European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday july is 1986 gait me piles up to Philadelphia dump site. Head drought threaten crops continued from Page 1there has been enough rain for Good crops the crop prices would not bring a profit. Now he said the value of Farmland has declined the majority of the county s Farmer have a negative net Worth and they have no crops to sell do Market for their Farmland and none for their equipment. Agriculture is dead in this county Irvin said. One Day it May come Back but it will take 10 South Carolina the department of apiculture said that the beat end draught Baa devastated the major oat wheat and com crop. Tobacco normally the stale s most important crop Fetn far seems unaffected but gov. Rich Ard w. Riley has indicated that he will Teek Federal declaration certifying parts of the state As disaster areas. Became pasture across South car Olina Hai either failed to grow or been bunted agriculture official were trying to ship Hay fro die Midwest for the cattle. Herds in Georgia and other states were under similar slots. What we be found is that a Large number of our Turners Are without water Tommy Irvin the Georgia commissioner of agriculture said. Their Ponds Nave been exhausted and their streams have dried up. And they have no feed for their he has Beelnad rising cattle Farmers to sell heir herds. Because Ibe Midwest has gnus there is a mar Ket he said,4nu the livestock auctions have been so jammed that hundreds of cattle have Bee turned away at each site and in the stress of being herded and loaded in the heat an drought he said Tome have died. 10 filipino nuns freed by moslem kidnappers Manila Philippines a moslem Kidnap person thursday freed Unher ined 10 filipino roman Catholic nuns who were abducted from a Convent Inma Rawi last weekend a defense ministry spokesman said. Regional military commander Brig. Gen. Rodrig Gutang called defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile by Telephone and told him the nuns were released without Ransom thursday morning. Gutang chief of the Central Mindanao command based in cot Abato City which has jurisdiction Over Malawi told Enrile that negotiations were continuing to secure the Freedom of . Missionary Brian Law rence. Heavily armed moslem guerrillas abducted Lawrence from Malawi the Day after the nuns were kidnapped. Garbage strikers ordered Back on Job in Philadelphia Philadelphia a a judge on wednesday ordered 2,400 sinking trash collectors Back to work ruling that Public health and safety was threatened by thousands piling up in the City. Mayor w. Wilson Goode and his fire police and Street commissioners testified wednesday in favor of the order which the Union has said it will obey. Common pleas judge Edward j. Blake made the ruling. It came about tour hours after state mediator Edward Feehan and representatives of the City and District Council 33 of the american federation of state county and municipal employees began the first formal bargaining session since sunday. Nearly 14,000 municipal workers Stan k july i. Goode said garbage collectors would work around the clock until they Clear 1j temporary dumps opened during the strike. The mayor said that the dumps would remain open and that regular garbage collections would not resume until the strike ended. Workers who fail to heed the order will be filed for contempt of court Goode said. If they still fail to Cross picket lines Goode said they face firing Street commissioner Harry Perks said cleaning up Teleg a dumps would take several Days if All haulers reported to work and no equipment had been sabotaged. In his court testimony Goode said the emergency trash Sites were health and fire hazards that have caused tension among residents. In a session afterwards in the judge Chambers Goode said "1 old the judge we need me authority to Call our workers Back we feel there is a time bomb out there with those Good testified that negotiations with the 12,884-member Blue Collar workers Union showed signs of encouragement at one Point and signs of Complete disarray at the Blake said the More than 35,000 ions of trash thai has accumulated during the 16 Days of the strike posed a Clear and present danger or threat to the health safety and welfare of the Public District Council 33 president Earl Stout said tues Day that he would obey a Back to work order. The cily was also seeking the return of 830 employees of health care and social service centers who Are represented by District Council 47. That Union ratified a new contract saturday. Fire commissioner William c. Richmond testified that there had been 1,134 trash fires in the first two weeks of the strike compared with 330 in the same period last year. Navy temporarily bars Litton for padding Bills to Pentagon Washington Ufi the Navy suspended jul ton industries inc. From doing business with the Penta gon officials said suspension comes one Day after the firm agreed to plead guilty to overcharging the government by $6.3million and to pay $ 15 million in penalties. The temporary suspension covers All new contract with the defense department but will not apply to work that has already been awarded to the firm the Navy said the suspension is for a temporary period pending completion of a thorough review or the underlying facts surrounding the ongoing Legal proceedings Anavy statement said. The firm will be Given 30 Days to respond to the suspension and Lub Nul any new information about the Litton systems inc., a subsidiary of Litton Indus tries inc., was indicted tuesday on charges of defraud ing the government by inflating costs on 130 minion i military Oon Racla during the past decade. Officials said the overpricing sometime at much Asfour times the value of an item was so widespread thai it had become known among employee is adding the Chicken . Attorney Edward Dennis said Litto freed to plead guilty to mail fraud presenting false claims to the government concealing material facts from the government and other counts in the indictment Dennis said the company also agreed to pay $15million in penalties the largest settlement Ever by a defense contractor guilty of such misconduct 3 guilty in Texas slavery Case Kerrville Texas a three men were found guilty wednesday of conspiring to Kidnap four drifters and Force them into slavery on an isolated ranch Whereon of the victims was tortured to death with a cattle Wesley Ellebracht st., his son Walter Wes Ley ble Buchl jr., and Carlton Robert Caswell were found guilty of violating Texas organized crime Law and Facie up to 20 Yean in prison. They were to be sentenced thursday. The three were convicted of conspiring to commit aggravated kidnapping in the March 1984 abduction or four drifters including Anthony Bates whose charred remains were found on the ranch. Prosecutors relied heavily on tape recordings they Aid were of torture sessions involving Bates. Wit Nesses identified voices belonging to Caldwell and the younger Ellebracht on the recordings. Jurors and spectators wept and covered their ear when the tapes punctuated with Bates screams were played in one tape a person was heard to announce live from the bunkhouse. It s Shock timer the state contended that Bates was tortured to death with the prod before his body waa doused with gasoline and burned. Charred Bone fragments were displayed As evidence in Small plat lie boxes. All that remains of Anthony Bates Are spread out before you on the jury Box,1 a prosecutor told the jury White snowing the know he s not with us but we know his soul la out there somewhere and will not rest until those responsible Are brought to drug War from Page 1 comics control program and would be another step in the administration s accelerating Effort to turn the Cor Ner in the War on illicit narcotics. Meanwhile the drive in Bolivia dubbed operation blast Furnace was scheduled to begin Friday despite extensive publicity there and in the United states be cause officials believe that Many of the drug targets including airstrips and Barracks for cocaine processors cannot be protected or removed before the raids. There s too much of a commitment to poll Yacknow one source familiar with the operation said. While House spokesman Edward Djerejian in con firming wednesday the . Backing for the bolivian operation disputed earlier statements by government officials that Secretary of defense Caspar w. Wein Berger had to be pressured by vice president George Bush to support operation blast Furnace Secretary Weinberger did not have to be pressured into providing military support for counter narcotics operations Djerejian said. All of the actions direct ing military involvement reflect the proposals made by Secretary Weinberger last year in a memo to the despite Djerejian s statement a Pentagon official said wednesday it s not in the army s interests to be doing briefing reporters Wedner May on Legal authority for the bolivian program j Lutice department official noted that Meese and Weinberger had signed an agreement july 10 jointly determining that the bolivian cocaine processing constitutes an emergency circumstance justifying the use of . Military person Nel and equipment. They acted under a 1981 Law thai provided exceptions to the reconstruction Era s posse comi Tatus act prohibition on the use of the military for civilian la enforcement
