European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 31, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 3 a amps Jim Dart Wima winning warning about drugs Mike Durgin a seventh grader at Patch High school in Stuttgart Germany holds his anti drug poster that won first place during the schools alcohol and drug awareness week. Theme of last weeks anti drug drive was a get High off life not  Mike 12, received $75 for his winning artwork. Blown fuses continue to Bug instruments on Atlantis Mission Cape canaveral Fla. A Atlantis astronauts on monday lost a second scientific instrument to a blown fuse this time a Telescope that had been probing galaxies millions of Light years away. The ultraviolet Telescope was beaming Back data on a Cluster of galaxies in the direction of Constellation coma Berenice when it stopped working. Ground controllers spent hours trying to get the Telescope Back up and eventually concluded it was hopeless. Principal investigator Stuart Bowyer of the University of California Berkeley said a wire inside the Telescope apparently shorted and caused the fuse to blow. He said the Short was unrelated to voltage trouble experienced by the Telescope last week ground controllers corrected that problem by changing the temperature of the instrument. A that one worked. This one is gone a Bowyer said. The Telescope the Only astronomical instrument aboard Atlantis accomplished 19 observations before the fuse Lew. More than 34 observations were planned for the nine Day Mission. A they weren to just toys throwaways. They were important a Bowyer said of the missed opportunities. A but ill also say that with 19 of these Why we Are going to have a huge scientific  because of its wide Field of View the Telescope had focused on some stars that had never been studied before in the ultraviolet Wavelength Bowyer said. Sources of ultraviolet Light Are invisible from the ground because the rays cannot penetrate the atmosphere. A blown Battery fuse knocked out an Electron beam gun thursday two Days after Atlantis reached orbit. Before be e coming disabled the gun created 60 artificial auroras in the night sky Over the Southern hemisphere and twice sent out radio Waves to students equipped with special receivers. The seven astronauts can to do anything about the blown fuses. The Telescope Electron beam gun and 11 other atmospheric research instruments Are in the open cargo Bay which would require a risky spacewalk to reach. The Crew received a special greeting monday. Sending his Best was russian cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev who returned to Earth on wednesday after 10 months aboard the Mir space station. A a Sergei a doing great. Back at Home and says a his a a Mission control messaged the astronauts. Astronaut David  talked to Kri Kalev by Ham radio late last year. Leestma and the three other licensed Amateur radio operators aboard Atlantis had hoped to Chat with Kri Kaleva a replacement and the other Mir cosmonaut while Atlantis was aloft. So far the astronauts Calls to Mir have gone unanswered. Likewise the cosmonauts attempts to Call Atlantis have not been acknowledged. The astronauts have one last Chance to communicate with Mir on wednesday. A ship to ship conversation would he a a red letter Day for Ham radio a historic Day a said nasal a Glenn Holt who a helping with the Experiment. The Only time americans and russians have talked ship to ship was during the 1975 Apollo soyuz Mission. Regular inboard radios a and not Ham radios a a were used. Atlantis is scheduled to land at Kennedy space Center on thursday  official fired Over turkish tank scandal by the associated press Bonn Germany a Germany a defense minister on monday fired one of his top aides amid an escalating scandal Over the illicit delivery of 15 Leopard Battle tanks to Turkey. The scandal is one of the most serious affairs to hit the German military establishment in the past few years. Pressure is building on Chancellor Helmut Kohl to demand the resignation of defense minister Gerhard Stoltenberg. Germany has been sending arms to Turkey since 1964 As part of its nato obligations but on thursday suspended All shipments because of alleged violations of the minority kurd so rights. Meanwhile turkish president Turgut Ozal in an interview published sunday by the left Wing cumhur yet newspaper invoked Germany a nazi past in complaining about that country a interference in turkeys kurdish problem. A Germany changed a lot after the unification. It is As if it is trying to intervene in everything interfere with everyone trying to prove its a great Power a Ozal said. A Europe obviously must be aware of this. But these Are wrong things. A in the past hitlers Germany did the same thing. But of course it did so in other ways a Ozal told the newspaper. A if today a Germany also does this not in that hitlers Way but through the misuse of its economic Power or by hurling threats it will soon discover it has taken a wrong  Dieter Vogel Kohls spokesman said in a written statement monday that the Chancellor a rejects the tone and contents of Ozalis remarks. But the statement also took pains to stress that Germany recognizes turkeys special needs As a nato partner that shares a Border with Saddam Hussein a Iraq. A the Chancellor is Well aware of turkeys exposed geographical situation. That a Why the government carried out special arms assistance for Turkey in the past a Vogels statement said. The parliamentary budget committee last november froze funds for the delivery of 15 Leopard tanks to Turkey because of turkish attacks on kurd. Many politicians had Long been pushing for a general weapons embargo against Turkey because of its treat ment of the kurd and the budget committee targeted the tanks last fall. But a German company responsible for refitting and delivering the tanks was apparently never told about the committees decision. Stoltenberg said Wolfgang Ruppelt the no. 3 official at the ministry had a assumed responsibility for letting the Leopard tanks get through. Stoltenberg said the 60-year-old Ruppelt will be going into a Early  but precisely Why the budget committees decision was contravened remained a mystery. Ruppelt was present when the budget committee froze 25 million Marks $13 million for the tank shipment last year Stoltenberg said. Stoltenberg said it was Ruppelt a responsibility to make sure the committees decision was carried out. A failure to observe the budget committees intentions is a serious matter a Stoltenberg  to petition Canada to keep troops in Europe Brussels Belgium a the nato allies will formally ask Canada to reconsider plans to pull its remaining soldiers out of Europe diplomats said monday. Ambassadors of the North Atlantic treaty organization agreed that Secretary general Manfred Worner should Send a letter to Canadian officials about their decision to withdraw the troops diplomats said. A the allies expressed considerable concern about the Canadian decision a said an Alliance spokesman who demanded anonymity. He declined to give details. But other sources demanding anonymity said the nato ambassadors instructed Worner to urge the canadians to reverse their decision. He was also expected to ask the canadians to earmark certain forces to help nato if needed in an emergency. Canadian finance minister Don Mazankowski announced last month that the government would drop plans to keep a task Force of 1,100 soldiers in Europe after 1994. The decision was contained in a package of spending cuts. Some european members of the 16-nation nato Are worried the decision could give ammunition to members of the . Congress pressing for further cuts in american troops in Europe. The Bush administration already has announced plans to slice by half its euro Pean based Force to about 150,000 by 1995. But some in Congress argue that with the collapse of the soviet Union and the reduction in East West military tension there is Little need for that Many soldiers in Europe. The nato ambassadors also discussed an american proposal calling on the allies to help pay the exist of warehouses for tanks guns and other military hardware in Europe