Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, September 3, 1994

You are currently viewing page 2 of: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, September 3, 1994

   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stripes saturday septembers 1994 at a glance Pope John Paul is planned visit to Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina is Likely to be a Security night Mare. See Story on Page 8. Northern Ireland Aid Irist Deputy prime minister Dick Spring says president Clinton has promised to seek further . Aid for Northern Ireland but Clinton aides say the president did not pledge direct . Support. Page Dane arrested a Dane has been charged with helping distribute German Neo nazi pamphlets listing 250 opponents for final elimination police say. Damages boosted a former California Law Secretary has won $7.1 million in punitive dam Ages nearly twice the amount she sought in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Bishop under fire an episcopal Bishop who ordained an openly Gay woman As a Deacon has Beer asked to resign by some Church convention delegates. Page 10 award questioned a judge has questioned the adequacy of a $4.25 billion settlement of breast implant claims even As he approved it. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 22-28 comics. 18-19,21 commentary 13 crossword. 21 faces n places. 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. 26 Jumble. 26 letters. 12 Money matters 14 sports. 28-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 Mir finally gets its goods Moscow a after two failed attempts that put the russian manned space program in jeopardy a cargo ship loaded with fresh food and supplies docked Friday with the Mir orbiting Sta Tion ". V ,. Space officials said the Tricky Remote controlled Man Euver went off without a hitch shortly after 5 40 . Moscow Docking took place on the first at tempt and everything went smoothly said Vsevolod Latyshev a spokesman for the flight control Center. The Mir s 32-year-old commander Yuri Malen Chenko was at the controls of both ships and the pressure was immense. The Fate of the manned space program a source of Pride for Russia throughout its turbulent Post soviet transition Hung in the balance. The Progress cargo ship failed twice this week to Dock by automatic Pilot at one Point apparently bumping into the 130-ton space station several times be fore sliding past. The cargo ship is carrying 2.6 tons of food water and research equipment for joint missions with the european space Agency in october and the United states in march./. ,. ". Since there is no backup cargo ship ready and Only enough food for a few weeks on Board the Mir Malen Chenko and his two shipmates would have had to return to Earth if the Docking failed. Some experts also say Russia could have risked losing the Mir which was launched in 1986, if it had been left unmanned. The upcoming joint missions also were threatened. Malen Chenko an ethnic ukrainian on his first Mir Mission has been on the Sta Tion for two months. When the cargo ship was about 150 Yards from the Mir Malen Chenko began guiding it by Remote control from the command module of the space station the itar Tass news Agency said. Malen Chenko was aided by images televised from the Progress then relayed from Earth to the Mir. The manual Dock ing is part of routine Pilot training former commanders. The Mir has been left unmanned a least once before for a four month stretch in 1989 that was called a Cost Cut Ting move Crews usually return to Earth aboard the space capsules that bring re Lief Crews. 2 in going held in death of boy 11 circa  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade