European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday juna13, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Marshall plan for the 80s urged by von Weizsaecker wat Gemunu president Rich cd ton Weizuo err. Cambridge. Mass. A West German president Richard von Weizsaecker told Harvard University alumni and graduating class thursday there must be a return to the cooperative spirit that allowed the Marshall pm to help rebuild Europe after world War ii. Von Weizsaecker said third world countries need similar treatment and that East West relations continue to pose a Challenge to the world. We must find currencies other than just military Power for East and West dealing with one another von Weizsaecker said. We do not want new conflicts about Borders. We have Learned painful lessons from history. But Borders should lose their divisive nature for people he said. The plan was visionary As great victors Seldom arc. The aim of the United states was to restore the Confidence of the europeans in their own strength in their own political future said von Weizsaecker in a speech prepared o commemorate another Given 40years ago in Harvard Yard. In june 1947, at another Harvard commencement Secretary of slate George c. Marshall look 12 minutes to outline he economic prescription o repair Europe thai came to Bear his name. The Marshall plan is and will remain the mos fundamental achievement of the Western world since the War von Weizsaecker said. His 33-Muiute speech was interrupted often by applause and ended with a standing ovation. Von Wii Saecker credited the Marshall plan with triggering european Unity and cooperation spawning the common Market and the International monetary fund. Indirectly it also helped cultivate the notions of human rights and cultural openness he said. The West go reran president said Marshall s speech would go Down in history and recalled for the Audi ence the limes in which the plan was Pul Forth. Misery prevailed in Europe expulsion displace ment hunger no heating no Power no production nonmaterial resources no prospects Little Hope. La was in this situation that George Marshall announced his program. I plan is unparalleled inthe history of world Powen in generosity selflessness and  when president Harry s. Truman signed the plan in1948, in the form of the foreign assistance act he authorized $17 billion Tor Grants and Loans to euro Pean government Over the ensuing four years. A 11010harvard s Public health grads toss condoms in it air. With that help european countries including West Germany restored Industry and agriculture stabilized their currencies and saw their Gross National product swell As much As 25 percent. Von  spoke o More than 20,000 people at the annual meeting of the Harvard alumni association. Earlier in the Day More than 5,000 graduate and undergraduate degrees were conferred. When master1 degrees were conferred on the 233 school of Public health graduates they Rose and shouted condoms As they tossed prophylactics into the air. Wrapped in while envelopes the condoms were inscribed Harvard school of Public health class of 1987" and below that and Ven Crem secur Orem latin for Safe  the crowd cheered. Graduate Tom Baiocchi 37, of Gray Maine said his classmates decided to Tosa he condoms because. It s clearly a Good idea to protect yourself from aids and venereal Juseas Sharks gnawing on at to s new undersea Cable new York up1 hungry shark munching on fiber optic cables on the Ocean floor arc creating headaches for the Telephone company which is working to make sure the new lines Don t become the latest culinary craze in the fish world. The shirks apparently an attracted bythe Light in the High tech fiber optic Ca Bles. The older Copper lines have always lain untouched by fish on the Bottom of the Ocean floor. We have higher current on our fiber optic cables a fact that has attracted f time the Sharks said James Barrett the Dep Uty director of International engineering for american Telephone and Telegraph. He said the problem has not affected Telephone service because Only test line shave been chewed. At to engineers discovered the prob Lem last year while they were on a boat off the Canary islands examining test lines. We lifted the Cable on deck an found shark s Teeth Barrett. This was our first introduction to Sharks Andreve Learned a lot about Sharks since  the tines off the Canary islands were Laid Down to determine what problems could crop up when the phone company puts the same cables across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans next year. To Dea with the problem at to plans to put steel tape on the lines. While at to May be concerned about the new shark delicacy Marine biologists Are benefiting from informal Ion provided by the phone company about the fish s feeding habits. The company by studying the fish has Learned Sharks do not like to feed Loo deep and that such factors As lighting play a major role in their dining habits. As result at to will have to place steel tape around Only those portions of the Cable that the shark is Likely to eat. The company expects the lines will More than quadruple the amount of Calls the average single line can handle. The cables which will link the United slates with Europe and Japan should be completed by 1988, barrel said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 13, 1947 . State department Counselor Benjamin Cohen said Europe might require up to 124 billion in assistance Over four years to halt starvation and Check the danger of dictatorships. 30 years ago today june 13,1957 Britain conditionally approved opening Europe to Aerial inspection As part of a disarmament agreement Between the soviet Union and the West. 20 years ago today. June 13, 1967 the supreme court barred Virginia and by implication other states from making me racial marriage a crime. Chief Justice Earl Warren speaking for a unanimous court said 14th amendment Freedom of Choice to marry must not be restricted by invidious racial  7 0 years ago today. June 13, 1977 the dragnet for James Earl Ray the convicted Assassin of Martin Luther King jr., and three other convicts widened to a 25-mile radius from the Tennessee prison from which they fled. Boy exposed to aids virus under quarantine in Florida Pensacola Fra a a 14-year old who has been exposed to the aids virus is confined in a psychiatric Hospital under the slate s first quarantine order involving the disease. Escambia circuit judge William Fry ordered the boy confined to University Hospital after a department of hah hand rehabilitative services Counselor said the boy was sexually Active and presented a Public health risk. Frye issued his order on an emergency basis without a hearing he will review it at a hearing tuesday. Joyner Sims administrator of the state aids program said thursday that he believes it is the firm quarantine ordering Florida involving aids. This is perhaps the most outrageous thing i be Ever heard of As a panic response to aids and believe me i be heard everything said Ben Schalz director of the National Gay rights advocate s aids civil rights project. Officials however say they had no Choice. Other reasonable Means of correcting the problem had been exhausted and no less restrictive alternative than University Hospital existed said health department lawyer Rodney m. Johnson. In an interview wednesday with the Pensacola news journal the boy said he wanted to return to his Pensacola Home. All 1 want to do is get out and get my Freedom he said vowing that he would refrain from sexual Contact