European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and strikes wednesday. September 18. 1985page 2 of Reagan has frequently talked to Nixon Washington a president Reagan said Monda thai he has frequently spoken to former president Richard Nixon in preparing fur his november Summit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev. Reagan quoted Nixon who resigned under pressure Over inc watergate scandal More than a decade ago. Ass i ing. We want peace. The soviet Union Reagan was asked during a question and answer session with regional editors and broadcasters invited to inc while House whether he has taken or sought Nix on s advice in preparing for the Geneva Summit scheduled for nov. 19 and 20. I have frequently talked to president Reagan replied. He had great experience and is most knowledgeable on International a Capri said Nixon had a number of meetings Bush in this country and there with his soviet counterpart the late Leonid Bre a nov. My problem for the first few years was they kept dying on Reagan quipped referring to inc deaths of three soviet Lead ers in four years. Speaking of the Summit at which he will Eccl Gorbachev for the first time. Reagan said there arc great differences Between our two systems and they re not going to like ours and we Don t like theirs. But we have to live in inc world quoting Nixon contrasting the United states desire for peace and the soviet Union s need for it. Reagan added they do. With this great massive buildup the greatest the world has Ever seen in Mili tary might we have augmented our forces and i think have Given them reason to be Lieve we arc not going to allow them to gel such a superiority in weapons that they can someday Lay Down an but at the Summit Reagan said he Hopes to make them recognize that we both have to live in the world together. It does t mean that we have to love each other or that we have to change each other s it was disclosed last year that Treagu secretly met with Nixon in new York of forc the president held his first talk with i soviet Leader last tall. He was preparing then for a White House meeting with then soviet foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko. News update apparition warning , Ireland a roman Catholic Bishop has his parishioners to be wary of of reported sightings of Movi us and other religious Apparaj the Irish Republic this year. Since february. 33 have been logged by Irish punch authorities who Are uneasy Over inc . All the sightings Muff be assumed to be in the class Opsy a Phenomena until sure signs of Sof supernatural sources arc Sai Wishop Thomas Mcdonnell of Killala town in county Mayo North Colern Leland. The people who a these things arc in no Way an Orr or hysterical he said in a Sermon rut they May not be aware of what Tab expectation of mar vels can do to fac human mind or probe requested Washin Piton a the House eras committee has been asked by of lobbying group to investigate two Send democratic members of con Resxor possible violations of con Gre Sion rules on gifts business deals . On cause the government affairs of buying organization said in let ters i the committee that newspaper to raised serious questions about Havior of Ernand St Germain of re do Island and Dan Daniel of Vir la. John Davison chief counsel to the committee on standards of of i conduct the formal name of the this panel refused to comment in any Way on tie letters or any possible incs 1 ligation of either congressman. Duarte says there s no mor reason for fhe kidnapping Oum daughter san Salvador Al Salvador up an exhausted looking president Jose Napoleon Duarte emerged from isolation sunday and told the kidnappers of his daughter that there is absolutely no moral reason for harming me this Way. Duarte made his first Public appearance since the kidnapping of Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran last tuesday. He spoke at Celebration marking Al Salvador s 16" anniversary of Independence from sep i am speaking to you under Menor Mous weight of indescribable Pfow to Ful fill my duty As presi Decnyf Aid Duarte tears Welling in his t if those who Ca cd out the terrible kidnapping of my ought or were trying to torment a father who also happens to be the pc Side to the Republic they certainly Sucre cd a he said. A. Especially to those who violated the most sacred part of a Nove for my children there is Abson by no moral Rea son to harm me in Way said Duarte visibly strained hired from the week Ono news Abb Var whereabouts. Thop Macint. Who took office 15 months is satisfied that he has met the Enge to try to resolve six years of bitter evil War. Duarte opened two sets of peace talks last autumn with rebel leaders and his Christian Democrat party won a Large majority in March congressional elections. If the kidnappers wanted to place a Ter Rible punishment on the president perhaps i would deserve this but this is an insult and an affront to the salvadoran people that elected me he said. Communications minister Julio Adolfo Rey Prindes meanwhile said that Al though Crank Calls were received about the kidnapping of the woman no Contact with the abductors has been established. Duarte s daughter 35, and another woman were abducted by gunmen who killed one of her bodyguards and severely wounded another. No group has responsibility. I cannot confirm any official Contact with the kidnappers the minister said responding to questions about news report that the government has had Tome Contact with the kidnappers. "1 repeat that everything is Ai it Wai from the Start and we really know nothing about this Case Rey Prindes said. As always in these instances some peo ple Call for pleasure. Some said they were members of the Feln the Marabondo Marti National liberation front Bat it May just be drunks or drug addicts ill no demands for the daughter s Relew were made the minister said. 3 greeks arraigned on bombing charges Athens a three greeks were arraigned monday before a District attorney on charges of staging bomb explosions around Athens including blasts that destroyed american owned cars and a failed attack against the West German and Brit ish embassies. One of the three who worked As an in former for the greek Central intelligence Agency Kyp also a accused of involve ment in the 1983 assassination of George Athanassiadi a conservative newspaper publisher the alternate Public order min ister Thanassi Tsouras told reporters. It was the first time that greeks have been arrested for terrorist activity Here. The three were identified As Daniel Krystallis 30, a reporter for the state run Ert-2 television Channel George Tsitsilia nos 29, a chemist and Theodore by Curakis .10, a French educated mathematics teacher. With these arrests we be Strick the first serious blow against terrorist activity i Greece Tsouras said. The Athens police Force has been sharply criticized for failing to solve ii political assassinations and More than 200 bomb at tacks claimed by left Wing greek terrorist groups since 1974. The three alleged terrorist were arrested after bomb attacks last Friday against two cars belonging to is. Servicemen stationed in Greece and an american owned Bank. Tsouras said chemicals used for making explosive devices were found in Krystalli apartment along with the original of a duplicated proclamation claiming responsibility for the lulling of the newspaper publisher. Athanassiadi publisher of the conserva Tive daily or Alhani was killed in his office in March 1983 by a gunman who escaped arrest other proclamations found in the apart ment suggested that Helen Vla Bot pub Lisher of the conservative daily Kath amerini and Theodore Vardin Yannis owner of an other conservative daily pcs Simprini also were targeted for assassination. The three Are accused of plotting a bomb attack last March 2 against the we Ger Man embassy building and the British ambassador s residence on opposite Side of a Street in the fashionable Volonaki District of the City. . Reportedly of d saudis buying of British planes Washington a saudi Arabia bought More than $4 billion Worth of Brit ish fighter planes after president Reagan assured King fahd that the United state would not object to the Sale a senior Amer ican official said on monday. A report of the Sale appeared in sunday s Washington Post and in monday s editions of the new York times. The newspaper report quoted unidentified sources As saying the saudi King did not want to anger the United slates saudi Arabia s principal arms supplier the official who spoke on condition that he not be identified said the reports were accurate. White House spokesman Larry Speakes asked about the reports said the administration has been in close Contact with the saudis about their defense needs. Speakes said the two nations have had regular communications about the matter but he refused to be More specific. Speakes said president Reagan recognized the defense needs of the saudis and others in the Region and added the Deci Sion to Purchase arms is the saudis had decided not to wait any longer for 40 to 48 american f-15 fighters that had been promised them by Reagan last december but whose Sale repeatedly was delayed because of israeli backed opposition in Congress the times report said at the state department spokesman Charles e. Redman said we see no significant effect on the Middle East arms bal Ance from the Sale. He said saudi Arabia still was interested in More Fiss. But no decision to sell these aircraft is Likely in the near Redman said the United states expects to maintain its Long standing Security co operation with saudi Arabia in Light of our important interests in the Gulf but there is no Sale of a major new weapons system under consideration at this in a news release issued sunday in Washington the saudi government announced that an agreement had been reached with Brita inon the Sale of aircraft and other equipment in keeping with the saudi policy of diversify ing the sources of a the a coca Al. Ann i ced it princ Sultan saudi minister of defense would visit Britain soon. The White House was informed during the summer that the saudis were consid ering buying two squadrons of 48 Tornado fighter planes and 30 Hawk trainers the report said after Reagan indicated in ate Ter that he sympathized with the saudi ffe�s"1i. The were concluded the times reported. The sources stressed that King fahd believed tos country s ties with the United states were Good Overall and he still favor Edthe closest possible relationship. But they said the saudis decided not to endure another potentially bruising fight with Israel s congressional supporters who Nave announced their opposition to new arms sales to the saudis until they openly support negotiations with Israel for a mid dle Bast peace. There have been reports that the Reagan administration would propose a Sale of to saudi Arabia this year but not the f-15 fighter planes. Sen. Alan Cranston d-calif., one of the staunches supporters of Israel in the sen ate said last week that he understood the administration intends to propose $2 billionth m billion in arms sales to saudi Arabia. He said he was mounting a Campaign to Block the sales claiming that the saudis continue to undermine peace in the Middle East by supporting terrorists and refusing ". Support the peace efforts by King he skin of Jordan. 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