European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside Stripe n artificial heart recipient  gi08 d dont leave champs to official 9 d today Dollar still buys 27 the 9 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces april 1985 1se and sunday d 8693 a House rejects All Aid to contras Washington a the House voted 303 to 123 wednesday night to kill All assistance to the Contra rebels in rejecting both Republican and demo cratic compromises and handing president Reagan a major foreign policy three separate votes on the House floor culminated in a congressional decision to halt the presidents three year Campaign to undermine the leftist sandinista government in Reagan said he was deeply disappointed by the House adding this kind of action damages National Security and foreign policy vowing not to give Reagan i intend to return to the Congress again and again to seek a policy that supports Pace and democracy in the United states will continue to work for these a separate democratic alternative providing Aid for nicaraguan refugees and financial support for a peace keeping Force during a future ceasefire was passed then Defeated in the final House Reagan had retreated from his original proposal to re sume military Aid to the but he still lost in the toughest congressional Battle of his second the House Republican reluctantly supported by Reagan and drafted by minority Leader Robert would have allowed the president to spend million on nonlethal assistance to the the funds would have been administered by the Agency for International not the which has been supporting the rebel the House votes came on the second Day of debate on the divisive nicaraguan on the House rejected reagans original plan to provide direct military Aid to the also on the Republican controlled Senate assured by Reagan that he would not use the Aid for weapons or ammunition voted to approve the presi dents Contra Nicaragua president Daniel Ortega said in Managua on wednesday that he is going to the soviet Union soon in search of the financial Aid the United states has been denying his economically battered we Are going to try and recover what the United states denies Ortega adding that two years of War against rebels and economic pressures by the United states have placed Nicaragua in a difficult ortegas visit comes As the soviet Union Steps up criticism of the Reagan administration for supporting rebels trying to overthrow the nicaraguan Reagan had made significant concessions in his original which was to give the contras direct military assist Ance to be funnelled through the while the final vote on the nicaraguan Issue was decided by a wide the critical vote on a Republican alternative was decided by Only two 215 to As the outcome became there was cheering among democrats on the House members who had battled the presidents Central american policies openly hugged one with a photo of their Wii meeting forming a Bill Robertson left of los Angeles and soviet Veteran Alexander is Leoshko have a reunion soviet vets renew 1945 peace vow East Germany a american and soviet War veterans Shook slapped one another backs and swore never to wage War again in a thursday reunion marking the historic linkup of their armies 40 years some including scores of uniformed soviet military officers based in East crammed the troop linkup Monument overlooking the Placid Elbe River to watch the Wreath laying and hear speeches by communist party officials and american official greetings from soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and East German communist party Leader Erich Honecker hailing this Symbol of Hope and Friendship were read to the messages from former presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon were also East German communist party politburo member Horst Sindermann Laid a Wreath at the foot of the weather beaten Monument built by soviet military occupation authorities in the ceremony marked the 40th anniversary of the linkup Between More than 50 members of the 69th inf div and members of the Westward pushing red army 58th guards the government boycotted the gathering because of the fatal shooting of a army major by a soviet guard in East Germany last the one stars and stripes Flag hanging near the Monument was overshadowed by a Thicket of soviet red Hammer an sickle Veteran John oilman acknowledged that the americans Are upset about the shooting death of Arthur Nicholson near a soviet military but this is a commemoration that furthers the cause of he we swore an oath never to wage War again i Hope that oath can be heard again said Alexander former commander of the soviet 175th guards when we met up in we spoke different languages but our feelings about peace were the Gordeyev Static electricity confirmed As cause of Pershing ii fire by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau chief Germany German and american authorities confirmed thursday that the Pershing ii fire that killed three army soldiers in january was caused by the combination of cold weather and an electrical discharge that ignited solid fuel inside the missiles German defense minister Manfred Woerner and undersecretary of the army James Ambrose met for More than three hours with Heilbronn area mayors to explain the causes of the Accident and measures to prevent another during the antinuclear testers gathered outside the Heilbronn City singing beating whistling and playing musical instr German police said there were about on the army issued a re port on the cause of the Accident a Day Early after a member of the West German parliament said deployments would be suspended until the rockets had been mod equipment already in use by army units in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the United states will be modified in the report Woerner and Ambrose emphasized that the deployment of Pershing missiles to Germany will continue on during a technical explant Juergen the Ger Man representative on the team that investigated the narrated a film re creating the fatal in the a Crew of 10 soldiers at tempted to lift a Fourton first stage of the rocket from its Carrier Container with a As Bremer explained the motor was raised but stuck to the it was lowered and raised again after the Crew adjusted the after the Sec Ond attempt to lift the it the investigating team from the army safety Center at fort deter mined that the missile ignited because materials with opposite electrical charges were in Bremer compared the phenomenon to walking across a Nylon carpet and touching a Ambrose said although solid pro Pellant rocket motors have been used for years and have been extensively the electrical discharge phenomenon was in both Ambrose and Woerner said the possibility of a similar Accident occur ring is but some of the More than 100 Heil Bron Narea mayors continued to ask about the missiles threat to several invoked the memory of Heilbronn destruction during world War ii to make their we believe the Steps we have by human will preclude another Woerner but there is absolutely no total safety to be had on our he Bremer said among the army designed to prevent another Are painting the rocket motor to dissipate electrical adding protective pads to the con the pads Are designed to dissipate electrical charges and Cushion shocks that see fire on Page 28