European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday october 12, 1985 50-foof banana split is no March for appetite of 35 Stuttgart teens by Dan  Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart take 22 Gallons of assorted flavors of ice Cream 60 cans of whipped Cream five eight ounce tubs of strawberries six pounds of nuts 25 bottles of Flavoured toppings assorted Fla Vors five bags of Peanut butter chips five bags of chocolate chips several Bun Ches of bananas. 50 feet of Gutter Plas tic and Atu Naium foil and about 35 teen agers. Line the Gutter with plastic and foil. Add bananas ice Cream toppings chips. Etc. In no particular order. Add teen agers. My thoroughly. The result is a mess albeit a fun one the Catholic youth of the Chapel at Patch Barracks decided their first meet ing of the year should be something out of the Ordinary. So they did it 1950s style Complete with or cased Back hair and. One of the 50s trademarks a banana split a 50-fool banana split. The Chapel provided the ice Cream nuts and toppings. Each teen brought a Dollar and a banana. Parents made the banana split while the vids sock hopped in the Chapel Cen Ter. But no amount of sock hopping can keep a kid from ice Cream. The 50-foot mass of sugar and nuts disappeared within minutes More of it smeared on the faces than digested in the bullets of the teens. John Luther 17, raced through the crowd dripping chocolate goo from his face dodging whipped Cream flying from everywhere and looking for some one on whom he could spread More Joy. Sure is a lot of fun he said. Wholesale prices driven 0.6 % lower Sharp decline was 3rd in last 4 months Washington wholesale prices driven Down sharply by lower Auto Mobile prices fell 0.6 percent in septem Ber the labor department said Friday. It was Thi third decline in the last four months and Means wholesale prices have declined at an annual rate of 0.1 percent so far this year. Wholesale prices had declined 0.3 percent in August. Analysts Are projecting that the govern ment s producer Price Index could show the smallest Rise in decades and indeed the cur rent Pace for the first nine months would be the first yearly decline since the 0.2 percent decrease in 1963. Wholesale prices increased 1.7 percent in1984. Retail inflation is running at an annual rate of 3.3 percent so far this year the lowest in nearly two decades. The september Index showed food costs declining 0.9 percent following o 0.7 per cent decline in August. Energy costs edged Down 0.1 percent in september after two months of More Siz Able declines. But most of the september drop in the Overall Index was a result of a 3.8 percent decrease for passenger cars and a 2 percent decline for Light trucks both a reflection of the Industry s traditional and of the Model year sales coupled with Low interest financing. News update no help says Singlaub Washington up re tired Gen. John k. Singlaub has de Nied that he received any guidance from president Reagan or the White House staff for his Effort to raise private financial support for Nicara Guan rebels. I did not talk to the president. I did not talk to members of his administration. I talked to Freedom  Singlaub said in denying a report that Reagan approved the plan of providing the rebels with Pri vate funds and that White House officials selected Singlaub to carry tout. Singlaub was reached by Tele phone at his Home in Colorado. For More than a year Singlaub who was removed by president car Ter in May 1977 from hit Pott As commanding officer of us. Troops in South Korea has spearheaded an Effort to tap conservative circles for Money for the rebels known As con iras. Oil killing Birds Gloucester City no. A As workers continue efforts to remove what remains of a 435,000-Galkm Oil spill on the Dela Ware River a fight to save the lives of Oil soaked Birds is proving largely unsuccessful officials say. Cleanup along the River s shores and tributaries will continue for some time but Oil skimming vessels have finished removing the heaviest Slicks of North sea crude. Coast guard it. Robert Mitchell said. Sun Oil co. Has estimated 8,060 barrels of Oil about 77 percent of the spill have been recovered since the sept. 28 grounding that ripped open the panamanian registered grand Eagle he said. The total spill Esti mate was 10,376 barrels. House votes to reduce apparel textile imports Washington a the House of representatives approved legislation thurs Day to Force Sharp cutbacks in textile and apparel imports but the 262-159 vote was Short of the two thirds margin needed to override a threatened presidential veto. This is the last gasp of this Industry Don t say you weren t told declared rep. De Jenkins d-ga., the chief sponsor of the measure. It is one of hundreds of Trade Bills before Congress. The measure now goes to the Senate which is considering a less strict version. As he left the congressional Chambers after the Vole Jenkins told reporters that he would switch 15 people Between now and the override if the override  because the override of a presidential veto requires two thirds of those voting the number needed in any specific instance de pends on How Many of the 435 congressmen answer the Roll Call. In a two hour debate free Trade forces argued that the measure which would mandate cutbacks averaging perhaps 35 percent in textile and apparel imports was bound to Hurt Farmers workers and con Sumers by bringing retaliation in East Asia against american exports. Opponents also predicted layoffs of West coast Dock workers As a result. Many congressmen called the substantial support retained by the textile forces less a show of concern about the industries than a measure of irritation at Reagan administration Trade policies. Proponents waved american and asian towels and shirts As they argued for the measure saying the Price tags were the same proving that american Industry has met the Price Challenge of imports but has been squeezed by the sheer volume of in coming shipments. Opponents accused textile slate lawmakers of inflating claims about the extent of the damage from imports. They also said Congress already has provided above aver age tariffs and quotas to protect the textile Industry. The Complex measure backed by the Tex tile and apparel industries and two major labor unions would Roll Back imports to last year s Levels or those of five years ago then allow them annual growth of 1 percent or 6 percent depending on an array of variables. Thatcher to maintain fiscal policy Blackpool England a prime minister Margaret Thatcher her rating near All time lows and unemployment at record highs old the annual convention of her conservative party Friday that she will not swerve from tight Money policies. Thatcher in her keynote address winding up the four Day convention flatly rejected Calls by moderates to inject Cash into the Economy to Cut the record jobless rate of 13.8 percent or 3.4 milion people. Arguing thai her government was encouraging new businesses she told the 5,000 delegates there is one thing we wid not do. We will not relate. You can t build a secure future on dil honest Money. There is a fundamental truth from which no government can escape. It s customers who create  speaking to the convention one year after she narrowly escaped an assassination at tempt by the Irish Republican army Thatcher recalled that some in her audience still Bear the scars of the Brighton hotel bombing which killed five people. It reminds us of the risks we All take and will continue to take for Freedom Laid the 59-year-old Leader who has been prime minister since 1979. Her speech was a Strong no Compromise message to party moderates who maintain that she will lose Power in the next election unless she cuts unemployment and tempers her party s hard Facco image. Opinion polls show the conservatives have lost nearly a third of their support in the past year. The party Given around 30 percent in polls has for months run second or third in the soundings against its socialist and centrist opponents. But in her hour Long address repeatedly interrupted by applause Thatcher made no reference to the tories falling ratings or moderates fears about the next election which must be held by mid-1988. She restated her rigorous policy of curb ing government spending and keeping cred it tight which has Cut inflation to under 6 percent from a 21 percent Peak in 1981 but is widely blamed by her opponents for the mushrooming jobless Rolls. She also after four recent outbreaks of serious rioting in Britain s racially mixed inner cities declared Shell spend whatever is necessary on the police. If they need More men More equip ment different equipment they shall Nave them. We Don t economize on protecting life and property the prime minister said. She accused Radical militants within the socialist opposition labor party of conspiring through Union Power or local government to break defy and subvert  on arms control Thatcher welcomed the upcoming meeting Between soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev and is. President Reagan insisting it was Western strength and cohesion that had forced the soviet Union Back to nuclear arms control talks. Older nuclear weapons leave Greece Athens Greece a the govern ment acknowledged Friday that the withdrawal of some nuclear weapons from Greece began thursday in accordance with a nato decision. Government spokesman costs Laliotis said the operation began under absolute secrecy and with the approval of the greek  Early Friday Premier Andreas Papandreou told a left Wing greek daily Elf the roly Pia that nato had decided to remove obsolete nuclear weapons stockpiled in Greece. He said his socialist government will not permit them to be replaced. I was informed by Rogers Gen. Ber Nard Rogers supreme Allied commander Europe during his visit Here last july about nato s decision to pull out Battlefield nuclear weapons from Grcie and other coun tries the Premier said. Elefther Otylia reported Friday that us. Military helicopters had started removing nuclear weapons stored at a military base near drama in Northern Greece. There is no question of modernizing or updating them Papandreou said. Nato announced in 1983 that obsolete nuclear weapons stockpiled by Alliance nations were to be scrapped. Tactical nuclear weapons have been stockpiled in Greece since the Early 1960s at several locations near Athens and near the bulgarian Border in Northern Greece. They reportedly include old honest John missiles and nuclear lipped shells. Papandreou has threatened in the past to ask the United Stales to remove All nuclear weapons As part of his plan for a nuclear free zone in the Balkans. He said Friday that his policy for a nuclear free Balkans remains  but objections from Turkey the Only other Balkan country known to have nuclear weapons stockpiled on its territory Indi Cate that the greek plan is unlikely to be implemented