European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 agents seize jetliner in smuggling Case new York not the customs service seized an air Jamaica jetliner at Kennedy International Airport saying the line had failed to provide adequate Security against narcotics its a Case of sending a said a customs Michael he added that the Agency had repeatedly asked the the jamaican Flag car to tighten the seizure occurred As the plane was about to take off for Kingston with 245 Kaufman said he thought it was the first seizure of a commercial plane at an Airport in the new York area under a Federal Law that allows vehicles suspected of transporting narcotics to be customs officials in Washington said agents had seized at least six other commercial airliners in the last two mostly in in drug related since last customs has seized almost pounds of marijuana arriving on air Jamaica flights mostly in baggage not checked to any passenger or in cargo not listed on the planes according to the vice president of marketing and sales for the air Bill released a statement confirming that the plane had been confiscated after some marijuana had been brought from he air Jamaica and customs officials have been working in close cooperation for Many months to ensure that the Carrier aircraft Are not used for the transportation of any such illegal the most recent incident occurred tuesday when 45 pounds of marijuana was discovered in a bag that arrived on air Jamaica flight 17 from Kaufman last customs seized 200 pounds of Mari Juana on an air Jamaica plane at this was the Straw that broke the camels Kaufman said of the incident he said a decision had been initiated by the director of the Kennedy Airport customs area to seize the a wide body a300 air on the runway before it could leave for the capital of the seizure of a Jet this size in new York is Buncom to say the Kaufman this is not a thing we do every it was determined that air Jamaica has not been and a decision had to be in reaction to the statements by a spokesman for air Dinaz said she was air Jamaica has a system set up Down there in full she Kaufman said at least two letters had been sent to the warning that if Security was not Strong action would be in he customs officials visited Jamaica to assist air Jamaica executives to Stop the Speakes defends credibility on skin cancer Issue Washington a presidential spokesman Larry Speakes defended his credibility wednesday and said White House doctors had Given him incorrect information about the procedure used last week to remove skin cancer from president reagans faced with criticism of his handling of information in the Speakes told the in Here to yesterdays unkind words i believe my reputation is my reputation for being truthful Speakes and i will see that it remains intact As Long As i stand Here at this Speakes issued a written statement correcting his earlier assertions that Reagan had not received an aesthetic eight Days ago when a dermatologist removed the Patch of cancer his in Reagan received a local a 1 percent solution of the statement White House on three responded in the negative when asked if an aesthetic was the statement it said the use of the aesthetic was revealed in response to another inquiry from the press once the specimen was removed from reagans not photo spokesman Larry Speakes Here to stay like the old Days a photo from Gary Roy Bernick and Joe driving Oldsmobile curved dash cars dating from 1902 to relax in new York after their Cross country trip that began june 30 in san Francis the three followed the mile route taken in 1903 by two Pioneer Drivers in a curved the area was treated with repeated Curt tags and electro a Standard dermatological procedure to treat lesions of the kind the president the statement at a press briefing a number of reporters complained that Speakes had withheld information last week and imposed a news blackout on information about the spot removed from reagans they said Speakes had undermined his credibility by his performance last apparently trying to close the door on the Speakes volunteered his statement wednesday As some straight talk among friends at the close of a regular press Speakes said he had spent 18 years As a press spokes Man in Washington building a that is All i is a government salaries Arent very said who earns an and i have a reputation for telling the for dealing fairly with and for a hardworking professional approach to my this is a Lon term invest Hefner to write autobiography los Angeles a Hugh creator of Playboy Magazine and the swinging philosophy that bears its will write an autobiography with the Man who coauthored test Pilot Chuck Yeager bestselling life i guess the time has come to put it said the 59 year old my life and Playboy Are truly an Amer ican the exact amount of the seven figure Advance for the Book that will be written with the help of author Leo Janos was not no title has been Bantam books publisher of Yeager and the highly successful autobiography of Chrysler chairman Lee expects to publish a hardcover version in late a literary agent Kathy the new York literary agent who rep resented Hefner and was quoted in wednesdays editions of the los Angeles times saying that the agreement was an extraordinary and Complex financial arrangement for world publishing rights in a single volume Hefner said he and Janos began working in four hour and five hour sessions several weeks the Playboy who originated the practice of putting Centrefold photographs of scantily Clad Young women in his Magazine three decades said the Book will Tell store cashier is fired after wounding robber Texas a a convenience store cashier who wounded a gunman who had robbed her store says she was fired for violating a company policy that forbids employees from carrying weapons while its but that the Way life said Mary who was fired almost immediately after tuesdays Woods was taking garbage behind the store when a Man sneaked up and stuck a gun in her said police spokeswoman Betty the Man took her into the store and told her to empty the Cash Register drawer into a paper Woods followed the mans orders but pulled a revolver from her pocket and turned it on the thief when he want the thief also fired his but Woods Bullet struck him near the i was she i just reacted i dont know what Hap the gunman shot struck a fire extinguisher and the chemicals gushed out and made it impossible for the cashier or the thief to police Parks said the gunman ran leaving behind his the from the Cash Regis Ter and a a police dog tracked Down the who had collapsed in the front Yard of a Ramon Avilez was charged with attempted capital murder and aggravated Bond was set at Jalomo was in stable condition at Ben Taub hospitals county jail no charges were filed against