European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 Bank fined for violations of reporting Law Washington a the Crocker National Bank of san Francisco has agreed to pay a record million penalty for failing to report almost billion in currency the government announced Treasury department officials said that the nations let largest had committed More than reporting violations Over a fou year assistant Treasury Secretary John Walker said the which is the largest Ever imposed under the Bank secrecy would Send a message to other financial institutions that the government is serious about enforcing the Law which requires Banks to report All Cash trans actions above Walker said that billion of the Money involved transactions with six Banks in Hong he said couriers from the foreign Banks would Deposit Large sums of in some cases millions of dollars in one with since the far East is a prime supplier of Walker it could be assumed that some of the Money involved was re lated to illegal drug Harold crackers general said the settlement which the Bank had agreed to wipes the slate clean concerning any known or unknown failures to file currency transaction reports from mid 1980 until the it puts the past behind us and enables us to concentrate our resources on our future we Are confident our decision is even though outside Legal counsel strongly advised us that we would win a Case against the government in he said in a under a Bank must report All Cash transactions exceeding the Law is designed to give Federal authorities a tool to investigate cases involving drug corruption and organized although there is no evidence that the Bank itself deliberately engaged in Money crackers reporting failures were systematic and Walker told a news conference where the penalties were he said crackers actions had deprived la enforcement officials of potentially important la enforcement leads that could have been useful in Money Laun Dering and other Walker said the extremely serious nature of crackers violation warranted a substantially More severe penalty than in prior he said the systems failures that led to crackers reporting violations had originated prior to the installation of the Banks present Walker added that the present manage ment had cooperated with the Treasury department in developing the scope of the Banks and officials had made a commitment to full compliance in the fun last the Bank of Boston agreed to pay a Fine after pleading guilty to charges of failing to com ply with the same act in connection with the Transfer of million in Cash Between the United states and Europe during a four year in penalties ranging from to were imposed against four new York Federal officials accused the Boston Bank of failing to report billion in Cash transfers with Swiss Banks from 1980 to and the Bank pleaded guilty to knowingly and wilfully failing to report Cash transactions with nine foreign it also admitted allowing reputed Organ ize crime figures to buy 163 Cashiers checks with million in Cash Over four years without reporting the transactions to the remembering missing heroes a photo eleven veterans groups Are along with dignitaries from National veterans at a Cere Mony in to Honor mias and pos of three foreign the which you Are not is being raised by John Warren commander of Post 47 in Harry Dennison Center senior commander of Post 5446 in Plainfield and Bob commander of Post 91 in weighty dispute settled Shes getting the Job a after More than a dec Ade of Legal jousting with Xerox Catherine Mcdermott is set to Start work Here 9 at a Job she was denied in 1974 because of her now acted As her own attorney in Pur suing her claim that Xerox violated new York states human rights the state court of new Yorks highest ruled in May that Xerox had no right to deny her employ ment because a physician diagnosed her condition As Gross Xerox was ordered to hire compensate her for lost income and pay her for Hurt and Xerox spokesman Thomas Abbott would not say what compensation Shell but Mcdermott Esti mated it at about she said she will get full insurance benefits and wont have to take another phys Xerox also will pay her moving expenses from Staten Island to Mcdermott was working for the District of Columbia in 1974 when she was sought by Xerox for a Job in Rochester As a senior business systems consultant at a at she weighed 249 pounds in according to tables published by metropolitan life insurance that 90 to 130 pounds during a reemployment done in Washington for Xerox by a doctor for executive health Mcdermott obesity was listed As and she was termed medically not the decision was endorsed by Craig director of health serv ices for the company position was that Gross obesity put Mcdermott at risk for health and emotional problems and made her a poor risk for shorthand Lon term disability and life insurance she says she was told she had to lose 90 she worked for the District of Columbia until when she moved to Staten Island to take another she says other employers had no complaints about her Mcdermott said she harbours no ill feelings toward in Only against the not she Mcdermott wrote and typed her own Legal briefs and said her major expenses were postage and Xerox ing its True of Fiat after dinner smoke tastes beef los Angeles a a simple study shows what Many smokers already know a satisfying meal boosts the urge to smoke a cigarette and the pleasure the tobacco pro this is not a Nobel prizewinning lets face said Murray but it asks some important questions that have to be i want to find Why eating increases smoking when people try to Stop the cigarette they have the most difficulty giving up is the one following the biggest which usually is a University of Cal i Fornillos Angeles psychiatry said monday during the american psychological associations annual that cigarette really is telling us some if you could cure people of wanting that one youd go a Long Way toward stopping cigarette on each of three consecutive four of the study 12 smokers ate a 640calorie solid meal of their usually Steak four ate a liquid substitute with the same calorie Content and four got Only the three groups were rotated on each successive each of the 12 participants smoked one cigarette a half hour before eating or drink a second immediately afterwards and a third a half hour Jarvik used standardized questionnaires to determine the level of craving for a cigarette after each meal and the degree of satisfaction after each cigarette the participants he found that craving for the pred inner cigarette and satisfaction derived from it were the same for All 12 but craving and pleasure from the first pos dinner cigarette was highest for the people who ate a solid lower for those who drank the liquid meal and lowest for those who got Only Ive demonstrated the but its never been shown Jarvik adding that his extensive search of scientific literature failed to find any other studies on the topic involving human the degree of craving and satisfaction from the cigarette smoked a half hour later was the same for All three indicating that foods tendency to boost cigarette craving and satisfaction was relatively