European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside St bes n troops still sceptical on new retirement plans Page 5 c some gis May learn second skill in  Page 9 Gnato offers troop Cut proposal to East Page 28 the stars and stripes vol. 44. No. 233 saturday december 7. 1985 Luo d 8693 a Britain agrees to assist . In ski research London up Britain and the United Stales Friday signed an agreement on president Reagan s strategic defense initiative or ski milking Britain with its enormous skills the first . Ally to join research into the futuristic anti missile space plan. The defense secretaries of the two nations the United states Caspar Weinberg or and Britain s Michael Heseltine signed the memorandum of understanding in a formal ceremony in the ministry of de sense s red curtained concourse Hall. The Accord allows British companies to comp Csc for lucrative ski contracts and immediately establishes in London an ski information office to work with interested firms. At a be conference Weinberger said he did not think spreading Star wars con tracts to allies increased the chances of secrets leaking to the soviet Union. But the dangers and risks Are there and we must take precautions against an Active soviet Campaign to obtain Western technology he said. Heseltine noted the Deal will provide Britain which has a High 13 percent unemployment rate with More jobs and keep it at the forefront of technology. He said that while Britain failed to get the si.5 billion minimum contract guarantee it first sought it had been promised Large scale participation. Last March Weinberger invited the United states nato allies to join in cooperative research that could contribute to sol the soviet Union has taken the Posi Tion that if Reagan docs not agree to halt the Star wars program there will be a new unparalleled arms race. Headline said he secured Protection of Britain s intellectual rights with regard to see ski on Page 26 blowing in the wind a pedestrian ducks into the driven rain gales Over much of Northern Germany under an umbrella that threatens to col Early Friday felled Many Trees causing lapse before Gale Force winds in Kiel traffic snarls. More wind and rain were Germany. Rain squalls accompanied by forecast for saturday. A of cheese or die slogan gets creamed Milwaukee a Wisconsin s Appeal for advice on new License plates generated Mure than 46,000 responses in less than a week but he final five designs Don t include the most novel cow shaped tags and an admonition to eat cheese or  those two ideas were rejected by gov. Anthony Earl s selection committee which narrowed the held from 1,000 to 20 suggestions. Earl picked i he final five. It was Earl himself who suggested the cheese slogan. Somebody submitted a design shaped like a milk can said Mary Oelstrom of Milwaukee a member of the selection committee. Another was in the shape of a piece of cheese with holes in  and one in the shape of an air plane came from see slogan on Page 28 Shultz applauds Downing of Mi-8 copter by contras Washington Dpi Secretary of slate George Shultz said Friday it was Fine that Contra rebels in Nicaragua shot Down a soviet built helicopter with a cuban flight Crew and sandinista troops aboard and he was All for  Shutlz at a news conference held out the possibility of further Steps by the Reagan administration against Nicaragua s marxist government including a possible request to Congress to approve fighting the sandinista government. A arcs t e military Aid for the Contra rebels the largest Contra group the nicaraguan democratic Force. Monday shot Down a soviet built Mi-8 helicopter. Two cubans were among the 14 casualties. I certainly am concerned about the cuban presence and the military presence in Nicaragua and on the main land of this hemisphere Shultz said. It s not news to us that this is taking place but the bringing or non of the helicopter with the cuban Pilot and co Pilot on it is son of incontrovertible  asked about the rebels feat in Downing the chopper. Shultz noted their growing ability to handle sophisticated arms and said they be used it the ability effectively and i say Fine. I m All for it " Shultz said it would be wrong to think that the contras should put up with helicopter attacks without doing something about  if i were them i d certainly want to and they  he said. Shultz said the state department would make Public further evidence on the alleged cuban combat role in the nicaraguan conflict by releasing declassified statements see Shultz on Page 28 a Wolf promising cancer Frea Menf unveiled Boston a an experimental cancer treatment that allows White blood cells to attack malignant tutors represents the first new kind of approach to cancer in perhaps 20 or 30 years the director of the research project said thursday. The first use of the technique called adoptive immune therapy was reported by the National cancer Institute in thursday s new England journal of Medicine. The therapy offers the most promising biological approach to cancer at the present time said the Institute s director or. Vincent t. Cvita or. It attempts to take advantage of the body s immune system to react against the cancer said the director of the research project. Or. Steven Rosenberg interviewed thursday on Abc tvs today program. The procedure uses Inlereukin-2. A natural hormone of the immune system to transform Ordinary White blood cells into cancer warriors. These cells arc treated outside the body then injected into the patient where they attack cancerous tutors throughout the body. It clearly is producing a fairly dramatic effect in peo ple with advanced cancer. We Don t know that it cures anybody. But if applied widely to people with Small amounts of disease it holds Promise for significant improvement Divita said. In 11 of 25 patients with advanced cancer doctors were Able to shrink tutors by at least 50 percent and in one Case apparently eradicate the disease. Researchers caution however that the treatment is still highly experimental and carries toxic Side effects. Com pared with other kinds of cancer treatment it is also very expensive. It is available Only at the National cancer Institute in by Thesda md., where it s being tested on Small numbers of patients. This is really the first step said Rosenberg. But it demonstrates that it is possible to manipulate the immune system and make a variety of cancers in a variety of locations  he said the experimental program can treat Only about eight patients a month at present although we get several Hundred inquiries a  studies of the treatment should begin at other research hospitals in the next several months he said. Rosenberg was a consultant on the surgical team that operated on president Reagan last summer. It was he who stirred the nation with the announcement july 15 that the president has  the cancerous Colon tumor was removed