European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 23 the stars and stripes sunday match 13,1988 Appio ii 40 degrees on the Alaska idl Biro sled Dor race rail. So he so Jan displaced on the pulls of my her Joe carafe of Teller Alaska underscores the Tarn weather problem Mashen Tutt in the final 497 tulle of the net sex Switzerland resident leading Alaska s id Tarod sled dog race Galena Alaska a after pacing the id Tarod rail sled dog race for More than 400 Miles Joe Redington surrendered the Lead saturday morning to Martin Busch As the Leaden raced Down the Frozen Yukon River. Bus a who moved 10 Alaska from Switzerland in 1979, left Galena at 8 21 a.m., headed Tor Nulato 52 Miles downstream. Kedington left about an hour later. When the my slices reach Nulato they will be 400 Miles from the finish in Nome. The 70-year-old Radii Teton had a 4w-hour Lead when he ten Ruby at 6 30 . Friday but Buser made up Lime during the night Redington dropped one dog in Galena leaving him with just nine. Busch also dropped one but still had 14 in harness. Rick Swanson of two Rivers and Susan Butcher of Manly inc Only mushers Ever to win the Marathon race More than once arrived in Galena about an hour before Busch left Swenson a four Lime Winner and Butcher who has won the last two races in record time each had 13 dogs Herbie Nayokpuk who has been near the Lead throughout i u was on the Mil Between Ruby and Galena. He left late Friday night. A group of nine mushers left Ruby in a four hour period saturday morning. One of them Jerry Austin of St. Michael Laid the pack still it in Contention in the race that won t end until later this week. Redington is known As the father of the id Tarod for helping found the race 16 years ago. The race started March 5 in Anchorage. From Ruby the mushers race 146 Miles downriver to the Village of Kaltag then Cross to the Bering sea coast for a final dash to Nome. The Winner will collect $30,000 of a s150,000 purse the next 19 finishers will split the rest two of the 52 teams thai started the race have dropped out. Israeli jets strike bases of Plo in retaliatory raid Sidon Lebanon a israeli plane Blan de palestinian guerrilla based on the outskirts of Sidon on saturday in apparent retaliation for the killing of three israelis aboard a hijacked but five Days ago. Police said at least one guerrilla died ind eight were wounded in the id minute rain a police spokesman said four israeli Jett dive bombed the bases in four rum thai began at 1 30 . Stack smoke billowed from the stricken Lar a Cluj at the villages of Ashraf Tyrh Vinych Era Inch and Ein Al Dill on the Southern and Southeastern edges of Sidon said the spokes Man who cannot be named under police regulations. He said guerrilla defenders fought Back wit twin barrelled anti aircraft guns but no hits were reported. The stricken bases were manned by tighten from Fatah the main line guerrilla group headed by Palestine liberation organisation chairman Yasser Arafat the spokesman said s. Africa group banned after 6 Days in existence Johannesburg South Africa upi1 archbishop Desmond Tutu founder of a dissident group banned saturday in tightened police clamps said the nation while Rule is As evil As nazism and berated Western leaders opposed to anti apartheid sanctions. Law and order minister Adrian Vlok accusing churches of fomenting revolution in official government Gazelle decrees saturday gagged the 6-Day-o1d committee for the defense of do to crazy Odd launched monday by Tutu and other anti apartheid Leaden tightening a feb. 24 crackdown on 18 mainly Black opposition movements Vlok also banned the group s first rally set for sunday at Cape town s mixed race coloured University of the Western Cape. In line with the Tough earlier curbs invoked under a nationwide state of emergency Vlok saturday barred the movement from carrying on or performing any activities or acts whatsoever Tutu said he will preach sunday at an inter Faith service at St. George s Cathedral his Cape town seat in place of the banned rally. . Phone firm cracks Down on Nickel scam Raf Ben Waters England a the Tele phone company is cracking Down on . Air Force personnel who have been using Nickels instead of British 20-Pence coins to make cheap Calls Home an air Force spokesman said it seems airmen stationed in Britain have for some Lime known that a Nickel works like a 20 Pence Coin in pay phones. A 10-Pcnce Coin is Worth 37 cents so every Nickel used for a Call to the United states saves 32 cents. For someone using the Nickel swindle a trans Al lactic Call that should have Cost about 124 would Only Cost s3.js. British telecoms the Telephone company estimates that the scam has Cost it about 152,000 in the past Severd months. Two . Airmen stationed at Raf bunt Waters in Eastern England have been charged with cheating on Long distance Calls and the air Force is helping the Telephone company end the swindle we have warned everyone Here thai British Tele com is looking out for people making fraudulent use of the phones Cupl. John Boyle a base spokesman said Friday. He told the stars and stripes saturday that Bale of icings became aware of the problem in Laic Decem Ber. Boyle called the misuse or British phones by . Personnel  but i would not can it to  although he said he was aware of Only the two air men stationed at Raf Ben Waters who have been charged in connection with phone fraud Boyle said it would be naive to assume it does t happen Al other  the United Stales takes very seriously anything of Ture and we fully support British telecoms in its to track Down offenders he said. Panama crisis deepens As Treasury funds dwindle. Panama City Panama a in an atmosphere of worsening crisis Panama s Leaden met again saturday to figure out How to pay the 130,000 Public employees whose salaries come due Early Iii week. With its Treasury virtually empty the government reportedly was considering delaying or reducing the Semi monthly paychecks or the workers who have been among its staunchest supporters. Panama s new chief of state Manuel Solis Palma and his Cabinet have been meeting almost constantly since thurs Day evening in an Effort to solve the problem which could have Strong Politi Cal repercussions. It became even More critical Friday when the Reagan administration announced new economic sanctions against Panama including the withholding of $6.5 million in monthly Panama canal fees. The sanctions were meant to Force the ouster of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega who has ruled Panama since 1983 As head of its defense forces. He is under indict ment in the United Stales on drug smug gling and Money laundering charge. With Solis Palma and the foreign min ister Jorge Abadia lied up in the emergency meetings the government saturday still had not responded formally to the punitive measures taken in Washington. But Boris Moreno head of the govern ment s National information office referred to the sanctions As economic aggression and an outrage and said they had created a virtual slate of  this Means thai if the United Stales government docs not like the govern ment of another country it can withhold any funds deposited in the United states he said. Panama uses the . Dollar As its cur Rency and even before the latest sanctions were announced Washington had halted Normal transfers of funds from the . Federal Reserve. Other monies on Deposit by Panama in private . Banks also have been tied up by Legal actions. Panama s 118 local and foreign Banks were ordered closed until further notice on March 3 because the government could not provide enough Money to cover withdrawals. Most had already shut Down or were operating on a limited basis because of a run on deposits. The Bank closure left thousands of people and businesses holding checks they could not Cash. In the absence of Cash most people were hoarding the Dol Lars they had and Many businessmen said they were working Oul barter dealt with suppliers and customers. Eric Arturo Delvalle the deposed president whose ouster last month sparked the current crisis predicted earlier but week that the government s inability to pay in employees would add a new political dimension to the problem. Delvalle made the statement from hid ing. He has not been seen in Public since shortly after Noriega engineered his ouster in a thinly disguised coup that came Only hours after Delvalle tried to dismiss us general. The United slates still recognizes Dflvalle As Panama s legitimate president