European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 1. 1985 the stars and stripes Peres hails Hussein s Call for talks Jerusalem a israeli prime minister Shimon Peres sunday welcomed a Call by King Hussein of Jordan for direct peace talks but said his proposal for an International conference would result in everlasting in a statement Rel Asch by his Cabinet in response to Hussein s speech Friday at he . General Assembly Peres also condemned a proposed si.6 billion arms Sale to Jordan by the United slates. He reiterated Israel s refusal to negotiate with the Palestine liberation organization and criticized Hussein for condoning terror ism by the Plo As the actions of a National liberation movement. Violence is violence and no liberation movement can justify the murder of inno cent men women and children the com Munique quoted Peres As telling the cab inet. Middle ground Peres statement appeared to seek the Middle ground Between the Cath Asiatic response to Hussein s address by his labor party and the dismissal of the speech by the right Wing liked party. The statement said Hussein s speech was the first time the King of Jordan Speaks about direct and immediate Nugo nations and there is no need for additional frameworks which will Only add More problems and result in everlasting in his speech Hussein said he was pre pared to negotiate under appropriate auspices with the Gocr mint of Israel promptly and in Jordan s View he said the auspices should be a conference among All Mideast parties and the five permanent . Security Council members. Soviet Union China Israel rejects the proposal because it would include the soviet Union and China neither of which have diplomatic relations with Israel. A senior israeli official who spoke on condition he nol be Idoni Ifird said Israel was Uncertain whether Hussein s Call for a peace conference was a condition Foi open ing talks. He said Israel would seek clarification through the United Stales. Hussein was to Eccl preside no Reagan at the White House monday while Peres is scheduled to be in the United Stales in three weeks. Maybe the next slip is to say that is Rael n accepting the Challenge of direct negotiations and is ready to talk said the official. Peres warned that unless i Eccl peace talks begin the Middle Easl peace process would remain stalemated. Unconditional negotiations the statement said a positive Rchull of the speech would be direct and unconditional neg options Between Israel and a jordanian palestinian delegation. If no such Advance is made the existing Situa Tion will not Page 9 focusing on shuttle training Wasaji astronaut candidate Sharon Chris Mcauliffe learns How to Oscr movie earner As she continues her astronaut training at the Johnson space Center in Houston. Mcauliffe a 36 year old High school social studies teacher from Concord n.m., is Sci used to Fly aboard a space shuttle mis Sion in january. Is on Correct no Eye surgery n ouf of be research report san Francisco ing study results for a Tion to Correct nearsightedness May oar some of the enthusiasm for the surgery it Derganc by 100,000 americans the head of the research team reported sunday. The key finding at the end of the second year of follow up of 435 patients was tha one third of them suffered visual fluctuations Long after their eyes were expected to heal from the surgery said or. George Waring ophthalmology professor at Emory University in Atlanta. But some initial reports of car taillights taking on a glaring starlike App franc other fluctuations following the pro called radial Kera Tolomay were exam cd to diminish Wilh time. Our most was Hal about one third of still had fluctuating vision jul pm the second year. This is a big pc Agni Waring reported at the annual a Pming of the american acad Emy of . We were surprised that in fact the Cor Nea May take two to three years to a Caljo some results of the Iua Al Kerat Otom a perk at least Tyr to to support critics who Fla us Yjord the reliability predictability arg to com Side effects of the operation the Stua funded by iroc a Jajnal Eye the first major eff of Law a microsurgical procedure to Pia or car sightedness suffered by it million americans. The researchers also found the outcome of a second radial Kera Toomy performed on patients who did not respond fully to the first surgery was much less predictable than the results of the initial operation. In addition in one fourth of those who underwent the operation in both eyes the results differed significantly for each Eye causing asymmetric vision. Lough the surprising results certain do not mean the procedure is worthless they do Dampen some of the enthusiasm,1 Waring said in an interview. The Bottom line is that whereas in 1980 we thought the operation was experimental we Don t think it s experimental anymore but it is definitely in its developing phase and needs to be refined so the outcome is More predictable and safer in the Long in radial Kera Toomy the theory of was espoused As Early As the late and the modern version of which was formed in the United slates in 1978 uses a Diamond tipped knife to slice . He makes High in that flatten the front of the Cornea a grab rent. Gelatinous cover one fiftieth of an it Wojtek that sits Over the Pupil like a Crystal face. This shortens the distance Cornea to the Back of the Eye thus Corn ing the car sightedness. Capital crime risk figures contradict National trend Washington a while Orcsi of the nation s capital arc almost Ivas Blacks to be victims of trend in Urban crime the ported sunday. The report by the Bureau of Justice statistics also found the people who work on Capitol Hill arc More Likely than others who work in the City to believe that their workplace is Safe. The study focused on which poor victimized by certain crimes,m�jppws3 on whether crime up or Down. It compared webs reported by peo ple in the kaon Crotto those reported by Resi dents a re Maryland and Virginia suburbs and in other cities. Based on interview with a random Sample of District of Columbia residents age 12 and above conducted from May 1982 to april 1983, the Bureau for Piid that 110.2 Whites per in contrast i geared to exp crime victimijajprafr7 White suburban compared to 59.1 m _ i on interviews with a Sam of people living in the capital s Mary land and Virginia suburbs. The crimes of violence included robbery and assault but not murder. Based on the 1980 census the District of Columbia s population was 668,000, of which 70 per cent were Black. The study noted that previous govern ment crime victimization Survey cat idly found that rates of plur Nonnan _ i for example the nation victimization Rale for violent crime was 42.9 per 1,000 for Blacks compared to for Whites. Factors As How often whilc7tbbhjgic.cnccs, and sought to determine could be explained in terms of v National level. This report did not offer a conclusive explanation for the racial pattern in crime victimization it said. A Well formulated Well tested explanation would require fur ther research beyond the scope of the . Analyst Patrick Langan said the findings arc not unique to Washington even though it goes against the National trend. Previous surveys showed higher Black victimization rates in Chicago do Droit. Los Angeles new York Philadelphia Atlanta Baltimore Cleveland Dallas Denver Newark Portland ore., and St. Louis. The study done for the bus by the re Orch j i Anglo Institute located in re la Park. N.c., also found that District Riv a with More than a High a Conan no Yong arc crime victims Al almost twice residents who had less s hex lingr92 per 1,000 compared to 49 per 1,000
