European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday november 28, 1985 postal service cancels $23 million Nightmare . Minn. A seven trailer loads of stamped envelopes perhaps More than too million . Stamps have been Sci cd in what a Istal authorities suspect could be a $23 million operation to reuse postage Stamps. Authorities probably won t finish unloading the boxes bundles and piles of envelopes from the Home garage and shed of a 71 year old stamp collector until monday postal inspector Howard k. Petschel said tuesday. They re stacked All Over the  Putsch cd said. We re even finding them in the Walls in the  and. He said there arc two barns a few Miles away full of More Stamps. Pc Schul said he expects the investigation into illegal reuse of postage Stamps to turn up More than too million Stamps which could have represented a loss to the . Postal service of s23 million. It s a  Putsch cd said. It s exceeded my wildest  the collector told authorities he had not removed cancellation Marks from Stamps but simply was looking for Stamps that had been skipped Over by postal service can celing machines Petschel said. Reuse of such Stamps is illegal As is altering the cancel lation Mark on a stamp he said. Investigators suspect that some of the bundles of can celeb Stamps were being sold to others who May have been cleaning the Stamps then Selling them for 50 to 70 percent of their face value Petschel said. He said agents served a search warrant thursday on the Man s Home near big carnelian Lake East of St. Paul but charges were not expected to be filed until the search has been completed sometime next week. The affidavit said the Man s name and address appeared in documents seized in Denver last year along with a number of washed Stamps. He was identified in the affidavit As the source of 1,500 pounds of envelopes and 1 Mil lion Stamps Sci cd in july 1985 at the Home of a Grants Burg. Wis. Woman. The affidavit says Petschel visited the Man three times Over the summer and bought used Stamps and envelopes with Stamps on them. The affidavit which is not a criminal charge says the Man explained to pc Schul How previously used Stamps should be soaked from envelopes for reuse. The Man apparently got the used Stamps from a mail redemption company that handles mail for companies run Ning contests the inspector said. Pc Schul said that when the postal service two years ago began looking into misuse of used Stamps they discovered that the scheme had become a big business. Last year $12 million in contraband postage was seized he said. It turned out bigger than we expected. We re not after the person who might reuse one or two Stamps but some of these people had turned the process into a Money making business Petschel said. The reused Stamps apparently were sold to businesses throughout the country. One person would Lead to another Putsch cd said. The incs Wigtion is continuing and we Are looking at several More  judge oks using Osfar wars to describe ski Washington a the term Star wars although a trademark owned by filmmaker George Lucas can be used by the Public to describe president Reagan s spaced based missile defense system a judge ruled tuesday. . District judge Gerhard a. Go sell said the courts cannot prohibit use of the term to describe Reagan s strategic de sense initiative. When politicians newspapers and the Public generally use the phrase Star wars for convenience in parody or descriptively to further a communication of their views on ski Lucas has no rights As owner of the Mark to prevent this use of Star wars " go sell wrote in a 10-Page opinion. Gesull said creators of fictional worlds have had their vocabulary for fantasy appropriated to describe reality since the Days of Jonathan Swift. He said trademark Laws regulate unfair Competition not the development of new dictionary meanings. Agreeing that Star wars is a Strong trademark Csell said the court cannot venture beyond the property protections provided by the trademark Laws and at tempt to regulate the terms of Public de Bate. Lucas film ltd., Lucas film company which produced the movie Star wars sought to prohibit two lobbying groups from using the term Star wars in television advertisements expressing their views on ski. The pro ski group is called High fron tier. The group that opposes it is called the committee for a Strong peaceful Ameri Ca. Attorneys for Lucas argued at a hearing before go sell on monday that the filmmaker did not want to silence either party but he said children would be turned off by the ads and would shy away from the movie and its spin off products such As dolls toys comic books cookies paper cups watches candles and Bubble Bath. Ford buys Back truck under Utah s new Lemon Law Salt Lake City a the first beneficiary of Utah s new Lemon Law sold his 1985 truck Back to Ford motor co. For $1.1,269.79 in a ceremony in the state attorney general s office. Brycc r. Mangum of the Salt Lake suburb of Murray Taid he had unending problems with his four wheel drive Ford Ranger 4x4 s steering. He took it to dealers for warranty repairs of the steering and other problems 12 or 13 limes with no solution he said. The truck was Fine when i bought it. But then after i went four Wheeling it started pulling to the right Mangum said. Under the new Law. Attorney general David l. Wilkin son was Mangum s attorney. The statute provides for the stale division of consumer Protection to file suits in be half of and at no Cost to aggrieved motorists. The state sued Ford. The payment monday was an outer court settlement. Consumer Protection director Dixie Minson said 494 Calls have been received on the Lemon Law and 35 cases were regarded As legitimate. All but Mangum s and one other Case were settled be tween he buyer and manufacturer. To qualify for coverage under the statute the vehicle must have been purchased in Utah and a buyer must take it in for warranty repairs four times unsuccessfully. Ford officials said the truck Mangum bought will be taken apart for study by engineers and its Chassis crushed said Protection division investigator Donald Cope. Geldof wins world hunger Media award Bob get of Rock musician and organizer of the live Aid Benefit concert was presented with in award for his Effort to ease world hunger during us fourth annual world hunger Media awards program tuesday night at the United nations. The program hosted by Waller Cronkite second from left was founded and sponsored by Kenny Rogers left and his wife Mari Anne. Singhoffer s family tiles $ 1.5 billion Laws ifs new York a the family of businessman Leon Klinghoffer who was killed during the terrorist takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro wednesday sued the Plo. The ship s owners and others for $1.5 billion. Lawyer Jay Fischer said he filed suits in is. District court and in state court in Manhattan. The stale suit which names Only the Palestine liberation organization accused the group of the Wanton and cold blooded Murat of Leon  the Federal suit did not mention the Plo. Klinghoffer a 69-year-old stroke victim confined to a wheelchair was killed oct. 8 and his body dumped into the Mediterranean. The body was later recovered. The time has come for the civilized world to marshal All of its resources in an unrelenting Effort to end terrorism. To place responsibility for such acts directly at the doorsteps of those w to Commil these obscenities Fischer said. He said papers were served on the Plo at the Manhattan office of its representatives to inc United nations. Fischer charged that the owners and operators of the italian cruise ship the Lour operators and italian officials had failed in one manner or another to adequately protect the  the Federal suit named As defendants the owners of inc Achille Lauro Chandrie lines of Italy the port of Genoa Italy and three travel agencies. Fischer asked $100 million on each of 15 counts of wrongful death and negligence. In a Suil filed in Newark n.j., seven Cou Ples who left the Achille Lauro for sightseeing shortly before it was hijacked sued the ship s owners claiming breach of contract. The suit filed tuesday alleges that the owners recklessly failed to provide adequate Security on the  Stephen Dalch an attorney for the Cou Ples said his clients have not yet received belongings icel on Board before inc hijacking