European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday april 14, 1986 Reagan revolution7 doomed from Start Stockman writes Washington a almost from the beginning David a. Stockman says in his Book president Reagan s bold plans for shrinking the size of the Federal government and balancing the budget were doomed to fail. The True Reagan revolution never had a Chance the outspoken former director of the office of management and budget says in the Triumph of politics Why the Rea Gan revolution  Stockman expresses frustration at Rea Gan s inability or unwillingness to grasp the situation. He also is relentlessly disparaging of top White House aides and Cabinet offi cers portraying them As being More inter ested in politics and images than in results. He even criticizes his own role saying that despite misgivings he found himself building a vast web of confusion and self delusion Early in the administration As he fashioned an artful rationale for the unprecedented package of tax cuts Pentagon spending increases and Domestic program cuts the president pushed through Congress after he took office in 1981. Newsweek on saturday released excerpts from the Book. The Book for which Harper & Row paid Stockman $2.4 million is being published april 23. Stockman the youngest Man to hold Cabinet rank in 150 years when he was sworn in during 1981 at the age of 34, had a vision of a revolution not merely a reduction in government spending. The vision he writes was of a minimalist government a spare and stingy Crea Ture which offered even handed Public jus Tice but no  but he added that vision defied All of the overwhelming forces interests and impulses of  Stockman and other advocates of Supply Side economics pushed Reagan to accept their proposals and ultimately to accept a flawed economic plan. Miscalculations about the amount of a file photoes budget director David a. Stockman. Even criticizes his own role Money inflation was bringing into the trea sury at the beginning of the administration and misreading the later loss of revenues from the 1981 tax cuts along with falling inflation put the Reagan economic pro Gram in a bind from which it would never escape he claims. The problem was that the administration and Congress never would go along with the massive spending cuts that would have been necessary to offset the Revenue losses Stockman writes. Thus before he left office on aug. 1, 1985, Stockmarr presided Over the largest flood of red Ink in history and a doubling of the National debt which has passed $2 trillion. In the Book he admits to resorting to the budget Fli Flam that even his harshest con Gressional critics sometimes marvelled at in order to put together the economic package the president outlined to Congress in february of 1981. Stockman who left the administration to join the Wall Street investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers inc., says that even As the president was preparing his Ini tial economic policy speech in 1981, the policy revolution was bursting at the  Reagan s top aides in the first term James a. Baker Edwin Meese and Michael k. Deaver were no help Stockman writes. They never read anything. They lived off the tube. They understood nothing about the serious ideas underlying the Rea Gan revolution Stockman says. The Book is critical of members of con Gress for trying to protect pet projects and Domestic spending programs. He Calls House democratic leaders the politburo of the welfare state and refers to majority Leader Jim Wright a Texas As a Snake Oil Vendor Par  but in a broadcast interview Stockman said he Learned that Congress was just Fol lowing the wishes of the Public in protecting government programs. For a while i blamed that on the politicians Stockman said. I thought that somehow they were being responsive Only to narrow special interest groups and not reflecting the True wishes of their constituencies. After five years of this debate being Down there Day after Day in the trenches looking them straight in the Eye i conclude that whatever i think about the policy they certainly Are representing what their Home constituencies Are demanding or de siring or wanting from the Federal govern ment. In the end it s not a question of who s right. It s a question of what the majority wants. And i think it s fair to con clude that the vast majority in this country did t want dramatic or Radical change in the status quo in terms of the various Bene fits and programs and services that the fed eral government  news update child abduction Law Denver a gov. Richard Lamm has signed into Law a Bill giving parents amnesty from prosecution if they return children they have abducted from spouses holding Legal custody. The measure is believed to be the first of its Type in the nation Accord ing to its primary sponsor state rep. Jeanne Faatz. The amnesty period began with Lamm s signature tues Day and ends dec. 1. To qualify a Parent must have taken the child before Jan. 31, 1986, and must initiate the voluntary re turn of the child. It also must be the first time the Parent has taken the child. The governor asked whether he believes the Law might actually encourage or Sanction such abductions said there Are valid questions on both sides. Contracts awarded Dayton Ohio a the . Defense department has awarded the first contracts totalling nearly $90 million toward building a plane that could take off from a run Way and rocket into space. The largest contract $28.5 Mil lion went to the Pratt and Whit Ney government products division of United technologies corp. For design of the National aerospace plane s engine the defense department announced. General electric co. Was awarded a $26 million contract to develop the Hydrogen burning scram Jet engine which would perform As a Jet in the atmosphere but be Able to con Vert to a rocket that could push the plane into Low orbit. Five contracts Worth about $7 million each for conceptual design of the Airframe went to the Boeing military air plane co., general dynamics corp., Lockheed corp., Mcdonnell Douglas corp. And Rockwell International corp. Nasa issues tentative shuttle launch schedules Cape canaveral Fla. Up1 space Agency planners exploring options for resuming shuttle flights have come up with one Likely scenario that Calls for just four missions in 1987, starting in july and the first launch from the West coast. Two preliminary launch manifests have been generated one based on a 12-month stand Down leading to the first Post challenger Takeoff in february 1987 and the other based on an 18-month delay before a launch in july 1987. The latter is considered by Many to be More realistic in the Wake of the challenger disaster depending on How Long it May take to implement design changes in shuttle solid fuel rocket boosters. Realistically you can expect that february Date to slip out some and that s Why i would say the season probably won t Start until next summer shuttle operations manager Robert Sieck said in a recent interview. Nasa plans to present its internal Accident report to the challenger disaster commission on Friday and the commission will report to president Reagan in Early june. In the 18-month delay scenario dated March 27, four flights Are listed for 1987. While the dates almost certainly will change the Overall picture May stay roughly the same. The 1987 nights Are july 28 Atlantis launch site Kennedy space Center. Payload a shuttle tracking and communications satellite to replace the one lost with challenger a materials science Laboratory and an Experiment to explore heat rejection techniques for use in Nasa s planned space station. Sept. 1 discovery launch site Vandenberg fab Calif. Payload unclassified military experiments in infrared tracking and surveillance. This would be the first shuttle flight from the new $2.5 billion military shuttle launch Complex where spacecraft can be launched into orbits around Earth s poles Ideal for military spy satellites. Oct. 28 Columbia launch site Kennedy space Center. Payload classified military cargo. Dec. 1 Atlantis launch site Kennedy space Cen Ter. Payload nuclear powered Galileo probe to study Jupi wreckage from the space shuttle challenger lies in front of the vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy space  photo Ter and its Moons. The preliminary 18-month stand Down option Call for 12 flights in 1988, 14 in 1989, 19 in 1990, 23 in 1991 and 18 in 1992. Of the 90 flights listed 29 Are military missions and 11 of those Call for launches from Vandenberg. This is in keeping with Long standing Nasa and air Force plans for the depart ment of defense to charter one third of All shuttle missions. Space shuttles Are listed by serial numbers and an "orbiter105" shows up on both the 12-month and 18-month planning manifests. This would be a replacement for challenger. The highlights of 1988 would include the second Vanden Berg launch in january and the launches of a $1 billion space Telescope in june and the european Ulysses Sun study probe injury. A military space lab Mission apparently designed to test Star wars tracking systems is on tap for december 1988