The World - News from Feb. 26, 1986

An out-of-control Soviet satellite is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere later this week, possibly on Thursday, West German experts said. A spokesman for the Technology Ministry said that Cosmos 1714 “will almost certainly burn up” in the atmosphere, but another West German, Ewald Andrews, representing the Interior Ministry, warned that major parts of the spacecraft could strike the Earth’s surface. Andrews said Cosmos 1714 is not nuclear powered. A nuclear-powered Cosmos scattered radioactive debris over a wide area of Canadian wilderness when it crashed in 1978.