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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Medicine foreign hospitals see pages 8 and 9 n Pentagon tightens Security. Page 5 mardigras called quiet. Page 7 d today s Dollar buys 2.34 Marks. Page 23 stripes Magazine the St is and filpes authorized unofficial publication for Thi . Ahmed forces vol. 44, no. 300 thursday february 13, 1986 is Ooisy Ond sunny d 8693 a Aquino scolds Reagan for election comments Manila Philippines a opposition candidate Corazon Aquino said wednesday she was alarmed by president Reagan s suggestion of fraud on both sides in the presidential election and she cautioned him against accepting a Victory by president Ferdinand e. Marcos. Not Only the filipinos but the vast majority of the american people and their Congress would condemn any such action Reagan denounces Trade protectionism As danger to Farmers St. Louis a president Reagan import tees would raise prices for All americans while inviting retaliation. Rather than relying on import restraints the president said a healthier world Market for american agricultural exports would pro vide the Best answer to the Farmers woes. Reagan speaking at a fund Raiser for former Missouri gov. Christopher Bond also decried the crowd of big spenders and big taxes he said is waiting to reverse his administration s budgetary restraint. As for Farmers Reagan told his audience that when the double digit inflation rates of the last decade came Down Farmers were left holding the bag. The bag was full of Grain and the Price of Grain bad gone  now he said the most effective thing to help Farmers get Back on their feel would be to fight protectionist moves in Congress. Protectionist measures would Only raise the prices of what Farmers and All of us buy and would Likely result in retaliatory Trade barriers against our farm products overseas Reagan said. Rather than erect Trade barriers of our own he went on let s go to work dismantling those obstacles in other countries. That Way everyone is better  in a nearby Park however several Hun dred Farmers from four states gathered to protest administration farm policies. Their policies Are killing us said Tom curl president of the Illinois chapter of the american agriculture movement As the crowd chanted a slogan comparing Reagan to a Butcher who wanted Only to Cut Cut Cut spending for the needy. Carlos Welly another Aam farm activist said Missouri is losing family farms at an alarming rate. We re being driven out Welly said. We have to Lei the president know that All see Reagan on Page 24 shareholders of West Anco approve  takeover London a shareholders of Westland voted wednesday to accept a takeover led by the Sikorsky company of the United states. A european consortium also had bid for Britain s Only Heli copter maker. The bid by Sikorsky and Fiat of Italy received 67.8 percent of the vote West land chairman sir John Cuckney announced. A simple majority was required for approval. The vote came at the end of an acrimonious Daylong shareholders meeting to resolve a dispute that turned into a crisis for prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government. Two Cabinet ministers resigned last month at the height of the  after the meeting opened the european consortium tried to get a 21 Day adjournment to protest the recent Purchase of a crucial 20.3 percent stake in the ailing Westland by six unidentified buyers. The european consortium believed the buyers were backers of Westland s Board of directors which endorsed the Sikorsky bid. The London Stock Exchange Dis closed on tuesday the one fifth Pur Chase by unknown buyers. Cuckney listed Only the nominee companies holding shares for the buyers. After a three hour delay Cuckney announced a 67.8 percent majority against postponing a decision. Last month shareholders rejected the Sikorsky led bid but that was under a see Westland on Page 24 which so flagrantly assists in returning a people to their Captivity Aquino said in a statement read to reporters by a spokes Man. I suggest to him that before making further comments on the election itself he make additional inquiries from his own embassy the observers and the Media she said. The National Assembly began taking an official canvass wednesday of the votes to determine the Winner of Friday s election but Many of the envelopes opened showed defects. By one unofficial tally Marcos held a Lead of four percentage Points 52 48. By another Aquino led by four percent age Points. At a news conference tuesday in Washington Reagan said the United states was continued on Page 24 a photo Ai Toly she Hanisky and his wife Aziul surrounded by Well wishers in Tel Arr. Shch Aransky to request family members7 emigration Jerusalem a newly released soviet dissident Anatoly Shch Aransky will Appeal to the Kremlin to allow his Mother and brother to join him in Israel a top immigration official said wednesday. The 38-year-old human rights activist spent his first Day in Israel in seclusion with his wife Avital who had travelled the world in a tireless Campaign to win her husband s Freedom. Shch Aransky a jew was freed tuesday on a snowy Bridge in Berlin As part of an East West prisoner Swap ending a 12-year Battle to immigrate to Israel. Shch Aransky spent nine years in soviet prisons and labor Camps after being charged with spying for the United states a charge which he and Washington denied. He said his Only crime was applying to immigrate to the jewish state. Shch Aransky had not seen his wife since the Day after their wedding in 1974. The couple spent the night at the Jerusa Lem apartment where Avital has lived for the past few years. Seminary students stood guard outside tuesday night to prevent Well wishers from disturbing the couple s privacy. Israel radio said Shch Aransky called his brother Leonid and 77-year-old Mother Ida Milgrom in Moscow wednesday. It did not report what they said but said Shucha Ransky would Appeal for his family to be reunited with him. Shmuel Senhar Deputy director of the immigration ministry said Shch Aransky planned to write a letter formally inviting his family to come to Israel. Senhar said this is part of the procedure for obtaining see emigration on Page 24  
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