European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. June 17, 1986 the stars and stripes 1 Page 9 Kenny Davis turns his workplace into an outdoor tunning Salon during a Lull at the Hub of events in business at Hubcap cily in Colum Bia . The business stocks More than 15,000 hubcaps some during tack to cars of the Early 1900s. Gonzalez favored for re election Madrid. Spain t l l with one week to to before general elections. Ihrck leading newspapers published polls sunday indicating swi Kilisl 1 runic minister Felipe on a / will Fasik Rvl urn to office hut his party s absolute Majori is threatened. A Survey by the Liberal daily Al j Ais shows thai Llic ruling Jairn will Garner Only ii portent if the Oil a six Point drop from the 1482 Csc Clio which Cave Ion ale control of 202 seals in the j5c member lower House. I i Ais predicts thai the socialists could lose As Many As 35 eats while a Gallup foil commissioned by the conservative dark a slows j4 seals a ill be lost. On the centrists Iliario i d predicted con ale will maintain control of the lower House winning 4h percent of the vote Kiili Between 14.1 and 202 seals. The can Krisl i dirty of former prime minister Aiolfi Suav could earner up in 11 percent of the u in. Marking a significant gain this would be an my Nimse ovum 2 per cent in the last elections and Kuisle his Par by s presence from to so scats to it least l 5, support for the popular coalition. Much is thy Mam opposition group led Liy former Francois a Pimsler Manuel i Niga registered a drop since 1982 when it wan 1u6 scats. The polls Givi the popular rna Lilion Ahou 23 percent of inc Vole with a pos sible loss of Between one and 20 seals. A gain was predicted for the c Minu Nisi party lawmaker wants repayment of cruise costs Washington a a House committee chairman is pressing the state department and the . Information Agency to require employees to repay inc Cost of luxury Boal travel taken at tax payers expense. Rep. Jack Brooks. A Texas made inc inquiries in letters sent fallowing a june 2 ruling by . District judge Thomas Flannery that us1a employee Christo Pher Paddack owed the government Sll 178. In 1981. Paddack and his family re turned to their Home in Burlington. Iowa from an assignment in Uruguay on a trip that involved a cruise up the Mississippi on the riverboat Mississippi Queen. Flannery overturning a ruling by the foreign service grievance Board said thai Paddack must repay he Money the difference Between air travel and the Cost of the Cruiz because the expenditure was not proper under then pm Sling Sale department regulations. The Paddack ease was uncovered in 1984 by us1a, prompting Brooks head of the government operations commit tee to ask the congressional general accounting office to see if other state department and us1a employees had taken similar cruises. In a report released last october the Gao said it found 102 instances of travel on riverboats and Ocean liners particularly the Queen Elizabeth ii in the four years ending sept. 30, 1984. The investigators said the travel be tween inc United Stales and foreign assignments Cost taxpayers at Leasi $556,232 compared to the ji60.0j7 or less it would have Cost had inc officials travelled by air. Gao said that not Only was the ship travel an excessive and unnecessary expense the state and us a employees enjoyed a further perk the shipboard time was considered duty not vacation and it Cost taxpayers an average of $200 a Day in lost productivity. The travel regulations in effect during he Pludy period permitted Ocean travel but also required employees to use the most direct and expeditious routes consistent with Economy and to exercise Good judgment in the costs they  after Usia tried to male Paddack repay the Cost of the riverboat trip he took the matter to inc grievance Board which ruled that he had complied with inc regulations. But the . District court judge strongly disagreed ruling that inc River cruise was improper and not in Accord with the applicable regulations and thai fact should have been known to pad Dack. Two Days before Brooks called state and Usia officials on the congressional Carpel last Del. 23, the state department which handles travel for Usia put out new rules allowing Ocean trips Only for medical reasons or when an employee uses vacation Lime and pays inc differ ence in the Cost of air fare. Brooks noted that. When lie asked officials last october whether they were moving to recover Money from employees other Ilian Paddack they said they were watching the court Case and Mill take appropriate actions consistent with inc court findings once the Case is con  in letters last week to Secretary of Sale George Shulti and Usia Dir Cloi Charles Wick. Brooks asked them. Nou Hal the ruling was in. What action they were taking to recover the Money ail vacation time from the Oiler travellers. Slate department spokesman Frank Matthews told the associated press Fri Day thai this whole thing is being taken seriously. There will be a decision and in won t be Loo far off. Nobody at this Point is willing to say publicly what they re going to do until a decision is  Matthews said. At the Usia Agency spokesman Joe o Connell said i m not aware of am  Bonner fails to make planned trip to Moscow Moscow a Vaclena Bonner failed to return to Moscow As planned sunday and a Friend who was wailing for the soviet dissident said she. Feared Bonner was prevented from leaving the closed cily of Gorky. Bonner 63, returned to the soviet Union on june 2 from a six month stay in the West where she underwent medi Cal treatment and met relatives. The next Day she rejoined her husband physicist and leading dissident Andrei Sakharov 65, in internal exile in Gorky 2so Miles Caslon Mosca before Leavi. She old reporters she intended to return to Moscow by june 15 to collect Luggage thai had been sent by air freight from the West. If i m not Back Here by the Isle then they Haven l Lei me come. Thai s exact Bonner told reporters before her Dupar lure for Gorky. Bonner was not on any Irain arriving in Moscow from Gorky on sunday. At Bonner s Moscow apartment a Friend was wailing for her. The woman who spoke on condition of anonymity told inc associated press she feared Bon Ner was kept from leaving Gorky. She said she received a Telegram from Gorky june 9 in which Bonner said she had bought a railway Lickel and would be coming to Moscow Early on june is. Bonner asked not to be Mcl Al the Irain but in her apartment the woman said. The woman said she came 10 the apartment sunday morning and found in deserted. 11 was still empty when she came Back sunday afternoon at inc time an a reporter stopped by. The woman said no More trains or planes were due to arrive in Moscow late sunday. If allowed to return to Moscow Bonner might have been Able to provide Western reporters with the first direct report on Sakharov s health in More than iwo years. Sakharov who won the Nobel peace prize in 1975, was exiled to Gorky in january 1980 after criticising the soviet Union s december 1979 intervention in Afghani Slan. Sakharov was never formally charged with a crime. Bonner lived with Sakharov in Gorky bul made monthly trips to Moscow for supplies and meetings with foreigners and soviet friends. In May 1984, she was detained in Gorky on charges of anti so Viet slander and three months later was sentenced to five years exile there. During the last two years Sakharov staged three hunger strikes we King per Mission for his wife to leave the soviet Union for medical treatment. Soviet authorities temporarily waived her sentence and in december she left for inc West. Bonner apparently hoped she would gel another waiver so she could return to Moscow once More. When she left the soviet Union she re fused to talk to Western reporters saying she had promised soviet Auchoi tics to keep quiet about her life in Gorky in Exchange for the Exil visa. While in the Wesl. However she began speaking out More and More to counter what she said were soviet lies about her and her husband