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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 senators Block key envoy appointments will have no ambassador in Israel for hostage talks Washington a conservative senators on thursday blocked confirmation of key foreign policy nominees despite warnings that the delay would leave the United states without an ambassador in Israel during negotiations to free american hostages in Christopher said an ambassador is needed to help manage the delicate negotiations to free the 39 hostages held since the june 14 hijacking of a Twa we do not have an ambassador in Israel at one of the most crucial Dodd if anything happens to the hostages in the next 10 Days we will look Back on this Day As a Day of some i think its just a struggle going on in this Case Between Republican senators and the Secretary of Senate Republican Leader Robert told reporters after announcing that consideration of the appointees would be delayed until after the fourth of july earlier in the the Senate foreign relations com Mittee approved president reagans including ambassadors to Israel and West and sent them to the Senate floor expecting immediate Confirma the committee approval followed a White House meet ing wednesday Between Reagan and key Republican senators that had appeared to break a logjam of 29 appoint 0 the objections that blocked Senate consideration were not immediately but Senate staff members who asked not to be identified said the opposing senators included James Idaho Steven and Jesse none was available for earlier this Secretary of state George Shultz met with Republican senators to try to Speed up the Confirma including those of Thomas Pickering As ambassador to Israel and Richard Hurt As ambassador to West former ambassador to Jordan and has been ambassador to Al Salvador since Hurt has been an assistant Secretary of state for european playing a prominent role in developing the position in arms control talks with the soviet the committee voted 140 thursday to approve the nominations of Pickering and four other nominees Rozanne to be Burts successor As assistant Secretary Craig ambassador to Algeria Edwin ambassador to Al Salvador and Richard Thomas ambassador to the organization of Ameri can Mccormack nomination had been held up by liberals on the apparently because he has served As a foreign policy adviser to by a separate 120 the committee recommended Senate approval of Nicholas a close associate of former president to be ambassador to Helms and other conservatives had reservations about the Pickering and Burt appointments on the grounds that their actions in their current posts Are not in line with reagans conservative the conservatives maintain that Reagan is giving in to Shultz in making the primarily from the ranks of career foreign service they argue that the career officers tend to follow state department traditions and undermine reagans More conservative mercenary training is no Fri says a Jeremiah Denton says the Fri should take a closer look at mercenary training Camps like the Alabama school that trained a sikh militant sought for questioning in the crash of an air India we should take a look at the situation and see if International Law is being Vio said an Alabama Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committees subcommittee on Denton said the Fri told him wednes Day the Camps Are no problem for they said they have the situation adequately that the Camps Are vehicles for the fulfilment of and those Bent on crimes will get military training Denton Jimmie special agent in charge of the Birmingham office of the to Bacco and firearms said Frank campers school outside Birmingham has been under scrutiny by his department and the there apparently Are no Laws being he one of campers former students was Lai an Indian sought for questioning in the apparent bombing of a Jet that killed 329 passengers with All the publicity he camper gets and with everyone it would be hard for him routinely to break the Bivens its hard to explain to but regulating him would be like regulating the boy Bivens said schools such As campers apparently offer nothing More than routine military camper said earlier this week that his school taught Lai Singh about mines and grenades but not How to build time Bivens said the use of semiautomatic weapons at a mercenary school int illegal and the use of automatic weapons is illegal Only if they Are not Cecil special agent in charge of the Birmingham said that for a school such As campers to violate the neutrality it would have to train someone specifically to overthrow a particular government or plan to transport weapons Ille Gally out of the country for the purpose of i doubt seriously if one of these schools would Cater to a terrorist or if a terrorist would even be Moses but Denton said its time to consider tougher Laws controlling the these Camps Are a new 1 didst even know they he i believe much More needs to be done in this area to find out what Camps what they Are teach ing and what Laws apply and should apply to get control Over these Man afraid of Blacks receives disability pay a a judge has ordered disability payments to begin to a former City sanitation super visor who won a much criticized workers compensation ruling based on his fear of working with Black Gary left his Job two years ago after suffering a nervous breakdown brought he by the stress of working with he said he fled his Home and went into seclusion for a while for fear of circuit judge Jack Mudd this week ordered the state to begin paying weekly disability benefits of a lawyer said the state will Mudd said he based the decision solely on a state Law that allows indigent workers who seek compensation to receive benefits while disputed awards Are on he said he will Rule on the merits of the Case the Kentucky workers compensation Board ruled in Sands of time april that the state must pay pearls weekly the City must pay his medical expenses and that he should receive Back pay dating to his resignation in March the Board also recommended he be Given a new in an Allwhite if publicity about the order generated angry responses from civil rights the state and the which contends the ruling condones racial Dis criminal Pearl said in an interview with the associated press on monday that he Doest like to visit with people and spends much of his time worrying about his in not very outgoing like i used to he i have nightmares about Blacks trying to kill me he awaits the outcome of the Case in the suburban Louisville Home he said he has mortgaged twice since he quit he remains except for Short trips to the grocery store or to visit his he said he hurried off once to visit relatives in Tennessee after receiving threatening Telephone Pearl wont allow his photograph to be taken because he wants to avoid theres Blacks out there that probably trying to kill thinking in a he some Blacks who worke him declined to be inter viewed when contacted by Pearl grew up in predominantly Rural Grayson county in Western Kentucky and said he Doest judge All Blacks by what a few have done to he claims he cant work where Whites Are in the minority because of my in not in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 1945 it was disclosed unofficially that partition of Berlin for Allied occupation will give the a mixture of residential and manufacturing sections in the South and southwestern portion of the the russians will hold the Eastern half and the British the Western 30 years ago today Chancellor Konrad Adenauer first Bill to put West German soldiers into uniform was tabled by the bundestag in Bonn and party leaders announced they will prepare a new 20 years ago today june Queen Juliana of the Netherlands announced the engagement of her eldest Crown Princess to Claus von a former West German i i no attn Al t cussing will get you busted in tidy Little town of Wadley 70 years ago today june thousands of cambodians have died since the communist takeover ten weeks ago and food shortages could add significantly to the said officials in a this tidy town of people has two liquor one red and too much according to mayor who has embarked on a Campaign to rid Wadley of Public pro under authority granted to him by the City has ordered police to arrest anyone using vulgar language in no arrests have been but the mayor said he is serious about the cussing in monitoring the situation real said a retired High school Prin Cipal who operates a mortuary in addition to his mayoral i think everyone around town is getting the three months Johnson was in the news when he issued a shoot Okill order on stray his profanity order is aimed at Young people who congregate for basketball games at the Hoke Williams memorial the games Are often accompanied by a Stream of foul police More than a dozen Homes Are within earshot of the including Johnsons Brick the mayor said he and his wife Are subjected to the foul language while tending their located about 50 Miles South West of formerly was known As shake rag according to residents had to wave a rag to get the train to the tracks still run through the Center of flanked by Turno the Century Brick but the train station is now occupied by a feed  
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