European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 88 t the stars and stripes tuesday february 4,1886 2 ships 3rd robot sub join Cabin search Cape can Vefik my Jap two ships and third robot submarine join in i Hebr challenger s Cabin monday us investigators Tell whether a mysterious spurt of fire from a triggered the destruction or the shuttle and its investigation Board held its first full formal meeting monday and Nasa spokesman Hugh Harris said Jesse Moore shuttle director and head of the Board would meet with reporters later in the week. Related stories pages 7, until then Harris said the Public could expect Little information from the Board. You should not expect any substantive information on cause and effect until the Board has completed its review Harris said. He did say that if challenger s Cabin or remains of the Crew members were found information would released after identification was the probe into tuesday s Dis Nasa officials were confident they the cause and resume shuttle flights Narks As Early As june. This is fundamentally system William , acting Dirceu it Ruthc National aeronautics and space admin of icon said sunday. It s gone through 24 such Efful flights. Than Yip obviously an Accident he said. There a pro . But the Overall configuration and de sign we believe to be fundamentally sound and we be Lieve it won t take a very Long time to get this problem said investigators arc not certain How to interpret graphs that show a plume of flame at or Allenger s right rocket grow. To on anon up a the flame probably triggered nth s fuel tank that occurred 73 debris front Jap Reship Jiunto the Atlan tic Ocean Ovchiy Broca East and Nowyj pc canaveral. planes have been combing and Thust guard reported monday that 11 f rating wreckage have been recovered. Theattle and its cargo of two satellites weighed about 123 ions. Most of the floating debris in the 60,000-Square-Milesearch Orea has been salvaged leaving the search focused Between 20 and 40 Miles off Daytona Beach 75miles to the North where Nasa believes the Cabin might have sunk. Sonar has detected several Large objects in that area but rough currents and murky water have hampered the efforts of divers and two robot submarines. The water is140 feet deep there. Even if the Cabin survived the explosion reasonably intact the tremendous Impact after a fall of eight Miles might haveb0finiptlf so the bodies of the Crew do Cvar be found. _ a my risible Scorpio is being deployed off theory Star and sprint is being operated by the Crew of the Freedom Star. Joining the search Armada monday was the Independence Star with a third robot the recon the three ships Are rocket recovery vessels whose usual task is to retrieve the two shuttle boosters for reuse after they Parachute into the water. Also joining the search monday was a Craft that will train sonar on shallow Waters just offshore. The search Licet now totals 10 ships and 15 aircraft. The Board was in Huntsville ala., sunday to attend Al service for the seven astronauts and to Confer at the Marshall space flight Center Shenasa Crft Nyit manages the Booster rocket contract. The main Confin acids Morton Thi Okol chemical corp. Of Brigham City i on sunday the in somber Church and memorial service Fiata a the country. Lost in the explosion were Francis r. Sw%46, the com Mander Michael j. Smith 40, the pilott9mha. Res Nik 36 Ronald e. Mcnair 35 Ellison s. Oral Teri 39 Gregory b. Jarvis 41 and Christ Mcauliffe the 37-year-old Concord n.h., teacher Scucci cd by Nasa to be the first common citizen in space. Siles from Pagan Ionato nuclear 1988 and 1995. He i would include shifting the positions of so existing nuclear weapons. He said he had proposed that a new sur face to surface missile be installed to re place the Lance missile already deployed Central Europe. The new missile Wou urfa More accurate and would155 Miles compared wit of the Lance Hesami up he a new air to sur that could be fired aircraft out of Range of the Battle Field. He said no such weapon currently exists but that it can be done if we wish to do he said it probably would be devel oped by the United states. The new air to surface missile could re place in fewer numbers the free fall nut bombs carried by Jet fighters. Isl igers said a team of we room his the capitals next Wec bal five Ruments responses Ita Aujean. Interview Asp film Aye his ret detailed Public react Onlo a Union s Jan. 15 proposal to Elimina nuclear weapons by the year 2000. The four Star general said the proposal by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev was Clever from the soviet standpoint but potentially dangerous to the Security of Western Europe. He said the United St gab but not agree to immediately Range nuclear ppm fee because it lessens the the . Strategic nuclear us to the defense of Europe. As for Gorbachev s suggestion that Al types of nuclear weapons eventually be eliminated Rogers said this would leave Europe facing Superior numbers of soviet conventional forces. He said we end up with a strategy of flexible response in which deliberate Escaline of our responses. Talk about escalating Allie d Vith would be Battle Field nuclear own be lost the deterrent a Aspin from Page 1 percent for each of the next two fiscal years. Aspin said that Promise became obsolete the moment Gramm Rudman was signed into Law. What Gramm Rudman has done is enshrined in Stone the concept of 50-50 reductions Aspin said. And 1 would contend that even if Gramm Rudman were to go away either declared unconstitutional or whatever As Long As we re talking about cub to deficit it is now and forever that it s 50-50. And the Only Wim change that is to go for there will by Harar or a certain amount of real we get out of this it i old Cap wants anything less than a 50-percent budget Cut to come out of his defense hide he s got to go for taxes Aspin said. He s got to get the president to come out for Aspin denies that House democrats reusing Gramm Rudman As a ponderous jever to Force Reagan to agree to the tax increases he has opposed for the first years of his administration. Some Republican say ing that s what they Jap mind forcing the president Juver taxes he said. I though of a Gamble. Surest Mut Park and produce new taxes. But in to we re going to have no do normally Aspin said Congress can scrub billions of dollars out of a defense budget just by fiddling around with pro Gram stretch outs re estimating costs and the but he said this is done without anyone Ever questioning let alone challenging the underlying strategy and policy on which j budget is based. Cwt but you re talking a Amno $90billion Cut Here Vanuhe neans you re talking the fundamentals Olaf Jeptie said. We re talking numbers on defense. We remade a Cut like that. Congress has never dealt with a number like that. Gramm Rudman is a disaster no Matte which Way you look at it Aspin said. But if you re looking for a Silver lining think we May be Able to use it to get to the question which without a disaster we can get Congress to seriously took at policy defense policy. What Are these forces for what is our policy to defend Europe or the persian Gulf. How Many forces do we need How Many commitments can we maintain How Many dollars do you want to put into the Navy for controlling the seas do you want a 600-ship Navy . Confirms Shch Aransky Swap plan Washington not Reagan administration officials said sunday that american and soviet negotiators had reached agreement on a prisoner Exchange that would include the release of soviet dissident Anatoly b. So Baransky to the West. The officials a firmer and elaborate Don a report published monday by the West German Dally Bild which cited information obtained from Moscow Kremlin Cir the officials cautioned that details were still being worked out but they said the agreement called for the release of Shucha Ranicky and three or four Western Intelli gence operatives held by the russians in Exchange for the freeing of an equal num Ber of Eastern bloc agents jailed in the West. A total of eight to 10 people will be involved in the Exchange an official said. Two american officials said the Exchange is scheduled for feb. 11 on the Glie Nicke Bridge dividing West Berlin fro East Germany the site of several previous exchanges. American officials in Washington and incest Germany expressed puzzlement about the apparent willingness of soviet officials to talk to the Bild about the arrangements. The jailing of so Baransky a 37-year-old jewish human rights activist brought a storm of protests from the West in 1978.he was sentenced to 13 years in prison and labor Camps for treason espionage and anti soviet in West Germany a senior adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl declined to com ment directly on the Bild report. He suggested that the soviet Union is trying to reap favourable publicity in the West by Dis closing the report to Germany s most widely read newspaper. This is very very sensitive stuff said the adviser who would neither confirm no deny the report. 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