European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d on the Road to Magazine d Lendl Advance in French 17 d today Dollar buys Page 23 the Stasand stripes 50 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces june 1985 coolly Ond Sundog q 8693 a Kennedy gives his support to military family proposals by Dwight trimmer Washington Bureau Washington calling the Issue easily As important As any weapons sys Edward d has joined the growing army of congressional supporters of the military the million americans who Are members of military families deserve our recognition and he the readiness and morale of our troops is critically dependent on the Well being of their family an Issue which de serves As much attention As any of the More traditional components of military he last Kennedy introduced a handful of military family proposals As an amendment to the 1986 defense authorization the Senate has now included those amendments in its version of the authorization Kennedy said the amendment is Only a first step and pledged More the senates military family proposals Are similar to those that Patricia introduced in the the House armed services com Mittee included some of schroeders items in its versions of the 1986 defense authorization Schroeder first made her Mil itary family proposals As the military family the full House has not Dis cussed the Schroeder characterized the debate Over military family issues As another guns and butter she said that butter seems to lose a but she Hopes for see Kennedy on Page 24 a photo John walkers daughter Margaret left and business partner Lourie walkers a wife did what i believed in West a the former wife of a retired Navy communications specialist who is charged with running a spy ring involving his son and brother said 1 did what i believed in by tipping the Fri about the As John Walker and his i pleaded innocent tuesday in Balti More to espionage Barbara Joy Crowley Walker said that she and a Daugh Laura Walker went to authorities in Boston several months John is charged with masterminding a spy ring the Fri says sold secrets to the soviet Union for at least 20 the Fri alleges that Walker tried to recruit Snyder into the spy ring when she was an army communications specialist from 1978 to Snyder has not been charged and her whereabouts have not been publicly Dis see Walker on Page 24 Reagan Calls Ortega the Little dictator Oklahoma up disparaging nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega As the Little dictator who went to Moscow in his Green wednesday stepped up his Campaign to win Aid for the rebels fighting ortegas sandinista opening a today swing to win financial and political support for both the nicaraguan rebels and Republican Senate Reagan warned that the United states must preserve peace by blocking communism in Central see related Page beating the Campaign drum for freshman Republican Don Nickles of one of the members of that Republican posse that Rode into the Senate in 1981 to help Rescue a nation Rea Gan sneered at democrats who voted six weeks ago against giving Mil lion in Aid to the contras seeking to overthrow the sandinista government in angered by revelations of the Cias role in promoting the nicaraguan civil last year Cut off Aid to the and Reagan failed in april to win renewal of the but As Reagan stumped in Oklah White House aides and gop leaders in Congress expressed new Hope the flow of Money will be turned Back the Senate was approaching debate wednesday on a bid to provide at least million to the and the House May soon consider a Republican scheme to give the rebels House speaker Thomas d a leading foe of Aid for the has acknowledged some House democrats switched sides on the Issue after Ortega flew to Moscow to seek economic Aid just Days after the april 24 House appearing at a plate fundraising lunch in Oklahoma Don Nickles is one senator who did not have to wait until the dictator of Nicaragua went to Moscow see Reagan on Page 24 court reaffirms ban on organized school prayer Washington a strongly reaffirming its 1962 ban on organized prayer in Public the supreme court on tuesday outlawed daily moments of silence if students Are told they May Pray during that by a 63 the justices ruled that an Alabama Law allowing such periods for meditation or voluntary prayer by Public school students violated the constitutionally required separation of Church and the decision does not mean that every state Law providing for daily moments of silence is if the Law does not men Tion and if state legislators did not intend the Law to endorse school it is about half the states have momentous i Lence but not All of them mention Arizona and Connecticut Laws pro vide for silent meditation without mentioning a Louisiana Law states that the Brief time of silent meditation shall not be intended or identified As a religious exer writing for the Justice John Paul Stevens the addition of or voluntary prayer indicates that the state intended to characterize prayer As a favored such an endorsement is not consistent with the established principle that the govern ment must pursue a course of Complete neutrality toward the Case was As politically charged As any on the High courts docket this numerous political candidates in 1984 including president Reagan called for a return of organized prayer in Public the Reagan entering the Alabama Case As a Friend of the told justices that such state Laws enhance the Opportunity for students to in clude silent prayer As part of their activities at Reagan favors a constitutional Amend ment that in overturn the supreme courts 1962 the courts ruling 23 years ago Drew the line at official sponsorship of prayer ses Sions it did not outlaw voluntary prayers in Public As one pro prayer advocate you can hardly engage in thought Terry chief spokesman for at Torney general Edwin Meese said we regret that the court did not agree with our position in the Momento silence we Are that the court did not hold that the Momento silence Laws now existing in some two dozen states offend the White House spokesman Larry Speakes refused to comment on the stating we Haven had the Opportunity to review we dont generally comment on supreme court decisions unless there Outra Strom another Backer of a constitutional amendment to allow school prayer called the Deci Sion unfortunate and
