European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday. October 10,1886 Reagan defends ski farm policies grand Forks . A presi Dent Reagan in North Dakota to help out gop sen. Mark Andrews on Friday defended his Star wan proposal As a purely peaceful technology and com pared it to world War ii radar used to heat Back the nazis. At a political rally for Andrews Rea Gan Laid that trading his strategic de sense initiative ski for Arras reductions at the Iceland Summit would have been tantamount to Britain s Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler at Munich before world War ii. The soviets Are hard bar gainers Reagan said America must be even More patient and determined and unit  Reagan Atso defended his free Market agriculture policies in the upper mid West where Farmers have suffered hard limes. Andrews has been Hurt by the ail ing farm Economy and faces a Strong Challenge nov. 4 from he stale tax com missioner Kent Conrad. The president s decision at last week end s Summit in Reykjavik Iceland to hold out against soviet Leader Mikhai Gorbachev s insistence that ski research be confined to the Laboratory resulted in he collapse of an unprecedented agreement to slash or even eliminate offensive nuclear weapons on both sides. In the Days since the White House has mounted an intensive Public Campaign to explain Reagan s commitment to Star wars and to portray the Summit As having brought what the president termed a historic turnaround Tor the soviets and a new willingness to negotiate nuclear arms reductions. Among the political banners draped around the sports Arena where Reagan spoke Friday was one boasting Reagan scores in  grand Forks is Home to a strategic air come base scheduled to get by bombers next year. Recalling British research to develop radar before world War ii Reagan said that without that new technology it s possible that the Royal air Force would t have been Able to beat Back the nazi air assault on  i could t help but think Reagan continued that giving up ski would have been like Chamberlain giving up radar As Well As Czechoslovakia Aimu Nich a tragic Blunder that might have spelled the end to Freedom in  the decision to permit Hitler to Dis  and occupy Czechoslovakia in or. Country and miss America Kellye Cash miss America 1987, is years was interrupted by a Call from joined onstage by her grand Uncle Conn capt Roy Cash aboard the Mph idiom try Singer Johnny cub in Jackson cargo ship Elpaso id the Atlantic. I Tenn. The Homecoming gala honouring love Job and i understand Why you can the slate s first miss America id 40 be Here miss Cash Lold her father. Hopes it would appease his expansionist appetite is often cited As a catastrophic miscalculation thai emboldened the nazi dictator and led to the invasion of Poland and the Start of world War ii. Ski is a purely defensive purely peaceful technology Reagan said de scribing the hypothetical system that would employ High Energy laser beams and space based technology to shoot Down offensive missiles before they could reach their targets. If the soviets honestly want Progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons they have nothing to fear from ski Reagan said. Gorbachev however has insisted the . Program is a ploy to carry the arms race into space and give the United slates the capability to wipe out the so Viet Union before it can strike Back. Reagan met briefly with representatives of stale agricultural interests and promised them government will stand by you during these hard times but he added the last thing Farmers need is to return to the party that gave them Grain embargoes outrageous inflation and 21.5 percent interest  defending the Compromise farm Bill he signed last year paring subsidies for Many agricultural products Reagan acknowledged. There Are things in the farm Bill Hal Mark Andrews does t like and there Are things in it i Don t like. But we both agree government pro Grams ought to be better targeted to the family Farmers who need it most. Right now some subsidies operate to make Rich Farmers Richer and we re opposed to  defending Andrews with a slap at the incumbent s democratic opponent. Rea Gan said Andrews knows what it like to meet a payroll he is not a lifetime bureaucrat who does t know the differ ence Between a cow and a  recent polls have shown the race to be a tossup although the latest University of North Dakota Survey conducted this week gave Andrews a slight Edge 50.5 percent to Conrad s 41.7 percent the president s Brief visit to the University of North Dakota Campus was his second Campaign foray in three Days As he continues his fight to retain Republican control of the Senate. With 2vj weeks remaining until election Day Reagan i expected to Louch Down in As Many As 10 More states where races Are expected to be close. Reagan seeks elimination of Oil nukes spokes says grand Forks . A while House spokesman Larry up cakes Friday said president Reagan s us image goal is the elimination of All nuclear weapons but added that . Officials never tentatively agreed to such a proposal at last week superpower Summit in Iceland. Speakes tacitly conceded Reagan told sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., and other lawmakers at the while House earlier in the week that he had agreed to such a plan before his Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev collapsed in a stalemate Over soviet insistence thai Star wars research be confined to Laboratory  reviewed Reagan s comments in a Senate speech and up cakes said "1 Don t quarrel with what Nunn , in talking with reporters aboard air Force one in route to a Campaign Stop in North Dakota the spokesman added clearly they lawmakers did t question him to understand his position in  Speakes said that in his talks with Gorbachev Reagan and the soviet Leader were discussing a plan to reduce All Long Range weapons by 50 percent Over five years. During the subsequent five years the soviets proposed eliminating All Long Range weapons but the Ameri cans countered with eliminating ballistic missiles Only Speakes said. Despite several tentative agreements on major arms control areas the Summit ended in stalemate when Reagan rejected Gorbachev s demands to curtail the up Sec based missile defense system known for Mally As inc Sirai Egic defense initiative. Nunn and other lawmakers As Well As Many military strategists argue thai elimination of All nuclear weapons would place the Security of the Western allies in jeopardy because the soviets have Supe rior conventional strength. Our ultimate Coal and our policy is the elimination of All nuclear weapons Speakes said. He added the Pentagon is conducting a study to see what a world free of nuclear weapons would require in terms of conventional  is among the most conservative of democrats on defense policy mid has been a key ally of the administration on Many  while Speakes took care no to Challenge Nunn s recollection of what the president told senators at their Whitehouse meeting he did take Issue with the suggestion that the elimination of nuclear weapons might be undesirable. "1 Don t think sen. Nunn would favor a world with nuclear weapons Over a world without. Given a Choice of a world free of nuclear weapons or a world with i think the american people would favor a world without he said. To a Senate speech Friday Nunn said Reagan Lold lawmakers tuesday thai in Iceland american officials made a proposal to eliminate within 10 years Al nuclear ballistic missiles did everything else including  Congress bars forced retirement based on age Washington up Congress gave final approval Friday to landmark civil rights legislation for elderly americans Hal would prohibit with few exceptions mandatory retirement based on age. President Reagan 75, the oldest presi Dent in . History is expected to sign it measure sponsored by rep. Claude Pepper d-fla., who at 86, is the oldest member of Congress. It is to take effect Jan. 1,1987. On a voice Vole the House passed the Bill just hours after it was amended by the Senate to exempt for seven years col lege professors and state and local police men firefighters and prison guards. Abolishing age discrimination will offer new Hope to older workers who Are desperate to maintain their Independence and dignity said Pepper. It will give new Hope new courage and a new feeling of meaningfulness to the elderly people of ii is country when the word goes out from Chi i House that civil rights As it were have been  under existing Law employers can re quire workers to retire at age 70. The new legislation would Amend the age discrimination in employment act of 1967, which initially prohibited people from being required to retire before the age of 65. This was raised to 70 in 1977. A congressional study last year Esti mated Hal if mandatory retirement was eliminated the labor participation Rale by those Over 65 would increase by 5 percent a labor department study figures the legislation would add about 195,000 employees to the nation s work Force of 120 million by 1990, generating about 13 Bil lion in Revenue. Sen. John Heinz r-pa., chairman of the Senate aging committee and a key proponent of the Pepper Bill said Twenty two years after Congress pasted legislation the civil rights act of 1964 that prohibited race discrimination. Americans Over age 70 finally gained the same guarantees of equal opportunities in  Pepper s Bill has been backed by labor and senior citizens groups but it Rubeen opposed by some members of the business Community particularly the chamber of Commerce which says it could cause stagnation in the work  of the Bill contend that the vast majority of american would continue to retire before 70, even without mandatory retirement. But they by that As a matter of civil rights employee should have a  1978, Congress eliminated compulsory age retirement in most of the Federal work Force. The exceptions which would remain under the new legislation in clude air traffic controllers and Cia and Fri agents