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April 1887 •April 1987
Reagan hopeful for U.S.-Soviet arms deal
By TOM RAUM
AP Economics Writer
VENICE, Italy An upbeat President
Reagan told a post-summit news conference
yesterday there is "an increased opportuni
ty" for a Soviet-American nuclear arms
agreement and a possible summit meeting
with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev this
year.
In an optimistic mood after the conclusion
of three days of summit talks with allied
leaders, the president praised Gorbachev as
a "personable gentleman" with economic
problems and other practical reasons for
wanting an arms accord.
Reagan noted that the Soviets also have
vessels escorting oil tankers in the Persian
Gulf, and appealed for Moscow's cooperation
Planned Reagan visit
stirs violence
By STEPHEN H. 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
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Espect a muggy evening with a
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
Two blacks and three Asians won
on Labor tickets, the first non-whites
in the British House of Commons
since an Asian was elected in 1922.
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