European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday october 20, 1985 Symbol of France up for election parisians look Al sculpted busts of French movie actress Catherine Deneuve which ire being exhibited in the place de 1� Bastille subway station in downtown Paris. The busts nude by 24 different sculptor re known As Marianne the female Symbol of the French Republic. Parisians Are in led to vote for the most Beautiful Marianne and once elected copies of it will be instilled in each City Ball in France. Us previous Marianne bust was modelled after another famous French movie actress Brigitte Bardo. Defense official says ski needed to counter soviet disregard for life Paris a the West needs a space based Strate Gic defense system in part to counter Moscow s relatively Low regard for human Ife Fred c. Ikle undersecretary of defense for policy said Friday. They May seek to exploit the fact that we in the West place a greater value on human life and that our parliaments and citizens participate in shaping our foreign policy Klc told a symposium on the . Strategic de sense initiative popularly known As Star we must keep in mind that our present strategy which relies so much on the threat of retaliation depends on the psychology of the people who control the nuclear arsenals. The soviet Union and the Empire it controls is not like our Alliance of free democracies. Future soviet leaders largely unconstrained by Public opinion May choose to take greater it is leninism thai teaches the effectiveness of mass terror in the Pursuit of Power Ikle said. What risks might soviet leaders take in a future crisis when they believe their strategic forces Are More than equal to ours Ikle spoke at an International forum on ski organized by Jean Marie Benoist a leading intellectual in the French no conservative movement. Benoist refused to say How much it Cost to organize the two Day symposium or where Thi Money came from. We re talking about issues and All you want to ask about is Money he told a reporter. Ikle. Along with other Pentagon and West european proponents of ski. Argued that Moscow already is engaged in an ambitious strategic defense program manifested primarily by an extensive radar system in Siberia that the americans claim violates the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty. Frank Gaffney jr., Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for International Security said the soviets already hav provided "175,000 key party and government personnel with hardened shelters and have developed an extensive plan for a full mobilization of Industry in the event of nuclear War. We can Only at our peril continue to ignore soviet defense preparedness Gaffney said. Ikle said the soviet defensive measures showed thai that country is trying to protect its elite despite the 1972 abm treaty. The men in the Kremlin arc provided extensive Protection through a great Many hardened command posts located Well away from cities he said. That is to say putting first things first the soviet leaders saw to it that they themselves and the Nomen Latura elite would be protected in a nuclear War. Even though millions of their people might perish. Thus through All these years since the signing of the abm treaty the soviet ruling class favored strategic defense that is it favored it just for the symposium follows the conclusion of the visit Early this month by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Al though French president Francois Mitterrand has come out publicly against the Militari Alion of space Gorba Chev was unable to pry out a common French soviet Stan against Star wars. The conference attended b about 200 european Mili tary and Industrial leaders ended saturday. Today Umili " first defendant is sentenced in Austria s wine scandal Kri ats. Austria and the first of at least 60 defendants charged with using an antifrcc7c ingredient to acc in wine has been convicted of fraud and violating a inc purity Law. Wine dealer Otto hot. 25. Was Given a 15-month suspended jail sentence after pc amp guilty in District court to adding the chemical Dithy Tunc glycol to 10,400 Gallons of White wine and i ,k20 Gallons of red wine. Karlicz a court in Klag unfurl ordered an innkeeper to pay a $6,100 Fine for Selling 53 Gallons of wine that the government bad banned because of contamination. Diel Hylyne glycol used in was added to sweeten the wine and thereby raise its Quality rating. At least 60 people await trial on charges of tainting millions of Gallons of wine with the poisonous substance. Common Market nations give $492,000 for aids research Brussels Belgium a common Market coun tries reporting that the number of aids cases in 13 Western Kuropcak countries has nearly tripled in one year have announced a Grant of $492,000 for aids research. The announcement was made in Brussels in conjunction with the opening of an International conference on aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The number of reported aids cases jumped from 421 in july 1984 to 1,19 in june 1985 in the 10 european Community nations and in Spain. Sweden and Switzer land the countries said in a report. At the end of that period there were 392 reported cases of aids in France 220 in West Germany and 176 in Britain the report said. The 10 nations of the european Community Are Britain trance West Germany Italy Ireland Belgium the Netherlands Denmark Greece and Luxembourg. Terrorist attacks in Germany increasing minister reports Wuerzburg Germany a terrorist attacks in West Germany Are increasing. Interior minister Friedrich a Immermann told a conference of state officials. In the first nine months of 1985, 214 arson and bombing attacks were reported nationwide an increase of 30 per cent Over the same time period in the previous year Zin Mermann said. In addition there were 66 arson attacks from sept. 28 through oct. 10, following a leftist protester s death Dur ing a demonstration against the far right National demo cratic party in Frankfurt 2immermann said. Zimmermann was speaking at a conference of West German slate Interior ministers in Wuerzburg. Monsoon season s death toll in Indian state rises to 639 new Delhi India a at least 49 people have been reported killed in House collapses and landslides raising the toll to 639 in three months of Monsoon Rains and floods in the Northern Indian slate of utter Pravesh. Major Rivers in the state the most populous in India were flowing above the danger level inundating Low lying areas and affecting 1,700 villages the United news of India reported. Meanwhile at least 4.1 million people were affected by heavy rams that lashed the Eastern states of Orissa and West Bengal the news Agency said. More than 100,000ofthem were left homeless. The Rains were brought by a moderate storm that hit the two states and neighbouring Bangladesh i m reported More than 100 people in the two slates were missing including 19 who were on Board two fishing boats sailing m the sea when the storm was approaching Vii ii till Iii lil. Thousands across Germany protest jobless rate Frankfurt a hundreds of thousands of the lie Imreh a _. West germans demonstrated nationwide saturday blam ing the government for High unemployment and demand ing publicly funded Job programs. The protesters listened to passionate speeches demand ing government restoration of welfare cams government funded employment programs and a Shorter work Day peaceful protests sponsored by the German Trade Union federation. The organizers reported 150,000 demonstrators in Stuttgart 100,000 in Dortmund 40,000 each in Munich and Nuernberg 30,000 in Hamburg. 20.000 each in Frankfurt and Braunschweig and several thousand in Kassel Bremen. Hannover und Saa Brucken. Union Lead ers called gatherings in 17 cities. The demonstrations marked the close of the federation s action week of protests against the conservative eco nomic policies of Chancellor Helmut Kohl Brit throw Union leaders say in is Kohl s fault that there have been arc than 2 million jobless Ever since he took ofr.r/. Tober 1982. " " last month the unemployment rate was 8.6 percent of More october the work Force with 2.1 million people out of work. Cd urfa of Ernst brci1 d lir of the federation clearly failed. He App Road " " speech to parliament in said he a uld continue trying to by improving conditions for economic growth
