European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Complete March 5 d roofing along with Horsey Magazine d redmen win in tournament 21 the Stesan stripes ass authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 324 March 1985 Lle Ond Ondoy q 8693 Reagan dispatches arms talk team Washington up president pledging to display patience and understanding and citing a moral imperative to rid the world of nuclear Friday sent his arms negotiators off to new talks with the soviets with a of like americans i want these negotiations to the president said during a White House arid will do everything i can to ensure that this and Pray that the soviet leadership is prepared to make this same Reagan said that his negotiating team Max Kampel John Tower and Maynard Glitman is setting out for Geneva on a new path toward agreements which radically reduce the size and destructive Power of existing nuclear citing soviet president Konstantin Chernenko Call last month for the ultimate elimination of All nuclear Reagan said he could assure Chernenko that the United states has an identical describing that Mission As our moral Reagan its now our task and our responsibility to turn this vision into Reagan said the american people should have no illusion that this should be easy because of the complexity of issues at stake and the Sharp differences dividing the two the negotiation he will clearly be Long and were Reagan because we know that our differences with the soviet Union Are strength and Unity Western Unity will be required if we Are to have a successful above we seek agreement As soon As possible on real and verifiable reductions in american and soviet offensive nuclear for our the United states is ready with patience and understanding to negotiate fair and equitable agreements reducing the danger of nuclear War and enhancing Reagan said the instructions the team carries to Switzerland will enable our negotiators to explore every see Reagan on Page 28 president Reagan and soviet politburo member Vladimir Shcher Bitsky talk in the White a photo Strong Dollar bad for cafes by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Dallas the Strong Dollar May have Cost cafes More than million in sales in Europe last but the dollars strength also has helped cafes european and Pacific regions contribute profits at a rate greater than their share of Exchange figures the High Exchange rate helps when it Lowers the Cost of local hire salaries and locally purchased Mer but it hurts when it lures service members and their families off base and into stores and restau rants on the local Exchange comptroller Martin hande Exchange rates dont have much effect on oper which make up 60 percent of cafes nearly billion in annual and on balance a Strong Dollar probably helps he the Exchange contributed million to welfare and recreation funds in 1983 and is projecting a million contribution for cafes gives 50 percent of its earnings to army and Force mar cafes will save on salaries paid to More than German wage scale employees who work near the Headquarters in he and the prices of Rosenthal China in the Bavaria shops Are based on the Dollar Mark rate that so those savings can be passed of to customers in but the Strong Dollar also Means a significant in crease in the disposable income of the troops Over and there travelling eating out More and buying More from local Handel american express figures show that americans abroad Are turning their dollars into local currencies at a record in february when the Exchange rate averaged Marks to the Amelco sold million in last when the Dollar bought a 13year High of Marks at one Amelco converted million into mar sales have risen 20 percent in each of the last two Handel the increased value of the Dollar is not limited to he noting that the Dollar has approached parity with the Pound in smashed far past the level in topped the 10frac Mark in France and is Strong in cafes works on a retail year that ends after the result of Christmas and new years sales Are in the last year for which published figures Are european operations accounted for see cafes on Page 28 bomb explodes outside Beirut mosque Beirut a a car bomb exploded Friday outside a crowded mosque in a densely populated shiite moslem police said 56 people were killed and 182 others the lebanese station broadcast an urgent Appeal for blood the radio said the blast in the neighbourhood of a Sobeiri collapsed a multiple Story apartment building and severely damaged a mosque where worshippers were gathering for Earl evening a nearby movie theater also was damaged during the screening of a film and four other apartment buildings caught according to the radio the blast was the worst such explosion in Beirut since the twin truck bombing of american and French military Headquarters on those attacks killed 241 and 58 French the radio report said its list of dead and wounded came from the emergency rooms at five hospitals in West Bei police said investigators estimated the weight of the bomb at 220 pounds of they said the make of the car could not be determined because it was reduced to Small chunks of twisted rescuers were still searching for survivors buried under the rubble of the eight Story building More than an hour after the and firemen were fighting blazes in dozens of cars in a parking lot Between the movie theater and the the mosque is within 100 Yards of the Home of sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah though he has denied is said to be a Leader of the extremist shiite moslem or party of