European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday june 16, 1980 . Hostages not Hurt Brandt told from press dispatches former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was quoted sunday As saying he received following meetings with iranian foreign minister Sadigh Ghotb Asch that none of the american hostages in Iran had been harmed. Brandt who met with Ghotb Zach in Oslo during n convention of the socialist International was asked by the newspaper Bild us Sontag if he had Learned any thing of the hostages physical condition. I was assured that after the Transfer of the hostages to different cities in the coun try no one has suffered bodily harm Brandt was quoted As saying. I would like however for the red Cross to confirm Brandt serves As president of the socialist International an Alliance of democratic socialist the interview Brandt was also quoted As saying he made Clear to Ghotb Zach the Issue of the hostages must be removed from the table also in the in Terest of Iran. The iranian revolution is not yet completed Brandt was quoted As saying. Therefore there Are Many centers of Power. Certainly Ghotb Zach has Only limited influence among the very extreme elements. On the other hand he has direct Access to Ayatollah Brandt was also quoted As saying he did not believe the release of the hostages was still linked to the return of the deposed Shah Mohammad Rera Pahlavi. Now Liv the iranians want to Settle the disputed questions with the americans Brandt was quoted As saying. And the Shah is As everyone knows no longer in Paris sunday former attorney Gen eral Ramsey Clark said before his Depar Ture for new York that the United states should Start a congressional investigation into its past involvement in iranian affairs to win the release of the hostages. Clark flew Back to new York from the French capital where he had spent i de after his trip to Tehran to attend an inn an government sponsored conference m Washington s support of the toppled Shah. Clark s trip was paid for by Iran. Clark and nine other americans be led in the delegation each face a maximum of10 years in prison and a $50,000 Fine if convicted of defying a ban on travel to Iran. President Carter issued the ban jut before the abortive military Rescue attempt of the has indicated he is inclined to prosecute Clark for his trip. Warns against soviet deals Sharp letter from Carter to Schmidt is reported from press dispatches Bonn president Carter has written a Sharp letter to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warning him against any deals with the soviets that might delay station ing of medium Range nuclear missiles in Western Europe a Magazine said sunday. The Magazine Stern reported the presi Dent decided to Send the letter because he feared he West germans might yield to soviet pressure and seek to delay or Block missile deployment in Advance of the oct. 5 National elections Here. Stern also said that two Days before the letter was sent . Security adviser zbig Nice Brzczinski told a West european politician that it was necessary to make Clear the anger of the americans Over the Bonn foreign before word of the letter was made pub tic . Ambassador Walter Stossel was quoted As saying president Carter had no misgivings about Schmidt s travel plans. The Chancellor will speak in Moscow As a representative of a key country in nato Stoessl was quoted by the news paper Bild. The ambassador also described relations Between the Washington and Bonn As in Berlin former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger sunday called on Washington and its West european allies to form a coherent policy toward the East bloc. The former Secretary of state who is a personal Friend of Schmidt was cautious when asked about the West German Leader s trip to Moscow. He said he had great Confidence in Schmidt but added he believed East wot talks should take place Only when both sides were sure of their stand Aspin assails subsidizing commissaries Washington up customers of military supermarkets Are benefiting from government subsidies totalling about $758 million a year. Rep. Les Aspin a wis. Said sunday. Aspin in a statement released by his of fice said subsidies to commissaries would Safe rallies slightly boost Carter s Delegate total by United press International president Carter boosted his Delegate total Ever so slightly saturday As democrats held state conventions in five states but his gains were still greater than those of sen. Edward Kennedy. Carter expanded his Delegate total by just three Over previous projections at the Colorado and Missouri state conventions while Kennedy eked out just one More Delegate. Democrats were also holding party conventions in Iowa Washington state an Idaho. According to up s Delegate count. Car Ter now has 1,978 actual or projected delegates Well above the 1,666 needed for a first ballot nomination at the democratic National convention in new York. Kennedy has 1.231 and 124 Are uncommitted. Colorado will now Send 20 Carter delegates 14 Kennedy delegates and six uncommitted delegates to the August convention. The stoic parly convention at Boulder completed selection of the state s 40-Mcm bar delegation with the selection of 13 Del election. Continued from Page i Ford Michigan. If the Southern and Industrial states fell into the Reagan column the former Cali fornia governor would have More than 350 electoral Voles with 270 needed to win. The assessment of How the election would turn out if held today was made by Veteran up political writers and stale capital re porters after interviews with hundreds of local politicians and slate officials. Gales six for Carter four for Kennedy and three uncommitted. The results plus other shifts boosted Carter s Colorado Delegate total by seven and Kennedy s by one. Previous projections showed Carter and Kennedy with 13 Colorado delegates each and 14 Columbia mo., the Missouri demo cratic convention rounded out its 77 Mcm bar delegation with the selection of 24 delegates 17 for Carter and seven uncommitted. Five uncommitted delegates Are Kennedy supporters. The state will now Send 57 Carter delegates five Kennedy delegates and is uncommitted delegates to new York. Carter lost or delegates from previous projections which showed him with 61 Missouri delegates to five for Kennedy and 11 in was no change in the Iowa Delegate count As a result of the state party convention in Des Monics. Carter still has 31 Iowa delegates to 17 for Kennedy an two uncommitted. Central Europe monday into we by Mitty to Moiha Cloudy wlm Lioi Ted Raim Hott �a0 Puchy Moraine too. By Uto it noon. Tau Rev Otto wlm a Brno a my mull Der Norm a to str Tow wet Ltd act Axtt of germ no my m Tokumi prom Norin Mchurd Mir a Winn Romul hit Ming. Hwy Max Lituin to in a Tanh in fat Usu in in pm out it or ration Chr Chou Tau. Tut Anitam Morara Mam i 0 in Oiom wid Munoz Torim. m i my Craw. Toneri int Aarom torn 4vn4pm m n pm met. M 57 in a Maxi. M m u avow. To 70 n a mid. I u a in tier u u to n Bruton. M i n fun 54 com adm. R of u tone a 41 n of of Limos it lev Man oui Cloudy partly Cloudy.-7m Whit i total $757.6 million to the fiscal year end ing sept. 30. That s double what we re spending on All our National Parks this year $383 Mil lion and 94 percent As much As the Federal government is putting into cancer research s806 million he said. I fear we be go tour National priorities mixed Aspin said the figures came from the general accounting office an investigative Arm of Congress. He said the figure for the current fiscal year was up 8.3 percent from the previous year. Aspin said he did not object to commissaries allowing military personnel and their families to buy goods at a discount but did object to subsidies at the expense of tax pay he added i Don t think it s the Job of the Federal government to be the congressman cited an air Force tudy indicating that a typical Market Asket costs 37 percent More n a for Vercial supermarket than in a military comm Tarry. And the reason Tor the huge savings is that the government pays the salaries of everybody working in the commissaries to the tune of s434 million or Well Over half the total subsidy he said. Those costs can and ought to be paid for out of the stores revenues not out of the Treasury s if the subsidy were eliminated Aspin said the customers of commissaries would still save More than 13 percent because commissary docs not have to pay for Adver Tising land or taxes. Raging thundershowers kill 9 in East Germany Berlin up summer Thunder storms raging through Day and night killed nine people in East Germany and caused millions of Marks in damage in the West officials said sunday. Sultry weather that sent germans flock ing to Camp Sites and swimming pools As temperatures soared to 90 degrees broke saturday night As thunderstorms signalled by dark looming Clouds erupted in torrential rain and fierce bursts of Thunder and Light Ning. In West Germany authorities estimated damage caused by the storms at several million Marks. In Hamburg alone firefighters were called out 450 limes saturday evening to Battle fires Star cd by lightning strikes and pump out cellars and streets flooded by the torrential Rains. The storms covered the length and breadth of Germany. In the Southern University town of Freiburg bordering Switzer land firefighters reported 10 blazes started by lightning that struck during a torrential hailstorm. Begin sunday s baseball amb can Liaci Tanto i to National Liaci nth by 4, hmm ilm Hamm i mho 111 t whmxh1ua Dow cheat 4. Allu i so Fricha 1, no yet continued from Page i Tion to totalitarian blackmail and an encouragement to All those elements who seek to undermine the Camp David agreements and to bring about the failure of the peace process in the Middle East begin said. The israelis left no doubt they Woom ignore Europe s Call to end settlement la occupied Arab territories or to Compro Mise on the Jerusalem Issue. Of the Veo ice decision nothing but in bitter memory will remain begin said. Begin scorned the Venice document offer of Security guarantees recalling the sellout of Czechoslovakia to Hitler s Ger Many in 1938. Israel asks for no Security guarantee of and european people. Israel does and shall know to defend itself he said
