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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes monday july 1, 1991 out of control s. Up from quake Pasadena Calif. A merchants put up a yes we Are open signs saturday and a couple scrambled to revise wedding plans a Ter their Church of Choice was damaged As Southern californians cleaned up after a Strong earthquake. Two people died and More than 100 were injured by Friday mornings quake that registered 6.0 on the Richter scale. Hundreds of buildings were damaged. Property losses Are currently estimated at aboutifl8 million. There have thus far been no aftershocks through saturday afternoon a geological rarity. With other quakes such As the 5.5 one plane other after both pilots crashes on the Airfield and is soon followed by the the pilots lose control following a midair collision. Were killed instantly. The victims were members of the valiant air command a group of four pilots and planes that Fly mostly in the South a sheriffs spokesman said. There was no fire. No one on the grou Iid was injured. Magnitude Upland quake of 1990, there were dozens of aftershocks. Gov. Pete Wilson said the state Likely will declare an emergency for damaged areas to provide homeowners some property tax Relief. A decision was expected by monday after inspections by state authorities Are completed More than 300 buildings were damaged in Pasadena Monrovia Sierra Madre Arcadia and other communities authorities said. An apparently unrelated 3.6-magnitude earthquake Shook the Barstow area saturday morning Curtis said. No damage was reported in the City 100 Miles Northeast of los Angeles authorities said. Suburbs in the Foothills East of los Angeles took the Brunt of fridays quake which was entered Ivi Miles Northeast of Sierra Madre in the san Gabriel mountains. Damage in Pasadena was estimated at $12 million. A 34-year-old woman was killed when a steel beam fell at Santa Anita race track. Another woman 68, died of a heart attack officials said was brought on by the quake.  crash kills witness in Rodney King beating from wire reports Pasadena Calif. A a High Speed traffic Accident killed a witness in the videotaped police beating of Motorist Rodney King authorities said sunday. Freddie Helms 20, of Altadena was killed at12 28 . Saturday sgt. Calvin Pratt said. Helms had been a passenger in a car driven by Robert Gilliam who suffered minor injuries Pratt said. Helms and another passenger Bobbie Dixon suffered fatal injuries. Both were dead on arrival at Huntington memorial Hospital. Gilliam was booked on suspicion of vehicular homicide. He was held at the los Angeles county jail on $10,000 bail. A blood Sample was taken for testing for drugs or alcohol Pratt said. Helms was Riding in a car driven by King that was being pursued by the California Highway patrol and los Angeles police officers on the morning of March 3. King was badly beaten at the end of the Pursuit the beating was videotaped by an Amateur nearby. Four los Angeles officers involved in the incident face criminal  drowns in Oklahoma Muskogee okla. A a Man drowned while trying to put on a pair of swimming trunks tossed to him from a boat after his shorts fell off. Timothy John Hudson 27, of broken Arrow was swimming in fort Gibson Lake on Friday when his trunks came off. A Friend threw him another pair said Wagoner county undersheriff Johnny Cannon. A the was trying to put on trunks when he went Down a Cannon said. The Oklahoma Lake patrol recovered the body in a few feet of water after a 90-minute search.  space missions to be sought Magazine says Washington up the White House is preparing a superpower Summit proposal that Calls for . Astronauts to Fly aboard the soviet Mir space station and for russian cosmonauts to work aboard nasal a shuttle a Magazine reported. Such an Exchange has Long been touted by . Planners As a vehicle for improving space cooperation and As a Means of obtaining medical data from Long duration stays aboard Mir before nasal a planned space station Freedom goes into operation later this decade. Gathering data about the effects of prolonged exposure to weightlessness is crucial to multiyear flights to Mars and beyond. Nasa is mounting am intensive program of life science missions to do just that. The four Man three woman Crew of the space shuttle Columbia just finished the first . Mission Ever dedicated to Bio medical research spending nine Days in orbit conducting experiments to find out How the body adapts to weightlessness. But shuttle Crews typically stay in orbit five to 10 Days at most and Long duration flights aboard the space station Freedom will not be possible for ye3rs to come. With a superpower Summit expected later this summer aviation week amp space technology Magazine reported Friday in its july 1 Issue that the Bush administration is preparing an astronaut Exchange proposal that could go into effect As Early As 1993. The Magazine said the preliminary plan called for one or More . Astronauts to spend 60 to 90 Days aboard the Mir space station one at a time. The astronauts would conduct extensive medical experiments on the physiological effects of weightlessness. In return the United states would Fly two or More soviet cosmonauts aboard upcoming shuttle missions to conduct medical research or other science experiments. The Only other joint .-soviet spaceflight occurred in july 1975 when three astronauts in an Apollo Moon capsule docked with a soviet soyuz spaceship carrying two cosmonauts. The soviet unions manned space program is entered on Long duration ii flights aboard Mir a space station launched in 1986. Cosmonaut Musa Sanarov spent a full year aboard the Orbital outpost in 1987-88 while current Crews Are spending up to six months at a time in space. In contrast the longest . Space Mission was an 84-Day stay aboard the old skylab space station. Since then american astronauts have been limited to Brief stars aboard the space shuttle. Laudatory lawmaker flies off course Allentown a. Apr from his world War i aviation heroics to his leadership of the new air Force after world War ii Carl a. Spaatz had a Long distinguished military career As rep. Gus Yatron noted. But Yatron d-pa., goofed in remarks for the june 20 congressional record when he congratulated Spaatz for reaching his 100th birthday. Yatron was Correct wheat he said Spaatz was born on june 28, 1891. But the Man who pioneered in flight re fueling shortly after world War i died in 1974. The mistake was discovered wednesday and Quick corrected. During world War i Spaatz earned the distil gushed ervice Cross for heroism. He demonstrated the feasibility of in flight fueling in 1929 and introduced strategic Daylight bombing during the world War ii. In 1947, Spaatz then a four Star general was appointed As chief of staff of the newly created air Force which a formerly been a part of the army  
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