European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Stars authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 37, no. 157 lie daily Ond sunday Friday september 22, 1978 if 21855 a Carter begin clash on pact Young David of Houston enjoys Brief play period in the Garden of his spaceman style Outing Home thanks to Nasa technician who devised an astronaut style protective suit that lets him leave his sterile cocoon once in a while. A Houston Texas a David who has lived his entire life inside a germ free Bubble celebrated his seventh birthday with family and friends thursday and with Hope that one Dathell be Able to shed his plastic cocoon and run and play like other children. David was born with a rare blood Dis order that does not allow him to fight off disease causing germs which con stantly surround the lives in a sterile isolator at his Home or at Texas children s Hospital where a team headed by or. William t. Shearer is working on a cure for David and others like him. To step out of his isolator would mean almost certain death. David s Case is unique in the whole world Shearer said. There Are no medi continued on Page 28, col. 1 West Bank settlements key Issue Washington a a Sharp Dis agreement Over jewish settlements be tween president Carter and israeli prime minister Menachem begin was posing a growing threat thursday to further mid East peace a White House spokesman expressed Confidence that the disagreement will be resolved Secretary Jody Powell told re porters that negotiations aimed at ending the conflict of views Are under Way. He said he was confident a solution would be sound before Mideast Summit participant Exchange formal letters on the subject. White House officials furious with be Gin insist that the israeli Leader committed himself at the Camp David Summit to a moratorium on new israeli Settle ments on the West Bank of the Jordan River during the five year period in which the territory s future is being begin claimed wednesday that he had agreed Only to a three month freeze while Israel and Egypt try to translate their Camp David framework into a formal peace said he would have to return to is Rael and consult with his Summit delegation As Well As other israeli leaders before he could come to final agreement on the new settlements . Officials said. The prime minister told a jewish grouping new York meanwhile that he had gained major concessions from both car Ter and egyptian president Anwar Sadat twice by threatening to stalemate the sum Mit an interview published in the Wall Street journal thursday begin took Amore conciliatory approach. We have a genuine misunderstand ing he said. What i contend is i gave personally a commitment to the president for the three month period of negotiations for the peace treaty and the peace treaty Means the treaty with Egypt. Continued on Page 28, col. 3 As Dollar keeps slumping Gold soars London a the . Dollars lumped against the world s major Curren cies thursday while the Price of Gold zoomed to record highs of More than $216an ounce. The Dollar reached a record Low in rela Tion to the Swiss franc for the second Day in a dealers said that the chief fac tors at work were growing Arab hostility tothe egyptian israeli agreements reached at Camp David coupled with Lack of word from Washington about what further Steps . Leaders might take to Back up their claims that they Are determined to support their Dollar has been tumbling into the Exchange doldrums for months because of Japan s huge Trade surplus the . Trade deficit and president Carter s failure to find a Way to push his Energy policy through in the european Money markets said the Day saw wild and often violent fluctuations in Exchange rates As the Dollar floundered trading was extremely Ner Vous some Tokyo the Dollar closed at 187.825 yen compared to its record Low of 182.85 yen on aug. 15. In four Days trading since monday it fell from 192.35 yen. A Tokyo banker predicted the Dollar s decline will continue be cause of the absence of positive american Steps to defend it see conversion table on Page 27. Thursday s marginally higher rate forthe Dollar against the French franc was explained by the weakness of the French cur Rency in the Exchange markets because of increasing French Trade deficits in the summer. Sterling has put on 15 cents against the Dollar since mid june and at one stage in London thursday the Pound was Only half a cent below 2 its customary Way Gold profited greatly from the Dollar s fall. Gold is Al ways regarded As a hedge in times of cur Rency weakness. The yellow Metal close Din Zurich which is Europe s major Bullion Market at $216.125 an ounce and closed i London at $216.25. Both of these figures were record closing highs. Denounces conspiracy theorists Ford defends Warren panel report Washington up in a Stout de sense of the Warren report he helped to prepare former president Gerald Ford thursday denounced conspiracy theorist for deliberately misleading the Public about the murder of president John f. former president said he backs the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald waste Assassin the Lone Assassin. Ford who served on the Warren com Mission in 1963 and 1964, suggested before the House assassinations committee that some commission critics were motivated by a quest for who have attained the widest publicity have either deliberately or negligently misled the american people by mis stating facts or eliminating facts in their discussions Ford said in response to support the finding that Oswald alone killed Kennedy Ford referred to evidence continued on Page 28, col. 1
