European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 5, 1986 the stars and stripes prototype makes debut up photo Alan Wilkinson Ford Engineer shows off the Ford Letec prototype in Dearborn Mich. The car joint project of Ford s subsidises in England and Germany features front wheel drive computer controlled engine and continuously variable transmission suspension and brakes. A m a Page 9 Cost of scrapping Salt ii declared mind boggling Washington up president Reagan s decision to scrap the Salt ii treaty could Cost the country $100 billion in the next decade Tor new nuclear weapons the chairman of the House armed services committee said sunday. Rep. Los Aspin. D-wis., among Many lawmakers arguing against the administration s decision to ignore the 1979 treaty later this year said the Price Tor that action would be mind boggling not to mention  in May Reagan said the United states would exceed Salt la s limits later this year when the 131st b-52 bomber is armed with cruise i Silas unless the soviet Union stops what the administration says Are flagrant violations. President Carter and the late soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the treaty in Vienna in 1979. Although the Senate never ratified the pact the superpowers agreed to abide by its provisions. Aspin released a congressional budget office working paper on the  costs of exceeding Salt ii limits and said research indicates the lowest Cost of Matching a Likely soviet buildup would be about $27 billion Over 10 years. Thai would be the Cost for building a Many As 867 10-Warhcad my missiles and deploying them in minuteman mis Sile silos. That s cheap said Aspin and in s also a very unlikely response Given that Congress has already rejected the idea of deploying More than 50 mrs in existing silos where they Are sitting  he said a More Likely answer would be 10 put my missiles in super hardened silos ones that would belter withstand a soviet missile attack but that could Cost $100 billion. The study also puts the Cost of deploy ing More of the huge Trident submarines at More than $110 billion Over the next decade he said. Aspin said a logical response would involve some combination of additional submarines missiles and bombers but an administration decision to toss Salt Over its shoulder is no  he said the co Cost estimates arc based on How much weaponry the Sovi ets could add to their Arsenal if they responded to a . Scrapping of Salt i. According to Cia estimates and an As sumption that the United states would respond with a roughly similar addition of weapons. Aspin said the administration response to alleged soviet Salt violations coded missile test data and a forbid Den radar system violates the heart of the in ratified treaty and opens the possibility hat the soviets might feel free to do the same. He said Salt weapons launcher limitations protect . Forces from being overwhelmed by huge numbers of soviet missiles. Abandoning the ceilings Abandons the Protection. Does this administration seriously want to leave such a legacy somebody Over there better think through the implications of what they Are threatening to do to us not to the rus sians Aspin said. Larouche organizations accused by Bank of racketeering fraud Washington a political extremist Lyn Don Larouche and his network of organizations have been accused of racketeering and fraud in a Federal suit by a new Jersey Bank that contends it was bilked of hundreds of thousands of dollars through unauthorized credit card  Fidelity Bank accuses Larouche and his financial Empire of civil violations of the Federal racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act or Rico statute in the suit tiled last week in . District court in Newark. Larouche spokesman Christina Huth contacted at la Rouche s Leesburg va., Headquarters declined to com , Eliott Greenspan a Larouche Follower and co defendant k the suit called the Bank s charges spurious and predicted they would be thrown out of court. Greenspan ran for governor of new Jersey under the Larouche Banner in 1985.organizations tied to Larouche have been the object of a Federal grand jury investigation in Boston where prosecutors have said they Are investigating a massive pattern of credit card fraud. First Fidelity was the Bank used by Larouche s political Campaign committees in 1984 to make deposits of its credit card charges from individuals around the country until the Bank closed the accounts because of the Large number of contested  Bank said in its suit that the fraud it alleges is part of the government s criminal investigation. The Bank in previous proceedings has claimed it lost More than $750,000 in improper charges. It said the losses occurred when people said they never made Campaign contributions or purchases or that they authorized amounts less than were charged to their credit  Bank s suit also charged conspiracy and theft by  named Larouche the frequent fringe candidate for president 21 associates and 20 corporations or organizations tied to him. They include his Campaign committees and the National democratic policy committee. That is the name of his political organization that has backed democratic primary candidates in dozens of states including Illinois where they won the democratic primary for lieutenant governor and Secretary of state. Among the individuals named in the suit is Philip Rubinstein a Larouche candidate for governor of new York who this week was barred by state election officials from having his name placed on he demo cratic primary ballot. He is president of one of the Larouche corporations caucus distributors inc., which Sells publications and engages in fund raising. The suit charged that the Larouche organization engaged in a pattern of manipulation Anco illegal use of credit card accounts and charges at the instigation of Larouche. The suit said that Larouche directed and controlled a conspiracy to defraud the Bank out of Money through an arrangement in which Larouche groups received credit from the Bank for credit card charges that later were contested. It also said the various Larouche groups including the Campaign committees combined their Money in attempts to launder funds and conceal its sources. Each of the defendant organizations is in fact the alter ego of Larouche the suit said. Legal distinctions Between or among organizations Are and have been utilized to shield obfuscate and conceal the acts of fraud and  the Bank s attorney Albert Besser declined to com ment on the  suit answers a suit Larouche groups filed against the Bank after it seized $200,000 from two Bank accounts. That Money was to cover what the Bank said were anticipated disputes Over credit car charges already credited to the Larouche accounts at the time the accounts were closed. That suit along with a defamation suit filed by the Bank against the Larouche organization is still Pend ing. It seeks an unspecified amount of damages. Tiny heart patient Nikki Waters of Johannesburg South Africa holds her convalescing baby son Christopher at children s Hospital in Philadelphia while he husband James looks on. The Waters family travelled to the United states so Christophe could have surgery to Correct a serious heart defect