European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday Juno 26,1987 new parliament opened by Queen tory legislative proposals outlined London a Queen Elizabeth ii opened a new parliament thursday out lining amid glittering pageantry a pack age of Radical legislation drawn up by prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The proposals ranging from Selling the National water Industry to imposing new curbs in labor unions Are regarded by observer s As the most far reaching put Forth by Thatcher in her bid to roil Back socialism. The 7 Bills encompass some pledges of the conservative party platform on which Thatcher was swept to Victory june ii. She became the first British Leader since 1826 to win three successive. Terms. The program includes Bills undercut Ting local councils in big cities mostly stronghold of the socialist labor party by curbing heir Powers to raise prop Erly taxes and run schools and state sub Sidi cd housing. In All these policies my government will have special regard to the needs of the inner cities the Queen said in the 10-Minuie speech written by Thatcher and her aides. Action will be taken to encourage investment and to increase Enterprise and employment in How  Thatcher had said after her election that inner cities would be the main area of concern for her. The package included a proposed Bill to let pubs stay open 12 hours a Day from 11 . To 11 . Except on sundays. That would end restrictions in eng land and Wales dating Back to world War i that stipulated Midas Mcmoon clo ing times to keep munition factory work ers out of pubs. In Scotland which has separate Licens ing Laws the restrictions do not apply. The Queen wore a Long while and Good gown and the state Imperial Crown encrusted with a giant Diamond from South Africa and a Ruby worn in the 15th Cen Tury by King Henry v at the Battle of a Mcourt. In accordance with tradition dating Back centuries the Queen read the speech in the House of lords packed with in cd cited Peers in Ermine trimmed Scarlet Robes and diplomats in formal dress. The members of the House of commons stood crowded at the Hack of the Charm bar. The commons members headed by Thatcher and the labor party Leader Neil Kinlock were summoned to the lords before the speech by in official dressed in Black breeches known As Black Rod. Kinlock and Thatcher scarcely glanced at each other As they walked Side by Side to hear the Queen read the government s program of legislation which the socialists will bitterly oppose. Thatcher with a 102-scat Overall majority in the 650-Mcmbcr House of com Mons faces Little difficulty in winning support for the controversial package. She Hopes most of the Bills will become Law by the fall of 1988. Some of the Bills will Combine to undermine the Power of big City councils mostly controlled by labor. The Thatcher administration regards the left Wing councils As having replaced the once powerful labor unions As the source of what one top aide called the attack on the established order in  the proposed measures also include allowing state schools to opt out of control of local authorities and come under trusts directly financed by the Cen trial government which has accused left Wing councils of mismanaging education. Replacing the present system of lev Ying property taxes on Homes with a charge on each working adult and re moving from local councils the Power to set the level of taxes for businesses. This reflected tory claims that labor councils drive out employers. Ending unemployment benefits for unemployed Young people who refuse to participate in state funded training pro Grams after leaving High school. Easing rent controls and allowing voluntary housing trusts to Lake Over stale subsidized housing now owned and leased by local authorities. Forcing local authorities to put out 10 tender private Enterprise services such As garbage collection Street cleaning and maintenance of their fleets of vehicles. Tightening immigration controls which civil rights groups charge Are a ploy to curb non White settlement. If the water Industry were sold it would be among the largest enterprises sold since Thatcher first came to Power in 1979. Other enterprises sold since then include British airways British Gas and the National Telephone and telex net work British telecoms. On foreign affairs the Queen s speech reiterated the conservative govern ments backing for superpower negotiations to eliminate mid Range nuclear mis Siles in Europe while buying . Trident nuclear missiles for Britain.  View of Pisa a noun unmet to Palla right and Gem ctr of Pat Italy a frenily Are inclined to Aptt that the leaning tourer of Pisa is leaning More the a. In fact by their calculations it s lean log ,04 inches Man than it was a year ago. Turkish ship hit by iraqi copters near Iran port by inc United press International iraqi helicopters assaulted a turkish commercial vessel off the iranian port of Bushehry in the persian Gulf Early wednesday and iranian jets shot Down on of he attackers according to reports from he Region. A foreign ministry spokesman in Ankara Turkey said iraqi helicopters fired missiles at the 30,000-ton bulk Carrier Hira 3, about 10 Miles outside Bushehry in the upper Gulf shortly after Midnight. Iran s official news Agency Irna identified the iraqi helicopters As French made super felons. It did not mention the Fate of the downed Heli copter s Crew and Iraq had no comment on the incident. Seven injured Hira crewmen were flown id a Tehran Iran Hospital said a spokesman for the ship s owners Sanlan shipping co. Of Istanbul Turkey. The vessel sustained damage in the engine room and headed for Dubai for repairs after the attack he said. The Hira had unloaded a cargo of fertilizer at Bush Ehr and was heading Home empty when attacked the owners said. The ship had an iranian Navy escort. Earlier Iraq s stale owned news Agency Ina said iraqi naval units hit a Large naval target on its Way toward the iranian port of Bandar Khomeini in the upper Gulf late tuesday. There was no Independent confirmation a vessel was hit near Bandar Khomeini. World today explanation for ship attack sought Hamburg a Germany wants a better explanation from Poland of Why a polish ship accidentally fired on a West German Navy tender earlier this month a senior defense ministry official was quoted As saying wednesday. The no. 3-ranking official in the ministry Peter Kurt Wierzbach told the mass circulation bit newspaper that the apology from Poland for the incident was not enough. The West German tender ship Neckar was hit by five shells from a polish vessel june is while it was observing Warsaw pact Maneu vers in the Baltic sea. Coleslaw Kulski the no. 2 official at the polish embassy in Boon expressed his government s regrets on saturday for the incident and asked that his con Cern be passed on to the three West German sailors who were slightly injured in the incident. We cannot accept it that Way. The polish Navy apologized for the incident but the incident in t closed inc Bild quoted Wierzbach As saying. We expect further explanations from the poles. For example what Security measures apply during Maneu vers How the order was Given Why the Neckar could be hit at All he was quoted As saying. Whether we will demand damages depends on such explanations Wierzbach said according to Bild the interview was to appear in Bild s thursday editions but it was Tel exed to news Media in Advance on wednesday. Reputed mafia Leader 17 others seized in Milan Milan Italy a police a wednesday announced the arrest of Emanuel Bosco the reputed Milan Boss of the sicilian mafia and 17 outer suspected members of the crime Syndicate. With his arrest we have beheaded the Mafi a s top level responsible for recycling the Money collected in illicit drug trafficking police chief Achille Surra Lold a news conference. Investigators said Bosco 51, who was picked up As he was leaving Bis Home tuesday night with a bodyguard has been running the mafia s operation in Northern Italy for the last two years. In simultaneous raids police arrested the others in Milan and elsewhere and seized unspecified quantities of heroin cocaine and hash ish police said. Bosco arid the others were charged with criminal association police said swedish official accused of cheating resigns Stockholm Sweden a the top swedish official responsible for investigating official misconduct has resigned after he was accused of abusing his office and cheating on his expense account. In a letter released wednesday through the National news Agency to per enc Nilsson de Nied any wrongdoing but said he was leaving for the Good of his office As judicial ombudsman. The letter to the chancellery of the Riksdag or parliament was dated tuesday. It forestalled widely supported moves for his dismissal by the Regis lature which oversees the ombudsman s office. A former chief Justice of the court of appeals Nilsson is accused by government auditors of trav Eling to Portugal at Public expense last november. 2nd term recommended for Bundesbank president Bonn a Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Cabinet wednesday endorsed the reappoint ment of Karl Otto Poehl to a second eight year term As president of the Deutsche Bundesbank the country s Central Bank. A government statement said the Cabinet recommended poet s reappoint Lmont to German president Richard von Weizsaecker who is expected to officially name Poehl 57, to another Icren soon