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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 27, 1981

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 student froze at the wheel car shops on train kills Driver fort a a 19yearold Art student who stopped her car on a Railroad crossing when other cars blocked her from the front and the rear was crushed to death by a freight train when she apparently froze at the according to a before she Dawn Dulock tried frantically to Back her car off the tracks As the Florida East coast railway train a poached at 35 but the Driver of the car behind her refused to police arrested the Anthony per of Pompano on charges of vehicular driving under the influence of alcohol and Possession of drug of was killed when the northbound train smashed into her car at an intersection in the fort Lauderdale suburb of Oakland her Rhonda also jumped from the car and suffered Only minor cuts and Axtell said she told Dulock you should never Stop on the tracks when Dulock pulled her car up on the she said two cars were stopped at a traffic signal in front of their and another car pulled up behind she said the crossing barricade had not come and they did not see the train Railroad said a preliminary investigation indicated the signals were i yelled at her to put it in but when she did we hit the car behind said he had at least a car length Anda half of room behind him to Back Axtell said she jumped out of the car and pounded on the mans Windshield when he didst i yelled and but he didst said who was knocked Down when the car struck her As it was dragged along the i think the train was so close that she just sat there and looked at Axtell Axtell said her first reaction was to look for her Friend in the its Proba Bly Good that i  find she she then ran Back to the car that had blocked her friends opened the door and punched the Driver in the she Axtell said she met Dulock 18 months ago when they began studying advertising design at a fort Lauderdale Art the northbound train smashed into he had at least a car length Anda design at a fort Lauderdale Art s Gao report says Federal legs fail to curb bilking of mail order users Washington up mail order because of bankruptcy or mail in new York City and the new Yor Washington up mail order customers still Are being cheated to a significant degree despite Federal regulations de signed to protect congressional investigators said part of the problem is a Lack of coordination Between the postal service and the Federal Trade the report from the general accounting office the which monitors Federal pro Grams for said the Etc should make an analysis of How Well its 5yearold mail order Rule is working and clean up its complaint processing and forwarding opera the 1976 Etc Rule requires that mail order houses which advertise specific Deli Ery time must be reasonably sure they can deliver by that if no time is Adver delivery must occur within 30 Days after the order is if the promised Date or the 30day win Dow cant be the company must notify the customer of a new shipping Date and offer him or her the option of cancellation with further delays Are permitted As Long As the customer is Given the right to certain products or services such As to Magazine seeds and growing plants and cod orders Are not covered by the violators can be heavily the Gao said mail ordering currently an Market and still grow ing triggers about complaints each year to the companies the government and to Trade associations such As the better business because of bankruptcy or mail the consumer sometimes never receives any the report the study said the postal service reported 90 percent of consumer complaints were resolved during the services files contain key data on mail order the report but the Etc has not made arrangements to an Alyze that data in it the Etc will not refer a complaint to the postal service unless the consumer has included a proof of the postal on the other refers All complaints to the mail order House even when Purchase proof is not officials of the better business Bureau in new York City and the new York state attorney generals office believe that the Etc is not effectively enforcing the mail order the investigators they stated that the Rule has had some positive Impact but that consumer mail or Der problems in new a major Center of the continue to be postal service officials in new York and Washington also believe there is substantial noncompliance with the mail order Rule and question the rules effective it the Gao said its analysis of consumer complaint files indicates a significant level of consequently we believe that the effectiveness of the mail order Rule needs to be bombers readied for Gulf role a the United states has equipped a Squadron of b52 bombers with nonnuclear weapons to coun Ter any military threat to persian Gulf Oil the  reported in a copyright the newspaper said As Many As 28 planes can be readied for action against Middle East targets within 36 hours after being ordered from their per manent bases in North they would head to temporary bases As far away As the paper according to the Lloyd Leavitt vice commander of the strategic air told it that the strike Force also is made up of electronic reconnaissance and airborne command Post Leavitt said the the last version of the bomber made before construction was is being used because of its Range of More than Miles without re he said the bombers Are from sacs 57th air division and would be used for Low level bombing he said the strike Force has been tested in a Domestic training exercise and would be Able to respond quickly in Case of a military flare up in the Middle East or Southeast Farmer uses wrong kills 40 head of cattle Zimbabwe a stud Farmer Dave Banks used the wrong bottle and killed Worth of cattle instead of deforming the South african press association has forty cattle of time in the stars and stripes 30 years ago today 1951 the new liner Independence arrived in new York its future City officials turned out to Greet the 20 years ago 1961 two rb47 Crew members whose plane was shot Down Over the Barents sea last july have been released by the soviets with no to years ago today 1971 Apollo 14 expects to a television first a live color Tele cast of men walking on the lunar cutting a path for the ferry Road Crews from Prairie Duchien and Way for a ferry to Cross from mar stress making a boat the Only wis Cut through the brige in the Way to Cross the River from Marquette ice on the Mississippi River to make ground was closed because of dangerous to  
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