European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. December 31, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 talk show offers soviet . Exchange sf.attu-. Aim about 400 Ameri cans and soviets Whu exchanged views on an intercontinental to Uilk. Show Sund i agreed thai the want peace but clashed i a a number of issues including whether the soviet Union offers Freedom of expression. Can you speak out without fear of reprisal talk show Hosi Phil Donahue who was Moderator Ai the s. End of the satellite Hookup in the King to studios in Seattle asked Nearh ? Al  Cili ens assembled in 1  we express our zeus from the heart and we listen in Nur eminent very care fully and we support in because it s  said a soviet teacher is  transition was provided during the Shim which is to be broadcast in both countries members of Bah sides questioned their counterparts on  their merriment have done for peace i think we re in Ruurd on what must be done. The problem i. Huvva do we Thil Al the same  .1 is Iule woman Aid. Asked irn Tui the treatment of dissenters in the Suvieri i Mon. I audience member in Leningrad called dissident Mil Nobel peace Prie Uin Iier Andrei  a to ii Lur Ishu  tju1 sir i l upon " a Seattle woman who said she had pro tested nuclear  .1 sited if soviet  protested their merriment s policies. Of course we Haven t protested because our government is trying to do what our people want a nun in Leningrad replied. A soviet school principal wanted to know How children in the United states arc raised so that they will not fear their counterparts in the soviet Union. We All want peace and that s Clear she said. The program Drew criticism from . Talk show hum Phil do Mihuc with his audience in Seattle. Behind Donahue is a j activist groups excluded from the audience members of both audiences were picked by the american producers. Marilyn o Reilly a free Lancer for do Mihuc s multimedia entertainment be l screen showing i he Lenin jihad Nudi Enre. Nah Ever she wanted in Leningrad the program is to be shown at various times on to stations across the United states and in the soviet Union. Another two Way satellite Hookup has ,.,v .1  s. Been arranged for new year s live Between she said she was free to choose whom Moscow and Jun cuu. Alaska by a soviet Manuc s  so inc cd the soviet and american audiences. Newspaper and Juneau s Public ice Cusin million. Too. Don r Inker too general manager1, said it program ill feature i greeting from the people of Alaska to soviet uti cons watching on a seven Story television screen in Moscow. There will also be performances a entertainers of both nations. Fri pinches he she Bandit in Bank robbery Case Washington up the Fri arrested a family Trio of suspected Bank robbers sunday including a Man believed to be the he she Bank robber who held up several District of Columbia Banks dressed in women s clothes. Vincent Andrew Curtis a id his wife Karen Tyler Curtis were arrested Al their Northeast Washington Home Al about 6 a.m., an Fri spokesman said. Vincent Curtis brother Kevin was arrested at a Motel in Northwest Washington Early sunday the spokesman said. The three were arrested on Federal warrants charging them with being fugitives from armed robbery warrants in Sun Belt Boom continues Arlington a. Fri agents said Vincent and Kevin Curtis both in their 20s, Are suspects in eight Bank robberies in the Washington area and armed robberies of businesses in Washington and its Virginia suburbs. Vincent Curtis also has been charged with the armed Holdup of a Gas station in Montgomery co my md., Federal agents said. They were charged sunday with one armed robbery in Arlington and the Gas station robbery in Maryland. Karen Tyler Curtis is being charged in the Dis Ricl with Fyk  is on of stolen properly and in  Vii i filing a false police report. Fiji  said they a client pm com a Unis is the Man dubbed b Lix Al Media to be the he she Bank robber who foiled  by wearing women s clothing when he robbed the Bank. The robber working Wilh the he she robber wore men s clothes officials said. No one a � seriously injured in any of the robberies which occurred in the last three or four months officials said. All three it beheld sunday in the Civy j us. Id soft . Population grows by 12 million . Population Urban in millions 200 Rural 1960 70 80 84 cd taboo Tribune Chart source  Bureau 01 the census Washington a the us. Population has grown by 12.2 million or 5.4 percent Over the past five years with Southern and Western slates gaining More than 90 percent of the increase the census Bureau reports. The figures released sunday indicate a continuing migratory trend toward the Sun Belt Stales of the South and West which began shortly after world War ii and picked up dramatically during the 1970s. California maintained its position As the most populous state with 26.3 million Resi dents As of july 1. It was followed by new York with 17.7 million Texas with 16.3 million Pennsylvania with 11 a million and Illinois with 11.5 million. Florida moved into the no. 6 Slot since 1980. With 11.3 million displacing Ohio with 10.7 million res ideals. Population figures for the country As a whole reached 238.7 million As of july i up from the 226.5 million people counted in the census on april 1,1980. Alaska continued to be the fastest growing stale with a 29.7 percent rate of growth Over the five year period. However it remains the least Popup cd Suic in the Javiun others lopping the list of states with the fastest growth rates include Arizona 17.2 percent Nevada 16.9 percent Florida. 16.6 percent Texas 15 percent Utah. 12.6 percent Colorado 11.8 percent California. 11.4 percent new Mexico 11.3 percent and Georgia with a 9.4 percent growth rate Over the past five years. Five other Stales Michigan Ohio. Iowa. Pennsylvania and West Virginia and the District of Columbia have lost population since 19x0, according to the Bureau statistic population in the West As a whole grew by 4.65 million or 10.8 percent double the National average.  of the 13 Western Stales outstripped the National growth rate from i980to 1985. The South As a whole grew by 6.48 Mil lion or 8.6 percent according to the census stall slice. Lii Gill of the 17 Southern slates grew faster than the National rate. The Northeast continued a modest growth Rale during the five year period Wilh population in the Region growing Al a 1.5 percent rate an increase of 724,000. Population in the Midwest grew by 331,000, or 0.6 percent since 1980, including the population losses in Michigan and Ohio in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. I c. 31. 1945 Woody Herman was named King of swing in the 9th annual readers poll conducted by Down heat mag a Ine. Bing Crosby was named favor Ilc male vocalist. 30 years ago today. Dec 31. 1955 West German traffic ministry officials said the  German communists assured them they would continue to rce Ogni a permits Usi d by barges to Supply West Berlin after pm i. 20 years ago today. Dec. 31, 1965 astronaut Walter Schirra told a Houston news conf Mcnee he and his gemini 6 co Pilot. Air Force maj Thomas Stafford mane Vered their space Craft within one fool of gemini 7 during their dec. 15 spice Rende Vous. In years ago today. . 31. 1975a powerful bomb blast ripped through a baggage claim area at new York s Iguardia Airport killing ii people and injuring scores of others