European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D tour firm s apology does t mollify fans Page 2 d Marty Glickman recalls 36 olympics Page 23 d thieves say americans make it easy for them Page 28 the  did Huth Okind unofficial publication of Thi . Ahmed pour cd vol. 45, no. 120 saturday August 16, 1986 i Oono so d 8693 a Nasa to build new shuttle Washington a president Reagan ordered Nasa Friday to begin construction on the replace ment Tor the space shuttle challenger and in a major shift in space policy said the Agency will be getting out of the commercial satellite launching business. A Nasa official said the new orbiter would be a High performance state of the an shuttle with in. Proved computers brakes and re entry Protection. Reagan said that work will begin after oct. I on a new shuttle that will restore the Fleet to four vehicle by 1991. The policy change Means the National aeronautics and space administration will concentrate on payloads important to National Security foreign policy and exploration. Related Story Page 5. The private sector with its ingenuity and Cost effectiveness will be playing an increasingly important role in the american space Effort the president said in a statement read by spokesman Larry up cakes. Up cakes said that 15 of 44 commercial payloads Nas ahas contracted for will find room on the shuttle. The others will have to launch on one use rockets to be provided by a commercial launch Industry that docs not yet exist. We believe that the government getting out of the commercial space business will eliminate a major fear private Enterprise has competing against the government the spokesman said. The United states has More than $200 million from companies that have booked slots on the shuttle for nuts to protocol Appolo ignoring the red carpet awaiting mexican president Miguel de la Madrid s arrival wednesday an opportunistic Squirrel strolls calmly in front of the White House Honor guard possibly headed around the Corner to look for a handout when the banqueting gets under Way. Related Story on pages their satellite launches. Some of that Money will have to be resumed. Money for the new shuttle will come from savings found within Nasa and other areas of the govern ment Scakes said. He said the government plans to spend $272 million in fiscal 1987. Which begins oct. I $665 million in fiscal 1988. $715 million in Seal 1989, $515 million in 1990 and $180 million in 1991. Asked if the Money for the shuttle might come in part from the space station program Speakes said no full funding for space  the next space shuttle flight is expected to take place in Early 1988, following the construction and test of a newly designed rocket Booster. . Drug agent tortured by mexican police Washington up the United states said Friday it will formally protest the unprovoked an totally unjustified detention and torture of an Ameri can drug agent by mexican police in Guadalajara. Just a Day after mexican president Miguel de la Madrid left Washington and promised renewed cooperation in fighting drug trafficking White House spokesman Larry Scakes warned vigilantism by a state authority causes serious harm to the relationship necessary for our two coun tries to be Able to combat drug trafficking and  related Story Page 5. The White House said the drug enforcement administration agent Victor Cortez jr., 34, and his mexi can informant were released wednesday night Only after the Dea in Mexico City asked for and won intervention from the office of Mexico s attorney general who was in Washington with de la Madrid at the time. . Officials in Mexico however said the pair was freed Only when Dea agents forced their Way into the jail and demanded their return. The formal . Protest will be delivered to the mexican foreign ministry monday morning by .charge d affaires Morris Busby a senior administration official said. Mexican officials who declined to be identified denied claims by . Officials that the two were Tor tured with electric cattle prods. The mexican sources said Cortez who carried Node identification and the mexican Man were seated in a parked car without License plates in a residential area of Guadalajara and were arrested As potential burglars. They said Cortez who was armed at see agent on Page 28 House approves military authorization Bill Washington up with a heavy Republican protest vote against the measure the House Friday passed a $286 billion military authorization Bill threat ened with a veto by the administration for its arms control provisions. Arms control advocates won a clean sweep of their five of their issues in the Bill and the White House denounced the measure As legislation that if unchanged in a conference with the Senate hands mos cow what it has been unable to win in negotiations. The Bill now goes to a conference with the Senate which has a $295 billion version of the legislation but with arms control language far weaker than the Strong House positions. The Senate s Bill has a 4 percent pay raise for the military starting oct. 1, while the House Bill offers a 3 percent raise starting Jan. 1. The House Bill blocks a new nerve Gas weapon freezes Star wars spending at $3.1 billion orders a one year nuclear test moratorium if the soviets refrain from tests and agree to on site verification extends for a year a ban on tests of a . Anti satellite weapon and orders continued Salt ii compliance As Long As the soviets stay within treaty limits. The Senate s Bill has non binding language on most Points but gives the go ahead on the satellite weapon and nerve Gas weapons. The armed services committee s top Republican Bill Dickinson of Alabama voiced administration complaints about the Bill in the closing debate urging a vote against the Bill because it was bruised mangled and  but chairman Les Aspin d-wis., argued the Rea son we re winning with such Large numbers is the Large number of republicans who Are voting for them this year along with Liberal and moderate democrats. On a 210-209 vote wednesday the House approved an amendment Banning for a year the building of new chemical weapons and requiring that a nato nation agree to accept the new weapons before existing Stock piles of older ones in Germany Are removed. To Endi Isau. Restrictions on the chemical weapons program and Calls for $3.95 billion for Star wars research work. The House Bill provides no Money for a 14th Tri Dent submarine but the Senate s Bill contains the $1.5billion it will Cost. Both Bills provide Money for a new More accurate missile for the Trident submarines. The House Bill contains $200 million for by bomber program in Case the stealth bomber program starts lagging behind but the Senate rejected that idea