European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday augusts 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Shultz winds up 2 Days of talks in Argentina Buenos Aires Argentina a Secretary of state George Shultz wednesday said the free Market system is the Best catalyst to put things right As he wound up two Days of talks that focused on Argentina s wobbly  told a news conference if you want to see eco nomic development in a country then what needs Tobe done is to lighten up the regulatory Load. Privatize economic incentives get tax rates Down get fiscal policies into reasonable shape. That s basically the engine of economic devel  government said later wednesday that it had devalued the Argentine currency by 11.4 percent against the Dollar and it announced voluntary Price controls in a drive to control the budget and curb triple digit  institutions have been shut since Sun Day while the government put finishing touches on the austerity program. They were to reopen thurs  measures announced by government officials at a press conference late wednesday night Are almost certain to be unpopular and could generate civil unrest. Eleven National strikes have taken place since president Raul Alfonsin took office in december 1983. All were motivated by economic  spoke on the second Day of a Goodwill visit after meeting privately with foreign minister Dante Caputo defense minister Horacio Jaunarena an presidential candidate Eduardo Angelou of the govern ing left of Center Radical civic Union party. Shultz spoke with Angelou about the importance of free open elections and he said the United state would support the Winner. Elections to replace Alfon sin Are to take place next  s visit is the second Stop on a 10-country, nine Day latin America tour. It was intended to show support for democracy in Argentina which was under military Rule for most of the two decades preceding Alfonsin s 1983 election. Argentine officials however questioned Shult closely on How the United states might help them overcome their country s foreign debt and triple digit inflation. The government announced wednesday that the foreign debt stood at $56 billion $3 billion More than previously  acknowledged that Argentina has asked the United states to support a $500 million Short Ter loan but he refused to comment on the status of the  also is seeking a $ 1.2 billion loan from the International monetary  March Argentina stopped paying even the inter est on its foreign debt the third highest in the devel Oping world. Inflation fuelled by government Over spending stood at 121 percent for the first six months of 1988.the government put the finishing touches this week on an economic program based on reduced Federal subsidies for Public services voluntary wage and Price restraints and a  curtailing inflation the program Aims at narrowing the deficit of $3.5 billion in Alfonsin s pro posed $10.6 billion budget. 600 War crimes suspects under investigation in . Jerusalem a about 600 suspected nazi War criminals Are under investigation in the United states and 30 de naturalization and deportation cases Are pending in the courts a . Justice department official said. Neal Sher head of the department s office of special investigations said the growing number of proceedings against suspected War criminals was the result of an aggressive policy to seek out nazi collaborators. I Don t wait for someone to present me with an allegation. We seek out people Sher said. Sher said the Justice department had computerized lists of nazi officers found in concentration Camps i Austria Poland and Germany after world War ii and compared them with . Immigration records. He said the department is investigating All . Citi Zens suspected of nazi collaboration and the names of 9,800 former concentration Camp guards were placed on a special watch list to bar them from entering the United states. Carlucci checks out soviet Cruiser . Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci chats with soviet Black sea Fleet commander adm. Mikhail Hrono Pulo aboard the Slava a new Cruiser capable of carrying up to 16 nuclear weapons. Carlucci accompanied by soviet defense minister Dinitri t. Yazoo inspected the warship docked at Sevastopol As the Pentagon chief wound up a four Day visit to the soviet Union. Later Carlucci took off for Ankara Turkey. Focus health Core on survival of infants commission urges Washington a the nation would save Money at the same time it saves its children by redirecting resources to health care for pregnant women and their Newborn infants a Federal commission said thursday. We spend vast amounts on a compassionate Effort to save sick children when we could spend far less to assure they Are born healthy said a report of the National commission to prevent infant mortality. Sen. Lawton Chiles d-fla., chairman of the pane that was created by Congress in july 1987, was presenting the final report thursday during an appearance at the National press club. No nation can Long Call itself great that does no put its children first Chiles said in a letter accompanying the report. To that end our commission reports a Hammer on the Anvil of Public commitment. And we want the echoes to spread throughout the  the report says that 40,000 infants die each year in the United states before they reach their first birthday and that without changes in the next 13 years we will lose More american infants than we have lost soldiers in All the wars fought by the nation in this  these facts would be sad enough were it not for the additional fact that at least half of the deaths Are preventable it said. Chiles discussing the report on Abc to s Good morning America before its formal release said that those who suffer the most Are the poor and that s True whether they re White poor in Appalachia or they re Black  a child born in the United states has a Poore Chance of surviving his or her first year than one born in 19 other industrialized nations the report said. Chiles said in the interview that a child born in Hong Kong or Singapore would have a better Chance of reaching its first birthday than one born in the United  the report did not cite any source for this information and various groups that compile such figures have differed on where the United states ranks. The children s defense fund a children s advocacy Agency reported in 1987 that the United states had slipped to last place among 20 industrialized nations with 11out of every 1,000 children born dying before they reach their first birthday. However Unicof reported earlier this year that the . Rate of 10.6 per 1,000 live births put the unite states in the 18th rank out of 36 industrialized nations. The commission recommends a National Campaign to emphasize infant mortality and says a permanent nation al Council on children s health should be established. Of smoker s $ 1 Fine suspended Paintsville by. A a judge wednesday suspended a $1 Fine against a former cancer patient convicted of possessing marijuana he says he used to counter the Side effects of his treatment. Johnson District judge John a. Gardner also took under advisement a motion to void the conviction of Rick Morris 31, of Van Lear if Morris completes a drug treatment program. Morris was convicted Friday of possessing 7 /2 ounces of marijuana last november despite his con Tention that he was forced to smoke the drug or die of starvation associated with the effects of radiation treatments and chemotherapy. It s kind of weird How important that $1 became to us Morris lawyer Ned Pillersdorf said wednesday. Gardner rejected another defense request to Issue an acquittal for Morris Pillersdorf said. The lawyer said he argued that the prosecutor had not rebutted defense testimony that Morris was confronted with a Choice of evils of either smoking pot or  cancerous tumor was discovered wrapped around Morris brain Stem in March 1987.the Case marked the first time in the nation that a cancer patient had used a medical defense in a Mari Juana Possession Case said Bob Randall president of the Alliance of cannabis therapeutics a group pursuing legalization of the substance for medical use