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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 22, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes March europeans to phase in exhaust standards 10year timetable set far cleaner Auto emissions Brussels up the european Community thursday took a first step to Ward providing new cars with clean exhausts within 10 that would match strict norms set for the decision will bring about a consid Erable reduction in atmospheric pollution that is causing such damage to our forests and our natural said Stan Ley Clinton european commission member for environmental and consumer after an Al night Community environment ministers agreed on a timetable for requiring cars to have cleaner exhaust for cars with an engine capacity of More than two the Date of introduction will be for cars with engines Between and two liners while for Small cars under liners it will be done in two stages a first adaptation in 199091 and a final one in the still have to decide on the european standards the cars will have to meet to be considered they said these standards will be set so that the effect on the european Environ ment will be equivalent to that produced by taking into account different patterns of use for each cat ego in the Large majority of cars Are in the medium or Small size cat ego and the Cost for adapting their exhaust systems is relatively com pared with the total Price of the than for larger the ministers Felt the new european standards should be attainable at reason Able Cost and by different technical some of which could offer a More stable performance than the catalytic con As Well As allowing Energy Sav they agreed that for medium sized the european standards could Well be met by Lea Burn instead of the More expensive catalytic or comparable cos effective the ministers agreed to a German de Mand that tax incentives can be granted buyers of clean exhaust but the tax reduction should be Well below the Cost of equipping a car to meet the new Stan the ministers formally approved a directive on the introduction of Lea free gasoline on which they had agreed in principle last Lea free Gaso line is essential for proper operation of the catalytic converters or Lea Burn tech the european environment a coalition of leading environmental organizations in the criticized the ministerial decision As too late and too it said the decision offers too Little improvement As 95 percent of the new models or new cars Only have to comply with the european standards after not to mention the old wed Ticlay British Leyland reports loss of million in 1984 London a stat owned British Leyland re ported tuesday a loss of million pounds Mil lion in larger than the previous years loss of million pounds then Worth the recent rate of Progress in bus recovery has not been sustained in and there have been inconsistencies in performance within the the company it blamed the higher loss on More Competition for sales and on Labo relations because of Auto production fell by vehicles to by sold its profitable Jaguar cars division to the private sector in August 1984 for 292 million pounds then Worth in the company said by will forego a final 110 million Pound million subsidy payment from the fi5 crashes in South Korea during team spirit exercises Seoul up a air Force f15 Eagle Jet fighter deployed to South Korea for joint military exercises crashed in the yellow sea american military officials the Fate of the Pilot was not immediately the officials the aircraft went Down about 15 Miles Northwest of Kunsan air base located 115 Miles Southwest of according to air Force and Navy Rescue aircraft were dispatched to the crash and a Board of officers will investigate the officials the Jet fighter is assigned to the 21st tac fighter Wing at Elmendorf and was deployed to South Korea to take part in joint military exercises called team spirit they the involving South korean forces and american naval and air Force units both from and outside of began Early in february and Are scheduled to end in Italy alleged Snow 13 others arrested in Milan Italy a police in Milan and Rome arrested the alleged Snow Queen of italian cocaine smugglers and 13 accomplices and seized More than 6 pounds of officials they said All 14 were italians and had been charged with International trafficking of Milan police had been awaiting the arrival of Bianca Sarfati and her bodyguard by train from Zurich where she had reportedly flown from Brazil carrying the cocaine in a makeup officials also arrested were three people police said were waiting at the Milan train station to drive the couple to Ana nine others allegedly waiting for the drugs in the italian police estimated the Street value of the pure ecuadoran and bolivian cocaine to be the 36yearold according to is known in italian drug circles m the Snow she allegedly has made several trips in the past to South America to buy Classwork for a Prince a photo Prince Charles sits at the controls of a Large tractor and demolishes a full sized replica Complete with special License plates of his personal car a Jaguar during a visit wednesday to the Royal school of military engineering in the Prince of Wales said this sort of Classwork was great judge sets charges for 7 suspects in Kidnap murder of drug agent Mexico City a a Federal judge has ordered six policemen and a former officer to go on trial in the Case of a kidnapped drug agent whose badly beaten body was found in a plastic bag on a mexican in announcing his judge Gonzalo Ballesteros Tena upheld kidnapping and murder charges against Only three of the he said the other four would stand trial on charges of illegal Possession of weapons and narcotics Mexico does not have jury the judge hears testimony and evidence from the defense and prosecution and has one year to decide on a Enrique Camarena who worked for the drug enforcement was abducted 7 in near the american Alfredo Zavala a mexican Pilot working with was kidnapped the same Day outside the three men were also ordered to stand trial for the pilots kidnapping and in his the judge said the Jalisco state police Victor Manuel Lopez along with policemen Juan Rufo Solorio Uliva and Gerardo Torres will be tried for murder and illegal Possession of weapons and narcotics he ordered Benjamin Cocheo Raul Lopez Alva Hector Lopez Malo Nieto and former police agent Jose Guadalupe Munoz Villareal to be tried on the lesser in homicide carries a prison sentence of eight to 20 years six to 40 years and narcotics seven to 15 under mexican defendants cannot be released on bail if the average penalty is More than five All seven defendants Are being held at the East prison in Mexico Ballesteros Tena refused on tuesday to comment on some defendants made during a hearing Sun that they had been tortured and forced by authorities to sign one of 13 men who were at one Point detained in the Case died in the attorney generals office said Gabriel Gonzalez Jalisco state police homicide died from acute bleeding of the pancreas but that an autopsy indicated no signs of the defendants had said at the hearing sunday that while in jail they could hear the screams of Gonzalez whom they claimed was beaten to  
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