European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday april 9,1987 local votes decide leadership other issues by he us Laid press Chicago mayor Harold Washington handily wan re election while demo cratic fund Raher Nancy Closi put her self one Caty Slop from representing san Francisco in Congress with her defeat fan openly homosexual cily supervisor. Voters in Kansas City on tuesday ousted their mayor two months after he received a heart transplant. In Wisconsin residents approved a state run lot Tery and race track betting. Closi was the top vote getter in the open congressional primary for the scat of the late rep. Sala Burton. Potosi Defeated democratic supervisor Harry Brut a Gay rights activist who came i second. Because she did not win a major Ity Closi must face four Independent Sand a Republican in a Runoff june 2 in inc overwhelmingly democratic District. Burton died in february after endorsing Closi the financial chairwoman of the 1986 National democratic Senato rial Campaign committee. Gay activists had hoped a Victory by Brill would Boos prospects for More funding Tor research into acquired immune deficiency syn drome. Washington Chicago s first Blac mayor Defeated his archrival former Al Derman Edward Vrdolyak to become the City s tint mayor since Richard Daley to win re election. Kansas cily mayor Jack Reardon los this bid Tor a fourth four year term to local school Board president Joe sell neg or. Cardon 43, required inc transplant because he suffered from cardiomyopathy a disease that leaves the heart with inadequate pumping ability. His Campaign had sent voters tellers from his wife and doctor saying he could handle . In Wisconsin with 98 percent of in vote reported a constitutional Amend ment Clearing inc Way for a slate lottery was approved by 65 percent to 35 per cent. The parimutuel betting referendum won by 52 percent to 48 percent. There arc lotteries in 22 states plus the District of Columbia and icy arc being Sci up in five other Stales. According tothe Wisconsin legislative fiscal Bureau 34 states allow parimutuel belting on horse racing and 15 allow in on dog Rac ing. In other voting tuesday Missouri Vole Sapp roved a xi3 Mil lion lax increase raising the gasoline Levy now the lowest in the nation from7 cents a gallon to 11 cents. The measure is to finance Highway and Bridge work. Chicago voters called for a bilateral nuclear test ban in which the United Stales and Sovil Union would agree loan immediate and verifiable end Lonu Clear warhead  Madison wis., mayor f. Joseph  won his third two Yea term defeating Mary Kay Kaiim. Court administrator of Wisconsin s 5lh Judi Cial District. Baum out polled inc incumbent in the february primary. Colorado Springs colo., mayor Robert Isaac won a third four year term Over contractor Fred Weber and Joseph Jones a local landscapes voters also decided whether to pay salaries $ 15,000 a year to the mayor and $ 10,000 to coun cil members and to approve lighter restrictions on smoking in Public places. Gallup . Voters chose Eddie Munoz who was mayor from 1957 to1969, to succeed retiring mayor Bob Allan losing candidates included another former mayor Frank Colaianni who held the office from 1983 to 1985, israeli Leader hails German City s jewish heritage b Korea vis staff writer Worms. Germany Chalm her zog the firs israeli president to visit Germany wednesday called for a future reflecting the positive and civilized in the Long history Between Worms and the jewish people. Herzog called Worms a Symbol of Legreat and tragic drama of european jew ish Fate Asil is symbolic of the remarkable interweaving for better or for Wane of German and jewish life for thousand  at City Hall. Worms mayor Wilhel Neuss welcomed Herzog and spoke of the German jewish past that came to Radical end with Hitler and the Holo Caust. Worms about 48 Miles Southwest of Frankfurt for centuries was a jewish Center. The jewish Community numbered about 1,100 before the nazis came to Power in 1933, but two thirds of Worms jews left the City in the next six years and virtually All the rest died i nazi concentration Camps. During his visit Herzog a jewish scholar and former head of israeli intelligence poured the City s jewish cemetery which disbelieved to be inc oldest in Europe. He said jews and germans must be thankful to the Good people of Worms notably or. Gcorge Illert who preserve the cemetery from obliteration in the dark  Illert reportedly gave Heinric Himmler the head of the nazi is and concentration Camps a tour of the Yemc  president chair Herzog left stand Wilh German president Richard von Wii Sacker Al Worms City whose Long jewish history was reviewed by Herzog. Tery. Whenever plans were made to level the cemetery during the third Reich Illert argued that Himmler was inter ested in the cemetery and thai such plans should be cleared with him in Ber Lin. No one dared Call Himmler and the cemetery survived Herzog described life for jews informs and Germany As alternating be tween Good and bad. There were massacres during the crusades and in inc hysteria accompany ing the Black death in the 14th Century. There were evictions from the town an then revivals of the  despite All the troubles Herzog said the jewish Community in Worms succeeded in developing a scholarly and religious tradition of great importance for All of German and european jewry he also visited the City s synagogue which was built in 1034 and is declared to be the oldest in Germany. Herzog praised the municipal archivist of the 1930s who saved the Syna Gogue s illuminated 13th-Century prayer Book front destruction. He hid it in the Worms Cathedral when nazi thugs went on an anti semitic rampage in the so called Crystal night pogrom of nov. 9-10,1938 in 1961, the City reopened the Syna Gogue which was destroyed in the  the links Between us continue to have a Strong and enduring relationship reflecting the positive and civilized in the historic association Between worm Sand the jewish people Herzog said. Herzog planned thursday to Fly lowest Berlin and visit the Monument Al the Ploetze see concentration Camp where German anti nazis were executed. On Friday Herzog will return to Israel after talks with outgoing Hessen min ister president Holger  monday Herzog visited the concentration Camp at Bergen Belsen. Her zog who was born in Belfast and served As a British army officer during world War ii arrived Al the Camp several Days after its liberation in 1945.accompanying Herzog and his wife Aura wednesday were German presi Dent Richard von Weizsaecker and Rheinland Pfalz minister president Bernhard Voget Neuss said Worms is trying to keep alive the jewish tradition of the cily by caring for its monuments that survive the third Reich. But he said the traditions mean Little without a jewish Community. Worms recently entered a partnership with the israeli City of Tiberias Neuss said Wilh the idea of promoting the Exchange of youth in order to learn More about each other. Dollar from Page 1 cheaper Greenback because in in turn makes american goods Cost less than for eign competitors goods and thus Spur demand for . Products. On feb. 22. Delegates for the unite states Japan Germany Britain France and Canada met in Paris and agreed that further substantial shifts in the Exchange rates Cor i hair currencies could be harmful. They then promised to cooperate closely to Foster stability of Exchange rates around current  Bui since then the Dollar has fallen More than 5 percent against the yen and some Money traders believe the United tales purposely is letting inc Dollar fall. Japanese finance minister Kiich Miyazawa had promised to bring the matter up when delegates from his coun try the United slates Britain France and Germany were to meet wednesday morning. Representatives of Canada and ital were to join the discussions wednesday  also was to have taken pan in the Paris talks but it stormed out of the ses Sions complaining that it was being asked to rubber stamp decisions made by the five leading nations. On tuesday italian finance minister Giovanni Goria told Treasury Secretary James Baker thai he wants to formalize his nation s status As an adviser to the first rank nations called the group office Italy had threatened to Boycott the Summit of industrialized nations Hal in was 10 Host this june in  Goria took a much More subdued approach when he described to reporter what he told Baker. The group of five exists he  Don l have anything against in. Italy would like that in some Way the cooperation of world leaders would be a Lille More productive than it Isnow. There s no desire w fight a War Only desire to be  civilians from Page 1 eligible for the new  said As Many As 2.500 additional army workers could be enrolled at later Dale and would have to make be reactive  Lump sum a Duclion next week represents 1.3 percent of base salary prepay period retroactive to Jan. 11, the government s contribution to the plan is 14.8 percent per pay period. Reid  air Force employee s payments covering the seven pay periods since Jan uary will mean $45 less next week for a gs-3, Siep four employee $56 less for Ags-5, step four and $104 less for a step four  Congress passed the new retirement system last june usage undid not receive clarification on it until Tasi month Reid  received Implom coniing instructions in february a spokeswoman for inc air Force in Europe said. Employees on appointments limit Edlo less than one year Are excluded from the system Reid  enrolment in the system also docs not affect employees with More than five years of civilian service As of dec. 31.1986.these workers May elect to join inc system during its first open season which runs from july to december of this year Reid said their contributions will begin when they join and will nut by retroactive. 91 bodies recovered from ferry Interior Zeebrugge Belgium overnight and another 28 were brought ashore after Dawn. The recovery of ihe91 bodies brought the confirmed death toll to 152. The ferry capsized March 6and was righted tuesday