European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday May 19, 1991 at a glance r a a. Since1968, aka Leocard fiasco Ordna oed a program to being die relate to of american soldiers. Killed in the liberation of France to his country Lor memorial Day. See sunday Magazine. Lightning kills boy a 15-year-Otd boy was a filed and 10 other people were in Fred when so Honing apparently struck during a violent Thunder Sham in washing tool a Page 4 troubles for medicare the medicare Trust fond pays for Hosp Daf care Coukis run out of Money in 10 years unless changes Are made accords no to a report. A pages Patriot to be improved Raythelon go. Tes face Wal a $17.7 m8son crease in is army co tract to expand the Capa busies of the Patriot missile defense system. Canadian Gim control the Cana Fiat Fustice Rran Sfier is preparing another attempt to strengthen the nation s guru control Laws. A a Page troubles continue More Sian 171x000 people have been left homeless by shoeing of the North of bang Tedesh. A pages cavalry cup Competition the 1st so tilth ant Cav regt wort the army s annual Carafay cup compe in at Csc Felicen Tau rang area it Germany. _ a paged postwar due drags on some Reserve and a amp few psf guard personnel activated for persian Gulf War remain overseas Waif Crig for the Day when they cart. Go Home. A v a. A Page 15 1 Lith a Vui in Ivya. A a a. A. Soviet space rocket sends woman into British history in bbl i Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 1s-17 ports. 1s-24 weather. 11 Bai Konur cosm drome . Apr with a Brilliant Blaze of Orange Femc a soviet rocket blasted off from the desert of Central Asia sat urday carrying the first briton into space along with two soviet cosmonauts. The Blastoff was right on schedule at 3 52 pin. Moscow time from the Bai Konur cosm drome in Kazakhstan 1,500 Miles Southeast of Moscow. \ soviet television interrupted its usual programming for live coverage of the countdown and launch. The briton 27-year-old Helen Shar Man won a contest to Fly on a soviet space Mission. Soviet television dowed her lying in the soyuz tm-12 capsule her face Serene minutes before the latin Rea a. A a a we can feel gradual acceleration. Slight vibration. We Are reeling All right. More noise. Vonnal less vibration a flight commander Anatoly arts Barsky reported to ground controllers in a steady voice. Two Days after leaving Earth and Docking with the Mir space station Art Rebarsky and the fellow crewman Sergei Kri Kalev Are scheduled to begin five months of repairs and other work at the 5-year-old orbiting station. Sharman a former chemist with Mars / confectionary ltd., is expected to spend eight Days. In space performing soviet medical and agricultural at a joint news conference with Ner Crew mates on Friday Sharman agreed with them that the Mission would be difficult. But she joked that she hoped it be worse than learning her co workers native Tongue. A i Hope everything else wont be. As difficult As studying russian a said Sharman who is the first woman on a soviet space Mission since Svetlana Savitskaya a soviet went up in 1984. Sharman who returns to Earth on May 26, showed off her linguistic Success by making that1�? and other comments a in russian. _ she Learned the language while train ing in fhe soviet Union for 17 months after winning a British contest that advertised Quot astronaut wanted no experience British experiments have been pulled from the flight to Cut costs but along with performing soviet experiments she will help Monitor spacecraft systems and speak by radio with schoolchildren. Sharman who was to take into space a Lucky brooch Given to her by her father years ago and a picture of Queen Elizabeth it added that she and her Crew mates a get on Well her parents John and Lyndis Sharman of Sheffield England flew to the launch site to give their daughter a personal Send off. British prime minister John major on Friday sent her and her backup army maj. Tim Mace his Best wishes. A. At the Friday news conference the soviets both repeatedly described their Mission As difficult. Kri Kalev the missions Engineer who last visited Mir in november 1988, attributed the stations problems largely to age. A a test activities Are entering a fairly difficult phase because the station has flown a Long time a he said. Soviet military expert suggests speedier Germany troop pullout Bonn Germany apr a major newspaper on saturday quoted a soviet official As saying be would like to see All soviet troops immediately withdrawn from Eastern Germany. Quot we would much rather immediately withdraw our troops and not wait until 1994. As soon As the Ted Mical requirements Are worked out they will be gone a 33d am Sontag newspaper quoted soviet military expert Leonid Sharin As saying. _. _ wish agreement on German unification last year the soviets promised to withdraw 3sqjd00 soldiers and their 220udoq family members from Eastern Germany by the end of 1994. Officials have confirmed that about 30sjogo soviet troops have been pulled it in but a Haesang shortage in the soviet Union has been cited As a major Obsta Cle to further the chairman of the supreme soviet s military committee was quoted by Bild am sonntag As saying co Truc Tion of Homes for the soldiers was to have started in March but was delayed. Bonn has promised the soviets $8.8 billion to help cover the costs of withdrawing the soviet troops. The germans had hoped that their companies would be included in contracts to construct soviet housing in part to Julie be High unemployment in the United country a new Eastern states. Reports that the soviets were award ing the contracts to turkish and finnish companies because of lower bids have upset the Sharin was quoted by Bild am sonntag As saying German construction companies would also be consid ered a if their bids Are excerpts of the newspapers report from Bonn which will appear in its sunday editions were provided Early to other news Media. A a the report said that Sharin estimated transport costs for moving the troops Back to the soviet Union had doubled to a $1.2 billion because Poland is Balking at use of Shorter land routes through that country. Bild am. Sonntag quoted Sharin As saying that shipping the soviet troops Home via Baltic sea routes increases the distance threefold Over the polish routes. A a 1 on wednesday Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Germany was willing to give Moscow More Money a in Case of using the water route and if this is More expensive a to ensure the troops Are out by 1994. F Ltd a a i a a a a is f a Tinseltown welcomes Gulf troops a a 5$8-Feeft a few if tons decorates the fanned Hillside sigh in an pro Paraian for sundays Parade Honor fog desert Sten troops. Organizers expect More than a Mil lion people to line the 3-mile route along Hollywood Boulevard marching or Riding in the Parade will be 4,000 persian Gull troops 2,000 veterans of other wars bands and color units it
