European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday August 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Southern leaders Call for Protection of . Products Charlotte. . Up the Southern governors association unanimously adopted a Resolution monday calling for a National Trade policy to protect traditional Industry from crippling imports. "1 think that s part of the problem Here whether we have a Trade policy or said sout Carolina gov. Dick Riley. The Resolution offered by North Carolina gov. Jim Martin and amended by Riley asks the administration to Force for eign markets to re main As open to Domestic manufacturers As the do Martin Mystic Market is to importers. Should the administration fail to pro Duce such a level playing Field the Resolution Calls for adoption of a Bill similar to the failed Effort in Congress to protect the textile and shoe industries from imports. An Effort to override president Reagan s veto of the textile Bill fell Short last week despite a massive lobbying Effort from the Industry. Last week 1.3 million workers were painfully reminded that the present administration remains insensitive to the unique needs of this Region said Dewey Trogdon president of the american Tex tile manufacturers association. We in the South did not have enough chips to Call the administration s Trogdon said imports Are growing at the rate of 22 percent a year but he said the industry1 could compete if allowed to on an equal footing. Alexander Haig a former Secretary of state criticized the textile Bill As protectionist. That textile legislation would have Cost the american consumer $44 Bil lion Haig said in luncheon remarks to the governors. He added that such Mea sures Lead to retaliation that hurts other trading partners. There is no free lunch he said. Somebody always Haig said Many third world coun tries arc managing to pay off staggering debts to Domestic Banks primarily through exports to the United slates. I Hope if any of you at this Confer ence arc looking at protectionism As a solution that you will avoid that like the plague Haig said. I believe very firmly that Lee Iacocca s level playing Field is desirable. The Best Way to encourage that is through International Thomas Graham president of us formerly . Steel Cor said the reality is we have to learn to live with steel imports the answer to the Chal Lenge lies in cutting costs Cincy and innovative marketing Strate gics getting carried away a photo an Anil nuclear protester is carried nuclear Power Plant. At least 88 people away by police during a demonstration were arrested saturday As protesters ill the Entrance to the Seabrook n.h., blocked an Entrance to the Plant. Helms seeks investigation of alleged surveillance by the los Angeles times Washington sen. Jesse Helms , asked the Justice department monday to investigate whether american agents spied on him during a controversial trip to Chile last month. He made the request following reports that someone from Helms office had leaked sensitive intelligence data to Chile s right Wing military government. Helms says he is the victim of a smear Campaign orchestrated at the lop Levels of the state department. He dismissed the leak allegations As frivolous and false and said they appear to have been based on private conversations he or members of his staff held with chilean officials. He wants the Fri to determine if he or the three aides who accompanied him to Chile were the subject of electronic or physical surveillance by american agents. One top Helms aide suggested the request was Only the opening shot in a get Tough Campaign with the state department and the Cia which Helms claims Are riddled with left leaning bureaucrats out to under mine the foreign policy goals of the Reagan administration. Helms also asked attorney general Edwin Melesc ii Ito investigate the source of news leaks about the in Quiry into his chilean trip and he demanded that the Cia and state department be forced to turn Over co pies of any intelligence and diplomatic reports related to his Mission. A spokesman for Mcnese said the Justice department had received the request and was looking into it. The chief Justice has criticism Praise for lawyers in final speech to bar new York not in his final address to the american bar association As chief Justice of the United states Warren e. Burger offered a review of some of the major themes he has sounded before including opposition to advertising by lawyers and Chagrin at the behaviour of some lawyers after the Bhopal Industrial he also had Praise for the bar association which he said had been instrumental in Many of the major reforms to occur in his 17 years As chief Justice. These included he said increased attention to court administration and the inclusion in Law school curriculum of courses in trial advocacy and professional response then mentioned his reaction to lawyers be Havior after the Accident at a Union Carbide Plant in India that left thousands dead or seriously injured. Few things have done More serious damage to the standing of the Legal profession than the unseemly indeed shocking spectacle of open solicitation by a handful of lawyers who dashed off to India to solicit clients after the tragic multiple disaster in Bhopal he said. He was also critical of advertising by lawyers. One need Only look at the yellow pages of some of the Telephone directories and the television advertising by some lawyers to see that those advertising lawyers have lost sight of the traditional values of our profession he said. He said he did not mean to castigate those single practitioners and Small Law firms that place Small notices in their local newspapers to announce their specialities. Rather he meant the lawyers who took the notion of advertising to an extreme. New York gov. Mario Cuomo also spoke to the bar association declaring judges should not be appointed on the basis of their political ideology. Whether it s Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Rea Gan liberals or conservatives the president and the Senate should not be trying to fix the judicial Deal. I Twain t meant to be that Way and it s not Good for the country in the Long Cia had no comment. Helms and three assistants went to Chile in july and infuriated the state department and White House by praising dictator Augusto Pinochet and urging the re Call of . Ambassador Harry g. Barnes or. The feud flared again last week when it was Dis closed that the Senate intelligence committee had asked the Fri to investigate a leak to Chile that May have compromised an intelligence operation apparently aimed at the Pinochet regime. Helms accused Elliott Abrams the stale depart ment official in charge of latin american policy of concocting phony charges against him and triggering the investigation but officials of the Agency have de Nied the allegation. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1946 the British government announced that illegal jewish immigrants will no longer be admitted to Palestine. 30 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1956 despite his death James Dean s fan mail continues to top that of every other Star i Hollywood according to Movi town Magazine s fan mail service. Dean gets about 6,000 letters a month. 20 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1966 the Senate appropriations com Mittee approved a $58.2 billion defense Money Bill and recommended that reservists be called up to meet Vietnam War needs. 10 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1976 the . Open Tennis tournament committee adjourned without resolving the stat us of Rance Richards who was or. Richard Raskind before a sex change operation. She wants to compete As a female
