European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Of errs super bowl contest ballot Page 26 the St ars and stripes us Ocul publication Fostof . Kuln to act vol.47, no.236 saturday december 10, 19b8/ 2m Bijj Good Ornim d 8693 a Reagan lauds Pace of peace Washington Dpi president Reagan reviewing superpower relation during his while haute tenure said thursday night his final Summit with so Viet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is Evi Dence that inc path remains Neh the Pace of peace continues in the 48th and Likely last news Confer ence of his presidency Reagan greeted the while House press corps with a Joc ular. We be got 10 Stop meeting like this a sly reference o the fact thai his last meeting with reporters was More than five months ago june 2 in Toron to after the economic Summit. In his opening statement Reagan noted thai a year ago he and Gorbachev signed the Ganjie nuclear forces treaty in the East room and since then we be seen a serious move ment and some Gorbachev s address to the United nations wednesday was a result of this process and 1 congratulate him on the soviet Lender said in his speech that he will reduce red army stoop strength by 500,000 by f99l so the path remains open the Pace of peace Reagan said. The East room glittered wit Christmas decorations. Two lowering Pine Trees Laden with tinsel and Gold were posted on either Side of Reagan s podium. Poinsettias were aligned. In front of his dec turn. Since 1985, extraordinary things have happened and nothing More extraordinary than yesterday with Rea Gan president dec George Bush and Gorbachev standing together in Newyork Harbor under inc protective gaze of the statue of Liberty he said. The three men met for two hours on governors Island in new York wednesday in an All smiles Summit that was Short on substance and Long on Story telling. Thursday s nationally broadcast new conference marked one of Reagan s last prior Misc appearances before the american people before completing Transfer of Power Jan. 20 to Bush the first Friendly takeover of government Bya single party in More than 50 years. Quai lined about inc $2.6 billion National debt he leaves the nation Reagan said. It is incorrect to say All of this happened because wac us tuxes he blamed the deficit on past congresses saying there was Only eight scat Ter cd years in which there was a balanced budget since the great depression. He said there has been a increase in spending for College students and hous ing and added actually our defense spending and what we asked for. The ones i asked for were less than the projected budgets of what was asked if he thinks Bush May have to raise lanes to balance the budget which suffered a 1155 billion deficit in fiscal t9s8 the president said he to Ould he deeply disappointed should inc pc Sidcot a Eccl Lake that course. The lop 5 percent of earners at this much lower Rale of taxation Are paying a much larger share of taxes now he said. We Don t have to touch social Security and we Don t have to touch lasts we arc on the Way now of reducing the touching on relations with the soviet Union Reagan was asked if he Tad changed his opinion on communism or if communism had changed. Me recalled earlier statements he made quoting " heir own Ordi about How communists would lie. but i think there s been a change. Thai was four leaders Back before this one Gorbachev and i think there have been some be added my philosophy is rust everybody but Cut the cards. 5 die in of Jet crash in Germany a to smashes Resac Fen Al area by deeded Arrington Dok staff Bilir a . Air Force a-10 Thunderbolt ii aircraft crashed thursday in a residential area in re Mscheid West Germany killing at least five people and injuring dozens. Witnesses to the fiery 1 35 . Accident 15 Miles cast of dds Oldorf described it As the worst carnage they had seen since world War ii the single scat air Craft plunged into a multifamily House damaged at least 28 other buildings and left an unknown number of people homeless. Buildings burned into the night on the Street which was littered with debris and burned out vehicles. The 34-year-old american Pilot was killed in the Accident inc second this year in which a . Jet crashed in a residential area in Germany the air Force identified the Pilot As capt. Michael p. Foster of California who is survived by his wife and two sons. Safe officials hailed All tactical flying training throughout the command through tuesday in memory of those killed and injured in the Accident. Safe officials said they would use the time to review our flying procedures examine All available details. And make sure that nothing has been West German defense officials thu Fiilus suspend Edall Low flying by their military aircraft Nihro Ujah Christmas. However some prominent politicians said inc ban was too Short. Parliament member Manfred opel a retired German air Force general and a member of the commission that studied the aug. 28 Ramstein air show disaster called fora Complete ban on Low flying in Germany until the Issue can be studied fully. Maj. Gen. Marcus a. Anderson 3rd air Force com Mander went to re Mscheid a City of 120,000, to Over rubble from the crash of an air Force a-10 Thunderbolt covers i Street in Remscheid West Germany. Police cordoned Oil the area surrounding inc crash site which bordered a shopping District in the Western see crash on Back Page armenian quake death toll May reach 50/000 Page.3
