European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse 1 inside stripes q of craftsman makes $317 toilet pan for $90 Page 4 q . Reserve forces hit All time High Page 5 d Memphis state Downs Cincinnati in basketball Page 21 the stars and ripes authorized unofficial publication Poth mid Force vol. 44. No. 292 wednesday february. 1986 Dolly Ond Sundog q 8693 a panel named to probe tragedy investigation Faken away from Nasa Washington a president Reagan took the investigation of the space shuttle challenger explosion away from Nasa monday and entrusted it to an Independent Board with no to related stories paces 7 and 12. In an executive order Reagan directed the panel headed by former Secretary of stale William p. Rogers and one Lime astronaut Neil Armstrong the first Man to set foot on the Moon to report its findings within 120 Days. Rogers now a Washington lawyer was Secretary of state from 1969 to 1973 in the Nixon administration and also served As attorney general. Armstrong currently the president of a firm specializing in computer technology for aviation was commander of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar Landing Mission. By making the commission Independent of Nasa Reagan appeared to be trying to avoid criticism that the investigation of the Jan. 28 Accident which claimed the lives of All seven Crew members was one sided or biased. However six of the 12 commission members named by Reagan have current or past tics to Nasa or the space program. Presidential spokesman Larry Scakes addressing re porters in the White House briefing room said think what Type of questions you would have been asking in this room had Nasa appointed the permanent and Only under Reagan s order an interim investigative Board see panel on Page 28 Navy ships to resume Maneu vers off Libya Pentagon announces Washington not Pentagon officials said on monday that the Navy will resume military Maneu vers off the coast of Libya next week and May Send ships or planes into the disputed Waters of the Gulf of Sidra in Defiance of libyan claims that the Gulf is part of its territorial Waters. The officials said that the aircraft carriers Coral sea and Saratoga and their escorts would leave european Liberty ports in a week to 10 Days to continue exercises that were designed As a warning to Libya against sponsoring new terrorist missions. A week Long round of Maneu vers ended last thursday without any american planes or ships venturing into the contested Waters. The officials declined to say whether the operating orders for the next round of a Nevers included crossing what libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy has called the line of death along the Broad Mouth of the Gulf of Sidra. But one senior official said i think it s Likely that Well not let too much time pass before we do another official said we can t keep going out there with them daring us and see Navy on Page 28 Tomb kills British Soldier on Northern lrelaoh5atrol Belfast Northern ire. Bomb planted near a Border Villa cd monday As a military patrol ing a Soldier police reported. Pvt. John Early 22, took the the bomb hidden behind a a in county Fermanagh of of Belcoo said. Five other soldiers in escaped injury but were treated the to the Ulster de sense Rex pent a locally recruited mainly i regiment of the British army. Ras the 153rd Cdr Man killed in icon Ireland s sectarian conflict and t second this year t least 2,465 people have died since the an in August 1969. Thetie publican army claimed re Kcf statement circulated in Belfast. The Nln Holoman Catholic guerrilla movement is trek to drive the British out of the province in Abbas a protestant majority and unite it will Mac predominantly Catholic Irish Republic champs Elysee bombing Paris policemen and firemen search the wreckage for clue monday night after a bomb exploded it shopping gallery on the champs Elysee. Three victims two men and a teen age girl were hospitalized in serious condition authorities said four others suffered minor bums. The blast which occurred at be Calelle Uridge at about &30 , shattered windows and knocked Down part of the Selling. There was no imme Diate Delm of responsibility. Hers wants new nuclear missiles for nato shape belgian. The supreme Allied commander in Euri. Has proposed that new Short Range nuclear missiles be installed in Western Europe after 1988. Rogers Laid in an interview at the supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe that his proposal first presented to the nato nations last up " cause some difficulties for government avoid new protests against a but be said a nil Iury authorities of the North concluded in March weapons would be needed to replace outdated ones. He would not say How Many new missiles would be make a further Cut Heads in. By 1988. Had 7,000 nuclear warheads. Rogers said significant reductions also were possible after 1988, but he would give no specific figures. The new Short Range missiles would allow a net decrease in nuclear warheads because they would be More efficient than the ones they would replace he said. He said the new missiles would be part of a broader am designed to upgrade nato s nuclear capability e positions of some existing Nurle a weapons. He said he had proposed that a new surface to surface be installed to replace the Lance missile already Central Europe. The new missile would be it a paid have a Range of 155 Miles com pared with Toni bpm Ach of the Lance he said. He also has to surface nuclear mis Sile that could be fired fro by fiyut of Range of the Battlefield. He said no such exists but see Missilli on Page 28
