European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes photos and the Storsand stripes 1 s authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 16 May 1985 and sunday d 8693 a in Europe 1985 Reagan meets 4 Heads of state by Mary Hladky and de Reavis staff writers Bonn president Reagan held a 1 full Day of meetings with foreign Lead ers thursday As he prepared for the Start of the seven nation economic after he was greeted in a morning ceremony by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and president Richard von Reagan immediately launched a series of private meetings with four Heads of Reagan arrived at Weizsaecker shortly after 10 he Shook hands and exchanged greetings with German and american officials before review ing German troops in front of the following the Brief Rea Gan and his signed the guest Book in the Villas chilled by morning said to my hand is too cold for Security for reagans first trip into Bonn since his arrival wednesday was tighter than German police stopped All cars coming into the parliament and chancellery asked for identification and searched parcels in parking was forbidden along Many government area and police patrolled private meetings Between Kohl and government leaders began shortly after the arrival Kohl was first on reagans followed by japanese prime minister Yasuhiro French president Francois Mitterrand and British prime minister Margaret the meetings set the stage for the economic which Kohl launched late thursday with a recep Tion at Augustus Burg Castle and a Din Ner at Falke lust Castle for the visiting Heads of Heads of state continued to arrive thursday new arrivals included Canadian prime minister Brian italian prime minister bet Tino Mitterrand and Jacques the president of the photo by Emmett Lewis Chancellor Helmut Kohl greets president Reagan As Summit commission of the european comm in a background briefing to report senior administration officials said the Reagan Kohl meeting lasted 45 minutes and focused extensively on reagans Star wars defense Kohl has not committed himself to help finance the although he told Reagan he supports the idea and indicated a German delegation would go to Washington to discuss Partick Kohl also agreed with Reagan that a new round of Trade negotiations should Start in Early Reagan has been pushing for Trade and most of the Summit leaders support the but Mitterrand opposes setting a Date for the talks until an Agenda is set and the United states agrees to a conference on monetary system a senior administration official also said Kohl told Reagan that he is aware of the criticism Reagan has received for his decision to visit a German military cemetery at where 49 members of the nazi Waffen is Are Kohl said reagans decision not to cancel the trip sends a very powerful signal to the German people and shows that Rea Gan is looking far into the future of German american Weizsaecker also appreciated the presidents courage in not cancelling the Pitburg the administration official adding that Reagan told Weizsaecker that he never had considered cancelling the the Star wars topic also came up with said Secretary of state George the importance of the United states pursuing this research there int any doubt in anyone Shultz Trade occupied most of the Reagan Mitterrand Schultz did not say whether the two leaders reached any agreements on Trade or on holding a monetary Reform after reagans meeting with German government spokesman Peter see Reagan on Page 28 3 termed scientific Success space Houston a the challengers astronauts tidied up the cages of their space menagerie with a vacuum cleaner found that one sickly Monkey was and then continued a Harvest of science that has delighted researchers on the equipment malfunctions caused More and the astronauts shut Down one Experiment that jammed and reported that another had stopped still a third Experiment was being but scientists on the ground said that Good data was being gathered by ii other assuring that space lab 3 has become a scientific they were particularly pleased with two Crystal grow ing the Furnace like equipment is taking advantage of weightlessness to produce electronic crystals of a purity and uniformity that is impossible to accomplish in the Gravity of i think were doing very although there will Al ways be casualties in terms of said space lab Mission manager Joe astronaut Norman Thagard took charge of clean ing the cages of the 24 rats and two Squirrel he and Lodewijk Van Den Berg donned surgical gowns and masks and attacked the dirty cages with a vacuum cleaner and garbage its really a mess when you pull the old food canisters said he reported that food and rat drop pings were floating into the the vacuum cleaner was used to suck up the debris and clean the but Pilot Bob Gregory reported that some animal matter still floated up into the everything comes Forward and Well see it up Here in the cockpit in 2030 Gregory told Mission con it want food that came that our the astronauts expressed health concerns about animal fees floating in the but a physician on the ground said the Crew was kept Safe by wearing surgical masks for the half hour it takes for filters to clean up the a Monkey whose health had worried William Thornton on wednesday appeared to be tha Gard said the animal seemed to be adapting to his weight less environment and was beginning to be More the he is certainly i watched him drink quite a he was really going at Thagard said the Monkey seemed uninterested in but i imagine that will Start to pick a Nasa veterinarian who observed the animal on Tele vision said it to be suffering from space a motion illness that causes a second Monkey seemed to enjoy the and Thornton said it was eating with Taylor a Jet propulsion Laboratory scientist who worked nine years to develop an instrument to Fly on this continued to search for an electrical Short circuit that disabled his Wang isolated the Short to one panel in a Daylong search on and engineers on the ground devel oped procedures for him to fix the the scientist expressed frustration that his so has been inoperative and volunteered to stay up and work on i refuse to come Home until i get this thing Wang