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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 4, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Toshiba Pentagon discuss improved Export controls Washington not american lawyers for the Toshiba corp. Met with Pentagon offi eals thurs Day to discuss Steps the company Wilt Lake to improve its Export controls. Officials said the Pentagon had assigned an expert on Export controls to work with he takers in drafting a compliance program for Toshiba. The meetings come amid a clamor from Congress for retaliation against the japanese company and Kongsberg  a norwegian stale owned concern. A Toshiba subsidiary and Kongsberg sold technology la the soviet Union that helps its submarines run quieter evading detection. Toshiba s two lop executives resigned wednesday following Senate action tuesday that would ban Amer ican imports of Toshiba and Kongsberg products for two to five years. Retaliatory legislation has also been proposed in the House and a House appropriations panel thursday directed the Pentagon to withhold a j 100,000 contract for tap computers from Toshiba until the import ban Issue is resolved. Toshiba is represented by the Manhattan Law firm of Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander. The firm has i ref Leonard garment the Washington attorney and one of its former partners As special counsel. Garment said administration officials he spoke with seemed to approve of what Toshiba had said about its intentions and to approve of the resignations. Toshiba has maintained that it was unaware of its subsidiary s sales to the russians. Just to be sure there is no confusion about the resignations there is no claim by the United states of complicity by the Parent company garment said. The resignations were a matter of a cultural tradition that considers senior executives of the Parent company responsible for what occurs on their  administration officials declining to be identified said Only that the japanese government s investigation of the sales was still in Progress and that the departing executives would be Toshiba consultants. A senior japanese Trade official called us this morning to discuss he Senate vote and wanted to know what to do one administration official said. We tried to explain that this was a political problem and that it was going to Lake More than those Resig nations to mollify  Hie administration has asked the japanese govern ment to toughen its Export controls to reduce leaks of High technology to the Eastern bloc. The administration according to Commerce department officials is hoping that if Congress insists on an import ban the wording might be changed in con Terence to give the president the ultimate decision on whether to impose sanctions. The administration does t want any legislation Malcolm Baldrige the Secretary of Commerce told a business group after a speech on wednesday. But the measure adopted by the Senate was the least worst among the various congressional  the main sponsor of the import ban sen. Jake Gam a Utah noted that there could be a question about its constitutionality because such a ban would be retroactive imposing punishment for an action that occurred before the legislation was adopted. He Sepa rated his Bill into sections so that if the Toshiba Kongsberg Van were declared unconstitutional the part Cove eng future violations would remain in Force. Hep. Helen Duleh a Talley red used � Sledge Ham. Mer to smash a Toshiba radio on Capitol Hill. Boesky reportedly has $160 million stashed Boston a fallen Wall Street trader Ivan Boesky has shielded More than $160 million of his wealth from government confiscation by a series of Legal and financial Maneu vers a newspaper reported. Some of Boesky s Money now beyond the reach of the prosecution in Wall Street s insider trading scandal May in clude profits that came from his illegal trading activities according to the bos Ion Globe which quoted Sec officials it did not identify. About j65 million now Beld in the Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years age today. July 4.1947 the Cleveland indians became the first american league club to sign a Black player. The indians bought the rights to second baseman Larry Doby a Star negro National league inn elder from the Newark n a eagles. 30 years ago today. July 4, 1957 a drive to inoculate 1.000 Young people with sulk vaccine began in Johnson City tenn., where 13 polio cases had been reported in nine Days. 20 years ago foe a. July 4, 1967 a methodist minister read the final rites for actress Jayne Mansfield in a private serv ice in her Early childhood Home of pen Argyle a. It was attended by friends and family including her Sec Ond husband Mickey Hargitay. Mansfield 3-i, was kilted in a violent truck car crash in Louisiana. 10 years ago today ,. July 4,1977 authorities in Plains. Ga., lodged 19 counts of aggravated assault against a Mechanic who drove hit Gray Jaguar through a Kun flux ican rally in president Carter s Hometown injuring about 30 people. Name of his wife and children was from Slot. Profits vol y made before he was implicated in the scandal the to Toby re ported thursday. According to the newspaper the securities and Exchange commission acknowledged that some of the $65 million May have resulted from insider lips from Martin Siegel the investment banker who pleaded guilty 10 providing Boesky with information on takeovers he handled. The Globe said Boesky s ability to shield some of his wealth appears to Stem from the agreement he made in septem Ber 1986 with inc Sec and the . At Torney that the government would not seek tacit i iiallk3 from fert wife his children or companies he controlled. But the newspaper said it had not been made Public that Boesky while negotiating that agreement with the govern ment was shifting assets to his wife and children. In one instance just two weeks before Boesky s involvement in the insider Trad ing Case was made Public last november his wife schema purchased her Hus band s interest in an Oklahoma City Tele vision station and his 4 percent inter Cal in the Beverly Hills hotel which sold last year for about 1135 m illion. Sec director of enforcement Gary Lynch has said the gov i Iii enl Fca with Boesky required that he Diseng orge $50 million in illegal profit he made from insider lips from another in vestment banker and pay another s50 million in fines. Boesky is scheduled to be sentenced in Federal court in new York in August. He could be sentenced to a maximum five year prison term and a $250,000 Fine for pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to make false statements to the Sec rain swollen Rivers in Ohio Force hundreds from Homes july 5 the stars and stripes was not publish on this Date in 1947, 1957, 1967 or 1977. By the associated press rain swollen Rivers spilled Over their Banks in Ohio on thursday forcing hundreds of people out of their Homes while Thunder and lie Honing hammered parts of the nation and cent a River of Laming Oil across an Oklahoma City Street. Rescue teams in Shelby Ohio wed boats to help stranded residents As the Black Fork River surged through the City and flooded 400 Homes. Damage in Shelby was estimated at s9 million. Ohio gov. Richard Celeste declared a stale of Emer gency for paid of Morrow Delaware Marion and Richland counties and Send 100 National guard troops to provide help and Security in Shelby and the town of Bellville also in Richland county. More than 500 people were evacuated throughout Ohio because of flooding. In Richland county where More than 6 inches of rain has fallen so far this week the storm Send the several Rivers out of hair Banks. Many roads were reported closed. Major flooding was predicted on the Scioto River and minor flooding was expected on the Cuya hoga. Two teen agers died wednesday in Indiana As the storms and flooding hit. A traffic death and several traffic injuries thursday in Oklahoma also were blamed on the norms. The severe weather in Oklahoma knocked out Power at a Hospital in Lawlon. Shattered windows in a Furni Ture store in Duncan blew Over a Nobili Homer blew the roofs off several buildings in Yukon and knocked Down Trees. Some roads were closed because of downed Power lines or overturned trailer nos the National severe storms forecast Center in Kansas City mo., issued a thunderstorm warning for parts of Arkansas and Louisiana As the weather system moved East. Large Hail dangerous lightning and dam aging winds were predicted. Lightning blew the top olt an Oil storage tank in Oklahoma City sending burning crude Oil and natural Gas into the Street. The fuel flowed into a  and firefighters fought the Blaze there. It kind of looked like a bomb exploded fireman Jon Hansen said. Metal rained Down around the inter Section and nearby store windows were shattered. Heal from the fire damaged the Back Wall of one store. Lightning strikes were blamed for four House fires in Oklahoma City. In Maryland Baltimore fire officials said a Row House collapsed killing two occupants. Witnesses did the House was hit by lightning. In Nevada lightning sparked a 75-acre fire near Carson City and a 3,600-acre Blaie South of the Idaho Border along with scores of smaller fires. Ram washed boulders across interstate 80 in Northern California blocking it for several hours. In Carson City a Man who look shelter under a tree was hospitalized in satisfactory condition after being hit by lie Honing wednesday. The charge entered Brad Wunsch body at his Waist and left through his Ankles melting his polyester socks  
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