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MILLER Associated Press Writer BERLIN Hundreds of radicals in ski masks smashed store windows and hurled paving stones at riot po lice after a mass march to protest a visit to the divided city today by President Reagan. Police with helmets and shields charged into the crowds with clubs and fired tear gas to disperse them. A file of thousands of protesters marched along central Kurfuersten damm boulevard yesterday through intermittent rainfall. Violence began Venetians sigh in relief as summit is wrapped up By JENNIFER PARMELEE Associated Press Writer VENICE, Italy At about 4 p.m. yesterday, a sigh of relief could almost be heard over the din of helicopters clattering above the fashionable waterfront Riva Degli Schiavoni as police removed most of the metal barriers installed for the summit. "Thank God, it's like being let out of prison," said one vendor. At about the same hour, gondoliers returned to work along the quays surrounding St. Mark's Square for the first time in four days. And a group of U.S. Secret Service agents, just let off work, donned shorts and shades for a bit of sightseeing. However, security remained tight because President Reagan remained in the city to rest up and prepare for a trip today to West Berlin. All the other allied leaders returned home following the conclusion of the three-day summit. Police and other security officials continued to be as numerous as the famous Venetian pigeons and there were inside • Deposed evangelist Jim Bak ker was cheered by hundreds of supporters as he made a sur prise visit to the Christian theme park he had abandoned amid a scandal of marital infidelity and financial extravagance Page 6 • Celtics send series back West Page 9 • Harold Altman a Lemont na tive who is best known for his intricate lithographs, presented his newest collection to the Douglas Albert Gallery last night Page 14 • With a little ingenuity, stu dents or friends looking for lodg ing can put a roof over their heads in State College during the summer and still not break the budget Page 16 index comics opinion sports state/nation/world weather Late morning showers will give way to variably cloudy skies and a chance of an afternoon thun dershower. The high will be 79. Espect a muggy evening with a low of 64. Weekend outlook: For Saturday it will be hazy and humid with scattered showers and thundershowers, high 83. A mixture of sun and clouds on Sunday with a high in the mid 70s Roberta DlPasquale in applying diplomatic pressure through the United Nations for an, end to the Irqn-Iraq war. "They have a stake, too, in peaceful ship ping and the openness of the international waters," Reagan said at a sun-drenched meeting with reporters in a hotel garden on the heavily guarded island of Giudecca where he stayed for the summit. Reagan conciliatory remarks to the Soviets came on the eve of his return to Washington on Friday by way of West Berlin, where he will deliver a foreign policy address within sight of the Berlin Wall, the grim symbol of East-West divisions for the past quarter-cen tury. On other topics, Reagan: • Said much of the testimony in the con gressional Iran-Contra hearings was merely just east of the downtown area, in and around Urania and Nollendorf squares. Store windows smashed included those of the noted KaDeWe depart ment store. When police charged, the mobs threw bottles, rocks and sidewalk paving stones. Witnesses reported seeing a few gasoline bombs flung at police, at least three injured demonstrators and an injured officer. Three protes ters were seen being taken into custo dy during the street battles. The witnesses said several stores reports that vibrations caused by the ever-circling heli copters were threatening Venetian art treasures. "I have a hearing problem, but I have no trouble hearing these helicopters," said 77-year-old Anna Bruno, whose apartment looks out over the Riva Degli Schiavoni and the harbor beyond, now temporary home to a large Italian frigate with a helicopter pad. "I've lived here for 45 years and have long since gotten used to the noise from the boats, but the helicopters are terrible," she said, as the air throbbed with a chopper's propellers. "They shake everything here and are always making things fall around the house. "But overall, these are things which only last a few days." At the stately Doges' Palace on St. Mark's Square, fragments were shaken off marble cornices by the heli copter vibrations, the newspaper I/ Gazzettino reported, while at St. Mark's Basilica next door, the resident architect said he feared the colorful mosaics some dating to the 11th century were being loosened from church walls by the constant rattling. SHARP pamphlets offer AIDS info By MARIE SZANISZLO Collegian Staff Writer As the spread of Acquired Im mune Deficiency Syndrome poses a serious public health concern for American society, the medical, social, legal and ethical issues it encompasses have been equally manifested at American colleges and universities. "Because of the increasing num ber of people with AIDS or AIDS Related Complex (ARC), many more than just those who have been diagnosed need accurate in formation about this growing con cern," said Susan Kennedy, director of the University Office of Health Promotion and Education. In response to this need, the Sexual Health Awareness Re source Program at Ritenour Health Center has developed, among other programs and serv ices, several informative pamph lets. "People get pieces of informa tion from the media," Dr. Kenne dy said, "but we want to provide more concrete information about AIDS and other sexually transmis sible diseases (STDs)." One of the pamphlets, "AIDS," discusses what the syndrome is: its symptoms, diagnosis, trans mission, treatment, and preven tion. The pamphlet also answers questions about testing for antibo dies to human immunodeficiency virus, with which AIDS hag been olle • ian in Berlin were looted, including a liquor store and jewelry shop, and a van and barricade set ablaze. Some demonstrators dropped tack like devices on the street to puncture the tires of police vehicles, they said. Reagan is to arrive today at Tern pelhof U.S. Air Base and visit the Berlin Wall, which communist East Germany erected in August 1961 to divide the city and halt mass migra tion to the West. Both are far from the scene of violence. Organizers of the march claimed 80,000 people took part, but police Please see GERMANY, Page 18. linked, as well as risks associated with certain behaviors and how they can be reduced. "A SHARP Guide to Sexually Transmissible Diseases," "Safe Sex," and "Con dom and Spermicide" provide fur ther information about these and related topics. In addition to these pamphlets, SHARP educators are available to discuss sexuality concerns or is sues on a confidential, one-to-one basis. • "The SHARP talkline is also a valuable service to students and staff," said Caryl Schumacher, coordinator for SHARP. The hot line is staffed by 10 to 13 educa tors, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. All conversations are confidential and anonymous. SHARP also provides outreach programming for residence halls, classes, and other University and community groups. Experts on the facts and issues related to AIDS are available to speak to groups through the AIDS Speakers Bu reau of SHARP. Topics include legal and ethical issues surround ing AIDS, its epidemiology, re search, prevention, and homophobia. "Many such presentations have been requested," Schumacher said. "SHARP has also already distributed over 5,000 of its pam phlets within the last year or so. We've received positive responses from both the University and the community in general." "hearsay," denied giving orders authorizing private weapons deals for the Nicaraguan rebels, and said he wouldn't pass judgment on fired White House aide Oliver L. North "until he's had his day in court." • Gave a tepid endorsement to Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, who has acknowledged making misleading statements to Congress about U.S. involve ment in Contra aid efforts but has vowed to stay in office, with support from Secretary of State George P. Shultz. • Repeated denials that laws forbidding or restricting U.S. aid to the Contras applied to him. In any case, he said, "I don't think that the law was broken." • Quoted Chancellor Helmut Kohl as say ing that West Germany had not yet decided whether to grant a U.S. extradition request I .ll '€‘ AT • =MIA Sweating it out Stan Clayton, offensive lineman for the football team wipes sweat from his brow as he runs the last leg of his 3 1 / 2 .mile team workout on Pollock Road yesterday. Thatcher wins third term with small majority in House By MAUREEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third suc cessive term in yesterday's elections, but with a smaller majority in the House of Commons. The socialist Labor Party made a strong comeback from its election disaster of 1983, with a more moder ate platform and the leadership of Neil Kinnock, eloquent son of a Welsh miner. With 575 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons decided, the Con servatives had 336, Labor 220 and the centrist Social Democrat-Liberal Al liance 13. Word came at 2:30 a.m. that Mrs. Thatcher's Conservatives had the 326 seats necessary for a majority. Computer predictions • gave the "Iron Lady" of British politics a majority of about 95 seats, compared with the 144-seat landslide majority she won at the last election in 1983 and more than double the 44 when she first came to power in 1979. Kinnock, leader of the defeated Labor Party, said Britain was falling into "an even greater abyss of divi sion," and protesters shouted "Fas cist scum!" at the prime minister when she appeared at her north Lon don constituency of Finchley to claim victory in her own race for a Com mons seat. "I am very pleased with the way things are coming in," she said, for suspected Lebanese terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi. But Reagan said Hamadi will be put on trial in one country or the other in connection with 'the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner and the murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem. • Startled financial markets by seeming to suggest that the U.S. dollar might fall still further, an apparent contradiction of recent Reagan administration policy and a goal of the seven-nation Venice summit to stabilize major world currencies. Within minutes, Reagan's aides sought to head off an unfavorable market reaction by asserting that "what the president wants is stability." The president was asked if interest rates might have to be raised to prevent a further decline in the dollar, which has plunged =MI looking calm and relaxed. Aides had baked her a cake iced in blue, the Tory party color. Millions of voters swung to Labor in depressed northern England and in Scotland, but the party did not get a breakthrough where it most needed one in the prosperous south and the central England industrial belt. The centrist Alliance was the main loser to the Labor revival, dropping nearly half its seats. Alliance co-leader David Owen saw his hopes of playing power broker in a stalemated Parliament dashed' and said: "Mrs. Thatcher is still in. . . . We didn't come through strongly enough to give people confidence to leave the Conservatives." In a sweep reflecting what Thatch er critics call the north-south divide, the swing to Labor was running at 8 percent in Scotland, 10 percent in Wales and 5 percent in northern En gland. In the crucial districts of central England, where the volatile vote of the skilled working class can swing an election, Labor increased its share of the vote by only 3 percentage points. In the affluent south of En gland, it was just 1 percent better off. In Finchley, Mrs. Thatcher said to reporters: "People always ask what the Conservatives are doing for the north. They never say, 'What is the Labor Party doing for the south?' " Labor did far better than in 1983, when it slumped to 28 percent of the vote with a far-left platform, but it Friday June 12, 1987 Vol. 88, No. 2 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University ©1987 Collegian Inc. nearly 50 percent against other major curren cies in the past two years. Reagan responded: "Well, frankly, most of us believe that the dollar should remain stable. It could be within reason that there could still be some lowering of the value in relation to other currencies." After receiving a phone call from the presi dent, who had been watching a televised report of his remarks, White House spokes man Marlin Fitzwater quickly tried to set the record straight. "There was no intention to drive the dollar down further," Fitzwater said. "He wants stability in the dollar." Asked what Reagan was talking about, Fitzwater said without elaborating that "he was referring to other forces." •..:, ,Y~.. _.;~~~. 1g2:3 Please See REAGAN, Page 18 Collegian Photo I Dan Oleski Margret Thatcher was clear early in the count that it couldn't achieve the 11 percent over all swing in votes needed to oust Mrs. Thatcher. It was a bad night for the Alliance. Two of its stars lost: Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins, two of the four founders of the Social Democratic Party in 1981. They both have had distinguished political careers as senior Cabinet ministers in Labor Party govern ments. Mrs. Williams, defeated in the 1983 election, lost this time to a Tory in Cambridge. 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