European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d these Little piggies went to Calvin 5 diem son president resigns in drug scandal 21 p measles epidemic reported on 3 campuses 28 the authori260 unofficial publication Foft the armed forces 318 March 1985 Don 0 8693 a Nasa cancels challenger flight Cape a problems with secret encoding devices on two tracking satellites one in the other in the challengers cargo Bay have prompted the cancellation of this weeks shuttle flight with Jake Garn As a Pas the National aeronautics and space administration announced Friday in Stead of flying the challenger on thursday As it will Roll the ship off the launching pad and return it to an Assembly the next flight will be assigned to its sister the which had been set to blast off March and will Combine features and payloads of both mis in very disappointed that the flight has been said r under the it was the Only responsible decision that Nasa could we Are dealing with a nearly Mil lion satellite and it would have been totally irresponsible on nasal part to put a satellite of that expense into orbit without being certain it would operate Nasa said it wont select a launching Date or a Crew for the combined Mission until next but officials indicated that the new Date probably would be in late March or Early if precedent is Garn will make the Patrick the first French Astro naut assigned to Fly on an american also was to have been one of the seven Crew members for this weeks chair Man of an appropriations committee that oversees Nasa was to have flown As a congressional Nasa said the cancellation became Nec Essary when a tracking and data relay satellite tors launched two years ago developed timing problems last the trouble is associated with a system that encodes secret communications signals being relayed via the satellite Between ground stations and astronauts on military space shuttle the first such flight was con ducted in with the Crew deploying a secret spy when it was determined that a twin tors to be deployed from the challenger might have the same Nasa officials said they needed to return the shuttle to the Assembly building to remove the satellite for the Agency refused to be specific about the saying that it is classified in a Canadian communications satellite that also was to have been carried this week will be transferred to the discovery cargo a Navy communications satellite also will be on that the discovery Crew also was to have captured and returned to Earth a scientific see Nasa on Page 28 Shultz meets with nicaraguan Leader a photo nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega meets with Secretary of state George the Man in the Middle is an Uruguay a Secretary of state George Shultz met saturday with nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and said afterwards that he was unable to report any narrowing of differences be tween the two speaking to a news conference after an hour of conferring with Shultz i dont know that anything much has he that he and Ortega did agree that the Center of negotiations aimed at bringing peace to Central America must be the Contador the sooner everyone gets Back to that the he Shultz expressed Hope that the Contado a which is being led by Panama and can be resumed now that an Asylum dispute Between Costa Rica and Nicaragua apparently has been Shultz also belittled the nicaraguan decision to ask Cuba to withdraw 100 military Shultz has said that the withdrawal of 100 cubans would still leave several thou Sand cuban military advisers in at the rate of 100 per it would take until the Middle of the next Century for All of the cubans to be he Cuba and Nicaragua say the number of cubans engaged in military related activities is Shultz also said he was unimpressed by ortegas Call for a moratorium on the acquisition of new weapons he suggested that Nicaragua still could import see Shultz on Page 28 Reagan repeats his backing of rightist rebels Washington a president Reagan reiterated Friday that he opposes sending troops to Central but urged american conservatives to show the rightist rebels of Nicaragua that the supports them with More than just pretty words and Good he defended his strategic defense initiative also called Star saying the program could be an important arms control measure that could conceivably save millions of in a speech prepared for delivery at the 12th annual conservative political action conference Reagan continued his administrations push for renewed Central intelligence Agency Aid to the which Congress suspended last As he did in a recent radio Rea Gan referred to the known As con As our they Are our these Freedom and we owe them our he they Are moral equal of our founding and the Brave men and women of the French we can not turn away from i am against sending troops to Central the president they Are simply not Given a Chance and the the people of the area can fight their own fight they have the men and they Are capable of doing they have the people of the country behind All they need is our we need your help on and i mean each of Strong and vocal and we need he Reagan also defended his strategic defense calling for research on a space based defense against nuclear which he said had been belittled by some with Nick names or demagogue with charges that it will bring War to the he said the derided by is Actu ally an arms control measure which could conceivably save millions of my Point Here is not to question the motives of but it is difficult to understand How critics can object to exploring the possibility of moving away from exclusive Reliance upon nuclear Reagan the truth i that they find it difficult to embrace any idea that Breaks with the past that Breaks with consensus think ing and the common establishment