European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page saturday june 13,1987 Pope endorses Solidarity As essential to Freedom Gdansk Poland a Pope John Paul icon thursday declared the outlawed Solidarity movement essential to the struggle for Freedom and throngs of poles cheered his Strong words of Praise for the Independent labor Union. A wildly cheering crowd of 300,000 in the town of Gdynia just outside Gdansk chanted stay with us stay with us after the speech by the polish born Pope. Many people made the a for Victory sign often associated with the Solidarity movement in the most rousing reception to Date on John Paul s pilgrimage to Hii Homeland. Several Large Rcd and White Solidarity banners were held aloft by the crowd. As the people cheered the pontiff boarded motor launch on his Way Down the Baltic coast to Gdansk for a meeting with Solidarity chief Lech Walesa. The two talked for 40 minutes late thursday in the company of two other Church officials. Adm. Hays visits Beijing Exchange program Uno a adm. Ronald chief of the . Pacific and arrived two Day As part of ongoing a increasingly freq want exchanges of Toj chinese and american i Hilary officials. Hays is Tovet senior cd be military officials and tour Nita by Una pouring his nine Day stay in Chinak a his trip follows a Miffy a visit to the unite states by Yang Sukun vice chairman of China s powerful Rbt trat military commission and an april top by an Force commander Wonghai. W among sup acts that Hays May discuss with the Chines opre future port Call exchanges joint exercises Jfe and the soviet military buildup in the a tic Region. Pics of Mutual interest Are life Situa Tion the korean Peninsula the .i def fat relationship Moscow s naval part am and the Protection of shipping in the Gulf. Killer in 5 Days executed in Louisiana Angola u. A Jimmy Glass to High school Drout who shot and kill edit bound and gagged Eville on Christmas eyl982, was executed Earl Friday in Louisiana s electric chair. A i Glass the third Louisiana inmate executed in five Days died at ifcl4 corrections commissioner c. Hab Wheler the . Supreme of rejected Glass last Appeal without comments Nursaray evening. The High court also had Rewoli to Stop Louisiana executions on sunday a tue any. The 5th . Circa Courtw appeals rejected Glass Appeal win essay. May. Edwin de wands has refused Stop any a cution unless be gets new innocent Glass was Erlene Bro cause i with of the him Nan the pice indicating me person is Jemne for killing i he said he should be is Wingo a cellmate who i the Webster Parish jail u. Held a gun to his Bead and i Browns after he called Wing Ingo 35, is scheduled to die june 161ings. Dollar s future Uncertain Ifo Wake of 7-nation Summit staff writer Venice Italy How the Dollar will fare on inter National currency Mhd ets in the coming months is a question that remains tally As the Lead ers of the seven top nations return Home following the Venice Summit distracted by National elects and soccer finals and faced with an Agenda that Rand from acquired immune deficiency syndrome to the persian Gulf Summit participants managed Little More ton a Reite ration of past promises to coordinate uneconomic policy. As one italian paper put it this Summit is from Only one thing a pernicious excess of a while each of the Summit leaders agree mine Green Back has fallen far enough the seven taut to reach real agreement on How to halt any further Jar a fact that has left currency traders uneasy. With the Promise of a firm economic strategy for the a Frois ahead economists watching the Summit predict any a Brief honeymoon for the Dollar before Worthe bps this fall. Treasury Secretary nes Baker Iii poured consid Erable Effort into adj Ping out this year s 140 billion improvement in . Federal deficit but there re Mains a growing Klief in Japan and Germany that the United state Faust do still More. In Hajj nomic experts term a real mystery Ger Man exacts to the United states remain nigh despite their spar doubling in Cost in the two years of the Dollar s be. The Federal Republic continues to enjoy Zero inflation and Domestic growth while iowgg0bn had been hoped continues at last year s Pac Mehmut 2 per cent. Only the country s 8.4 re Mains a problem and As one Jcj overment source said we have the social Neu Foo support German Chancell Ujj Mut Kohl has agreed to tax cuts Early next Yem hire up Domestic spending but he cont Mue Milne be that if there is something to be done Forth Molnar it is the United states that must do it thug Pete said. He s very polite about it but that the any in fact appears willing to live with the Polur at current rates As Long As it remains stable. Japan s $43 billion program to Spur Domestic spending astutely announced just Days before the Summit s " \ should also stabilize the Dollar at current Levels program can be pushed through the japanese nent late this summer. Japanese Industry has been badly Hurt by the Low Dollar so me is no reason to expect opposition to the package a spokesman for the Island nation said. Still prime Nakasone is to leave office in october and there Crains some doubt that his Suc Cessor will push the pm tags As vigorously. On his part presided Reagan assured the Summit he would continue to Fig Nwe Federal deficit but he publicly ruled out any tax Anchase in the waning Days of his administration. While no Kat Surprise the president s announcement does not ghz Well for the Dol Lar since there is Little belief among mers and economists that America s 55-month expanse Man the Gross National product can continue without Hei Buck from Page i i the Dollar but he wants Stabile cause but the Greenback a already declining on foreign Exchange markets. Speculators Are sensitive to any possibility of a shift in Gove Wient policy that could change the value of currencies the Dollar was trading at 1.792uman Marks with in minutes of the remark Down Frony 965 two hours earlier. It Slid to 142.s5 japanese yen Fkd 142.75, the associated press reported. However the . Dollar Rose against allx Scior for eign currencies except the British Pound and Dollar at the close of european trading thursday Reagan in his opening statement said the until states is engaged in a highly sensitive discussion with the soviet Union that could Lead to a historic arms reduction treaty on . And soviet intermediate Range missiles. He said Progress toward an Accord had been made i among the Leaden of the Summit nations. The president hedged when asked Helhe Fly eco nomic Summit talks and an expected ailment on arms control by nato foreign Mian currently meeting in Iceland would mean incur prospects for a superpower Summit this or i hesitate to make opt Mph statements always have Reagan said. By Vine same time i can t deny that i believe in Affnan increased Opportunity for a Summit confere kind an increased Opportunity for actual reduction armaments particularly of the nuclear kind for Reagan asked whether september might be Good guest or a Summit Date. I cd Ive you a guess. All i know is that we have Plain that they the soviets have the invitation and we re waiting for them. We believe that they should state what would be the most appropriate or easiest time for recent european opinion polls have put soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of Reagan on the image of a Man of peace. Reagan said Gorbachev is the tint soviet Leader in my memory that has Ever advocated actually eliminating weapons already built and in Reagan declined to answer questions regarding what the . Response would be if Iran deployed anti ship silkworm missiles along the persian Gulf but cd the United states is not in the Gulf to Provo be kind of increased hostility we re there to that very grilled on the Iran contain Reagan appeared to try to distance Ahimsa upon two leading figures inthe scandal a Symn Secretary of state Elliott Abrams and Mfd a. Col. Oliver North. The pres Pevas asked if he was comfortable being is knowing the Diplomat in charge of latin f affairs misled Congress during testimony in Nebr. Reagan said he stood by Secretary of state George is position supporting his Deputy. Hat is the administration s position Reagan said to cent the Secretary s statement on ther he still believes North the key figure in the scam Lis a National hero As he described the Marine when Orth was fired from his National Secu Rity Council pc a november Reagan said one cannot quarrel we his military record. Or his heroism in combat i i m going to wait until be has had his Day in court a. And i am not going to Prev a the president said thanked the scandal broke he has told the truth about hism pledge of the private id networks to the contras. A i told you All that truth the St Day when every thing hit the fan. A i was t giving these orders. Don t think the Law was broken he said referring to gun Gressional ban on . Aid to the contras. Protest from Page 1 Lin in june 1982, 87 officers were ii and 180 people were arrested. Although the March started peacefully with rhythm bands walking along with the demonstrators violence broke out about 6 30 . When several Mosst people wearing Black. It masks and Black leather jackets began throwing Beer bottles and firecrackers at police vans. They marched under banners sporting red and Black stars. Mere than 2,000 youths Clad in Black leather jackets and masks stopped in Wittenberg Platz to jeer police at the end _ of the March. An flying at Stor Dows and Aera he t3bwn Sid streets. A medic with the demonstrators said he treated eight people who had been hit about the head by police. Fliers distributed throughout the week by March organizers accused Reagan of pursuing militaristic policies around the world. They called on the United Stater to end nuclear weapons tests Stop support for anti government rebel in Nicaragua and withdraw nuclear missiles fran in. _ City to be a base for spreading cold War slogans with nation " a speaker told the protestors at . March the associated press i police distributed Thrif asking peaceful demonstrators to keep their distance from people whose Only purpose is violence. Do not conceal or protect them. Find your in addition to the anti american protes ters the marchers included turkish Citi Zens protesting nato Maneu vers in their Man plans protesting the Titan Niento they Are receiving in sri the demonstrators was a Bald Man wearing Only body paint and Riding a unicycle while shooting a Cap planned to put 10,000 policemen into the streets to protect Rea Gan during his Short visit Friday. His Ida was to include a foreign policy 9mlvards from the Graffiti Cov ered the landmark Brandenburg Gate in the background
