European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o military s air Accident rate causing concern Page 9 d Steve Carlton loses in Al debut or Chicago Page 21 p Georgia Colorado primary election results Page 28 the stars and gripes is i unofficial publication p vol.45, no-118 thursday August 14, 1986 humid Pouch Pom on Tao q 8693 a Reagan optimistic for Summit Chicago tap president Reagan awaiting report Ptim Islic. And i m optimistic that tomake More Progress than probably hns Benin a number of years because of some of the problems that Are concerning the general Secretary Attis  he did rot elaborate but Gorbachev has been Strug gling with a faltering Economy and Wilh the political and environmental damage inflicted by the nuclear reactor Accident at chernobyl in May. On another Issue Reagan said virtually All Black leaders in somhajatggfnhtt5 . Economic0pgbpbp? in Pretoria because eve they would be disruptive to the Region. A s something you face if and when that Tim comes he said. This is a Sovereign nation. You can t go in and dictate 10  opened his news conference by praising his efforts to help economically add funding his decision a subsidize sales  vict Union. The news conference trip that had included speeches Al Springfield and appearances at political fund Rai Chicago for gov. Jim Thompson running for re elec Tion and state rep. Judy Kochler trying to win . Senate scat of Democrat Alan Dixon. Play it Safe vote gop Reagan tells democrats Chicago up following Are highlight fro president Reagan news conference tuesday night politics asked Hii opinion of Radical Lyndon Larouche whose followers gained nominations for lieutenant governor and Secretary of slate in Illinois Reagan said he would advise concerned democrats to play in Safe vote  arms control Reagan said he is looking Forward to a second super Power Summit and is optimistic we re going to make More Progress than we be made in a number of  South Africa sanctions Reagan said sanctions against the South Africa government to penalize it Lor its apartheid policy of racial separation would be very punitive to people we want to help and he denounced the african National Congress As dominated by communists. Hostages Reagan insisted he is working relentlessly to gain the release of american hostages in Lebanon but would not comment on a message brought Back by the Rev. Law rence Jenco. Released from Captivity last month because disclosure might do harm to some odour  drug tests he said Federal workers who test positive for drugs won t be fired but treated to free them from this  if someone refuses a lest Reagan said i might be suspicious but nothing is going to happen to  later if he would release the results of his own drug test Reagan quipped they Haven t told me yet."1 can bet on the results he added because i know what i put  formers in his opening statement Reagan said no area of he budget including defense has grown As fast As administration efforts to help the nation s beleaguered Farmer the message in All this very simple american Farmers must know our commitment is  on his recent decision to sell subsidized Grain to the soviet Union. Reagan said we did t do it for the soviet Union we did it for our  Federal funding cuts Reagan defended his support of cutbacks in Federal funding for state and local governments saying Block Grants Are still available what we be tried to do mistake the red tape off these  Reagan says Anc under influence of communists Botha seeks Parley Chicago a the anti apartheid african National Congress has some solid citizens in its ranks but is influenced by outspoken communist member who have their own Agenda for South Africa president Reagan told a news conference tuesday  their roots to the formation of the communist puny in South Africa in 1921, Reagan said these people operated from outside the country and Pur ported to speak for the organization in seeking powering the while ruled country. But he said if you could do business Wilh an separate out and get the solid citizens on the Anc to come Forward on their own that s just  be had enough experience in our own country with so called communist fronts to know you can have a organization with some Well meaning and Fine people but you have an Clement there that has its own Agenda Rea Gan said this is what s happened with the Anc in exile. The ones we Are hearing from that Are making i restatements Are members or that communist  but Reagan left the door open to his possible participation in discussions Over South Africa s future As he endorsed a proposal by South african president . Botha for Lead of Western nations to Convene Loffer their advice. Botha who called for the meeting in a speech earlier in Durban also described the International Call for sanctions against his country As one of the most extreme forms of political fraud of the 20th  Reagan reiterated his own opposition to economic pressure ladies which a coalition of democrats and republicans in the Senate appear ready to  said hey would Hurt the Economy of the country and Are opposed by virtually All Black leaders except radicals an assertion he appeared to withdraw under Challenge from  guess it was careless of me Reagan said when it was pointed out that Bishop Desmond Tutu favored sanctions. I was talking in terms of the various groupings political alliances and so Forth of the people in the Black Community there he said