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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 13, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q Arrow air files or Protection Page 4 d Pentagon tightens Security Page 5 q shuttle boosters called Safe Page 28 author Rico unofficial publication for Thi . Ahmed Force in Dolly Ona Sunoo vol. 44. No. 300 thursday february 13, 1986 d 8693 a tomorrow despite the network of is. Mili tary hospitals from England to tur key american service members and their families sometimes find them selves being cared for by european doctors in local medical facilities. Tomorrow s & s medical writer Judy Sarasohn reports on the cultural and language difficulties Ameri cans face in those facilities. Soviets free on Haransky dissident flies to Israel after release in Berlin Tel Aviv Israel a Anatoly Shch Uransky the soviet human rights activist imprisoned for nine years As a spy was freed on u snowy Berlin Bridge tuesday and flown ton  Welcome in Israel. The 38-year-old jewish dissident had become known As the prisoner of Ion a focus Tor International jewry and Symbol of jews u to arc not allowed to leave the Soviel Union. Also included in the prisoner Exchange on Berlin s Glie Nick Bridge were five people held in the West on spy charges and three held in the East. Shch Aransky was freed first apart from the others to emphasize the . Insistence that he was not a spy. Lie was arrested in i977 and convicted by a soviet court of spying for the Cia. He was sentenced in 1978 to 13 years imprisonment. Prime minister Shimon Peres and foreign minister  Shamir embraced Shch Aransky us he and his wife Avital who Hud met him in Frankfurt stepped from an executive Jet at bin Gurion Airport. His arrival was broadcast live on radio and television. Shch Aransky clasped his hands above his head in a Victory sign then held hands with his wife who has lived in Israel for More than a decade while campaigning Tor his Freedom As she introduced him to cub incl members. The crowd of 3,000 outside the terminal building cheered and waved As the couple and Peres went inside to Sacuk to president Cragun by Telephone. We thunk cd him for his tireless efforts out of a deep feeling for the jewish people and an inner conviction that the jewish people deserve to leave the soviet Union Peres Suid. Reagan later said at u news conference in Washington i Hope that this is a beginning of what s going to Lake place the -15-Minutc prisoner Exchange was the latest of Sev eral on the client Csc Bridge a Green Metal Structure across the Havel River Between West Berlin and Potsdam in East Germany. The Exchange came 24 years and one Day after Ameri can u-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers and Kremlin Muster spy Rudolf Abel were exchanged there. Snow was Fulling As Shch Aransky crossed the Bridge see free on Page 28 a pm wac Anatoly Shch Aransky Waves to Well wishers at Ben Curlon Airport while his wife Allal wipes away a tear. Reagan concerned about voting reports Washington a president Reagan expressed concern about violence and the possibility of fraud in the Philippines presidential election. He Suid the United slates won t take sides in the con test noting one cannot minimize the importance of american bases on the islands. We re Neutral and we then Hope to have the same relationship with the people of the Philippines that we be had All these years Reagan told a nationally televised news conference tuesday night. At a question and answer session dominated by foreign policy issues the president welcomed the release earlier in the Day of analogy Shch Aransky and said he hoped other soviet dissidents would follow him to Freedom. He also said any attempt by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to link the timing of this year s scheduled Summit to . Con Cessions on arms control would t  and he said any Bill that Congress might Send him to raise taxes would be Voa vetoed on  even before Reagan strode Down a red carpet into the White House East room to open his news conference he issued a statement announcing he would Send Veter an . Diplomat Philip Habib to Manila to meet with Church government and business leaders in an attempt to help nurture the Hopes and possibilities of  Reagan s comments on the Philippines came with the outcome of the election be tween president Ferdinand Marcos and challenger Corazon Aquino still in doubt several Days after the balloting closed. Many observers including a group of americans dispatched by Reagan have re ported evidence of vote buying intimidation and violence on the part of the Marcos forces. Sources say the administration expects Marcos to emerge the Winner in the elec Tion and despite the allegations already aired. Reagan seemed eager to say nothing to offend the Veteran Leader. The american naval base at Subic Bay and the installation at Clark air base on land leased from the Marcos government Are among the largest . Military installations overseas and Are considered essential to . Security interests in the Pacific. One cannot minimize the importance of those bases not Only to us but to the West Ern world and certainly to the Philippines themselves Reagan said. Asked whether the United states would support a Winner in the election even in the see Reagan on Page 28 Lack of quorum halts Philippines vote count Manila Philippines a the National As Sembly on tuesday begun the Long awaited official canvass of votes in the presidential election but called it off for Lack of a quorum before a single vote could be tabulated. The Assembly scheduled another session for wednesday to attempt the vote counting Guin. The unofficial count by the government s commission on elections on wednesday morning showed president Ferdinand e. Marcos ahead with 6.449,522 votes or 52 percent and his rival Corazon Aquino with 5,906,206 or 48 percent with 58.4 percent of the precincts counted. However the count by the Independent poll monitoring group the National movement for free elections or Nam Frel had Aquino ahead with 7,156,073 or 52 percent against Marcos 6,487,554 or 48 percent with the Voles in 65.8 percent of the precincts counted. The country has 26 million registered voters. The National Assembly s count is the Only one that is legally binding. Aquino appealed to my friends abroad to help protect the Victory she claims to have won. She said it would be a mistake to support a failing  Marcos 68, who has governed the Philippines for 20 years accused Aquino tuesday of making a childish display of  there was no immediate reaction however to president Reagan s announcement in Washington that he found it a disturbing fact that the election has been flawed by see vote on Page 28  
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