European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes april 1985 Reagan keeps Pitburg cemetery on Agenda Washington up president saying he sees nothing wrong with his gesture of postwar thursday stood firm against jewish protes veterans and a majority of the Senate on his plans to visit a German military Cem having failed to quell a Public clamor by adding a tribute to holocaust victims to reagans the White House sounded no it made plans for Reagan to also visit a concentration Camp in Germany next White House Deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver wound up a hurried in some macabre Mission to Ger where he scouted nazi death Camp Sites and synagogues for an appropriate place for a presidential the controversy Over his plan to Honor German War dead some of them Mem Bers of the nazi Waffen is at the Ceme Tery at Pitburg hit Reagan in the midst of the Days of remembrance a flurry of ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of the nazi on under the dome of the Ca the army honoured holocaust victims and survivors by presenting the flags of the 10 units that liberated the accept ing the flags was Elie the chairman of the holocaust memorial Wiesel also will receive a congressional Gold to be presented by Reagan on Fri Reagan said wednesday that Many of those buried at Pitburg were 17and 18 virtually conscripted into service toward the end of the i see nothing wrong in recognizing were victims of he said Dur ing a news the defense of his travel plans came Dur ing a state dinner for algerian president Chad i even As s3 senators urged Reagan to drop the Pitburg rejecting their Reagan said a visit last year to a cemetery near Verdun by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and sure Garn Felt a Little queasy Cape a Jake who volunteered to help scientists study space motion said during an i space news conference thurs Day that he was indeed ill during his first two Days aboard the shuttle Garn also said the Job of his Crew mates in trying to Salvage a dead satellite showed the professionalism of space Agency planners and astronauts and demonstrated that Man is needed in the Crew members did not revive the though that was through Jio fault of their it had to be abandoned an million space the news conference was held during the discovery final full Day in the shuttle is scheduled to land Here at the Kennedy space Center at ill be honest with i didst feel Good the first two Garn said in response to a question from who came aboard As a congressional volunteered to do anything Nasa wanted him flight surgeons asked him if hed be willing to conduct experiments to help determine Why nearly half the shuttle astronauts have suffered periods of space motion Garn said he had deliberately tried to get and he Felt i certainly Hope what the experiments i did will add to the knowledge we have about space motion he most reporters questions during the 30minute conference from the discovery were directed at the is a former military Pilot and enthusiastic Amateur he is also the chairman of the Senate appropriations committee that oversees the budget of the space Iceland reportedly Cool to nukes Washington up a state department spokesman said wednesday the United states cannot confirm reports nato ally Iceland has banned warships armed with nuclear weapons from its ports or territorial spokesman Bernard Kalb said the department has no confirmation of remarks attributed to icelandic foreign minister Geir Hallgrimsson announcing to the icelandic parliament a decision to ban Uncle alarmed we can Only state that longstanding government policy on nuclear weapons overseas remains fully in Accord with exist ing bilateral agreements and in conformity with nato defense plans and in agreement with the states directly con Kalb there has been no change in policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons aboard naval ves another reporter asked if those Al lies which refused visits by warships with nuclear weapons could still be counted on Asim not going to take a jump on Kalb i will simply reiterate the poli new a ally under the anus Alliance that also includes austra recently announced it would not allow naval ships carrying nuclear arms to enter its and a chinese official announced the same policy concerning a planned visit to a chinese port by a Navy Gnu growth slows to in 1st Quarter Washington up in an abrupt the nations Gross National product grew just percent in the january March the slowest Advance since the end of the 1982 the govern ment said higher Trade deficits and a massive internal Revenue service delay in returning income tax refunds were the major factors cutting economic expansion from its percent rate in the fourth Quarter of last sustained growth of about 4 percent is considered necessary to keep unemployment from getting the Commerce department report also showed As measured by the implicit Price jumped to a per cent rate compared to percent at the end of last the Low Gnu coming at the Start of the makes it virtually Imossi for succeeding quarters to make up the difference enough to reach the White House forecast for 1985 of percent eco nomic the weakness was far More pronounced than any leading forecaster even after most had resigned themselves to accepting the accuracy of a preliminary Flash estimate of a percent Gnu in crease at an annual adjusted for Infra Contra from Page 1 on the there is no need for the democratic leadership to drive for a vote just to defeat the moving up the vote would deny Reagan a Chance to talk to our he a spokesman said no decision has been made yet on whether Reagan will address the nation before next tuesdays Senate a move reported to be pushed by communications director Patrick Buchanan against the advice of other White House Speakes also denied there was any differ ence Between reagans Contention that Pope John Paul ii supports All our activities in Central America and the Vatican opposition to military Aid to the in a statement the Vatican denied that John Paul sent a verbal Mes Sage to Reagan endorsing on wednesday Reagan said the Pope has been most supportive of All our activities in Central a Vatican statement noted that the Pope saturday addressed a group of six sen led by majority Leader Robert Dole of there Are no further messages from the holy the statement Dole delivered a personal letter from Reagan to John dated april which Dole said outlined policy on arms control and Central but in his address to the made Public by the Vatican after the the Pope did not discuss he described himself As a Friend of the Amer ican people and said they have a special Mission of service in the answering reporters a vat ican spokesman declined to say that the Vatican is calling the president a but he said there was no specific refer ence to Nicaragua in the holy fathers address to the one Par not inter pret this As an answer to reagans letter Secretary of state George trying to save reagans plan to give million to the nicaraguan discussed possible Compro Mises with senators the associated press emerging from a closed meeting with sen Shultz said he would take ideas raised at the session Back to the president and added that the senators agreed that Nicaragua is a major Security problem for us and for that a Only thing we Are debating Here is what to not whether to do the a quoted Shultz As right now Rea Gan is sticking with his but were French president Francois Mitterrand had the effect of a Healing of he said postwar reconciliation can be strengthened by his visit to blaming the tempest on speculation and Reagan offered to take some of the blame for rejecting the idea of a concentration Camp visit weeks then agreeing to such a Stop tuesday to ease criticism from jewish there was some he Reagan said he did not think the original invitation Kohl extended for a state visit permitted a Side trip to a death Camp site and Learned otherwise Only in a subsequent letter earlier this soviet from Page 1 task Force with aircraft every thing they accompanying the Kiev class Carrier were three Kara class a Kresta ii class two Krivak class frigates and two the sources the soviet Union does not have a big deck Carrier similar to those in the but construction of a Carrier is under and it is expected to join the Fleet in the Early the Pentagon has after the simulated the Kovoros sysk Force travelled at High Speed toward the Southern Kuril islands and entered the sea of okhotsk wednesday in an exercise intended to protect the nuclear powered missile submarines based the sources missiles aboard the submarines have sufficient Range to enable them to hit the United states from soviet Home and the sea of okhotsk would be a major target for Hunter killer subs in the event of another task Force made up of a dozen ships and headed by a which the sources said probably was a Kara class operated to the South of the Carrier Battle the sources temperatures april 17 l h l h 42 51 Albany 57 78 Little Rock 47 80 Albuquerque 57 67 los Angeles 31 44 Anchorage 49 76 Louisville 55 82 Atlanta 54 82 Memphis 46 57 Atlantic City 66 76 Miami Beach 45 61 Baltimore 43 85 Paul 48 74 Billings 51 Nashville 52 84 Birmingham 60 80 new Orleans 35 68 Boise 42 59 new York City 36 53 Boston 51 58 Norfolk 27 48 Buffalo 53 81 Oklahoma City 24 40 Burlington 57 83 Omaha 56 76 58 82 Orlando 40 73 45 59 Philadelphia 38 76 Chicago 32 58 Pittsburgh 43 70 Cincinnati 32 48 Maine 33 50 Cleveland 47 59 57 83 Worth 39 56 Providence 54 79 Denver 50 71 Raleigh 50 85 Des Molnes 41 59 Reno 33 42 Detroit 50 83 Louis 24 43 Fairbanks 58 82 Petersburg 36 74 Fargo 61 77 Salt Lake City 35 54 Hartford 61 66 san Diego 70 83 Honolulu 52 62 san Francisco 68 84 Houston 41 52 Seattle 44 72 Indianapolis 27 42 Syracuse 54 81 Jacksonville 59 87 Tucson 54 80 Kansas City 49 66 Washington 59 72 Las vegas 52 78 Wichita european weather forecast for Friday fair to partly Cloudy with Early morning fog in Central and Southern Benelux and Northern coastal areas will be Cloudy with dense morning becoming partly Cloudy and hazy in the High temperatures in upper 60s lows in upper 30s to Low Sunset Friday Sunrise saturday Outlook for saturday in Northern coastal areas it will be partly Cloudy to Cloudy with increasing Chance of rain and fair to partly Cloudy with morning fog and afternoon temperatures about the temperatures recorded thursday p f p cd f f 4pm 53 72 48 63 57 66 55 63 45 46 43 52 34 f p f f f f 4pm 43 52 54 39 66 39 39 45 55 52 55 39 50 Pearlly Cloudy cd Clouds hair provided by pet 7th weather tra Bentzar