Space Agency (ESA), is successfully launched for the third time, at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, carrying two satellites, Arabsat-1A and Brasilsat-A1. The Polish cargo ship Busko Zdroj capsizes and sinks off Sylt, West Germany. Only one of her 25 crew survives. February 9, 1985 (Saturday) Died: Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, 37, US intelligence officer, murdered by drug traffickers Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and others are later convicted of his murder. February 10, 1985 (Sunday) The wrecked Argentine Balao-class submarine Santa Fe, captured during the Falklands War three years earlier is scuttled by British forces in the South Atlantic Ocean off South Georgia Island. The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 conclude in Bromio, Italy, with Switzerland ending top of the medals table. February 11, 1985 (Monday) Despite a direction by the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan, "that the jury should convict him", British civil servant Clive Ponting is found not guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of an offence under the Official Secrets Act. Ponting had leaked information about the sinking of the Argentine navy warship General Belgrano, a key incident in the 1982 Falklands War. Died: Ben Abruzzo, 54, US balloonist, his wife and four other passengers, killed when the Cessna 421C Abruzzo is piloting hits treetops and crashes at Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a result of a baggage door opening in flight. February 12, 1985 (Tuesday) The 1985 South Korean legislative election ends in a narrow victory for the Democratic Justice Party. February 13, 1985 (Wednesday) Sri Lankan rebel group, the Tamil Tigers, launch the "Kokkilai offensive", their first organised attack on the army. February 14, 1985 (Thursday) Lebanon hostage crisis: CNN journalist Jerry Levin escapes from captivity in Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, where he had been held by Shia militants for nearly a year. The US fishing vessel Alert, suffering from heavy icing in the Shelikof Strait and bound for Bumble Bay on Alaska′s Kodiak Island, disappears with the loss of her crew of five. February 15, 1985 (Friday) The 35th Berlin International Film Festival opens, running until February 26. It includes a retrospective dedicated to Special effects. Died: Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr., 81, US zoologist, of complications after a fall February 16, 1985 (Saturday) UK civil servant Clive Ponting, acquitted of a charge of breaching section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 concerning the leaking of documents relating to the sinking