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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday february 6,1986 death toll mounts to 43 in european storm Rome a Mountain hamlets shovelled out from under thick carpets of Snow tuesday and europeans struggled to repair downed Power and Telephone lines Clear roads and assess the damage from storms that have left 43 people dead. In Italy three men were found crushed to death tuesday Inan Avalanche of Snow that buried their Van at a High pass in the Dolomite mountains. Rescue workers also discovered the Frozen body of a 25-year-old Man in his Snow covered car on the Valles pass near the Northern City of Trento raising the total of weather related deaths in Italy to 9.france reported 11 fatalities. Spain had eight and Austria had one. Turkish officials said tuesday that four people were killed in heavy snowstorms in the Eastern part of the country. The Snow has isolated hundreds of villages since monday. An Avalanche struck a Road Rescue team tuesday in Theta Eccli killing two workers and wounding another the Turk ish dispatches said. A pregnant woman from an isolated Vil Lage reportedly froze to death tuesday in Turkeli township inthe Black sea Region while travelling on foot to the nearest health Center to give birth and a dam worker was crushed to death monday when an Avalanche crashed Down on him in Erzurum province. Three american businessmen who died monday in a traffic Accident in Italy were counted among the weather related casualties. Their car was crushed Between two trucks when fog obscured a Highway Between Florence and Rome. Reagan from Page 1 land and the russian s planned visit to the United states later this year can Lead to a More stable relationship Between the two nations. But we cannot stroll into the future wit child like Faith Reagan said. Our differences with a system that openly proclaims and practices an alleged right to command people s lives and to Export its ideology Are deep and  logic and history compel us to accept that our relationship be guided by realism Rock hard Clear eyed steady and sure the president said. A senior White House official told re porters before the nationally televised address that the administration did not Cori Sider Gorbachev s Jan. 14. Proposal to eliminate . And soviet nuclear  bythe end of the Century a response to Rea Gan s plan tabled in Geneva last nov. 1, to sharply reduce nuclear arsenals. Gorbachev linked his reduction propos allo a . Pledge not to deploy space based missile defences As outlined by Reagan i March 1983. But Reagan reiterated his dream that a Security shield can one Day Render nuclear  obsolete and free Mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. In an Effort to explain America s position tits allies Reagan is sending two top  control advisers abroad Pau Nilze to Western Europe and Edward l. Rowney to Asia said the senior administration  aide called Reagan s state of the Union address the opening gun in a Campaign this year on foreign policy and National  president plans to deliver a major speech on defense before Congress after it february recess and will Send Capitol Hill a message on regional conflict Early this year the aide said. In his address Reagan pledged renew support to guerrillas battling soviet backed governments around the  those imprisoned in regimes held Cap Tive to those beaten for daring to fight for Freedom and democracy for their night to worship to speak to live and Prosper in the family of free nations we say to you to night you Are not alone Freedom fighters America will support with moral and material assistance your right not just tonight and die for Freedom but to fight and win Freedom in Afghanistan Angola Cambodia and  Reagan in his fifth state of the Union address said the breakdown of the family Structure among welfare recipients has reached crisis proportions and promised to devise a strategy to break the spider s web of dependency. While proclaiming a great american comeback from years of economic woes Reagan spoke of our responsibility to Rede Fine government s role not to control not to command not to contain us hut to help i times of need above All to create a ladder of Opportunity to full employment so Al americans can climb toward economic Power and Justice of their  also said the government must work with private insurers to develop affordable insurance against the costs of catastrophic ill  referred at the outset to the one week postponement of his speech telling joint session of Congress we paused to Gether to mourn and Honor the valor of our seven challenger heroes. And now i Hopewe Are ready to do what they would want us to do go  then delivered As expected a Gener ally upbeat report on a nation he said is growing stronger every  he concluded with a Salute to four Young heroes who watched the speech Lith the first lady. The president suggested few initiatives in his address boosting again his tax Reform Federal deficit by reducing spending. His remarks included an emphatic thumbs Down on tax  also suggested that in his pro posed budget for fiscal 1987, which he Wasto Send to Congress on wednesday several programs and agencies will be pegged for Sharp funding cuts. Saying heavy Federal deficits Cloud the future Reagan said we cannot win that race held Back by horse and buggy pro Grams that waste tax dollars and squander human  wednesday he was to unveil a budget plan that included the elimination of several Federal  another initiative Reagan directed Treasury Secretary James a. Baker Iii to consider calling a world monetary Confer ence to discuss whether to alter the free Market system of setting currency values. Without prejudging the Issue Reagan said the current expansion of our econ omy and exports requires a sound and Sta ble Dollar at Home and reliable Exchange rates around the world. We must never again permit wild currency swings to cripple our Farmers and other  to repeated Calls by some in Congress to raise taxes to reduce the Feder Al deficit Reagan said i m sorry they re asking the wrong people to tighten their belts. It s time we reduced the Federal Bud get and left the family budget  reporting the state of the Union stronger than a year ago and growing stonger each Day Reagan reminded the Congress and a National television audience it was t Long ago that we looked out on different land locked factory Gates and Long gasoline lines intolerable prices an interest rates turning the greatest country. On Earth into a land of broken dreams. The american people brought us Back Reagan said with quiet courage and com Mon sense with undying Faith tint in tha nation under god the future will be ours for the future belongs to the free bombing from Page 1 1 . Tuesday and safely defused it. I powerful enough the bomb could have damaged transmission towers for French television and radio situated atop the Tower. Criminal investigators said they were investigating whether the same person or organization was responsible for the three bombs. Police said the two that exploded appeared to be crude incendiary devices. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the Eiffel Tower and Bookstore bombs. A previously unknown group calling itself the committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern political prisoners claimed twas responsible for the champs Elv sees bomb. Israel from Page 1 those who committed it a lesion they will not forget. We will choose the method the time and the  ado quoted vice president Abdul Halim Haddam As laying we cannot let this aggression pass without it Ting the aggressor get the proper , Syria issued a statement condemning the interception of the gulfs Treamie As air piracy and the . Security Council held an emergency meeting at Syria s request but took no action. Slate department spokesman Bernard Kalb issued a statement in Washington that Taid in part As a matter of general principal the u5. Opposes the interception of aircraft in a peacetime situation. Such interceptions Are inherently very risky and As such can be Justi fied Only in the most exceptional Case. Uncertain very narrow counter terrorism cases such measures can be  october Carrier based us. Navy warplanes forced an egyptian jetliner carrying four palestinian hijackers to land in Sicily where they were arrested by italia police. The four had hijacked the italian cruise liner Achille Lauro and shot to death one american passenger. Tripoli radio in a broadcast Monitor Din London Aid a libyan Arab airlines plane was forced by jewish air pirates Toland in occupied  the radio said us. Naval units in the Mediterranean provided full information to the zionist pirates about the movements of the civilian  Joseph reap a state department spokesman Taid there was no us. Mili tary involvement in the  plane was allowed to leave after being held at a secret air base in Northern Israel for about five hours. Baled Abdul Majid a spokesman forthe palestinian salvation front which groups hard line palestinian factions Laid the israeli action was the Peak of organized zionist terrorism and  plane had left Tripoli at 9 ., was intercepted at about noon and landed 40minutes later israeli military sources said. One israeli source said the nine Syria passengers on the plane attended a Confer ence of 22 Arab revolutionary groups in Tripoli. The groups agreed to form a Sui cide Force to attack american targets if the is. Military attacks Libya or any other Arab country. See Story Page 2. In 1973, israeli jets seized an iraqi Pas Senger Jet thinking Habash was aboard but he was not and the plane was allowed to resume its flight. At the United nations meanwhile Syria told an emergency meeting of the Security Council tuesday that the Israel interception of a libyan executive Iet was the beginning of a new terrorism that will destroy the concept of civil  syrian ambassador Dia Allah Fatta called the israeli action International terrorism directed against civil aviation an asked for a firm Resolution condemning Israel. No Resolution was submitted How Ever nor was any action taken. Israeli ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that Israel had intercepted the Jet thinking it might Nave Bee carrying persons responsible for International terrorism against  was acting in self defense Netanyahu said adding the Sanctity of human lives is More important than the Sanctity of International  Booster from Page 1 have a very valuable piece of evidence forthe Accident review Board Mizell said. When the shuttle blew up the two boosters separated and began flying crazily. When one of them appeared to be headed toward the Florida coast a Range safety officer sent a radio signal that detonated an explosive charge and blew the top off both boosters. That had the effect of shooting flame out both ends stopping the Forward motion and tumbling the rocket into the sea. Under such circumstances the casing could have survived almost intact Nasa was expected to summon a Salvage ship wit heavy lift capacity if the sonar indications were Correct. 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