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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 the stars and stripes wednesday. June 1,1988 Moscow Summit hits human rights Snag from Page l Vord widening exchanges in All forms bul thai this should be done without interfering in Domestic affairs without sermonizing or imposing one s views and ways without turning family or personal problems into a pc legit for confrontation Between  Reagan s comments Here Ait the most sustained criticism of internal soviet poli cies by a foreign visitor since Gorbachev assumed Power in March 1985, and raised potentially sensitive political problems Tor the soviet Leader As he faces a key communist party meeting Cut month. Spokesmen for both sides said arms control issues were the main topics Dur ing a meeting in St. Catherine s Hall monday morning Between the Large soviet and american delegations. They said 1hc two sides had agreed on some verification measures for two types of strategic weapons Mobile land based mis Siles and cruise missiles fired from bomb ers. But they said other problems still blocked an Accord on Lone Range weapons which both leaders have said they Hope to achieve before Reagan leaves of fice net january. Gorbachev obviously irritated with Reagan s emphasis on human rights responded caustically several limes an seemed eager to focus attention on other issues particularly arms control. Gorbachev s remarks about Sermon izing were apparently made in response to a meeting earlier in the Day Between news briefs appt Mio president and or. Reagan View a display of icons Al Moscow s Danilo monastery. Reagan and a group of dissidents at Spaso House the official residence of the american ambassador. At the meeting described by the while House As a gathering of selected soviet citizens Reagan said Moscow had made Progress on human rights in recent years but still fell Short of accept Able International standards for Freedom of religion speech and Ravel. Many of those in attendance were so Viet jews who have been denied Permis Sion to emigrate to the West i be come to Moscow with this human rights Agenda because As t suggested it is our belief that this is a moment of Hope Reagan Lold the gather ing at Spaso House where he and his wife Nancy Are staying during their five Jay  Hope that one Freedom will Lead to another and another that the soviet government Wilt understand that it is the individual who is always the source of economic creativity the inquiring mind that produces a technical breakthrough the imagination that conceives of new products and  and Gorbachev met again tuesday morning after which Reagan had lunch with soviet writers and spoke to students at Moscow state University Nancy Reagan was travelling to Lenin Grad tuesday. During a morning visit to the Danilov monastery an ancient Center of the rus Sian orthodox Church that had been turned into a factory and was Only recently resumed to control of clerics by the government Reagan said we Pray that the return of this monastery signals a willingness to return to believers the thousands of other houses of worship which Are now closed boarded up or used for secular  a group of monks and Church leaders who were dressed in the traditional Lack Robes and cylindrical Caps of the Church Reagan used the words of Solzhenitsyn As he called for a renewal of religious Faith in the soviet Union. When you travel the byroads of Central Russia you begin to understand the secret of the pacifying russian Countryside Rea Gan read from  is the churches. They lift their Bell towers Graceful shapely All different High Over mundane Limber and   the Winner of the Nobel prize in literature who was forced into exile in 1974, is one of the few contemporary russian writers whose works remain banned in the soviet Union.  now lives in Vermont Raf Pilot Dies at air show in crash of Vintage fighter Coventry England a a Vinode Jet  during a Holiday air Obj Mon Day killing its Royal air Force Pilot the Jun in inc meteor t-7 Elf frigid into afield in re Miles from coven up air on while Atler noting descending Turnn preparation for a flyby said Sporl Manau Melohn Reeve. The  spectators attending the Warwickshire a pageant on the British ban Holiday could Nasce Fie plane when it crashed showering debris Nomes and gardens in the area a member of it control Tower staff said. It dipped of of jail behind some hangars and when it dip t Remp car we realized some thing was or org and thy alarm was raised said the staff men bar who task t identified in accordance with British Rabice. Emergency vehicles converged quickly on to wrecked plane and the Pilot s body was recovers from the fuselage. The aircraft was based a an air base in Scampton in Lincolnshire Coventry Airport said. \ a base spokesman declined to do notify the Pilot saying the family had not yet been Noli Soldier shot Aquino woman tells special court Manila Philippines up a witness testified monday she saw a Soldier shoot the Hus band of president Corazon Aquino on an airline staircase disputing military claims the 1983 assassination was carried out by a communist Hitman Rebecca Quijano Lold a special court she saw a military escort Point a gun o the Back of be la Igno Aquino while the Foremost opposition Leader at the Lime was descending an airline staircase on aug. 21,1983. Simultaneously i heard a shot said ouija no who was among the passengers of the China airlines plane that brought Aquino Home from three years of self exile in the United states. Aquino was resuming to unify the opposition against president Ferdinand Marcos. Reagan says quip misinterpreted Moscow a As he prepared monday to meet with dissidents and refuseniks president Reagan Lold american reporters the meeting was arranged so that i d feel at  every once in a while i am meeting with some rather disagreeable people at Home he said. A reporter asked if he was suggesting that dissidents arc disagreeable people. With a pained look on his face Reagan said i Don l mean that. You know what i  later Marlin Fitzwater the president s press Secre tary said Reagan was having a Little Good sport an Good humor with the press corps at that Point he said Reagan s remark about meeting disagreeable people was a Light hearted reference to his daily encounters with the Washington press establishment. Yankee Clipper prizes baseball signed by Reagan Gorbachev new York a Joe Dimaggio who has signed plenty of baseballs in his life says it took a trip to the while House during last year s superpower Summit before he asked someone to sign one for him. And the baseball bearing the signatures of president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev is one of the Yankee dipper s Mosi prize possessions. I was a witness to history the Hall off Amer said in an interview published monday in the new York times. "1 have done a Tot of things in my Lime but that Day became one of the nicest Days of my life and one of the most meaningful. Bod Wou in my life that s the Only time i Ever asked any Idy to sign a baseball Dimaggio said adding i uld have liked to have asked babe  Dimaggio 73, who played in 10 world series Dur ing his 13 seasons with the Yankees said he had to scramble to make Illo the state  for Gorbachev swedes detonate anti submarine mine during the december Summit. His Tuxedo was in Miami he had no formal shirt no place to slay in Washington no airline reservation and no transportation he said he worked out the details with the help of his Friend Edward Gennell Williams owner of the Baltimore orioles whose Driver bought Dimaggio a formal shirt and the baseball he took with him to the while House. Dimaggio said he Cal Isiede the help of Maureen Rea Gan the president s daughter to get the autographs. Reagan s signature is very precise and readable Dimaggio said. Gorbachev signed it the Way a doctor writes a  so what s he going to do with the Ball that s a Good thought he said "1 Haven t nude a decision yet. 1 have two granddaughters. I be had of fers to buy it already bul there s no Way in the world la sell it it s  Stockholm Sweden up the swedish Navy detonated a mine monday when underwater sensors selected a possible submarine intruder near a naval base in the Stockholm archipelago a military spokes Man said. No further signs of an intruding vessel were detected after the sea floor explosive was triggered said defense staff spokesman Han Wessborg. 1 f there had been a submarine it might be resting quietly on the sea floor to avoid further detection said Wessborg the be was triggered near the Musko naval base 20 Miles South of Stockholm where Sweden s largest submarine Hunt took place in 1982. After Ibe 1982 Hunt the swedish government accused the soviet Union of systematic intrusions As part of in strategy making for wartime Wessborg said the Navy had increased the level of surveillance during the summer because or almost weekly reports from civilians and military personnel of possible foreign intruders in recent years. The defense staff has reported hundreds of foreign sub Marine intrusions along Sweden s 1,670-mile coastline since a soviet submarine ran aground near Kart Krona naval base on the Southern Shore of the Baltic sea in 1981  
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