1fge 4-Thursday June 10,1982-The-MichiganDaily
Reagan proposes
trOOrPC U' nt01S
troop reductions
in Europe
BONN, West German (AP) -
President Reagan proposed yesterday
that NATO and the Soviet bloc make
substantial reductions in their
European forces - to 700,000 ground
troops each - and told peace demon-
strators massing in Germany that "my
heart is with you."
The president got a standing ovation
from the Bundestag, the lower house of
West Germany's parliament, after a
televised speech in which he declared
that "the American committment to
Europe remains steady and strong,"
particularly in Germany.
"EUROPE'S shores are our shores.
Europe's borders are our borders. We
will stand with you in defense of our
heritage of liberty and dignity," he said
on the eve of a 16-nation NATO summit
meeting here.
"We are with you, Germany. You're
not alone," Reagan said a few hours af-
ter arriving from a two-day visit to
England and a private meeting with
West German Chancellor Helmut Sch-
midt.
As tens of thousands of protesters
gathered in Bonn and West Berlin to
protest the U.S. military buildup and
plans to installnew intermediate-range
missiles in Europe next year, the
president said:
"To those who march for peace, my
heart is with you. I would be at the head
of your parade if I believed marching
alone could bring about a more secure
world..,. I understand your genuine
concerns.'
WHILE REAGAN was speaking, an
Brown, eFer
primary e1o
From the Associated Pres
Voters in Ohio punished a
Democratic congressman for suppor-
ting President Reagan's economic
policies while California Senate can-
didates Edmund Brown Jr. and Pete
Wilson, fresh from primary victories,
declared themselves eager to debate
their considerable differences.
"I am going to smoke him out,"
Governor Brown said of the San Diego
mayor who hopes to frustrate Brown's
move to Washington. "He ducked
novelist Gore Vidal but he will not
escape Pete Wilson," the mayor said.
TUESDAY'S 10 state primary elec-
tions thrust a number of fascinating
politicians into the 1982 campaign
limelight.
Brown vs. Wilson, perhaps the most
interesting match-up to emerge from
Tuesday's primary elections. Brown
defeated Vidal and another candidate.
Wilson had to survive a large field, in-
cluding two congressmen and a
presidential daughter.
Yesterday they agreed on only one
point. they both wanted to debate.
Brown challenged Wilson, within an
hour, Wilson agreed.
+ Millicent Fenwick, the New Jersey
congresswoman who is a model for
Reagan
... proposes troop reductions
air raid siren wailed outside for nearly
a half-hour. Unsigned letters received
later by news organizations said in
German that anti Reagan activists had
triggered the siren because Reagan
mean "danger of war" and "open sup-
port for military dictatorship."
In a speech he described as "a major
step toward a safer Europe for both
East and West," the president announ-
ced NATO leaders had agreed to
propose that the opposing alliances
"reduce their respective ground force
personnel in verifiable stages to a total
of 700,000 men, and their combined
ground and air force personnel' to a
level of 900,000 men."
iwick/ain
ections
Doonesbury's Lacey Davenport, will
duel businessman Frank Lautenberg.
He is already working to tar her with
the brush of Reaganomics.
If Mrs. Fenwick wins, she would be
the third woman in the Senate.
IN A SHOWCASE primary, Mrs.
Fenwick's individuality worked magic
and the Republicans hoped she would
join Kansan Nancy Kassebaum and
Floridian Paula Hawkins as members
of a legislative body long dominated by
males.
" Tom Bradley, the former policeman
who is mayor of Los Angeles, will
square off against law-and-order Attor-
ney General George Deukmejian for
the California governorship being
vacated by Brown.
If Bradley wins, he'd be the first
black elected as a governor.
" Roxanne Conlin, a 37-year-old former
U.S. attorney, makes a race for gover-
nor of Iowa against Lt. Gov. Terry
Branstad.
Correctioni
In Thursday's Daily, the caption for
the picture of Troupe Ta'Amullat in-
correctly identified the dancers. They
should have been identified as Nancy
Goings, Mary Weed, and Cynthia
Adams.
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Budget battle continues today
WASHINGTON- House Democrats and Republicans worked to rally their
troops for today's battle of the budget as leaders of the two parties quietly
discussed a possible fallback position in the event no plan wins approval.
The order of combat was decided yesterday when the House Rules Com-
mittee agreed to bring up the Democratic budget first, the Republican plan
second and-if neither passes-to vote on President Reagan's original
proposal.
Both sides agreed the Republican plan had the best chance of passing and
GOP leaders, aided by White House lobbyists, mounted a strong effort to
persuade their party members to vote for it.
Reagan, in Bonn, Germany, passed the word that he would support the
Republican plan "as the best available alternative."
Reagan's chief economist calls
high interest rates a mystery
WASHINGTON- Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of Reagan's Council of
Economic Advisers, said yesterday that persistently high interest rates
remain a mystery to the administration and that there is no indication when
the recession will end.
President Reagan's chief economist also conceded that the White House
had privately projected in February, 1981 that a recession was on the way.
Publicly, the administration was saying just the opposite, and it was October
before Reagan acknowledged a downturn.
His testimony to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress triggered an
angry exchange with the panel's chairman, Rep. Henry Reuss (D-Wis.), who
demanded to see the unpublished administration figures which on Feb. 18,
1981 predicted the recession that began months later.
Rotary votes to prohibit racial
restrictions in Alabama chapter
DALLAS- Delegates to Rotary International's annual convention voted
overwhelmingly yesterday to prohibit racial restrictions on membership,
reacting to an Alabama chapter's rule allowing only whites to join.
"The world now doubts the motives of Rotary," said the 850,000-member
group's incoming president, Jiroji Mukasa of Japan.
"We must act now to remove any doubt that Rotary believes in the
equality of all mankind."
The delegates inserted into the Rotary bylaws a section stating that no
club may "limit membership in the club on the basis of race, color, creed or
national origin."
"To my mind, this is the greatest thing that has ever happened in Rotary,"
said Shadrach Mgawo Nyabam of Nigeria, whose country was represented
by a delegation of 546 members. "It was fantastic to hear the vote."
More storms blast Midwest
Storms blasted through the Midwest with 100-mph winds yesterday firinga
broadside of tornadoes and torrents of rain that sent rivers gushing over
their banks into towns and cities.
Hundreds fled the floodwaters in Kansas and Missouri as thunderstorms
which have pounded the plains off-and-on since early May renewed an
assault with 8-inch rains and hail the size of baseballs.
Thousands of homes and businesses lost power in Kansas City and other
towns such as Moberly, Mo., where winds clocked at 100 mph snapped trees
and power lines.
Police in Rossville, Kan., pleaded for volunteers with boats and four-wheel
drive vehicles to help evacuate most of the town's 1,100 residents, including
about 70 patients at a nursing home.
The sheriff's office in the northeast Kansas town, about 20 miles northwest
of Topeka, said Cross Creek,normally a narrow stream winding through the
community, had spread two miles wide upstream and was expected to crest
2 feet higher than a record level reached in 1973.
The National Weather Service posted flash flood warnings along numerous
rivers and streams in Kansas and Missouri, with the Missouri River already
2 feet over flood stage at Boonville, Mo., and some tributaries expected to
surge 8 feet over their banks.
Hinckley changed his story,
psychiatrist testifies
WASHINGTON - John Hinckley changed his story just two weeks before
his trial began, saying he believed President Reagan "stood in the way" of
his union with actress Jodie Foster, a doctor testified yesterday.
In the second day of sharp cross-examination by defense lawyers,
prosecution psychiatrist Park Dietz stuck to his assertion that Hinckley was
not mentally ill when he shot Reagan March 30, 1981.
Dietz, his voice rising under questioning, said he had asked Hinckley a
year ago whether he viewed the president as an obstacle to attaining Foster,
and Hinckley "said never did Reagan stand in his way."
The witness repeatedly rejected suggestions that Hinckley was driven to
the crime by his fantasies and by obsessions about building a romance with
Miss Foster, who played a young prostitute in the movie "Taxi Driver."
Instead, the doctor portrayed the 27-yar-old defendant as a manipulator
who concocted stories to support his insanity defense.