European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes i i letters to Santa see stripes Magazine. And Page 9 q Germany seeks ski role Page 2 c super bowl contest ends pages 17,19 n More on Arrow air crash pages 5,24 the stars and stripes vol. 44. No. 246 Friday december 20, 1985 r Nam armed forces of a d 8693 a budget legislation keep Congress at work Washington up Congress sparring with the White House to the end tried again to adjourn for the year wednes Day determined to approve farm Bills and a $369.7 billion Money package before head ing Home for the holidays. Meanwhile the Senate appeared to be Balking at rewriting major tax legislation passed by the House. We re in the last Day of the session hopefully Senate Republican Leader Rob Ert Dole said at inc Start of the Day. The Money Bill which Congress must approve before adjourning was the key to the end of the session and the target of last min ulc sniping by the White House which called for spending reductions. Senate House negotiators who drafted a Compromise thai was turned Down emphatically by the House began working on a new version to provide Money for five depart ments and related agencies including the White House. Unless Congress approves either a Long Range Bill through the rest of the fiscal year ending sept. 31 or a Shorter version nonessential employees in the affected depart ments and agencies would have to stay Home after Midnight thursday. They Are see Congress on Page 24 Shultz sees potential for Bett relations Washington up Secretary of state George Shultz returned wednesday from a visit to Eastern Europe with a sense that he Geneva Summit has created a genuine potential 1 for improved relations with communist governments. Shultz a Cal straight from Andrews fab my. To the White House to Brief president Reagan on his eight Days abroad a swing that took him from Britain Belgium and West Germany for Post Summit consultations with , to Romania Hungary and Yugoslavia. In his first official visit to Eastern Europe Shult left a definite impression in Yugoslavia where he pounded table for emphasis in branding terrorism As unjust " no matter what the politics. At the Larry up cakes Shultz s outburst. George did All right president enjoys a corp red faced in anger. On to the comi added As Shult flew Home what when Shult told rep Jons was quit it it has advanced oui Bughi of be also said the Gcorge Shult is that Bis visit tonal but cols any. He visit to Eastern Europe was intended to in american support for the Independent policies of r Nia Hungary and Yugoslavia. Romania and Hungary a members of the Warsaw pact but take positions ind open unveiling the Torch with be York City s Skyline in the background been completed but some Interior hears remain. The Workun Gurt removing scaffolding from he statue removal of he scaffolding will Lakei Feir months and of la inv. The outside work on miss Liberty has the statue will be rededicated next Julot Dent of Moscow. Yugoslavia is not a member but a non aligned communist slate. Shutz said a warming of relations with the More pro Moscow communist governments is possible if superpower relations continue to improve following last month s meet ing Between Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Geneva Summit. The Reagan administration has kept at Arm s length from those governments in a policy of differentiation Between the slates visited by Shuli and Moscow s staunch allies Poland East Germany Bulgaria and Oech Slovakia. In he Case of Poland sanctions have been imposed Over the government s crackdown on the see Shultz on Page 24 judge declares mistrial in Case against Edwards new Orleans up a Federal judge wednes Day declared a mistrial in the 3-Monlh-old racketeering and fraud trial of gov. Edwin Edwards and four others and dismissed the deadlocked jurors who had overwhelmingly favored acquittal. After six Days of deliberation the jury favored acquittal by 10-2 for Edwards on most counts and 11-1 on others. No fewer than nine jurors also wanted to acquit the Gover nor s brother Marion Edwards Hospital consultants Ron Ald Falgout and James Yllic and Shreveport business Man Gus Misatis. They were accused of using the governor s influence to gel state Hospi Tal and nursing Home permits then Selling them for $10 million in prof it. . Attorney John vol. Had vowed tuesday to bring the men to trial again if a mistrial was declared but backed off that statement when questioned on he courthouse Steps. We spent More than 13 weeks trying to show this jury and the Citi 7cns of this stale what was going on and apparently in has fallen on deaf ears said he prosecutor. Edwards and the other defendants who listened to he judgment in silence waved away reporters and promised to comment at a Lale Ufler noon news conference. The governor s Lead attorney former watergate prosecutor James Neal was elated. It was not known which of the jurors had favored conviction. Before releasing inc jury. . District judge see Edwards on Page 24 Edwin
