European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday november 5,1994 12 in Folkston a a a grenade that a teen Ager was showing off to schoolmates detonated inside a full class room thursday riddling a dozen Stu dents with blast was Melhor a Quarter mile. These Are very serious devastating military Type injuries. This is not the sort of thing you d see on the streets of Amer Ica said or. David Vukich chief of emergency Medicine at University medi Cal Center in Jacksonville Fla., just South students were in the High school music appreciation class at Chad ton county High school when the 40 my Rifle grenade was dropped and exploded county school superintendent Jack mul Lis said. V the. Type of grenade about 8 to 10inches Long and designed to be fired from a tube mounted on an my Rifle is no longer used by the military. It was brought to school by a student identified As Gregory Douglas 17. Doug Las said moments before the explosion that it was harmless said Jed Norton an emergency worker from Irwin Stepfather who used to work at fort Stewart told police that he in the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 5,1984 islamic jihad which claimed responsibility for Mostof the terrorist attacks against americans in the Middle East vowed to hit . Installations in the Region within 48 hours. 20 years ago Noy 5,1974 defense Secre tary James Schlesinger said that he was increasing . Combat strength in Europe and that Washington expected its allies to do the same. " / / " 30 years ago nov. 5,1964 president John son called for a United America fac ing the world after a smashing elec Tion Victory. 40 years ago nov. 5,1954 the democrats captured control of the Senate con fronting president Eisenhower with a democratically controlled con Gress for the Start of his second term. World War ii 50 years ago today nov. 5 1.9.4.4 . Aircraft carriers open two Days of heavy attacks on japanese ships and planes around Luzon Island in the Philippines the Carrier Lexington is severely damaged by a japanese suicide plane. In northeastern France algerian troops of the French army capture Richesson and Mena Krupl. British troops land at Salonika the greek port abandoned five Days earlier by the germans. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. A world almanac of world War ii. Bison boo up. 1981 a brought Home the grenade and four or five More. Shannon Chesser who dropped the grenade underwent surgery Tor life threatening shrapnel wounds to the legs and feet. The 16-year-old May lose a leg Vukich said. Four of the injure were in serious condition two were in stable condition two were in fair Condi Tion and three were treated and re leased. The injured students were Ages 16and 17, Hospital officials said. A teacher in the band room was not injured said Weyland yep Maris an agent with the Georgia Bureau of investigation. Parents rushed to the school but police would not allow anyone near the thought he s at school. This can t happen said Darlene Lloyd whose 17-Yearnold son Eric was in stable condition at Satilla regional medical said her son told her that the teen agers had been passing the grenade around All Day. He was sitting with his Back turned when it exploded. He ran for help and did t know he was Hurt until he bleeding she said. Eric suffered a punctured lung and Back injuries. Glitches mar by satellite Cape canaveral Fla. A gleaming triangular satellite released by the Crew of space shuttle Atlantis on Fri Day barely had begun sampling Ozone and other gases in the atmosphere when trouble struck. _ a navigation unit on the Cerman satellite apparently was blinded by sunlight and had trouble Locking onto stars to Point the spacecraft s telescopes. The pointing problem in turn May have caused the Telescope covers to slam shut said Mission manager Konrad could t immediately de Termine whether observations were interrupted because Atlantis and the satellite were out of radio Contact. The two space Craft Are routinely out of Contact for hours at a spacecraft were 17 Miles apart when the problem said ground controllers should be Able to Correct the Star tracker prob Lem quickly provided Nasa gives them enough time away from other experiments. One of the seven atmospheric an solar Energy monitors aboard Atlantis also ran into trouble the data link be tween a German Ozone Monitor and ground controllers was lost Friday . And european monitors began observations thursday evening just hours after Atlantis lifted off. The satellite release one of the Crew s primary jobs in orbit went per astronaut Jean Francois Clear Voy unlatched the satellite from the endow Atlantis robot As the shuttle soared 190 Miles above Northern commander Donald Mcmonagle slowly backed the shuttle Bright Blue Earth hovered in the background As the White and Gold satellite was set free. It was really a Beautiful sight said astronaut Joseph Tanner. Cleroy released the 7,500-Pound satellite so gently that German ground con trollers did t detect any spin by the satellite and nervously called Mission control to find out what was wrong. The were assured All was Well. Re vat a a pcs Back in the air army sgt. 1st class Dana Bowman a double amputee makes a practice jump Over fort Bragg n.c., on thursday the Day before he was to take an oath of re enlistment and make an official jump. Bowman who has prosthetic legs was Hurt in a military free fall Man Euver in february. 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