European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 but serious conflicts must be resolved Europe allies like Reagan so far Brussels a Ronald Reagan has jumped off to a Good Start in his relations with european but he will face serious conflicts with the Western Alli Ance Over defense and world politics in his first six months in this is the View of officials at common Market and North Atlantic treaty organization Headquarters they say in the traditional honeymoon for an american president is under and they Hope the Good feeling remains when the inevitable confrontations officials have praised Reagan foreign policy statements by the incoming secretaries of state and defense have tended to support the european Side of conflicts that the nato allies had with the administration of president reagans aloof style and Advance Billing As a Man who delegates authority and a Man who likes to make the big decisions fits the european idea of How a ruler should in Reagan acts like a said sir Roy the com Mon markets director general for external evidence of european leaders liking for Reagan has been piling up since the elec German Chancellor Helmut after meeting with the president elect in reported to his common mar Ket counterparts at a i2 Summit meeting that Reagan has promised to con sult with his allies before taking major Steps affecting the Western the appointment of Alexander Haig As Secretary of state was greeted he is viewed As a Man who knows Europe prob lems because he spent years As the nato supreme Lowe level state department appointees have been notably Walter the designated undersecretary for political affairs who was close to Schmidt As Ambas Sador to Robert to be assistant Secretary for economic and business is one of the most popular diplomats in Europe and helped defuse potentially explosive Dis Putes when he was Deputy special Trade rep defense Secretary designate Caspar Weinberger won Praise Here earlier this month after he told a Senate committee he agrees with european leaders that a Carter administration fight to get nato countries to increased defense spending by 3 percent a year May have been a self de eating both Weinberger and Haig made statements praising european defense of in what sounded like reruns of arguments British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and belgian prime minister Wil Fried Martens have been making for most officials that european Solidarity will be tested in the Fields of defense and general global common Market official Denman said Reagan will get off to a Good Start toward Trade Amity if he continues the Carter administration policy of using existing inter National Trade mechanisms under the Gen eral agreement on Tariff and Trade rather than resorting to protectionist demands from Industry despite difficult problems Over textiles and Consulta Tion and willingness to Compromise kept the problems How Long the Pace lasts will depend on How Long the europeans Are willing to accept the fact that the Trade surplus with the 10 common Market countries is rising steadily and in 1981 May surpass the billion deficit the european Community had in Denman said both sides will have to be vigilant to keep the lid on potential disputes Over american made synthetic textiles and petrochemicals which Are cheaper to make in Pope says private gives breakfast for Walesa Vatican City a Pope John Paul ii celebrated a private mass for polish labor Leader Lech Walesa and ate breakfast with him sunday in what Vatican sources called the warmest reception the pontiff can offer a when i begin the eucharist i see before my eyes All of the polish born Pope said during the mass in his private Giscard popularity dips 3 Points in latest poll Paris up French president Val Ery Giscard dest Aings popularity dropped a further three Points in the latest Public opinion poll published by Francesor news of the persons polled for the paper by a Public opinion 37 percent said they were satisfied with discards Down from 40 percent in the previous monthly Francesor ratings in the number of those not satisfied with gis card Rose from 46 to 47 while i have Here these Spe Cial members of the polish labor Union 1 want to bring together All the workers and All that is contained in their life and their if on this altar we place All the polish work we will get Back the strength that comes from ask you to take Back these words to All the workers in the Pope said in Walesa and the 13 other people he is travelling with arrived at the Vatican at 7 listened to the ate breakfast and left about a private mass with the Pope is generally reserved for close friends of the pontiff or Heads of the sources the length of the breakfast meeting was also a sign of the warmth the Pope feels for the sources the polish delegation left for a tour of where Francis of Assisi is Walesa was scheduled to end his six Day trip to Italy monday and was expected to leave Rome on a flight to Warsaw monday on the key source of friction is whether european members of nato stick to a faltering commitment to deploy hundreds of medium Range nuclear missiles be ginning in 1983 and take expensive Steps to cover the holes in european defense As the United states stretches its forces to meet threats a career Diplomat said reagans relations with Germany will be the most difficult of his tasks in at a time when the government is shedding self consciousness about using its Ger Many is actively seeking to preserve detente with the soviet Union to keep alive Trade with Eastern Europe and links with East president Reagan and Secretary of state Haig want to restore Lead an analyst recently wrote in the Independent Munich daily sue Deutsche to the europeans can have no objection As Long As the United states does not indulge in dangerous flights of fancy based on nostalgic memories of its Erst while the allies Are also waiting for Reagan administration views on a Middle East initiative launched by the common Market last year to fill a vacuum it saw in the ability to follow up Camp David a key Section of the european plan Calls for de Facto recognition of the Palestine liberation Reagan says he will never Deal with the and former Secretary of state Henry whose proteges Are in top positions in the new and said in Israel recently that the european initiative is doomed to it the Reagan administration takes that attitude toward a pet project of the comm its not going to win friends in eur a British official temperatures l h l 11 28 18 20 22 21 19 20 24 26 Worth 67 34 41 vegas 55 Angeles 53 65 5 40 36 49 18 28 38 51 19 26 51 70 12 17 29 41 52 62 74 87 41 50 8 33 26 Beach Minneapolis new Orleans new York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Salt Lake City san Francisco san Juan Seattle louts Washington news update prisoner release starts Manila a military officials began releasing 341 prisoners and trans Ferring More than others from Mil itary stockade to civilian prisons Sun one Day after president Ferdinand Marcos ended eight years of martial Law without giving up his Oneman Rule of the the 341 prisoners originally were scheduled to be simply transferred along with the but hours after Marcos rescinded his 1972 martial Law Procla mation on the official philippine news Agency said he had ordered their release instead for reasons of com passion and National of the 159 were political prison or what the government Calls Public order the rest were common the government news Agency said without a slap on the wrist new York up the Federal aviation administration has decided to suspend for 60 Days but not dismiss an air traffic controller accused of tampering with the radar data of a soviet Jet Landing a Kennedy a second controller was Given a reprimand instead of the 30day suspension originally the incident occurred on As the Ilyushin 62 with soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin was Landing at the the Faa said important flight data was deliberately erased As the plane was descend the first Gerald was handed a 60day suspension for contributing to the potential endanger ment of the the Richard was Given a reprimand for being negligent by not controlling the use of equipment under his counting the voters Washington up voter turnout dropped again last year but the total tally might have been even lower without the efforts of the moral Majori according to a Gestout theote the final tally by the non profit committee for the study of the american electorate showed per cent of the nations potential voters cast ballots for the lowest turnout since percent voted in the figure for 1976 was the Al time was re corded in the actual 1980 numbers were presidential votes out of a Possi ble the group voter turnout declined less sharply than in other recent owing to a Sharp increase in voter participation in the said Curtis committee Israel vote set july 7 Jerusalem a prime min ister Menachem begin announced Sun Day that he would Call a general election for july begin told reporters he would table the necessary legislation in parliament on monday and said he hoped it would become Law this the governments term was to have ended but the gradual erosion of its parliamentary climaxed by the resignation of finance minister Yigael Hurvitz a week forced it to seek Early speaking after a Cabinet begin said we examined All kinds of dates and we reached the conclusion that july 7 was the most the opposition labor party has demanded a Short election Campaign and wants israelis to go to the polls by May 12 at the spy suspect Reed a a former russian merchant Sailor accused of conspiring to pass classified information to the soviet Union has been freed by a judge on the grounds that he is mentally incompetent to stand but not dangerous enough to be kept the espionage indictment against Ivan Nik Norovich Rogalsky still but Federal his lawyer and a judge say they doubt he will Ever be brought to who claimed after his arrest that he was being brainwashed with laser beams and that authorities planted an electronic transmitter in his tooth while he said he Felt All right As he walked out of the Federal Fri agents arrested of Jackson on on charges involving a plot to obtain secret space shuttle project plans being worked on at the Ria space Center in Prince