European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 13, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Reagan unveils new space policy that would involve private Industry Washington president Treagan has unveiled a space patio1 that will open up commercial space activity to private Industry Anil halt scientists developing technology needed to Send humans Back to the moan and to Mars. Reagan said he will ask Tor si00 Mil Linn in Nusl year s budget 1o Start the research. The policy also pledged to remove any government Roa Drilock to allowing Pri vate Industry to launch rockets and a face satellites in Orbil. To shirts tin major responsibility for space development from Public to the private sector said Secretary of com Merce c. William verily at a White House briefing. Things of this policy As one that will restore America s leadership in  James c. Fletcher administrator of the National aeronautics and space administration said the policy clearly is lab Liscs that for the first time the uni cd males has a Long Range goal of expanding human presence and activity beyond Earth Orphil into the solar sys  other than i in Loo million Tor the new technology porn ram called Pathfinder the new policy did not spell out How much the joint Federal commercial partnership will Cost. What Ever the Rait it will be borne Long after Reagan leaves office. In the budget proposal he will make to Congress Neil week. Keagan asks Sibil lion for the space station which will be built in the Neil decade and planned for operation by 19%. Nasa had asked for nearly twice that Mueh. Jim Hurnley. The transportation Secre tary used the duration to announce thai Appl Vjio Nasa administrator Stales Fletcher right Wilh Trani Zirli ill Secretary James Burnley responds to question on president Keatin 4 newly unveiled space policy. His department had completed approval of Hie uni cd Stales first commercial launch License which will permit Cona lec. Inc., to launch a series of sounding rockets Tor an unnamed european Indus trial firm. Fletcher said the government will lease space aboard a commercially devel oped space module thai will be tarried into space and released there by the shuttle. The Nasa administrator said the contractual agreement will be completed within 150 Days under a new space Agency system of dealing with commercial contracts. A leading candidate to build the mod ule is space industries inc., of Houston which has a Long standing agreement with Nasa for the Industrial space a  but Fletcher said there would be open Competition and that Nasa would agree to lease 70 percent of the module s space at a Cost of $140 million a year for five years. Some within the National aeronautics and space administration have fell that spending such huge amounts will Rake Money away from the space station per haps dooming it. Bui Fletcher said thai the si40 million a year is planned As an add on. Reagan approved the space policy on Jan. 5, but differences among Nasa the transportation department and the Commerce department prevented it from being announced earlier the new space directive should give Nasa s various programs a sharper focus after two years of disruption Fol lowing the loss of the shuttle challenger and its seven Crew members. As a Sian the administration has re Quested $11.3 billion for Nasa in fiscal 1989, up from about 19 billion this year. That includes the Money for Pat find  which is to study technologies for establishing a scientific base on the Moon perhaps by the year 2000 and fur dispatching a manned Mission to Man Early in the 21 is Century. Nasa s space station has been slow in developing As Congress has reined in its funding. But Reagan gave the station a firm endorsement. A series of space shut tic flights is to Start assembling the Sla Tion in Orbil in the mid-1990s. The shuttle Fleet has been grounded since the Jan. 28. 1986, challenger Acci Dent during which time the solid fuel Booster rocket that caused the disaster is being redesigned. Flights Ore scheduled to resume in August. Salk using polio theories to develop aids Vacc be los  a some patients infected with the aids tints arc being injected with an inactive form of the Sims that was developed by or. Jonas Salk using he sarm1 thai Irivin thai led to his vaccine for polio Sci enlists us first. The treatment designed to stimulate the patients immune systems in present them from developing symptoms of the fatal disease is in an Early Ripen mental stage at the University of Southern California. While the study does not have the approval of the . Food and drug administration it was licensed under a i9s7 Law that allows California researchers to test new aids therapies without seeking approval from the Fra. At the moment we Are just testing an idea Salk told the los Angeles times in a Telephone interview from Chicago where he was attending a medical meeting. We Are doing very limited preliminary experiments 1 the tests have been under Way for several months at Lasc s Kenneth Norris or. Cancer Hospital under the supervision of or. Brian e. Henderson Hospital director and or. Alenandra Lovinc an aids researcher and executive associate Dean at us. We have a very preliminary study with no data to  Lovinc said thursday. There is such a study. It has been ongoing for several months. There Are a few patients who have been treated. Patients Are still being accrued she said. Patients arc injected with lil cd irradiated whole his virus. It s specific immunotherapy. We arc at tempting to boost the immune system in a very specific sense against his. If we can augment the antibody response we might he Able to prevent the development of the clinical illness she said. Salt s vaccine therapy is designed to reinforce the body s immune system so it can fight off acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It is being tested on a Small number of people who Are infected with the disease bul have yet to develop symptoms of the deadly illness Salk s theory is Hal inc injected virus will make the patient s immune system stronger preventing the development of aids. The theory is disputed by several scientists who claim the injected aids virus particles might  the immune system causing it to Wear Down sooner and Speed up the Onset of aids. Other researchers say it might be Loo easy to mistakenly inject a patient with live virus. Economist says recession is coming new York Dpi Donald h. Straszheim chief economist Al Merrill Lynch and co., claims High Feder Al budget and track deficits among other factors will set off a recession in the next sit to 18 months. The . Economy is badly out of balance Ai the extreme volatility in the financial markets has Al  wid Stras Heim who predicted Early 1989 would to inc most Likely starting Point for the economic slowdown. The recession would be of the Garden variety and not especially deep or Long lasting he said and a first Quarter decline in 1989 would Likely be followed by modest growth. We expect real Gnu to fall by about 1 percent in each of the first iwo quarters of 1989," said Strasz Heim. He predicted the real Gross National product would Rise Only 1.9 percent for 1988. Straszheim said unemployment is Likely to Rise so about 6.5 percent by about mid-1989, from inc current level of 5.7 percent. Despite the current Boom in exports Strasz him said the Domestic consumer is american manufacturers largest Market. While one can Hope the Odds arc that the ten sit Ion in the Economy from consumer leadership to Niport leadership will not be entirely smooth said Straszheim. Exports arc a narrow base on which to depend for economic  the economist also predicted that interest rain will fall and noted Hal cuts Are Likely in the first half of 1989. In any scientific hypothesis the answers never Are known Levine said. There arc theoretical reasons Lobel ivc. This will be very effective. There Are considerations on inc other Side As Well. We have used All forms of foreign Antigens in an attempt to treat these pal i cols she said. Salk 73, used the same theory to develop his polio vaccine in the 1950s. We Don t yet have data which says Hal immunization is going to increase and stimulate aids virus production or decrease it said Patricia Fultz of the Yerkes primate research can Cral Emory University. Fultz said she has worked with Salk in using the therapy on he Impang pcs and she would like to see More animal tests before  to the therapy. Id soft in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. ,. Feb. 13, 1948 Grain prices continued their downward trend and in new York cily Grade a sirloin Steak sold Al 68 cents it Pound. 30 years ago . 13, 1958 in Bridgeport Conn Kay sum Mersey president Eisenhower s wartime Secretary chauffeur said she would divorce her estranged Hus band stockbroker Reginald Morgan 20 years ago today. Feb. 13, 1968 Melbourne fashion designer Prue a Lon claimed Long skirts would be Back and helped her prediction along by modelling one herself. 10 years ago today. Feb. 13, 97s finance ministers from five Lead ing Industrial nations led by the United slates met in secrecy in Versailles France in an apparent bid to help France defend its currency from further decline