European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. May 19, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3chief touts boldness of spaceflight Money Well spent endeavour commander says by William j. Broad the new York times the commander of the space shuttle endeavour Back on Earth after a daring satellite Rescue argued sunday that the problems and needs of americans cities were no reason to divert Money from nasal a annual budget of $14 billion. If anything said Navy capt. Daniel c. Brandenstein a Strong space program is needed to inspire Young people to High achievement and Hopes for the future. Last week Brandenstein led a Crew of astronauts who risked possible disaster in manually snagging a wayward $150 million satellite after two previous Rescue attempts with a mechanical device failed. He and his Crew landed safely saturday. Brandenstein was asked sunday on the Abc program this week to comment on the billions of dollars spent by Nasa when a arguably the cities need that Money  Brandenstein replied that voyages of exploration were a vital social investment today and centuries ago. The endeavours namesake an 18th-Century ship commanded by British explorer James Cook sailed at a time when towns in his country had serious poverty he said. A yet they had the foresight to invest in him sailing three years around the world on an exploration a Brandenstein said. A we ought to look to the future and also make that  asked about dangers on his flight he noted that the 4.5-ton, 17-foot-Long satellite captured by his Crew weighed nothing in space but represented a huge mass with substantial momentum. A so if you get it moving in one direction a he said a getting it stopped is relatively  during endeavours Mission the three astronauts who snagged the wayward satellite were careful to hold it steady getting a feel for its mass and potential momentum he said. They also sought to keep it from gaining acceleration that could Send it crashing into the shuttle. Brandenstein dismissed the idea that there might be similar risks for nasal a planned $30 billion space station which is to be 350 feet Long. A the danger is minimal a he said but he added that Nasa had a big lessons to learn from last weeks Rescue. Also appearing on the show was nasal a new admin c Apt. Daniel c. Brandenstein Center leads his Crew from the endeavour after Landing at Edwards Aeb Calif. Istratov Daniel s. Goldin who echoed some of Brandenstein a arguments about the social value of space exploration. He noted that the rewards were hard to quantify in Advance but always materialized. He said that his sister taught at is 76 in new York a school on the upper West Side of Manhattan and that her pupils found last weeks Mission to be inspirational. A she told me they were so motivated so alive that their learning experience was improving a he said. The improvisational nature of the Rescue Goldin said was a lesson in the benefits of taking risks. The message that children will take away he said is a expand reach out try a and if a problem arises a you get up and do it again. But taking risks is Good. America is a country based on boldness and looking into the future not looking out the Back of the bus."1 killed As serbs Shell red Cross Relief Convoy Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr a red Cross Convoy bringing desperately needed Medicine to the War ravaged capital was attacked monday breaking a Brief Lull in the ethnic Battles following a russian mediation attempt. Fighting was reported elsewhere in the former yugoslav Republic where More than 1,300 people have been killed since the majority slavic muslims and croats voted for Independence feb. 29 a an election boycotted by the minority serbs. Mortar and rocket fire on the Relief vehicles killed one civilian and wounded three International red Cross officials including the new chief of the red Cross operation in Sarajevo Frederique Maurice said journalists travelling with the Convoy. Bosnian officials and witnesses blamed the attack on serbian forces. The Convoy a As travelling in a no Many a land Between serbian held areas and Muslim positions in Eastern Sarajevo. A they knew exactly who we were a said Heidy Huber the departing chief of the red Cross Mission in Sarajevo. A i was in the first car and the first grenade fell Between my car and the second  a truck carrying 4>/5 tons of Medicine was hit by a rocket and destroyed witnesses said. The United nations meanwhile said it planned to Send convoys of emergency food and medical supplies into parts of Bosnia on tuesday and to Sarajevo on Friday. Food and Medicine have been running dangerously Low throughout Bosnia. News Media reports said thousands More refugees streamed out of Bosnia on monday seeking safety in neighbouring Serbia and Croatia. A Convoy containing 10 buses and hundreds of cars with about 2,000 people reportedly left Sarajevo heading for split in Croatia. For the first time in More than a week the capital was Calm overnight after bosnian authorities and the serbian led Federal army agreed on the pullout of hundreds of Federal soldiers from two Barracks in the City. New fighting was reported near the Muslim held Northern City of Tula and around the Western town of Bihac the Belgrade based tan Jug news Agency said. Fighting also continued around go razed the last Muslim stronghold in Eastern Bosnia. Some 30,000 people including nearly 20,000 Muslim refugees Are holed up in the town against attacks by serbs radio Belgrade said. Five people died and 13 were wounded in an overnight artillery Duel in the key Northern town of Bosansky Samac on the Sava River Boundary with Croatia the serbian Srna news Agency said. Serbs occupied the town earlier this month cutting a vital lifeline for supplies reaching Bosnia from Croatia. In Belgrade the serbian capital that is also Seal of the yugoslav government officials were to receive russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev. He was hoping to mediate a truce Between Sarajevo a defenders and serbian insurgents supported by the Federal  Metal workers reach pact Avert strike Berlin apr the giant Metal workers Union and factory owners struck a tentative agreement monday averting what would have been Germany a second major strike in less than a month. The Accord Calls for 5.8 percent raises in the first Yea of a 21-month contract for the 3.7 million members of the in metall Union. The raise betters the 5.4 percent increase won by Public service workers in an 11-Day National strike that ended May 8. In metall had said the Union would vote on a strike if no agreement was reached sunday with next monday the Likely Date for a full scale walkout. In Metallis last strike in 1984, virtually shut Down Germany a Auto Industry for five weeks. Franz Stein Biihler chief of the Union said the 5.8 percent Deal a thwarted the turnabout in labor issues that the companies have been striving  when sundays Marathon Day of talks started in the Southern City of Karlsruhe in metall was seeking 9.5 percent pay increases and the employers were offering 3.3 percent. Average pay in the metalworking Industry is about $3,350 a month for a 37-hour workweek. The government is trying to keep wage pacts Low to avoid fueling inflation which Rose to an annual rate of 4.8 percent in March partly due to higher taxes and other levies imposed to finance German unification. Inflation in april was a bit lower at 4.6 percent. T he Public workers strike closed airports stopped Many trains and buses shut some Hospital services and halted garbage pickup and mail service. The Union rank and file however voted Down the 5.5 percent raise leaving the situation unclear. Radar Pioneer Page Dies at 88 Edina Minn. A Robert m. Page a Pioneer in the development of radar died Friday of arteriosclerosis. He was 88. Page was known As the a radar idea Many since the late 1930s, when he built a transmitter that could Send a Quick series of radio signals and a receiver that could detect the signals As they bounced Back from an object. Radar permanently changed the courses of War and travel. During world War ii radar enabled Allied forces to detect enemy ships and planes and was a major tool in the defeat of Germany and Japan