European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday March 3, 1986 activists set out to Cross . In great peace March los Angeles a actor Robert Blake led More than 1,000 people saturday on the first leg of the great peace March a Cross country trek for nuclear disarmament that began despite a Lack of insurance and equip ment. The peace activists carrying signs and american flags left the los Angeles memorial coliseum shortly after noon. The s a month Long walk sponsored by pro peace will take them 3,235 Miles to Washington d.c., passing through 37 cities and 15 states. Blake Star of to s Baretta and hell town walked in the front line joining the marchers in singing if i had a  i m thrilled to death that the regular folks came out the same people who stopped the War in Vietnam Blake said. These Are american straights the real  Blake Clad in a to shirt jeans and running shoes said he would walk the entire distance. Paul Newman filming in Chicago was scheduled to join the March later said pro peace spokeswoman Torrie Osborn. Newman and Singer barbra Streisand sent statements of support saturday. Actress Goldie hawn was participating Osborn said adding that other celebrities who said they would join included Matt Dillon Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon. The marchers carried signs Reading we can t hug our kids with nuclear arms and Stop the arms race As they made their Way to City Hall for a free Rock concert and a Farewell from local politicians and celebrities. The Rock group or. Mister and Singer Melissa Man Chester performed and actress Bonnie Franklin spoke to the crowd of about 8,000. You moved me from fear to Faith from helplessness to hopefulness Manchester told the cheering marchers. Shortly after the March began a group calling itself citizens against the deceptive peace March chanted Blake Blake you can t hide. You re ignoring  we re out Here to Point out the hypocrisy of the March said spokesman James Bieber 19, who said atomic weapons have kept the United states out of War. But san Francisco teacher Lynn Nadeau 40, said she and her 10-month-old daughter Alexa would walk the entire route. I m Here in Large part so Shell have a future Nadea  marchers planned to spend their first night Camp ing at California state University 5 Miles from los an Geles City Hall. The procession is scheduled to reach Las vegas nev., on March 22 Denver on May 21 Des Moines Iowa on july 16 Pittsburgh on sept. 25 and Washington on nov.14. Organizers Hope the marchers will number 5,000 by the time they reach Washington. But for now equipment shortages have limited the number to 1,200. The main problem is that organizers have Only one of six portable kitchens needed to feed 5,000 people pro peace spokesman John Hagelberg said Friday. They also have had trouble raising Money for the March. Donors have contributed $3.4 million but about $15 million is needed Osborn said. Insurance problems surfaced Friday when the califor Nia department of transportation and some cities along the March route would t Grant Parade or other permits without $5 million coverage. Pro peace obtained an insurance policy thursday pro Viding $1 million in campsite coverage at a Cost of $1,000a Day. Unless More coverage is secured the marchers their portable toilets and other Mobile facilities won t be Able to legally Cross the san Bernardino county desert on four state highways Bill Mckinney a state transportation department spokesman said Friday. Carfer says Reagan misrepresents record of military modernization Plains a. Not former president Carter accused president Reagan saturday of habitually misstating the record of . Military modernization programs and of following an Agenda for National Security that has Little Chance of Success. Apparently stung by Reagan s speech wednesday on military spending Carter said the president is persisting in a pattern of statements he knows Are not True and which he personally promised me not to  Carter s criticism of Reagan was the harshest he has made publicly since leaving office. Informed of Carter s remarks a White House spokes Man Ben f. Jarratt said there would be no response. Reagan had said that before he took office there was a decade of neglect in military affairs and that his program represents the first significant improvement in nuclear deterrence in 20 years. Carter a Democrat who lost his 1980 re election bid to Reagan said in an interview at Plains that almost All strategic nuclear weapons programs had been initiated by him and by presidents Ford and Nixon and that the Carter administration had seen a steady and predictable increase in spending that surpassed the Best intelligence estimates of expansion by the soviet Union. Carter said it is also Clear that substantial improvements have continued during the last five years but some of the policies of this administration have endangered the National consensus that is necessary for sustained efficient and predictable improvements in the  Carter recalled making the decision for production of the my missile and full scale development of the advanced stealth bomber a plane that will be difficult to detect by radar. He said his own program to deploy 200 Mobile my missiles in 4,600 horizontal launching shelters provided a feasible Basing Mode Invulnerable to attack and was therefore stabilizing for .-soviet relations. He attributed Reagan s decision to abandon Mobile Basing to the objections of some very key Republican Western states and he said the Reagan plan to put 100 mrs in fixed silos diminished congressional enthusiasm for the missile and created an inviting target for soviet War planners. Carter said that his Covert assistance to moslem rebels in Afghanistan had offered at least a limited Prospect of preventing a final soviet Victory there. He said Reagan s desire to support anti communist insurgents in areas such As Nicaragua and Angola appears to have Little Chance of succeeding. Carter who visited Central America recently said i think that Contra strength has withered away in the last year using the name for the american supported guerrillas fighting the sandinista government in Nicaragua. Carter said there is a widespread opinion in Central America that the nicaraguan insurgents enthusiasm for fighting has decreased and that now they have perhaps four times As Many troops in Honduras As in Nicaragua. He said Reagan s real goal is not to Force a negotiated settlement but instead not to leave office with the Sand nistas still in  the ultimate outcome he said might be the use of . Troops which i  he objected to Reagan s suggestions that the current program of strategic weapons modernization should be attributed to Reagan. Carter said that the Trident missile submarine program and a program to build a new highly accurate Trident nuclear missile began Long before Rea Gan took office and he noted that five of the seven Trident missiles now at sea were installed before 1981. He said that he cancelled the program to build the first Model of the by strategic bomber on the grounds that it was less effective than the stealth plane but that credit for initiating the by belongs to Nixon and Ford. He continues to make statements that he obviously knows Are not True Carter said of Reagan. Carter said that when 241 american military members were killed in Lebanon in 1983, Reagan attributed it to a degradation of intelligence agencies by the three former presidents. In a Telephone conversation i told him he had gone too far Carter said. He told me he had been misinterpreted by the  Carter said he then spoke to Reagan about his contentions that there had been no increase in military spending in the Carter years and no strategic modernization. Carter said Reagan assured him he would not repeat those assertions. This is the first time i have gone Public Carter said but some of his statements Are almost More than a human being can  stateside police officers libel suit against 60 minutes dismissed Morristown . A a state judge has Dis missed a libel suit against lbs by two police officers who charged they were defamed in a 1979 "60 minutes Seg ment. Superior court judge Kenneth Mackenzie ruled that the Case should not go to a jury because there was no evidence of malice. He said nine sections of the segment called equal Justice were defamatory but that lbs and its employees were privileged to air the information. Robert Gold an attorney representing John Farley and Frank Possert who were Orange police officers said he would Appeal the decision. Bogus invitations offered real steal to store s customers Longmont Colo. Up it May have been some one s idea of a joke but King snoopers officials Aren t laughing about a Batch of bogus letters inviting people to shoplift at their supermarkets. Executive vice president Bill Boggess said an unknown number of letters were mailed asking people to participate in testing a new shoplifter detection system at the super Market Chain s stores. Boggess said people were invited to shoplift items and if they got caught All they had to do was explain that they were participating in the test. If they were not caught they were asked to write the store listing what they had stolen. We did get three letters from customers saying this is what i took " Boggess said. But they May have been part of the  Gaa plans to increase imports of medium duty Isuzu trucks Pontiac Mich. A general motors corp., which owns 34 percent of Japan s Isuzu motors ltd., says it plans to increase imports of foreign made Isuzu trucks for Rale with pm nameplates. Pm began importing Isuzu medium duty trucks in 1984 and sold 611, or about 1.4 percent of the 42,563 medium duty Csc and Chevrolet trucks sold that year. Sales of the japanese made trucks tripled during the 1985 Model run to 2,074 and accounted for More than 4 percent of the 48,701 medium duty trucks pm sold. A Lowers top interest rate for Home Loans to 9 j4 percent Washington a the veterans administration has lowered its maximum Home loan interest rate a full percentage Point to 91a percent. The change puts the rate on a guaranteed fixed rate mortgages at its lowest level since april 22, 1979. It is the sixth time in the last 10 months the rate on new a Loans has been decreased. The drop from 10 /2 percent is also the first decrease of a full percentage Point since mid-1982, when it dropped from 15 percent. The a Home loan rate had been As highs 17& percent in 1981. The a is also decreasing by one Point the maximum rate for graduated payment mortgages to 93/4 percent and Home improvement Loans to 11 percent. The rates apply to new Loans not existing ones. As of last week the average interest rate for new conventional 30-year, fixed rate mortgages was 10.68 per cent. F breast lumps Don t always mean cancer experts say Chicago up most women who develop lumps in their breasts Are no More Likely to develop breast cancer than those who do not a Large group of experts in the Fiel has reported. The report sponsored by the american cancer society should come As a Relief to the millions of women who Are diagnosed with so called fibr cystic conditions and could have major implications for the health insurance Industry the report s authors suggest. Many women have Lumpy breasts in fact most women do said or. Kay Woodruff a pathologist involved in the report. What we re trying to do is allay some of the fears trying to say that just because you find one of these lumps does t mean you re going to get  the report was the result of a meeting of dozens of nationally recognized pathologists surgeons and gynaecologists who examined data from thousands of biopsies an medical histories