European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday april 3,1087 Senate sustains veto of Highway Bill Washington a the so Nail sustained " " Etc fan ss8 billion Highway Lull Mil i Lii i in a High Slakes political showdown. The american people arc being shafted by this vote said Sennit democratic Leader Robert or West Virginia who switched his Vole at the last minute in a parliamentary Man Euver tha Abl cd him to seek a second Rodall. Bui Senate gop Udac in my Siewit Saj Phil Teton it fair and the toward on How soon or even we crier a second vote would be taken. Democratic Hopes for a reversal seemed to depend on fresh Man Terry Sanford of North Carolina the Only Democrat who voted to sustain the veto. He signalled his intention in Advance saying he too Little Hig on the tool a rely democrats to sustain the clot republicans. Byrd said he favored several More hours of de Bate. But republicans ridiculed him and said no minds could be changed on an Issue thai has become a Lough partisan struggle Between the new democratic majorities in the House and Senate and a Republican president weakened by the Iran Contr affair in departing ujej2�hjmi0usc Tor a trip to Phila cars he was very pleased Bic. Byrd s Call for a second Vole prolonged the sus Pense in a Battle Over legislation that permits the slates to raise the Speed limit to 65 Mph on most s of interstate Highway. I the measure a budget Buster that was ii kidding. The tally in the Democrat Nam Ltd House on tuesday to override the veto was 350-7i" Thatcher meets activist begun takes tour in soviet Georgia App Fioto Margaret Thatcher is i welcomed to soviet Georgia. Tbilisi . A prime minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain met with jewish activist Josef begun in Moscow on wednesday then relaxed on the last Day of her soviet visit with walking Tours in Jose Stalin s Home Republic. Begun a teacher of hebrew freed from prison in february said Thatcher told him that Kremlin officials seemed nervous when she raised the Issue or jewish emigration and told her that it was a soviet internal Thatcher s departure from Moscow ended the for Mal part of her live Day visit the lint by a British prime minister in 12 years. She flew Home from Tbilisi after attending the georgian stale opera and a stale dinner wednesday night. Begun who met Thatcher Over breakfast told journalists about the report Thatcher gave him and his wife Inna on her talks about emigration with Gorba Chev and other Kremlin officials. Even though the soviets considered emigration an internal affair begun said Thatcher expressed her Hopes that authorities maybe will do something to move the Reagan says parents schools must decide on aids education Philadelphia a president Reagan in his first major speech on the health crisis said wednesday that local schools and parents must decide How to educate children on the threat of aids but also must stress morality and avoid a value Neutral approach. He told reporters thai he does t quarrel Wilh Calls for the use of such or caul ions As condoms to Stem the sexual transmission of the disease. All the vaccines and medications in the world won t change one Basic truth that prevention is better than cure.1 Reagan told the Philadelphia col lege of physicians one of the nation s oldest professional medical associations. We be declared aids Public health enemy no. he said. I m determined Well find a cure for aids. Well find a Way or make Reagan in his tint formal speech on the aids Cri Sis said the Federal role amounts to giving educators accurate information about the Bui supporting statements by education Secretary William Bennett he also said the dissemination of such information must be up to the schools and the listing Pilot identified Wistein a Germany the a Lopilo missing disappeared monday fro training a Nisk Otway is i Sill Wallen. Search and resaw a Rufli coat Ned wednesday for Wallyn 27, of Prairie Jinjr Kan. Said Staft sgt Linda Jacobs of the 3 Ujj to Iraq Tiplic affairs office at ram Sicin a Wallen is Asci cd to the i8ih tacp1ma so at Eielson of Waska. He is one of 250 Mem cry Chic 343rd to Tif Ihler Wing deployed to Norway to take Paruir exercise Coronet Mars. Parents not until now the administration s principal spokes Man on the Issue has been surgeon general c. Everett Koop. He has taken a More aggressive stance than Bennett saying that beyond abstinence the surest pro Lection is the use of condoms and the education of children As Early As the third Grade. Reagan told reporters that be does t quarrel Wilh Koop s advice on prevention. Asked earlier if people should just say no he re plied thai s a pretty Good answer. first lady Nancy Reagan has used the slogan just say no to help youngsters Battle drug abuse. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a contagious fatal disease that attacks the body s immune system rendering it incapable of resisting other diseases and infections. In most cases it is spread by sexual Contact and health officials estimate that be tween i million and 1.5 million americans have been exposed to the virus. As of March 23, actual aids had been diagnosed in 33,158 americans of whom some 19,000 have died since 1979. While the president has spoken on the aids Issue before requesting Koop last feb. S to undertake a study of the problem he has been largely silent on the Issue of giving advice to americans on preventive and protective measures. In his speech Reagan noted that the Public health service has issued an information and education plan to help control the spread of the disease which has no known cure. But let s be hones with ourselves he said. Aids information cannot be what some Call value Neutral after All when it comes to preventing aids Don t Medicine and morality teach the same lessons North american jewish leaders say High soviet officials told them during a visit last week that the govern ment will let 11,000 jews emigrate in 1987. Begun 55, was pardoned feb. 20 after serving More than three years of a seven year prison sentence for anti soviet activities. Teaching hebrew is illegal in the soviet Union. Begun and his wife have been refused permission to emigrate to Israel. He told a news conference in his apartment that permitting him to meet with Thatcher was evidence of a trend toward a More open and free soviet society. But begun said the situation of soviet jews is worse now than several years ago. A record 21,000 jews were allowed to emigrate in 1979. The number dropped to fewer than 1,000 in the last several years. Jewish activists in Israel claim 400,000 jews want to leave the soviet Union. In this City on the Edge of the caucasus mountains Thatcher got a warm greeting from local officials. That was followed by a sightseeing trip. At one Point she slopped the motorcade and plunged into a crowd near a fruit and vegetable store. Hands off Appam a pm orthodox priest Nisei hit Arm la protest at � plan by the Creek government to strip the Church of its real estate wealth. The archbishop of Athens made last minute to pal in the so a tolls Jjo Temmel to change the legislative Thil would give laymen control of Church owned prop erty valued at More than is billion. A tale was set for thursday
