any of the 8 million objects in the British museum he said. The room is shaped like a bicycle wheel with a circular inquiry desk at the Hub. Lines of Reading desks radiate outward like spokes will 300 places for  circular Interior Wall under huge windows has three tiers of books with galleries running around them. Out of sight behind the Walls Are the 12 million books available to readers another 6 million books in the Quot Reading rooms collection Are housed in 16 separate locations in London. _ a 18 million volumes will be United in the new Library being built at a Cost of $953 million