European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday january 10,1988 Meese s Stock shares raise question of ethics Washington a Justice department officials Are refusing to approve attorney general Edwin Meese ill s financial disclosure form because of a pos sible conflict of interest involving i ownership of regional Bell Telephone company stocks. Mac and his wife Ursula held Telephone Stock Worth s9.600 a year ago when Meese approved Justice department recommendations 10 lift some restrictions on the businesses in which the regional Bell companies could engage. The Bell stocks recently turned up on Meese s much revised financial disclosure form which was reviewed last month by Janis Sposato a career Justice depart ment attorney. She spotted a possible conflict and contacted Independent counsel James Mckay s office said Federal Law enforcement officials. Al that Lime Mckay told the department that for some Lime he had been investigating Meese s ownership of the Bell stocks and official action concerning inc companies said the officials speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity. A Csc has been under criminal investigation by Mckay s office since May 11 for his involvement with we tech corp., a now bankrupt Bronx n.y., defense contractor. A Justice department spokesman Terry Eastland said thursday night that Meese s ethics form  to be officially  Eastland said that the sign ing by associate attorney general slip Hen troll the designated official for Meese s ethics forms won t be forthcoming until Mckay concludes his criminal investigation of Mccase. Mccase has refused to remove himself from he jus lice department s efforts to supervise the breakup of american Telephone a Telegraph co. One of Meese s Ailo Meys James Rocap. Predicted Mckay s inquiry will conclude there was nothing improper about Mccase s actions on behalf of the regional Bell companies at a Lime when he owned Slock in i hero. Last Jan. 20, Mccase obtained a waiver from the White House allowing him to remain involved in jus Tice department decisions regarding the Bell Compa Nies despite his investments in them. However the waiver by then while House counsel Peter Wallison was based on Mccase s assertion that he already had sold the Stock and that in any Evanl the holdings were too Small to pose a conflict. But in fact As a Csc s recently released financial disclosure form shows the attorney general never sold inc Stock because he and his wife lost the Stock Cerefi Cales and Haven t gotten replacements. Last february Meese approved Justice department recommendations which generally supported seven regional phone companies requests that they be far milled to offer Long distance phone service in certain areas. Meese also said the regional Bell companies should be permitted to manufacture Telephone equip ment and provide electronic information services such As Home banking. The Federal judge overseeing the breakup of at to however refused to allow the so called baby Bells into manufacturing or Long distance service. He did allow Ihm to transmit information services bul said they could not provide the information itself. Wheeling dec ares emergency As spill shuts Down wafer Supply Wheeling . Api City officials saturday declared an emergency and asked businesses to shut Down As a million gallon i Csc fuel spill on the Ohio River forced the Cit Emo turn off its fresh water pumps. We re in an emergency situation right now and people have to get serious about conserving said assistant City manager Nancy Vapner who stressed that the City had not ordered businesses to close. We re also asking people to do their dishes by hand and to up note Dill Stone of an Hewer Busch. Lot displays a six pick of drinking a being sent to the affected areas. Lake sponge  Reservoir that holds about half the City s Reserve had fallen from its Normal level of 22 feet to 6 feel by 8 . Saturday Vapner said. In Sli Jubenville Ohio about 35 Miles up Var Busi Nesses reopened saturday after officials lifted a slate of emergency. They were Able to modify the City s water treatment Plant soil could remove the Oil which has spread through three slates in a week business is Back to Normal bul we Are asking peo ple to conserve still because we re not Back at full function yet said Cindy Antill a Billing operator for the City water department. In the nearby Village of Wintersville whose water is supplied by so Jubenville emergency measures remained in  re still asking businesses to stay closed until Stu Banville can guarantee us that they won t let our Lanki go dry water Seville mayor Frank Layman said  environmental Protection Agency director Richard Shank said the beefed up treatment in Steu bin Villa made the water Safe to drink in the cily of 25,000 people. Joe Habowski. An operator at the treatment Plant said the City used bentonite Clay and activated Carbon to filter the foul odor and taste out of the water. A similar trial Mcnol was us a by the town of East Liverpool  official said i hair water system s intakes were too direct to allow this Type of treatment. Both Shank and Ohio nov. Richard Celeste who Lew to Steubenville by helicopter Friday said they did not believe the fuel which contained beguine a Chemi Cal used in gasoline was present in the treated water. Celeste downed a Glass of Lap water Al City Hall to make his Point. Wheeling City manager Mike Nau ordered the City � two water intakes closed after less by the . Environmental proc Cimon Agency indicated that diesel fuel from the spill had reached outre Alabec Levels in the  dry immediately imposed a plan to use two pipelines four barges and an Idle Well to replenish a 9 million gallon Reserve. The pipelines Are designed to draw Wales from Martins ferry and Bridgeport Ohio. Nau said the water system should be Able to pump 5 million to 6 million Gallons daily compared with a Normal average of about 8 million Gallons. Presidential hopefuls to Field voters questions Chicago a Ordinary citizens will be posing the question to presidential aspirants in two debates planned for the wreck of the March 15 Illinois primary. Under the plan mapped out by the rooted it Center for american policy studies 120 Ali icons would question democratic hopefuls on March 10, and an additional 120 would take on the republicans on March 11. We re not looking for to Peru Theresa Bourgeois a staffer with the Center Laid Friday we it looking for concerned Titi win who have  gop must attract Blacks in South leaders told Montgom Friy Ala. A the Republican party has done a poor Job of getting in Mes Sage across to Blacks and other minorities says former Tennessee nov. Lamar Alexander a re publican. The Republican party cant succeed in the South on a Long term basis without Black participation and should t want to Alexander said Friday at a gathering of Southern Republican leaders aimed Al finding Way to attract South Ern voters. Alexander and others Laid the Republican party has succeeded on the National level by communicating Well its message on National de sense and Federal spending. The gop his abdicated its role in the City Halls and courthouses to democrats they said because in has not emphasized local issues. Woman re enters Home swept by Blaze Dies Lenoir City. Tenn. A a woman died after re entering her burning Home to save her 7 year old child Tal the Boyl iad already escaped the House authorities said Friday the boy Justin Cody Money and hit 12-Jcar old sister misty Muncy iad gone next door 10 get help said fire chief David Demon. One of the neighbors said the boy went Back inside to gel his Mother and Ihen she Well Back. We Are still Irving to piece thing together he said. Deborah Parris Dymitro 28, died in the thursday fire. Justin received first and second degree Burai and was in stable condition at Louden county memorial Hospital Hospital officials said. Demon said the fire department is continuing to investigate the cause of the fire but Wii Nesst say the family was using kerosene Heater to keep the House warm. 2 women Are appointed to Public Liaison positions Washington a president Rrt Gati on Friday named two women to port in the White House office of Public Liaison Mary a Cochin Schnepper was appointed Spe Cial assistant to the president for Piibe Liaison specializing in dealing with Commerce and professional associations. Schnec Ppck Bra from the mercy school of nursing in Toledo Ohio and Mary mount University in Arlington  announced the appointment of Juani us Donaghey Duggan to be special assistant to be president spa lung in Domestic policy Dugian formerly an ats slant legislative director for action the Anli poverty program is a graduate of Georgetown University. Reagan also named two people to the Job of associate counsel in the White House counsel s � they Are Pairicia Mack Bryan and Benedict Simms Cohen who have served in the office since Junt 1987.  s3