European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday August 17,1986 in is briefs rebels surrender Beirut Lebanon up Christian lebanese i Lilia Man surrounded the last pocket of rebel resistance in East Beirut and forced them to surrender police sources said Friday ending five Days of fighting among Christian militia members. Sources said the of militiamen tile thursday sur rounded the karm Pailoun District the last pocket of resistance held by rebels since a sunday revolt against the of command. Tile gunmen who hid in several positions including a fortified Barracks traded machine gun and rocket fire for several hours with the of forces but surren dered after they were warned their positions would be stormed the sources said. Drug ring broken new York. A nine people including com Puter expert in the City comptroller s office have Bee arrested in an investigation of a $20-million-a-Manth computerized cocaine ring authorities said. The arrests stemmed from an inquiry that began last March when Federal agents posing As Large volume drug buyers infiltrated the ring used computers like anyone else in the business world Robert Slutman head of the drug enforcement administration s new York office Saidat a news conference thursday. He said the ring operated out of apartments in Brooklyn and Salen Island and stored records of drug transactions in ledgers and on computer floppy discs. False rape acc Sal Milwaukee a a Man jailed for three months on charges he raped his former Girlfriend Wai freed when the woman admitted she lied. Antonio Ferguson. 18, had been in custody since May 7 awaiting trial on three counts of first degree sexual assault. He was released thursday after the woman admitted she lied about the incident. The 19-year-old woman told police he had Force her into his car outside a self service laundry struck her assaulted her with a clothes Hanger Pul a knife Toher Throat and raped her. Unable to Post 130,000 bail Ferguson was woman recanted wednesday when attorneys met with her to discuss the upcoming trial. Assistant District attorney John f. Ditollo said the woman told him she and Ferguson had fought the night she said she was attacked. They calmed Down and made love but then started fighting again Ditollo said. When Ferguson ten the woman called police and said she had been sexually assaulted. Shultz visits Haiti port a Prince Haiti a Secretary of state George Shutlz paid a 5-hour visit to Haiti on Friday and praised the extraordinary Progress the nation has made since the ouster of the Duvalier family dynasty six months ago. Several thousand demonstrators staged a protest in downtown port a Prince As Shutlz arrived on the first visit by a . Secretary of stale to Haiti since 1912. The protesters Saith they Are opposed to planned . Military Aid to the government fearing it will reused to repress the people. Shultz presided at a ceremony formalizing an agreement that includes a . Commitment to assist Haiti in its efforts to recover the wealth of deposed president Jean Claude Duvalier. Duvalier is believed to have accumulated about $400 million during his is years in office but . Officials said a portion of that Money May have been acquired legally and is beyond the reach of haitian authorities. Summit preparations Washington up the United states and soviet Union wound up 2vt Days of mid level talks on bilateral issues Friday part of the preparations for the next department spokesman Bernard Kalb de cried the talks As constructive and Businesslike and said the sides discussed such matters As consular mat ters cultural exchanges and administrative matters. Vitaly Mikolczak Deputy director of the .a. Department of the soviet foreign ministry beaded the soviet delegation and Thomas Simons Deputy assist ant Secretary of state for soviet and Eastern european Ait airs the american Side. The talks Are part of a series of mid level meeting agreed to by both sides last month As part of a work program of preparation fora second Summit Between resident Reagan and soviet Lender Mikhail Gorba Chev. Out with the old Corn from inc 1985 crop is piled up ools de Grain Elealor in West Jefferson Ohio after being re a ctr from the elevator to make room for ibis year s crop expected to be a record. So far the pile con taint some 850,000 a Inheh my is expected to Crow to 1j million Bosh i. . Protests agent s torture Jon up the United states said Friday it whup realty proles the unprovoked and totally and torture of an Ameri can drug agent by Rah an police in Guadalajara. Just a Day after to Ideal Miguel de Lamadrid left Washington promised renewed cooperation in lighting drug trafficking. While House spokesman Larry Speakes Fri warned veg islamism by a slate author Ity causes serious harm to the re a lation ship necessary for our two countries to be Able to combat drug trafficking and the White House Laid drug enforcement Admi oif Tion agent Victor Corot of 34, and his mexican info and were Cort released Only after the Dea in mexi co City asked a ind won intervention from the office of Mexico stif Forney general who was in Washington with de Uski Adrid at the time. U inf facials in Mexico however said the pair was freed Only when Dea agents forced Ai Fisk to jail and demanded their return. The formal , protes be delivered to the mexican foreign minus monday morning by . Charge d affair Cir is Busby a senior admin litre thai the two were tortured cattle prods. Mexican sources said Cortez and the mexican. I were scaled in a parked car without License plate in a residential area of Guadalajara and were arrested entail burglars fld Lajara about 320 Miles West of Mexico City is am pea agent Enrique Camarena Salav we Una pin february last year. Hii body Tad that of his Pilot a Mound a month later burned about 60 Miles away to More than Loup Mkhize been arrested in Ibe grisly torture murder cml buy one the former com Mander of the Federal Force Tuu been sentenced in connection with of it calling the actions by the Jalisco no police vigilantism the spokesman said. The Pommy Ealend or. Colez and beat him and tortured and ugh cattle prod during tax negotiators near Accord los Angeles times Washington chief congressional tax negotiators said Friday they have agreed on an approach to Bridge a $17 billion Revenue shortfall that had stymie them thursday night. Bui the tentative Accord Between House ways and Means committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski d-iii., and Senate finance committee chairman Bob Packwood r-ore., must still be ratified by both sides before they can wrap up a final package to resolve differences Between House and Senate proposals. Owski thinks we can finish pack Wood said Friday evening and 1 do Fri scheduled. Rostenkowski schedule a meeting with his negotiating team for late Friday and Packwood planned a Simitar meeting with his team saturday morning. Packwood hoped that both sides could agree on a Compromise that would reduce individual taxes Over the next five years by slightly More than si20 billion and increase corporate taxes by a similar plan Packwood said includes a top tax bracket with a Rale no higher than 28 percent. Earlier tax bar gainers had indicated that the maximum corporate it was expected to be 34 rates Are one percentage Point above those proposed in the Senate Bill but far below the current top individual and corporate rates of 50 percent and 46 percent. With Congress nearing adjournment for a three week vacation beginning saturday Rostenkowski and Packwood continued working in private Friday eve Ning to lie up the remaining Loose ends. Their i lib hour Effort became necessary when con Gressional tax analysts told them thursday night that a tentative Accord they had reached would leave tax revenues Over he next five years s17 billion Short of the amount that would be raised under current Taw. Corporate taxes accounted for Sto billion of the Gap and personal taxes for $7 billion. The emerging Accord would Bridge the entire $17billion Gap. On the Issue of Corporal taxes. Senate negotiator agreed Friday afternoon to relax their objections to modest further curbs on corporate lax preferences beyond those they had accepted earlier in the week. Thursday night Senate bar gainers had apparently dug in their heels against raising any More revenues from businesses. We won t go up on the Corporal Eside sen. John a Chafee Rft-r.i., in a session Friday Senate bar gainers gave Packwood enough mane vering room to allow an additional $5 billion to $6 billion in corporate tax reve Nues by paring some business lax Breaks. It did look Bleak when sen. Packwood said he could not go Back to his fellas Tor the 110 billion " said rep. Charles p. Rangel d-n.y., a leading House bar gainer. But since Friday morning. Range added pack Wood found is or 16 billion he could pick up in the corporate the tentative Accord would make up the other $11 billion on the personal Side of the tax code. The agreement reportedly includes elimination of the an Nual adjustment in the tax brackets for inflation in 1989 Only although the Standard deduction and per Sonal exemption would be raised that year to keep Pace with inflation. In addition the Accord would tamper with the tax Rale Structure. The Senate Bill had provided that for families earning More than $75,000, the value of the lower is percent tax rate would be phased out. The tentative Accord would reduce the income level a which the phase out would begin
