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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, May 16, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 speaking out against drugs Firat Bulur Liucy hug i and Ciric Calif mayor Clint Eastwood prepare to tape re of 10 30 second Public service spots at Universal studios thursday. The message drugs can  mishandling charged in Medved Case Washington not a congressional com Mission has concluded thai state department and other Federal officials ignored the Law in their handling of the 1985 defection of a soviet Seaman. The commission said state department officials acted outside their jurisdiction in the Case of the Sailor Miroslav Mcd cd. It also said while House Justice department and state department officials ignored immigration and naturalization regulations that re quire officials to prevent the departure of an alien wanted in a government investigation. The finding by Congress s commission on Security and cooperation in Europe has no Legal effect. The report confirms the View of Many of us at inc time that or. Medved s desperate try for Freedom was thwarted by amateurish bungling at the lowest eche Lons and outright violations of Law at the highest eche Lons said sen. Gordon a Humphrey r-n.h., who drafted the legislation requiring the investigation. Heis a former member of the commission which was chartered of Monitor violations of the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. On oct. 24, 1985, Mcd cd jumped his Grain freighter near new Orleans and swam ashore where he was first interviewed by Border patrol agents with the assistance of a ukrainian translator. The two agents sub sequently returned Medved to his ship. When Border patrol Headquarters teamed a the incident officials contacted he state department an both agencies sent representatives to inc ship to inter View Mcd cd. Throughout interviews Mcd cd Isis cd he wanted to return to the soviet Union. Senator s sit in senators demanding report gets action on on flight delays by . Airlines spending Bill Charleston . A self proclaimed legislative hostage sen. George Buffy Warner Rose thursday the seventh Day of his Captivity and made the motion o adjourn sending him and the wit of the Senate Home. The West Virginia Senate and House approved anew spending plan to end the impasse Warner had been protesting. Even though the budget Bill Likely will be vetoed by gov. Arch Moore its passage was enough to end Warner s highly publicized Camhout All i wanted to do was see if the people cared enough about what we were doing Here to put pressure on the legislature to do what we were elected to do Warner said. He credited the passage of the Bill o their pressure. As a present for Warner s 36lh birthday Senate finance chairman Earl Ray Tomblin sent the senator a copy of the Bill wrapped in red White and Blue. Since Friday when he said he would be a Symbol that the legislature should not leave Charleston until a budget is resolved Warner has slept on a mattress on the Senate floor. He declined to Bathe or change clothes until  
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