European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 30, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 3 Thatcher denies tories asked Reagan to help in election Campaign United kingdom election facts London api the labor party Leader suggested thursday that the governing conservatives sought help from president Reagan in he election Campaign but prime minister Margaret Thatcher denied it. Reagan told a news conference wednesday that the socialist labor party s pledges to scrap British nuclear weapons and return . Cruise missiles were grievous his comment focused the Campaign on defense one of Thatcher s favorite topics. Reports of Reagan s remarks Midway through the Campaign for the june ii elections appeared in thursday s news papers under Banner headlines. They ranged from Reagan pokes his nose in in the anti Thatcher paper today to Reagan s View of Brilain in the times of London which is pro conservative. Labor party Leader Neil Kinlock told a news conference thursday the Gen eral judgment will be that either be government has sought to mobilize the views of the president in support of them. Or that the president Felt it was Nec Essary in a moment of extreme frankness to offer that at her party Headquarters Thatcher responded we arc free to say what we wish. We must extend the same Freedom to other labor s platform Calls for he dismantling of Britain s Polaris nuclear weapons within weeks of a labor Victory. Kin Nock claims the country would be secure with conventional weapons alone. Thatcher called the labor proposal like arguing that a Man with a catapult could Hall a battalion of Kinlock. Battling to close an 8 to 12-Poinl Gap in the polls appeared tense but Cairn us the focus of the Campaign switched away from More difficult Issue for Thatcher unemployment health and welfare services. Kinlock could not get away from the nuclear Issue at the news conference which was called to discuss his economic program. Pressed on whether a labor governed Brilain would remain under . Nuclear Protection a fundamental nato strategy he said there was no defense in weapons of termination and the United Stales would put its interests first any Way. We Are in nato we Are a said . But if it came to nuclear War the sole question in the mind of a . President. Would be one of pre dominantly american Thatcher addressing an evening rallying Birmingham the Center of Central England s politically volatile Industrial Belt called labor s non nuclear Piank a policy of the White it would be the abandonment of be Lief in ourselves a cracking of the Cornerstone of the Atlantic Alliance she told the audience after a Day of tightly guarded visits to factories in the area. It really is that Thatcher said that under labor Brit Ain s 55,000 troops based in Germany would be the prime target for communist attack. Which part of nato s front line would the Warsaw pact forces attack with nuclear weapons the germans and americans who could respond in kind or the British who could not she asked. Labor s program Calls for the immedi ate cancellation of Britain s order for themore potent . Trident missiles with which Thatcher intends to replace its Polaris missile Force in the Early 1990s. Ken Nock has said however that Salabor government would allow cruise missiles to slay in Britain if superpower negotiations Tor cutbacks were going Well. But the missiles would have to be parliamentary election current parties scheduled for Jim 11 electorate 43.6 million people Are eligible to vote among 56.5 million population. Voting Aga is. 18. Pm amt parties put up for election from 650 parliamentary constituencies. The Winner in the candidate with the most votes in the constituency v the tauter of the largest party in parliament almost automatically becomes prime minister. If no party wins a majority of 320 teats the parties negotiate to form a coalition. Campaign Niter election Law mandates a Short Campaign with the vote held 17 working Days after parliament la dissolved parties May not buy commercial radio or to time instead they Are allocated free time on the basis of the number of seats they hold in parliament and the number of constituencies where they Are running. Choosing cd Statek there Are no american style primaries. N the conservative party Headquarters lists about 700 approved candidates and offers them to districts with vacancies. If a local party wants someone else Betat Sodal democratic Alliance 274.2% other parties 233.5% the candidate must be approved by party Headquarters n labor candidates Are chosen by vote in local chapters usually made up of activists and labor unionists. Only in exceptional circumstances by decision of the party s so member National executive committee can a candidate be removed. D the Allied Liberal and social democratic parties choose candidates by vote in local party chapters. The constituencies have been divided so that social democrats and liberals Don t run against each other. Guente source Chicago Tribune not a porn gone within five years he said. An opinion poll to be published Fri Day in the Liberal guardian newspaper shows Thatcher opening up a 12-Poinllead with 44 percent support while labor had 32 percent and the centrist social Democrat Liberal party Alliance 21. Earlier a Gallup poll in the right Wing daily Telegraph put the conservatives Al 44.5 percent with labor at 36 and the Alliance Down to is. It was the worst rating for the centrist movement since Thatcher announced the election May ii. The conservatives currently hold 393 scats in parliament against 207 for labor sir Rudolf disappears reported missing by wife London up sir Rudolf Bing former director of the new York metropolitan opera now suffering from a degenerative brain disease was reported miss ing thursday after leaving a London hotel to buy cigarettes Scotland Yard said. Police said the disappearance of the frail 85-Ycar old virtuoso was reported by his new wife Carroll a twice divorced former geriatric nurse who with Bing is involved in a . Legal feud Over his Fortune Esti mated at about i1 million. Lady Bing 47, told police she and her husband had had breakfast together Al London s Sefton hotel when at about 10 30 . Thursday he left to Purchase a pack of cigarettes. By late thursday Bing had not returned. We Are still unable to say what happened to said a Scot land Yard spokesman. There has been no Izacc As sir Rudolf Bing and his wife Carroll. London s Independent radio news quoted the Man Ager of the hotel As saying lady Bing became Desper ate when sir Rudolf failed to act Jan earlier this year a medical diagnosis in the United Stales showed Bing who for 22 years was director of the new York met was suffering from alzheimer s disease a degenerative condition of Lac brain. Bing and his wife were married in january but later were officially declared incapable of handling their affairs including his Fortune. At the request of his family Bing s assets were Frozen. According to reports in London the flings had been ordered to return to the United states by next week to resolve the dispute. Ding Holder of a British Knighthood conferred by Queen Elizabeth ii and his wife came to Brilain in april to seek what she said was a peaceful and quid life in the English Countryside the couple reportedly had come to London on a social visit and were staying at the 22-Pound-a-Nighl $36 Salon hotel when he disappeared. Pope to Meef with aids patients in son Francisco san Francisco up Pope John Paul ii will meet with about 100 aids patients and their families during his september visit to san Francisco officials announced ending a yearlong debate stemming from Church policy against homosexuality. The meeting will Taki. Place sept 17 Al the Mission Dolores Basilica Archili Olcsan spokesman Rev. Miles Riley said thursday. The pontiff will visit the Church shortly after arriving Al Crisy Field and inking pan in a motorcade that will include a Quick Stop at the Good in Gate Bridge. Riley noted that organizers of the papal visit to san Francisco had been arguing for a year about whether the Pope should visit aids patients. The disease ii most frequently contracted by nuni sex Ais and the Church has condemned the practice of homosexuality. Some homosexual groups Wilsn had strongly crib Ici de the Pope s visit because of his opposition to homosexuality and they had threatened protest demonstrations during his visit. Archbishop John Quinn of san Francisco had urged that John Paul ii Meel with sufferers of acquired immune deficiency syndrome As a Way to demonstrate.1 concern about the problem. Riley said 100 seats in the Basilica will be reserved for aids patients their families friends and aids workers. It is a Magnifico int a solution to the prob Lem of getting the Pope together with aids patients Riley told a news conference. This is what we wanted from the beginning he said. The Pope also will meet at the Basilica with about 800 other people some 4 so senior citizens and 400 parishioners of Mission Dolores Church. We were very concerned that this tragic epidemic be prayed Over by the holy father because we thin prayer is More important than Medicine Riley said. It s a marvelous Way to focus on aids and Pray for Healing because we need a
