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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Trade deficit surges to billion Washington a the for eign Trade powered by a jump in Petroleum Rose to billion last the second highest on the Commerce department said that the merchandise Trade deficit the difference Between exports and imports from billion in the new flood of red Ink came from an percent jump in Oil imports and foreign goods such As japanese which swamped a slight gain in for the first six months of the the deficit totals Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige has predicted that for All of 1985 the deficit will reach billion to far above last years record of the United states largest single Trade deficit billion was incurred with it was the highest monthly imbalance on trading problems Are among main causes for the slow economic growth this for the first half of the Economy advanced at Only a Small 1 percent annual rate As manufacturers continued to lose sales to foreign the principal reason for the Trade Hemor rage has been the strength of the which makes imports cheaper and More at Tractive to americans while boosting the Price of goods Trade with Canada exports to Canada imports from Canada in billions of dollars in of dollars 60 50 40 30 20 10 1980 81 82 83 84 1980 81 Chicago Tribune graphic source department of Commerce 10 83 84 the billion june deficit came close to the previous monthly record of Bil lion set last last month imports climbed by per cent to the second highest total on the gain stemmed from a big jump in Oil which flowed into the country at a daily rate of million barrels a up from million barrels daily in part of the increase in Oil shipments May have been the result of a fall in the the average Price dropped to per Down from in imports of manufactured goods Rose by million to a june total of pushed up by increased sales of from Japan and the rest of the in addition to big deficits were recorded with Western billion billion and imports of new cars from Japan totalled billion in accounting for 27 per cent of the japanese Export total last japanese car imports had totalled billion in exports Rose by a slight percent in june after falling percent in even with the slight exports totalled Only billion last the Small Advance in exports came from increases in a variety of missile violent reenactments scared Mother on target for 700mile test Point a a ship launched Tomahawk cruise missile Success fully completed a 700mile trip tuesday from the Pacific Ocean to the Mojave de Sert in a land attack the Navy the unarmed missile was launched from a surface vessel offshore and followed a predetermined flight plan before parachuting to Earth at the China Lake naval weapons Center 130 Miles North of los said Ray a spokesman for the Pacific missile test Center at Point cruise missiles Are Low flying Craft that use computer guidance systems to maintain Low Altitude and avoid radar they can be equipped with conventional or nuclear boys banned from viewing wrestling new York a two teenage Brothers have been prohibited by a court from watching professional wrestling on television because they became violent while reenacting the matches at inflicting injuries on each other and frighten ing their the Staten Island Ages 16 and watched wrestling on to at every Opportunity and remained hyped up for hours family court judge Daniel Leddy so violent were the boys As they prac tired body choke locks and Fig Refour locks that they inflicted injuries on one according to court on one the younger boy even tried a Sleeper hold on his Mother As she was stir frying vegetables in the but she managed to break the hold without injury to court papers the boys fundamental Well being de mands that they cease being subjected to violence and the portrayal of violence in their Leddy the judge issued an order of Protection to end the viewing of to wrestling in the and he directed the Mother to ensure that her sons dont watch such if the order is the judge threat ened to have the family to removed from the or even to have the boys removed from their Home and placed in Foster Leddy did not reveal the names of family members in his fou Page the court obtained jurisdiction of the Case a year ago when the boys were labelled neglected children because of injuries inflicted on the eldest by his the father has been ordered to stay away from the family the judge said he Learned of the boys suit filed against sat coaching firm charges improper use of test questions new York a the educational testing service has filed suit against a leading Scholastic aptitude test coaching charging it improperly used copyright test questions to help students improve their the filed tuesday in District court in said that sometime before november the Princeton re View had somehow obtained questions actively in use on the sat and various achievement according to court John Katz founder of the Princeton had agreed in May 1983 to Stop distributing such questions to and not to Send any Princeton review employees to test centers to take ets sponsored exams for purposes of recalling test questions for Stu the ets suit charges that two Princeton review employees repeatedly took the sat during the past year in violation of the 1983 it also alleges that Katzman tried to take the exam in january in Engle under an assumed but was barred from the test Center for failing to produce proper the suit charges that the Princeton re View again distributed copyright test questions to its pupils this year in violation of the 198 3 reached by de Nied ets which he termed a and said he planned a coun none of us violated that agreement in any he the with this is trying to Send a message to parents and kids that if someone gets Good results in coaching the it must be through unethical District judge Maryann Trump Barry issued a temporary restraining order tues Day forbidding the Princeton review from using such questions in coaching Young a hearing was scheduled for 12 in Newark District court to consider Tess motion for a preliminary according to court papers filed by the 1983 agreement stemmed from charges that Katzman had obtained copies of a secure ets test Book before november 1982 which contained 11 achievement ets claims he made copies of some of those tests and distributed them to when some of those students later took the tests at various test centers and realized that Katzman had revealed actual ques they told school who in formed the College which sponsors the the papers according to court agreed at that time not to sue Katzman and his firm if he agreed to destroy the test questions hed and not to take the test again for purposes of coaching the taken by about a million col leg bound High school students each is required for Entrance to hundreds of col Leges and universities across the United the Princeton founded four years has grown rapidly As an sat coaching Katzman said his which serves 10 will have revenues of million this Stanford ets general said in a Telephone interview from Princeton that the testing service was not seeking monetary obsession with wrestling from their she said her sons pretended to be certain Well known including Hulk Leddy the youngest would address his Mother in a bizarre shaking calling himself Rowdy Roddy and describe the Ter Rible things he was going to do the judge noted that the Mother had not taken any meaningful Steps to Stop her sons from watching and said she had admitted she also regularly watched wrestling on the judge said the influence of to wrestling on the boys was magnified because of the violence in the Leddy noted that the cites child protective services said there was reason to be concerned about the influence of professional wrestling on the citizenship oath just what the doctor ordered san Francisco a an 80 year old latvian who collapsed in an Eleva Tor outside the courtroom where he was to attend naturalization ceremonies refused to go to a Hospital until a Federal judge came out and administered the Osia Ornstein was wearing an oxygen mask and looked fairly weak and Pale when he stood and became a citizen said District judge Thelton who conducted the he was in tears and now my hearts going to Start beating because its an american Henderson it was extraordinarily the color returned to or steins Cheeks after the ceremony and he protested being sent to the said court Security offi cer Bob he was sent Home after being said childrens Hospital spokeswoman Carol astronauts father Dies a Clarence the father of astronaut Ron has died at the age of  
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