European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 31. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 postal service puts Cap on Money orders Washington up in an at tempt to curb criminal Money Laun Dering schemes the postal service is Pul Ling a limit effective sunday on sates of Money orders. The Rule sets a $10.000 Cap on Money orders thai Post offices May Mil to one person in either a single sate or cumulatively in a single Day and goes one step further than the Sank secrecy act postal service lawyer Bill Alvis said. The department of Justice came to us because there had been so much Laun Dering of drug Money said Jeanne o Neill postal service spokeswoman. Because of the Bank secrecy act s re porting requirements drug dealer found in easier to buy Money orders and Cash them than to Lake the Money to a Bank o Neill said. Under the act financial institution must report to the Treasury department any Cash transaction of More than 110,000 or transactions totalling More than s10,000 in one Day bran individual. But after the administration s Omni bus drug Bill of 1986 amended the Bank secrecy act to include reporting by Post offices the postal service went of one belter Alvis said. Since we Are potentially under the Treasury s jurisdiction any Sale of Money orders totalling More than $10,000 would i ave to be reported to the Treasury department he said. But we be gone further than that Alvis said. We re just not going to sell Money orders of More than $10.000 at one Lime or cumulatively in one Jay to any individual. The idea is by putting the restriction on. We won t have to report to Treasury thereby cutting paperwork for both agencies said diet Greene. Costal service Money order program manager. We be not to keep it at a level where we Don t Hurt our regular customers said Greene adding that the $10.000 limit May be lowered if it appears not to Dent Money laundering activities. But if they lower it. Then at some Point Well have a number that will affect our regular customers he Siirid. Alvis would not estimate How much of the $10.66 billion in Money orders sold in 1986 is suspected to have involved profits from drug deals and other illegal activities. North s testimony is no. 1 non fiction paperback new York not taking the stand the Complete transcripts of it. Col. Oliver l North s Testi Mony before the Iran Contra committee of Congress has become the no. I Selling paperback non fiction Book in the United states the life Span of a Book of this kind is relatively Short said Jack Romanes president of Man Market publishing at Simon & schuster so it has to catch on quickly or you fad thai what you thought on monday was a great publishing idea turns out to be a disaster when the Book hits the  pocket books a division of Simon & schuster shelves Jav i to Vafi of a. Usiri Aruil we Jii Vii it inv printed 775,000 copies of taking the  half Are in bookstores and the rest Are on the Louisiana fishermen fight Over Oyster Beds at Newsstands supermarkets and drug stores. Because the we Klong testimony is in the Public do main North will not receive royalties from the $5.95 Book. Daniel Schorr the newscaster was paid a Flat fee for hit 10-Page introduction to the 753-Page Book which went on Sale within three Days after North concluded his testimony on july 14. The Book will be listed no. I among the paperback non fiction Best Sellers in the aug. 9 Issue of he new York times Book review. The fist is based on com Puter processed sates figures from 2,000 bookstores and from representative wholesalers. In reflects sales from july 19 through july 25. We re doing very Well with the Book said Dara Tyson a spokeswoman for the Waldo books Chain which has sold 4,000 copies. At the Barnes & Noble store on Manhattan s fifth Avenue pal Mihaly the manager said the North Book had sold almost 250 copies second Only to red storm rising a novel by torn Clancy. The Book is Selling fast in the West but Only about average in the nation s capital. Randy Rick a buyer for Gordon s books inc. In Denver which distribute to stores throughout the Rocky Mountain Stales said the Book has sold almost 4,000 of the initial order of 5,000 copies. At the Pentagon Book store a store official said it s been doing Well but it s not a runaway Best sett  he said about 5d of 100 copies had been sold. New Orleans up one two and three say four and five jumped ahead of them in line so they Are suing 10 reclaim the top spots in the struggle to win rights to coveted Oyster Beds. One two three four and five Are people who have been sitting outside the department of wildlife and fisheries building waiting for their shot at leases on prime Oyster Beds. People sometimes wait years to get a Good Oyster bed lease to Harvest the succulent shellfish. The litigants All yugoslavian Immi Grants say the Best Oyster teases go to the first people in line. The five got in line May 26, camping outside the French Quarter building in Lawn Chain drinking Beer and listening to music. They await aug. 3, when 300 leases will be granted. Several Days after the Vigil began wildlife officials decided having people sitting outside the building in Lawn chairs represented a Legal liability so they Send them Home. The department then reversed itself july 17 and said it was of for people to sit out Side the building and wait so everyone hustled Back to the building bul did not gel Back in line in the same order. That brought the lawsuit Ivo Jurisich wife Ruzics Jusich and brother in Law in Kola Lupis say they were bumped from the top spots by Ivo and Luko Seguro. So they re suing to get Back the top spots in line. Gay Man keeps custody of Lover s son paper says Palm Springs Calif. A a homosexual Man has won custody of the teen age son of his male Lover who died of aids a newspaper said wednesday. The decision reported in a copyright Story in the desert Sun once again de Nies custody of Brian Baley to his Funda mentalist Christian Mother who twice has been accused of kidnapping the boy. Craig Corbell won temporary guardianship of Brian Batey 16, in a secret hearing in san Diego Superior court on july 8, the paper reported. In awarding custody to Corbet judge Judith Mcconnell issued a gag order bar ring those involved from discussing the Case with the Media. Corbel t has previously said he has a fatherly interest in the boy Brian originally from the san Diego area was living Here with Corbel and his father Frank Baley when Batey died june 26 of  boy temporarily disappeared from the Home with his Mother july 1, bul returned to Palm Springs a week later and declined to discuss what had taken place. The unusual family feud Drew nation Al attention in 1982, after Frank Batey won custody despite his sex wife s claims thai he was an unfit father. Mrs. Baley disappeared with Brian and was on the run for 19 months before surrendering to the Fri. She was acquitted in May of child stealing charges. The batiks divorced in i976. Firemen accused of setting fires new port Rickey Fla. A three Volunteer firefighters and one county firefighter were arrested wednesday on arson charges accused of setting More than 50 fir since june 1985, officials said. Mail of the fires were Brush fir. Bul three unoccupied Homes to trailers and a car also were burned said Pisco county sheriffs office spot Sman Bob loft scr. They basically did this because icy liked to go to fires Locffler said. The men were held at Pasco do tension com to pending a Bond hearing sculptor and Sci pee a 20-foot, 16-Lon Sarilu holds Volkswagen Beetle in one hand and us Milur sculptor to. In in of r Loral City Al in the no her. The Salut sounds in front of in Huto Mobil dral near . It