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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. February so. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 la Reseau Rayeur lets customers write own tabs los  a restaurateur Jerome Rowitch is so confident that people will pay a fair Price Tor a line meal that he has begun let Ting customers write their own labs. Kowitch s sculpture a Rucj restaurant lucked away in the Seaside Venice District offers gourmet food and a romantic atmosphere with such amenities is live classical music during Din Ner. There s just one problem in a City bursting with restaurants the sculpture gardens has gone largely unnoticed. That will change Row itch Hopes once people learn they can name their Price for a Plale of asparagus and shrimp in Raspberry Vinaigrette sauce followed by leg and Saddle of Rabbit in cabernet sauce with Dalma Tion Sage and fresh vegetables. Suggested prices Are on he menu. So far Rowitch said Only three people have paid less with the average customer paying s7.50 More. No one has tried yet to pig out and then Fork Over a Dollar. The worst Case has been a 150 meal for which a customer paid just $38. Rowitch did not leave things entirely to Chance when he moved to the Nonor system however. He sent the first  fliers announcing the promotion to people with annual in comes believed 10 Etc cd More than j50.00q. Coast guard seeks funds to restore Normal patrols Washington a the . Coast guard has Cut its Law enforcement patrols in half and slopped routine search and Rescue surveillance because of Money shortages the coast guard commandant Laid a House subcommittee thursday. Adm. Paul a. Yost jr., said that he needed another j1ci3 million to resume Normal operations this fiscal year and that he will need every Penny proposed by i he Reagan administration Tor Neil fiscal year to avoid continuing cutbacks in operations. But Yost said he was not optimistic thai Itic fiscal 1989 funding Levels proposed by the administration thursday for the coast guard an increase of $200 million Over this year will Clear Congress. This commandant docs not have a great Faith be cause of budget rear hints. That Congress is going to be Able to Correct our 88 problems in 89." Yost Lold the House merchant Marine and fisheries subcommittee on the coast guard. Several subcommittee members agreed that while the panel is sympathetic to he coast guard s budget problems the additional funds May be hard to gel through budget and appropriations committees in the current budget cutting climate. I Don t think you la have a problem with this com  said rep. Earl Hutto d-fla., the panel s chairman but he admitted lie was not As confident about other committees that have to look at the broader budget picture. We have tied ourselves in knots with Hie Gramm Rudman Law declared rep. Gerry Ludds d-mass., who blamed the budget ceilings required by the Law for reduced services throughout the government. Last month the coast guard announced it was closing or cutting Back the operations of 52 facilities and ships because of the budget crunch. Yost said thursday that the coast guard s Glenview As near Chicago has been taken off the list As has the coast guard Cutter Mackinaw the Only icebreaker serving the great lakes. The transportation department plans to ask con Gress to shuffle Money this fiscal year from other parts of the department s budget to help the coast guard. When asked. Yost said he did t know where the Money would come from. Earlier in the Day transportation Secretary Jim Burnley suggested that one option was to shift Money from some Mas transit programs. But that is hic qty to meet Iii opposition in Congress. Yost said the Budge shortfall this fiscal year is forc ing the coast guard to eliminate routine search and Rescue patrols that arc normally conducted in the eve Ning Over Waters heavily used by fishermen or pleasure boaters. The coast guard is continuing search and Rescue missions when called upon but no longer will Fly the routine patrols. He also said that routine patrols used to interdict drug traffickers and enforce fishing Laws arc being reduced by is percent for the rest of the fiscal year because of the Money shortage. Most drug arrests arc the result of such routine patrols coast guard officials have said in the past. If Congress finds an additional $103 million else where in the transportation department budget for coast guard use these patrols would resume. Yost said. Push  raise funds for girl with hidden eyes Chicago Al l a physical fitness instructor is doing thousands of push  a Day All for the Sake of a 7-year-old turkish girl who cannot see the girl Dick Erdogan was bom with skin covering both Eves. She has been in the United states Only about to years and Sra is Lillic English. Hut she and her bin cd actor restaurateur Matt Dulc Tinglu have won the hearts of fitness instructor Dick Woit and other residents of Chicago. Woit s push  arc part of a we Klong fund raising program at the Schmann sports club to rain $ 1 1 0.000 for a series of Eye operations for Dick. She was brought to the United Stales with her Mother from Istanbul by deleting la m u86. Detel Oglu 44. A Natii e of Antioch tur key saw disk s Pir Turc in a newspaper from his Home in inlay and decided to help her. I had never Mel her lie said but oae picture was Worth a thousand  for the past two years. Dilek and her Mother Gullane. Have been living with Dulc Tinglu and his family As doctors at the University of Illinois Hospital work to open her eyes. Drs. Joel sugar and Allen i a Iterman Are donating their services but Hospital Bills have mounted. It keeps going on and on  mall Dell ii Ofiu holds his own daughter mar if Al and 7-year Aid Dilek Erdogan. Said. So he went to his fitness club to seek help in raising Money. Members of the club in return went to other merchants in Hie Community and put together a Wec Klong series of events that was to wrap up with a party and raffle Fri Day night. Sii weeks ago put cretan began the form of several operations thai doctors say could allow Dick to Sec. Me look lining from inside her Mouth and used it to Start forming an eyelid on inc girl s right Side. Sugar said. In Aboul a month we Hope to reopen her lid and then attempt a Cornea trans Plant sugar said in in interview wednes Day. Her condition is called  my. Meaning hidden eyes because her eyes Are  it s Likely inc girl will need Aboul Skop rations on her eyes sugar said. And she will probably never have Normal vision. The likelihood is that her sight will be i Imilce. Our Busl Hope is thai Shell be Able to see enough to gel around sugar said. If thai fails at least she can be fitted with a cosmetic shield to help  Oil raises Money by taking on Chal lengers in push up contests the club has pledged to donate j500 to Dick for any challenger who bears him the challenger who loses must contribute Woit s Victory margin in dollars. Faces of death video prompts suit by woman Sands of time min Neal Olts Apt a woman filmed without her knowledge As she cried hysterically at the scene of a traffic Accident is suing the photographer after the footage appeared in the grotesque video paces of death Christine Johnson was 16 years old when she was filmed at the 1976 Accident in suburban Columbia Heights by a free Lance photographer who sold the footage to a production company. She had been Lold mistakenly that a close Friend w As killed in the  the late 1970s, the footage appeared in the video which depicts actual scenes of death and has become a popular Vid cocas so Lac among teen agers and Young adults Johnson discovered her Rote ill the movie about a year ago and on tuesday filed a lawsuit in Hennepin county District court. The movie used the footage of Johnson As a reaction Shol to an unrelated Accident where a Small girl was hit by a truck. It also includes scenes of a rooster being decapitated diners killing a Monkey and eating its brains beheading and baby Seass being clubbed to death. Johnson s suit names the free Lance photographer and the movie s makers and distributors As  suit contends the defendants included the footage without her consent and w hit utterly disregarding her privacy. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today.,. Feb. 20, 1948 in Salonika Greece Gen. Markos Vafiades ordered his demo cratic army to arrest and treat As War prison cars any member of the uni leu nation special commission on the Balkans who was captured. 30 years ago today. Feb. 20, 19is communist China announced thai it would withdraw All of is troops from North Korea by the end of the year. 20 years ago today. Feb. 20, 1968 in new York or. Norman Vincent Peale criticized or. Benja min Spock from his pulpit and linked the pacifist Pydi Alician to probably the most undisciplined age in  to years ago today., feb. 20, 97s the while House issued a Sta pm Cal signed by inc bartender of a Georgetown singles bar denying reports thai presidential aide Hamilton Jordan had spit his drink Down a woman s Blouse  
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