European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                50 years of service vol. 51, no. 28 350 Friday May 15,1992 d 8693 Agerman Union rejects pact talks with Metal workers fail 2nd strike looms Bonn Germany apr Germany a largest Public employees Union on thursday rejected a wage contract that ended a crippling 11-Day strike and nearly 4 million Metal workers neared their own general walkout after negotiations with employers broke Down. In three Days of voting by the Oto Public workers Union s5.9 percent rejected a 5.4 percent wage hike worked out by the government and the Union leadership last thursday. However resuming the Public workers strike would require 75 percent approval in a new vote and there were signs the rank and file did not favor going Back out on the picket line. Stefan Eichler a Berlin bus Driver said he had expected a better contract offer but a no one would understand if everything went Idle for yet another week just for a couple More  the strike which ended a week ago crippled Public transit closed airports and left garbage piled up on the streets. An opinion poll by the Wickert Institute a German research Arm found that nearly 80 percent of All Oto members oppose a return to the picket lines. Oto leaders will meet in an extraordinary session on May 25 to decide whether to put the wage agreement into Force on their own authority. Whatever the outcome the Oto vote was a Clear message to Chancellor Helmut Kohl German taxpayers Are becoming increasingly weary of having to pay the spiralling costs of unification. The vote was also a blow to the Oto leadership. Oto chairwoman Monika Wulf Mathies said a we incorrectly judged the feelings of part of the  but she defended the contract Compromise saying a we see no other responsible decision than this one even if some details could have been  some news commentators speculated on whether Wulf Mathies May be forced to step Down because of the vote. Meanwhile the 3.6-million Strong in metall see Union on Page 2 rescued Intelsat reaches temporary orbit Cape canaveral Fla. A the Intelsat 6 communications satellite with a new lease on life through a six handed catch by space walking astronauts was rocketed off thursday on the final leg of its interrupted journey. Controllers at Intelsat a Headquarters in Washington radioed a command to fire the newly attached rocket motor. It sent the satellite winging toward an intermediate Stop 51,750 Miles in space. Intelsat a controllers said their data showed that the satellite had reached its intended temporary orbit and that the Booster rocket separated As planned. From there it will be lowered gradually to 22,300 Miles. A we saw the bum and it was really kind of neat to look at Here a said shuttle commander Daniel Brandenstein. The space shuttle endeavour was 470 Miles away at the time and Mission control in Houston gave instructions on where to look for the rocket firing. The astronauts were told that Intelsat wanted pictures of the event. Nasa said thursday that endeavour Intelsat 6 floats above Earth after being released thursday. Would remain in space until saturday afternoon a a total of nine Days a to give the Crew an extra Day of rest. It will land at Edwards fab Calif. The Mission had already been extended one Day to accommodate the satellite Rescue Effort after two failed earlier attempts in which one astronaut tried to snare the satellite with a 15-foot bar instead of his gloved hands. Still on tap for endeavours astronauts was a record fourth spacewalk on thursday. A a it a another Day another Eva a Mission controls Jeff Wisoff told the shuttle Crew. Eva is Nasa speak for extravehicular activity or a spacewalk. A a that a the Type of game plan we like a Brandenstein replied. The activity in the shuttles cargo Bay was to include rehearsals for building a space station and for self Rescue methods by astronauts. The walk by astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Tom Akers was to be the missions fourth a shuttle record. Akers also was one of the three involved in wednesday s satellite Rescue see Intelsat on Page 2 Richard Hleb left Tom Akers and Pierre Thuot connect the shuttles capture bar to the wayward Intelsat 6 satellite. . Mission in Sarajevo slammed by shells from wire and staff reports Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a shells crashed into the Headquarters of the . Peacekeeping Force thursday wounding some inside As serbian irregulars and Muslim defenders dulled with artillery and fought House to House for ravaged Sarajevo. Fighting raged despite conciliatory statements by Radovan Karadzic Leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina a serbian Community who said serbs were prepared to give up some of the land they have occupied to secure a peaceful settlement in the state. The heavy fighting broke out just hours after the United nations declared it was too dangerous to maintain a peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It came a Day after a unilateral five Day cease fire declared by bosnian serbs went into effect. In neighbouring Croatia where serbian croatian Battles have eased but not ended since . Peacekeepers were dispatched the information ministry announced that 399 people had died in fighting since Jan. 3, about the time the first peacekeepers began arriving. More than 10,000 have died in the croatian War which started nearly a year ago. At . Headquarters in new York . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali said Muslim militias had started the fighting in Sarajevo breaking an agreed on truce. Most City defenders Are Muslim though some in its ranks Are croats and occasionally serbs. Deafening cracks of artillery echoed Over the Western see Mission on Page 2house panel cuts Pentagon budget a see Page 5