European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 at the space astronaut Robert Crippen briefs Rajiv Gandhi and his and vice president George Gandhi Tours Johnson space Center with Bush during last Stop of visit a photo Houston up Indian prime minister Rajiv on the last Stop of his five Day state visit to the United travelled to Texas saturday for a tour of the Johnson space accompanied by his and vice president and George arrived in Houston shortly after noon and was greeted by a group of Indian children who presented Flowers and asked for Gandhi and the Bushes then left for the National aeronautics and space administration where Security was unusually bomb sniffing dogs were and bags were checked by Security an Indian payload specialist is scheduled to Fly aboard a space shuttle flight in july before leaving Gandhi Reaf firmed India nonaligned we will not be tied to the apron strings of any major he denied that India is closer to the soviet Union than the United but he let it be known that the time is Ripe for improved ties Between the United states and the worlds largest who succeeded his As prime minister following her met president addressed Congress and attended a round of glittering social events while in met with defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other Pentagon officials Friday to hear the administrations sales pitch on the strategic defense Initia which he has he said the briefing did not sell him on Star wars and called development of the space based antimissile shield very Gandhi and his defense minister also explored areas for possible purchases of military equipment after a 20year suspension of major weapons the soviet Union is India major Gandhi reiterated his concerns that the United states has proven to be an unreliable supplier of in an address to the National press club Gandhi suggested testing re liability by starting with purchases of non critical weapons and easing into the wider relationship the administration is willing to Gandhi also called the nuclear nonproliferation which has been signed by 125 very unfair because it treats nuclear and nonnuclear Powers he we will not sign As the United states would he also expressed continued concern Over arms sales to neighbouring although he said the sales to India Adver sary would not Block better re Gandhi called for a nonaligned govern ment in Afghanistan and said he has found the United states and the soviet Union to be keen to reach a solution to that halting admission of cubans Washington a the United states will suspend the admission of cuban immigrants on tuesday in a move that virtually ends a refugee agreement with the cuban about 300 cubans have entered the United states since the agreement was concluded in about others have been issued visas in Havana but Evi Dently will not be Able to leave the the agreement was designed to Clear the Way for the entry of As Many As cubans a plus former political take Back in Cuba was to take Back about some of them prison ers and some mentally they were among cubans who came to the United states during the Mariel Boa gift of the agreement also provided for the re sumption of visa processing in Havana de spite the absence of formal relations be tween the two Cuba suspended its part of the understanding after the Reagan administration launched radio Marti Broad casts to the Island May the state department said Friday if tried to clarify Cubas but we have received no indication that Cuba is prepared to resume implementation at the present had no choice1 the state department the United states had no Choice but to suspend temporarily immigrant visas processing while this situation last even As radio Marti went on the a flight of cubans landed in some 40 cubans were permitted to Fly to the United but How the cuban government prevented a second flight nine Days the state department Cuba sounded out the Reagan administration on allowing the refugees to enter the United states through third the department this was not acceptable because the agreement called for direct movement Between Havana and about 400 cubans had gone through processing and were prepared to Fly to the United the department the statement expressed Hope Cuba would re verse itself and meet again its own com a total of cubans were issued visas under the agreement through last of about 317 had been admitted through last Pope to visit Liechtenstein Vatican City a the Vatican has confirmed that Pope John Paul ii will pay a Daylong visit to the principality of Liechtenstein on study ties infant mortality rate to parents education Washington a mothers in poor countries May not know the basics of child nutrition and according to a study which says that one Way to lower infant mortality rates in those countries would be to better educate their More children die because they Are improperly weaned than because of wrote William Chandler in investing in published on saturday by a nonprofit research body supported by private foundations and More children die because their parents do not know How to manage diarrhoea than because of Chan Dler More children die because their mothers did not space births far enough apart than because of the report says Many women in Africa have not gone to school Long enough to learn what teachers there try to make Clear that breastfeeding must be supplemented with other foods after a baby is 6 or 7 months that Small children cannot digest All adult that there is a simple and effective Way to treat diarrhoea with a solution of just Salt and sugar and that clean water is Chandler told of visiting a clinic in a slum in where Jean Paul Beau put his fingers around the legs of a 2yearold boy so undernourished that he could not walk or even reaching to the Childs Mother he pinches the excess fat on her indicating that she is not Only Well nourished but he the Mother appears sad and we never Learned How to feed a Chandler quoted Beau As saying that the mothers do not deliberately starve their children to provide food for but that poor weaning practices and infection cause the analysts Generah agree that about 17 million children die each year from the combined effects of poor whooping cough and Chandler virtually All these deaths occur in the third half to two thirds could be prevented with relatively simple he noted in More than one child in or 28 did not attend primary by the figure was Down to one in or 8 children not in school Are almost exclusively in coun tries with the highest rates of infant mortal Chandler exceptions Are Tanzania and he in Tanzania seven out of every 10 people can now and in Bolivia More than three girls out of every four Are in Chandler but in he 66 babies out of every die before their first and in Tanzania the figure is 97 compared with a rate of 11 per in the United states and seven per in Chandler said the Hopes for poor coun tries rest with primary health care and 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