European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday May 4,1987 name tags bit i in nickname Jeff Knapp of Salem Ore Tays it no Bufi Doti that he us Cov of us Art personalized License pities although people m tto Suff of Oregon got. Nil Coil Aduddle Hart Tate they re not unused. Hupp it i la to fact the a Tot at appropriate for his Unni re car Cadillac. Talk of tax hike likened to russian Roulette Santa be . A All the talk by congressional democrats of the need for a tax increase to help reduce the Federal deficit is nuking Many party officials uneasy As they look ahead to the 1988 election. It s playing russian Roulette again said Charle Whitehead Florida democratic party chairman. It will absolutely kill us in the slate of Florida headed. Whitehead it one of the party Leaden who believe he democrats paid it heavy Price in 1984 when Walter f. Mondale told the nation As he accepted the presidential nomination that a tax increase would be needed to reduce the record budget  politics of laying you re going to raise taxes is bad no question about it said Donald Fowler of South Carolina a member of the democratic National , Fowler added advocating new revenues when they Are needed ii a matter of political  of the democrats said the party is in the uncomfortable position of taking the Lead in calling for new revenues to Deal with the budget deficits run up during the Reagan  re advocating taxes la bail out eight years of Reagan Whitehead  officials were asked about the possible Politi Cal Impact of the talk in Congress of a possible la increase As they met in this Western City. Back in Washington the Senate was moving ahead with a budget proposal drafted by the democratic majority that would freeze spending for the Pentagon an most Domestic programs and also Call for s11.5 billion in new  proposed budget would fall about $25 billion Short of meeting tie j108 billion deficit target for the fiscal year beginning next oct. I. The democratic budget left open How the is 1.5 Bill Ion in new Revenue would be  before the budget was drafted House speaker Jim Wright a Texas was talking about the need for new revenues and republicans were Quick to say the democrats just could t wait to raise everybody states. The Prospect of a tax increase won t Cut Well in his state said Al Lapierre executive director of the Alabama democratic  Home we re starting to get tax increases on the local level to make up Tor lost Federal revenues Lapierre said. Nobody wants a tax increase said Robert slag to Texas democratic party chairman. But sometimes re a Ponsiek government requires you have a tax  blamed the deficits for much of the economic distress being Felt in areas like his  party Leader Suellen Albrecht expressed a similar View of the Impact of the  people understand we have to do something to take care of this deficit she said. People an be ginning to feel it in the  she said voters now Are willing to listen to somebody saying How we will get out of this  As for Mondale i 1984 experience Albrecht said the Carrier of the message did not have the ability to communicate. The first thing that came out wan that Mondale was going to raise  a principal architect of the democratic budget no being debated waa sen. Lawlon Chiles of Florida chairman of the Senate budget committee. Be of Forre election next year. Whitehead was asked if he thought Chiles a i on of the Florida democrats who could be killed by identification with higher  is too Strong to kill but it will Dent the Hal out of him the party chairman said. Panel wants review of pilots medical appeals Washington api a congressional report Calls for the Federal aviation administration to review about1,000 Pilot medical appeals granted be tween october 1984 and last january be cause of questions about the Way they were handled. The medical appeals by pilots who had failed earlier medical tests involved cases handled while or. Frank Austin  the Federal air surgeon. Austin re signed last feb. 2 after he came under attack from a number of airline physicians for allowing medically unfit Pilot Stofey. The controversy also resulted in hear Ings by the House government operations committee which issued its report last week Catling for the cases considered by Austin to be immediately reviewed. Faa spokesman Bob Buckhom said that the Faa plans to review each of the certificates As they come up for routine renewal. That could be within six to 12 months in the Case of commercial Pilot Sand could be As Long As iwo years for some private pilots Buckhom said about two dozen cases were being Given special attention and arc being reviewed before they Are up for Normal renewal because of potential safety concerns. Rep. Vardiss Collins dial chairman of the transportation subcommittee of the House government operation committee said her panel found Evi Dence of Gross irregularities in the Way Many of the medical certificates were granted during Austin s tenure As Thefan s top medical officer. The certificates actually Are special exemptions issued after a Pilot files to pass a medical examination. Most of the cases under dispute involve pilots wit heart problems. Among the pilots thai Austin agreed to Clear for a Pilot s License were according to the report a United airlines Captai who had been grounded because of a heart attack an american airline Pilot who could not see out of the right ode of his visual Field and later suffered stroke a 74-year-old private Pilot who suffered a severe heart attack several weeks after receiving a certificate from Austin and a Pilot who crashed his Heli copter after suffering a heart attack Dur ing flight Bird invasion was like this Alfred Hitchcock thing los Angeles up in something that could have come out of it movie thriller about 2,000 migrating Birds swooped Down a Chimney and invade the Home of a suburban couple. After switching on the Light of their Den Michael and Wendy Glover found the Walls and Fumi Turr blanketed with the Small dark coloured Birds . When we first saw the Birds it was like this Al Fred Hitchcock thing Michael Glover said sat urday in reference to the famous director s film the  the two who own two parrots three cockatiels and a dozen chickens said the Birds swooped Down the Chimney thursday night and emerged through the fireplace of their  tried shooing the Birds out but they did t want to leave. So we called the animal Regula Tion department he said. We were startled when we found them but no frightened. They were mostly asleep but those that were awake just flew at us and started hitting  in overalls and surgical gloves three animal regulation department officers spent four hour Early Friday at the glovers House prying the reluctant Birds from their roosts and tossing them out the windows. But once outside the Birds would Fly night Back Down the  the officials changed their removal lactic. The Birds were placed in rubber trash cans and taken away from the House before being  getting All of the swifts out of the House and Chimney did not end the glovers problem. Themes left by the 2,000 Birds had destroyed the car pet curtains and furniture in both  Garret ornithology collection manager for the los Angeles county museum of natural mis tory said the swifts usually Migrate to forested areas of Northern California Western Canada and South Western Alaska after spending the Winter in Mexico and Central  the Birds usually Roost and build their nests in hollow Trees. Garret said they have found chimneys to be a civilized substitute when travelling through cities. Computers helping put the Finger on criminals Washington a computerization has revolutionized fingerprint identification systems and eventually will help authorities in at least 18 states break previously unsolvable crimes it was reported sunday. The Justice department s Bureau of Justice statistics concluded in a study thai an automated fingerprint identification system can make incredibly Fine distinctions among literally thousands or millions of  the machine s Matcher can process about 500 to 600 prints a second the Bureau said. The report noted that the California night stalker Case was broken by a latent print lifted from a stolen car and entered into the state s new identification system. The unsolved 1978 killing in san Francisco of a world War ii concentration Camp survivor was cracked in a matter of minutes after a set of prints left at the crime scene was entered into the police department s new automated print system. And the report said during the first few months of operation in Baltimore the system identified 523 men and women arrested in the City who were using aliases. The Fri has almost completely computerized its files of 23 million criminal fingerprints. It now makes 14,000 fingerprint searches for criminal Justice Pur poses each Day