European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday. February 8,1987 drive erases projected Uso deficit by Chuck Vino Washington Bureau Washington a projected deficit in the United services organisation budget for 1986 was erased by a concentrated fund raising Campaign during the fourth Quarter of he year a Uso official said. We had detected a shortfall in Revenue against expected expenses late in the year said Kevin Mccar thy director of communications and entertainment for the Uso. Some officials had predicted a deficit of Over $1 million but the fund raising Campaign raised More than $750,000, and other Cost cutting actions made up the difference Mccarthy said. Final figure for 1986 will not be available until the annual Uso budget audit is completed in april Mccarthy said. In addition to boosting fund raising efforts the Uso trimmed its Headquarters staff and reduced operating hours at some centers Mccarthy said. The reduced Headquarters staff and curtailed operating hours will remain in effect Tor the near future As part of a More conservative fiscal policy Mccarthy said. We re confident that by drawing up More conservative budget we can avoid this end of the year Situa Tion in the future he said. The deficit was projected partly because of the Ratling Dollar overseas which increased operating expenses he said. The increased Cost of living overseas May aim have caused Federal civilians Irvi Kemem bars and their families to Cut Back on contributions. I d like to emphasize that we continue to rely on the generosity of contributors la keep us on solid financial ground Mccarthy said. 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He would rather walkabout these cases than those who Are being earlier saturday Sakharov s wife human rights activist Yelena Bonner said that about 30 dissidents had been freed including Yuri Shikhanovich 53,a mathematician who edited a human rights journal. Chronicle of current news update hunger strike Over Jerusalem a Mordochai Sanunu a former nuclear technician jailed on espionage charges has ended a 33-Day hunger strike staged to protest prison conditions. His lawyer Amnon Zich Rony said Sanunu lost at least 25 pounds before ending the fast thursday. Also thursday an israeli court rejected two appeals filed by Zich Rony and upheld an earlier ruling that Sanunu May meet with his american Girlfriend Only if they Are separated by a Glass partition and communicate through written messages Sanunu 31, was charged with aggravated espionage and assisting an enemy in wartime alter exposing details of an israeli nuclear Plant to the sunday times in London last year. Israel is technically at War with most of its Arab neighbors cose called revenge Boston a attorneys for two lop associates of Lyndon Larouche accused of conspiracy have asked for a Dis Missal of the charges saying a top Federal prosecutor investigated them As revenge events. She said the group was freed under feb. 2 decree of he supreme soviet Bonner said she did not know under what conditions if any the dissidents were released the process is still going on she said. Soviet authorities in recent months have allowed several prominent dissidents including Bonner and Sakharov to return Home or leave the country. Shikhanovich a close Friend of boy Ner and Sakharov called them on Fri Day after to bad been resumed to his family in Moscow Bonner hid. Sakharov a physicist who was exiled to the closed City of Gorky in 1980 Fortis political dissent was allowed to re turn to Moscow in december along with Bonner. Since his return he has called for release of All political prisoners emphasizing the cases of 14 men including Shikhanovich. For published attacks. In motions filed in . District court attorneys argued that Jeffrey and Michelle Steinberg tit being prosecuted because their writings criticized William Weld s handling of a Money laundering Case. Weld spearheaded a probe of the la Roudie organization when he was . Attorney in Boston. He now Heads the Justice department s criminal government has refused comment on the Larouche Case. Prosecutors allege the Steinbergs Are High ranking officers of Larouch Ift Security and intelligence staff who with other aides tried to Block a grand jury probe of an alleged credit card fraud de signed to finance Larouche s 1984 presidential Campaign. Quadriplegic Dies grand Junction Colo. A Hector Rodas 34, a quadriplegic we Odin t want to live because he could not speak Swallow or move died Friday inthe 16th Day of a fast he began after a judge granted him the right to die. Rodas an Auto Mechanic and the father of an 8-year-old boy and a 6-year-old Girt was an illegal immigrant from Guatemala Shikhanovich who was said to tie in poor health at the Perm Camp did not talk about his condition on Friday Bon nor said among those released according to Bonner Kirill Popov 37, who was also a the Perm labor Camp on charge he sent reports on human rights conditions to the West Danilo Shuimuk. 73, a ukrainian sentenced for circulating anti stale Litera Ture Zoryan Popadyuk 33, who had been sentenced for circulating ukrainian nationalist literature Sergei Belov 49, jailed for protest ing soviet refusal to allow hit emigration Grigory Isayev a dissident Engineer sentenced for anti state activities and Roald Zelichenok so who sough the support of jewish organizations abroad in his Effort to emigrate. City who came to lot Angeles in 1972 and moved to grand Junction in 1978. A judge ruled Jan. 22 that Rodas had the right to have the stomach tube that provided him with nourishment removed. Doctors said Rodzaj paralysis was caused by Long term drag abuse. Roberts fund drive Tulsa okla. A television evangelist Oral Roberts who told Viewn last month that he would die unless be raisesj4.5 million for medical missionary scholarships by March has received $1.6 Mil lion a spokeswoman says. The Money was pledged during a two week period last month or Jan Dargatz said , Dargatz said there would be no updates on contributions until the in lire $4.5 million has been raised. Oral Roberts University Roberts City of Faith medical and research Cen Ter and the Roberts ministries continue to receive phone Calls from reporters around the world asking the latest Money tally she Jan. 4, Roberts told viewers of his expect a Miracle program thai he would die unless he raised an additional $4.5 Mil lion by March buyers from Page 1 payment for both the new car and the William Goldberg group marketing manager for military car sales in Frankfurt said thai while sales of japanese made Dollar priced Nissan Are up nearly 30 percent Over last year t record year German by is for example arc drawing Only Wistful looks. Even though Bow has dropped its prices to adjust for the situation the Price is still not Low enough to make up for the Dollar s fall Goldberg said we re still getting inquiries but when the Price gets through to the prospective buyer he simply won t pay that the factory Price of a Bow 3-series 325 Model with manual Gearbox was 37,561 Marks at 2.40 a year ago Goldberg said. The same car now costs 34,817 Marks $19,353 at 1.80. So rather than pay the Price for a Bow the Cus Tomer will buy a French made Dollar priced Peugeot Sedan or a Nissan Maxima Goldberg said and where audio and German made Volkswagen Are concerned the factories Are not even bothering to offer them on the military Market our Jaguar sales have risen too probably at the expense of Mercedes cars whose prices Are caring the $40,000 Range for a Turbo Dice Sedan Goldberg said. In comparison a 1987 .-specification Jaguar xj6, which costs $33,000, represents Good value for the Audi Bow and Mercedes arc dead and Likely to remain dead unless the makers show a desire to deaf in the military Market and drop prices accordingly Iva Chapman of Chapman automobile in Ramstein Ger Many said. At the moment they Don t stand a Chance against Dollar priced Chapman said i Dollar priced cars Are doing Well particularly the swedish made Saab and Volvo. The Dollar prices have remained the tame for quite some time on both Saab and Volvo so this up mar Ket area Nai been Strong and stable he said. Bill Voigt product manager of am military sales and Harley Davidson motorcycles in Frankfurt Taid sales of both the jeep wrangler and the am Renault Sta can have been Strong. Where motorcycles Are concerned Volt Laid the declining value of the Dollar has to affect the lower ranks the married is and below and this Market is into the smaller Harley cycles. But Harley sales have been Good in general in fact much better than expected considering the Winter we be been Hay ing. So we can t complain. A hard line Harley Guy will buy a Harley no matter what happens. He u always find a
