European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday february 22,1988 Hope for a peace child entertainer bub Hope visits with 12 Vei Miu Afghanistan refugee haircut Kahn before a Benefit Sulu Day Niht in Phoenix aril. The fund Raiser was held to did Afghanistan children in car non in Pakistan and came on the eighth annl Ersary of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Hunt the 1987 Juhan Tsuu fact child was taken to the hailed states for medical treatment after his lefts were crashed during bombing attack. Gephardt s plan will be dropped from Trade Bill Washington a House Trade negotiators will Jettison rep. Richard Gephardt s retaliatory Trade amendment Tram the House passed Trade Bill because it threatens to scuttle the legislation according to congressional leaders. Bui As a Courtesy to the presidential contender from Missouri House conferees will Wail until after the March 8 super tuesday primary elections before abandoning the proposal which is a Central part of the House Bill and of Gephardt s presidential Campaign key lawmakers said. The Gephardt provision will be dropped. We re going to dump it because it s bad policy said rep. Sam Gibbons d-fla., chairman of the Trade subcommittee of he House ways and Means committee and a member of the House Senate conference committee Hammer ing out a Compromise Trade Bill. Jettisoning the measure which culls for Trade retaliation against Japan and other trading partners that maintain Large Trade surpluses with the United states could Jar Loose omnibus Trade legislation that has languished in Congress since last fall analysts said. Gibbons and other House leaders said that once super tuesday is past the House conferees will move quickly to gel rid of the Gephardt provision regardless of How he docs in those primary slates. Gephardt meanwhile has no intention of dropping his push for the Amend ment that bean Bis name. He wants it. He s confident that the Gephardt amendment will become Law either this year when president Reagan will sign in or next year when president Gephardt will sign it said Campaign aide Mark Johnson. Conference leaders have held off on moving ahead on the measure to await the results of the Early presidential contests in fart because Gephardt s amendment is such a key part of the House Bill. Gephardt s Victory in Iowa and his Strong second place showing in last week s new Hampshire democratic Pri Mary Means that Trade will be a Central part of the presidential Campaign said Jerry Jasinowski chief economist for the National association of manufacturers. It will increase he political quotient of the Trade debate. And it will make in harder for a Trade Bill to gel out of con Ference that has the blessings of the House the Senate and the White House Yasinow Sci added. Reagan opposes the imposition of retaliatory Trade measures by Congress and the White House has said he will veto the Trade Bill if it contains Gephardt s amendment. Twenty states hold democratic Pri Mary elections on March 8, of which 13 Are in the South where Trade is a major Issue because of import battered textile and other local industries. However with recent signs thai the nation s stubborn Trade deficit is finally easing under the pressure of a weaker Dollar which makes . Goods More competitive overseas political sentiment in Congress has been shifting away from Tough retaliatory sanctions. Last october s Stock Market plunge which underscored the fragility of world financial markets has also subdued some of the most vocal Capitol Hill Calls Tor protectionist measures. The Gephardt measure which was passed last Spring in the House requires mandatory presidential negotiations with countries that maintain Large surpluses with the United slates As to result of Trade barriers. The measure aimed particularly at Japan would require mandatory Retalia Tion after i six month period if those negotiations prove fruitless. The Senate Bill which Reagan also has suggested he might veto Calls for formal investigations that could Lead to sanctions against nations running Large Trade sur a tusks but without requiring Blanket Reta action. Safeway Hopes plan has redeeming value Washington a a supermarket Chain has found a Way to slash the Price of a Lillic item that almost everyone buys and always at full Price . Postage stumps. The huge Safeway Chain is Selling booklets containing $4.40 Worth of Ila mrw for s4 in the Baltimore washing ton and Richmond areas. There Are two catches sales Are limited to one Pur family per Hare visit and that Stamps come inside a Booklet of Price off coupons which adds to the bar gain for Coupon clippers. Both Safeway and the postal service cup Cal to make Money on the project. The postal service Sells the Stamps to the stores at full Price. Saf Cray would Bene fit from sales generated by Ibe coupons some of which arc for Safeway products. Stamp and inc., of Houston originated the idea. The company Sells the Coupon ads to manufacturers. The advertising sales cover both the Cost of the Booklet and the difference in the stamp Price. Brad Mcclain president of stamp and said he got the idea by wondering about More effective ways to get Cunis off Cou Pons into the hands of Consumers. My wife is an avid Coupon user Anil every sunday my living room looked like a Cyclone hit it because of clipping the newspaper supplements he said in a Telephone interview. Although the program is still in the testing stage it s doing quite Well me Clam said. Besides the Washington area Safeway has tested the cheap stamp sales in hous ton and Denver said Safeway advertising manager Don pc Tallcof Landover my. Docs the postmaster general know about this ask Lighth carted advertise ments for the Washington area sales. The answer is yes and tic . Postal service is delighted with the idea. As far As i m concerned they can give them away said Charles Hughes retail sales manager for Lac postal service. For us it s a very successful Way of getting Stamps into the hands of people Hughes said. Folks who work a 10 or 12-hour Day and Slop for a to dinner and salad on their Way Home now can buy Stamps Loo without having logo to a Post office he said. Many supermarkets Nave been Selling Stamps which they buy at full Price As a convenience to customers but this is the Fisl Lime they have in a Fleck gone on Sale said Hughes. The real proof of the pudding to the stores won t be known until people come Back in and Start redeeming the coupons he said. Hughes said there hive been other proposal to Combine Stamps and advertising but they have not met Wilh much Success. Top . Lobbyists promoted Panama s image Washington a Panama paid High powered . Lobbyists Hun dred of thousands of dollars since 1985 to polish its image government records show. Among the lobbyists a Long time associate of president Reagan and a pub Lic relations executive with lies 10 it. Col. Oliver North s private network. Stuart Spencer Reagan s Long time political adviser my. Oglesby jr., for Mer White House assistant Tor legislative affairs Public relations executive Francis Gomez and Jamie a bitten jr., the son of rep. Jamie Whitton d-miss., Are among those who have registered with the Justice department at one time As agents of Panama under the foreign agents registration act. Records indicate lobbyists contracts have been allowed to lapse and Raul St. Malo a spokesman at Panama s embassy said the government no longer employs any american lobbyists. The Taw requires agents of foreign governments to file reports of i hair activities every six months so the records Are not current to Pic Day. Gomez s company however had a s2l,000-a-Monlh arrangement with a panamanian business group with ties to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega s govern ment through december. Public affairs resources inc., which Gomez said consists of himself and an assistant received about $145,000 Between july and de Cember 1987, Gomez s former business partner Rich Ard r Miller worked Wilh North raising Money for the nicaraguan Contra in 1985 and 1986. Miller has pleaded guilty to tax violations in soliciting  for the rebels but there is no indication that Gomez worked with North North an sex National Security coun cil aide was tired in november 1986 for his role in using Money secured through the Sale of arms to Iran to help the nicaraguan Contra rebels