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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 9, 1938 the stars and stripes Page 3 Florida couple Field in Chicago on drug charges Chicago a a Florida couple arrested by undercover agents in a s3 million cocaine Deal Hud escaped detection because they look like a typical grandmother and Grandfather authorities sail. George Sloss 57, and his wife Goldic 55, were in custody monday in a suburban jail after their Arm saturday night on charges of Selling j2 Pound of cocaine said assistant Cook county slate s attorney Edward Pietrucha. It s just amazing anybody can be a drug courier Pietrucha said explaining Klinl the couple looked like anyone s grandma and grandpa walk ing 10 the Corner store to eel a gallon of  if you had to paint a picture of a typical grandmother find Grandfather these Are the peo ple you would paint Pietrucha said sunday. Subs a retired Sec coworker from Pennsylva Nia and his wife allegedly sold the cocaine to agents for $236,000. The cocaine which was packaged in Colombia had a Street value of $3 million Pietrucha said. The pair is suspected of delivering cocaine for Isis Alvaro Lini. 33, of Miami fur about a year he said. I Ino also was arrested saturday n connection with the bust and was in custody at dark county jail in Miami he said. The a losses were scheduled to appear in Cook county felony narcotics court Picl Rucha said. Sloss and his wife were held in the police lock up in Schaumburg on �5 million Bond. They were charged with drug trafficking delivery of a controlled substance and calculated criminal drug conspiracy authorities said. The Tavernier Fla. Couple had never been arrested before. Pietrucha said. Commissaries Are on a Roll with new on site bakeries by Deedee Arrington Doke  Bureau if the scent of fresh baked bread tickles your fancy and stimulates an urge to spend Money at a bakery beware. Pastry fanciers who thought they were Safe at the commissaries from temptations posed by fresh baked goods soon can expect to face regular assaults on their noses and their food Money As the military food stores launch new on site bakeries. Bake off bakeries have proved to be More popu Lar said Adam Cohen spokesman for the defense subsistence Region Europe. The Agency handles Eon trading duties far the air Force army and Navy commissaries in Europe. When the bake off bakeries be came More popular the services requested a change to that Type of  bake off bakeries Are operations in which most goods arc baked at the commissary. The bake olt branches replace operations in which All merchandise was baked elsewhere and delivered to the store for Sale. To Germany the trend toward bake off bakeries is picking up this month with three branches scheduled to open in air Force commissaries in Germany at Ramstein a Simbach a and vog Cloch. Already operating arc iwo at Hahn a and Spang Dalite a. At Rhian main a the store has a bake off us Well As Gauss brought in from other bakeries. The army commissary Chain features one bake off Bat cry in its Hanau store. Replacement commissaries scheduled to open later this year Al of Forth and Stutt Gart s Patch Barracks and Robinson Barracks also will feature Bate off branches. Outside Germany bake off bakeries operate at air Force commissaries at Torr Jon a Spain and in the United kingdom at Kay Grcic Nhym common Raf Lakenheath and Raf upper Heyford. Another is planned for the air Force commissary Al Raf Alcon Bury England. A air Force bake off contracts except for Rhein main Are serviced by Taco Nora a Belgium based com Pany. Servicing ricin main and the Hanau commis sary is the Heberer company of Muelheim Gen Rainy Cohen said locally produced items and baked goods from . Sources arc included in the Bate off concept. The a Farbrot company of kaisers Lautem previously serviced the in store bakeries. The lengths of the contracts vary from one to three years. The bake off bakery contracts list about 100 different items. Among the benefits expected by commissary officials in switching to in premises bakeries were improved product freshness variety and Price not to mention the unmistakable Aroma of an oven Al work. Obviously you get a fresher product which is what we were primarily Imer sled in said Denise Gomes spokeswoman for . Troop support Agency euro Pean commissary Region. So far customer response to the on site bakeries has been positive said Tom Doyle director of operations for the Central european commissaries of the air Force. Customers like it Doyle said. It s a Little differ ent product mis from what they be seen before. The first difference customers May notice could be Price Doyle said adding that Ine Ontra officials cd pc Ted to sell some items 1o Consumers for less than the previous contractor. The army is changing Over to the bake off stores More gradually than the air Force a trend Gomes attributed to the Lack of bakery equipment installed in existing army stores. Since we re building new commissaries we re Able to incorporate new facilities for the bake off bakeries As they re being built Gomes said. Presidential hopefuls make final Iowa push Des Moines Iowa a the 1988 presidential contenders hoping for an Iowa Victory that would propel them from the pack campaigned through the slate monday in Advance of precinct caucuses that Are the first significant Slop toward the Republican and democratic nominal ions. Gary Hart was up Early thanking Campaign workers and telling them this Campaign will Only gel stronger the longer it  rut anticipating a poor showing monday Nihl the former democratic front runner noted he had spent far less time and Money in the state than most rivals. Sen. Albert Gore or. Who bypassed the caucuses to concentrate on his native South told reporters at a news conference monday in Washington that the Iowa system was sort of like a Roulette game us not democracy in  he trumpeted Hii endorsement by Kentucky gov. Wallace Wilkinson then set out on a Daylong Southern Campaign swing. In Iowa Laic polling indicated Richard Gephardt Paul Simon and Michael Dukakis had the Best chances among the democrats monday night. Bob Dole inc Republican front runner in Iowa and democratic Long shot Jesse Jackson both planned to work late greeting people As they arrived at two of monday night s 2.487 caucus meetings. Vice president George Bush in the unaccustomed role of under Job to Dole was planning to leave Iowa for new Hampshire site of next week s first presidential primary. After a Long year of being wooed by candidates Lowans were meeting in schools firehouses and living rooms. Candidates in both parties were putting a lid on their rhetoric As Campaign themes look a Back scat to car pools and other efforts to gel supporters to the caucus locations on a frigid night. Snow was expected Over much of the state by caucus time. A severe storm was generally seen As helping former television evangelist pal Robertson whose sup porters were expected to Brave any conditions to cast Voles for him in the gop race. The caucuses in 2,4b7 precincts were the first step toward choosing 52 democratic and 37 Republican National convention delegates. But delegates weren t the big Prijic in Towa. What inc candidates were seeking was what Bush in 1980 called the big to momentum going into new Hampshire although voters in that states primary have a history of rejecting Iowa choices. Vire president Gorge Bush urts non voter sunday it de 1 undo i farm in Conroy Lew. The final week of the Republican Campaign was dominated by squabbling Between Dole of Kansas and Bush. And rep. Jack Kemp of new York accused Robertson supporters of distorting his record on pornography and abortion. The Dubaic was Calmer among the democrats. Two mid Stemers and an easterner sen. Simon of Illi Nois rep. Gephardt of m Missouri and gov. Dukakis of Massachusetts looked like the candidates most Likely to succeed. Bush planned to await the Towa results in new Hampshire whose primary on feb. 16 is the nest big lest. It also ii a state where the vice president has stronger support according to Public Opi Nion surveys. Dole held a i4-Poinl Lead Over Bush in Iowa according to a pcs Moines sunday Register poll. He planned to Fly to new Hampshire on tuesday. Also awaiting the caucus results in Iowa were Roli crts on Kemp and form gov. Pete do i ont of Delaware. The sixth gop contender former Secretary of state Alexander m. Haig jr., stopped campaigning in Iowa months ago and  new Hampshire. The Survey released sunday gave dote the backing of 37 percent of Likely Republican caucus goers Bush had 23 percent  13 percent Kemp ii Dupont 7and Haig i. On t no democratic Side. Gephardt had he support of 25 percent of people who snid they planned to at tend the democratic caucuses. Simon was second at 19 percent followed by Dukakis Al 15, former gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona and Jackson at 9. Gary Hart Al 7 and Gore 1 percent. Bush unset Ronald Reagan in Iowa in 1980, but Rea Gan roared Back to score a solid win in new Hans hire in 19s4 new Hampshire voters were equally disdainful of the Iowa Choice. That time Walter f. Mon Dale a big Winner in Iowa was beaten by Hart in new Hampshire. This is the first Lime since i960 that an incumbent president is not seeking renomination and As a result Iowa has been awash with candidates from both parties. Gephardt had spent 144 Days in Iowa since 1986, while Babbitt was in the state 118 Days during the same period. Dupont was in the stale 91 Days to Lead the gop contenders. Gephardt Babbitt and Simon who spent s3 Days campaigning in Iowa were dependent on Iowa to give their candidacies credibility. Dukakis had the advantage of having the next big event Lake place in his Back Yard. New Hampshire where he is Well known and a heavy favorite to finish ahead of the Field. For Hart once the democratic front runner Iowa was a Lesi of his Effort to revive a candidacy thai had crashed in the Wake of his involvement with a Miami Model. Dole appeared to be benefiting from a Campaign that portrayed him As a Man with Humble Small town roots something Many Iowa voters could identify with. Bush was running As the underdog saying he was quite a bit behind but pledging to fight Back. The big unknown in Iowa was the strength of Robertson s support which was based among people not traditionally Active in Republican politics  
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