post y MARGARET THATCHER M _.. Western Europe’s senior leader 1 Thatcher Sees Enhanced Role In Moscow Visit | By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Foreign Service __ Washington Post Foreig)  __— 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 g strength” - Thatcher has publicly rejected { speculation that she will undertake 2 negotiations for the West on crucial § arms control issues during her five- 3 slay Soviet visit that begins Satur- 3 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 snhance Thatcher’s already favor- able prospects in general elections ikely to he held here’ this year. Thatcher and her aides also view che visit in. a larger context, how- ayer. With Moscow and Washington struggling with domestic issues as hey move closer to an agreement sn nuctear missiles in Europe, and Western Europe fearing that the Snited States may back away from ts com the alliance, the ig er with an oppor- See THATCHER, A15, Col. 1 ne iy Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002000670002-5 MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1987 Wouldn't Guaranteed Economic Gains By Gwen Ifill Washington Post Staff Writer to ANNAPOLIS—The Colts deserted Baltimore and its 37-year-old Memorial Stadium in 1984, - abandoning the legendary playing field of Johnny $80 million Indi- Unitas for the glistening new anapolis Hoosierdome. Indianapolis Mayor Richard Hudnut’ was de- lighted; William Donald Schaefer, the mayor of Baltimore, was not. 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 is convinced that an expensive new sports facility is necessary a8 a boon to economic de- velopment, to boost prestige and to attract a new National Football League team. “You look at the prestige, you look at the jobs, you look at the things it generates in a city,” Schaefer said last month. “You won't be able to replace them, and once they areigone, they are gone.” ; Do , “This is one of the most important economic benefits to the state,” Schaefer sad more recent- ly. “There isn’t any question abou it.” ~ But there is still debate in cities around the country as well as among econonists about how strong a link there is between sports-related de- velopment and economic prospetity. Cost over- runs for stadium projects are not incommon, and taxpayers have frequently railed against efforts: to use public funds to build the spprts complexes \ : i 4 The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is one example of a stadium that spun off economic benefits despite cost overruns during i 4 x R3 onstruction. | 17 that team owners are more frequently demand ing. f It is the intangible—community spirit and team identity, for instance—that is most frez quently cited as the best reason the public should. subsidize professional sports. 7 “The name of Indianapolis and the Indianapolig Colts are going out across the country every day * during the football season,” Lee Fehrenkamp, . the Hoosierdome’s director of operations, sai recently, summing up the city’s transformation: since the Colts arrived there. “These are things: you can’t buy, ti ht?” a Schaefer, fearful of losing the Orioles baseball - - team, is bent on convincing the General Assem- bly that the state 1s responsible for rescuing Maryland’s sports reputation and enhancing its ‘economic development profile. He has submitted ; See STADIUM, A7, Col. 1 we Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002000670002-5