European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 tobacco and fight takes racist turn Washington up1 the Tobac co Industry Hopes to turn the tables on a new american lung association pro Gram designed to pit Black communities against cigarette advertisers accusing the Ala of a racist a Lance. An Industry spokesman lambasted the Ala s announcement wednesday of a program called minority outreach initiative which urges action against Tobac co ads targeted Al minorities because Evi Dence shows nearly half of All Blac deaths Are smoking related. First of All said Scott staph assist ant to the president of he tobacco Institute the american lung association ignores the fact hat cigarettes Are a Lega product. And when it comes to Adver Tising targeted to various demographic groups there is nothing unique or insidious to cigarette  secondly slash said i think the argument Here is inherently a racist argument. I am personally offended by the idea that Blacks and hispanics Are Les capable of evaluating these messages than the while folks who run the Ameri can lung  the new program was detailed at a Sis conference by Ala president Lois Ellison and James Swomley the Man aging director of the groups Christmas Seal Cople. Swomley said 43 percent of All Black death Are caused by coronary heart Dis ease lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He said the Black Community must Force cigarette companies to change their sales strategies. We Are particularly appalled at the Way they Are directing so much of their advertising and sales efforts to minority populations he said they put fat More emphasis into Selling cigarettes Tob lacks and hispanics than they do to cer Tain other population groups. Staph said thai allegation is Complete  there arc 244 brands of cigarettes in the United states and Only a handful involve ads in Spanish or which feature Black models he said. Minorities face a dilemma Swomley said because Community newspapers Black radio stations and other minority events frequently Are heavily financed with Large amounts of advertising dollars from the tobacco Industry. This is part of their sales strategy he said. They arc succeeding very Well because they arc Selling far More cigarettes per capita to the Black population than they Are to the total population. It s a very real problem and it s get Ling worse As the tobacco Industry gets More clout. But i think that the american people Black America has Tobe aware of what the tobacco Industry is doing to Alt of us and the Price that Weare paying for  Swomley and Ellison said he congressional Black caucus has joined the Effort but staph said he would be very surprised if the caucus takes up such arguments. Marching through Pennsylvania a photo Anil nuclear activists enter Pennsylva Nia near Darlington in their great peace March for global nuclear Dis armament the group ii marching across the nation to draw attention la nuclear escalation. 5 sailors held others sought Donovan Case in drug probe at Navy base manipulated defense say Weymouth mass. Kupij authorities detained five Navy personnel and sought six other sailors and Amarine thursday for alleged involvement in a cocaine ring at South Weymouth Ras. Norfolk county District attorney s office. Navy Cap. Robert Perrault said the investigation into digs at the base near Boston began nearly a year ago. We Are working toward a drug free Navy her Rault said. There May be some flight Crew personnel who used the drugs. But i Don t know of any other use while on  Perrault said he did not feel any of the Navy Crew or equipment was at risk because of the alleged drug use on the base. The military action followed the arrests of nine civilians on cocaine trafficking charges during the past week officials said. Some of the cocaine was sold by the ring on the base and some made its Way into nearby communities Mcgorty said. Racists charged in counterfeiting Coeur d Alene Idaho a three people linked to the while supremacist aryan nations were arrested thursday night on counterfeiting charges a authorities expanded their investigation of a triple bombing earlier this week. Police chief Frank Premo announced that the investigation of the monday bombings had widened to in clude counterfeiting and weapons investigations. He refused to elaborate further. Arrested by the . Secret service at his Home was David Dorr a one time chief of Security for the Church of Jesus Christ Christian aryan nations. He was charged with counterfeiting violations. Also arrested were Edward and Olive Hawley who said this week they attend the Church s services but Are not members. Agents arrested the Hawleys Tor violations of the conditions of their release relating to a previous arrest on counterfeiting chaises said Premo. Heatherton denies cocaine charge Suffern . A entertainer Joey Heather ton pleaded innocent to Misdemeanour drug Possession charges thursday one week after assault charges against her were dropped. Health Carton 42, entered the plea before ram Apo town Justice Arnold Etelson. The drugs were planted in her purse William Kunstler. Heatherton s attorney told Lelson. He said the identity of the person who planted the drugs would be revealed in court. Kansuer asked that j 1,000 of Heatherton s j 1,500 bail be returned because she needs the  Heatherton allegedly had less than a Gram of cocaine in her purse when she was arrested on the assault charges on aug. 30. She allegedly had attacked her former manager and Lover. Jerry Fischer during an argument at Fischer s Hillcrest Home Fischer decided to drop the assault charges because he Felt the actress Singer needed help she could better get outside prison than within jail. Ron Kuby another of Heathen on s attorneys said they would seek to have the charges against her dropped on the grounds of illegal search. Heatherton has appeared in several television pro Grams and Broadway shows and has had her own nightclub act by the los Angeles times new York slate prosecutors concocted a phantom Case with no evidence to support charge thai former labor Secretary Raymond j. Donovan helped steal 17.4 million Donovan s lawyer said thursday. They re going to throw everything against that Walland Hope something Slicks William o. Bittman told the jury in his 35-Mmule opening argument in a dimly lit state supreme court room in the Bronx. Bit Man described Donovan who resigned his cab inet Post in March 1984 to fight the grand larceny an fraud charges As a compassionate family Man. Donovan and eight others Are charged with defraud ing the new York cily transit authority of 17,4 Mil lion Between 1978 and 1984 by submitting inflated Bills during construction of a Al 86 million Manhattan subway Tunnel Donovan was the executive vice president of a construction company at the time. Federal Reserve resignation sets up Reagan appointment Washington up Emmett j. Rice in a let Ter to president Reagan announced his resignation thursday As a member of the Board of governor of the Federal Reserve system. Rice 66, said his reasons for the decision Are entirely personal and that he plans to return to private life after he leaves office dec. 31. Rue s decision meant Reagan will be Able to appoint hit fifth member of the seven member Board of governors which sets monetary policy and regulate the Money Supply a role thai has an effect on inter est rates. Rice an appointee of president Carter has been member of the Board since june 1979. His term was to expire in january 1990