European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday. April 28,1988 a photo soviet Diplomat Audrey Pur Astave helps Plant tree near the while Home tuesday. Tree planting Marks 2nd anniversary of chernobyl disaster Washington up an american envy Ronman Valisi and a soviet diploma shared a shovel across from the White House planting a ins in memory of the victims of he chernobyl disaster on the second anniversary of in tragedy. Andry Para stayed first Secretary of the soviet embassy and Alan Gussow president of friends of the Earth helped one another shovel soil onto the roots of a european Beech sapling tuesday in Lafayette Park immediately North of the White House and Ilie scene of years of anti nuclear priests. People who Plant Trees serve the future said Gussow adding the slow growing Beech could live for 300 years As a Symbol of Mutual Good will and Faith in the future. But he cautioned that a chernobyl scale disaster could happen  we arc deeply moved by this act Paras on april 26, 19863 the Power Plant s no 4 reactor exploded killing 31 people and forcing evacuation of some 90,000 people from a 19 mile danger zone around the plan70 Miles North of the ukrainian capital of Kiev. Since then the soviet Union has taken Steps to guarantee in win never happen again said Paras Utayev one Day following his government s announcement it had created spot atom. A stale organisation to handle nuclear Plant emergencies. The government also announced in would repair or shutdown 20 aging nuclear Power facilities. Para Stayce also called for an end to nuclear weapons tests and the dismantling and abolish ing of All nuclear weapons. Report of dump Meese Effort by first lady staff irks Reagan Washington a president Reagan wednesday described As totally inaccurate a published report that some of his close friends and advis ers have mounted a Campaign to Force attorney Gener Al Edwin Meese Iii from office. Asked about the report in the Wall Street journal which said that first lady Nancy Reagan supports the Effort to oust Meuse Reagan said i should t answer the question. Bui 1 have to Tell you no i m not aware of such a move. During a picture taking session in the Oval office with visiting Canadian prime minister Brian Malro Ney Reagan reacted heatedly let the journal report. The Story was totally inaccurate he said. Asked what circumstances might prompt him to gel rid of Mcnese the president replied Well if he had a Complete change of character the journal Story in wednesday s editions said that in addition to working for Meese s ouster some White House officials have sounded out former de sense Secretary Caspar Weinberger As a possible Suc Cessor to Meese. But Weinberger rejected the proposal the newspaper said. While Reagan repeatedly has indicated his support for Meese the dump Meese Effort has just gone underground the newspaper quoted one unidentified White House official As saying Reagan insiders including Weinberger and longtime Campaign consultant Stuart Spencer Are convinced that ethical questions plaguing Meuse Are threatening the Republican party and damaging the Justice department the newspaper said. A spokesman for White House chief of staff Howard Baker wat quoted As saying he denies any knowledge of any such Effort to oust a Csc. The advisers want to present Reagan with a completed Quick exit package similar 10 one that forced Oul former chief of Stair Donald Regan the newspaper said. Under this plan Meese would quit and be quickly replaced by someone with recognized stature and Abili ties. So far a replacement has t been found the news paper Aid. Aides to vice president George Bush last week said Mcnese t troubles have become a political liability to Bush who now has enough committed delegates to secure the Republican presidential nomination. The aides who requested anonymity said Bush would be relieved if Melesc resigned but hot found in difficult to speak out on the matter. Bush and Baker were both present last week when two resigned Meese aides Laid out their Case against the attorney general to the president. Asked to comment on mrs Reagan s reported role in the Meese ouster Campaign. Elaine Crispin the tint lady s press Secretary said she Hain t been making any Telephone Calls she has t been getting any Tele phone Calls she s not involved in  state dept s inept accounting causing loss of millions in says Washington a the state department kept millions of dollars Worth of travellers checks in unlocked cabinets and piled on floors in an operation so lax that More than $59,000 was embezzled and $307,780 cannot be accounted for the department s inspector general testified wednesday. Government investigators Laid a House government operations subcommittee that controls on slate depart ment travel advances were 50 disorganized that $15 Mil lion in such payments Are delinquent a total that includes a $695 Advance to fired while House aide it col. Oliver l North which is Foury cars overdue. Frank Conahan an assistant . Comptroller Gener Al said a general accounting office investigation showed the delinquent travel Advance situation is worse than in was two years ago when the department promised to Correct it. The number of overdue or delinquent accounts Rose from 8,100 in 1935 to 19,800 in 1987, with 300 accounts in excess of $10,000 and two totalling $34,000 each Conahan said. He said the total value of delinquent accounts Rose from j10 million in 1955 labout $15.4 million last year. Some of the Advance payments have been written off As a collectible and some were made to accounts bearing obviously fictitious names including that of Ludwig von Beethoven Conahan said in testimony before the subcommittee in october 1985, the slate department admitted that its travel operations were a mess and promised prompt corrective behaviour said rep. Jack Brooks a Texas the subcommittee chairman. Today we see the same Rotten ineptitude he  inspector general s report said that although operations have improved procedures still Are not in place to fully pro tort an inventory of some s3 million in travellers checks. Ift Csc deficiencies cannot be corrected the risk of loss to the department is so High that travellers Check operations should be discontinued the report said. Reporting on a Surprise audit of inc state Deport ment s principal cashier s office conducted Ian aug. 21, the inspector general s office found in almost total Lack of internal  the report said inspectors found there was no inventory of travellers checks no written operating procedures no controlled custody of funds minimal phys ical Security in the cashier s office and improperly trained and supervised personnel. The cashier s operation was so disorganized that state department records could not be used to deter mine How much Money had been embezzled the re port said. Instead investigators had to rely on the records of Citicorp the issuer of the checks. As of aug. 21, no documented procedures for cashiering operations  the report said. We observed travellers checks stored in an unlocked Supply Cabinet and on the floor in the cashier s office the report said. All of the boxes of travellers checks 20 or More boxes had been opened and checks had been issued randomly out of the boxes rather than a first a first out system for issuance it said. The aug. 21 audit the inspector general s report said showed 187,320 was missing and cashed of which at least $59.000 was found to be embezzled. It said the remaining 128,320 cannot be located. A additional j307.7bo in travellers Check Are mining but not yet cashed the report said adding that this includes five bundles of 11,000 checks valued at $250,000.  have not been Able to Karn if these checks were embezzled misplaced or accidentally or intentionally destroyed the report said. Me says hoppers must ring Down curtain on name new York a the Mitra pol bebop is a form of improvisation Itan opera has filed a lawsuit seeking to swing popularized by Charlie Bird Force a bebop band to Stop calling itself Parker and dizzy Gillespic. The metropolitan opera House Henry w. Laut Creslein general counsel in its trademark infringement suit against the jazz quintet. The Mel claimed the virtually identical name is Likely to cause confusion deception mistake. But John Marshall one of the found ing members of he metropolitan opera House tailed tuesday s lawsuit pretty silly because we re no threat to them in any Way. After All we re playing different kinds of  Henry w for the met declined to comment fur ther a Biog he d let court papers decide whether the band must change its tune. The lawsuit filed in . District court seeks a restraining order against metropolitan opera House to keep it from unfairly competing with the met after playing smoke filled dates and struggling to assert itself in the rough jazz business in is difficult for our group to Sec How we could possibly threaten the opera which seems to feel it has exclusive rights to the word metropolitan " said Marshall a 35-year-old Trumpler from Brooklyn. The opera House also wants the opera House to turn Over All in records labels advertising and anything else with the offending name for destruction. According to the lawsuit the metro Politan opera has been the metropolitan opera since 1883 and has even registered that name and met As Trade Marks. The Mel also sought on account ing of metropolitan opera Home s profits and unspecified damage for u legend wilful and Wanton unfair Competition and unfair business Pei Seei the lawsuit claimed the hoppers obviously intended to connote a connection or ass Odilom with the met and vat Maxim in name Good will and reputation. Not so said Marshall noting that his band founded 100 Yean after the met took its Moniker from a nid Njume for the Royal Roost a popular Manhattan Jetti club of the 9joi,