European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d 60 minutes Star Wallace belies abrasive image Page 2 d Small plane crashes kill eight in three states Page 6 d to your health Stop stress before it stops you pages 16,17 o Mavericks beat lakers 118-104 sports Page 21 the stars and stripes Utho Icid unofficial Quilic Etiopi f0 Thiim. � Uio it Cut vom7.no.44 tuesday May 31,19bb Good morning i d 6693 a Reagan meets with dissidents Freedom economic growth closely linked president says president and in. Reagan tie a display of inns in Moscow s Dailor monastery. Moscow a president Reagan told soviet dissidents and Rufu Schiks monday he Lime is Ripe to press for human rights because Kremlin Leaden appear 10 grasp the connection Between certain freedoms and economic bellied stories an pages 3,5. Speaking to several dozen dissident gathered in Spaso House in the . Embassy compound after visiting a 3th Century monastery Reagan said that while there have been Hopeau signs of improvement in he soviet Union Uherc cart be no relenting for us now we must work for More always i came Here to give you strength but in is you who have strengthened me the president said in a meeting that some soviet officials had criticised As meddling in the internal affairs in the coun try. While we press for human lives through diplomatic channels you press with your very lives Day in and Day Mil risking your Homes. Jour jobs and you All Reagan told the group in remarks thai brought occasional applause from his audience. We Hope that one Freedom will Lead to another the president said saying he Hopes soviet leaders real inc that economic growth hinges to a Large degree on individual initiative. An individual soviet citizen Reagan said must sense that the government respects him enough to Gram him All his human during the session interrupted from continued on Back Page ceremonies visits to cemeteries Mark memorial Day in . By the associated a Raj solemn memorial Day ceremonies honoured the nation s War dead monday drawing thousands to Washington s monuments and Small town cemeteries. Many others Parl cd in the Sunshine to kick off the summer season. It s about the Saddest Day thai and Christmas said Margaret Meyers 90, of Columbus Ohio who lost two sons at Normandy in 1944, memorial Day is a Day of reflection of being extremely disappointed in the heart and mind and of thinking How much i wish i could close the Book on my lather said Robin Powers. 28, of Orion town ship mich., outside Detroit her father maj. Gary g. Wight was declared missing in action after hit air Force reconnaissance Jet disappeared Over Southeast Asia Jan. 17,1967. In Boston a Cannon on the Bow of the 190-year-oldconstitution was tired 21 limes beginning at noon. About 4,000 people attended a Wreath laying Cere Mony at the Tomb of the unknowns in Arlington cemetery outside Washington. . Park police estimated that 11,000 people Gath ered on the mall in Washington Lor a ceremony no the Vietnam veterans memorial. The Kennedy family spent a quiet memorial Day at their Hya Nispon mass., compound following a Small memorial service sunday for the 71st birthday of president Kennedy. Illinois new Vietnam veterans memorial dedicated less than a month ago attracted More weekend visitor than Lincoln s Tomb officials said. They re there from Early morning until he Ceme Tery closes at 7 p.m.," said Nan Wynn site manager for the memorial in Springfield s Oak Ridge cemetery less than a Quarter mile from Lincoln s Tomb. Solemnity was followed by Dixieland Jatz Ai Prospect Hill cemetery at Omaha neb., when a band and about half of a crowd of 200 followed up a memorial Day Observance with a graveside Salute to Anna Wil son a bordello Madam who left $1 million id Charil when she died in 1911. Saluting a prostitute is not the purpose of this thing said program organizer Larry Mcnichols. For one thing she gave a lot of Money to this los Angeles 20 protesters chose memorial Day As he occasion to demand a Boycott of the movie rambo i they denounced the film Ai Overly Vio Lent and declared it inflames passions against the soviet Union though most workers got the Day off. Monday was not a paid Holiday for stale employees in Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. Alabama stale employees worked As a Trade off for the Holiday they received april 25 for Confederate memorial Day. Much of the nation had fair weather for monday s ceremonies parades picnics and Beach panics but pans of Fth West had weather definitely not in keeping see memorial on Back Page a Lone visitor takes Snail through the military grave stones Al Arlington National sunday. Hostage . Teachers maybe freed paper says Beirut Lebanon a a published report monday said three american professors and an Indi an educator kidnapped in moslem West Beirut 1$months ago May be freed soon. The leftist As Safir daily cited unnamed source close to president Ami n Gemayel for its Brief report which linked the release to the deployment of syrian troops in Beirut s Southern slums to end three weeks of fighting Between rival shrill moslem factions. So related Beirut Story. Page 2. The newspaper gave no other details. The four academicians were abducted Jan. 14, 1987, from the Campus of the .-Affilialcd Beirut University by gunmen posing As policemen. The americans arc Robert Polhill is Jesse turn or 40 and Alann seen 49. The Indian is Mithilesh War Singh 60, a resident alien of the United slates. Syria last Friday and saturday sent an estimated 2,400 troops into the sums where most of the is foreign hostages in Lebanon arc believed helu. The action ended Street Battles Between its main Leb anese ally the amal militia and the iranian backed he Abollah or party of god. Police said 296 people were killed and 1.000 wounded in the fighting. Hezbollah Sci cd control of More than 90 percent of inc 16-Square-Milc Maze of slums in he fighting. A group calling itself islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine claimed it kidnapped the professors. It has demanded the release of 400 Arab prisoners held by Israel
