European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 11, 1986 the stars and stripes efforts under Way to scrap new i Bill but army Navy continue to promote plan Page 5 by Norman Black a military writer Washington the army and Navy Are running recruitment advertisements touting special College tuition benefits that Are tied to a veterans assistance Law that the Reagan administration is trying to scuttle. The Law known As the new i Bill was approved by Congress in 1984. As a further inducement to attract recruits the army and Navy added extra benefits to the Basic program that can boost to $17,000 the total available to soldiers and sailors for College after a two year enlist ment. The office of management and budget notified con Gress earlier this year however thai it intends to propose a reduction in the new go Bill s benefits effective oct. 1. If Congress approves such a change it could Force the serv ices to modify their programs and would in any event reduce the total package of tuition funds available. The army has run television ads and a promotional tour featuring the availability of the army College fund. The Navy meantime kicked off a major to Advertis ing Campaign on March 30 focusing on what it Calls the sea College program. The Navy plans to spend $3 million on such advertising this fiscal year and another $3 million in fiscal year 1987. Both promotional efforts tout the total tuition package available by combining the Basic i Bill with the individual service contributions. The air Force and Marine corps offer no special benefits. The defense department declined comment on the fact the army and Navy Are promoting benefits that the administration is opposing. The Navy said it had approved the and Campaign for the new i Bill because no decision had been made by con Gress to change tiie Law. The sea College program which will be open to recruits who begin Active duty on or after oct. 1, is de signed to broaden the Quality of Navy recruits and is based on the current Law of the land the service said. The bomb in signalling its opposition to the new i Bill told Congress it did not believe the higher benefits were essential for meeting recruiting goals. But the congressional general accounting office quoted army officials in a recent report As saying the new i Bill had improved that service s recruiting efforts and that additional changes were not desired. The chairman of the House veterans affairs commit tee rep. . Montgomery d-miss., has vowed that any administration proposal to reduce i benefits will never get out of his panel. Under the new i Bill veterans with two years of Active service who have contributed $1,200 of their own Money Are eligible to receive tuition payments of $300 month for 36 months. The army and Navy then kick in an additional payment of More than $200 a month to bring the total benefits to about $17,000. Appeals court overrules tobacco suit says warnings May constitute shield Philadelphia a a Federal appeals court rescued an Effort by the to Bacco Industry to use the health warnings on cigarette packs As a defense against liability suits filed by smokers according to court documents released wednesday. A three judge panel of the . 3rd Cir Cuit court of appeals in a narrow opinion filed monday reversed a lower court ruling that had said the warning does not shield the tobacco Industry from lawsuits. The appeals court sent the Issue Back to the . District court in Newark . A court should refrain from evaluating the merits of a defense where As Here the factual background for a Case is largely undeveloped said judge James Hunter Iii. Tobacco stocks gain on Wall Street investors greeted the appeals court decision by favouring tobacco company stocks which Rose sharply. Philip Morris cos. Inc. Jumped $9 a share to $124, . Reynolds industries inc. Gained $3.62 /2 to $44.37 /2, and american brands inc. Was up $4.62 /2 at $80.75 a share. The ruling came in a lawsuit against Philip Morris inc., Liggett group inc. And Pew s corp. The suit was filed by Rose d. Cipollone of Little ferry ., a lung can cer victim who said she began smoking in1942. Cigarette bans nations having total ban on cigarette advertising i Norway i Finland i Italy Iceland Mozambique Algeria Jordan Sudan Bulgaria i Czechoslovakia i East Germany Hungary Poland Romania soviet Union Yugoslavia Singapore French polynesia nations with extensive restrictions in several Media i Senegal i Bolivia i Cyprus Canada Egypt Belgium Denmark France i West Germany i Ireland i Sweden i United kingdom Australia new zealand United states note current As of february 1986 Chicago Tribune graphic source world health organization Cipollone died in october 1984, a year after suing the cigarette companies. The suit has been continued by her husband Antonio. . District judge h. Lee Sarokin Rul ing in favor of the i pallones had refused to allow the tobacco Industry to use the warnings on cigarette packs As a defense. He also refused to throw out the suit. The warnings passed by Congress have been on cigarette packs since 1966. We deem it appropriate to reverse the order of the District court and remand the Case for further development of the claims and theories of the opposing parties Hunter wrote for the appeals court. The District court will then be in a position to make informed and definitive rulings on which claims then in Contention Are  strongest Case the Cipollone suit is expected to go to trial in the fall in Newark. Some lawyers familiar with the scores of lawsuits filed against the tobacco Industry consider it one of the strongest cases. Mrs. Cipollone claimed the tobacco companies were liable for failing to warn of the hazards of cigarette smoking and that their advertisements neutralized and made meaningless the warnings on the pack. Joining Hunter in the appeals court Deci Sion were circuit judge Dolores k. Sloviter and . District judge James t. Giles. Outrageous White House responds Larouche links Regan to drug Money Washington apolitical extremist Lyndon Larouche extended his conspiratorial View of the world right up to the White House on wednesday and declared that Donald Regan president Reagan s chief of staff has been involved in the Laun Dering of Money from drug sales. In his first news conference since his proteges victories in the democratic Pri Larouche Mary last month in Illinois Larouche claimed among Many other things that the soviet government and International drug dealers have targeted him for assassination. He said the Only Way to Stop drug dealing is to Stop financial institutions that engaged in laundering illicit Money adding you have to jail the Bankers who do that like Donald Regan presently chief of staff at the White House put them in jail where they  the White House responded the charges Are absolutely groundless and As outrageous As the source they come  Adlai e. Stevenson Winner of the Illinois democratic party s nomination for Gover nor has said Larouche s views Are Neo nazi and that Larouche s movement is fun eled on bigotry and hatred. Stevenson has refused to run on the same ticket with la Rouche supporters Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart who won the party Nomi nations for lieutenant governor and Secre tary of state respectively Larouche said descriptions of him As a Neo fascist and anti semitic originate with the drug lobby or the soviet operation which is sometimes the same  he also accused some reporters of being in league with conspirators and orchestrating a smear Campaign against him. When one journalist tried to get la Rouche to respond to allegations made in a televised report Larouche dismissed the question and snapped How can i talk to a drug Pusher like you during the meeting with reporters la Rouche repeatedly contended that the soviet government the British government drug dealers members of the International financial Community and american Politi Cal officials Are involved in conspiracies to destroy the Western world. He said threats against his life have led him to live an anomalous existence from Safe House to Safe House in which i m unable to maintain any residence or main Tain any orderly personal  i Don t know who pays the Bills said Larouche who maintains a heavily guarded estate in Leesburg a. Lack of singers pulls plug on anti drug show los Angeles a the concert that counts an 11-hour Rock music mar athon intended to discourage drug abuse by Young people was cancelled wednesday be cause too Many performers dropped out of the lineup organizers said. The concert had been steadily scaled Back and was moved recently from the 70,400-seat memorial coliseum to the 15,000-seat Long Beach Arena. After nine months Endeavor we had to pull the plug said promoter Tony Verna. It was t until just today that we found out we Don t have enough of a Talent  promoters had Only 18 of the 40 acts they hoped for and six of those acts including headliners James Brown or. Mister Ozzy Osbourne and , would have appeared via satellite from other locations. Among those who had already dropped from the lineup were the heavy Metal band quiet riot a Charlie Wilson of the Gap band Michael Mcdonald and Toto. Earlier. George Michael of the now defunct duo wham and Singer Madonna were touted As possibles for the concert but both declined to appear. Sands of Tinpui in the. Stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 11, 1946 Japan s voters turned out for the freest election in their history. Japanese women taking advantage of their first voting privilege outnumbered men at Many polls and confounded All Polit ical prophecies by heavy turnouts. 30 years ago foe a. April 11, 1956 in Cairo . Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold battling against time in his peace Mission to the Middle East appealed to Israel and Egypt to cease the Border attacks that May Lead to a full scale Arab israeli War. 20 years ago Focay. April 11, 1966 estimates by Justice department officials indicate that Black voter registration in five deep South states has risen almost 50 percent since Congress enacted the voting rights Law last summer. 10 years ago today. April 11, 1976 a Forest service official said under oath that agriculture Secretary Earl Butz never urged him to act on c request by former army Secretary Howard Callaway to expand his Colorado ski resort into government land