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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes  unofficial publication fopiuii.1, vol. 45, no. 353 wednesday i april 8, 1987 opjiuii.1 08693a . Officials vowing a spy proof embassy Washington a the sol department has vowed to take what Ever action is necessary to make the new . Embassy in Moscow spy proof but to stopped Short of endorsing congressional suggestions that the build ing be torn Down. President Reagan returning monday10 the while House from a meeting in Ottawa with Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney was asked if he thought the new embassy reportedly contaminated with eavesdropping devices should be demolished i Don t know the answer to that yet he replied. "1 Don t think anybody does chief of staff Howard Baker told re porters the Security problem would be the subject of a White House meeting tuesday rep. William Broomfield of Michi Gan senior Republican member of the House foreign affairs committee suggested that Secretary of state George a Shultz rethink his trip to Moscow forearms talks next week and consider meet ing soviet foreign minister Eduard a. See embassy on Page 28 Bis Ite Polo ipes interviews sen. Donnell Ysee Page s dentists deaths i police Page 3 r Carter Hoffman i on trial Page 5 Kemp declares candidacy rep. Jack Kemp with wife Joanne is to i crowd id Washington after announcing his candidacy for the re publican nomination far president. In making the announcement monday the lawmaker from new York vowed to support guerrilla movements in the Hope of Wynn Iii Back in Freedom nations now under communist Rule. He also pledged to oppose tax hike and strongly advocates deployment of the Star wars missile defense system. Webb has doubts but accepts women s role at Annapolis from press dispatches Washington James h. Webb jr., the Reagan administration s Nomi Nee la replace John f. Lehman or. As Navy Secretary said monday he still has doubts about the presence of women As midshipmen at the naval Academy. Re lated Story Page 27 but he said he has come to accept women in the school for naval officers. I accept that it s history he told his confirmation hearing. Appearing before the Senate armed services committee Webb himself an Academy graduate and former Marin officer said he believed there had been a decline in the Quality of Annapolis trained Marine officers which he said May be due in part to their training an indoctrination alongside women. Webb came under questioning by Sev eral members of the All male committee because of an article he wrote in washingtonian Magazine in 1979. Entitled women can t fight the article argue that the Academy was a place to train men As combat leaders and that consequently women did not belong there asked if he would prefer that the acad Emy revert to All male enrolment he said i think it s completely  pressed on the question he added i not really sure any More if you want an institution that is going to produce combat Leaden you Are going to have to have something either different or in addition to what you caveat the service academies he said. I have a great Deal of admiration forthe women who Areat the service academics. Should they be in combat i Don t believe they should he said. Committee members inquired sharply into Webb s views on women but seemed Molli fied by his statement that i there was no longer Webb any question about the admission of women to the Academy and that part of the Academy s Mission now is to train women for non combat assignments. Al Seo Webb on Page 28 no Quick fix for acid ran Reagan says Ottawa a president Reagan said monday there Are no Quick and easy answers for curbing acid rain pollution but he agreed to consider a Ca Nadian proposal for an Accord 10 combat the problem. Prime minister Brian Mulroney in television inter views bad urged Reagan to enter negotiations for treaty requiring lower pollution Levels by an agreed Dale. But it was not Clear whether Reagan would go that far. However in a step described by the United stale Sas a new course of action Reagan told the Canad an parliament he had agreed to consider the prime minister s proposal for a bilateral Accord on acid lion particularly because various technologies arc  being explored to fight it. On the same podium minutes earlier Mulroney said in this matter time is not our ally but our enemy. The longer we delay the greater the  the agreement to consider an Accord allowed the two leaders both trying to recover from political problems to wind up a 24-hour visit by Reagan on an upbeat note. Earlier both sides predicted there would be no agreements and american officials had said privately that a treaty was not the Correct Way to combat poll environmental Isis criticized Reagan s offer. This bilateral process will not save a single life or Lake said Daniel Weiss a Washington representative of the Sierra club. After Reagan s speech presidential spokesman Martin Fiu water avoided using the term treaty and emphasized the word  Well have to have discussions and negotiations to work out the exact nature of an agreement or of a sae rain on Page 28 or for title Page 21  
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