European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May 1985 use car warranty information must be Etc rules Washington a the nations use car lots must clearly Tell customers whether they offer warranties and what is covered on the vehicles being sold starting the warranty information and other con Sumer warnings arc to be included in win Dow required under new Federal Trade commission regulations for the Esti mated million used cars sold annually by the regulation forces dealers to disclose the most important information needed by a use car buyer who has to pay for any needed repairs said Carol director of the commissions Bureau of consumer and the warranties May Well prove a Good guide to the Quality of cars being since a dealer is Likely to offer More Protection on cars in which he has More conf added Deputy director Amanda be the Etc Rule covers sales of used Light trucks As Well As used cars by dealers who sell at least six vehicles a the roughly 7 million people a year who sell their own used vehicles privately Are not covered by the detailed information on the new Regula Tion was mailed to every use car dealer in the nation two weeks Petersen in order to give them time to Consumers should look for the stickers starting and we want to hear from them if there not seeing she told a news conference dealers who fail to comply could face fines of up to per Day per Petersen if a warranty is the terms must be stated on the Crawford said a ten year study of the use car business found the biggest prob Lem was dealers Selling cars As is but verbally promising customers that they would fix any problems that came promises that arc not in writing cannot be she pointed for the first buyers will be Able to walk into a use car lot and know up in what warranty coverage is being she while she could not estimate the Cost of the Crawford said she thinks savings provided by warranties could Range from to in repairs on cars with an average Price of to warranties Are not required by the Only that it be made Clear whether they Are offered if what systems Are covered and for How she dealers offer warranties on about half of the billion in used cars sold besides the warranty the new sticker also warns Consumers to get any promises in suggests getting an in dependent inspection before buying a used car and provides a list of the major systems of cars and suggests problems that might occur with swapping War stories a photo Endel Pusep left of gets acquainted with Ray Ellis of during a reception for 31 soviet citizens on a Friendship forum tour to the United Pusep ran a siberian factory that made radio tubes during world War ii Ellis was a Deputy director of the War production the visitors have gotten a taste of american capitalism including a trip to a fancy department store and have spent several nights in american need not help pay settlement judge dismisses stiff by makers of agent Orange new York a the government does not have to contribute to the multimillion Dollar settlement of the agent Orange class action lawsuit by Vietnam veterans and their a Federal judge ruled in a six Page District judge Jack Winstein dismissed a third party lawsuit against the government by seven chemical companies that manufactured the herbicide and had agreed to a Mil lion settlement with the ruling does not affect the amount of Money to be dispensed in the settlement but Means it will be funded solely by the the government sought dismissal of the and the judge agreed it was and is within its Legal rights in refusing to he said the Justice departments benign detachment from this aftermath or the Vietnam War May be cruel to the veterans who served their the United states will pay a High Price for its present the judge said future War contractors will require and increased insurance costs will be added to the Price of goods the government the judge also predicted lingering resentment by veterans and their families who believe that the govern ment has let them the agent Orange makers sought to have the government contribute to the portion of the settlement fund which May be used for the wives and even assuming that there were some Validity to the claims of the members of the class there is no at the present the government can be found liable to plaintiffs the chemical there can be no basis for a third party Weinstein Vietnam veterans claimed agent a chemical defoliant widely used in Southeast Asia during the was responsible for a Host of ills they and their families including miscarriages and birth de veterans lawsuits against the government were dismissed by citing the feres which stipulates that military personnel cannot sue the government for civil wrongs or injuries incurred during their lawsuits by veterans wives and children against the government were also dismissed for fail ure to offer any proof of a causal connection Between agent Orange and their alleged Weinstein but thousands of lawsuits against agent Orange manufacturers were consolidated in 1980 into a class action last a settlement was reached in the class action lawsuit by thousands of Vietnam Veter ans and their families against seven chemical Compa Nies that made agent British hold German wanted by for illegal exports Washington a a West Ger Man sought on charges of exporting High technology equipment to the soviet Union and Eastern european communist nations has been apprehended by authorities in the Justice department announced John a spokesman for the Crimi Nal said Werner was taken into custody in Britain and accused of trying to enter that country without a valid Russell said authorities sought his provisional arrest and have commenced proceedings to get Bruchhausen extradited to the United states to stand trial on the charges stemming from a 60 count indictment handed Down by a fed eral grand jury in los Angeles in August Bruchhausen was detained wednes Many and without first hav said he would not elaborate on the circumstances of the Bruchhausen and three others were named in the 1981 indictment charging the defendants with violations of the Export administration the arms Export and control act and Federal income tax two of the three Anatoli Tony Maluta and Sabina Dorn Tittel Are in the third austrian National Dietmar Ulric Shofer remains at Justice officials Bruchhausen never stood trial on the having fled the United authorities the indictment charged that from Jan uary 1977 through june Bruch Hausen and the others conspired to Export from the United states various High technology commodities to East Ger ing obtained the necessary Export licenses from the departments of Commerce and customs commissioner William von Raab called Bruchhausen one of the worlds top techno bandits and said his arrest is a major break in this country efforts to track and arrest people wanted for deceiving and defrauding american businesses by Selling potential High technology to the von Raab said that Bruchhausen was arrested while staying in Britain under an assumed and that he was carry ing a brazilian von Raab said working through Dummy corporations in califor Nia and West is alleged to have smuggled a microwave receiver semiconductor manufacturing equip a computer system and other Mili tary and scientific in an april 1981 Bruchhausen said he stopped dealing with the Sovi ets earlier that when his operation was since he said at the he had been Selling Small computers to hotels and doctors in West they authorities consider that everything will be used in some kind of sophisticated weapon at that what they say and that not the Bruchhausen the main thing is that i have not supplied anything which was declared As a military in other he these were All dual use any screw can be used in a civilian car or in a military vehicle As he