European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 16, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 where s the fire three schoolchildren appear to be bold ing up Parade of fire equipment get Ting off 1-10 on its Way from Ocala fun. To the new Orleans super dome to put on � display at a convention of the International association of fire chiefs. Nicaragua sponsoring terrorist country club according to Meese Washington not Nicaragua has become a country club for terrorists from around the world according to attorney general Edwin Meese. Meese s prepared remarks to a meeting of european and american jurists on saturday expanded on a july speech by president Reagan in which Nicaragua was said to be part of a confederation of terrorist states that Reagan described As a new. International version of  the attorney general s statement said Nicaragua has offered ref age to members of the Palestine liberation organization the Basque separatist group Eta. The Irish Republican army the Baader minho of gang of West Germany and the red Bri Gades of Italy. The nicaraguan embassy described Meese s remarks As outright falsehoods distortions and  Meese said evidence gathered by the United states indicates that Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country  we must look behind terrorist puppets and confront the puppeteers he said. And we must look behind Tho immediate stale sponsors of terror to find their Multi Malc Backer. There is at work in the world Oxley a coordinated Effort on the part of those who would tear asunder the tapestry of Law Rea son and  the attack came a Day after a position paper issued by the state department said Nicaragua was trying to destabilize Al Sal Vador. It also came As the International court of Justice at the Hague heard Testi Mony on a complaint by Nicaragua that the United states was supporting on insurgency. The nicaraguan embassy in its statement noted that the United states had declined to take part in the world court hearing on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction. The fact that the . Is boycotting the court the statement said is indisputable truth that the . Has no evidence to sup port the charges it is making against Nicaragua whereas Nicaragua does have Evi Dence to prove that the . Administration is financing and directing terrorism against the nicaraguan  Meese urged Law enforcement officers to avoid the temptation to consider terrorists acts in  they Are not necessarily the work of Independent anarchists or Small cells of Dis grunted extremists he said. Many of these groups Are part of a broader network of state sponsored and supported terror  members of the italian government have been unafraid to charge Nicaragua with harbouring some of the worst of the red brigade terrorists Mccase said in the pre pared text a reported. The attorney general s references to Nicaragua came at the end of a speech in which he called for International cooperation in attacking world terrorism. In delivering the address a Csc de parted from his prepared text and left out the Section on Nicaragua because of time and the translator. But he stands by  said Justice department spokesman Dee Kuhn a said Charity Tor dying kids says it did t misuse funds Hartford. Conn. Up spokesmen for an organization accused of miss pending funds raised to Grant the wishes of dying children have charged that state officials set an unwarranted am Bush for the Charity. An angered attorney general Joseph i.  tiled a civil suit against the Genie project inc. Of Waterbury and vowed Friday to continue attempts to put the organization out of business. Michael Bates who along with his wife Suzanne Heads the Genie project inc., denied Lieberman s charges but admitted it May have been victimized by its inexperience. It s not the scheme or. Lic Barman makes it out to be Bates said it s not an illegitimate  records showed Only $10,000 of the $237,000 raised last year by the Genie project Wen to Benefit dying children Lic Barman said. His Agency filed suit seeking to dissolve the corporation and asking the courts to turn Over Genie s assets to a receivership or an appropriate organization. It also charged the Charity with misuse of funds. Lic Barman said a portion of the remaining Charity donations went to pay inflated rents and salaries buy jewelry make unsecured personal Loans to its officers and rent a video cassette recorder and a pornographic tape. Bates attorney addressing the individual charges called Lieberman s statement a one sided  we re troubled by the state s ambush attorney Francis m. Donnarumma said Call ing the Genie project an open Public High profile  ten thousand dollars the first year did go to wishes Donnarumma said. Through inexperience and a desire to get this off the ground the Genie project engaged in some dealings with the solicitors he said. Donnarumma said j150,000 of about $190,000 raised by private solicitors for the Genie project established in 1982, went to overhead and profit for the solicitors. Lieberman s claim the Charity was paying inflated salaries was denied by Donnarumma who said Bates and his wife spilt $27,000 be tween themselves and another employee. The jewelry purchased was used for fund raising Donnarumma said. Either buckle up or pay up says California seat Belt Bill Sacramento a the state legislature on saturday approved a Bill under which California Drivers must use scat belts or face a $20 Fine beginning Jan. 1. The measure was sent to gov. George Deukmejian for his signature after passing the Assembly 48-20 late Friday Ana Clear ing the Senate on a 24-10 vote saturday. Supporters estimate that 1,000 lives could be saved each year if the Bill is enacted. The Bill also would order automakers to install air bags or automatic seat belts in All new can some the state after sept. 1,1989. The Bill includes a Repealer clause that would wipe out the requirement on seat belts if the Bill is used to help overturn a Federal Rule calling for new cars to have automatic seat belts air bags or another form of passive restraint by 1990. Is. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole in issuing the order last year said it would not Lake effect if states with at least two thirds of the nation s population enacted acceptable Laws requiring seat Belt use. Deukmejian had said it was very Likely he would sign an earlier version of the Bill. He has not expressed a View on the final form of the measure which unlike the ear Lier version included the Repealer clause. Exempt from the Bill s provisions would be anyone with a medical problem that would prevent using a seat Belt. Others Drivers and passengers Over age 16 could be fined $20 or ordered to attend traffic school for a first offence. A subsequent conviction could bring a $50 Fine. A citation for not using a seat Belt could Only be issued in connection with another traffic violation. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1945 warning that the european theater was threatened with a serious Black Market Gen. Eisenhower issued an order from Frankfurt to american troops in Germany prohibiting them from Barl Cring Selling or exchanging any article issued or sold by the army. 30 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1955 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer reported to his Cabinet and to govern ment leaders in Bonn about his Moscow conference. The Cabinet however took no formal decision on Adenauer s agreements concerning establishment of diplomatic relations with the soviet Union. 20 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1965 More than 600 americans were evacuated to Tehran in a massive Airlift from War torn West Pakistan. 10 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1975 an eritrean spokesman in Beirut said eritrean rebels threatened to kill four american prisoners held in a Mountain Cave in Northern Ethiopia unless the . Halts arms supplies to Ethiopia s military regime