European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 19, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 tear Gas clubs used to end kurdish protest Bonn Germany a police used tear Gas and clubs to subdue kurdish youths thursday after they put on to shirts embossed with an illegal Symbol of the banned kurdish liberation movement on Bonn s Central Square. About. Iso kurd some As Young As 13, tussle with about 80 police officers under the Large Beethoven statue on Bonn s Miinster Platz. About 40 kurd later occupied Bonn s main Post office on the Munster Platz and prevented customers from leaving. Police wearing helmets and carrying Batons and riot Shields ran in after the kurd and forced them  were at least 28 arrests. Six police officers and a few kurd were injured police said. The kurdish youths from around Germany and the Netherlands had gathered to begin a 496-mile, 10-Day Bike ride to Geneva to draw attention to alleged atrocities against the kurdish ethnic minority in South Eastern Turkey. About 400,000 turkish kurd live in  is asleep and has. Closed its eyes to the situation in our Homeland said organizer Cetin Kucak. We re taking a Long ride to show the Long struggle of the kurdish  after a rally the kurd pulled on red to shirts bearing the yellow and Green Star of the National kurdish liberation front a group that was banned in Germany last november after members attacked turkish consulates and businesses. The group is linked to the kurdish workers party known by its kurdish language initials pkg which is fighting for an Independent state in Southeastern Turkey. Computer virus in form of Honecker wreaks havoc Frankfurt Germany a germans thought they d never be troubled by Erich Honecker again. But he s Back in the form of a computer virus. On aug. 13, the 33nd anniversary of construction of the Berlin Wall a likeness of the late former East. German Leader popped up on thousands of computer screens. After the playing of the East German National an them computer programs were destroyed by the order of the Der East German Council of min  Honni s last revenge i la be Back was then Dis played on screens. _. L _ _ _ _ Honni was the nickname Given to the Stern looking communist Leader who died in May in exile in Chile. Ralph Werthman from the bochum data com Pany which specializes in combating computer viruses said his firm has set up a special Telephone hot line for computer users to report the virus. Thousands of cases of Honni s revenge have been reported in Eastern Germany but More and More cases Are becoming known in the West As Well Werthman said. I i i first Moon Landing 1969, Moon glowing memory a this commemorative stamp marking the 25th anniversary of the first Moon Landing has been prepared by the . Postal service. Under an arrangement with Nasa a half million of the Stamps were to have been taken along on the space shuttle endeavour on thursday. The postal service s plan to offer the Stamps for Sale to collectors was shelved when the shuttle was forced to abort its thursday flight. Engine woes ground shuttle Cape canaveral Fla. A space shuttle endeavour s flight was aborted a perilous 1.9 seconds before launch thursday after the main engines roared to life then abruptly shut Down. Nasa s countdown clock got All the Way to Zero when the launch was halted because a fuel pump apparently overheated. Nasa said a computer automatically began shutting off the engines 1.9 seconds before the solid rocket boosters were to have ignited and the shuttle taken off. The six astronauts were strapped into their seats aboard the 2,000-ton shuttle for about an hour after the launch was aborted. It took ground Crews that Long to make sure everything at the pad was Safe. When the men finally emerged their faces revealed various degrees of Relief and disappointment. One gave a ground Crew member a Friendly Pat on the Arm. Sorry we did t do it today a voice from launch control told commander Michael Baker before he crawled out. We a give it another try another  the flight was expected to be delayed about a month. At a briefing Baker said he and his Crew knew they weren t going anywhere when they saw red lights Flash in the cockpit and Felt the engines turn off. The Crew s doing Fine. I think everything went Well Baker said. The systems did their  it was the fifth engine shutdown at the pad in 13 years of shuttle flights and the third since april 1993. But none had been so close to launch. L for astronaut Daniel Bursch it was a repeat of last a gust. He was aboard discovery when that shuttle s main engines shut Down three seconds before liftoff. It was to have been the first space flight for two Mem Bers of the All Man ill american Crew. A third astronaut planetary scientist Thomas Jones who flew on a similar Earth monitoring Mission in april would have set a . Record for the shortest time Between space flights. That Chance was dashed. Officials said the problem was with a High pressure fuel pump on main engine no. 3 that apparently overheated. Everything had been going Well with the countdown thursday morning and the weather was perfect. The three engines ignited on Cue 6v$ seconds before the scheduled Sunrise liftoff but on Board computers stopped them and the shuttle remained bolted to the launch pad. The pump that overheated had just been refurbished and there was no immediate explanation for its malfunction Nasa said. I Don t know How you spell a shucks but that Iff the term that applies said launch director Bob Sieck. The familiar Cloud of steam engulfed the shuttle As the engines fired. Then the huge Cloud slowly drifted upward and dissipated. Sieck said the biggest concern after engine shutdown was the possibility of explosive Hydrogen fuel leaks thars Why 300,000 Gallons of water were sprayed on the paid. % a if an engine had failed soon after liftoff Baker Wouldhave had no Choice but to attempt a dangerous emergency Landing Back at Kennedy space Center. Nato faces Tough task of replacing worn Brussels Belgium a nato paid tribute thursday to Manfred Worner the Western Alliance s Secretary general whose death last weekend leaves governments of 16 member nations Wor ried Over the sensitive task of selecting a successor. Official talks on replacing the widely respected former German defense min ister will not begin until some time after today s memorial service in Brussels. But nato sources said senior govern ment representatives attending the me Morial Are expected to open informal discussions on a replacement. . Secretary of state Warren Christo Pher flew into Brussels on thursday. Hemet privately with the acting Secretary Gen eral Sergio Galanzino who took Over provisionally when Worner died saturday after a two year Battle with cancer. Nato diplomats said Christopher would Likely hold informal talks with other Allied officials on Werner s Succes Sion and other issues including the bos Nian conflict and reports of plutonium smuggling from Russia. A number of leading european politicians have emerged As possible Succes sors. Among the Likely favourites is Ruud Lubbers who is due to step Down As dutch prime minister after an electoral defeat. Out of respect for Worner no Candi dates Are expected to declare their inter est until Well after the funeral. And. Nato diplomats  decision on the succession is not Likely before september. Worner was honoured in a special meeting of ambassadors from the 16 nations thurs Day Galanzino recalled that w6rner had de fied his doctors in recent months to chair vital meetings that led to nato s agreeing to use air Power in Bosnia. I know that today we no longer live in a world of heroes but to me Manfred Worner had All the requisite qualities Galanzino told the meeting. Defense experts believe the allies will not want to leave a prolonged void at the top of the North Atlantic treaty organization at a critical time when nato is struggling to define its tasks in the Post cold War world. His death has come at a very unfortunate moment because there is so much hanging in the balance particularly in Bosnia said Andrew Mchallam director of the London based Institute for european defense and strategic studies. Worner had Long advocated la Strong nato intervention in the bosnian conflict and enthusiastically welcomed the member governments decision to launch the Alliance s first combat missions with airstrikes against the bosnian serbs the new Secretary general could have a key position helping shape Alliance pol icy if heavy fighting flares anew in the former Yugoslavia. He will also have to work on solving the other problems that have dominated the Alliance in recent months Russia opposition to nato s addition of Mem Bers from the former communist nations of Eastern Europe and nato s wider role following the collapse of the soviet threat that the Alliance was set up to counter