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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 25, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes april 1985 House rejects reagans million for contras Washington up the House refused tues Day night to heed president reagans plea for million in Aid to the anti sandinista rebels in dealing the administration a major foreign policy the vote came within an hour of a 5346 vote in the Republican controlled Senate to approve the Reagan hailed the Senate vote As a Victory and said he would not comment after the House the action by the democratic controlled by a vote of set the stage for a second House show Down wednesday on other proposals for assistance and a further Effort by administration allies to push in the House the concessions Reagan made to win the Senate in the 10 democrats accepted reagans last minute assurances that the Aid would be restricted to humanitarian not military that the United states would talk with the Managua government and that Reagan would consider economic sanctions if there is no left unclear was whether he would use the Central intelligence Agency to administer the Aid to the nine republicans voted against the House like the followed 10 hours of debate in a Day devoted entirely to the crucial foreign policy Reagan issued a statement immediately after the sen ate the Senate cast a historic vote for Freedom and democracy in Central just hours before the Reagan sent a letter to the saying that the United states was at a moment of judgment in its Central american if we abandon democracy in if we tolerate the consolidation of a surrogate state in Central responsive to Cuba and the soviet we will see the Progress that has been achieved begin to unravel under the Strain of a continuing attempts at subversion and toss of Confidence in our Reagan told the seeking to reassure democrats who said the Money would find its Way into military the president said it would Only go for clothing and other assistance for their survival and Well being not for and weapons of both houses began the debate in the House was scheduled to take up its own plan wednesday after rejecting although million is a pittance in terms of the amount of Money Congress usually deals the administration has made the Aid to the contras the Centrepiece of its Central America policy and democrats have chosen the Issue As the hallmark of their resistance to what some say could be another Pope will elevate 28 of Cardinal army clarifies Vatican City up Pope John Paul ii will raise 28 roman Catholic prel including the archbishops of new York and Boston and the anti sandinista archbishop of to the rank of car Dinal next the new who come from 19 will be formally elevated at a consistory at the Vatican on May the Pope announced the special consistory during his regular general audience wednesday in Peters the creation of the new cardinals will raise to 152 the number of members in the College of the Church body that elects among those to be elevated Are two conservative John Oconnor of new York and Bernard Law of both Are considered orthodox in but More Liberal on economic and social Justice neither appointment was a their archbishopric Are among the largest and most prestigious in the United states and regularly Are headed by also expected was the promotion for nicaraguan archbishop Miguel Obando who has won Strong papal support for fighting the marxist sandinista govern ment in it is the first time the tiny Central american nation will be rep resented by a John Paul also will elevate the Santiago archbishop who has been feuding with the righting military regime in Juan Francesco Fresno an outspoken critic of the will be one of seven new world prelates who will receive the Scarlet hat that Marks a member of the College of the others include Quebec archbishop Luisalbert Vachon venezuelan Arch Bishop Rosalio Jose Castillo proper silent of the Vatican commission for the authentic interpretation of the code of Canon Law and Canadian archbishop edouard pro president of the pontifical Council for the the nominations included 11 leaders of the Vatican curia by their traditionally Are rewarded with the Scarlet the cardinals Square but the polish born pontiff also continued his attempts to increase representation from third world naming two cardinals each from Africa and whose famine has provoked outpourings of support from John will get its first Cardinal in archbishop Paulos to Adana of Addis other new third world cardinals will include nigerian Francis Indian Simon Lourd Samy and filipino Ricardo four cardinals were named Frem Eastern including two from the Popes pol ish archbishop Henryk roman a Ulinowicz of wroclaw and Andrzej Maria a close Friend of the Pope and president emeritus of the pontifical commission for social the others were czechoslovak archbishop Jozef general Secretary of the Synod of and archbishop Myros Lav Ivan Lubachivsky of the soviet who has lived in Italy for the Only publicly named soviet Cardinal living in the soviet Union is Julijans Vaivods of named by John Paul at the last consistory in february the Pope said he is maintaining in Pec tora in my heart the unnamed Cardinal he created at the june names of such cardinals Are never an usually because they would face persecution in their Home the nominations include five cardinals from two each from the United Ranee and Ger Many and one each from the soviet the Phil Nicaragua and legislation from Page 1 the Gray Market a move that would eliminate Competition from european models for More expensive in 1984 a record foreign specific cation cars were imported into the United nearly triple the that entered the country in Mercedes Benz cars paced the surge in Gray Market one of every five Mercedes imports sold through franchised dealers was a Gray Market at government Mercedes spokesmen have taken the position that Many of their Gray Market imports have been improperly converted or not converted at All and that some of these cars Are safety and pollution opponents of the Gray Market refer to a study by the National automobile dealers association that indicates just three of 393 cars examined were fitted with All the safety and emissions equipment required by Normandy criticizes the Nada study because of the criteria weve been told that cars Arent Safe because they we rent modified with Mer cedes Normandy All we get is the Bottom line of the no one has seen the guts of the we dont know How they arrived at their Normandy attacked the Senate Bill As too Broad and Nicholson from Page 1 of the Liaison the teams Are renowned for stretching the rules and sneak ing into restricted soviet Liaison troops have been caught climbing Over the fences of nato according to West Ern diplomatic according to the american Nicholson was shot without warning on March 24 by a soviet sentry As the major was taking pictures through the window of a soviet tank Shea near the town of Lud officials say the major was 300 to 500 Yards away from a restricted but in an area until the month bad been the soviets say Nicholson was in a restricted in the words of a statement issued by its embassy in Washington on he was an unknown intruder who was carrying out an intelligence Mission and did not comply with the warnings of the who was acting in strict compliance with military the Nicholson killing has become a serious irritant in soviet american the two nations have openly disagreed Over the results of a discussion on april 12 be tween their commanders in Glenn Otis and Mikhail Zait the meeting in Potsdam was held to avoid similar incidents in the the statement by the soviet embassy on monday said the russians Reserve the right to use Force against unknown the statement took Issue with an account issued by the state department six Days earlier that said Zaitsev had Given assurances that his Mil itary personnel would not use weapons or Force against the american teams in East the Western intelligence source who Dis closed Nicholson new years eve spying caper also gave fresh details about the circumstances of his he said the so Viet sentry was in a nearby away from his Post and May have panicked when he saw the major near the the first he were directed toward the car in which the majors part Jessie was those shots one member of a Liaison team is always supposed to remain in his which is typically crammed with sophisticated Jis tuning devices and photographic material the car cannot be searched under the mis Sions quasi diplomatic ground after the major was hit by a second vol Schatz was detained by the sentry and other sometime a soviet col Onel arrived by helicopter at the the source he said the colonel berated Schatz for not respecting a soviet officer and asked the Why did you shoot your officer Pershing plan Washington a the original timetable for moving Pershing ii missiles into West Germany will not change As a result of a suspension in an army spokesman said West German defense minister Manfred Woerner earlier told the German parliaments defense committee that the deployment is being suspended while the mis Siles undergo modifications following a january Accident that took three All that is being said is that the United states wont be sending any More unmodified rockets Over said army Don the but the modifications Are already being made on the Assembly line and the deployment schedule wont be asked whether the Deci Sion to modify the missiles would affect Pershing ii missiles already in Maple said All such missiles will be but that Doest affect i Maple deployment is delivering these rockets Over Maple said the Only effect of the decision to modify missiles already on German soil would be a continuing delay in full training activities until the modifications were temperatures april 23 l h 52 73 39 64 34 46 39 64 52 71 59 78 29 66 66 81 43 53 40 48 57 88 42 69 65 88 63 90 66 77 63 81 62 86 61 80 35 64 55 67 57 83 20 42 46 58 51 67 69 85 72 79 62 78 55 87 54 67 50 85 62 76 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Worth Denver Des Molnes Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas Little Rock l h 54 83 62 78 64 79 73 79 50 61 67 80 66 84 51 65 59 86 53 69 50 57 61 86 54 73 62 93 57 85 35 50 44 58 46 59 59 88 33 67 62 78 68 86 37 67 57 70 50 67 70 82 41 52 54 85 47 84 62 82 48 65 los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Paul Nashville new Orleans new York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Maine Providence Raleigh Reno Louis Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco san Juan Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita european weather forecast for thursday portly Cloudy to Cloudy with scattered Light rain and Snow mixed and Gusty surface winds throughout Western and Southern Central Germany and Benelux will be partly Cloudy with isolated Light Snow and rain High tempera Tures from 30 to lows from 28 to Sunset thursday Sunrise Friday Outlook for Friday partly Cloudy with scattered Light rain throughout the forecast Little change in tempera temperatures recorded wednesday 4am 4pm p f f of f f m 67 41 54 34 34 36 64 49 68 8 48 45 f f m m f f 4pm 36 48 36 54 45 48 36 38 39 50 50 64 39 46 of far a mostly Cloudy Cloudy Ruflin provided by Del 7ih weather Trobentar no  
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