European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday Juno 30, 1987 the stars and stripes terrorists target of Idaho legislation new Laws taking effect in several states by the associated pms Idaho is declaring War on terrorists while other stain Are taking aim at Young smok Cri and people who smoke unrestricted areas As Well As motorists who sit on their seat Ells in new Laws which become effective this week. The Idaho Law was inspired by a White supremacist organization the aryan nations Church of Jesus Christ Christian whose supporters have been linked to bombings of Federal facilities and other violent ads. The Rev Richard Butler the Leader of the group which has it Headquarters at Hayden Lake is under Federal indictment Idaho s terrorist training act which becomes effective wednesday bars training in any technique or Means Capa ble of causing property damage bodily injury or death with the intent to us such training in the commission of Vio Lent Erim a. Violators Are punishable by up to 10yean in prison and a Fine of 130,000, Idaho attorney general Jim Jon essays the new Taw is the toughest most comprehensive legislation outs kind inthe United states and will be strictly enforced. White supremacists and would be terrorists who want to conduct training designed to Hurt people had Best do Itou tude the Borders of Idaho he said. New Laws in three states put tobacco off limits to minors. Colorado is Selling a minimum age of 18 for buying tobacco products while Georgia is making such purchases illegal for kids younger than17, a new West Virginia Law will make it illegal for minors Oligy snuff or chewing tobacco. Iowa s clean indoor air act will ban smoking in most Public buildings except in designated areas. South Dakota i adding nursing Homes jury rooms and doctors and dentists offices to i replaces where smoking must be regulated. South Dakota is adding a 120 Fine Toan old Law that requires parents to fasten Young children in safety Bells or safety cats. Previously there had been no pen ally for violation of the Law. Missouri also is adding eel in the form of a s10 Fine to a 1985 Law that requires belts to be buckled in the front seat. A new Indiana Law requires front scat passengers to Wear seat Ells on pain of a $23 Fine. The Law had been Holly debate when it was passed in 1985, but passions cooled As the july i effective Date approached. Under other new state Laws taking effect this week new Mexico is extending the time in which an adult May be prosecuted for crimes against children. Under the new Taw the statute of limitations will recounted from the Lime when the crime is reported to police or when the victim turns in not from the time when the c me was committed North Dakota will permit restau rants to serve Beer and wine with meal son sundays and charitable group will be allowed to stage stud poker games but Only twice a year. Colorado is raising its Legal drink-ingagcto21. Georgia will require girls 17 an younger to have their parents consent for abortions. There is a provision How Ever for a pregnant teen Ager to seek a court order to waive the notification requirement. Oklahoma will require that All Stu dents receive aids education once in grades 7-9 and a second time in senior High school and for those classes to emphasize sexual abstinence As the Best Waylo avoid the deadly disease. However parents will have the right to keep their children out of the classes. Alabama will allow Banks and say Ings and Loans associations chartered in that slate to expand into other Southern states. Under another new Law an Ala Bama Bank can buy a Bank in another state or an out of state Bank can Pur Chase a financial institution in Alabama. Connecticut state employees will bellowed up to 24 weeks of unpaid leave after the birth or adoption of a child a Dup to 24 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a ski family member in any two year period. Workers who take such leave will be guaranteed their old jobs or equivalent position when they return. Virginia will begin a two year Experiment to allow cameras in court rooms however the Taw forbids pictures of jurors certain witnesses such Asun de cover officers and conferences among attorneys or Between attorneys and judges. Iowa will require the governor to appoint equal numbers of men an women to stale boards and commissions. Georgia will begin enforcing Anami cruising Taw aimed mainly at teen agers that gives police authority to Tel motorists to Stop hanging around shop Ping centers or parking lots. New Mexico will require that products labelled As containing Pinyon nuts actually do so and directs toe state department of agriculture to conduct re search for development of a faster grow ing Pinyon tree. New Mexico s state tree. Maine will begin issuing its new License plates graced with a Pink lobster. South Dakotas will adopt a new pledge to the state lag. However no one will be forced to recite in pledge which says i pledge loyalty and support to the rag and state of South Dakota land of Sunshine land of infinite  $22,646 per household after taxes . Won f distribute . Annual income rises again condoms of Washington a the typical american household brought in $22,646 after taxes in 1985, up 0.9 percent for the fourth consecutive annual increase the census Bureau reported sunday. Household after tax income Rose 8.9 percent from1981 to 1985, the report said after adjusting for Infra  study for 1985 provides the most current de tailed statistics for household income. Other findings included after tax income for while households averaged $23,484, up 0.8 percent during the year. For Blac households the average was $15,790, up 2.9 percent. Income for hispanic households averaged 117,920,Down 0.4 percent. The Northeast had the largest growth Al 3.3 per cent to an average household income of 123,648. But the highest average was in the West $24,350, up 1.3percent households in the Midwest averaged $21,910, up 0.9 percent and in the South the average was121,567, Down to percent. Married couples with children averaged $28,390,up 1.3 percent couples without children averaged $27,712, up 0.6 percent and female householders wit children but no husband present averaged i 13,093, up 3.2 percent households headed by someone under age 65 averaged $24,363, up 1.2 percent while for those Over 65average income was $ 16,198, Down 0.8 percent. The average household paid $6,950, or 22 percent wives who earn More than their husbands no a to Trafeme of income in taxes including Federal and state income payroll and property lax. Ninety three percent of households checked paid a least one of the four axes. Of Federal prisons Washington a the Reagan administration has ruled out providing condoms to Federal in mates to curb the spread of aids and May consider separate prisons for victims of the disease assistant surgeon general Robert Brj Ische who Heads the 2-week-Otd aids testing program for Federal prisoners said in an interview that there was Strong sentiment in the administration against distributing condoms within the Federal prison system. Brutsche who also serves As medical director of the Federal Bureau of prisons said homosexual sex is against prison regulations and we Don t feel we can have a two faced position by passing out condoms. Vermont prison officials said in March that inmates in that slate s institutions could begin getting condoms on request a similar Pilot program was started in Newyork City jails the following month there has been talk within the admin in ration of having separate prisons for inmates testing positive for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus. At that time the administration May discontinue testing new prisoners and keep Only that part of the program involving inmates about to be discharged Brutsche said. However the administration plans to continue tests every six months on All new inmates nol found this summer to be carrying the aids virus. Paper says . Will let Egypt build Abrams tank Washington a the unite states will allow Egypt to build the . Army s main Battle tank despite contentions that the vehicle could be Buzil just As Well in the United slates and without exporting sensitive weapons technology the Washington Post said. Congress has yet to be informed of the plan for the m1a1 Abrams but the Rea Gan administration already has approve the proposal the Post said quoting a . Official it did no identify. A decision has been made Al the highest level to go ahead with production of the my Lank in Egypt the pos quoted the official As saying. Questions already have been raised about the plan the Post said particularly about the transferor sensitive technology to Egypt the Cost of production the Lac of Quality control the potential threat to Israel that might result and the loss of jobs in the United states. The Issue is going to be that it is justas easy to produce those tanks in Detroit or Lima Ohio where general dynamics corp plants Are located a Western military expert the newspaper did no identify was quoted As saying each tank costs the . Army about$2 million but the Export Price to Egypt would be about $3 million per Lank under the foreign military sales program in which Egypt buys with credits that do not have to be repaid. The Post said egyptian defense min ister Abdul Halim Abu Ghazala has lob bied the Reagan administration for More than a year 10 get the i approval and has overcome army opposition to the plan. The army has said it is not a Good idea one Western official told the Post but the defense department is for  the newspaper reported that sources i Egypt said last week that egyptian leaders had been told of the . Decision during ascribes of private meetings Between you Ghazala and Secretary of defense Caspar. Weinberger and Richard l. Armitage assistant Secretary of defense for International Security affairs. The Post said Weinberger has approved an exception to the . Nation Al disclosure policy for the technology Transfer and officials of both countries Are hammering out the terms of a memorandum of understanding requiring Egypt to protect the tank s classified sys tems and its sophisticated metallurgical processes thai give it the strongest coat of Armor in the . Tame Arsenal. According to the Post the Cost of my Dupion could exhaust most of i s $1.3 billion annual military Aidt ment from the United states but it added that the Pentagon has earmarkeds168 million in Start up funds beginning in the fall of 1988