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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. May 25,1988 guidelines Clearing up Zero tolerance drug policy Washington a the coast guard and customs service live refined the nay  anti drug policy in the Wale of highly publicized episodes in which expensive yachts were seized and then returned to their owners. We be issued guidelines to our people in the Field to. Make the guidance As Clear As possible As to whal is and is not a Case for  customs spokesman Dennis Murphy said monday. Included in the new guidelines arc rules for seizure of vessels on Lite High seas outside the country s 12 Rnic limit said Murphy and coast guard spokesman capt. Randall Peterson. Under inc guidelines government officials no longer will seize boats on the nigh seas simply because the vessels carry Small amounts of illegal drugs the boats will be seized Only if there is evidence that they Are being used to transport drugs into the United Stales the officials said. This is not a policy change just Clearing up a Gray area Murphy said. There were a couple of cases last week that raised some questions so we sat Down with the coast guard and transportation so everybody was armed with As much information As  among inc vessels seized under inc Zero tolerance policy and Ihnn returned to their owners was the at lantis ii owned by the Woods Hole oceanographic institution of Massachusetts which explored the wreck of the titanic. The vessel was seized in san Diego whip a crewman was found with a Small amount of marijuana. In Florida the const guard has boarded and confiscated the $2.5 million Ark Royal As Well As the Mon key business notorious As the Bahamas vacation boat of former presidential candidate Clary Han mental Donna Rice and their friends. Roth yachts carried Only minute amounts of drugs. There Are cases where one marijuana joint is sufficient for seizure hut you have to have the right set of circumstances Murphy said. It could be in the owner s Possession just outside the 12-mile limit but As he is heading to the United  if a Small amount of illegal drugs is in Plain sight on a vessel in the High seas and is seen by customs or coast guard officers hat will be enough evidence to bring the boat in for further search but it in t the same As seizure he said. In some of the cases we ran into we did t have enough evidence or a substantial enough Case to take it to forfeiture Murphy said. We thought we had an agreement on How to proceed Bui Wincn we got out into the held. We ran into some problems adm. Paul a. Yosl Comman Dant of the coast guard Laid the Washington Post for a Story in tuesday s editions. Whenever you put out a new policy there arc going to be ups and  the government Hopes Peterson said that by using the new procedures the Law enforcement agencies will be Able to hang onto the vessels once they re seized rather than having to return them in their owners this is not really a change in the policy on Zero tolerance Peterson said. "1 Hose arc isl some refine ments in How we enforce the  the new guidelines were issued la customs officers last Friday and to coast guard officers on saturday the officials said. Surrogate mothers launch drive against baby brokers Washington a a coalition of 17 surrogate mothers including landmark surrogate Mary Beth Whitehead Gould launched a Campaign monday to try to Force baby brokers in 12 Stales out of business. Try to help shut these places Down implored while head could whose precedent kiting baby a Story was inc subject of a network television movie this week. White had Gould whose Effort to void her Surro gating contract was upheld by the new Jersey supreme court called on slate Legal systems and the Media to join in a Campaign against surrogacy. Slip was accompanied by other members of the National coalition against surrogacy a group comprising lawyers doctors and 17 surrogate mothers. Coalition Leader Jeremy Rifkin said the group on monday sent petitions to attorneys general in 12 Stales where surrogate brokers Are known to operate. Such brokers charge a fee to set in agreements linking infer tile couples with women willing to Bear them a child. These Are the middlemen who have engaged in the uncut Scianablo acl of hiring women As breeders if Kin said. Rifkin said the coalition will mount a four pronged at tack against the brokers. Along with Legal pressure the group will attempt to marshal Public opinion in suites where brokers do business and try to Force the Issue of surrogate parenting into local and National politics. Finally Rifkin said the coalition will target newspapers that run advertising on Buchal Rof surrogate brokers or Agen cies we re going to put All the brokers on notice said Riftin an environmental activist who also has been critical of the new science of genetic engineering. States where brokers operate according to the coalition Are California Florida. Indiana Kansas. Kentucky Mary land Massachusetts Michigan new York Oregon Penn Sylvania and Washington. Gena Corca the coalition s co chairwoman accused Broncis of preying on lower income women who need the Money bul May not understand the implication of signing away unborn children. The surrogates arc often abused physically and psycho logically by broken cores claimed. We warn this surrogacy Industry gone. Let it Slop feed ing Lotour flesh Corea said. Surrogate Mother Lauri Yates of Michigan pleaded please before they wreck any More lives before they cause any More pain please close them  yales said stateside 2-year-old goes Home for first time since birth St. Louis a Little Calvin Lorick who weighed less than 2 pounds when he was bom nearly iwo years aft has gone in my from the Hospital Tor the first Lime in his life. Calvin was Ham june 25, 1986, at is. Mary s health Center two months premature and weighing Only i Pound ii ounces. He was transferred soon after to Cardinal Glennon children s Hospital. On monday Calvin weighing 17 pounds 10 ounces left for Home. His nurses crowded into his room and threw a joint away party. They took turn snuggling with him and gave him tastes of a chocolate cake that bore the message. Calvin we will miss  the youngster s parents Ella Pritchard and Calvin Lorick of is. Louis said hey were Over Joyed and apprehensive to be taking their son me of last. Miry Beth Whilt Litas Guild she gave up lick Wini to an infertile couple because she and her husband could t afford to raise them. Whitchead Gould became the nation s Best known sur Rogate after she refused to surrender her infant daughter la its biological fill her and his wife. A state court upheld the fall or sol 0,000 contract but the contract was voided in fcb Mary by the new Jersey supreme court even though the court allowed the girl s father. William Stem to main custody of the child. Last month writ Thad Gould struck an agreement with Stern giving her liberalized visitation rights. Trie Case is the subject of the made for a Elviston film baby a which aired sunday and monday on Abc. Whitchead Gould criticized Lite film As inaccurate i Joy hoi Bridge Box becomes Home for Peregrine Falcons Tarrytown . A a heavily trav eled Bridge near new York City is believed to contain the first Paraf Peregrine Falcons discovered nesting along the Hudson River in three decades. The Falcons behaviour indicates they arc tend ing to nestlings in a bos placed by conservationists in a lower of inc Tappan Zee Bridge Dennis Mildner curator of the museum of inc Hudson Highlands in com nil on Hudson said Mon Day the state department of environmental conservation and Cornell University have been try ing since 1974 to re establish Peregrine Falcons by rdc Asing More than 160 Young peregrines raised in Captivity in the Hopes they will mate. Conservationists know of at least 10 mating pairs in new York slate including two pairs on other new York cily Bridges. Mildner said people and pesticides have Dis Turbed inc peregrines traditional nesting areas in Cliffs above the Hudson but that nesting per Ches in Bridges afford a Cliff Lluc environment. Journalist Schoenbrun Dies in new York at 73 new York a David Schoenbrun a world War m  recruited for cats news by Edward r. Murrow and the first broadcast journalist to report from Vietnam has died Al age 73, David Schoenbrun was one of broadcasting s True originals said Howard Springer president of lbs news. His Access to in great newsman ers of Europe was cilia Ordinary and his under standing of foreign affairs remarkable he will be Long remembered by colleagues and audiences alike. Schoenbrun who ice chs in the 1960s to became a full time lecturer and commentator died monday Al Beth Israel i to spinal after suffer ing a heart attack said Many Appel a spokes Man for Pix to for whom Schoenbrun had done free Lance work. Young Moose Dies after being Tranquilli Zed Pullman Wash. Api a yearling Moose that rampaged across the Washington stale University pull course has died after authorities Iraq utilized it. Apparently the Moose started chasing peo ple and for his own safety they wanted id get him out of Here said Theresa Mart j. Director of support services for the Campus police depart ment. As it was disrupting golfers and stomping on fences saturday an attempt was made to sedate the animal so h could be returned to nearby Moscow Mountain. But University police said in a statement that the animal apparently had an Adverse reaction to the drug in the  officials at inc College of veterinary medi Cine were performing an autopsy on the Moos 10 determine the exact cause of death  
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