European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday March 23,1988 Church off limits of romancer 78 l1tchfield. Conn. A a Man who apparently sought Romance rather than religion has been barred by a judge from attending a Church. Judge Anne Dranginis issued 0 temporary re Sira Initia order monday prohibiting John Stein Mann 7b. Of Middlebury from attending the first congregational Church of Washington. We believe his motives to worship Are nol consistent with promoting the warship of god but for the purpose of forming relationships particularly with women said the Rev. Richard Sean pastor of Fth Church. The judge s order also prohibits Steinmann from harassing or contacting Church members without i hair permission. According to court documents Steinmann member of a Middlebury Church began attend ing service in Rural Washington in an attempt to maintain a relationship with his former wife the couple has since divorced. The woman moved and Steinm inn used the Church to meet other women Church officials said. Virginia slain Way of Morris testified Stein Mann once sidled up to her in a Pew grabbed her Arm and made lewd and revolting remarks to her during a hymn. I was extremely panicked she said Steinmann who represented himself in court maintained Hal his actions were consistent with the Church s policy Ofin Sislian Fellowship. Postal service announces rates will Rise on april 3 Washington a higher postage Rales including a 23-Ccnl charge for firm class inters will Lake effect april 3, the postal service announced tuesday. The postal service has been managing the costs of operating a growing Universal delivery system and moving a volume of mail that has nearly doubled to More than 160 billion pieces this year said John u Griesemer chairman of the postal service Board of governors. To All our customers we can Only repent our pledge of better service he said the Board set the effective Date for the sweeping series of new rates Greeott minded by the Independent postal Rale commission on March 4 following id months of study and hearings. Rates were last changed in March 1985, when the Price of a first class stamp Rose from 20 cent to 22 cents. Postage Rales will Rise about  percent on aver age with the biggest hikes for the a called junk advertising mail and less of an increase for the typical consumer. Users of first Clais postage face a 14.7 percent hike compared with jumps of 18.1 percent for newspapers and magazines and 24,9 percent for mailers of Adver Tising material. Postal officials have said the increases Are needed 10 avoid deficit for the Agency that could reach is billion in i9b9, the postal service lost More than $220 Mil lion last year. The increases Are unrelated to recent reductions in window hours collections and other service however. Those cuts were forced by congressional action Man dating n spending reduction by the Agency. The new 25-Ctnt rate is just for the first ounce. The Price for each additional ounce of mail will Rise from 17 cents to 20 cents. The Cost to mail a Post card will increase from 14 cents to 15 cents. While those Are the Rales most readily noticed by Consumers the charges to businesses for mailing Bill and advertising and sending books and magazines to american Homes also affect individuals. Prices and subscription Rales May Well increase with the postage costs being cited As a Factor. The minimum rate for third class mail will jump from 12.5 cents to 16.7 cents and the per Pound tale will Rise from 38 cents to 48 cent. For non profit advertising mail the minimum rate will increase from 8.5 cents to 8.7 cents. Second class mail newspapers and magazines for the most part will face Overall increases of just Over 18 percent. Newspapers sent within the county will Rise to 9.8 cent per Pound and 3.4 to 5.9 cents per piece. The current rate is 9.1 cents per Pound and 3.1 to 4.9 cells per item. A new ss.75 rate for the highly competitive express overnight mail service was set for smaller packages of eight ounces or less. The new rates will replace the Price Structure that look effect feb. 17,198s, Shevardnadze Hedges on pledge to pull troops Washington a soviet for eign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze tuesday backed Awa from a pledge to withdraw the red Art. Y from Afghani Stan Cyan if negotiators fail to agree on conditions for ending the War there. Ungering talks with Secretary of state George p. Shutlz Shevardnadze declined to repeat the pledge made by a soviet foreign ministry spokesman last week for an Independent pullout. I Don t know when he said that Shevardnadze said. We shall see. It is belter to have the document signed in Geneva. This is the belter  the negotiations held under . Auspices Between Afghanistan and Paki Stan which has provided a Haven to the  rebels faltered last week Over a . Demand thai the soviets end their military Aid to the marxist govern ment in Kabul in addition to withdraw ing an estimated 120,000 troops. The soviets announced last tuesday they arc postponing the withdrawal be cause of the . Demand and also be cause of pakistani insistence that an in trim government be formed in Afghanistan. But on thursday Vadim Perfilyeva a spokesman far the foreign ministry said troops would be withdrawn independently even if the negotiations failed u pro Duce an agreement per Filev said How Ever that soviet leaders would prefer to Shevardnadze gesture As he talks with shall a tuesday to the state department. Remove the soldiers under terms of an International agreement. Asked about the hard line . Posi Tion on suspending military Aid Shevardnadze said we shall discuss this with the Secretary per Filev a member of the soviet delegation in Washington confirmed Mak ing the statement but added thai it was not an official statement. It was an answer to a question from a reporter. The soviet spokesman said in was his feeling Llinat a decision had been made to withdraw the troops. However he said since Shutlz and Shevardnadze were discussing the Issue in is not very necessary to operate on what was said last  another area Shultz and Shevardnadze opened a new communications Center located in the state department designed to reduce the risk of nuclear  ceremony put Inlo effect in agreement for superpower cooperation that is in Contrail to the . And soviet regional  Reagan administration has sup ported Nicaragua and afghan rebels who arc trying to topple soviet backed leftist governments. Shutlz want Mot cow to Stop its military Aid while Shevardnadze voiced some serious con Cern with . Policies in Central  the new Center the United Stales will have a satellite link 10 a Simi Lar Center in Moscow Over which full texts and graphics can be transmitted rapidly. The idea is to prevent nuclear War by miscalculation or Accident. Shultz and Shevardnadze reached agreement last september on the link which supple ments the telecommunications hot line. During his talks in Washington she  Snadie is expected to offer May 25 28 As the Dales for Reagan to visit mos cow for his fourth Summit meeting with general Secretary Mikhail a Gorbachev . Acceptance is virtually certain. Law catches up with fugitive Sailor after 2 years Jacksonville a. A a Man charged with stealing a letter two years ago went to great lengths to avoid being caught investigators said. Lie changed his identity got married joined the Navy and ended up on a warship in the persian Gulf. Luke Lee Mccall was arrested monday in Norfolk va., when his vessel the amphibious assault ship Oki Nawa docked after spending several months escorting .-Fiaggcd tankers through the War torn Gulf. Mccall. 28, i scheduled to be arraigned april 4 in Jacksonville on a Federal charge that be look a letter containing a $620 insurance Check from someone else s Post office Box assistant . Attorney Teresa Wright said. Federal officials said they were surprised that some one with an otherwise clean record would go to such great lengths to avoid trial. That s the Only charge we have. It s funny to see someone like Hal do this sort of thing said Stan Hills a Deputy marshal in Jacksonville. Of convicted Mccall faces up 10 five years in prison and a 5250,000 Tine officials said. He was being held on i7i,000 Bond following Bis appearance monday before a . Magistrate in Virginia. I f Mccall had gone to trial in 1986, he would Proba Bly not have received the minimum Penally because he had no prior record. But since he fled he is in More serious trouble Hills said. After the Check was stolen Mccall begun using the name Andre Darnell Robinson went to Chicago and enlisted in Lite Navy Hills said. The real Robinson who lives in Jacksonville was nol involved in the scheme. Mccall obtained a copy of Robinson s birth certificate and was using his social Security number. Apostal Pitt Pycior . Mcdonald eventually found Oul Mccast was in the Navy. Fingerprints and photographs were shipped Back and Forth to the of Nawa Hills said but  Man on the ship denied be was Mccall until his arrest monday. Using the name Robinson. Mccall married woman m san Diego and bought a car a Nance with a loan from the Navy or Ceil Union there Hills said. Although officials aboard the ship were aware of the charge Mccall was nol taken into custody until Ine vessel docked. He could l go anywhere said Hills. Mccall was unable to Post Bond said Mike my Shane. An inspector with the . Marshal service in Norfolk. Wright said Mecall faces and diurnal urges stemming from the use of a false identity