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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday january 2, 1986page 4 the stars and stripes thursday january a 1 sat fire damages third Ohio abortion clinic in week . .is.,. Hino her thus Tai us Toledo Ohio a an abortion clinic was damaged tuesday by a tire that Federal investigators said i hey Coli cd was arson which would malic i the third Ohio clinic hit by arsonists this week. The Only statement we re mailing is thai it appears to be arson said Robert sell Lin Wurth. Resident agent far the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. Two other Toledo abortion clinics reported tuesday they had received bomb threats the Day before and City police put them under survria tonic. Two Cincinnati abortion clinics suffered 175,000 damage each monday. I Vesliga Kirs Here Saivii it appeared gasoline fuelled firebombs were thrown into the Margaret Sang Rand women s health care centers. Jim Moriarty a Leader of the area s most visible pro life group christians United  abortion said tuesday that Mem Bers of the group would not be involved in setting fires or any such activities which he believes Only increase Public sympathy for abortionist. Bui when Yon think about it. N Little fire damage is really kind of minor when you think of the damage hat goes on inside the abortion clinic every Day Mariarle said. A fire apparently was set Early tuesday in the crawl space beneath the Toledo med ical services inc. Clinic which als Owai fire. Boni cd in August said fire chief Kenneth Harberson. No one was Al the clinic a the time of the. Tire which burned up into Inte rior wall.1 and caused an estimated s2d,000 Bat of agent Leo Fotu in Cincinnati said the Agency s list of possible suspects included anti abortion activists but he could no assume such activists set the fires. _ they Are very visible and easy to Pool the in get at. Bui if anyone had an inkling to do something like this ii would have been a convenient time to do  we. Aren t looking just at protesters a Oltz t r Carl 1. Armstrong owner of Toledo medical services reopened the clinic tues Day after blocking off the damaged areas. Rebecca Wilzman. Spokeswoman Lor the clinic said Security would be increased but he declined to detail whal measures would be taken. Each time something happens to us trespassing or fir Bombin or whatever or to other abortion clinics in the country you lighten Security she said. Weinman said the clinic received no thread warning of the my. Barbara Radford. Executive director of the National abortion federation said us Ohio fires bring to 12 the number of arson and bombing cases reported by clinics m i9h5.sixty-six abortion clinics reported feed it bomb threats and is death threats. 41 reported vandalism and 36 reported ires Nivins by anti abortion activists. Four package bombs were sent to clinics in port land Ore and assaults were reported at seven clinics during the year Radford said. Opening an aids hospice Mother Tiresa talks with father Tom Hartman in new York. She has opened 14-w hospice in Crown Wlch Village for aids sufferers whom she his called the children of god. Created for Grater  Disney drawings stolen returned with apology note Burbank Calif. Up an apologetic thief Huttl returned to Walt Disney productions 13 drawing used in the making of several classic animation films including fantasia and Alice in  the drawings were found tuesday by a Wall Disney employee and an Anonymous note accompanying them read these Are from the department of Ink and paint. I m sorry. I did t think they had any value said a com Pany spokesman. The spokesman said his drawings done in Ink end paint were used in the classic animation films Snow White "101 animations Dambi fantasia pin Neochio Dumbo the sword in the Stone lady and the tramp Alice in wonderland the reluctant dragon steeping Beauty and Saiu Dros Amiga the original artwork which was photographed to make the films was valued Al $65,000. Disney officials had offered � s2.soo Reward for the return of the drawings. Another Reward of an Unocic ruined amount was offered for information Lead ing to the arrest and conviction of Trie Hief. A police official said the artwork had been pried last week from the Walls of a vacant room at the Walt Disney productions facility in Burbank. Low Ead Law could increase prices at pump Washington a a Federal order designed to protect americans health requires a lower Lead Content for gasoline beginning wednesday but analysis say it s unclear what effect that will have on full prices. I i hard to say whal will happen to pump prices said Trilby a Tindberg spokeswoman for the los Angeles based Lundburg letter which tracks Oil Industry trends. Espe Fence shows he effect will vary All Over the  but newsletter publisher Dan Lundberg said a 3-Ccnt Clail increase was possible Over the next six months. Higher wholesale prices for leaded gasoline or in some instances lower prices for regular unleaded already Hare been posted. But analysts say leaded gasoline sell May be priced below no Lead Al the pump at least for a while. Nationwide averages in december showed no Lead being 3.35 cents higher Al wholesale and 7.56 cents higher Al self service stations indicating retailers were deliberately holding Down the leaded Price Lundberg said. Wednesday s decrease in allowable Lead Levels is the second phase of a two step drop ordered by the Environ mental Protection Agency in iw4 after several studies showed the deadly toxin could cause Lead poisoning in thousands of children. Lead Content was reduced to 1.1 Grams per gallon or gasoline in 19s2 and dropped to 0.5 Gram last july. It will fall to just  Gram in the new year. Experts say enough Lead remains in the fuel to protect the engines of older cars that were designed for leaded gasoline. The Epa is considering whether to ban Lead entirely in 1988. Farmers had sought an exemption from the new requirements but a House provision to keep the old Lead co Centre Lions in gasoline sold for farm equipment was dropped from the farm Bill recently passed by Congress. The legislation however requires the Epa to lest some old farm engines to find out How much Lead hey need to Ope Rale smoothly. Tests by Phillips Petroleum co. Indicate some old engines in service May need additives for Protection. Lead lubricates the engine s valve scats protecting them from excessive Wear and has been the cheapest Way to raise Octant since the mid-1 to. Epa efforts to remove it from gasoline followed the 1971 introduction of Aulo engines with hardened valve scats isl do not require Protection in the fuel. Last weekend Exxon corp. And Mobil corp. Announced increases of 2.5 cents per gallon in the wholesale Price of leaded gasoline in parts of the country for Exxon East of the Rocky mountains Tor Mobil the East and the Gulf coast. Earlier this week Amoco announced that in the East it was dropping the Price of unleaded by 2.s cents in some areas and raising leaded by the same amount in of piers. In the Northeast these changes generally equalized prices for tended and unleaded i Gular gasoline or left unleaded a half cent higher said Tom Kosa of Oil pee information services inc. In Bricktown . The Epa has Long believed the lower Price of leaded gasoline has accounted for some of the 14 percent of motorists who use leaded gasoline in cars designed far unleaded fuel which can disable pollution control equipment. Thieves May have stolen Bellyache with Beer Greensburg Paap thieves May have bought they were helping themselves to supplies for new year s eve but police say the 30 cases of beef stolen from a distributor s shed were not fit for drinking. It s bad Beer. It s been in that shed since 1982. If they drink it they re going to get sick t Don t think they d die but lord knows whal la happen said Greensburg to i capt. Richard Cfrank. Lance re elected Bank chief despite lawsuit Calhoun. Of. A Bert Lance was overwhelmingly re Etc Ted tuesday As chairman of Calhoun first National Bank despite 3 pending lawsuit by a Federal Agency accusing him of banking violations. Shareholders at the annual meeting cast 99 percent of their votes in favor of the slate of directors presented by Lance and the Bank said Bank spokesman Mike Janes. He said 76 percent of the outstanding shares were voted. Lance one time Federal budget director under former president Carter is the larg est shareholder in the Bank with 87,452, or 14.7 3 percent of the outstanding tharus. Lance and the Bank have been embroiled in a Battle with the Federal office of the comptroller of the currency which filed a civil lawsuit in August accusing them of violating Federal securities Laws issuing bad checks and making questionable bar. The lawsuit followed a newspaper Story detailing the investigation. Lance and the Bank sued the comptroller s office alleging that Federal privacy Laws were violated Utica the report was leaked to the Atlanta Constitution. The Bank was removed As a claim off in the lawsuit against the comptroller s office and Bank officials acknowledged to Stock holders that the Fri traced the newspaper copy of the report to a former Bank director Marvin Taylor. He was voted out of office in november 1984. Lance who resigned last year As chair Man of the Georgia democratic parly also is the subject of a lawsuit filed by s former Bank official. Robert Morast a fired Bank vice presi Dent is seeking $8.3 million in damages from Lance his son David Lance the Bank and Ita president. Morast and Taylor had reported possible irregularities of Federal auditors  
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