European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday february 25,1986 pm extends Cut rate financing incentives Detroit Dpi general motors corp touched off another round of buyer it will immediately offer Cut rate financing on 82 percent of its cars and 76 percent fits Light trucks until further notice. The program for Loans up to 48 months offers 7.7 percent annual financing on its Chevrolet Chevelle and Pontiac 1000 sub compacts and 9.9 percent financing on All other models except the Large rear drive Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and new front drive luxury cars Cadillac Seville and Eldorado Buick Riviera and Olds Mobile Tornado. Other cars excluded from the program Are the Chevrolet Nova and sprint sub com pacts and All intermediate cars equipped with six Cylinder engines. Four Cylinder models Are included to improve the automaker s corporate average fuel Economy ratings. Pm s last program which expired sat urday offered 7.9 percent financing since dec. 26 on a wide Range of models but not nearly As Many As the new offer. Pm spokesman Harold Jackson said the latest offer is the broadest incentive program offered by the automaker to Date. Ford motor co. Is expected to respond shortly with an offer of its own to keep competitive with pm. Management is looking at it now that they have information on the Nevi pm pro Gram said John b. Seig manager of Ford s sales operations. Chrysler corp. Last week announced it would continue to offer some of its Cut rate financing or rebates on its subcompact Lints until May 14. It also is mailing to about 6 million people a shoo certificate Good until May 10 toward Purchase of a new Chrysler. Meanwhile american motors corp. Monday extended until March 9 its Low in Terest financing on jeep Comanche two Lisel drive pickup trucks and a Choice flow interest financing or Cash rebates of up u $700 on Renault Alliance and encore models. The two offers were to have expired b. 22 and feb. 28. Gunfight erupts at poker game 3 killed 1 Hurt Okeechobee Fla. A an All night poker game Between two families ended with a gun fight in which three people were killed and one was critically injured police said. We Don t know who shot who Okeechobee county sheriffs office cart. Don Fisher said sunday. We won t know until beget ballistics  deputies had broken up a party and poker game Early sunday at a Mobile Home Park West of Okeechobee obviously the Garcias and Bustos returned an started playing poker again Fisher said. About 7 a.m., some son of argument developed and broke up the game and they went  in the gunfight that followed four men fired shots two can were riddled with bullets and shot shit two trailers police said. Everyone was on the ground when our deputies arrived Fishers id. Dead at the scene were Bonfils Garcia 31, and Benjamin Bustos 23. Garcia s brother Pedro die during surgery. Police said another Garcia brother Francisco was not involved in the shooting but escaped injury by pretending he was dead. Bustos brother Daniel was in critical condition after surgery at Raulerson memorial Hospital. Gerber suing Maryland officials after state issues baby food ban by the associated press Gerber products co. On monday sued Maryland gov. Harry Hughes and other state officials for $150 million because the state has banned sales of a baby food product suspected of containing fragments of Glass. Gerber strongly believes that the unilateral conduct of the governor of the state of Maryland has Only created climate of fear and confusion among the consuming Public at a time when copycat actions should not be encouraged by acts of Public officials Gerber said from its Fremont mich., Headquarters. The lawsuit filed in in . District court in Balti More also named Maryland attorney general Stephen h. Sachs Adele Wilzack Secretary of health and mental Hygiene and David l. Resh jr., administrator of Community mental health. A spokesman in the Maryland governor s office in Annapolis referred All Calls to Sachs office and the attorney assigned to the Case did not return a Call immediately to the associated press. Consumers in at least 14 states have reported Glass contamination in Gerber foods but the . Food and drug administration said that it has found no basis for recall and that All the incidents were isolated. Officials have issued warnings to parents to look for. Signs of Glass in the jars. The Fra has checked Gerber plants and found no processing problems. States where contamination claims have been made include Arizona Florida Georgia Kentucky Maryland Michigan Nebraska North Carolina new York Ohio Oregon Tennessee Washington and West Virginia. Wilzack late sunday ordered a statewide ban on sales of Gerber strained peaches in response to is complaints of Glass contamination in Maryland. Despite the fact that the state authorities had not found any fragments in jars on retailers shelves and hid not conducted even the most cursory investigation. Maryland apparently Felt constrained to take the Unwar ranted and irresponsible action on Friday of informing the Public that a recall had been ordered although no such order was then in effect Gerber said. Ger bar said that according to Maryland officials stale inspectors have since that time opened More than 600 jars of Gerber baby food and have found absolutely no Glass fragments in any of these  Ger bar said it will seek to hold the responsible state authorities liable for any losses caused by their irresponsible  reports that Glass had been found in Gerber products began two weeks ago in new York. The ensuing reports have covered a wide Range of Gerber baby products and have not been limited to any single Batch. In the latest report officials of the Harris Teeter Chain of grocery stores said they were pulling some Gerber baby food off its 110 stores in North Carolina South Carolina and Virginia after two people said they found Glass in Gerber strained Macaroni Tomato Bee baby food. Gerber makes More than 1 billion jars of baby food a year ranking it among the largest such companies in the world. Anti pornography ordinance ruled unconstitutional Washington a a much publicized Ordi Nance that would make distributors of pornography subject to sex discrimination lawsuits is unconstitutional the supreme court ruled monday. The court also agreed to decide by july the constitutionality of the Granun Rudman Law which requires a balanced Federal budget by 1991. In the pornography Case the court said in a 6-3 vote that the Indianapolis ordinance impermissible interferes with free speech. The decision was announced without opinion. The court without waiting to conduct Oral arguments or solicit More briefs in the Case merely upheld lower court rulings. Chief Justice Warren e. Burger and justices William h. Rehnquist and Sandra Day o Connor voted to hear arguments in the Case but four votes Are needed to Gran such review. In seeking the supreme court s help Indianapolis mayor William h. Hudnut i and other City official argued that the ordinance is an innovative and prom Ising Way to help victims mostly women and children of the pornography Industry. The record shows that the pornography Industry. Generates sex based abuse the justices were told. In the Gramm Rudman Case the court set the stage fora major decision on governmental Powers and Federal spending by saying it would review a ruling that struck Down a Central provision of the Law. The justices said they would hold two hours of arguments double the Normal amount in april so they can decide the Case before adjourning in july. On feb. 7, a three judge Federal court panel invalidated a key provision of Gramm Rudman saying the Law Vio lated a required separation Between the president an Congress. The first $11.7 billion in spending cuts under Granun Rudman due la take effect March 1, were not affected bythe three judge panel s ruling. Several other cases besides pornography and Granun Rudman were acted on by the court monday the court cleared the Way for the extradition to Israel of accused nazi War criminal John Demjan Juk who Alleg edly helped kill hundreds of thousands of jews in a world War ii death Camp. The 65-year-old retired autoworkers from Cleveland Ohio is currently in a Federal prison Hospital in Spring Field to. He is allegedly Ivan Grozny or Ivan the Tom supreme court Roundup we a former nazi guard at a death Camp in Treblinka Poland. The justices left intact a Texas Law that bars High school students from extracurricular activities like sport Sand band if their grades fall too Low. The 1984 Law which disqualified about 15 percent of the varsity football play ers in Texas 1,100 school districts is not a Federal matter the High court said. E the court agreed to decide what test the government  in refusing Asylum to illegal aliens who say they will be persecuted if they return to their Homeland. The Case stems from Luz Cardoza Fonseca a 37-year-old nicaraguan woman who claims she will be persecuted by the Sandim Sta government if she returns Home. The Indianapolis pornography ordinance was enacted by a 24-5 vote of the City Council on april 23,1984. It defined pornography As a practice that discriminate against women by portraying them As sexual objects who enjoy pain or humiliation and presents them As sexual objects of violence. It allowed women injured by someone who had seen or read Pora Grabic material to sue the maker or seller of the pornography. Even As the ordinance was enacted its supporters voice doubts whether it would withstand a Legal Cage. About 5,200 Bookstore owners quickly a mend toes Nance in a Federal lawsuit. Is. District judge Sarah Evans Barker on nov. 18, 1984, ruled that the ordinance violated free speech rights she previously bad barred its enforcement. The 7th is. Circuit court of appeals upheld her Rul ing last aug. 27, stating that the ordinance wrongly discriminates on the basis of speech Content the appeals court said that under the  treating women in the approved Way in sexual encounters premised on Equality is lawful no matter How sexually explicit speech treating women in the disapproved Way As submissive in matters sexual or enjoying humiliation a unlawful no matter Bow significant the Erard artistic or political qualities of the work taken As whole. The appeals court added this is thought control Indianapolis officials said in the Appeal acted on Mon Day that if the 7th circuit court s ruling were a of turned communities wanting similar legislation would be Cambridge mass Minneapolis and los Angeles Man survives 4-hour burial under 15 feet of Limestone wmmfl8to" a Washington court the rim of a 30-loot Rous were be was listed in fair a Conon. Of spokeswoman sue Madison said Purdin had no broken i