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MARGARET THATCHER
,
.
, Western Europe’s senior leader
Thatcher Sees
.
Enhanced Role
In Moscow Visit
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Foreign Service
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1987
New Md. Stadium
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Wouldn’t Guaranteei
Economic Gains
LONDON, March 22—When she
goes
to Moscow
to
meet
Soviet
leader
Mikhail
Gorbachev
this
week,
Prime
Minister
Margaret
-Thatcher told a Conservative Party
gathering yesterday, her “goal
will
be a peace based not on illusion or
surrender,
but
on
realism
and
Thatcher
has
publicly
rejected
speculation that she will undertake |
negotiations for the West on crucial 1
arms control issues during her five-
day Soviet
visit that begins Satur-
day. That role, she has emphasized,
belongs
exclusively
to the United
States.
But the British news media, with
encouragement
from
Thatcher s
(Downing Street press office,
is por-
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
itruggling with domestic issues as
hey move closer to an agreement
»n nuclear missiles in Europe, and
Western Europe
fearing
that
the
Jnited States may back away from
Is uommitnienLio the alliance, the
rlpifiaTprovralne r with an oppor-
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See THATCHER, A15, Col. 1
By Gwen Ifill
Washington Post Staff Writer
"^NNAPOLIS^^e Colfedeserted Baltimore
and
its 37-vear-old Memorial Stadium m 1984,
abandoning the legendary playinAjje^u®M°5
Unitas for the glistening new $80 million Ind
an
indianapdfs
e
Mayor Richard Hudnut was
de-
lighted; William Donald Schaefer, the mayor of
Baltimore, was not.
.
,.
hout
Schaefer, now governor,
is
still bitter about
the Colts’ departure. And,
like the chief execu-
tives of at least 16 other states and cities, Schae-
fer
s convinced that an expensive new sports
facility
is necessary as a boon
to economic de-
velopment, to boost prestige and to attract a new
as sttfstGZfrv-*
»
replace them, and once they are gone, they are
g
°«This
is one of the most important economic
benefits to the state,” Schaefer sad more recent-
ly “There isn’t any question about it.
y
But there
is
still debate in cities around the
country as welt as among econonists about how
strong a link there
is between sports-rela ed de-
velooment and economic prospenty. Cost over
runs for stadium projects are not incommon, and
taxpayers have frequently railed against efforts
to usl public funds to build the stprts complexes
ASSOCIATED PREsi|
The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is one
example of a stadium that spun off economic
benefits despite cost overruns during construction.
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that team owners are more frequently demand^
“ft
is
the
intangible—community
spirit
and
team
identity,
for
instance—that
is most
fre-
quently cited as the best reason the public shoukj
SU
"The name oHndifanTpohs and the IndianapoliJ
Colts are going out across the country every daj
during
the
football
season,
Lee Fehrenkamp
the Hoosierdome’s director of operations . aajJ
recently, summing up the city s transformation;
since the Colts arrived there. “These are things.
y
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C
haefer, fearful ofJosing the Orioles baseball
team, is bent on convincing the General Assem-
bly
that
the
state
is
responsible
for
rescuing
Maryland’s sports reputation and enhancing
its
economic development profile. He has submitted
,
See STADIUM, A7, Col. I
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