NEWS CLIPS FROM MARCH 23, 1987 'WASHINGTON POST'.

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• Publication Date: March 23, 1987
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MONDAY, MARCH 23,1987
Western Europe's senior leader
T hatcher Sees
Enhanced Role
In Moscow Visit
,
r
Schaefer, now gov
By Karen DeYoung
' departure. And, like the chief execu- overruns
Washington Post Foreign Service the tives of Colts'
states and cities, Schae-
least 16 other s
that team owners are more
fer is convinced that an expensive new sports
-
goes to Moscow to meet Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev this facility is necessary as a boon to economic de
It is the intangible-communit
to boost prestige and to attract a new
team identity, for instance-that
week, Prime Minister Margaret velopment,
Football League team. ing.
quently cited as the best reason the
-Thatcher told a Conservative Party National
professional sports.
gathering yesterday, her "goal will
"The name of Indianapolis and th
be a peace based not on illusion or you look at
Colts are going out across the coun
surrender, but on realism and Schaefer
during the football season," Lee
strength. replace them,
the Hoosierdome's director of op
Thatcher has publicly rejected
recently, summing up the city's t
speculation that she will undertake
negotiations for the West benefits to the state," Schaefer sad more recent-
since the Colts arrived there. "Th
crucial
right?"
firms control issues during her five- ly.
day Soviet visit that begins Satur- But there is still debate in cities around the you can't buy,
Schaefer, fearful of josing the O
team, is bent on convincing the G
Klay. That role, she has emphasized, country as well as among
bly that the state is responsible
belongs exclusively to the United strong a link there is between
Maryland's sports reputation and
States. velopment and
economic development profile. He
But the British news media, with runs for stadium projectsre
See STADIUM, A7, Cot.
encouragement from Thatcher's taxpayers have frequently
to use pu
Downing Street press office, is per- public funds to build the spprts complexes traying the trip as evidence of her
`big league" status in the western
alliance. Her aides predict it will
Enhance Thatcher's already favor-
able prospects in general elections
ikely to be held here' this year.
Thatcher and her aides also view
=he visit in a larger context, how-
ever. With Moscow and Washington
struggling with domestic issues as
hey move closer to an agreement
an nuclear missiles in Europe, and
Western Europe fearing that the
Jnited States may back away from
is co 1Oe, the
l"f -ffi r er with an oppor-
See THATCHER, A18, Col. 1
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Wouldn't Guarantee,
Economic Gains
By Gwen Ifill
Washington Poet Staff Writer
ANNAPOLIS-The Colts deserted Baltimore
and its 37-year-old Memorial Stadium in 1984,
its 37-year
abandoning the legendary playing field of Johnny
Unitas for the glistening new $80 million Indi-
anapolis Hoosierdome.
Indianapolis Mayor Richard Hudnut' was de-
lighted; William Donald Schaefer, the mayor of
Baltimore, was not.
is still bitter about
nor
e
demand
y spirit and
is most fre
public shouk
e Indianapolis
try every dad
Fehrenkamp?
erations, said
ransformation
ese are things'
rioles baseball
eneral Assem-
for rescuing
enhancing its
has submitted
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