European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 28, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 prices increase 0.4% in higher import Energy costs blamed Washington a consumer prices reflect ing increases Tor Energy and a wide Range or other goods Rose a hefty 0.4 percent in february the govern ment reported Friday the Rik in he labor department s consumer Price Index followed a 0.7 percent surge in january. So far this year consumer prices have increased at an annual rate of 6.7 percent compared with the 1,1 percent Rise for All of 1986. Economists Aid he february increase was in part a direct reflection or higher import prices stemming from declines in the value of the Dollar against foreign currencies higher Energy prices also were a Factor in the february increase but not to he extent that they had been the month before. Gasoline prices were 4.2 percent higher at the pump in february than they were the Money before after rising 6.6 percent from december to january. Heating Oil prices were up 4.4 percent following a 9.8 percent Rise in january the gains in gasoline and fuel Oil prices accounted for roughly one third of the Overall february Rise. Excluding Energy consumer prices increased 0.3 percent in february after a 0.5 percent Rise in january. Food prices meanwhile increased 0.3 percent after a 0.4 percent gain the month before. Grocery prices were up 0.4 percent while restaurant meal prices Rose 0.2 percent. Housing costs up a Sharp  percent in january advanced 0.4 percent in february. Meanwhile in one of the few decreases recorded last month new automobile prices Felt 1.1 percent a decline largely reflecting renewed manufacturers incentive pro Grams. Car prices had risen 0,4 percent in january. Automobile financing charges also were Down by 2.5 percent. If continued for 12 consecutive months the 0.4 per cent Overall increase in february would translate into an annual rate of inflation of 5,2 percent. February Rise left the consumer Price Index at 334.4, which Means that a Market Basket of goods that Cost $10 during the 1967 base period would have Cost $33.44 last month. Thai s 69 cents More than the same items would have Cost in february 1986, when the Chi stood at 327.5the Overall Index is not adjusted to remove the effects of predictable and recurring seasonal factors soviets May allow dissident family to emigrate rights group reports Frankfurt a soviet authorities urged dissident analogy Kryagin to apply soon for pcrmissi9n for his family to leave the soviet Union after freeing his son from a ukrainian labor Camp a human rights group said. The International association for human rights said thursday it got its information from the elder Kryagin who was released from prison last month after serving five years of a 12-year term for accusing authorities of sending sane dissidents to psychiatric hospitals there was no immediate confirmation of the report from soviet authorities in Moscow. The Frankfurt based human rights group said it reached Kryagin by Tele phone in Kharkov .s.h., on thurs Day and was told his 19-year-old son Ivan had arrived Home in the ukrainian City the Day before Ivan Kryagin had been serving a three year term at the Bala Kleya Tabor Camp 18 Miles from Kharkov after being convicted of hooliganism in 1985. The charges stemmed from a Brawl dissident sources say was provoked by Plain clothes Security agents. Ivan Kryagin is not a dissident in the traditional sense but a got in Trou ble because he strongly defended his father in school and elsewhere and he was physically assaulted for that said Ivan agr nov a spokesman for the private monitoring group. He quoted the elder Kryagin As say ing his son was told he was released be Anatoly Kryagin of Rue photo cause of Good work  agr nov said Anatoly Kryagin 48, and his wife Galina went to the labor Camp and picked up their son after being told by authorities that Ivan would be released. He quoted the cider Kryagin As say ing soviet authorities told him afterwards he should apply for exit visas for the family within a week. The couple has two other sons 16-year-old, Alexander and 9-year-old, Dmitri. We spoke to both the parents and son today thursday and they were also very Happy and looking Forward to emigrating agr nov told the associated press. They have already been invited to Settle in  agr nov said the family planned to apply soon for permission to leave for Switzerland. Kryagin has said he would not leave the country without Ivan. Kryagin also told the Frankfurt group he planned to travel to Moscow to 17 and meet British prime minister Margaret Thatcher during her slay in the soviet capital which begins saturday. Kryagin was sentenced to seven years in prison and five Yean of internal exile in 1981 on charges of anti soviet agita Tion and propaganda after he passed re ports to the West about forced hospitalization of dissidents. He was pardoned last month in a government review of cases involving dissidents. The government has said 150 dissidents have been freed so far while dissident groups say they have been Able to confirm Only 80 cases among those released was Andrei Sakharov a physicist and Nobel peace prize Winner who spent almost seven years in internal exile before being allowed to re turn to Moscow in december. Sakharov had campaigned for the re lease of other dissidents including Kryagin who has been nominated by a group of Wesl european lawmakers for the 1987 Nobel peace prize the other monthly figures in the report Are. The Tabor department had these specifics on february Price activity fruit and vegetable prices Rose 3.2 percent while beef poultry fish and egg prices declined a cumulative 0.7 percent. Dairy product prices Rose an average of 0.5 percent. Coffee prices were Down 2,6 percent. Natural Gas and electricity prices showed no change As did the Cost of furnishing and maintaining a House. Apparel prices Rose 0,7 percent. Medical care costs gained 0.3 percent led by a 0.6 percent increase in doctors fees. Although the Dollar has fallen More than 40 percent against the japanese yen since its Peak in february 1985, these changes were apparent Only recently in the prices of japanese goods sold in this country. Economists said this generally is because japanese manufacturers swallowed some of their profit margins to keep their share of lucrative . Markets. However with the Dollar having fallen so far prices of japanese and european goods Are beginning to Inch upward month by month analysis say. Man killed by car bomb in Barcelona Barcelona Spain a a pow Erful car bomb set off by suspected Bas que terrorists exploded Friday near the port area Spain s second largest City kill ing one civil guard and injuring another seriously police said Olga Retro spokeswoman for the Hospi Tal Del mar one civil guard remained hospitalized with serious injuries and 14 other people including a child had been released after treatment Lor minor injuries. Spanish government representatives in Barcelona Perran Cardinal said that Al though no group had taken responsibility for the blast it is Likely because of its nature that it is the work of Eta the Basque separatist organization. Police said a Blue Mercedes Van packed with plastic explosives was set off by Remote control around 1 35 . At the Entrance to the port near a civil guard Post some three blocks from Spanish army Headquarters. Police said a German trailer truck haul ing Rolls of newsprint served As a Buffer diminishing the Impact of the blast which nevertheless set a dozen cars on fire. The civil guard Spain s principal anti terrorist Force is responsible for patrolling Rural areas and controlling Bor Ders airports and ports. The Eta in collaboration with the Liny catalonian separatist group Terra Lilure free land in the catalonian Lan Gua Elook responsibility for four at tacks in Barcelona last year in which one policeman died. Suspect arrested in hit run death of Florida woman Lighthouse Point. Fla. A a determined Mother s search for the Driver who struck and killed her daughter last fall ended this week with the arrest of a 28-year-old woman. Diane Jonn knew police were trying to find the Driver of a dark Blue car that bit her 20-year-old daughter Alisa Story on nov. 1. She was really important to me and i could t have turned my Back and said of they la find the Driver sometime or his conscience will bother him sometime Jones said there were times when it occurred to me that the situation might be hopeless but i did t dwell on in the grieving Florida Mother said. Story was hit As she and a Friend crossed a Highway after a halloween costume party at a nightclub. While police pursued leads Jones raised $5,000 for a Reward. She took out newspaper ads and checked every scrap of information she could find about Small dark cars that might have hit her daughter. The Lighthouse Point police assigned several investigators to the Case patrol woman Patricia eng a traffic homicide investigator said thursday. We used crime stoppers we had a re enactment done for television spots. We checked out every Lead that came in to us the officer said. Two weeks ago Jones got the lip that led to the arrest tuesday of Cindylou Ricki Breeding of Pompa no Beach a Friend of Alisa s held a Barbecue and discussed the Accident with a guest who runs a clothing store in Pompano Beach. The guest said one of her employees knew the woman involved in the Accident. Jones visited the Home of he employee and Learned Breeding s name and address. Jones then drove past Breeding s House recorded the License number and gave the information to police. Breeding confessed after police old her that paint from her 1984 Blue Chevrolet Camark matched chips found on Story s clothing police said and she was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal Accident. With every hit and run Accident there Are people who know what has happened but they Don t want to come Forward eng said. There Are a lot of accidents where people know who did it but Don t want to implicate a  Breeding posted $1,000 Bond and was released wednesday from Broward county jail