European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 stars and stripes monday March 17, 1986 students score firsts7 talking with soviets from Page 1 opened right where everything is going  Afghanistan. Nicaragua. Human rights. Rambo. Rocky. The arms race. Star  economic sanctions. Grain sales. The soviet comprehensive nuclear test ban proposal. And finally ways of building More Trust Between the nations and cooperative research efforts. Students fired off question after ques Tion and listened to often opposing answers and polite arguments among rep. James Leach a Iowa a member of the House foreign affairs committee Vitaly Chur Kin second Secretary for arms control at the soviet embassy in Washington and Vlad Mir Petrov a soviet dissident and defector who now is chairman of the Institute of sino soviet studies at George Washington University. It is an Opportunity that can t be matched said Phil Kasten an american rotary club Exchange student who attends the Kepler gymnasium in Ulm. It is an Opportunity for students still in school to have a Little input. A congressman or the president might be watching this  the Opportunity to influence decision makers and listen to a soviet official speak directly to them was Heady stuff. However it created no converts. I saw a different perspective but i m not sure i changed my View Peterson said. But deeper understanding not changing minds was the Point of the Exchange Stu dents said. There is such a Gap in Cul Tures Peterson said. If we Don t under stand each other we can never reach  the event was organized by close up a Multi partisan non profit organization that has sent More than 160,000 students to is photo by Tracy Baker Michele Peterson. Not sure i changed my View Washington d.c., to study government. It also televised current events programs on the Cable satellite Public affairs net work that has an audience of 17 million. The conference with students in depart ment of defense dependents schools and other schools in Germany marked the organization s first excursion to Europe. Earlier in the Day students had listened to speeches in a Wiesbaden hotel Confer ence room by a . Official and a soviet official stationed in Germany. The officials discussed the status of .-soviet relations. The students also participated in Dis Cussion groups on political and economic systems and histories of the two countries. And they had asked Many questions of Tom Johnson Branch Public affairs officer for the . Consulate in Frankfurt Vladimir Markov chief correspondent in Germany for the no Vosti press Agency and Thomas Killinger of Bonn editor in chief of the Rhein Ischer Merkur newspaper. American and soviet officials looked at the world through glasses of different col ors. Students Learned that the term de Tente Means different things to the United states its allies and the soviets. The United states sees those fighting the soviets in Afghanistan As Freedom fighters while the soviets Call them terrorists. Heightened tensions in Europe in the late 1970s were caused either by increased nato defense spending or the stationing of soviet ss-20 missiles depending upon the country s perspective. Actions against dissident Andrei Sakharov Are an example of soviet repression or the just punishment of a lawbreaker. The United states should let nicaraguans determine their own Politi Cal future. The soviets should do the same in Afghanistan. Points of agreement were few. Both have the same overriding concern to avoid a nuclear War that neither Side can win Johnson said. The greatest problem is How can we maintain peace and eliminate the arms race Markov said. There were no easy answers on How to do that especially now that Reagan s Strate Gic defense initiative also known As Star wars has heated rhetorical fires to boil ing. Students who asked How distrust can be lessened were told that Exchange programs and space and technological cooperative ventures provide one key. But even the idea of stepped up cultural exchanges stirred controversy. Americans also have to open their minds a Little bit Churkin said. Very few americans. Have seen a soviet film. Have read a Book by a modern soviet writ  Leach said americans greatly respect soviet culture and would read and see More of it if the soviets permitted unchecked distribution both inside and outside their coun try. Soviet citizens already see a Good number of american films but sharing of Sylvester Stallone movies is not the Way to improve relations Churkin and Leach agreed. Calling rambo and Rocky films promo Ganda of ethnic hatred Churkin said we Are never going to shoot that kind of movie about  Leach agreed it is hard As an Ameri can not to be disturbed by films that deliberately attack the soviet Union. But the right to make such movies is important and censorship of them should not be tolerated Leach said. After listening to such sparring matches students said they better understood the is sues As Well As the meaning of propaganda and How it is used. There is propaganda on both sides Kasten said. While the Western students weren t swayed much by soviet arguments opening their minds to other viewpoints is critical to the world s future they said. In order to improve relations Between our two countries we need to have a lot of Trust said Cherie Poland a Kaiserslautern High school freshman. Our Way of think ing is completely Western. We re usually not open to soviet  the key thing that happened to me is when Markov said Why is it not possible that two societies even though they Are Dif Ferent to live together in one world Kas ten said. If we build Trust i think this is  discord Marks first Day of open crisis meeting Geneva Switzerland a open ended a first Day of crisis talks sunday with no agreement on ways of reversing the re cent Sharp drop in Oil prices the open president said. Arturo Hernandez Grisanti of Venezuela speaking to reporters after a second round of discussions in a Geneva hotel said Oil ministers from the 13 member countries would resume deliberations monday. Ahmed Zaki Yamani the Oil minister of saudi Arabia was quoted by Britain s sunday Telegraph newspaper As saying that Oil prices could fall to $8 a barrel if a Price support plan is not worked out Between open and inde pendent Oil producers such As Britain nor Way Mexico and the soviet Union. The open ministers Are trying in Geneva to reach agreement among themselves before meeting a group of non open Oil producers later this week. Analysts said the meeting with Independent producers Egypt Malaysia Bru Nei Mexico and Oman is unlikely to produce a meaningful agreement in part because Brit Ain and Norway will not be there. Britain and Norway together produce More Oil than All open members except saudi Arabia and both have increased their output in recent years As open has Cut Back in a failed attempt to prop up prices. At the current level of about $15 a bar Rel Oil prices Are the lowest since the late 1970s and have fallen by one half since the Start of the year. The decline has Given a major boost to the economic Outlook in the Western industrialized nations. But it has deeply Hurt some of open s poorer member countries and has thrown the Cartel into perhaps the gravest crisis in its 25-year history. As he entered sunday s opening session Yamani said All possibilities for reversing the Price decline will be explored. In a message delivered to the open delegates in Geneva on sunday the president of Iran syyed Ali Khamenei urged the 13 member countries to unite against the downward pressures on Oil prices. After a period of decline Oil prices began collapsing last december after open abandoned its four year Effort to keep prices High by cutting Back on production. The strategy failed because too Many of the members were unwilling to abide strictly by the production limits. The Cartel pledged to fight for an undefined fair share of the world Oil Market declaring that Britain and the other non open producers would have to make room for additional open production by cutting Back on their own output. The Call has largely been ignored although Egypt and a few other smaller producers have said they would consider cooperating with any new open strategy. Current open output is estimated at 17 million barrels a Day or roughly one third of world production. In the late 1970s open held about two thirds of the Market. In the three months since open switched strategies Many of its members have become disgruntled and they arrived in Geneva sharply at Odds Over what could be done to Stop the Price slide. One group led by Iran and Algeria wants open to revert to its previous strategy of setting production quotas for each member country in order to maintain an agreed offi Cial Price for their Oil. A rival group led by saudi Arabia and its persian Gulf allies has argued that it is unrealistic for open to try to support prices by itself. They say it must Force non open producers to the negotiating table and their favored tactic is to flood the mar Ket and let Oil prices collapse. The saudis contend that Britain and the other Independent producers eventually will come to the conclusion that it would be better to cooperate with open than to jeopardize their Oil Industry future. Oil exploration efforts in Britain and the United states already Are being Cut Back in response to the Sharp drop in world Oil prices. The american corporations Exxon and Chevron two of the biggest Oil companies in the world announced last week that they were cutting their capital and exploration Bud gets by More than 25 percent for 1986 because of the downward Price spiral. But the saudi strategy has angered Many of open s poorer countries who fear their economic and political systems cannot Bear the Strain of such Low prices. 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Fog and Haze will return by late evening. High temperatures 42-52, lows 28-36. Sunset monday 6 32 Sunrise tuesday 6 34. Outlook for tuesday mostly Cloudy skies with morning fog and Haze. By mid Day the Southern half of Germany will be fair to partly Cloudy while Northern Germany will continue mostly Cloudy. Temperatures slightly warmer. Temperatures recorded sunday right wins. Polls showed voters had not forgiven the socialists for the economically disastrous free spending policies of their first two years in Power. Mitterrand in 1983 introduced austerity measures that brought inflation Down from 14 to 4.7 percent but unemployment continues to hover near 10 percent. The crisis Over French hostages in Leb anon dominated election Day news much As the drama surrounding 52 americans held captive in the . Embassy in Tehran overshadowed 1980 presidential elections and contributed to former president car Ter s defeat. The hostages came Home the Day president Reagan was inaugurated. The crisis came to a head in the last week of the French Campaign after the pro Irani an islamic jihad said it killed hostage Michel Seurat to retaliate for France s expulsion of two pro iranian iraqis and a previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the March 8 kidnapping of a four Man French television Crew in Beirut. The islamic jihad is holding three other French hostages. Adana m Amsterdam p Athens m Aviano m Berlin f 4am 4pm45 68 36 5246 52 57 5538 43 Bremerhaven m 36 43 Brussels p 38 52 provided by Del. 13, Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures 4am Copenhagen m Frankfurt p London m Madrid p Munich f Paris p Rome p 7th weather so 31 41 39 43 34 38 48 4pm 36 54 5559 4859 59 Graben Cairo cd Dublin cd Helsinki cd Jerusalem f Lisbon f High Low 77 55 Montreal cd 54 45 Moscow f 28 19 Oslo cd 57 46 Toronto cd High Low 36 32 41 19 34 32 41 32 64 45 Vancouver cd 50 34 supplied by the associated press fair cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy