European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page irk the stars and stripes name tags of Ihno Tut i in nickname Jeff Knapp of Salem Ore us let Bow Deal oat face hat gov of his car i License plates although people of the staff of Oregon Cor. Nell Gou dutaut torn Bald they re out unwed. Buff Plains tint the plate appropriate for us too 17 car Cadillac. Talk of tax hike likened to russian Roulette Santa be . A a the talk by congressional democrats of the need for a tax increase to help reduce the Federal deficit is making Many party officials uneasy As they look ahead to the 1988 election. It s playing russian Roulette again said Charleswil head Florida democratic party chairman. It will absolutely kill us in the state of Florida headed. Whitehead is one of the party leaders who believe the democrats paid a heavy Price in 1984 when Walter f. Mandate told the nation As he accepted the presidential nomination that a lax increase would be needed to reduce the record budget deficits the politics of laying you re going to raise taxes i bad no question about it Laid Donald Fowler South Carolina a member of the democratic nation , Fowler added advocating new Revenue they Are needed is a matter of political Leaden any of the Democrat said the party is of uncomfortable position of taking the Lead in Arling for new revenues to Deal with lie budget de pts run up during the Reagan presidency. A we re advocating taxes to bail Ouk Ghl Yean of Reagan while cad complained. A party officials were asked about Jap visible Politi Cal Impact of the talk in Congiu if a possible tax increase at they met in this Wester Tity. Back in Washington the sen a was moving ahead with a budget proposal drafted Job the democratic majority that would freeze spend re for the Pentagon an most Domestic programs adj also Call for $ 11.5 billion in new Revenue. Of the proposed budget uld fall about $15 billion Short of meeting the Sim billion deficit target for the fiscal year beginning non oct. I. The left open How the $11,5 billion in new Rev Elje would be before tit budget was drafted House speaker Jim Wright a Mas. Was talking about the need for new Revenue and republicans were Quick to say he could t wait to raise everybody lanes. Of the inspect of a tax increase won t Cut Well in his surf said Al Lapiorre executive director of the Alaj Pui democratic party Home we re starting to get tax increases on level to make up Tor lost Federal revenues Pierre said. Nobody wants a tax increase Aid Robert Stag la Texas democratic party chairman but sometimes responsible government requires you have a lax increase Slagle 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 Lake care of this she said. People arc be ginning to feel in in the she said voters now Are willing to listen to somebody saying Bow we will get out of his situation As for Mondale s 1984 experience Albrechl said the Carrier of the message did not have the ability id communicate. The first thing that came out we that Mondale was going to raise exec a principal architect of the democratic budget no being debated was sen. Lawton Chiles of Florida. Chairman of the Senate budget committee. He up Forre election next year. Whitehead was asked if be thought child we on of the Florida democrats who could be i coded by identification with higher taxes Chiles ii too Strong to Kaffl but it will Dent the hell out of him the party chairman said. Pane wants review of pilots medical appeals Washington a a congrow tonal 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 bad failed earlier medical tests involved Case handled while or. Frank Austin the Federal air surgeon. Austin re signed but feb. 2 after he came under attack from a number of airline physicians for allowing medically unfit pilots to Fly. The controversy also a plated in hear Ings by the Home co Dement operations committee its report last week calling for a cases considered by Austin to be Imine lately reviewed Faa Buckhom said that the Faa plat to review each of the certificates Aspey come up for routine renewal. Tea would be within six to 12 months in up Case of commercial Pilot Sand could be As Long As two years for some or jibe pilots Bucu Ajjon said about two dozen cases were Fig Given special attention and Are being reviewed before they Are up for Normal renewal because of potential safety concerns. Rep Vardiss Collins d-i11., chairman of the transportation subcommittee of the Home 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 under dispute involve pilots wit heart i Urcina among the pilots that Austin agreed to dear for a Pilot s License were according id the report a United Airiina Captai who Baa been grounded became of a heart attack an american airline Pilot who could not Aee oat of the Light Side of his Vismal Field end later suffered stroke a 74-year-old private Pilot who suffered a severe Hart attack several weeks Soter a certificate Loci Austin end a Pilot who crashed a Heli copter after sufi Crix a heart attack Dur ing flight Bird invasion was like this Alfred Hitchcock thing los Angeles up in Tom Ajung that could have come out of a movie thriller Boul 2,000 migrating Birds swooped Down a Chian key and invade the Home of a suburban couple f after switching on the Light a their Den Michael and Wendy Glover found a Walls and furniture blanketed with the Small Jerk coloured Birds believed to be Twito. When we first Taw in Birdt it was like this Al Fred Hitchcock thing Jmichael Glover said sat urday in reference us face famous director film,thekrds." it the two who ohm two parrots three cockatiels and a dozen Chicken said the Birds swooped Down the Chimney the Juday 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 Cloven House drying the reluctant Birds from their roosts and tossing them of the windows. But once outside the Birds would Fly right Back Down the the officials changed thir removal lactic. The Birds were placed in rubber hash cans and taken away from the House before being gelling 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 Aad furniture in both Garrett ornithology collection manager for the los Angeles county museum of natural his 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 heir nests in hollow Trees Garrett said they have found chimneys to be a civilized substitute when travelling through cities. Corci Peters helping put the Finger on criminals Washington
