European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May 1985 columns today crossword How russians View the United states by Ellen Goodman Moscow when a group of american Congress men left Here some weeks there was a final barbed Exchange of invitations Between Robert Michel and Mikhail the new soviet Leader invited the Congo Ssmon to come Back for a longer visit so they could Sec we dont All live in the congressman from Illinois invited Gorbachev to the United states so he could Sec we dont All sleep on since i have been i have thought about these caves and the especially official arc highly sensitive to their country Western a professional tells me resent the soviet Union is seen in your country As a very primitive place where people Are under constant it is the word primitive that wounds him and at the same the part line picture of America is foreign to my if americans Sec a soviet Union full of the soviet people see an America full of derelicts and the newspapers Here run endless photos of the Home less and a recent literary Gazette carried a picture of a derelict with the everyday life in the free the youth Komsomol featured a photograph of american police in teargas masks residents of treated like the cartoons in the daily paper pravda Are As Subtle As the one that portrayed americas peace plan for Nicaragua with a huge foot coming Down on the coun even the current humor had a cartoon entitled democracy in All its that showed a towering male figure outfitted with syringes for brass Knuckles for coloured and machine guns for the fighters for human despite this the same americ watcher complains that the soviets have an idealistic View of american technological they have myths about american they dont know enough about your severe it is an admission of pub Lic cynicism about the soviet in there is Little firsthand knowledge of any kind about the United states among the unofficial people i very few have been allowed to travel to the although travel ranks High on the wish few have read the Western although Hemingway and up Dike May have More soviet than american and gone with the wind is a High school this mix of and scepticism of propaganda produces a complicated impression of some of the most educated people i have met express simultaneously an exaggerated idea of Ameri can unemployment and envy of american there Are also Subtle misconceptions that come to the surface in an off an Assumption or a in a school a 15yearold student explains to me in America everything is done for the Sake of i hear a report from a geography lesson California is a place with a lot of Rich people where they build five or six i am told with absolute certainty that american families Are not close like our after a Long afternoon with a thoughtful i am startled to hear her ask about communism in America we know its the second largest communist party in the but the widest Gap Between image and self image emerges one night in a Home in my Lydia and Are gracious but and Halfway through a supper of dumplings and i suspect that i am the first american this Young family has Ever when the conversation turns to world of the doctor expresses her utter conviction that the soviet Union is peace Loving and America is threaten when 1 Tell her that Many americans believe the she is sincerely if it is she says quietly but its because of your As i she gives me a copy of John Steinbeck grapes of Wrath and i have the distinct impression that she believes it is banned in More than once in these two i have been tempted to shake my head in disbelief at soviet descriptions of but each i think about the Exchange Between Gorbachev and about our own narrow some of it is As blatant As the headline in a British paper asserted soviet Union keeps the worker in usually it is More an ebullient Lenin Grad Vladimir for tells me pointedly of his trip to America and it echoes with my own As Lisovski left the new Jersey family he was he said to you i am a they you Are too too and he repeated it until at impish by and he said to what do i have to do to make you believe me put a knife Between my Teeth i suspect there Are As Many misconceptions As Miles Between the land of caves and the country of c 1985 Washington Post writers group Japan urged of Cope with Urban Tokyo a a delegation from the organization of economic cooperation and development urged Japan tuesday to spend More on its Urban development to Cope with a rapidly aging population and housing the recommendations came in a press communique issued by a 16mcmber Recd delegation after a today country review on Urban policies in the first study of its kind by the Paris based the communique called japans notoriously High priced Urban land for individual houses the most intractable it urged Japan to rigorously and universally apply systems that would bring orderly Urban development Ana prevent the sprouting of Small scale plans that Are often allowed Here As exceptions to the Overall without an increase of resources spent to improve Urban it can be said that Urban living conditions in Japan by the year 2000 Are unlikely to Snow the degree of improvement necessary to meet the evolving needs of japanese it despite a marked development in japans As Many As 4 or of japans total House holds in 1983 lived in places smaller than the japanese governments minimum Standard of a 50square meter 555 Square fou room the communique governors and representatives from 19 cities Are to gather in Tokyo next week for a Summit conference of major cities of the world and Exchange views on Urban mayors from Sao Mexico West Bangkok and Host together with vice mayors and senior representatives from Stock new Jakarta and Abidjan Ivory coast Are to participate in the May 2025 Moscow paper re faced Moscow a a re faced Moscow newspaper fixed a printing error that called Russia and announced that those guilty for the Typo were 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