European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pagan the stars and stripes Friday May 27.19bb Howard Beach Case new York a one of the Sovin remaining defendants the Howard Beach Case Pulci " guilty to it lpns riot charges fuck Day  selection inured in the be Coral rial a temping from the alleged racial attack Salvatore Pasiro he 20, also pleaded guilt of Misdemeanour charge of  facilitation for driving my Medb of a White Gangon dec. 20, during Hifp Lei Ira dieted cat Chi him in a policy which Desimony con attributed to it about the 1e\ 23-year-oldmieha/1 Griffith dead after he was strut and killed by a car on Anca a Highway. Bing s wife arrested new York a the wife or Forrow metropolitan open in Presari sir Rudolf Bing has been arc Slmaa second time after she kept Herf husband out late in Vio lation on a court Ordor. Police said. L Carroll Douglass bring 48, was charged with Violaj Fng the court dec Chron and with Lull said sol. Order of third degree 1 Raymond c spokesman. She was s6-year-ol Nncel a police a cd id have her and who suffers from Alth mar swis Casc Back to their apartment re 9 p.m., but they we about 1\o hours late tuesday said q Donvell who did not mow where he couple had pc nine evening. Ten when she did Velum she Gol involved in a dispute with a 40-year-old nurse pushing her against a Wall and bruising her head he said. Armenians strike Moscow a hundreds of armenians went on strike and staged a protest March monday in a flare up of ethnic unrest in a disputed Region in the caucasus mountains a resident said. The resident said that several Hundred people stayed Home from work and marched from Down town Stepan Akert the City at the heart of the dispute 10 an Armeni an cemetery. The resident spoke by Telephone but Hung up the receiver before a reporter could ask his name and the purpose of the strike and March. Other Telephone Calls to Stepan Akert did not to through or were unanswered. Gold Cord Victory new York up a court ruling that permits Mastercard International inc. The continued use of the term Gold card was hailed by the company s presi Dent Russell e. Hogg As a Victory for Consumers Mastercard said . District judge Charles Cuner ruled against the claim by american express that Gold card is an Amer ican express trademark. In dismissing the american express lawsuit the judge ruled thai Gold card is generic term american express hied the suit Alicr a Mastercard and Campaign claimed the cold Mastercard is the world s no. 1 Gold card  Trade deficit figures a Jow 5-Yearocord 12.7%decline Washington a the . Trade deficit shrank by 12.7 percent from january through March the biggest improvement in five years the government reported wednesday. The Commerce department reported that the difference Between what the United Stales imports and what it Export Ted s35.9 billion for uie first three mail Luis of 1988 Dowie from a Fedt Fufa bit lion in the last three met Sahw. The 12.7 percent ecu id represented a dramatic Lunian Usu ii a deficit that has steadily worx Nawur the last five years. Twas the biggest quarterly improvement since an4k9 percent decline in the fourth ofl9fl2, of gurus Jirol Rcd an in  shown up inthe Depa numb monthly merchandise Trade  figures showed a rec tit drop in Fth deficit to 136 Bil Hin the tint Quarter mannered to j43.1 i on in the fourth. Qicu1cr.s wednesday s figure arc  they subtracted Racoon such As the Woof shipping and insurance and military do from he monthly numbers. The balance-"1 of payments deficit is also adjusted for sea Sonal variations the monthly figures Are not the improvement in the first Quarter reflected the fact thai exports climbed fas Ter than imports although both hit an Tim highs. Exports jumped 9.8 percent to a record $74.7 billion while imports Rose 1.3 percent to a record is 10.6 billion the administration is counting on Strong port sales to provide close to half of total economic growth in the United slates this year. The figures for the firs Quarter show that this estimate is on track president Reagan has also pointed to the  in the Trade deficit As an for passing projectionist Trade rth Tagan on tuesday vetoed the omnibus Iradel Syria warns kidnappers not to harm hostages Beirut newspaper reports Beirut a Syria has warned kidnappers that any harm done to West Ern hostages in Lebanon would be an infringement of Syria s Security the Independent Beirut newspaper an Naha reported wednesday. The daily cited no source for its 13 word report which failed to say How an when the warning was conveyed or what would be the syrian reaction if the warn ing was not heeded. Fears for the it hostages including nine americans have been aroused by almost three weeks of fighting Between iranian backed fundamentalists and pro syrian shiite moslem militiamen in Bei rut s Southern slums most of the kidnapped foreigners in Lebanon Are believed held in tic pm billed slums by a arc most factions affiliated with Hezbollah or party of god Iran s main ally in Lebanon. Hezbollah s fighters have seized control of 95 percent of the slums in the fighting with Justice minister Nabih bar Ris syrian armed amal Mitizia. Police say 296 people have been killed and 1,000 wounded since the hostilities broke out May 6. They said Hezbollah appeared id Bema shaling is forces wednesday for a push into the sprawling Shaiyah District to Lush out amal from its last remaining stronghold in the slums. Sporadic Shell blasts resounded across Beirut wednesday morning but police said no new casualties have been reported from the fighting in inc slums. Syria has 7,500 troops 100 tanks and 400 armoured vehicles massed in Hills and dunes surrounding the slums a Warren of 16 Square Miles of narrow alleyways and Cement Block shanties. But a dispute with Iran Over ways of ending the fighting has delayed a Syria push into the slums. Acting prime minister Salim Hoss apparently alarmed by Hezbollah s Triumph travelled to Damascus wednesday. Several Beirut radio stations said he would officially Roq isl Syria s military intervention to halt the fighting in the slums. Hezbollah s expansion heralds the fall of West  warned a front Page head line in the conservative Beirut newspaper i Anwar. West Beirut has h predominantly Sunn moslem population. Us Finis g iranian patriarch Aya Lallah Ruhollah Khz Meini  fundamentalism arc sold out for memorial Day weekend \ Germany Sis recreation Center Garmisch West the  hooded wit Hills wednesday from people wanting to unt. Advantage of Sud Den room vacancies cafe red when several groups cancelled conf Rehta an afr spokesman said. Many were  were looking for open tags for the upcoming memorial Day weekend which is booked solid Harry Connors said. We have plenty of rooms available just not any for the memorial Day weekend. Thai to Cunsold out for sometime  conferences normally arc booked for three or four Day blocks during the week. We never Book conferences Over holidays Connors said. While the Confer ence cancellations freed a lot of r during the week it had Tittle Imam weekend vacancies at the  in Carmich and Berchul Ngalaen. Individuals  vacancy to fit their plans sign risk to be put on the waiting  said. Because of the . With Short notice  arc gets about 20 per Nancel lations on room reservations said. If someone cancels the reservation desk will attempt to reach the nent per son on the wailing  envoy jailed of drug charges is refused bail Miami a a Federal magistrate ruled tuesday that the honduran ambassador to Panama must remain in jail on cocaine charges and a prosecutor said the suspect apparently was a mule who limply transported the drug. Rigoberto Regalado Lara 49, was arrested May is at Miami International Airport after 26 pounds of cocaine was discovered in his Luggage. He was immediately stripped of Luis diplomatic immunity by Honduras i Tiivi vials. Who said he also would Yepras ecu led there if he returned hone assistant . Attorney Jtj Dilio Diaz a s hearing before Kiel Smargon that Here it Nojami dance Regalado was a major Plawin the drug Trade. It looks As if All he is is a to Piura mule to just happened to i a it Duran Arnof chador said dial. A Rule is a Low sevc figure who carries the drugs across Boi Bui Regalado s Atuf Eicy David Roth Man said his client Waon Nocent and he had proof. There is a witness in Honduras who can provide a reasonable Al innocent Eipl Nalion for the presence of the co Caine Goihman said. A Catado will plead innocent Roi Hamaji said. He sought unsuccessfully to have his client freed on bail from the metropol Itan correctional cedi or where Etc shia do has been held since his arrest. But Diaz called the ambassador an Estrems risk of night noting that if he Salado fled to Honduras he could not be extradited Back to the United states. Smargon ordered Regalado to remaining custody without Bond but said the Issue could be raised again at an arraign ment hearing scheduled tuesday. No gels 21 years in Priston for killing son Raf alconj1ury, England is a 37-year-qh no was sentenced 10 21 years in prison wednesday after pleading by fully to charges of beating Bis 22-Monl fold son to death earlier this year. Tacic sol. Sieven h. Webber a supervisor with the 2l�ath comm so was found Guilly of the unpremeditated Mur Der of his son Nathan said i Steve scholar a base spokesman. The boy died in a Hospital March four Days after Webber beat him about the head at his on base Home. Webber from sail Lake City Utah also was liven a dishonourable Dis charge and was demoted to airman Basic during his two Day Genera court martial. Scholar said. The airman who was tried convicted Luid sentenced by the judge maj. Edward a was found not guilty on a a tinted of aggravated assault a who was in custody at the my facility at Raf  March a has a wife and children aged 2/ l and 7, scholar said