European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes april 10 employees of defense firms face bribe acceptance charges los Angeles up ten employees of three defense contractors have been charged in a Kickback scheme with accepting Cash bribes in Exchange for award ing about million in including some classified at the time of the alleged eight of the defendants worked for Hughes one was a vice president of Tel Edyne camera systems and the other worked for Northrop attorney Robert Bonner told four have been a fifth will be arrested shortly and the remaining five were expected to authorities the three indictments and five criminal complaints resulted from an 18month Fri investigation that is still Bonner it is painfully Clear that the practice of paying and accepting kickbacks in the defens contracting Community in Southern California is widespread and altogether too Bonner Bonner said the subcontracts involved sophisticated machine parts for military aircraft or weapons systems some of them classified items being purchased by the defense Home video firm uses process to discourage piracy of tapes los Angeles a a Home video company has announced that it will release the movie the Cotton using a landmark breakthrough in anti piracy devices that causes copies to piracy is the single biggest threat to our and for years weve been investigating anti piracy de said Andre the chairman of embassy Home Blay said he considered the process developed by Macro vision a landmark breakthrough for the video Industry and for copyright the system uses a process that maintains the Superior picture Quality of the original cassette or disc but causes considerable deterioration in said Victor the chairman of the san Jos based Blay said potential pirates who rent cassettes can no longer make duplicates to sell or for the development also promises to be a Boon for All producers and holders of he Michigan plastics company to build Plant in Luxembourg a the tiny nation of Luxembourg sent its Crown Prince on a Trade Mission to Michi Gan and won a commitment for a new plastics Plant that will employ about 100 officials the Rochester based Letica has been looking for a site in Europe to build a Plant to produce plastic Indus trial shipping said company president and founder Ilija on Crown Prince accompanied by Luxembourg economic Georges and other met with Letica and won his Promise to build the Plant in their West european we have decided it will be Letica said after the he said the Plant would employ about 100 people and would primarily serve common Market with a population of Luxembourg is seeking foreign investment to offset its declining heavy the 30yearold Prince said he said his country is particularly interested in Light and High technology industries and those companies that have a future like Luxembourg sends Trade delegations to the United states twice a presenting the advantages of coming to the Prince Man sleeping in dumpster winds up in garbage truck a a Man who bad been sleeping it off in a garbage dumpster was picked up with the trash and deposited m the Back of a garbage authorities a truck Driver for Dakota sanitation reported to the buried go county sheriffs office that someone was banging inside his deputies climbed on top of the truck and found a Man inside shaking badly and bleeding from a Cut 00 us the Meniti fied As Troy was treated and placed in a detoxification cell from which he was later Procter Gamble has used this Noona Nastars trademark on its products since persistent Rumor of satanism forces to drop old logo Cincinnati a Jerry Billy Graham and the archbishop of Chicago  Stop recurring vicious lies about Procter Gamble links to and the soap giant has decided to drop its Century old Moonan stars How it started originally we have no and How it restarted we have no spokesman Bill Dob son said wednesday after the company announced that it would phase out the use of the logo on its the trademark itself wont change in any Dobson it will continue to be used extensively As a Symbol on the company stationery and the decision was prompted by frustration Over an inability to quash a wave of rumours that first crested with Telephone Calls from Consumers in july according to officials of the company ranked 22nd on the Fortune 500 list of corporations in 1984 with sales of the rumours say put the trademark showing a Crescent Man in the Moon and 13 stars on All pack Ages As a Symbol of its link with were referring to them As the vicious lies and Dobson its just the company says the stars on its 103yearold Trade Mark Honor the original which has a Straightarro corporate fought Back in 1982 with the help of the Billy moral majority Leader the Jerry Cardinal Joseph the roman Catholic archbishop of and syndicated columnist Abigail Van the company also filed lawsuits against people who spread rumours including a Minnesota nursing Homes a Georgia to Weatherman and a distributor for Amway products in new the Rumor Only to Spring Back up in late More than people have called the company about the rumours this including More than so far this Dobson in More than Consumers have called or written about the its being spread by Means of a on Page flyer that gets duplicated by people thinking there doing Good deed by circulating these Dobson the thing snowball very the problem has been that it resurfaced again and has started to take on a new life of its own once again in As it did in he that has become a major distraction to us and for that reason weve taken the the latest resurgence comes primarily from new Jer new York and the Philadelphia it is essentially the same Rumor As before that a executive went on a National talk show and said some profits go to satan and that the logo is a Symbol of the Devil company executives went to new York last week to launch their latest offensive against the setting up a special Tollfree hotline and hiring two investigative agencies to track Down the rumours the trademark is featured on every although the demands for More ingredient listings and other graphic changes have sometimes reduced the logo to a Circle in the trademark is so Small now that its not recognize Dobson the company trademark now appears on such products As Ivory folgers cheer and tide de scope Crest Crisco shortening and if Peanut research found that most Consumers didst notice the Mark on so the company decided to drop Dobson the removal will be done As packages get their usual design no extra expense will be in Dobson each product package is changed on an average of at least once a for size or color or graphics or design or any number of he plans to keep investigating the source of the he on the company announced third Quarter earnings of million on sales of Down from income of million in the year ago when sales were China bans pornography peking a China has outlawed pornographic aphrodisiacs and obscene materials that people s under new regulations just