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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stabs and stripes saturday january 11,1988 profiteers try to Cash in on Kodak Stock offer Rochester . Lupi owners of Eastman Kodak Ca s outlawed in Sian cameras flooded a loll free Itol line with Calls thursday while profiteers tried 10 buy the cameras and Trade them for Kodak Stock. Kodak reported Long delays on phone lines in set up As part of a reimbursement program for the it million customers who own Kodak instant cameras but no longer Tan buy film because of a court ordered shutdown of the company s instant photog Raphy business. The company a forced 10 Slop the production and Sale of instant cameras an film after a Federal judge determined that it stole Polaroid corp. Trade secrets a decade ago. The supreme court refused wednes Day to intervene in the Case. Kodak unveiled the reimbursement pro Gram within hours of he supreme court s refusal. An Wiitra too operators were called in to supplement he lit already unduly in Omaha neb officials said. The phone number is 800-79j-3000. Meanwhile 4,500 employees who worked either full or part Lime on Kodak instant products reported to work As usual thurs Day nol knowing whether they would be Reto cled or Laid off. " Don t care what we re doing As Long As we re working said one automation me chanic who services the instant camera production equipment in Rochester where Kodak has 53.000 workers. Kodak is offering the Choice of a new Lela Pholar disc camera and film or a Coupon Book Worth 150 in rebates on Kodak or duels or single shares of Stock to the 16 million people who own Kodak Instone Cam eras. Retail cars said they received Calls from people who wanted to buy instant cameras which sell for As Low As s24. And Trade them in for Stock. Kodak Slock opened ill just under 149 thursday there s going to be a bit of a scramble said Martiel by. Manager at Carhart photo in downtown Rochester. They re giving Stock away for a so camera. Charles smile Al Kodak spokesman said the company realized that the buy Bachoffer created the potential for profiteering but he said it was instituted in the name of customer Good  we Hud to accept the risk that people might buy something lifter the injunction. Smith said adding that a maximum of three cameras per household could be re cigarettes from Page 1 suits and has mandated that alcohol served on military bases be bought in the Stales in which the bases Are located. That provision was designed to Force higher prices and lower Drunken driving rates. Now the Senate is collaborating with or. Mayer in restricting the availability of tobacco products Daniel said Tho health affairs spokesman said Mayer was nol collaborating with the Senate on the Issue. He said Mayer has spoken a num Ber of times before Congress and the press about what he believes is the excessive Rale of smoking among . Some people think this in something new the spokesman said. It s nol. Or. Mayer has repeatedly questioned the wis Dom or Selling Cut rate cigarettes to Mili tary personnel Over the past two  sen. David u. Boren. A okla. Last month introduced a measure to reduce smoking in the military by raisins cigarette prices. Ii was approved by the Senate bul blocked in b House Senate conference by rep. W. G. Hefner. D-n.c., who persuaded the conferees to request the study due March 1. Opposition to the Boren measure Carn Efrom a variety of organizations including the veterans of foreign wars and the no association. Commissaries were put on military bases As a Benefit and convenience and since u is not illegal to grow sell or smoke tobacco in this country we feel the defense department should nol construct barriers to the use of tobacco by military person Nel a vow spokesman said. We fee it is blatantly  Daniel said in appears Senate members confronting the Reali Liea of Gramm Rud Man spending cuts. Intend to reach into he pockets of armed forces personnel to fund a chunk of  our concern in this matter is the loss of Revenue which would inevitably result if or. Mayer s recommendation is adopted he said. Daniel noted no one has suggested restricting the availability of any commodity to people in other government programs. Only the military men and women conditioned to follow orders Are singled out he said. If or. Mayer feb so strongly on this subject then he should forthrightly propose legislation to outlaw the Sale of tobacco even though this is in direct opposition to the policy of the Secretary of defense. Or. Mayer should examine his motives rethink the effect of his recommendation und quickly consign this particular Sugges Tion to the shredder Daniel said. The health affairs spokesman would not comment directly on Daniel s criticisms. While we believe we have the Legal authority to go ahead and make a decision on the Issue of raising tobacco prices we will not take a final posit Corr until Congress gets the Reotis they have re queued and has had time to look Al them he said. Tensions from Page 1 said no one contends hat these actions by themselves Are Likely to have 0 decisive  House Deputy press Secretary Larry up cakes revealed Friday that Reagan has sent messages to us. Allies about the sanctions and Libya s alleged involvement in  re presenting the entire Case to them and saying Al the very least Don t undercut the . Effort at the very most a would ask them to join us up cakes  confirmed u los Ang Tei times if pry that the freeze on libyan assets was imposed after the United slates discovered that libyan fund Erc being transferred out of the United states. The times quoted unidentified administration sources in Friday s edition to say ing the libyan government transferred about 1100 million from an american ban to a foreign Bank wednesday prompting president Reagan s order later in Ine Day to freeze All remaining libyan Assels in i. Financial institutions. Within the Reagan administration sri Ultz has been one of the leading advocates of measured and focused military retaliation against terrorism. The defence department has sores we the difficulty of using . Might in such Dies especially when in mtg he twing the United states info conflict with Well armed nations sch As Libya which he a Large air farce. Sen. Howard m. Menu Baum Pom of a constant critic of the Reagan administration suggested thursday that khad Afy be assassinated a move that while House spokesman Edward Dacre Jimart a icky called not o policy option of the United slates  said in a broadcast inter View maybe we re at the paint in the world where or. Khad Afy Hai to be eliminated and said he was using the term  trivia from Page 1 enough. What did David Janssen portray in the to series the fugitive?1" what country does Superman live in answer he does not live in a country be cause he is nol reality took several months of working evenings to come up Wilh us the questions. The game was ready for stores in late novem Ber just in time for Christmas sales. The game s popularity has Tucker a Little bewildered bul pleased. It started out As a joke Between these two Guys he said. "1 think what gets peo ple is the name of the game and the Low Price about 55 does t him  s another reason they sell so Well. As Long As the game u priced correctly Yon in sell a lot More heard. The game includes 48 Cordt each with Tii questions. Categories include show Busi Ness athletics countries of he world scientific discoveries Tine am and publications and world affairs past and  cards tire the Samf size As those of other More challenging Rivia games and Are printed on similar Quassy paper making it easy to Spike the decks of t tie harder  lot of people Slick one in their trivial Pursuit deck to kind of break the deck up Wombacher said. Turned. The offer is Good Only until the end � the financial Cost of the buyback pro omm could reach $800 million if every in it ant camera ii returned bul some analysts predicted it would be a fraction of that. Kodak is esp Jud w take a Large write off against its 1985 earnings to be announced Voda k said in would relocate within the company As Many of the 800 full time workers As possible. They were to be old thursday and Friday whether they have jobs and Many will report monday either for new jobs or retraining Smith Caid. Although Kodak has said it would not re enter the incl and picture Field it is Appeal ing the Polaroid ruling. Kodak also facet trial in which in could be forced to pay icons of dollars in Puj Oilive damages to wat Polaroid. News in Brief Reagan to visit Grenada Washington a president Rea Gan is preparing to visit Grenada on feb. 20 to celebrate he principal foreign policy Triumph of his first term and to meet with Caribbean leaders us. Officials said Friday. Al will be Reagan s first visit to the Caribbean Island since a .-led military Force ousted the marxist government there in october 1983 and Laid he groundwork for the re establishment of democratic Rule. Double murderer executed Colum Bia . A James Terry Roach 2s, who murdered two teen agers when he was 17, was executed Friday after the . Supreme court rejected his Appeal and the governor refused clemency requests from the United nations Mother Teresa former president Jimmy Carter and human right groups. Temperatures despite explicit Allied rejection of sane Lions against Libya Shultz said he was sending sending Deputy Secretary of state John c. Whitehead to Europe w try to per Suade governments to join die Effort. None of the allies have so far. The trip will begin Early next week and West Germany Britain Italy France he Netherlands and Belgium Are on the list of nations he May visit. Italy West Germany and France Are among Libya s biggest Trad ing partners. Italy which is second Only to the soviet Union in arms sales to Libya on thursday said it would be careful not to Export to Libya what foreign minister Chulio Andreolli called particularly dangerous arms during the heightened tension be tween Libya and the United slates. Shultz admitted that to Dale we Haven t made much headway with the europeans but suggested they take a Good look a Good hard  at the photographs of the bloody Rome and Vienna Airport massacres before making a final decision. Even if the europeans continue turning their backs on sanctions he Laid the unite states believes in solitary action a necessary to make a pm yemeni that americans will have nothing to do with sponsors of  to a report issued by the state department this week Libya has been behind 59 terrorist acts in the past few Yean. The transportation department mean while said that effective feb. I any airline Domestic or foreign would be barred from Selling tickets in the United states for trips that include Libya in the itinerary. Khad Afy told reporters in Tripoli that the american sanctions which include a freeze on libyan assets in he United Stales would push him closer to the soviet Union. Shultz brushed aside such tears citing an already close soviet libyan relationship in which the soviets Send arms to khad Afy in return for badly needed Cash. He also characterized As rhetoric recent khad Afy condemnations of terrorism. 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