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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. November 4, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 3 Thatcher Cool to Warsaw request for Aid polish throngs Hall precedent setting visit to Poland Warsaw Poland a Poland s communist government thursday appealed to Margaret Thatcher for Western Aid but inc British prime minister did not respond to the request an aide said. Thatcher s Sale Nee apparently reflected her Coo response to general suggestions initiated by West Ger Many last month that West european governments give unconditional Aid. Thatcher the first British prime minister to visit this soviet bloc country was greeted warmly by hundreds or poles during a Day of sightseeing and official talks. Her three Day Visil to Poland began wednesday. Security police shoved Back crowds who mobbed Thatcher while she toured a Market of state owned stalls thursday. Shoppers reached out and kissed her hand a teen Ager pushed an autograph Book at her and several women wept with emotion As hundreds in the Market cried Bravo and Maggie Maggie Maggie earlier. Thatcher met with prime minister Micczyslaw f. Rakowsky. A British official said Rakowski complained that Poland s $39 billion for eign debt is like a noose round our necks and appealed for Western help. The prime minister did not respond said the offi Cial who spoke on condition of anonymity. The prime ministers also met wednesday. The British View is that the International monetary fund to which Poland has appealed and the Paris club of leading Western creditor nations should decide on debt rescheduling and other Aid and make in strictly conditional on an austerity package of economic Reform. Before meeting Rakowski Thatcher went to War saw s Victory Square and Laid a Wreath on the Tomb of the unknown Soldier. A Small crowd watched in icy temperatures in Light Snow. She later watched an emotional film of the nazi invaders razing Warsaw during world War to in reprisal for a popular uprising Thatcher treading a delicate path Between her government hosts and the restive opposition headed by the Banner Trade Union Solidarity also planned to visit the g s in of a murdered pro Solidarity priest and meet Wius communist party chief Gen. Wojcicch Jaruzelski. On wednesday shortly before Thatcher arrived  issued a veiled warning to the British Leader not to interfere in Poland s tense politics. British Leader Margaret Thatcher reaches fur some vegetables during a visit thursday to a Warsaw food Market. "1 Hope mrs. Thatcher will allow us to tackle our own problems in a Sovereign Way using our own meth ods and instruments Jaruzelski said to a British Tele vision interview. It was the first official warning to the conservative party prime minister who has been hailed by polish government leaders for her rigorous economic policies and by Solidarity for her outspoken anti communist views. In he Baltic port of Gdansk where Thatcher planned to trave Friday for a meeting with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa nearly the entire 10,000-member work Force of the Lenin shipyard rallied wednesday. The workers vowed to fight the government s Deci Sion to close the Yard where Solidarity was born during a 1980 strike wave. Thatcher will be the first Western Leader to make the symbolic trip to meet Walesa at his Headquarters in Gdansk. The government said monday it planned to close the Lenin shipyard on dec. I for economic reasons though Walesa called the move an attempt to weaken Solidarity. The Yard would be the first Large Enterprise shut Down in a new gov Crmen attempt to revive a limping Economy. To show says mafia Cuba plot led to slaying of John Kennedy Washington a John f. Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy involving an Alliance of Ameri can mobsters and the cuban government according to a prime time television special hosted by investigative columnist Jack Anderson. There was a conspiracy to kill president Kennedy and for the last 25 years there has been a conspiracy to cover it up Anderson said on the live two hour pro Gram wednesday night that featured old film footage Dye interviews and dramatic  the syndicated program american expose who murdered Juk was based largely on previously Dis closed theories and reports linking the nov. 22, 1963, slaying with the american mob and cuban govern ment. " in the 25 years ,.scores of books articles and to programs have produced a wide. Range of conspiracy theories that Point the Finger alternately at organized crime the Cia and Cuba. The Warren commission appointed by president Lyndon Johnson after the assassination concluded thai Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the slaying. The House of representatives select committee on assassinations later concluded that Kennedy probably was the victim of a conspiracy and that there was a second gunman who fired at Kennedy Anderson s theory is Basel on interviews he con ducted with Johnny Rodli a Las vegas crime Boss and top lieutenant to the late Chicago mob chieftain Sam Giancana. Rodli who was cooperating with Senate investigators when he was killed in 1976, told Anderson and others that he Learned of inc alleged conspiracy through mob sources. Anderson believes cuban Leader Fidel Castro wanted to kill Kennedy after learning of alleged Cia plots to kill Castro. And la cps Nostra leaders in the United states wanted the president dead because of his administration s crusade against the mob led by his brother attorney general Robert f. Kennedy. Anderson reiterated reports linking both Oswald and his Assassin Jack Ruby to organized crime. Oswald a pro Castro activist was recruited by Cuba to kill Kennedy and Ruby was recruited by mobsters to kill Oswald  Anderson. The columnist also asserted that Ruby and Oswald met in inc weeks prior to the assassination v. The program also presented a private company s computer enhancement of photographs of Kennedy concluding that the shot thai killed him was fired from the from. Oswald was positioned behind the presiden tial motorcade at the time of the Dallas shooting. Anderson also charged that Johnson covered up the conspiracy fearing Public disclosure of the alleged Cia plots to kill Castro would provoke a world War with the soviet Union. He provided no evidence to Back up that claim. Houston Man makes deadline on his obit Houston a after two heart attacks and several scares Jack m. Deans five years ago wrote his own obituary. In ran this week. No one is better qualified to author this obit uary than me began the obituary which appeared in both the Houston chronicle and the Houston Post earlier this week Don t be sorry you re Reading about my earthly death it continued. I had it great All my life because of Christ and Gladys a on oct. 3, after putting up the halloween decorations at his Bellaire Home Deans. S7, suffered another attack tic died in a coma at a Hospital monday  Deans had also sketched plans for a funeral. It was to be conducted by several of his friends and Deans wanted in Brief Deans described himself in inc obituary As a world War ii Veteran Lumberman sunday school teacher and Lay analytical therapist for Over 32 years lecturer for 19 years at eight universities in eight departments author Uia Pho , wife Gladys said Deans never earned a College degree but taught Wood preservation at several area colleges and counselled an estimated 4,000 people about marital and Job problems drugs and teen age difficulties  
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