European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 20, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 Summit sidelights woman in Reagan s group has expert s Outlook on communism Geneva Switzerland a president Reagan s contingent that lined up to face Mikhail Gorbachev and company at tuesday s Summit table included a woman Rozanne Ridgway who knows firsthand about communism. Ten Days ago Ridgway was in Moscow meeting with 20 people who have been unable to leave the soviet Union to reunite with their spouses. As a pre Summit gesture last Friday the soviet Union agreed to let some of the Sepa rated families reunite. Ridgway 50, is a professional Diplomat who grew up behind a White picket Fence in St. Paul Minn. She Learned about communism while serving 2w years in East Berlin As the . Ambassador to East Germany. She is undersecretary of state for european and Ca Nadian affairs one of the highest ranking women in the foreign service and colleagues say she is the first woman in a policy making capacity chosen to Lake part As a negotiator in a .-sovict Summit. Reagan to give Gorbachev $1,295 global clock As gift Redwood City Calif. A the maker of the 11,295 global clock picked by president Reagan As a gift for soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev says he Hopes Security agents read the instructions before scrutinizing it. It la probably be debugged. A Rayed and kicked around before it gets into the hands of the soviet Leader Jim Kilbur said monday. "1 just Hope they followed the instructions on the Back if they decided to Lake it Kilburg s 16-employee company Cochron enterprises makes about 50 copies a month of the Geo Chron global time indicator invented by his father who died earlier this year. The 3-by-2-foot panelled device features a colourful lighted film map of the world that moves almost imperceptibly in 24-hour cycles. It tells the time anywhere on the planet As Well As the times of Sunrise and Sunset ind the distribution of Daylight and darkness on the Earth sur face. It s an appropriate gift said Kilburg s Mother Dor Othy. It makes you realize How very close we All Are to each other and How Small the. World really soviet Leader distinguished by Birthmark on his forehead Geneva Switzerland a probably the most distinguishing outward feature of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev is a port wine coloured Birthmark on his fore head. Gorbachev 54, has a receding hairline and the Mark starts High on his forehead and tapers Down to a few inches above his right Eyebrow. Caricaturists have adopted the Mark in their drawings of the Leader. The soviet Leader does not appear to make any Effort to conceal it and it was prominently seen when he was Tele Vised tuesday meeting president Reagan for the first time. However official soviet photographs of Gorbachev frequently cover up the Mark. Soviet authorities have never publicly discussed the medical causes of the Birthmark. 5 jewish activists occupy Aeroflot offices in Geneva Geneva Switzerland a five jewish activists briefly occupied the Geneva office of the soviet National airline Aeroflot. Tuesday As soviet Leader Mikhail s Gorbachev and president Reagan held their first Summit meeting. The five men sat on the floor of the downtown office bearing a Banner Reading let my people go peace for the world free soviet they held a prayer service and chanted in hebrew. One Man identified himself As Josef Mendelevich and said he emigrated to the West after spending 11 years in a soviet prison. There were no customers in the office at the time of the sit in so business did not appear to bed erupted several officials from the soviet Mission were called to the scene and eventually called the police. The protesters left the office peacefully after 90 min utes but they were taken into police custody for identity checks. Nancy Reagan left and soviet first lady Rahul Gorbachev meet Al the rearing temporary Geneva residence. Superpower first ladies hold first of 2 meetings in Geneva Geneva Switzerland a Raisa Gorbachev paid tribute to Lenin and to Swiss watches and Nancy Reagan visited a drug rehabilitation Center tuesday before the first of their two meetings Over Tea at the .-soviet Summit conference. While president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev held their first meeting mrs. Gorbachev was touring Geneva s watch museum and speaking to a group of 300 students outside the Library of the University of Geneva. Mrs. Reagan listened As patients at the Pichola Etc farm drug treatment Center in Lausanne told her How they became addicted. She planned a boat ride on Chilly Lake Geneva before meeting mrs. Gorbachev for Tea. In Impromptu remarks to the students mrs. Gorbachev said that the future belongs to Young people. We must struggle for peace. Much depends on we need a Success. We can make it she said of the Summit conference. The students gave mrs. Gorbachev a warm reception chanting her name As she emerged from the Library Al though one person was heard shouting free the mrs. Gorbachev had toured a room in the Library dedicated to Vladimir i. Lenin the founder of soviet communism who lived Here in exile at various times Between 1904 and 1916. Mrs. Gorbachev 53, who has been dubbed the Krem Lin s secret weapon is a poised counterpart to mrs. Rea Gan who has acknowledged she is intrigued by the win Ning ways of the soviet first lady. Before going to Tea with mrs. Reagan mrs. Gorbachev also paid a Courtesy Call at the United nations. She was Given a tour by list lotto Waldheim natural the . Chief of protocol and daughter of former . General Secretary Kurt Waldheim. About 15 . Employees gathered at the exit to watch mrs. Gorbachev leave but they were kept a Good 10 Yards away by Security police. You Are so far away she called out to them. Tuesday s gel together at inc Maison de Saussure the mansion where the reagans Are staying during the sum Mil was the first of to Tea parties Between mrs. Gorbachev and mrs. Reagan. A second was scheduled wednesday at the soviet mis Sion to the United nations where the Gorbachev Are staying. It is the first meeting Between wives of superpower leaders since Pat Nixon went to Lea with Viktoria Petrovna Brezhnev at the Kremlin in june 1974. Jackson says soviet Leader stressed vhf of his business is disarmament by de Reavis staff writer Geneva Switzerland the Rev. Jesse Jackson met tuesday with Mikhail Gorbachev and the soviet Leader told the former presidential contender that Gorbachev s business is he said he and president Reagan got Down to serious business Jackson said. And he made it Clear that his business is at a news conference earlier in the Day Jackson addressed comments to Reagan and Gorbachev saying that the nuclear arms race is bankrupting both nations. Jackson said he has the signatures of 1.25 million americans on a petition calling for a comprehensive nuclear test ban agreed to by both sides. We need a test ban he said. The arms race is too costly. It is bankrupting both nations and preventing the development of the third world and a test ban would Stop the development of newer More technologically sophisticated and therefore More dangerous nuclear weapons. And we need a test ban to Stop the turning of nuclear decision making Over to Jackson delivered the petition to the . And soviet diplomatic missions tuesday. Jackson was accompanied to his meeting with Gorba Chev by 35 delegates from women for a meaningful Summit a pro nuclear freeze group and by members of Jackson s Rainbow coalition. Jackson was joined in Geneva by monsignor Bruce Kent chairman of the British Campaign for nuclear disarmament. Kent distributed an open letter to the two political leaders demanding an end to nuclear testing As Well As a nuclear arms freeze and a ban on arms in space. Jackson said they appealed to Reagan and Gorbachev to accept the offer of the five continent peace initiative As advocated by the leaders of Mexico Greece Tanza Nia Argentina and India. The five countries offered their assistance in the difficult process of verification of nuclear tests. With their help there is no Barrier to insuring that a test ban can be verified precisely Jackson said. The five continent proposal also offered to help inc two superpowers negotiate reduction in their nuclear arsenals. Jackson said he Hopes the United Stales and the soviet Union will accept the offer. Together Reagan and Gorbachev represent one eighth of the people of the world Jackson said. The other seven eighths arc watching the outcome of the Summit. The five continent initiative is a useful Way to include the other seven eighths so thai they have a voice in their Jackson said that even As the to nations talk in Geneva they arc building and deploying nuclear weapons every Day and testing them every month. Talk is Good but it is not enough he said. Each Day that we build and talk the danger to the survival of the world is markedly increased. In peace the two sides Are preparing for Jackson claimed opinion polls show Hal the american people support a test ban by a margin of 2 to i. Seventy four percent of the . Public would rather reduce the nuclear arsenals of both sides As an alternative to building stars wars the strategic defense initiative Jackson said. We Trust and we Prav that they will see the moral imperative and the Cost effectiveness of this position and achieve a breakthrough at the Geneva
