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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 21,1987 lawmakers urge economic Summit to build Confidence in America Washington a Republican and demo uralic congressional leaders saying we need some leadership tuesday called on president Reagan to Convene an economic Summit la discuss the crisis on world financial markets. But the White House Quick i shrew cold water on the Irica. It is Lime to faa1 a Tiluy and seek solutions that build Confidence in  said House speaker Jim Wright. A twas. Wright called monday s plunge on Wall Street a rude Awakening to the nation s prob Lem of Public and private deficit financing. It is time to begin again to pay is we go for the services we ask of  Wright told reporters in issuing an invitation for Reagan to sit Down with Congress Al the earliest possible Date. Wright predicted the House next week will pass a $23 billion package of spending cuts and tax increases aimed Al trimming the Federal deficit to meet targets of the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Faw Reagan has vowed to veto any tax increase. Failure to pass that measure As a first sep toward managing the deficit would be seen around the worlds a signal that the United states is incapable of Mak ing hard decisions and managing its own fiscal affairs Wright said. We need some  added Senlac minority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., and it s got to come from the president a leading candidate for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. Dole said Reagan ought to consider a Summit of administration congressional and financial leaders and perhaps other Western nations. "1 Hope the president will Call us together said majority Leader Robert c. Byrd . This is a time that requires leadership and Calls for leadership and there s no Way we ran avoid our responsibility. I m afraid that this is a storm that has been brew ing for a Long time. For a month i be been calling on the administration to talk seriously about Trade and budget deficits Byrd said. Al the while House spokesman Marl in Fitz Walcer said administration officials feel that calling in Leaden of Congress for an economic Summit will Only give platform to members of the House and Senate who advocate a a increase Over Reagan s vehement opposition. The president has Long Felt thai the Federal deficits a problem that needs to be dealt with his spokes Man said. But Fitzwater also said Reagan oppose Call ing a Summit. We think there Are better ways to do this Fitzwa tar said. " rep Bill Cray a a and others believe the answer is tax increases and we believe that would be precisely the wrong thing to  lotto laughs App Halo Dould Woomer and Linda despot of  a have the laugh of their lives is hey display Check for $1,416,612.40 after fixes the fint of 16 annul instalments they will share is co winners of Penn Syrma l super 7 lottery Jackpot the $46 million by out set Nall Oniu record. House votes against barring soviets from new embassy Washington a the House tuesday turned aside an Effort to Force the soviet Union to abandon its new embassy on Hilltop overlooking washing ton and find a site less suited to spy ing. The lawmakers voted 215-199 not Togo along with language adopted a month ago by the Senate which would void agreements made in 1969 and 1972 with the soviet Union providing for construction of new embassies by both countries. Opponents of the measure had said president Reagan would veto any Bill containing the language. The provision would have called for the United Stales to negotiate a new agreement forcing the soviets to build heir new embassy on 3 site no More than 90 feet above sea level. The new soviet embassy on mount Alto in Washington which has not yet been fully occupied is at an Altitude of 350 Frei the second highest spot in the City. Efforts to bar the soviets from occupy ing heir new embassy also have been i reaction to the discovery that the  being built in Moscow under the same agreement is permeated with sophisticated soviet spying equipment and May have to be demolished. Language to keep the soviets from occupying the new embassy was included by the Senate in a defense spending Bill that is the subject of a House Senate con Ference to work Oul differences Between the two measures. Rep. Jim courier r-n.j., called the mount Alto site the most perfect Loca Tion to create espionage in the City of Washington noting thai it offers line of sight Access to the while House Les than three Miles away the Fri 3.5 Miles away and the Pentagon four Milci Dis Tant. War poster artist Meek Dies in new York at 79 Syracuse. . A William Gilchrist Meek whose graphic designs included Reddy kilowatt and the a a Day poster showing the rising Sun sink ing in the sea died tuesday. Meek 79. Died at the St. Camillus health & rehabilitation Center. A graphics designer and typographer Meek was director of the office of War information in Cairo Egypt during world War ii. He also designed the minus can pos Ter used to sell War Bonds the Victory in Europe be poster showing the nazi Swastika crumbling. In later years he created Ruddy kilowatt which was used extensively in electric Power com Pany advertising. Meek was born in Wheeling w.va., and moved to Syracuse in 1963 from Rockland county. He was a graduate of he University of Minnesota. Meek taught Al the Kurzon school of Art in London and designed the . Exhibits at the world Trade fair in san Francisco in 1939 and Al the is. World Trade fair in Brussels in 1957. Meek was employed by , Singer Book publishers formerly of Syracuse and the j. Arthur rain and Frank Geary associates graphics firms in Syracuse. He was of the old school and his work was truly unique. He could make something Beautiful out of Ordinary Type face Cleary said. Sen. Evans of Washington won t seek re election Seattle a Republican sen. Dan Evans announced tuesday that he will not seek re election Nam year Evans has held the office for the past four years. A moderate Republican who won his spurs As a three term governor and who has never lost an election in democratic leaning Washington stale. Evans had kept political observers potential opponents and even his own staff guessing until the last minute about whether he would run in 1988. Evans press Secretary. Lee Keller said Evans confided his decision to his staff shortly before he announced it to a packed press conference at the Westin hotel. Evans was appointed to the Senate after the death of Democrat Henry m. Scoop Jackson in september 1982. He was elected in november that year to finish his term. Evans becomes the fifth senator to announce he will not seek re election. On monday. Sen John Stennis a Democrat of Mississippi announced he will retire at the end of next year. Previous announcements had come from sen. William prok nire a Wisconsin Democrat. Republican sen. Robert Stafford of Vermont. Republican sen. Paul Trible of Vir Ginia. The democrats currently control the Senam 54-46. Evans 62. Said that in his remain ing time in if tick he will do the bes Job he can. He also said he will do everything he can to elect a Republican president and a Republican replacement for himself. Evans decision is expected to Toff a political free for All within the state As would be successors in both panics Man Euver and vacate their own offices to seek the Plum  
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