European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q delivery problem Don t cow danish dairies Page 3 d a act s Hooks addresses labor convention Page 5 q italian president restores Praxi government Page 28 the a a a gripes vol. 44, no. 198 saturday november 2, 1985 d 8693 a Reagan to offer arms Cut plan Washington a the United Sims will unveil a new arms control proposal in Geneva and the pack age will build on the recent soviet proposal and emphasize reductions in destabilizing nuclear arms systems presi Dent Reagan said thursday. I would characterize our arms control position As deep cuts no first strike advantage defensive research. And no cheating Reagan said. He also announced that he had asked the soviet Union to extend the current session of the Geneva arms control talks which were scheduled to adjourn Friday for an extra week to hear details of the american proposal. Reagan said he has sent a letter on the subject to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and has also communicated with . Allies in Europe who had been urging an Ameri can counterproposal to the soviet plan unveiled in Early october. That plan called for a 50 percent Cut in the nuclear arsenals of both superpowers. Just before making his announcement in the White House press room Reagan met with four soviet interview ers and told them that he would accept some figures the soviets included in their latest proposal. He told them that i reply to the soviet proposal would be bid nut at the negotiating table in Geneva on Friday. Immediately thereafter Reagan told . Reporters that the latest soviet offer unfortunately fell considerably Short in certain areas. However he said there were also positive seeds for an agreement and he had built on them with the new . Offer. He called both sides proposals milestones in the quest for reductions of nuclear weapons. I believe Progress is indeed possible if the soviet Lead see Reagan on Page 28 soviets to allow Bonner out Shultz says Washington up1 Secretary of state George Shultz said thursday that the Kremlin will allow Yelena Bonner. The wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov to leave the soviet Union. We Don t have any information beyond what is generally available but i do under stand that mrs. Bonner will be free to leave the soviet Union Shultz said. Shultz speaking at a news conference was asked about a West German newspaper report that an East West prisoner Swap is under negotiation that would result in free Dom for both Sakharov and dissident Anat Oli Shch Aransky. There s nothing to it he replied. He said his statement about Bonner was based on what i be been told by a soviet  he met wednesday with soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. The Sakharov have been held in internal exile in the siberian City of Gorky since 1980. Members of Bonner s family have said she needs treatment in the West for a variety of medical problems. In Hamburg the associated press said the Bild newspaper reported thursday that soviet communist party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev would give a signal for the Trade if his nov. 19-20 Summit meeting with president Reagan comes off  on monday Bild reported that Bonner had been told she was free to leave. Sakharov had gone on several hunger strikes in the past five years to win Permis Sion for his wife to go to the West for treat ment. She reportedly suffers from glaucoma which could Blind her. The United slates Rcpt Ledly is ready to Send imprisoned East bloc agents to the soviet Union. Also to be handed Over to the East would be two spies jailed in West Ger Many Lothar Erwim Lutze of East Ger Many and a Evgeni sem Iakov of the soviet Union. In return Moscow  edly would free Shch Aransky Sakharov and up to 12 imprisoned agents of the United states Britain and West Germany. West German space program gets big lift from Cha menger by Charlie bowmen Munich Bureau  Germany experiments ranging from tests on Frog larvae to the effects of rapid acceleration on humans Are under Way As the space shuttle challenger rockets Germany into the space age. Germany is taking a major step Forward with this Mission said Albert Probst assistant Secretary for the Federal ministry of research and technology. Spar night is for Germany a scientific and technological cr., into the future that we must not  the largest space Crew in history includes two Ger mans a dutchman and five americans. The 22nd shuttle Mission which blasted off wednes Day is carrying the first payload of experiments to be controlled from outside the United states. The More than 70 experiments on Board spa Clab do the a stands for deutschland arc being con trolled simultaneously by scientists at  and at the Johnson space Center in Houston via a com Mercial satellite link. Scientists and technicians at the German space operations Center a nondescript building at the research facility at  in the bavarian Forest arc already studying the information that flows in As the shuttle Crew works in shifts around the clock. The Mission represents five years of research and development by German aerospace firms at a Cost of $175 million. Shuttle fees alone came to More than $60 Mil lion. Officials of the German scientific Community consider the investment worthwhile bringing Germany into the space age and the forefront of aerospace research and development. The Agenda is full with 150 hours of the 165-hour Mission dedicated to triggering or conducting the varied experiments on Board All designed to test the effects of microgravity on biological metallurgical and physiological processes. The bulk of the experiments Deal with studying How the weightlessness of spaceflight can be utilized to improve materials processing. This Mission the ninth by challenger is the first time a spa Clab payload has come from Europe completely checked out and ready for installation in the Orbital Laboratory. Most of the experiments arc housed in the 30,000 see challenger on Page 28 apm Iolo Ulf me bold Germany s first astronaut my controls at  for the in Tom to Al shuttle Abslon. Despite sled ride astronauts Aren t queasy i space Center Houston a four challenger astronauts endured jolting carnival like rides on a sled rolling on 12 foot rails inside their orbiting Laboratory s thursday in an Experiment designed to $ learn Why people get sick in space. None of the test subjects reported getting sick and Nasa night director Chuck Knarr said All eight Crew members Are healthy but experiments designed to con fuse and upset the balance mechanism of the inner ear did Lake a slight toll. Ernst Messerschmid one of two West German scientists in the eight member Crew reported that the ceiling appeared to be the  an illusion that he said took him More than half an hour to dispel Messerschmid and the three others who Rode the electric sled experienced sudden and violent acceleration forces equivalent to the Force of Gravity on Earth. While Riding they wore helmets that blacked out their sight or displayed a rotating dome painted with dots to further confuse their vestibular system or balance mechanism. Mission commander Henry Hartsfield said the Crew which has a record eight members was settling in comfortably aboard the challenger. The Mission is going real Well he told ground bound scientists monitoring the right. There Are Good pictures coming to you and Good Experiment results coming to you in the next few  the experiments began just a few hours after wednesday s noon launch of the cd Ellenger from Kennedy space Center and continued into thursday As the Crew the largest Ever launched started 24-hour operations in the pressurized space lab. All of the Experiment equipment in the Laboratory was turned on but officials re ported that a Furnace intended to melt met als malfunctioned. Experts on the ground worked to figure out How to fix it. The astronauts also launched a Small experimental defense department satellite called the global Low orbiting message relay a defense Advance research projects Agency system designed to track Sovi see astronauts on Page 28