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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes March Reagan Renews plea for Aid to contras Washington up president Reagan warned saturday that a refusal by Congress to resume Aid to Nicara Guan rebels would Send an unmistakable signal that the greatest Power in the world is unwilling and incapable of stopping communist aggression in our own seeking to build on the legislative Victory he scored Days earlier on the my Reagan said the Issue of Aid to the rebel contras confronts Congress with another crucial Chal Lenge that demands bipartisanship in foreign support for the Freedom fighters is morally right and intimately linked to our own Reagan declared in his weekly radio delivered from the presidential Retreat at Camp if we refuse to help their just if we pull the plug and allow the Freedom fighters to be wiped out by the same Heli copter gunships the soviets Are using to murder thousands of he then our ultimate Price to protect Freedom and our Way of life will be dear Reagan opened his five minute broadcast by noting that saturday was the fourth anniversary of the assassination at tempt that left him with a serious gunshot a Jund in the Chest and said he would not be alive if not for the work of the medical team at George Washington University his secret service bodyguards and a bystander who helped wrestle the John Hinckley to the the president said he and Reagan also extended their continued prayers and support to White House press Secretary James who still is recovering from the head wound he suffered that in looking ahead to his next major foreign policy confrontation with Reagan said support for the my sent an important signal to the world that the United states is United behind a shared bipartisan responsibility for ensuring he said the same bipartisan spirit must be mustered to face the  plan to destroy the fragile Flower of democracy and Force communism on our Small Central american neighbors a plan that for the first bring tyranny to our own for my Reagan i want it clearly under stood today if we fail to meet our history will hold us fully responsible for the for we will Send an unmistakable signal that the greatest Power in the world is unwilling and incapable of stopping communist aggression in our own in the democratic Bill Alexander of Arkansas said while Reagan professes to support his actions sound the trumpets of charging that Reagan is intent on the violent Over throw of the nicaraguan Alexander declared this insults our american tradition and betrays our most treasured reagans Alliance with violence in Nicaragua is against the american it is contrary to the principles of the founding new Saccoyan Zerffi data backs murder convictions up new Evi Dence concludes that cartridges found on Nicola Sacco matched those at the scene of a 1920 murder that remains one of Ameri Cas most controversial suggesting that Justice was done after this has been a very challenging Henry head of the state police forensic he said microscopic comparisons of the Caliper cartridges found in Saccos pocket when he was arrested 65 years ago matched cartridges found at the murder Sacco and Bartolomeo two an were executed after being convicted of killing a guard during a Bank Holdup in on april they were convicted in 1921 after a tumultuous trial and were electrocuted six years the execution was preceded by worldwide sympathy with Many people still contending that they were convicted because of their politics and not by the Lee was one of four forensic experts on a panel recommended by the Academy of forensic science to make the yearlong despite the passage of 65 Lee said Massachusetts police kept the Evi Dence in such Good condition that much of it was the bullets had been Lee so it was impossible to detect any evidence such As blood or soil on who did much of the work establish ing the new said both sets of cartridges the cylindrical part of a Bullet that holds its explosive charge were made on the same machine at the Peters Cartridge of Kings they were identified by markings Only observable under a the Peters company was one of the major manufacturers of ammunition with worldwide Lee for Sacco to have a Cartridge from the same machine As a Cartridge found that Day in the Chance of coincidence is very in conjunction with the Cartridge reve Lee is distributing a 136page Man Ual describing scientific ways of gathering evidence that were not available to police in the Sacco Vanzetti the manual was released Frank who wrote tragedy in regarded by Many As an Excel Lent analysis of the described the Evi Dence As new and of who was present at the latest forensic said he will include the information in his new Book presenting absolute proof of the that Sacco was and Vanzetti was an accessory after the i dont see How anybody can debate about it he confession a Relief for both a photos Cathy discusses on tvs today show her false accusations that put Gary Dotson in prison for 50year sentence at the Joliet correctional says his Possi ble release and vindication Are like the past six years for mean a his hearing is set for serving a 25to birth rate rises As infant mortality rate drops Washington up the nations birth rate Rose 1 percent and the infant mortality rate dropped to a record Low in the government said a preliminary report from the National Center for health statistics also showed that the divorce rate dropped to its lowest level since and deaths Rose the number of weddings but the marriage rate stayed the same As an estimated babies were born in the United states last 2 percent More than in the Center the More important the Fertility which is the number of births among women of childbearing also Rose i to 66 births per women aged rates for different age groups show a marked shift in childbearing to later although the highest rates still Are among younger the Only childbearing rates to Rise markedly in 1982 by 5 or 6 percent were those for women in their the trend is especially Strong among firs time reflecting what some experts say is women desire to get their careers in order before having but the baby Boom is minor compared with that of the years after world War births Rose to More than 4 million a year through the and the Fertility rate topped out at per in birth numbers and rates declined through the but began to Rise again about a decade the new report said an estimated couples got divorced in a 2 percent drop from 1983 and Down 5 percent from the divorce rate dropped to its lowest level since breakups per that is 8 percent less than 1981s record experts offer different explanations for the declining divorce some say hard economic times May have made it More difficult for couples to break others say the dip reflects the trend toward marriages at older which Are More i really Haven seen any conclusive Rea sons As to Why the divorce rate has said Stephen a family demographer with the census marriages Rose 2 percent in when couples said their the marriage rate did not change from the nations mortality rate Rose i percent in 1984 As americans deaths from heart disease and stroke were Down deaths from lung pneumonia and kidney disease and blood poisoning were but infant mortality dropped to deaths per births in a record that is a 3 percent decrease in the rate since a slowdown in the Pace of de Cline of the past woman says free Beer caused husbands death Detroit a the widow of a Stroh brewery worker who died of a liver disease deserves compensation from the company because its Freebee policy contributed to his her lawyer a trial is to begin tuesday on a suit by Irene Dueweke of suburban clan who is seeking widows benefits from Stroh for the death of her j l in june was a bottler at Strohs Detroit brewery for 25 before dying of cirrhosis of the said attorney Ron Ald Dueweke would not have be come an alcoholic if Stroh haunt allowed employees to drink free Beer before at lunch and during two daily he alcoholism is a physical and psychological Gricius Hes in an environment where Hes got 80 minutes a Day to consume As much alcohol As hed in if he haunt been things would have been Dueweke it int easy to work on a Job where everybody was i knew there were a few Stroh spokesman Christopher Lole was out of town and unavailable for his Secretary referring an inquiry to John Bailey of Anthony Franco a Public relations Bailey also was unavailable for his office if Dueweke wins her she will be eligible for m years of equal to two thirds of her husbands average weekly wage of Gricius  
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