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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Iri Side strides. D country music awards announced in Nashville Page 3 g Dodds planning new drug Survey Page 9 d baseball playoff results Page 21 thes is jluthoii10 unofficial Public atom of vol. 45. No. 181 thursday october 16, 1986 mid Foncil 08693 a ., soviets argue Over Summit failure Washington a president Reagan and so vice Leader Mikhail Gorbachev blamed each other tuesday Tor heir inability 10 strike an arms reduction Deal in Iceland but agreed that too much is at stake 10 fold the negotiating table. Recalling his description of Iceland As a base Camp leading to a Summit Reagan said i believe there exists the Opportunity to Plant a permanent Flag of peace at hat Summit and 1 Call on the soviets not to Mist this opportune  Gorbachev accused Reagan of trying to push the soviets into an expensive new arms buildup. But Gorbachev also said hat negotiations cannot be abandoned. Lie said the Iceland meeting prepared a possible step Forward for a real shift for the be incr provided i reunited states at Long last adopts a realistic position and Abandons its illusions in  Gorbachev talked of possibly having to counter the Star wars program. Soviet people know this and All people around the world should know this As Well he said. But we Are opposed to a Power play. This is an extremely danger Ous undertaking in the nuclear missile  Reagan said the Kremlin overplayed its hand in seeking to by him to scrap Star Ware which in president says ii vital to America s defense. Asked about Gorbachev s charge that the United Stales causes the soviets to make huge defense expenditures Secretary of state George Shultz told a news briefing that both countries have indicated they want the elimination of Large categories of nuclear weapons. That Shutlz said does t sound like trying to bleed them  Richard n. Perle assistant defense Secretary for International Security policy and a member of Reagan s negotiating team in Reykjavik said the soviet Union May Well have wished to protect some of its own breakthroughs in Star wars Type research when it demanded that the United states give up non Laboratory testing of America s space based missile shield concept. He also suggested that the soviets advanced their unacceptable demands to limit Star wars researching Hopes of stopping All  Research in space including work on new communications systems and sensors. House Senate conferees of $290 billion for military Washington not House and Senate negotiator tuesday agreed on a military budget of about $190 billion Lor 1987. Giving president Reagan the smallest increase of his administration. The agreement is the second major Cut in Reagan s Pentagon budget request in two years. If approved by both houses of Congress it would allow an increase of Only $4 billion in the military budget 130 billion less than the president had requested. The Accord also incorporates the Compromise on arms control issues Between Congress and the while House last week including the deep Cut in the presi Dent request for research on his program to develop space based missile defense. The conferees also agreed to appropriate s151 Mil lion for 12 t-46a Jet trainers which Are built by Fairchild Republic co. In new York. That gives new life to the plane and the company whose contract was cancelled by the air Force this year. The agreements Are expected to be recommended by the separate House and Senate conferees who Are try ing to reach a Compromise on the comprehensive appropriation Bill for 1987. The agreement came As the House and Senate worked to Clear away the year s last major pieces of budget legislation so they could adjourn by the end of this week or Early next week. The government is running under its third Stopgap appropriation Bill since the 1987 fiscal year began  because there has been no agreement on the yearlong appropriation. The current Stopgap Bill expired wednesday the appropriations Bill still faces a veto threat from Reagan because of several proposals backed in the House. There will be separate votes in the two Cham Bers this week to try to undo a deadlock betwee House and Senate negotiators on these proposals. The 1986 Pentagon budget after spending was Cutas required by a budget balancing Law was j2s6.1 Bil lion As against $294.7 billion for 19s5. The slowdown in the military buildup that Reagan began in 1981 has come mostly because Congress has resisted his proposed increases in the face of High Bud see budget on Page 28 Elie Wiesel hugs his son Elisha. Holocaust author wins Nobel prize by the los Angeles times new York Elie i Csc. The concentration Camp survivor who became the literary con science of the holocaust was awarded the Nobel peace prize tuesday for his continuing message to Mankind of peace atonement and human  norwegian Nobel committee cited the 58-year-old author and professor whose parents and younger sister were killed during world War ii As a messenger to Mankind saying he is committed to the philosophy that the Force fighting evil in the world can be  Wiesel s commitment which originated in the sufferings of the jewish people have been widened to embrace All repressed Peoples and races the committee said awarding him the j280.000  dedicated his Nobel prize to All those who survived the Naii horrors. It belongs to All the survivors who have tried to do something with their pain with their Mem see Nobel on Page 28 terrorists bomb kills policeman in Barcelona Barcelona Spain a a car bomb exploded in front of a police Barracks in downtown Barcelona tuesday night killing one policeman and injuring 17people, is of them civilians the governor s office re ported. Police chief Augustin Linares blamed the Basque separatist group Eta for the bombing. Eta which funds Tor Basque Homeland and Liberty in the Bas que language has claimed responsibility for bombings and gunfire attacks thai have killed 37 people this year including 12 policemen who died in a july 14 car bomb blast in Madrid. The governor s office said thai a. Car packed with explosives and parked about 12 to 15 feet from the Entrance to the by Chile police Barracks on Plaza de Espana blew up at i pc 15 . The policeman kilted was on duly at the Entrance of the Barracks. He was identified As Angel Gonzalez. It was the second explosion tuesday in Barcelona Spain s second largest City and main Mediterranean port. Earlier in the Day a Small bomb exploded in the doorway of a downtown Branch of the Banco Urquijo Union shattering windows and slightly damaging the Bank s facade but inflicting no casualties. The catalonian separatist group Terra la sure free land in the catalan language claimed responsibility for that attack Linares said police have suspected there is a connection Between Eta and Terra la sure. Eta seeks Independence for the three predominantly Basque provinces in Northern Spain and Terra Lilure is demanding Independence for the Catalonia Region in the Northeast unit includes Barcelona. Credit unions serving the military overseas Page 73, to to o. A  
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