European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday August 16,1986 Denver s dinner party was Legal lawyer says Washington a lobbyist Michael k. Deaver broke no Laws by staging a dinner party last March for the korean government one of his clients and also inviting three top White House aides his attorney says. Deaver the former White House Deputy chief of staff hosted the party several months after  report edly had been told by president Reagan s lawyer Fred Fielding that  was prohibited from lobbying High ranking while House officials until May 1986. According to recently released congressional Testi Mony. Fielding who has left the counsel s Job made the warning to Deaver in the summer of 1985. Deaver had quit the government in May 1985. Deaver is under investigation for possible conflict of interest violations for work performed by his lobby ing Enterprise Michael k. Deaver & associates. The company represents several foreign governments and foreign and Domestic companies. Federal conflict of interest Laws prohibit former senior government officials from lobbying their former Agency for a year. There is a two year ban on sex officials lobbying on issues once under their Domain. Each violation can Lead to a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $ 10,000 Fine. Deaver is in Africa but his lawyer Randall j. Turk said thursday that Deaver did not break any ethics Laws when  entertained about 60 people including three while House aides at a dinner for korean ambassador Kyung won Kim on March 13. Deaver rep resents the korean government and the Jaewoo corp., a korean Industrial company. Nothing in the Law prohibits social contacts with current government officials Turk said. Records filed at the Justice department s foreign agents registration unit show that David Waller then a senior associate counsel at the White House Dennis Thomas the top aide to White House chief of staff Donald t. Regan and Stephen Danzansky a special assistant to president Reagan were among the party s guests. Waller who now works at the Energy department was said to  in a meeting and could not  reached for comment but  told the los Angeles times that  had no substantive conversation with Deaver at the party and did not have any idea what Mike was doing with the South  Thomas and Danzansky were also said to  unavailable when Cal s were placed to their offices. Deaver s lobbying activities Are under investigation by a court appointed Independent counsel As Well As by the investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee. The subcommittee has also asked the counsel to investigate whether Deaver committed perjury while testifying to the panel in May. In his most recent filings with the Justice depart ment Deaver said two clients have dropped his serv ices the ministry of Commerce and Industrial development of Mexico did not renew a $250,000-a-year contract and the Panama based . Sugar group did not renew a $300,000-a-Ycar contract. Deaver previously announced that his $105,000-a year contract with the government of Canada had been severed. Ammo involving Reagan Moid May have Hod drug traffic link Washington not an administration offi Cial said thursday that the illegal ammunition ship ment in which Nancy Reagan s personal maid was charged might have been destined either for the government of Paraguay or for a smuggling operation in that coun 1 try.  said the administration had not yet firmly established an ultimate destination. The official who asked not to i  named said there was no guerrilla movement at All in the South american country but added that there remained a con Cem that the ammunition might j eventually have been Emu ogled to i drug traffickers. The maid Anita s. Castelo was arraigned on a Federal complaint accusing her of aiding and abetting the illegal Export of munitions. Castelo who was born in Paraguay and is a naturalized Callelo United states citizen is on paid administrative leave from her duties at the White House. Her Job was to care for Reagan s wardrobe. Although there is no formal embargo on arms an munitions shipments to Paraguay there have been no licenses issued for such shipments to the country since 1977. The government official said in View of the country s human rights record these Are looked at very closely and often  officials of the paraguayan embassy Here did not to Telephone messages. ,.e scrutiny of arms requests from Paraguay the government official said had been agreed to by the mate department to head off congressional moves to impose a formal ban on shipments of arms and Muni Lions such As the one for Chile. The other major possibility the official said was that the shipment which included 350,000 rounds of Small gauge ammunition was destined for elsewhere As part of a Money making smuggling   said the problem of smuggling in and through Para Guay was very prevalent non smokers retain inhaled toxins longer than smokers study says Chicago up people sitting in a room filled with cigarette smoke retain the dangerous chemicals they inhale More than twice As Long As the people Actu ally doing the smoking researchers said thursday. The finding could mean that non smokers Are a greater risk from ambient smoke than previously thought but  really have to take a closer look  fore  can say that said Daniel Sepkovic a clinical biochemist with the Naylor Institute of disease prevention in Valhalla  no smokers still Are in far less danger than the smokers themselves Sepkovic said in a Telephone inter View. Even though there is an increased toxin retention time in the non smoker you have to take into account the tremendous dilution Factor  said. It s on the order of 0 to 100 limes smaller than for  Sepkovic and his colleagues reporting in a letter to the journal of the american medical association recruited 10 smokers and four non smokers to determine How Long their bodies retained cot nine an end product in the metabolism of nicotine. Cot nine Levels were measured Over a four Day period for smokers As Well As for non smokers exposed to a Smoky environment for 160 minutes every Day. At the end of the period the smokers quit smoking. Although the initial cot nine Levels were More than 100times greater for the smokers than for the passive smok ers it took the passive smokers More than twice As Long to eliminate the cot nine from their blood As smokers 49.7 hours for the passive smokers compared to 18.5 hours for the smokers. The rate of cot nine disappearance from urine was also significantly slower. Sepkovic said  has a couple of speculative kinds of hypotheses Why this phenomenon would occur most based on the presumption that the bodies of smokers Are More conditioned to eliminate cigarette toxins than non smokers. Stateside fungus suspected in blight killing off California Brush Riverside Calif. Up a mysterious spreading blight that has killed thousands of acres of Chaparral and created dangerous Brush fire conditions across Southern California maybe the work of a fatal fungus scientists said. Federal researchers said thursday a microorganism called Botyos Phyeria has been found in Brush weakened by drought three Yean ago. Scientists identified the organism last month.  fore the identification scientists were baffled As to the cause of the blight which threatens Brush from Santa Barbara to san Diego. It s a breakthrough in that  have a name for it and it is something  can look at now said Paula Jenks an ecologist for the Forest service in Riverside. Murdoch must sell paper before buying to station Boston up Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch has tentatively agreed to buy local television station but would have to sell the bos ton Herald to meet Federal communications commission guidelines if  buys the station published report said Friday. Murdoch has signed an agreement to buy wine to for i2s million the Boston Globe reported. Since acc regulations forbid Cross ownership of a newspaper and a television station in major Market Murdoch must sell the newspaper before the Purchase has Federal approval 3 killed 4 More Hurt in Baltimore House fire Baltimore up three people including two children were killed and three others and firemen were injured Friday in a Blaze that destroyed a three Story wooden House occupied by 15people. Fire department capt. Pat Flynn said the Blaze apparently was an electrical fire that started in the basement just after  was estimated at $200,000. Flynn said the body of Tiann Harris. 6. Was found on the third door of the House and the Bod of Deshawn Harper 9. Was found in the second Noor hallway. The third victim albeit Barnes 68,was found in the Center of the basement Flynn said is people were in the House at the time of the fire and three others were mated for smoke inhalation and Burns. A fireman suffered minor injuries also  said. Powerful earthquake hits off coast of Indonesia Honolulu up the world s strongest earthquake in More than three months rumbled off the coast of Indonesia Early Friday but caused no injuries or damage authorities said. The us. Geological Surrey in Washington and the Pacific tsunami warning Center in Honolulu said the earthquake was entered at sea and measured at least 7.5 on the Rikhter scale. The Survey reported the quake was entered in them Lucca sea in Eastern Indonesia Between the is lands of Halmahera and celebes about 1,300 Miles East of Jakarta and 1,000 Miles South of Manila. Earthquake monitors in Golden colo., Ify the quake hit Indonesia at 3 39 am Friday. The Survey said the indonesian quake was the strongest in the world since 7.7 magnitude Shock in the a cutian islands off Alaska May 1,1986. 3 Hurt when truck hits Cable car in san Francisco san Francisco up three two of them German tourists were thursday when a pickup truck rammed into one of the City s famed Cable cars. A spokesmen for the municipal railway said the Driver of the truck accidentally ran into the running Board of a packed Cable car. No charges were fund. The two visitors from Germany identified As Juergeu Stickling 25, and his sister Kersten 17, were treated and released at Mission emergency Hospital a san Francisco Man was hospitalized with a broken leg