European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes june Congress gets inside View a photo a pseudonym for a Man who has been convicted of laundering wears a Hood to protect his identity As he testifies before a House subcommittee the panel is looking into legislation relating to controls on Money including harsher penalties for those found Gandhi Cool to Star arms purchases Washington up Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi heard the Reagan administrations Case for Star wars on but called the concept of a space based antimissile system very Gandhi also said the United states has not been a Relia ble supplier of weapons in the past and that he would need assurances that any agreement to sell his country weapons would be Gandhi spoke to reporters before seeing defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger and other officials to get a sales Job on president reagans Star wars research program into a space based defense Gandhi defense Narasimha was to meet with Weinberger later to explore the possibility of new arms sales to the worlds largest very big doubts1 who is using his five Day state visit to attract investments in especially in the High techno orgy said he has very big doubts about the practicality of a Star wars will you be Able to have a system which within a few microseconds will be Able to identify maybe mis Siles fired from different parts of the identify which is a which is a live warhead and then actually destroy that he you need a huge you will need another huge computer to program for that computer and you will need a third computer which will Check the program that has been and no human being will Ever be Able to find out what these great machines have been doing among you will effectively remove the human being from that Chain and we feel that is very he he said the system cannot be tested until the crucial time when everybody pushes their various buttons and thousands of missiles Are flying on both wholesale inflation rate climbs percent in May Washington up wholesale prices went up just percent in May de spite a sizable increase in gasoline held Back by lower meat and vegetable the labor department said the departments producer Price Index has moved up Only percent since the beginning of the when figured at an annual the same Pace As last year that ended with a percent annual White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the percent increase is another indication that inflation at the wholesale level remains spokesman most striking in the latest report was a percent decline in Tomato which helped hold Down All the Index for All beef prices dropped 3 part of a string of exceptionally Large beef was percent less expensive in april and percent cheaper in As Good As that news is for the Butcher and his customers the decline in prices is another signal of More desperate Circum stances for Many who Are not earning enough to make payments on Large Overall consumer food prices were Down percent at wholesale in after a 1 percent drop in the producer Price Index in May was pegged at equivalent to a Cost of for goods that Cost business in the biggest wholesale Price increase for any month this past year was Only per occurring in november and most recently in april when gasoline prices started to gasoline prices Are still going by percent in natural Gas prices also accelerated by percent after declining in March and Coffee prices dropped percent in May despite a damaging freeze in factory and business which makes up 21 percent of the did not change at All in Price for the second consecutive a separate published today by the Federal showed factory production dropped percent in May after slowing Down percent in Domestic production is Only percent ahead of where it was a year ago As attractively priced imports Cut into the workload for factory will resign defense Post Washington up defense department spokesman Michael Burch will resign june 21 to become a vice president of the Mcdonnell Douglas one of the nations largest defense Penta gon officials said was appointed assistant de sense Secretary for Public affairs in septem Ber 1983 to replace Henry who re As an air Force lieutenant Burch had been cantos military Pentagon officials said Burch was re signing for financial reasons and will re main in the Washington area to head my Donnells communications and aerospace a successor has been but Penta gon officials remained mum about his Iden Mcdonnell Douglas was the nations largest defense contractor in 1984 with billion Worth of government Speakes denies Reagan health rumours Washington up White House spokesman Larry Speakes delivered a glowing report on president Rea Gans health denying rumours that began in foreign Bond markets that Rea Gan had suffered a heart Hes Hale and Ruddy and to vigorous and Strong and Stur fit and said he was Natty in a Brown match ing Speakes i didst look at the color of his Speakes said Reagan was surprised at the rumours of his heart attack and Hes pleased he has pulled off another Mark author Twain once the reports of my death Are greatly Hes said Mark assistant press i checked Early this aides said the White House press of fice was swamped with Telephone Calls inquiring about reagans the they apparently started in the London Bond Market and spread to other financial the re mors sent the Dollar tumbling in euro Pean but the currency came Back in late Hes Fine dont worry about Speakes Apple says it will eliminate jobs a Apple computer the United states second largest maker of personal announced Friday that it will eliminate jobs in the first Large scale layoffs in the company in announcing the cuts As part of a Mas Sive reorganization of the presi Dent Ana chief executive officer John Sculley also said Apple would report a loss for the third fiscal the layoffs will occur at manufacturing plants in Dallas and Garden and at a peripheral Plant in Ireland associated with a larger Plant in Apple also will eliminate about 500 other no manufacturing jobs will be eliminated while the others will be phased out Over the next 90 said Kathleen an Apple Apple will continue to make its computers and peripheral products at plants in fre Singapore and the slump in the personal computer Industry is significant and Apple has taken aggressive Steps to bring our organization in line with these said Sculley said the Cost of the reorganization will create a loss in the current but he would not estimate How big the loss might