European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 2, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Carter Heads graduation speakers learn from troubles sex president says by the associated press former president Carter was the most prominent commencement speaker Over the weekend As Many of the nation s col Leges and universities launched Young men and women into the world. Advising Centre College graduates i Danville ky., to learn from the Trou Bles that life will hold in store for them the former president said everybody has trouble and weak moments. Every one has to change course to accommodate an obstacle they did t anticipate. To the degree that we can be stable peo ple and not have psychological problems we ought to expect to have trouble and be prepared for  in Newark del., democratic sen. Joseph Biden urged University of Dela Ware graduates to leave behind the Creed of greed and look for ways o help those less fortunate especially needy children. Biden expected 10 announce his bid for the democratic presidential Nomi nation on june 9, sail the Issue of poverty among the Young is one of the major watershed areas before us for the rest of this Century and into the next  comedian Jerry Lewis received an honorary doctorate from mercy College in Dobbs ferry ., for his fund Rais ing efforts for the muscular dystrophy association. Today s College graduates arc the future staring us straight in the face and i like what i see Lewis said. In Boston a. Bartlelt Giamatti for Mer president of Yale University an now president of baseball s National league urged 2,700 graduates of the University of Massachusetts to preserve the institution of education As a Symbol a Philo comedian Jerry Lewis mags for photographers after receiving an honorary doctorate Horn mercy College president or. Wilbert j. Lemelle in Dobbs ferry  Of the freely inquiring  if there is a vision you must Pressor let it be of our nation s schools and colleges As free and ordered spaces Giamatti said. Let the institutions be supportive of the rights of other minds freely to  in Ashburnham mass., Dionne War Wick Sang that s what friends arc for at the graduation of her son David Elliott from Cushing Academy. In Brief remarks Warwick wished the graduates a richly rewarding  at Bard College in Annandale on Hudson ., novelist Joan Didion told 175 Bachelor s and master s degree candidates go out and play where the wild things Are what i want to say to you today is not or move into that world where you re alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to control the world by closing it out she said. Didion was awarded an honorary de Gree As were playwright Edward Albee author and Illustrator Maurice Sendak film director Sidney Lumet psychologist Bruno  composer Elliot car Ter and architect and Bard graduate Sid  Shklov. Author Norman cousins addressed116 new doctors at the University of California at san Francisco medical school and urged them to expand on traditional Medicine. A physician works with the patients Hopes As Well As with anything in the physician s Black bag cousins said. The longtime editor of the saturday review wrote the 1979 Best idler Anat omy of an illness As perceived by the patient in which he recounted his own fight to recover from a mysterious rheumatoid condition. Comedian Bill Cosby was both the Fea tured speaker and a proud father As his daughter Erika graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown Conn. Miss Cosby will attend Law school after taking a year off. Cosby Star of the hit Abc series the Cosby show said in a pc ceremony news conference that White television executives should be called to task for the Lack of opportunities in to for Minori ties. I do my Rainbow hiring but these other folks arc allowed to be sort of invisible in terms of hiring americans he said. Gays seek Reagan s leadership in aids fight Boston a the nation s two avowed homosexual congressmen chided president Reagan on sunday for not doing More in the fight against aids. Shamefully the extreme right Wing Ide Algues who Nave Loo much influence in this administration have overruled sur Geon general Everett Koop have prevented the virtual unanimous consent of the Public health Community about what ought to be done about aids education from being implemented by the Federal govern ment said rep. Barney Frank a mass. Well keep that fight up but it s hard to win that one when executive action is needed he told 5.000 participants in a fund raising walk saying they should de Mand More government action while continuing private efforts to conquer the disease. Frank who revealed his sexual Orien tation in a newspaper Story published saturday praised the organizers and participants in the 6,2-mile walk. What we have is a Case where the Gay and lesbian Community have set an sex  Frank told the crowd assembled in sweltering heat on Boston common. It s an example of caring it s an exam ple of social  rep. Gerry Studds also a Massachusetts Democrat said the walkers were doing a Job that the government should be doing. Gay and straight this is your country or. President said Ludds. In the Nam of our common humanity or. President Lead us. Help us be a country that can put this plague behind us. Listen to your surgeon general and not your attorney general he said. Studds acknowledged he is homosexual four years ago after revelations he had a sexual relationship with a teen age House Page. The House censured him for that relationship. In remarks before the walk began Boston mayor Raymond Flynn praised Frank As one of the nation s top advocates for the elderly and housing. The mayor indirectly criticized Media cover age of Frank s disclosure saying he thought interviews with the congressman should concentrate on his record and goals. Gov. Michael s. Dukakis Drew mixed reaction from the crowd. Many cheered As the democratic presidential contender was introduced but several people turned their backs on him and chanted Foster Equality now a refer ence to a state policy that virtually pro Hibits homosexual couples from becom ing Foster parents. Dukakis did not acknowledge the pro testers As he called on the Federal govern ment la increase funds for aids Educa Tion. The aids walk organized by the aids action committee of Boston aimed to raise $500,000. Last year the fund Raiser brought in about 1325,000, said spokesman Richard Giglio. Everybody is recognizing that aids is everybody s concern Giglio said. Reagan politicizing aids officials say Washington up rep. Henry Waxman d-calif., and a director of aids research in san Francisco said sunday the Reagan administration has made aids a political Issue. And a leading conservative called for quarantining aids carriers brushing aside criticism by saying a stigma should be attached to homosexual behaviour. Or. Paul Volberding director of aids research at san Francisco general hos Pital said health professionals should Boycott an advisory commission being set up by president Reagan that is not expected to include a member of the homosexual Community. I d like to see it not be a political Issue Volberding said. It s an Issue to me of asking for advice on a commis Sion like that from people who can give you some important information and with this disease it has to include homosexuals because they Are the ones who have been dealing with this epidemic for the last six  asked about a letter by top health professionals to the White House saying they will Boycott the advisory commis Sion if a homosexual is not appointed Volberding said i Don t see the Point inhaling a commission if it starts out guaranteed not to be  Volberding made his comments on an Abc television program Foh owing appearances by Waxman chairman of a House subcommittee on health and conservative caucus chairman Howard  to rate Reagan s performance dealing with aids Volberding said he believed Basic and clinical research ple fairly but the administration s performance has been very very poor on pub Lic education and keeping this a Public health rather than a political Issue 1 but Phillips argued quarantining i something we have to  he added such action is medieval but he Job of government is to protect the inno cent and i say there should be a stigma attached to homosexual  said mandatory testing would drive intravenous drug users a High risk aids group underground. It s not a virus that discriminates and attacks just a Small segment of the society it s a problem for the entire Popula  the marchers men women and Chil Dren of All Ages brandished bottles Cool ers and makeshift fans in a Effort to Ward off the heat which Rose to nearly 90 de Grees during the walk. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 2, 1947 a presidential com Mission advised the United states to launch a $1.75 billion system of univer Sal military training and spend addition Al billions for defense or invite extermination in atomic warfare. 30 years ago today. June 2, 1957 French president Rene cuty called on All civilized people to break Contact with the algerian nationalist rebels who killed More than 300 of their own people in Melow a Village Southeast of Algiers 20 years ago foe a. June 2, 1967 Secretary of stale Dean Rusk said the United Stales had no plans to Challenge Egypt s blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba or to Lake unilateral action in the Middle East crisis. To years ago today ,. June 2, 1977 the House of representatives debated the question of How Many porpoises tuna fishermen should be allowed to kill in their nets. Some lawmakers warned that consumer prices for tuna would soar unless restrictions on porpoise deaths were eased