European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pflgo2 a the stars and stripes at a glance Camilla Pirto Bowles is the won a with whom Britain Prince Charles has allegedly been Haring a affair. The intimate record it of what purports to be a 1989 phone tryst Between Charles and Barker Bowles is now in print. See Story on page9. A a. A a a a pricey party Soma of the largest american and japanese companies Wilt pay at least $10,000 each for a party to Honor the Man picked to be com Merce Secretary Ronald h. a. A Page 4 husband suspected the husband of Bloomsburg a University s new police chief is accused of raping a co worker and is under investigation in four More at a a Quot a a v a Page 7 tourists stranded washouts last week along a High Way stretching the length of Mexico s Baja California have stranded As Many As 1,000 americans and other tourists. A pages new of uniforms air pome officers and enlisted personnel win be wearing a new streamlined dress uniform by 1996, air Force chief of staff Gen. Merrill a. Mcpeak said. A Page 11 deficit sacrifices Loyd n. Bentsen president elect Clinton s Choice for Treasury Secretary said it will take painful sacrifice and possibly a tax increase to wipe out the budget deficit. A Page 12 Index Abby Ann Landers. 17 classifieds. 20-23 comics. Commentary. 15 crossword. 17 faces in places. 16 letters. A i a in 14 military. 11 Money meters. -----12 sports. 25-32 to listings. .31 weather. 13 five a Boa re new. Thursday january 14,1992 lift off Cape canaveral Fla. A endeavour hurtled toward space with five astronauts wednesday on a Mission that mixes serious shuttle business with a Little patriotic Bell ringing and some child s play. The spaceship Rose from its Seaside pad at 8 59 . Into a hazy sky. Launch was delayed seven minutes so Nasa could update shuttle computers with the latest weather information. A a we re looking Forward to a Safe and successful flight of endeavour to Start off the new year shuttle commander John Casper said moments before liftoff. The flight by Nasa s newest shuttle is the first of eight missions planned for 1993, the same number As last year and the s3rd shuttle flight Overall. Tavvo minutes after liftoff endeavours twin solid rocket boosters peeled away and dropped into the Atlantic Ocean. The shuttle pressed toward a 184-mile-High orbit on the thrust of three liquid fuelled engines the main goal of the six Day Mission was to be the release wednesday afternoon of a $200 million 2wton satellite similar to four others in orbit. The satellites allow astronauts to communicate almost continuously with Mission control. They also link scientific satellites such As the Hubble space Tele scope with the ground. On sunday two Crew members will undertake a five hour spacewalk. Nasa wants to Sharpen its space walking skills for the building of nasal a space station in 1996. Ute Mission also includes a Little Orbital playtime As the astronauts toss around a Ball wind up Bathtub toys and release them in the Cabin and Send a toy car around a track in a demonstration of How objects behave in weightlessness. Youngsters at four elementary schools attended by four of the astronauts will participate via a to Hookup Friday. The astronauts also will ring a Small Model of the Liberty Bell for a videotape that will be played when Bells peal around the country sunday evening to Mark president elect Clinton a inauguration. The Crew barring launch delays will be asleep at the time. A we want to do anything we can to make it work right for our country and this is something that we can do to show our support for the Clinton administration for the next four years Quot Casper said last week. After the release of the satellite the astronauts were to activate a $14 million a Ray spectrometer for exploring extremely hot and mysterious gases Between stars in the Milky Way. The device is operated from the ground by Remote control. A the shuttle also is equipped with an improved toilet which is making its space debut Congress general accounting office has criticized the $23 million commode because of its Cost. Endeavour is scheduled to land tuesday at Kennedy space Center in Florida. From Page 1 posing for photographers with japanese foreign minister Michio Watanabe. Meanwhile iraqi salvages crossed into Kuwait again wednesday showing More Defiance even As Baghdad offered to negotiate an end to the confrontation. The official iraqi. News Agency said Saddam a government warned the United nations it would retaliate against any Western attack. A iraqi government newspaper commentary also said that a Kuwait shall return to Iraq in Defiance of the Security Council Ana America a can reported from Baghdad. Abdel Latif Kabbaj spokesman for . Observers along the Iraq Kuwait Border said iraqis in civilian clothes crossed the Frontier for a fourth consecutive Day to remove equipment from a former iraqi Navy base. Reporters taken on a . Tour to the area which was awarded to Kuwait after Iraq s defeat in the persian Gulf War did not see the intruders. Kabbaj said 50 to 60 iraqis crossed the. Border wednesday. Groups of 150 to 200 iraqis crossed the Border sunday monday and tuesday to recover weapons and other materials at the base. Bush and his top aides discussed military action in a White House meeting monday after reviewing Baghdad s response to . Demands that it remove anti aircraft missiles from Southern Iraq and Saddam s violations of . Restrictions imposed after the persian Gulf War the new York times reported wednesday the newspaper quoted administration officials whom it did not identify As saying it was possible Baghdad could prevent a . Attack with immediate and Broad compliance with . Demands. But the officials said the administration was assuming this would not happen and was proceeding with plans for an air strike. Quot it s just a matter of when to pull the trigger one Pentagon official told the newspaper. Asked about the report a whim House spokeswoman Laura Parham said a we continue to Monitor the iraqi compliance with the . Resolutions and we join the . In condemning re cent violations. Other than that we have no further r earlier tuesday administration officials said a military strike could come without warning. Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said a we won t tolerate any interference with our ability to enforce the no Fly zone in Southern Iraq. And if we make a judgment that some iraqi action interferes with that ability we 11 take the appropriate iraqis ambassador to the United nations appealed for a constructive dialogue Quot to head off a possible might any confrontation. A i think we Are All worried about the possibility of a military strike Quot Nizar Hardoon said tuesday after delivering a letter on the current confrontations to the Security Council president from iraqis foreign minister. Somalia from Page 1 where . Forces had set up a Camp for about 1,000 troops. The Camp has regularly come under sniper fire. Officials at Marine Headquarters in Mogadishu confirmed a Man had been wounded but they gave no other details. The identification of the corpsman was withheld until his family could be notified. If the circumstances Are confirmed the corpsman would be the first Man wounded by hostile fire since . Troops arrived in Somalia in december. Previously a Marine had been wounded by Friendly fire. The slain marines 11-Man patrol was ambushed after moving out of the Airport into an area of abandoned warehouses Davis told reporters. Quot there were definitely More than one gunman Quot he said. Davis said that convoys had come under attack before but that it was the first time a foot patrol had been ambushed. After a five minute firefight the marines withdrew and regrouped discovering a Comrade missing. Reinforced by a rapid reaction Force in three armoured vehicles the marines returned to recover the fallen Comrade Quot another firefight ensued. The gunmen were still there Quot said Davis. He said there was no evidence any somalian gunmen had been hit. The slain Marine who apparently died of a head wound was a member of the 3rd in 11th Marine regt based at Twenty nine Palms Calif. He was not immediately identified although officials said he was from Elizabeth no. The i Rene was the first . Serviceman kilted since the americans landed dec. 9 As part of a .-endorsed Effort to end the rampant looting and lawlessness that have prolonged a devastating famine. A civilian army employee was killed dec. 23 near the City of Barbera when the vehicle he was Riding in hit an anti tank mine. At checkpoints wednesday marines were edgier and More Businesslike than usual. And at the Airport friends of the fallen Marine directed their anger at somalis. In a statement released wednesday in Nairobi Kenya the somali National Congress expressed sorrow at tuesday s death implicating Quot irregular elements ,., backed by irresponsible from a 1 ing wit it the Issue. A. Many military officers Mew Clinton with suspicion because of his draft record in the v Vietnam Are a and his pie Dee to further reduce military Szendi a. U. T1fct resident elect Quot and his advisers ate determined Imin their administration on toe wrong id Ltd with the armed services Pentagon of reial of said Gen. Colin l i owe ii chairman of the joint chiefs of staff told Clinton in a hour Long meeting in november that it would be a mis take for the White House to Issue order Powell said that if Clinton Consul Ted with military leaders Over the next year perhaps establishing a commiss a to study the Issue cooperation fi0ii1 armed services would improve. F
