European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse I of inside stripes n veterans on disability pay working full time Page 5 q Vietnam veterans memorial tribute to Wii 8,9 q air Force Falcons Wamp army 45-7 Page 21 the so is and ripest pm a authorized unofficial publication Fob Tim . Ahmid of i i vol. 44, no. 207 monday november 1 1, 1985 m do 004 Sot. 0 8693 a a photo Prince Charles gives a Toast during dinner saturday As Nancy Reagan looks on. Charles Diana Star at White House gala Washington up billed As the town i social event of the year a White Houk gala saturday featured film celebrities and two socialites in identical dresses among the 81 guests invited to a Black tie dinner in Honor of Britain s Prince Charles and Princess Diana. First lady Nancy Reagan wore a White sequined gown. She greeted Diana who was wearing a Midnight Blue velvet gown with Matching Elbow length gloves. The Princess also had a seven strand Pearl necklace sporting a Center Sapphire the size of a Plum. Caroline Deaver wife of former White House aide Michael Deaver and Moira Forbes Murrna daughter of publisher Malcolm Forbes surprised each other by wearing identical dresses a Black velvet top with Pink taffeta skirt. Larry Mcmurtry author of Lone some Dove almost spent a lonesome night he was initially denied Entrance to the White House until he finally managed to convince the guards that he was among the Royal guests. Charles and Diana were greeted on the North portico of the executive mansion by Reagan and the first lady. They All then entered the White House where they were joined by the other guests. Among the guests Marine explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau or. Jonas Salk discoverer of the polio vaccine Peter Ueberroth commissioner of major league baseball and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. Charles and Diana leave Washington tuesday for a Polo match and a Charity Ball in Palm Beach fla., and they re turn Home the following Day. Earlier saturday after arriving in Washington the weary but smiling Royal couple had a morning Tea with the reagans and then attended a couple of civic minded events. Diana talking quietly and holding the hands of patients at a Home for the chronically and terminally ill told one patient i Haven t slept in two she said her husband feared he would nod off at a White House banquet. At a briefing on neighbourhood renew Al one of Charles s special interests the Prince displayed Brave interest and Visi Bly drooping eyelids. He managed to keep them open for dinner at the White House. Soviet ship sails with Medvid still on Board Pilottown la. A the soviet freighter marshal Konov steamed unescorted into International Watern just before Midnight saturday with a full Crew that included the Seaman who triggered a juror by jumping ship oct. 24. Aboard the 810-foot freighter was Miroslav Medvid a 25-year-old ukrainian who twice swam desperately to Shore and Cut his wrist after being forced Back to the ship. He later denied in interviews with . Officials that he wanted to defect and the Federal government said it could do no More. But after a flurry of court and congressional attempts to Stop the marshal Konev from sailing the ship with a coast guard escort slipped its moorings at re serve la., saturday morning for the 130 mile voyage Down the Mississippi River. Soon after 11 45 p.m., the marshal Konov cleared Southwest pass at the Mouth of the Mississippi River and sailed into International Watern said a spokesman at the coast guard s 8th District Headquarters in new Orleans. At that Point an escort of two coast guard cutters turned Back toward the River and the coast guard discontinued tracking the vessel said the spokesman who asked not to be identified. Any crisis caused by Medvid s abortive attempt to defect was Over Long before the ship slipped its moorings said Yevgeny qty urine second Secretary and Consul of the soviet embassy in Washington. The state department assured us it was Over a week he said As the marshal Konev rounded the Mississippi River Bend at new Orleans. Qty urine had followed the ship from re serve where he had interviewed Medvid saturday morning. Vietnam veterans called inspiration Phoenix. Ariz. Up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger saturday praised Vietnam veterans As an inspiration to the country and Gen. William Westmoreland said Congress was to blame for the american defeat in Indochina. Weinberger Westmoreland the com Mander of american forces in Vietnam in 1964-68, and rep. John Mccain r-ariz., a prisoner of War in the conflict spoke to an estimated 10,000 people at a dedication ceremony of a Vietnam veterans memorial across from the state Capitol. Weinberger said the veterans Day Cele bration was not so we can put Vietnam behind us. Instead it s so we can bleakly and nobly remember those who served in the War. The Vietnam Veteran is a source of inspiration to us now he said adding never again will we Send our men to Battle without telling them Why we Are into the Battle and we resolve never again to commit our troops to a War we Don t intend to Westmoreland said America was not Defeated on the Battlefield of Vietnam. Its military performance has been almost unprecedented in the history of the War was lost in the Halls of con Gress Westmoreland said pausing a moment As Many veterans in the audience shouted their support of his remarks. Some wore to shirts emblazoned with slogans such As Vietnam Warrior and we did t lose the War the government gave it program put into effect to curb soviet spies Washington not the Reagan administration is putting in place a program intended to reduce soviet intelligence operations in the United states senior White House officials said. President Reagan approved the program during a recent meeting of the National Security Council and in an inter Riew White House officials described several aspects that Are not secret one is that americans with Access to secret information will be required to report All contacts or suspected contacts with intelligence officers from a hostile country. Also employees of soviet bloc commercial companies operating in the United states will no longer be allowed to operate without restriction. Tight practices have Long been in effect in the soviet Union where government secrecy Cov ers a far larger segment of Public life than in the United states and foreigners including diplomats journalists and businessmen have been routinely regarded As potential spin. The United slates policies have recently been criticized As a result or espionage cases particularly that of the Walker family spy ring which oper ated for 20 years. Sen. Malcolm Wallop a Wyo. A former member of the Senate select committee on intelligence said our counterintelligence abilities Are minimal to the Senate select committee on intelligence the sen ate permanent subcommittee on investigations other committees and a defense department commission have All been studying policy changes. L. Britt Snider the defense department s director of and Security policy said the Pentagon study was the first requested by a Secretary of defense in 30 years. Meanwhile some intelligence officials say they believe the changes announced last summer in reaction to the Walker spy ring arc of Little value
