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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes it s not done with mirrors Page 9 bars Rockwell from contract. Page 2 Dan act s Hooks addresses labor convention. Page 5 the stars  vol. 44, no. 198 saturday november 2, 1985 Dolly and Suroo. Q 8693 a dutch of deploying nato cruise missiles the Hague Netherlands a the dutch government Friday approved deployment of controversial nato cruise missiles in the Netherlands. The government rejected a last minute Call by the soviet Union to delay a decision. With the government approval the dutch can begin deploying 48  missiles in 1988. But deployment first must survive National elections in May. Deployment would bring the Netherlands into line with four other nato nations Britain West Germany Belgium and Italy that already have begun siting the medium Range rockets. In a letter to parliament distributed at a nationally televised press conference. Premier Ruud Lubbers said the government has told he minister of foreign affairs to establish a treaty with the United states concerning the deployment of 48 cruise missiles on dutch  if implemented the pro missile decision would eliminate the last holdout in a five nation deployment scheme formulated by nato in 1979 to counter soviet medium Range deployments. The government also announced the Netherlands would seek to Cut its armed forces current tactical nuclear tasks from six to two leaving Only the Lance ground to air mis Sile system and nuclear artillery. Discarded would be nuclear capable f-l6s, land mines depth charges and the Nike Hercules ground to ground missile. The cuts would be sought in discussions with nato Lubbers said in the letter. The right Wing liberals Junior partners in the coalition have threatened to quit the government and provoke a Cabinet crisis if a decision is made against deploying the see missiles on Page 28 afro Laufs say a/1 of despite fire a arms Johnson space Center Texas a a loud warbling fire and smoke alarm sounded six times aboard challenger Friday sending the three european scientists end five . Astronauts scrambling to find the cause but they quickly reported everything was Normal aboard the Craft 200 Miles above the Earth. We did fire checks on both sides of the House and with no apparent anomalies said Mission commander Henry Haruie a. We re not sure what s going  astronaut James Buchli first reported the alarm sounded four times in the last 20 minutes but there Are no indications other than Liat anywhere in the vehicle. We can t confirm where it came  the apparent false alarm came while three astronauts in the Laboratory following instructions from a payload control Center near Munich were attempting to repair a Metal melting Furnace. The astronauts following instructions from the ground snipped a wire to the sensor in Hopes of getting the Furnace working again. Most of the science studies in the Laboratory Are of West German design and West Germany is paying the National aeronautics and space administration $64 Mil lion to Fly the experiments. Cooperation Between Nasa and West Germany was strained Friday though when a West German official requested the . Space Agency permit a television con Ference with the orbiting astronauts that would be blacked out in the United states but broadcast in Europe. That was put Forward said Johnson space Center Public affairs chief Harold stall but it s not going to  he said the Mission cooperation agreement Calls for All information from the flight to be freely released in the United states. The eight member Crew the largest Ever orbited includes Hartsfield Buchli and three other american Astro nauts Pilot Steven Nagel and Mission specialists Bonnie Dunbar and Guion Bluford. West German scientists Ernst Messerschmid and Rinhard Furrer Are in charge of the science experiments assisted by european space Agency astronaut  the Netherlands. Challenger was launched wednesday and the we Klong Mission will end nov. 6 with a Landing at Edwards fab Calif. Girl awaits heart lung transplant by the associated press a 9-year-old girl says she wants to help save another youngster s life if she docs not get a new heart and set of lungs in time to save her own. See photo. Page 3. If i Don t get the transplant then i d like to donate my organs to another child Kimberly Fuller of Yukon. Okla., said in Pitts Burgh where she is awaiting do nors in Florida a 37-year-old woman awaiting a heart transplant died As she was finishing a letter to presi Dent Reagan asking for help in get Ting medicare to pay for the tar Gery. But in Louisiana and Utah two patients were recuperating for heart transplants. Louisiana s first heart transplant in is years was performed wednesday on a teen Ager whose see transplant on Page 28 Reagan believes Summit can bring Progress on East West arms issues president Reagan talks thursday to Rej writers about his new arms control plans. Washington up president Reagan believes Progress is possible on East West issues including arms cuts if the soviets approach the Summit talks in the same Way we do. Looking for ways to improve the relationship a while House spokesman said Friday. Deputy press Secretary Larry Scakes noted that the . Delegation had put Rea Gan s new arms reduction proposal on the negotiating table at Geneva. Switzerland. In addition the soviets have accepted the . Request to have the current round of talks which were to have concluded Friday continue until thursday. In another development Arthur Hart Man . Ambassador to the soviet Union delivered a letter from president Reagan to soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze Friday concerning the new . Arms proposal and the forthcoming Summit. Scakes said. We regard the United states response to an earlier soviet proposal As an important step in the negotiations. The president has also made Clear his intention to make Progress in the talks with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in All areas that Impact on .-.s.r. Rela  Scakes said. He added that in addition to arms con see Summit on Page 28  
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