European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Reagan says Star wars will protect lives Washington a president Reagan defended his Star wars antimissile research program in a taped radio speech broadcast As he went into surgery to remove an intestinal in his saturday Reagan called Star wars research necessary to develop measures to reassure peo ple that their Security no longer depends alone on threats of Mutual nuclear annihilation to deter a soviet the president said it makes sense to try to destroy nuclear missiles before they can strike the United states or its allies because such a defensive capability would be a further deterrent to its better to protect lives than to avenge Rea Gan the Star wars formally known As the strategic defense is a multiyear re search project aimed at developing lasers and other weapons that could be used to automatically shoot Down nuclear missiles aimed at the United reversal of High court ruling critics say the research Effort is a waste of Money be cause such a system would be ineffective As it would Spur the soviets to develop better offensive missiles to penetrate the defensive critics argue that a Star wars system would unravel arms control including a 1972 treaty to limit missile defences on both Reagan said in his taped address that the strategic challenges we face Are far different from when the anti ballistic missile treaty was signed 13 years the soviets have since developed a sophisticated air defense system against improved an anti ballistic missile system around Moscow and now possess the Only operational killer satellite he is it not preposterous for the soviets already research ing defense technologies for two decades to now condemn our embryonic ski program he Reagan said he would bring up the matter when he u Iofi Vraciu Ami Lui a aria Ichii Nua Oisiu in Light of the scale of their wed be the test fools on Earth not to do Reagan meets with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in i will Tell him the United states not Only has the right to go Forward with research for a strategic missile but greatest i the president normally delivers the weekly radio speech but the message was taped last week As Reagan pre pared to undergo surgery at Bethesda naval congressional democrats who normally take to the air Waves to respond to reagans weekly radio held their response saturday because of the presidents hospitalization and Senate minority Leader Robert who had been scheduled to deliver saturdays decided on Friday that a democratic rejoinder would be inappropriate while Reagan was undergoing said Byrds Linda White House May seek abortion ban los Angeles a the Reagan administration reportedly will ask the supreme court to overturn its 1973 decision legalizing acting solicitor general Charles Fried will argue that the in the Roe Wade improperly ruled out even mod est attempts by states to control the los Angeles quoting unnamed Reagan administration reported Fried refused to confirm that the Justice department planned to file a Brief asking the High court to overturn its landmark Rul the paper Roe Wade the government reportedly will argue that the by their 72 ruling in Roe did not intend to Rule out Abor Tion controls that still protect a woman constitutional right to two years the justices vote struck Down several local restrictions on Access to but the court since has agreed to review two cases that raised speculation about the courts current stand on Abor in the justices agreed to review a Case in which a Federal appeals court struck Down most of a 1982 Pennsylvania abortion control Law on grounds it violated a woman right to an and in the justices agreed to re View another ruling that voided the bulk of a 1975 Illinois Law among other required abortion physicians to use methods Likely to save viable soviet 1980 my 1982 1980 1981 bar 1980 1978 1980 1981 abortions 1981 1981 latest available data number of abortions per women 1544 years old Chicago Tribune graphic source Alan Guttmacher Institute Man charged with killing his ill wife new York up a Man has been charged with suffocating his cancers Rick in wife with a plastic bag after she begged him to kill her and end her Kurt of new was charged with murder in the death of his 72 year old who was found dead in the couples apartment at about 10 she begged him to kill said police spokesman Norris he reportedly put a plastic bag Over her he then called 911 and told the oper Ator that he had just suffocated his he Hollomon said the who suffered from lung had told her doctor some time saturday morning that she was suffer ing great pain and then reportedly Swal Lowed a vial of unidentified she fell to the floor and begged her husband to kill the officer Hollomon said an interview with Semel by investigators revealed that it was not the first time his wife had asked him to kill she had asked him a number of times in the past to help her and he always today she just begged him again to please make sure that she died after she took those Holloman is scheduled to be arraigned on a murder charge in Queens criminal a spokesman for Queens District attorney John Santucci said the charge is a hold ing charge pending grand jury action and investigation is californians snapping up stat approved melons los Angeles a Southern californians bought stat approved watermelons As fast As Many stores could Stock while state officials tried to track Down growers responsible for pesticide tainted melons linked to hundreds of the Vons supermarket in suburban Downey sold out each Days supplies of watermelons thursday and Friday and they moved briskly assistant store manager Harold Henriksen Treyve been he i bought one and it tasted real melons also sold quickly at the Safeway store in West the store received its first shipment of melons there moving really said spokeswoman Ann people asked if there but there in a hurry to find watermelons also sold quickly in Ore where Karl a produce buyer for Cornos store in people Are dying for the stat approved melons were shipped to stores to replace melons recalled and destroyed in California and several other at least 281 people in four states and Canada reported becoming ill after eat ing watermelons tainted with the pesticide state food and agriculture director Clare Berryhill said in a television interview Friday that investigators have a Strong suspicion who grew the tainted Mel but he released no i intend to find the guilty party in because what Hes done is not Only harm the Watermelon but thrown a Cloud Over our entire agriculture Industry in Berryhill i do not in tend to spare anything in my Power to bring those people to in a television Kern county grower Fred Andrews accused state officials of irresponsibility for announcing his name and the names of three other growers As being suspected of growing pesticide tainted they were later lifesaving efforts caused mans report says Milwaukee a the efforts of two restaurant patrons to save a 71year old Man choking on a piece of meat led to his death says the Milwaukee county medical examiners William a securities died july 6 of a ruptured spleen and fractured ribs suffered when the two performed the Heimlich Man Euver and Mouth Mouth resuscitation in an attempt to dislodge the meat from his according to a medi Cal examiners the Only thing that could have caused these injuries would have been Amateur resuscitation the report Bray collapsed at on july when paramedics they found a Man and woman bending Over his the paramedics dislodged the opened an Airway and obtained a pulse before Tak ing Bray to the he did not complain of any Accord ing to the because of the spleen Brays blood pressure dropped and he died the next the episode came to Light thursday after department of health officials requested that an autopsy be although Bray died of injuries from the resuscitation the measures May have been performed said Norman wich chief of Milwaukee fire department in elderly people where the Bones Are it is common to crack ribs while doing it happens frequently with our trained emergency medical