European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g delivery problems Don t cow danish dairies Page 3 q everyone Welcome at Graf rec Center Page 9 q italian president restores Grain government Page 28 the stars and stripes vol. 44, no. 197 Friday november 1, 1985 in you of d 8693 a Reagan plans new arms offer Washington a president Ronald Reagan announced thursday he was making a new nuclear weapons limitation proposal to the soviet Union and would request the current round of negotiations in Geneva Switzerland be extended to con Sider it. In a nationally televised statement. Rea Gan said the latest soviet offer unfortunately fell considerably Short in certain areas. But he said there were also positive seeds for an agreement and he had built on them with the new . Offer. Significantly he called both sides proposals milestones in the quest for reductions of nuclear weapons. I believe Progress is indeed possible if the soviet leadership is willing to match our own commitment to a belter relationship Reagan said. Just before his announcement Reagan told four soviet journalists he would accept some of the figures proposed by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev who called last month for a reduction of about 50 percent in missiles and bombers carrying nuclear warheads. Reagan said the . Offer Calls for deep cuts in offensive weapons research on defensive systems and no  but the president said he would divulge no further details. The soviet proposal in a letter to Rea Gan from Gorbachev last month and the . Response arc designed to make head Way in the slow moving negotiations before the two leaders meet nov. 19-20. Gorbachev last month offered to set a ceiling of 1,250 nuclear delivery vehicles bombers and missiles that carry nuclear warheads for both sides. That would amount to about a 50 percent cutback in the soviet Arsenal. The soviet Leader also called for a ceiling of 6.000 warheads. According to . Analysts the soviet total is headed toward 13,000 or More. On a related front the two sides have begun preliminary discussions about holding a second Reagan Gorbachev sum Mit meeting even while making preparations for the Geneva session. Ski Uffre Energy cell has abnormal ties  Germany a there Are problems with one of three Power cells on the space shuttle Chal Lenger a spokesman at the West German ground control Center said thursday. Mission manager Hans Ulrich Sci Mac said there have been unusual variations in temperature of the Energy cell since the beginning of the Mission wednesday. Despite the abnormalities officials Hope to be Able to carry on As planned with the in Van Day Mission devoted to scientific experiments Steimle said. He said the experiments arc continuing and the Crew is doing Well. Steimle spoke to reporters at the German space operations Center which has ground control of the scientific operations aboard the shuttle. Steimle said a backup plan had been worked out to turn off All unnecessary equipment in challenger to ensure enough pow or is available for experiments. The challenger Crew of eight astronauts and scientists was running about 45 min utes behind schedule thursday in experiments designed to lest the effects of weightlessness on plants animals materials and humans. Steimle said. But that can easily be made up he explained. The Crew the largest Ever sent into space is comprised of five americans two West germans and one dutch scientist. The group was split up into two shifts with the red shift taking Over from the Blue shift at 6 . Thursday Sci Mac said. The German control Center doctor Hanno Elro Mcyr who maintained Contact with the astronauts during the first 17 hours of the Mission said the Crew is exceptionally  he said there had been no signs of space sickness. The Mission has been designated do for deutschland a because it is made up Pri Marily of German equipment and experiments and is the first spa Clab Mission to be controlled by the germans. Shuttle Mission sends German re soaring by Charlie Bow Ikin Munich  Ain Niton n. German several Hundred German scientists technicians and journalists burst into cheers and applause As the first shuttle Mission paid for by West Germany retired into space with n  Crew of eight on Board. The 22nd shuttle Mission which blasted off wednesday is carrying the first pay Load of experiments to be controlled from outside the United Stales. The More than 70 experiments on Board space lab do the a stands for deutschland arc being controlled by scientists in Ober Piaf fun Hofen near Munich via a commercial satellite link from the United Stales. Shuttle operations arc being controlled simultaneously from the Johnson space Center in Houston. The Mission Marks inc culmination of five years of research and development by German aerospace firms Al a Cost of approximately si75 million. Shunis fees alone came to More than $60 million. Germany is taking a major step for Ward with this  said Albert Probst assistant Secretary for the Federal ministry of research and technology. Space flight is for Germany a scientific and technological leap Inlo the future thai we must not  the largest space Crew in history includes two germans a dutch and five americans. � spa Clab s scientific Mission is being monitored and controlled by scientists and technicians at the German space operations Center. The Agenda is full with 150 hours of inc 165-hour Mission dedicated to trigger ing or conducting the varied experiments on Board Al signed to lest the effects of microgravity in biological metallurgical and physiological processes. The bulk of inc experiments Deal with studying How the weightlessness of space flight can be Uliuli cd to improve materials processing. This Mission. Challenger s ninth is inc first time a spa Clab payload has come from Europe completely checked oui and ready for installation in the Orbital Laboratory. Most of the experiments Are housed in the 30,000-Pound, reusable european space Laboratory in eight compact Experiment facilities six from Germany and two from the european space Agency. One Experiment is a sled like chair mounted on a rail running the length of the 23-foot-Long space lab module. It will be used to subject Crew members to vary ing degrees of disorienting acceleration to study now the human vestibular or bal Ance system in the inner car responds to changing conditions in Cro Gravity. The research is expected to improve understanding of space sickness which affects Aboul half of those who Fly in space. Another Experiment involves a Mirror heating device for Crystal growth and unc will investigate the development of Frog larvae in weightlessness. While inc do spi Clab Mission is Ger Many s first it wait l be its last assistant Secretary Probst said. Plans already arc under Way for a second Mission in 1988. America has plans for a space station in the 1990s, and we need to be involved in that Probst said. Space research by its very nature is a costly affair and thus requires cooperation among  United press International contributed to this Story is Drumo by Tracy Bat getting in the spirit of halloween Punk for