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  Thatche'r-Sees
  Enhanced Role
  In Moscow Visit
  By Karen DeYoung
  Wishington Post Foreign Service i
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  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
  :strength."
  I Thatcher has publicly rejected
  :speculation that she will undertake
  megotiations for the West on crucial
  ;arms control issues during her five-
  iday Soviet visit that begins Satur-
  iday. That role, she has emphasized,
  lbelongs exclusively to the United
  States.
       But the British news media, with
  'hatcher's
  encouragement from T
  Vowning Street press office, is por-
  traying the trip as evidence of her
  "big league" status in the western
  alliance. Her aides predict it will
  Emhance Thatcher's already favor-
  kbie prospects in general elections
  ikely to be held here, this year.
       Thatcher and her aides also view
  --he visit in a larger context, how-
  5ver. 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
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  MONDAY, MARCH 23,1987
  New Md., Stadium
  Wouldn't Guaranteo
  le
  Economi Gains
  By Gwen Ifill
  W,131141gtoll Post Staff Writer
       ANNAPOLIS-The Colts deserted Baltimore
  and its 37-year-old Memorial Stadium in 1984,
  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.
       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 as a boon to economic de-
  velopment, to boost prestige and to attract a new
  National Football League team.
                           obs,
  "You look at the prestige, you look at the i ,
  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 arc'gone, they are
                       @y
  gone i
       @'This' is one of the most important economic

  

  benefits to the state," Schaefer saAmore recent-
  ly. "There isn't any question about it."
       But there is still debate in cifies around the
  country as well as among econonists about how
  strong a link there is between sports-related de-
  velopment and economic, prospefity. Cost over-
  runs for stadium projectsare not incommon, and
  taxpayers have frequently riiiedagaiDst efforts
  to use public funds to build the sprts complexes
  The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is one
  example of a stadium that spun off economic
  benefits despite cost overruns during construction.
  that team owners are more frequently demand
  Ing.
       It is the intangible-community spirit anct
  team identity, for instance-that is most fre'-@'
  quently cited as the best reason the public shou,14
  subsidize professional sports,
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  "The natue of Indianapolis and the Indianapoli4
  Colts are going out across the country every daT
  during the football season," Lee Fehrenkamly,
  the Hoosierdome's director of operations, sai4
  recently, summing up the city's transformatiow.
  since the Colts'arrived there. "These are things
  you can't buy, right?"
       Schaefer, 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
  econoinic development profile. He has submitted
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