European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Heidelberg u. Turns 600 stripes Magazine d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 d Steve Carlton loses in Al debut Page 17 q today s Dollar buys 2.05 Marks Page 23 author Iid us offricht Habu chios vol. 45, no. 118 thursday August 14, 1986 lit do 0-0 Sun nor 8693 a prospects for Summit Good Reagan says Chicago a president , awaiting a report from . Arms negotiators heading Home from Moscow said tuesday night he is optimistic about chances for a successful autumn Summit partly because of difficulties facing the Kremlin leadership. Reagan in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency o Harc hotel met iwo press corps in a rare out of town news Confer ence that brought Forth questions on subjects ranging from unctions against South Africa to the influence of political extremist Lyndon Larouche. Asked about the Victory of Larouche followers during the Illinois democratic primaries Reagan ended a Long Day of midwestern politicking by suggesting playfully thai voters might Wani 10 play it Safe and vote his fires question dealt with the just concluded two Days of High level highly secret arms talks and whether any Prog Ress was made. I Aon t have a reply Jet he said. He declined to spell oui the arms proposals head exchanged in correspondence Wilh so Viet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. A re her asked whether the soviets had responded to a . After to delay Reagan s strategic defense initiative i m not going to discuss what was in my see Reagan on Page 24 Wall of shame Marks 25th year lbs pit ology ency Baker a smiling Wesl Berlin won but offers � hot Boc Kennt in unsmiling but German Bonier guards who had advanced to checkpoint Charlie o prevent from trying to cams me Bonier. Berlin up West Germany called wednesday on the 25th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall for ils destruction but East Germany said it has protected the communist stale from Western plunder. In Chicago president Reagan also said the 13-foot High Concrete Barrier manned by armed guards to pre vent East Berlin residents from fleeing to the West should be torn Down. Or Luis a Star on Page 2. The Wall built aug. In i%1 ils Eastern Side Stark Gray along a Barren strip of no Man s land and its Western Side plastered with colourful Graffiti has been called the Wall of shame by the West and an anti fascist defensive Wall by the East. West Germany observed the anniversary of the Wall with Wreath laying to commemorate the 184 refugees killed fleeing in the last 25 curs and with a ceremony in the rebuilt Reich Stag he old German parliament building in Wesl Berlin. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in a speech at the ceremony said germans never will accept the division of Berlin. Germany and Europe Wilh its dictatorship Wall and barbed wire. We demand humanity and peace on the Border through Germany he said. The Wall and barbed wire and the order to shoot Rouse although denouncing the Wall. Kohl granted that the communist state established in 19-14 in the soviet zone of Germany has made Progress in the last 25 years. The German democratic Republic today is recognized As a state worldwide Kohl said. It appears strengthened internally and has More room for Maneu ver to alleviate the consequences of the division for the people in Kohl in his speech said that from the establish ment of the East German state in 1949 until aug. 13, 1961, a total of 2.7 million East germans fled to West Germany in a nationally televised news conference tuesday Reagan proposed East West talks to overcome the division of the former German capital and said he would be willing to discuss with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev removal of the Barrier. Reagan said the United states should have taken see Wall on Page 24 Chiec conf duty is hard lesson in Freedom by Dan Wollam staff writer Berlin a year ago Jayne Cera was leading a quiet existence in Hawkeye Iowa. She did t under stand the Berlin Wall did t know Berlin had a Wall she did t know where Berlin was. As the Wall turned 25 on wednesday Cera was standing guard at the place through which military traffic flows Between East and West Berlin Check Point Charlie. About 50 Yards from Cera citizens of East Germany gazed from their third floor barred windows past the Wall to the place where a handful of people were Gath ering at Cera s Post. Cera a 2q-Ycai-Otd private first class said she understands the Wall now. The people who come Here and protest strike me More and More she said. It la be Winter and i la be indy guard Shack freezing and some lady will be standing Here hour after hour to get her family out. I feel for the lady and 1 Don t even know Cera wound up at the chill Point wednesday by Acci Dent. Her number came up in the rotation of the watch at the 2s7ih military police co. Other than Joseph Werner an american who had flown from new York to pass out Black Linus and prayer Al the checkpoint most of the people there seemed to be accidental visitors. Greg and Linda Munson tourists to Germany from Minnesota were in Heidelberg when they heard about the Wall s anniversary and figured this would be As Good a time As any to visit Berlin their visit to the Wall Tike Cura s tour of duty was see duty on Page 24
