European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. March 7, 1938 the stars and stb1pes Page 7 shipowners face huge Fine for drug cargo Miami a a cargo Container ship thai brought More Ihan 13,000 pounds of marijuana into Miami earlier this Vear was Sei cd saturday by the . Customs service and its owners could face a s100 million Fine. The 356 foot my Randran supplier ii was impounded indefinitely and customs officials arc studying what further penalties to assess Kirk ship Pine Linn of the Cayman islands said customs spokesman Michael Shechan. The ship was seized after the latest of More than 20 incidents of drug smuggling aboard Kirk vessels in i he past 18 months said William. Luc Skerl acting District director of customs Miami office. The 12.000 pounds was just Gross negligence on the part of the Tine. The thing was Jual loaded slice Hon said. The 40-foot Container was Waist Deere in solid  club pm said and the marijuana odor was Surh hat before the customs inspector even arrived at the site of i he Container inc odor was no lived by  efforts to reach Kirk line officials for comment were unsuccessful saturday there was no answer at their offices. The possible Tine against Kirk is based on a Federal drug Law thai permits a vessel la be seized and a Fine of 18,000 for each Pound of marijuana to be levied. With a seizure of More than 12,000 pounds of Mari Juana the Fine would conic to slightly More than j100 million. The Fine which is usually negotiated when a ship or air plane is seized exceeds the total value of the Kirk line said Shydian. Customs and Kirk officials had been discussing How to curtail tin drug shipments when the huge january shipment was found so Schaa said. Miami customs officials hive seized the Mercan Dlan supplier after finding 12,000 pounds of marijuana on town. Of a twin the danish registered Shin operates out of Miami Haiti Jamaica and the Cayman islands Shechan Aid. The january voyage that ended with the marijuana bust began in Kingston Jamaica where the con Tainer filled with marijuana which was covered with 500 boxes of biscuits was loaded. It made one Stop in Haiti before it came to Miami Shechan said. We know thai some of the smuggling attempts arc not internal conspiracies on the pan of shipping line employees but that Means that some could be. He said . Voters reject Effort to standardize tax Charleston . A West Virginia voters saturday soundly Defeated a constitutional amendment that would have forced 2s counties to in crease properly taxes to provide More funds for schools. Opponents said the returns proved that stale residents Are not ready to accept Mure taxes even though state courts have found the current system of school funding unconstitutional supporters called the results disastrous for education. With 99 percent of the precincts re porting he amendment was Defeated 125,674 to 98,996, or 56 percent to 44 percent. Under the current system counties90, crushed by elevator he helped install Pittsburgh Al a 9q.ycar.old Man was crushed to Dalh in an elevator Shaft while working on an elevator he helped install More than so years ago authorities said. William Beatty described by fellow workers As a mechanical wizard was killed Friday in a Freak Accident at a pro Duce building according la police. Police sol John o Connor said work ers believed they had shut off electricity to the elevator at a main switch before they began to King. Balty he said was sitting on a chair in the elevator with his feel resting on the floor outside when the car began to move upward without warning. Workers tried to grab Beany but could not pull him out of the car before his feel caught Between the car and tic Wall of the Shaft o Connor said. Beauty was crushed to death As. The car continued to move upward he said. Despite his age beatly. Who was self employed continued to do mechanical jobs Tor longtime customers because he wanted 10 slay Active according to detective Louis Scrafina. He had been called to work on the elevator because he helped install it Scrafina said. Have maximum Basic Tan Rales set by the stale and arc allowed to Lack on an excess Levy on lop of that for schools As much As a 100 percent excess bringing the total tax to double the Basic Rait. Rut 12 counties generally the More Rural counties in the scale have opted to assess no excess Levy while 29 other counties including the slate s most pop Ulous counties Are charging their taxpayers the full 100 percent. The proposal Defeated saturday would have required each county in the state to assess an excess Levy equal to 90 per cent of its Basic maximum tax rate. That would have resulted in a lax decrease in the 29 counties now charging the full 100 percent no change in Cine county and a tax increase in the 25 counties levying less than 90 percent. The proposed amendment was the re suit of state court decisions finding that the current system of funding education on inc a curly level ii unconstitutional because of the wide variations from county to county. In the weeks before the election Lincoln county circuit judge Jerry Cook inca tend to seize All county excess Levy funds if the amendment failed and distribute the Money equally among the counties. There was no answer at Cook s Home saturday evening when he was called seeking com ment on the election results taxpayers in some of the counties with smaller or no excess levies voted against the amendment by margins of 5 to-1 Ando to a. Taxpayers out Here have a heavy Bur Den and they re just not ready to accept More said Mike Ross Leader of an a position group. It s not Ihal they re against education. It s just what we can  Cathy Bennett president of the West Virginia federation of teachers expressed disappointment at the results which she said indicate that the citizens of Vesi Virginia did not understand the disastrous effect this defeat will have on our  masters Johnson say risk of aids for heterosexuals is underplayed new York a health authorities have failed to stress the threat that aids poses to those not in High risk groups leading to a dangerous nonchalance among heterosexuals two noted sex experts say in a new Book. Medical experts have played Down findings rather than present worst Case scenarios in the understandable wish to avoid mass panic William masters and Virginia Johnson say in their Book. Excerpts from the Book crisis heterosexual behaviour in the age of aids appear in the current Issue of Newsweek Magazine. The Book Calls for widespread Manda tory testing for acquired immune deficiency syndrome infection of pregnant women couples seeking marriage licenses and Hospital patients Between Ages 13 and 60. The authors who operate the masters and Johnson Institute in St. Louis wrote the Best seller human sexual response some aids experts questioned their conclusions on the spread of the deadly disease.  Johnson maj have expertise in sexuality bul they have no credentials to justify their recommendations concerning aids Public health policy recommendations that will surely alarm the Public said Malhilde Krim founding chairwoman of the american foundation for aids re search. From everything we know today such mandatory testing schemes will not help protect the Public masters and Johnson s Book suggests that to guard against infection potential sexual partners should undergo tests and remain monogamous. Or. Deny j. Primm a member of president Reagan s aids commission said he agreed that recent optimistic reports about heterosexuals could full people into a state of  he said As a result Many Don t use condoms still Are promiscuous and still participate in group sex or other danger Ous activities. The Book disputed reports that there arc now about 1,5 million people infected with the virus in the United slates. It is quite Likely that there Are now 3 million or More carriers of the aids virus in the United states most of whom Are otherwise healthy and unaware of their infected contagious slate it said. Experts generally arc gravely under estimating in degree to which the aids virus has spread Imo the heterosexual  the authors said they based their find Ings on their own study of boo sexually Active heterosexual adults Between the Ages of ii and to who All met three Crite Ria no blood transfusions received since 1977 no use of illicit drugs by injection no homosexual or bisexual Contact since 1977. The study however did not appear to follow the usual scientific process and the authors conceded thai it was not obtained by random sampling methods and did not closely match the general . Population they said they found that among a subgroup of subjects who average More than 12 partners annually and generally failed to Lake precautions to protect themselves. 14 percent of the women had been infected with the aids virus and 12 percent of the men. The findings were an indication the researchers said thai Public health authorities have tailed to impress the Gen eral Public with the message that aids has broken out