European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 16. 1985 Reagan Calls tariffs threat to Farmers Washington i i president Reagan said la ii. If con press should pass tariffs or quo us to keep out foreign agriculture products it would be a catastrophe for Amer Ken Farmers that would Send Shock Waves i Maniph our econ in his weekly radio address from Camp David md., Reagan reaffirmed his Resis Tance to any of inc 300 protectionist Trade Bills pending in Congress and he would veto a farm Bill if it exceeds his spending proposal we must meet our responsibilities to America s Farmers and farm Bill that provides Hope not measured discs of de Spair he said. The president is expected to announce a comprehensive Trade pol a this week under pressure from con Regis. Reagan praised those who till the soil saying How can we nut open our hearts to these people in distress who mean so much and give so much to America of said the economic facts and figure. Plan Iipp it Ric a future ignore the and Rob i a of values the deep Faith in god and lo1.c of fic Dom and Independence to ? Many of hard work and caring for friends Ard re Ghiors that began on to farm a d Nuitt America the greatest a on there is no Price lag on traditions lit these orly tit Stark realization that to in our Farmers would be to lost the a i of rur Tiu a. The heart and soul of Amer ii. We cannot let that happen. We cannot per Mit the a Caim of our Farmers Lori Crea Gan said. said Congress could join him in Orch seeds of Hope by avoiding the one Throat that could make today s problem far Rife Riliey to the flood of protector a Bills. said to enact them to j be to cd ruin retaliation again,1 our exports heightening the risk of a farm that would Send Hock Waves through our Economy. Believe me he , is Farmers enemy number 1, thit enemy is St. King our Gate. us have the courage to urge thai n r re countries Start joint Elul America hit leptin doing so Well. Go for growth by adopting Low tax free Maricl policies that Vii increase jobs raise i hair Peoples Stan of living thereby s Rcpt thuning do j for our sen. John d. Rockefeller in . In inc democratic Ripon. To Reagan s speech said if you listened to the presi Deit today you d get the idea that the Only people in economic trouble today Are farm er1. It s True thai Farmers arc suffering but of re not the Only ones said Rockefeller. Millions of american jobs arc at stake. The health of vital industries from steel to wiretaps show King had doubts about his role As civil rights Leader by Ben a. Franklin Washington not new la re leased transcripts of wiretapped Telephone conversations of the Rev. Or. Martin Luther King or. Show that Days before his assassination in 1968, he was despairing about his standing As a civil rights Leader. He said he thought a planned civil rights March in Washington was doomed and his leadership position had been dam aged by vandalism that broke out at a Memphis. Tcnn., civil rights March he led in March 1968. The transcripts of wiretaps conducted by he Fri obtained by a new York scholar also disclose that in 1967, King gave serious if wavering consideration to a symbolic Campaign for the presidency. According to the transcripts inc Fri overheard King explain inter thai he had agreed to be deterred from the presidential candidacy by his advisers fear of alienating while financial contributors to the civil rights cause who also supported the War. The transcripts confirmed previous re ports by aides and associates that King periodically suffered bouts of gloom and self doubt in his position As a Leader of the civil rights movement. The conversation in which King discussed his doubts took place shortly after Black youths participating in a non violent March in Memphis on March 28, 1968, broke ranks and vandalized downtown stores. The next Day president Johnson in remarks that were widely interpreted As a rebuke to King offered Federal assistance against what the president called the mindless violence of loot ing and these events took place a week before King s assassination in Memphis on april 4, 1968, and a month before the scheduled Start of his planned non violent mass pro test in Washington to be called inc poor people s Campaign. The afternoon after the unexpected chaos in Memphis the Fri transcribed a Conversa Tion in which King shocked and demoralized by his inability to control the Young Mcm Sas file photo Martin Luther King or. Suffered Bouls of gloom Phis marchers declared i think our Washington Campaign is thousands camped out on the mall in Washington d.c., from mid May through june 1968, but the desired anti poverty legislation stalled in Congress. In his concern Over violence in Mem Phis King was overheard a week before his death remarking to Stanley d. Levi son a new York lawyer and businessman that his critics would now be he included others in the Black leadership Roy Wilkins then the executive director of inc a act Bayard Ruslin. President of the a. Philip Randolph Institute and rep. Adam Clayton Powell d . All i m saying is Hal the Roy Wil Kinses the Bayard rusting and that Stripe and there arc Many of them and the negroes that arc influenced by what they read in the newspapers and Adam Clay ton Powell for another reason you know their Point is i m right Martin Luther King is dead he s finished his non Vio Lence is nothing. No one is listening to it " King went on. As far Back As september 1965, inc transcripts reveal. King Felt overburdened by the demands of the civil rights move ment and pressures on him to publicly oppose America s involvement in the Viet Nam War. In a conference Call with aide Andrew Young who is now mayor of Atlanta la Vison and others thai was recorded by inc Fri King said i Don t really have the strength to fight this Issue and keep my civil rights fight King s conversations arc contained in thousands of pages of unpublished Fri documents obtained by David j. Garrow an associate professor of political science at City College of new York and the City University of new York graduate Center under the Freedom of information act. The Fri s electronic surveillance of King had been hinted at in published re polls in inc mid-1960s. King was generally aware of the wiretapping but dismissed its importance to him or his leadership of the soul Horn Christian leadership con Ference. Because much of the Bureau s Covert file on King is under a court order that will keep is contents scaled in inc u s archives until the year 2027, no verbatim transcripts of wiretaps can be made Public under inc Freedom of information act. The documents made Public by Garrow were inc fruit of Diligence and a stroke of scholarly Luck in collecting material for his new Book on King bearing the Cross to be published a Chi year by Morrow. By focusing his requests for inc Fui files on lesser known King associates Gar Row believes he has bypassed the 1977 court order by gaining Access to Tran scripts of those with whom King had Fri que Cal Lela phone conversations and whose wires also were lapped. Semiconductors is in deep jeopardy. The president has spoken often of the dangers of prove Unis. But his alternative is neglect. Democrats believe that temporary Trade r f hould be available to industries in Tro Job a. But in Exchange for / commitments by management and workers / to Mode uni a and adjust so Aslo produce a More competitive Industry. Our Indus Ltd a would know that Theav can mint will Jisc hem the breathing ume and space to Ruul /. But the Public would know that the were doing their Parl As in an interview saturday Wilh the Mutual radio acts or Senate democratic Leader Robert bad there is a pretty Good Chance the Striate will take some action before the is out on a Bill to limit Lex Lilc imports. I be been around Here Long enough to know a ,.de War when i see one and we re in it he said noting we re losing All the batfc3." news ii Daife successful test Cape canaveral Fla. A a successful test firing of Atlan Lis main engines has certified the newest space shuttle for its flight debut oct. 3 on a secret military mis Sion. A few minor technical problems cropped up during the 22-Sccond ignition with Atlantis bolted firmly on the launch pad. But officials said none would have an Impact on the first bunching of the fourth shuttle in Nasa s Fleet. Crash victim Dies Dallas a a Man burned Over 80 percent of his body in the crash of a Delta air lines jumbo Jet has died raising inc death toll in loss month s disaster to 136. Gregg Lapidus 23. Of Miami died alter contracting pneumonia officials at Parkland memorial Hospi Tal said. Lie has been in the intensive care Burn unit at Parkland since the crash of Delta flight 191, which went Down at Dallas fort Worth International Airport during a thunderstorm on aug. 2. Country music train Nashville Tenn. A a Money shortage has sidetracked country Singer Merle Haggard s planned whistle Stop train tour for country music stars headed from California to the farm Aid concert in Illinois a spokesman says. We did t make it Rod Hunter of Luckenbach productions said after hours of negotiations with am Irak officials. Obviously to say there is some depression the train was to have carried some of the performers to the sept. 22 farm Aid concert at Champaign Iii which was organized to raise Money and support for financially stricken family Farmers. Tiedge reportedly foiled e. German s defection Bonn Dpi intelligence specialists Are probing allegations a senior counterspy who fled to East Germany betrayed plans for the defection of an East German rear Admiral to the West die Well newspaper said sunday. The newspaper said sunday that it was inspected that the counterspy Hans Joa Chim Tiedge tipped off the East germans to the planned 1979 defection which aborted when the Admiral was arrested and summarily shot. The report which was not officially con firmed said the defection of the East Ger Man officer was meticulously planned by the West German secret service but that he was detained and killed on the Day he was supposed to slip into the West. A woman Friend due to join him by an other route via Hungary was arrested the same Day at a Budapest Railroad station and jailed the report said. Die Welt said it was suspected at the time that the defection had been betrayed by someone within West German Intelli gence but nothing was proved. Now after Tiedge s defection aug. 19 to fast Berlin experts have reopened files on the Case and interviewed Security officials in investigation of the theory that he might Well have known of the plan and tipped off his Spytma slurs about it. Tiedge an alcoholic who had heavy debts worked for West German countering Tylli Gynce for 19 years and was head of 1 department responsible for catching East German agents. A Carch snows it possible that Tiedge w inlay l nos to counter espionage could have gotten wind of the secret service operation die Welt said i
