European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes february 1981 Reagan lakes Way through birthday party was Tom Jefferson said to me from press dispatches Washington president about to turn cracked jokes about his age at a Blackie dinner but had to com Pete for laughs with a congresswoman wearing a Bushy eyebrows and a big the president stayed up late wednes Day night to Trade jokes with politicians and reporters at a dinner thrown by the Washington press club to Honor members of in his Reagan noted that the club was founded in it seems like Only he dressed in a Reagan noted that several of the guests with whom he shared the spotlight were either freshmen representatives or nodding to fellow californian Mervyn a Democrat who once served As lieutenant governor under cd round Brown Reagan the difference youll find is that the flakes Are when enough of them fall from heaven it stops traffic for As laughs thundered from the in Reagan jokingly suggested that the press is taking the so called honeymoon with the new occupant of the White mouse too passing a Motel Reagan dead i saw up White House reporter Helen Thomas trying to carry White House press Secretary Jim Brady Over the if in on a Reagan con Romance is dead in North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms wants me to move to the Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker wants me to move to the and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move Back to who turns 70 on was Given a poster of himself and his wife As a birthday and then the cafes focus Dairy prices Munich the dollars recent surge on Europe Money markets brings additional Good news in the form of lower prices for milk and Dairy products sold at cafes food the Exchange system announced the reductions will be effective 25 for the nether lands and cafes Europe has according to an Exchange All Dairy prices will be included in the downward Price and Here is a sampling of the changes half gallon regular from to half gallon 2 percent Low from to quart regu Lar from 66 cents to 61 cents quart chocolate from 85 cents to 80 cents pint Light from 84 cents to 78 and pint sour from 87 cents to 81 Central Europe forecast for Friday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with occasional Snow or Gusty surface especially Over the High temperatures except 2834 Over the Southern Highlands lows Sunset Friday Sunrise saturday Outlook for saturday Calls for Little but slightly warmer temperatures recorded thursday 4am 4pm m cd p s r m cd r m m r 52 36 38 46 55 36 48 36 38 32 38 36 34 p 4am 4pm 34 38 34 so 41 54 32 32 34 45 45 45 38 36 assembled guests Sang Happy president to him As Reagan beamed Long famous for his the new president said he didst mind cracks about Nis age because of a remark once made by Thomas he said that one should not worry about ones exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform ones and Ever since he told me Rea Gan his joke drowned in Claudine a freshman told the crowd she was afraid her jokes we rent going to get so she came she donned a Black pair of glasses with attached nose and and wore them the whole time she was at the describing Washington she half of the people Are waiting to be discovered and the other half Are afraid they will she said she took a constituent to a politicians which had a Tombstone in scribed Here lies a politician and an Hon est she said the constituent times must be really there putting two people in a Russ ahead in told a mostly Cloudy Pearlly Cloudy a Cloudy brain s Del 7lh weather so continued from Page i billion defense budget for fiscal 1982 including about billion for the Navy is fundamentally i believe that our former narrow margin of superiority is Lehman told the adding the soviets have built nearly three times As Many major warships As the United states in the past Lehman said the nation should move swiftly to build and modernize 30 ships a year to reach a Fleet of about 600 ships and 15 Battle the Navy has about 400 warships on Active including 12 air Craft Lehman appeared with Thomas chief of naval and Robert commandant of the Marine to present their annual state of the military the committee is reviewing next years defense which administration sources have said president Reagan is considering boosting by about billion Over president Carters Lam Duck Lehman indicated part of the catchup could include pulling Vintage ships out of and Barrow urged that four world War ii battleships be brought Back to service to increase naval firepower used to Back Marine we need More Navy chief Hay Ward told the the navys readiness today is the lowest i have seen it during my naval Barrow told the panel there is an in creasing shortfall of naval gunfire support to Back up the marines and said there is also a shortage of amphibious reactivation of the four Iowa class battleships would with in two or three a dramatic increase in our major Caliper gun Barrow the battleships Are highly italian police announce capture of terrorist Leader Italy up police announced thursday they have captured Maurice Leader of the front line terrorist organization which is closely aligned with the extremist red police shot and wounded in u Street Battle on the outskirts of Turin police said Bignami was carry ing a false identity but said they had no doubt about his True the Battle took place when a police patrol surprised Bignami and four armed accomplices As they were making a getaway after robbing a jewelry a police Bullet hit Bignami in the his accomplices dumping a bag containing stolen jewels Worth about a woman passerby was hit in the Cheek by a stray Bullet during the but doctors said the wound was not police said Bignami masterminded and took part in a Long series of terrorist kill Ings and robberies dating Back to 1977 when he went multipurpose offensive weapons he the four All built during world War Are in the new Jersey reactivated during the Vietnam War and the Missouri Are berthed at the Iowa and the wis Consin Are at the Philadelphia Navy the ships carry 16inch guns that fire on Eton shells packed with built for Crews of up to they can be operated Walesa bids poles to join general strike Poland a Independent labor Leader Lech Walesa thursday called for a general Satin strike throughout Poland if the government cracks Down on strikers in the Biels Obiala Region and disrupts communications among individual Union at the same Solidarity Union officials reported in Zelenia the strike committee proclaimed a general warning strike starting monday if the government fails to meet demands made in previous talks and ensures full pay for the threat of new strikes came after talks Between strike leaders and government commissions broke Down in both the monday strike deadline coincides with the Start of a session of the communist party Central widely expected to Deal with the labor a Solidarity spokesman in Gdansk re ported that in Suwalski North of close to the soviet workers staged a on hour warning strike Over police inter he said police and the local prosecutor arrived at the Solidarity office there tues Day to present charges for alleged illicit use of loudspeakers outside police were said to have retreated Short of a but the prosecutor had no writ to seize the loudspeakers and All equipment remained in Reagan advisers Are All sworn in Washington up president reagans official family was rounded out wednesday with the swearing in of Ray mond Donovan As labor Secretary and Jeane Kirkpatrick As United nations Donovan and Kirkpatrick were sworn in by vice president George Bush at a private White House ceremony shortly before wednesdays Cabinet a new Jersey was confirmed 8017 by the Senate and said the vote vindicated him of allegations by underworld figures that his company had ties to organized a Georgetown University professor and a was confirmed by the Senate last by men for fire support Barrow also said sea lift capability is a major concern because More than 50 ships Are needed to Supply a Marine brigade the minimum Force size necessary for sustained combat to provide a reasonable Assurance of Success in the event of a general War of global Barrow the marines must have the ability to carry out simultaneous two amphibious forces would require 115 but there Are now Only 67 ships he on the army budget director Elton Delaune testified at a hearing of the House foreign affairs com Mittee that the soviet tank Force is times larger than that of the United and Superior in Quality of weapons As i dont know that we would Ever be Able to achieve quantitative Delaune said under questioning by Charles a Florida he the army Aims to equal soviet Armor in Quality by the mid1980s and surpass it in the Patrick the army director of program analysis and added let me say the quantitative race is not a race any the soviet Union has More capacity that weve got and it currently owns More than we it is not an objective of the army to try to win a quantitative Why not Abraham a Texas dont believe its nor is it Roddy strategy requires More tanks than we he army officials also have counted on Supe rior antitank weapons to help close the numerical Gap Between the and soviet Armor Dracula site attracts gis continued from Page 1 denies that the mysterious grave the resting place of a merchant family by the name of Herold holds the remnants of the Vampire from a Roma Nian province 680 Miles East of he has his own explanation for the kit Zingen Vampire before the City restored the Tomb a Cou ple of years the bats and skulls were very and it had an eerie he that is probably How it got but Schardt acknowledged that reason has Little to do with the legendary Fame his town has found among Ameri can service romanian folklore says vampires leave their Graves at night to suck the blood of sleepers until the victims the Only Way to kill a the Story is to drive a wooden spit through his heart with a single garlic supposedly provides temporary but Richard said he didst know whether gis used it at the Vampire i dont think there really he