European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes i kit Page 9 passover food lost a photo Thelma Goldfinger of West is asking the Navy to find three 40pound packages she sent two months ago to her Navy Jeffrey Gold assigned to the aircraft Carrier Carl Vinson in the Indian she said she sent enough jewish Holiday specialities for 30 vacationing Reagan Calls for support of 2 controversial plans Santa a Dent ignoring criticism of his budget Compromise plan and a new strategy to Aid in Carragan saturday asked Congress to support the two controversial this week is ending on a very hopeful the vacationing president said in a radio address from his Mountaintop weve received encouraging reaction to our peace proposal for and weve reached an immensely important budget agreement that can help keep americas economic engines running full Speed ahead for years to As Reagan settled in for the first full Day of a 10day vacation on his the administration was buffeted by attacks on both the budget plan and the rebel id nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel Descoto said Reagan has said nothing new and he certainly has presented no peace in what president Reagan has said to Nicaragua you drop dead or else ill kill Dave chair Man of the Senate intelligence called the plan an Apple with a razor Blade in seeking million in Aid for the anti government forces in Reagan pledged last thursday that the Money would not be used for arms if the ruling sandinista agreed to reconciliation talks with the opposition and consented to a settlement within 60 Reagan added that More than a dozen including Nicaragua have already expressed their support and around the those who support democracy Are rallying to support our promo i ask Only that the members of our own Congress do the he the administration concedes it will be a Tough fight and that it lacks sufficient votes there is congressional opposition to a number of things we Are trying to but it Doest deter us from doing whats said presidential spokesman Larry Reagan described his Compromise with Senate republicans on the budget As the most far reaching spending reduction plan in postwar noting that it would eliminate 17 Domestic such As Amtrak the Job corps and the Small business and Reagan what the sen ate republicans have done is bite the Bullet on and i believe they deserve your support and that of the other members of the president said the plan would Cut billion from expected deficits and provides the foundation for historic Prog Ress because those deficits will be wiped out without raising taxes a without jeopardizing vital defense programs or any essential the plan combines deep cuts in Domestic spending with a slowdown in the defense buildup and a limit on social Security in elderly persons groups accused the president of breaking a Promise not to Cut so Cial Security and Daniel Pat Rick these cuts Hurt most those who Are most poor and most those with few other sources of Reagan said the plan guarantees an in crease in benefits of at least 2 percent annually Over the next three Gravedigger strike closes san Francisco area cemeteries san Francisco up a 10day strike by gravediggers has closed 18 Ceme teries in the san Francisco Bay area with no new negotiations in causing scores of bodies to accumulate in All signs suggest the strike could be a Long in 1971 a similar walkout lasted four months and created a backlog of the bodies Are embalmed and enclosed in caskets that Are kept in mortuary base ments and other Cool Virginia of Daphne funeral said 70 bodies were stored in her mortuary in the 1971 beginning in the san Francisco moved Juji civilian cemeteries put of the City because of the increasing value of City they were moved to the suburb of which now has 13 and 30 or 40 funeral motorcade usually cruise through the City these business is Way Down at the Flower and rows of tombstones stand awaiting the strike is terribly hard on said june Antracoli at the american Monu ment most of them must forgo the traditional burial and they dont know when their deceased will be after Long when burials become working off the backlog can take a Long funeral directors said a few fam Ilies will be called each Day and Given times when their funerals can be fitted into the usually the burial will be conducted with Only the immediate family present As Daphne people dont want a Sec Ond the families do not have Many Many of them own plots in cemeteries that Are and others Are waiting because they do not want to Bury their dead some where out of the cremation May be chosen by a few peo ple who might not otherwise have done in the last decade the number of cremations in the area has risen from near Zero to about on third of All the strike began March 28 when 180 members of cemetery workers Union local 265 put up picket lines in Colma and in the Oakland the Union members had been working without a contract for a Joan representing local said management groups had scarcely budged since an offer made in Midian a Federal mediator has entered the but no new talks Are in employers Are represented by two Ceme Tery associations which offered 3 percent wage increases and demanded a two tier system by which new employees would be paid Only 65 percent of what current employees the Union flatly rejected the two tier system and asked for 10 percent wage the cemeteries appeared to be under somewhat less economic pressure to reach a settlement than other kinds of strike bound employers would most of the cemeteries business is simply rather than until after the the gravediggers current rate is a but Glen manager of Olivet memorial says fringe Benefit costs amount to nearly 50 percent the workers perform tree painting and other in addition to opening and closing Graves with mechanical because san Francisco has a tradition of Strong support for few Cross the picket even to visit family but a few nonunion cemeteries continue to of woman for rape victims Chicago a some Legal authorities fear that the confession by a woman who said she lied nearly eight years ago when she accused a Man of raping her May result in a setback in attempts to prosecute this is Unfer Kundte for two said circuit judge Giho a former pros ecu it undermines some of the Good work that rape crisis people have done in bringing the crime of rape to the attention of the but it May also serve to victimize victim a second Gary was freed on Bond last week after serving six years in jail on a charge of raping Cathleen Crowell who was16 when she filed the complaint that Leno Dotson arrest and her resent recantation will be the subject of a court hearing thursday to determine whether Dotson was wrongfully convicted and word has1 hot yet cleared who a released from prison on a Cash he was serving a 25to 50year at least one defense attorney has already cited the ease in trying to win Freedom for his in a closing argument to a jury considering the Fate of accused rapist Rodney assistant Cook county Public defender Guy Hoch noted webbs saying it is so Doest make it Hoch told jurors we had a woman in this county who claimed to have been and a Man went to the jury found Willis but Many Counselor Are afraid a trend May have been its a terrible time to be a rape said Chicago rape Counselor bar Bara i knew when i read the first1 Story about Webb that she would give momentum to a myth weve spent a lot of time trying to diminish the myth that women often lie about her feelings were echoed by Mury director of the Chicago sexual assault serv ices Boria said the implications would be even More dire for teenage the myth is that teens lie about rape in order to cover up their sexual Boria that is precisely what Webb said she a 23yearold Mother of two now living in new told circuit judge Richard Samuels she fabricated the rape and kidnapping Story in mid1977 to prevent her Foster parents from learning she had had sex with a teenage