European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes sunday May 29.1968 Dukakis Appeal won t Stop guard unit Panama training Boston a a detachment of Massachusetts National guard Public affairs specialists will Tram in Panama and Honduras despite the objections of nov. Michaels. Dukakis. The detachment was set to leave Early saturday for a two Day training session. Dukakis the democratic presidential front runner planned to spend the Day campaigning in California. Dukakis who opposes the Reagan administration s deployment of National guard troops in Central America has appealed a . District court ruling on May 6 thai upheld the legality of the assignment. James Dorsey the governor s press Secretary said Dukakis had no comment on the guard s departure. But he said Dukakis believes an important principle u at slake. We feel there s an important constitutional Issue involved concerning the 200 years of responsibility which slates and governors have had Over the peace Lime training of their militia forces Dorsey said Fri  detachment consist of 13 Massachusetts men and women who serve As writers and photographers in preparing the Massachusetts guard s quarterly news letter. During their two week assignment to Panama and Honduras they will observe . Forces in the Field and prepare accounts of their actions under realistic conditions of foreign assignment. A s important training for the unit. It will be Ger mane to their Overall mobilization training that they have this experience said it. Col. Stuart Taubert. Director of press relations for adjutant Oen. Wayne Wagner of the Massachusetts National guard. Mai. Warren Pierce. 39, of Duxbury commander of uie 65lh Public affairs Del said he had no reservations about the assignment. We re looking Forward to it he said. In january when the slate s request to be excused from the training Mission was denied by the Pentagon Dukakis and slate attorney general James Shannon filed suit charging that the orders violated the constitutional provision that left the training of the militia in the hands of the Stales. A similar suit filed by Minnesota gov Rudy per Pich was rejected by another Federal court and is also on Appeal. Drug dealers adopt a new lure tossing Money to kids from cars St. Paul Minn. A drug dealers Are toss ing Money out of their fancy cars in an Effort to lure youngster in a poor neighbourhood into the world of drug trafficking police say and dog there s Little they can do to Stop them. Whai do you charge them with littering ? they arc. They re throwing bits of paper out the car win Dow the problem is everyone is out there picking h up assistant City attorney Peter Warner said Fri  Monty handouts probably will not last Long said it. Richard Dugan head of the narcotics unit. Their motive is just to make themselves look Good. Other people look at them and say hey wow look at How Rich they Are " Dugan Saidy to Csc people Aren t enormously Rich. They re drug dealers but they re not million Aires. They re driving flashy cars and that s it. The rest of their life is  last week monday through wednesday several people police say Are Che cd to be involved in drug dealing began throwing Money mostly Dol Lar Bills from the Sun roofs of a Blue Mercedes a Black Mercedes and a Bow. There were some re ports of Bills As Large As $50 winding up in the grate Ful hands of neighbourhood youngsters. If you be been to a Parade and you know when the clowns come by and throw Candy and the kids All Scurry it s the same thing Warner said. Even though police know who the people Are they can t charge them with a crime because no Laws have been violated. While it s not against the Law to loss Money into the Street officials have considered citing the suspected dealers for littering or charging Ihm with creating a Public nuisance. City Council member Bill Wilson said he received reports of Chil Dren Ages 10 to is flocking after cars and picking up Money. Five dollars ten dollars even Twenty dollars just tossed out the window Wilson said. The even set up co Lesli among the kids and bet on who will win. I heard that the win ners get hundreds of  police said the amount of Money being tossed to Chil Dren has been diag grated. Dugan said be understands the concerns of parents in the neighbourhood bul he cautioned against overreacting. "1 think the whole thing is blown out of proportion he said. I think it s just a couple of isolated incidents. It does t have any significance As far As i m  bul members of the Summit University neigh boyhood say they re outraged by the handouts. I am shocked said the Rev. James w. Battle pastor of mount Olivet Baptist Church. It s a new one on me. It does t make sense to me. They Al ready have More people Selling drugs than they need stateside Bridge scaffold collapses injuring 4 ironworkers new York a four ironworkers fell 30 feet when a scaffold on the newly reopened Williamsburg Bridge collapsed Friday afternoon and one was hospitalized in serious condition authorities  four my suffered ice neck Back and Anvie injuries said Peter or Donnell. A police spokesman. James Molin 23, of Queens was in serious but stable condition with multiple fractures said Bellevue Hospital Center spokesman Peter Schictman. The others were evaluated in the emergency room he said. The Accident occurred around 4 20 . On the Brooklyn Side of the Span under elevated Railroad tracks that Lead onto the Bridge that links the Borough to Manhattan said Victor Ross spokesman for the department of transportation. Famous big band Arranger Dies at 77 in new York new York a by Oliver Jaa composer Arranger band Leader and one of the big bund Era s most influential and imitated arrangers died Friday of lung cancer. He was 77. Oliver gained Fame As trumpeter vocalist and Arranger with the Jimmie Lunceford band from 1933 to 1939. Sunny Side of the  my Blue heaven and Ain t she Sweet were among his Mast acclaimed arrangements. Oliver is ranked with Fletcher Henderson among the Era s top arrangers. His works include opus 1 " Tuin t what Eha do easy Don it swing High dream of you for dancers Only and yes  from the Fate 1950 he was a freelance Arranger for singers Frank Sinatra Ethel Merman Sammy Davis jr., Peggy Ltd to Stalford Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong bins Crosby the Andrews Sisters and the Mills Brothers. Shopping cart explosion forces evacuation of store Owensboro by. A a shopping cart a imploded into names when a customer unwittingly placed a tin can of household fuel Neil to a car Battery injuring the Man and forcing the store s evacuation workers said. Ronald Sweeney had placed a Lin of Coleman fuel used in Hurricane lamps Fondue pols and chafing dishes next to the Battery the Lin touched both posts of the gallery igniting he fuel said Kevin Bolin a department manager. The Hamas set fire to some paper and cloth items in the cart Bolin said. When i got there it was a big Ball of flames said Stock clerk Kelly Hamilton. Automatic sprinklers were activated and employees helped put out the Blaze with fire extinguishers As customers were hustled from the building. Sweeney was treated at Owensboro Daviss co my Hospital for Burns to an Arm and an ear and was released a nursing supervisor said. Writers to resume work for some to film firms los Angeles a after 12 weeks on the picket Oular. Seventy three Independent produce lion companies had signed the pacts by Friday writers Guild of America officials said. According to Union estimates the signings will put 200 to 400 writers Back to work. Aga members overwhelmingly approved the con tracts during voting in new York and los Angeles on thursday Union spokeswoman Cheryl Rhoden reported. Eighty six percent of the 2,016 writers build Mem Ben who voted endorsed the proposal she said. Negotiator for writers and the Alliance of motion picture and television producers agreed to continue their negotiations to completely resolve the strike. The two sides were to my in Small groups and have scheduled a formal bargaining session with a Federal Media Tor for tuesday. In the meantime the producers group downplayed the signing of the Independent produce lion companies As an insignificant episode in the a month old strike that has stalled preparations for the new fall television season. Alliance spokesman Herb Steinberg estimated thai the Independent contracts which give in to writers key pay demands cover about 1 percent of the Union s working members and none of the big production companies that make up the Backbone of the Industry group. Not one Alliance member is in this group Stein Berg said of the producers who had signed. Actor Michael Landon expressed gratification How Ever thai Michael Landon productions the company that produces his show Highway to heaven was Able to come to terms with the writers. The Only thing that mailers to me is Lylial it ends the strike for the people thai work for my company Landon said. They hive All been innocent victims and now they can All gel Back to  producer of other popular shows that signed agreements included the tonight show starring Johnny Carson it s Cany Shan Dlug s show and Alf however Steinberg said Many of those who had settled by Friday were one person writer producer companies including some that produce to shows that have been cancelled including the smothers Brothers new comedy show and Days and nights of Molly  bul Rhodon saw the defections As a break in management ranks and called it a symbolic Victory for striking writers. The three year waiver contracts Grant the striking writers key demand retention of the present formula for the residual payments that writers get for Syndi cation of one hour television shows. Producers Are seeking to lie the amount paid to writers to the level of Success or failure a show enc Oun leis in the syndication Market