European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 22. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 dec Leader warns of Trade fight with . Strasbourg. A Rance Al sir Henry plumb ihi1 newly elected presi Dent of the european parliament said wednesday the United states will end up with a bloody nose in its Trade dispute with the european Community. The americans would be Well advised 10 recognize that if there is to be a punch up in the playground they will gel a bloody nor the 61-year-old British conservative said in his Maiden speech As parliament president. He said . Plans to retaliate for higher duties on imports of . Grains into Spain arc unjustified and designed to frighten us into submission on another Issue plumb pledged to seek greater now fur the largely ii Dvis. Ory Assembly. The . Administration announced last month it will double tariffs on imports of a Range of european foodstuffs at the end of january to compensate for the loss of Grain sales 10 Spain which it says total $400 Mil lion to 1500 million annually. Last week he 12-nation dec warned i will respond by imposing surcharges on . Imports of Corn gluten feed and Rice into the Community if the United Stales goes ahead with its import curbs. Plumb urged the is member dec parliament to Back dec governments in an retaliatory action. In political terms we the dec arc justified in complaining about a skua visa Rule revision in effect spurs Rush for permits Washington a europeans and canadians eager to move to the United slates flooded the . Government with More than 100,000 applications for 10,000 permits wednesday in the first hours of a one week window of waived immigration requirements. Laverock Baptist a spokeswoman for the main Washington Post office said that the stale depart ment had picked up about 80,000 letters Early in the Day and thai about As Many More had accumulated by tale morning. She said there also was quite a bit of express mail in addition to the first class idlers. The program sparked thousands of inquiries at . Missions in Ireland and Canada slate department spokeswoman Donna Sherman said. The department will consider applicants on a first come first served basis according to when i hair letters Are received at a special postal Box. The . Government is accepting applications by mail through next tuesday for 10,000 places Over he next two years Sherman said. Tetters received before or after that period will be rejected so part of the Challenge to applicants has been to Lime their letters so that they would arrive at the beginning of the period. Sherman said she expected that people who were Uncertain How Long the mail would take would Post letters on successive Days but that Only one application per person would be considered and duplicates would be discarded. Under the provision approved As a Little noticed pan of the . Immigration Law revision passed last october an exemption was Given to any country that had t been using All its quota of 20,000 immigrants a year set in 1965. Under that Law preference was Given to applicants seeking to join dose relatives but Congress decided last year that an imbalance in immigration from differ ent continents had resulted because of shifting patterns of recent decades As fewer europeans and More asians have sought entry. While 10,000 places arc available the state depart ment has worked out limits for each country based on the Way each has been using its quota. The United kingdom Ireland. Italy East and West Germany for example each would be eligible for up to 5,000 places. The Netherlands could get As Many As 3,479 France 1,9