European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q problems slow Bradley deliveries Page 5 n army air Force Lent combined arms Page 9 q dodgers Clinch w. West title Page 21 the stars an stripes authorized unofficial publication Fok the us. Ahmed Forcet vol. 44. No. 169 Friday october 4, 1985 Lac Omo 5u y d 8693 a Reagan visits Ohio to push tax Reform St. Bernard Ohio up president Reagan visited a Cincinnati area soap factory thursday to urge the House to pass quickly his tax Reform program and Send it to the Senate for final action before Christmas. It s up to them to Send a Bill to the Senate As quickly As possible so that we can pass a fairer pro growth tax plan this year in 1985," the president told workers at Procter & Gamble s Ivory soap Plant. And if we have to we re going to Send or. Clean Down there to Capitol Hill to keep an Eye on them and make sure they do the Job right Reagan said. Reagan reminded workers in this heavily Republican Region that in the Campaign a year ago there was Actu ally a presidential candidate. Who promised that the first thing he would do if elected was a so your there was a Little referendum on that idea Reagan said. That s Why leaders of the other party have now joined us in our Effort to overhaul our nation s Creaky tax calling tax Reform pro family and calling the family the moral Core of our nation Reagan said he Hopes the House will act in time to give America a gift Well have wrapped up by Christmas time. Then maybe we can sing Joy to the world with extra among the Blue Collar workers Reagan stressed the proposed increase in the personal exemption from ,040 to $2,000. Talking later to downtown business leaders in Cincinnati Reagan stressed his plan to lower the corporate tax rate from 46 percent to 33 percent and the top rate on capital gains from 20 percent to 17.5 percent. The corporate tax Structure today represents a Jungle of deductions credits and allowances he said. The whole Weed Ridden overgrown arrangement encourages Competition of the worst kind not to produce better products at lower prices but to hire bigger and bigger teams of lobbyists and lawyers Ever More skilled in taking advantage of the tax Reagan flatly predicted just As sure As Babel Ruth could hit homers and Pete Rose can break Roccor. Lur ing this session of the Congress America s tax plan will become he used the baseball references the morning after the Cincinnati reds were eliminated from the Pennant race. Cuddly orphans two lessor pandas whose Mother died two weeks ago Rusty left and his sister Jade cuddle in the Philadelphia zoo s Nursery where a staff Mem Ber is feeding and caring for them. The pandas born june 27, weigh Only 2 pounds. Gorbachev reveals arms control package Paris a soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev on thursday disclosed details of new soviet proposals for reducing nuclear arms including total prohibition of space weapons by the two superpowers and a 50 percent reduction in their nuclear missiles. Gorbachev revealed that his new arms control package presented to president Reagan sept. 28, also includes a proposal for direct negotiations Between the soviet Union and France and Britain on reducing their Independent nuclear forces. So far Paris and London backed by the United states have refused to include their nuclear forces in the Geneva arms control talks. The third Point in the Gorbachev package disclosed in a speech during his official visit to France was a Promise to Cut Back within the next two months the number of soviet ss-20 medium Range missiles to the level of 243 As of june 1984. The soviet Union began deploying additional triple warhead ss-20s at that time in response to Che initial siting of Tomahawk cruise and perching ii missiles by nato which began in december 1983. Gorbachev s most dramatic proposal called for the United states to come to terms on the total prohibition of space strike arms for both sides and to reduce radically by a photo soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev foreground and French president Francois Mitterrand in Paris. 50 percent the nuclear arms capable of reaching other s that includes the . Star wars plan Gorbachev s main target during his visit Here seven weeks before his Geneva Summit with president Reagan. This proposal apparently Means that while both sides would halve their strategic or Long Range nuclear missiles it would not involve a similar cutback in soviet medium Range missiles targeted on Western Europe. But it apparently would mean that nato countries would be called upon to Cut Back the deployment of mis Siles in Western Europe which can reach the soviet Union. Discussing the soviet proposal to reduce ss-20s, president Reagan said As i understand it the Only proposal they be made is one that would not be destroying any of their weapons. It would simply be moving thurr elsewhere. The ss-20, a three warhead missile is a Mobile weapon and can be moved to another site he noted. To simply drive them up into the ural mountains or someplace else and then say that they re not a threat to Europe makes no sense Reagan said. They can bring them Back any Lime they Reagan was in Cincinnati promoting his tax overhaul plan. Crews race to save boy buried by quake Mexico City a rescuers tunnelled desperately thursday toward the faint tapping of a 9-year-old boy trapped for almost two weeks under 20 tons of rubble from on apartment building destroyed by an earthquake. Or. Enrique Camacho Romero a veterinarian in charge of one Rescue team told reporters late wednes Day that rescuers were three to five feet away from the boy in the rubble of a three Story apartment building in downtown Mexico City. However Progress was very slow. He said they last communicated with the child Call ing his name into a microphone and listening for his Knock on wednesday night. The boy s tapping was faint because it is difficult for him to raise his hand he said. Workers and doctors who visited the site said it appeared that the child Luis Ramon Maz Crali was too weak to talk. Relatives said they were sure both the boy and his Grandfather buried with him when the sept. 19-20 earthquakes ravaged the City were alive. However rescuers said there were signs of life from Only one person. Rescue Crews raced to slash through mesh wire in the Concrete with acetylene torches As dogs pawed and sniffed the rubble. Ambulances stood at the ready to whisk him to a waiting helicopter and a military Hospital. Relatives said the boy and his Grandfather Luis Mal Donado 57, were the Only ones in the family apartment when the first quake struck toppling hundreds of build Ings and killing thousands of people. After the dramatic rescues of several babies from a collapsed Hospital last week most people abandoned Hope that any More survivors would be found. A Chihuahua Puppy was found alive tuesday afternoon among the debris of a 14-Story apart mint build ing in the District according to a television report wednesday. Meanwhile the . Embassy on wednesday raised the number of americans killed in the quakes to 10. The latest victim was identified Only As Ronald Patterson and the embassy said his body was found in the col lapsed Regis hotel. The mexican government said 4,600 people died in the quakes and up to 3,500 Are missing. Newspapers keeping their own tallies have put the figure much higher. One Al Universal said More than 7,000 people have died
