European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday july 24,1988 Reagan challenges claims of democrats Santa Barbara Calif. A president Reagan saturday decried the Midnight in America statements of democratic National convention speak ers saying that the country is in far bet Ter shape than democrats would have people believe. Our Liberal opposition seems to think so much is bad in America. To hear them talk you would t think that America is in the longest peacetime eco nomic expansion in history Reagan said. In his weekly radio address delivered from Reagan s Mountaintop ranch near Santa Barbara the president took note of the just concluded democratic National convention in Atlanta saying that americans should have been shaking your head at some of the statements. Reagan who watched Michael Duka Kis deliver his speech thursday night accepting the democratic presidential nomination said that growth and Opportunity have been born again in Amer  listening to the rhetoric you would never have guessed that America s econ omy is the strongest in decades the president said. He did not mention Duk Kisor any other Democrat by name. Reagan has been following the event sin Georgia from his ranch where he has been vacationing for the past week. It was Reagan s first Public comment on the convention. On Friday White House spokesman Marlin fit water seized the latest consumer Price report a evidence of Good news from a Republican  showing frustration with statement democrats made at their convention he told reporters the administration has Given the american people the longest peacetime business recovery on record. Fitzwater disputed democratic assertions that the administration for nearly eight years has worked principally to enrich those who were already Well off when president Reagan came into office in 1981. Gloria Vanderbilt sees suicide leap of her son new York a heiress and de signer Gloria Vanderbilt was under a doctor s care saturday following the Sui cide of her son who jumped to his death from a 14th-floor Penthouse Terrace authorities said. Carter v. Cooper 23, left no note be fore jumping from his Mother s apart ment Friday night said police spokes Man officer Peter o Donnell. Vanderbilt the poor Little Rich girl who became the focus of a heated custody Battle in the 1930s, was put under physician s care after witnessing the Sui cide police said. Cooper s father was writer Wyatt Emory Cooper Vanderbilt s fourth husband. Shehans t remarried since Cooper died in 1978 during surgery for a heart ailment Vanderbilt 64, is the great great granddaughter of Railroad and shipping financier Cornelius Vanderbilt. Beneficiary of a $5 million Trust fund Vanderbilt became famous at age 10 As the poor Little Rich girl the object of a sensational custody fight Between her Globe trotting Mother and matriarchal aunt after growing up with her aunt Ger Trude Whitney she went to Hollywood and dated celebrities such As actor Errol Flynn and billionaire Howard  married four times the first time when she was Only 17, prompting her aunt to disinherit her. She and Wyatt Cooper who wed in 1963, had another son Anderson. Anne Frank letter this is one of the letters written by and Frank and her family went into Anne Frank to a pen pal in the United hiding in a dutch Home to escape the states. The letters will be auctioned in nazis. The two Sisters who receive new York in october. Two letters and the letters Juanita and Betty Ann a postcard were written shortly before Wagner of Danville Iowa have Hel the germans invaded the Netherlands on to the correspondence until now. Mustard armed pickpockets seized at Airport new York a two groups of pickpockets carrying Mustard As a distracting weapon have been arrested at Kennedy International Airport where they had been preying on foreign tourists a port authority spokesman said. The arrests were made Friday night Byan undercover team fighting a rash of incidents Over the past six weeks involving mainly japanese tourists said Mark Marchese a spokesman for the port authority of new York and new Jersey. A technique becoming common Best Sellers compiled by the new York times fiction 1alaska by James a. 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