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Tuesday. December 6, 1983
President talks live to astronauts
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on Spacelab I of West German physicist Ulf Merbold
“is an exceedingly happy circumstance." Kohl said he
hopes that the future also will be characterized by such
cooperation "on both sides of the Atlantic.”
As the leaders spoke, live televised views of the
astronauts were beamed to Earth and displayed at
seven locations in Europe and the United States. Mis-
sion commander John Young was shown inside Space-
lab with Merbold and with payload scientist Byron
Lichtenberg. Another view showed the other three
crewmen, Owen Garriott, Bob Parker and Brewster
Shaw, in the middeck of Columbia.
Both Kohl and Reagan praised the scientific work
aboard Spacelab. The president asked Young his views
on the benefits of space.
"It is a place w here humanity can live and work and
make things better for people on Earth," replied
Young.
In questions from European reporters, Merbold was
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Marine killed
DEVILS LAKE. N D. (AP) - One of the eight Ma-
rines killed when a mortar round exploded near a
checkpoint at the Beirut International Airport was
identified Monday as 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Todd
Kraft from Devils Lake, N D.
The seven others had not been identified pending
notification of relatives.
Ray Kraft, his father, said two Marines from Minne-
apolis informed the family shortly before noon Mon-
day that their son had died in the attack Sunday.
In a letter dated Nov. 15, Kraft had written to the
Devils Lake Daily Journal that he was leaving the
Caribbean enroute to Lebanon.
The Marine base shelling claimed the heaviest
U.S. death toll since the Oct. 23 suicide truck bomb
attack that killed 239 servicemen at the base.
Robber sought
PHOENIX (AP) — A convicted bank robber and a
man wanted for questioning about an Oklahoma hold-
up are being sought by the FBI in the $270,000 rob-
bery of a First Interstate Bank branch here.
The FBI said Monday it had issued bank robbery
warrants for William Joseph Dougherty, 44, and
James Allen Ingman, 28. in the Nov. 24 robbery of a
First Interstate branch.
Two armed gunmen kidnapped branch manager
Jack Roulier, his wife and two children, when they
returned from Thanksgivving dinner on Nov. 24 and
forced Roulier to open the bank's safe the following
morning.
Police search
AUGUSTA. Maine (AP) — Police and volunteers
searched Monday for two men who stole $4,100 and
apparently kidnapped a University of Maine coed
working in an ice cream shop.
In the holdup Saturday night at the Summer Haven
Ice Cream store, "two men went in, kind of assaulted
one of the patrons from behind, then went over and
demanded some money," said police Sgt. Robert
Wagner.
The clerk, Paula Roberts, 21, of Belgrade, disap-
peared after the holdup and a passing motorist saw
two men " who appeared to be forcing a female into a
vehicle," said Maj. Robert Barrett.
A customer. 19-year-old Dixon Smith, was treated
for head injuries
Members agree
ST LOUIS (AP) — Members of the Nuclear Weap-
ons Freeze Campaign have agreed for the first time
to endorse or oppose political candidates in the 1984
elections.
About 600 grass-roots organizers and state coordi-
nators met here Sunday at the fourth annual meeting
of the organization. They also approved strategies to
curtail funds for the testing, development and de-
ployment of nuclear weapons.
Group members voted Sunday to reverse their pre-
vious policy and start opposing or endorsing candi-
dates, including President Reagan, based on their
stands on nuclear freeze issues.
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SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — President Rea-
gan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl talked
with the six orbiting Spacelab astronauts Monday, and
Reagan praised the mission as “a shining example of
international cooperation at its best."
Il was the first time leaders of two nations had
talked with orbiting astronauts at (he same time on a
joint linkup. Reagan called the U'/i-minute experience
"one heck of a conference call."
Both leaders expressed hope the flight would lead to
even more ambitious multinational space ventures in
the future.
Reagan, speaking from the White House, said the
united flight of the $1 billion European-built Spacelab
and the U.S.-built shuttle Columbia was “demonstrat-
ing to the world that when people are free to work
together there’s nothing that can’t be accomplished.”
Kohl, speaking from Athens, Greece, where he is
attending an economic conference, said the presence
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Concessions necessary
MOSCOW (AP) — Top Kremlin officials Monday
rejected Western " wishful thinking" that the Soviets
might return to Euromissile negotiations without U.S.
concessions first. They said U.S.-Soviet strategic
arms talks are headed toward a similar stalemate.
The Soviets, at a rare news conference for foreign
and Soviet reporters, also reaffirmed Moscow's in-
tention to match the new U.S. medium-range mis-
siles in Europe with powerful Soviet submarine mis-
siles off the American coast.
These counter-weapons will "be no less effective
than the American systems deployed in Europe, in
range, yield, accuracy and what is especially impor-
tant, in flight time to their targets," said Marshal
Nikolai V. Ogarkov, chief of the Soviet general staff.
Lawyers return
DHAKA. Bangladesh (AP) — Supreme Court law-
yers returned to work Monday after a one-day walk-
out to protest the arrest of their bar association
president and to push for the lifting of martial law.
About 300 lawyers met at the Supreme Court build-
ing and passed a resolution expressing "grave con-
cern and disapproval" over the arrest of Shamsul
Huq Choudhury, president of the Bangladesh Su-
preme Court Bar Association.
The resolution urged the military government of Lt.
Gen. H M Ershad to release Choudhury and three
other detained lawyers immediately.
Trial opens
CALTANISETTA, Sicily (AP) — The trial of six men
accused of the car-bombing murder of a top anti-
Mafia judge and three other people in downtown
Palermo opened Monday under tight security.
Two of the accused, Vincenzo Rabito and Pietro
Scarpisi. both of Palermo, were present at the trial's
opening in this town 79 miles southwest of Palermo.
Bou Chebel Ghassan, a Lebanese held since Au-
gust on charges of designing the car-bomb that killed
judge Rocco Chinicci in July, did not attend the trial
Under Italian law, defendents are not required to
attend court cases.
The other three defendants. Mafia brothers Mi-
chele "Daddy" and Salvatore Senator" Greco and
their cousin, Toto Greco, are still being sought by
police for previous Mafia-related activities.
Offer rejected
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A major opposition
leader said Monday that political concessions an-
nounced by Nicaragua's governing Sandinistas do
not go far enough. A rebel Indian leader rejected the
Sandinista offer as "a farce."
The leftist government announced Sunday it would
welcome back Nicaraguan exiles, including most of
the rebels who have been fighting to topple the
Sandinistas, and promised to announce a date early
next year for elections in 1985
"To be frank, we were hoping the decrees would
be broader," said a leader of the Constitutionalist
Liberal Party, one of the country's four opposition
parties. The other parties have not commented yet.
asked what has impressed him most about his space-
flight. He quickly said in his native tongue: “Die
schoenheit der Erde (the beauty of the Earth).”
"It is so beautiful," he said in German, "that one
simply cannot describe it in words.”
Young was asked how Merbold and Lichtenberg —
neither a professional astronaut — had adapted to the
mission.
"Ulf and Byron took to spaceflight just like ducks
to water," Young said. "They are enjoying it just as
much as we are. It is delightful up here.”
Once the teleconferences were over, the astronauts
returned to the two-shift, non-stop science pace they
have maintained since launch Nov. 28.
Columbia is scheduled to land either Wednesday or
Thursday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. NASA
officials said the mission will be extended to Thursday
if the California weather permits.
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