European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 10, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 White House seeking continued Contra Aid Washington not the Reagan administration has begun an intensive Campaign to Persuad Congress to renew Aid to the nicaraguan rebels this fall even though officials concede that the contras still suffer from serious organizational problems Uncertain discipline and isolation in Nicaragua s sparsely populated North and East. The administration is expected to ask Congress for 18 More months of Aid to the contras when current financing runs out at the end of september according to congressional staff members familiar with the Issue. If Congress approves thai request which is estimated Al $125 million to si40 million the administration will be assured of support for the contras until Reagan is out of office. As part of his strategy president Reagan announced this week Hal he was appointing Tom Loeffler a for Mer Republican congressman from Texas to coordinate the lobbying efforts on Central american policy. The new while House Job was created in part to avoid head on confrontations Between Elliot Abrams assistant Secretary of state for inter american affairs and Congress in the Wake of the Iran Contra affair. Abrams has been the prime defender of administration policy on Central America in recent years but his credibility with Congress has been badly damaged by his admission that he milled Congress regarding the Iran Content affair. Even Republican congressmen who support Aid to the contras sent word to the while House that if Abrams lobbied for the policy it would damage the administration s chances of winning what is certain to be a close Vole. I have no intention of taking anything away from anyone Loe tier said. The preside in expressed his sup port of Elliot As did the Secretary of slate and i do As  administration officials have already begun to re peat arguments made last year thai additional financing is needed because the contras Are making significant Progress. They argue thai with18 months of Aid the contras can defeat the sandinista. Last year Abrams Lold Congress that the contras would need Aid for about another year to do the Job. To promote Public sup port for he contras officials have suggested to american journalists in Annu Central America that they write More positive articles on improvements in the Central human rights record and on their political reorganization. On tuesday in an unusually detailed briefing for reporters at the Sale department an american Mili tary official gave an optimistic assessment of the con tras performance in the Field. Bui he acknowledged hat the contras largely a Force of uneducated peasants had been unable to penetrate the cities of Western Nicaragua. That Ira is the key the offi rial said because that s where the p Pula lion is. Mercury jumps 20 degrees in just 10 minutes Greensburg Kan. Up a Mysterio Rutheal wave pushed Lemper lures in the Greensburg area up As much As 20 degrees in just 10 minute. The temperature jumped from 75 decree a 7 30 . Tuesday to 95 degrees by 7 40, said Bill Ellis 41, a Volunteer observer for the National weather service at Greensburg. I be never seen anything like it and i Don l know of anybody thai Ever has said Ellis who has lived in the area for about 20 Yean. A weather observer Al Sun cily South of greens Burg said the temperature there jumped from the Low 70s at 7 . To 87 degrees 15 minutes later. In frail East of Greensburg the Mercury jumped from 70 to 80 degrees in 15 minutes. Jack May National weather service meteorologist at Topeka said he had never heard of  a temperature Rise in his is years with the service but he had an explanation for it. He said the Normal layer of Cool air that develops overnight close to the ground s surface simply switched place with much warmer air thousands of feet up in the atmosphere. We re act sure Why this happens he  get sudden mixing or overturning of the atmosphere that brings this warm air Down id the  Ellis said thai after the temperature shot up in Gransbury it gradually began falling until at 10 30 . It was Down to 77 degrees. Senate demos pal ministry lifetime partners making up for May file reorganization plan minority years Washington a Senate democrats led by Edward m. Kennedy Are making up for six years of frustration As the minority party with an explosion of social initiatives in areas from aids and civil rights to wages and health insurance. A chairman of the labor and human resources committee Kennedy said he wants to reverse Asi quickly As possible six years of Basic neglect of the concerns of american families. At the same time the Massachusetts senator is leading the Liberal charge against supreme court nominee Robert Sork predicting major setbacks on abortion rights civil rights education and civil liberties if he is con firmed. Kennedy succeeded Kennedy conservative sen. Orrin Hatch Rulah As chairman of the committee last Jan uary. The resulting Hood of Bills has jolted business inter ests into a High gear lobbying drive and Given conservatives on the committee Little Choice but to complain Compromise or lose. Kennedy with 10 allies on the 16-member panel is firmly in command. In the past six months Kennedy has introduced Bill to raise the j3.3s minimum wage to $4.65 by 1990,require employers 10 offer a minimum health coverage package and boost spending for aids education treat ment and  Commilee Haj approved a civil rights Bill stilled since 1984 and is weighing a controversial Mea sure to require notification of employees in High ask work  full Senate approved a Kennedy Bill rewarding slates that target jobs education and training to Long term welfare recipients. Still to come ire Bills 10 require Job protected leave for new parents encourage worker owned companies help High risk children escape poverty and end hunger in America by 1992. Columbia . Api contributors who claim they own the major real estate Al pal s Christ Antheme Park May file a reorganization plan of their own in bankruptcy court an at Lomey said. Hundreds of lifetime partners who contributed Al least 11,000 each to build iwo hotels and a water Par have hired attorneys to file claims in . Bankruptcy court in Columbia and several of them have written to presiding judge Rufus Reynolds. The partners gave pal $160 million to build the hotels and water Park said Bob Zansky a connect Cut attorney and lifetime partner with a Home in fort Mill ., the site of the heritage Usa Park Complex. We want what we paid  the partners got official recognition tuesday when Reynolds set a nov. 1 deadline for any lifetime part ners who contend Hal they have claims against pal. Reynolds order also said he intends to organize a Spe Cial committee of lifetime partners. Pal founder Jim Bakker promised More than 100,000 lifetime partners free lodging Al the heritage Usa Park Complex for three nights a year for life. Although the partners said they considered their donations made Between 1984 and 19s7 to be invest ments in a Lime sharing plan attorneys for new pal chair Ian Jerry a twill said the donations were gifts and that lifetime partners have no Legal claim against the  executives filed for chapter 11 Protection from creditors in . Bankruptcy court on june 12, saying the ministry owed s72 million to 1,400 creditors. Pal has three months to file a reorganization plan and the creditors can either recommend that Reynolds approve the plan recommend changes or submit an Independent plan. Zanesky said the several Hundred pal partners he represents May file a plan of their own. We May suggest the hotels and swimming Pool be set up As a Profil making corporation and we lifetime partners would be in effect stockholders he said. Dissatisfaction Over How pal treats its lifetime partners could erode support among the ministry most Loyal followers at a time when Falwell said the ministry needs them inc most. Diamond ring Home at stake in the Case of who jilted whom Chicago a the Cook county circuit court May have to decide who jilted whom in a Case of pre marital jitters. At Siake Are an it 1,000 engagement ring and a 1200,000-plus Home. Edward j. Papie contends Peggy a. Wagener broke off their engagement on april 7,three Days before they were to be married and is suing her for the return of an $ 11,000 two Carat Diamond Rug. Wagener and her parents contend in a count Erskil that Papie called it off two Days before the wedding and 3d minutes after he had closed a Deal to buy the parents Home valued Al $215,000, for $165,000. Thirty minutes after the closing their lawsuit says Papie Lold Wagener that he did not love her never loved her did not want to marry her and that he had never been attracted to  Calls to Papie s suburban Wilmette Home once the Wagener went unanswered wednesday and those to the radio station where he works As an Adver Tising sales manager were not returned. There was no response to messages left at Wagener s Home in Chi  s attorney Thomas Enright said that three Days before the wedding Wagener expressed doubts about the wedding and said she did t want to get married and Hal was the end of  the next Day she told Papie she would gel named by a judge but not in a Church and Papie refused said Enright who described his client As in his Early 30s. Wagener was said to be in her 20s.enrighl said Wagener has agreed to return the ring but Haynol Yel done  Wagener suit says Owen and Lois Wagener now of suburban glm View sold Papie their Home at the reduced Price As a wedding  has since listed the Home for Sale Al j26s,000, according to the  lawsuit says All parties understood and agreed thai the Lille to the House would be transferred into their daughter s name As Well soon after the wedding