European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 2,1991 at a glance the colossus of Ramses ii at Abu Simbul Egypt is one of the ancient wonders explored in stripes mag Zinc. Computer murder Case. The Mother of a former Marine Captain charged with killing his wife says a 26-step plan for homicide found on her son s computer disk was part of  novel she was helping him write. A. A a Page 4 Disney settles suit Mickey mouse eats a big serving of Crow As wait Disney co. Settles its copyright dispute with the heirs of puppets creator Jim Henson a pages Atlanta fires harpist the Atlanta. Symphony orchestra has fired its harpist saying she. Played fortissimo during the pianissimo. A _. A. I. Quot a a Page 6 the last Trabin the last trabant a the. Car that came to symbolize the peaceful overthrow of East Germany a communist government a Rolls off the Assembly line tuesday. A. A a a a a page8 shopping for dollars it can pay to Check around before. Changing dollars into other currencies. A Quot v. A a Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .14 Coll los via i a 14-16 commentary. 13 letters .12 sports. A. 18-24 to listings. 18 weather. .11 shuttle Crew uses robot Arm to space Center Houston a discovery so. Astronauts on wednesday it a n n it t u n n h re n u a n it it sensors to protect the spacecraft s in. St Ruments from the Sun. Mysteriously used the spaceships robot Arm to unpack turned on sooner than ejected shifting a a Star wars research satellite arid Send the satellites position m front of  Cov it into orbit to study the flip Flop Pirig Ery. The Crew turned the sensors Ott Ana shuttles exhaust plumes. Tried moving the satellite Back using bin the Crew used the Arm to Latch onto ocular to Check its location. The 15-foot satellite and slowly raise it from discovery a cargo Bay. As the shuttle whirled around the Earth at 17,500 Mph the Crew released the Craft into space. A a. A / a a a a a a Quot a few minutes later commander Michael Coats steered the shuttle away from the satellite. The astronauts had trouble pointing the satellite prompting Mission control to delay the first plume observation for 90 minutes. Officials refused to describe it As a problem. V a a we be had a hitch in plans. There a no doubt about that a said National aeronautics and space administration spokesman Jeff Carr. A Nasa said ground controllers were confident they could work around the difficulty and still observe a series of plumes later wednesday morning. But officials said ground controllers were having difficulty establishing Good Contact with a spacecraft Antenna. The $94 million satellite a a 2-Ton&Ltset of instruments resembling a cheese Box on a raft a will spend 1 i Days gathering data from the exhaust and from chemical and Gas Clouds that will be released from the shuttle at the press of a Button. Pentagon officials said the information is. Needed to develop sensors that can a a read an enemy missiles exhaust and distinguish it from natural Phenomena such As atmospheric Light and through Man made Clouds used to camouflage warheads. The astronauts had planned to put the satellite in orbit tuesday but decided to hold off until wednesday so they could make additional Light observations with an instrument that was running Low on coolant. A while operating the satellite by Remote control the astronauts were to put the shuttle through turns and flip flops so the engine nozzles were pointed at the Craft which is equipped with to cameras tape recorders and other sensors. Nasa considers the Mission one of tha most Complex shuttle flights Ever because of the Tricky split second acrobatics. The eight Day flight is the first non classified Pentagon shuttle Mission but much of the data it yields on the strategic defense initiative a or a Star wars a will remain secret. ,. Ramstein a switches operations to streamlined single Wing Mode by Deedee Arrington doku Kaiserslautern Bureau Quot Ramstein a Germany a the 316th air div and 377th combat support Wing were deactivated and the 86th tac fighter Wing received a name change wednesday at Ramstein a. Brig. Gen. Richard t. Swope who had commanded the Ramstein based air division assumed command of the newly named 86th fighter Wing As part of a major reorganization of the base s command Structure.  Gough Iii who had been the 86th�?Ts Wing commander will become the vice commander. The Ramstein Wing was one of .12 selected from air Force units around the. World to test a new a single Wing concept. A a a. A a the air Force directed the name change to fighter Wing to designate the 86th As one of the 12 test wings said capt. De Worley a spokesman for the . Air forces Europe. No other Safe bases Are scheduled to get a similar . Gen. James e. Chambers 17th air Force commander cited the restructuring As a an important step in pioneering a new directions for the air Forcer r a under the reorganization at Ramstein the fighter Wing will be made up of six. Groups for operations support logistics civil engineering medical and communications. A a the support group will pick up Many responsibilities for managing the base from the deactivated 377th. Col. Buz Carpenter the base commander will _ head the 86th support group. The operations group will control the flying squadrons and maintenance units that work on the aircraft boosting the number of people assigned to the 512th and 526th fighter squadrons from about 60 each to 375 each. The logistics groups responsibilities will include maintenance on aircraft parts such As engines that Are removed from the planes for repairs. Transportation and Supply also will be among the logistics group s responsibilities. The 316th air div is one of 15 if divisions that the air Force plans to eliminate Over the next three years to simplify the Chain of command and save Money. All the 316th�?Ts functions will be taken Over by the new Wing. / correction.-? the 40-years-ago item in yesterdays the stars and stripes gave an incorrect figure. The defense budget suit fitted by president Truman to Congress in 1951 was $60.6 billion. Activists say firm withholding details on nuclear Plant fire Wiscasset Maine a anti nuclear activists accused operators of a nuclear Plant crippled by fire of holding Back information on the Accident and said the Blaze shows the danger of operating a 19-year-old reactor. R the president of the a Maine Yankee Plant countered that the Blaze monday night could just As easily have occurred at a Coal or Oil fired Plant. He said the age of the equipment made it no More susceptible to accidents than at other  a no radiation was released no one was Hurt and the reactor shut Down automatically after the fire broke out officials said. The Blaze was confined to the non nuclear portion of the Plant. A i Don t want to downgrade the seriousness of the event but its not a nuclear event a Maine Yankee president Charles Frizzle said tuesday. A from my perspective this should not reflect negatively on the use of nuclear power.�?�. He said the fire probably was caused by a Short in the transformer or Sparks in the Generator that ignited Hydrogen Gas being used As a coolant. A a. Hydrogen is commonly used to Cool Large generators said Plant spokesman Duggan Kimball. Nuclear regulatory commission spokeswoman Diane Screnci said authorities reported that a a loud Boom preceded the fire but she said investigators  say for sure whether there was an explosion. Maine Yankee officials said the Plant could be closed for weeks or months. ,. Central Maine Power co., the Plant s chief customer said no immediate shortages were expected. It was the most serious incident at Maine Yankee since the Plant opened in 1972, Frizzle said. Anti nuclear activists said the fire was More serious than Maine Yankee managers made it out to be and accused the plants management of being slow to report the damage to the Public. 22nd signal brigade go found dead near Pitburg Pitburg Germany a a 22nd signal brigade Soldier was pronounced dead Early tuesday by German authorities who were summoned after another Soldier was unable to awaken him. The dead Soldier assigned to the 17th signal in at Mcnair Cavern in Hochst Germany had been participating in a Field exercise near bit Burg a brigade spokeswoman said. The soldiers name is being withheld until his family is notified. The cause of death is under investigation and an autopsy will be performed the spokeswoman said. _ r weekend Homecoming set for last of 317th Erir in Eschborn Germany a amps a the final 400 members of the 317th engr in Are scheduled to return from the persian Gulf this weekend a unit spokesman said wednesday. About 400 members of the unit returned to Camp Eschborn outside Frankfurt on saturday after nearly five months in the Middle East the spokesman said. The unit supported the 3rd army div and 1st inf div j As Well As the British 1st army div during the War against Iraq. Since the wars end,.the unit has been destroying abandoned iraqi equipment and munitions the spokesman said