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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 10, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 7 Mickey turns 60 Mickey mouse is 60 Yean old and what at Mickey s Home at the magic kingdom better person to acknowledge the Happi in Breiu Vista Fla to help Cut birthday Ness he has Brou tit to millions than cake. She was in town to recognize a Foster Nancy Reagan the first lady dropped in Nui parents program. Military can t halt drug smuggling Gao report says Washington Cap throwing american military might into the Light against drug smugglers won t work be cause suppliers will find a Way to meet the growing demand in the United Stales the head of the congressional general accounting office said wednes Day. As Long As he demand slays High scaling the Borders probably in t realistic comptroller general Charles Bowsher told the Senate armed services committee. Asked if adding . Military forces to the overworked civilian Law enforcement agencies will help Cut drug smuggling Bowsher replied. I Don t think we have any statistics that show hat s going to  military assets Are Only a Mai final assist to the anti drug efforts he said. Bowsher s assessment was offered As the committee opened a series of hear Ings into proposals la have the Pentagon become More deeply involved in the anti drug Effort. The House last month voted to order president Reagan to have the armed forces essentially Seal . Borders against smugglers. The Senate approved a less expanded military role but did de cide to give Navy officers arrest Powers for drug boats seized in International Waters. The two proposals were added la each chamber s defense budget Bill for the Fis Cal year starting oct. 1. Differences be tween the measures including the anti drug provisions will be worked out by a House Senate conference committee. Military officials have opposed a wider Pentagon role in the drug War say ing the armed forces Lack the necessary training and equipment. Sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the armed services committee chairman said it was time to set aside rhetoric and Pas Sion and make significant improvement in the War on  Virginia s John Warner the lop re publican on the panel said con Gress is on a Stam Pede and we need some direction. We need to try and Corral this Stam Pede and Point in in the right  Bowsher said Federal officials estimate they Are seizing Only 10 per Nunn com 0 25 percent of the cocaine and 10 percent of the mar Ijuana being illegally imported into the United states. In addition he noted increasing the Mil itary Rote would be a significant Depar Ture from this country s longstanding tradition of separating National defense and civilian la enforcement  that separation s chief Legal express Ion is the posse comm Hatus act an i87s Law that bars using the military to enforce civilian taws. It was amended seven years ago to permit the military to help in the anti drug Effort but that Aid has chiefly been limited to a supporting role. The Mili tary s major Effort has been spotting and tracking suspected drug boats or planes. The Federal government is now spend ing three times More Money on reducing the Supply of drugs than on reducing de Mand according to a Gao study. But the watchdog Agency concluded that despite the increased funding there is a continuing heavy demand for drugs by .  panel probes quashed charges Washington a a House subcommittee is investigating allegations thai Justice department officials improperly quashed a criminal indictment of the wife of syndicated columnist George will a source said wednesday. Susa to which reported on the congressional investigation said former . Attorney Joseph Digenova intervened 10 Stop the indictment overruling the Strong recommendation of his assistant prosecutors. The Case involved Madeline will an assistant Secre tary of education and wife of the conservative columnist who is a close Friend of Nancy Reagan and was a Campaign debate coach for president Reagan. The Case concerned the submission of false travel vouchers wrongful use of a government limousine and Driver and keeping an employee on the government payroll for months after the employee stopped work ing. Dig Nova reached at Home wednesday by the associated press said the report that he stopped an indictment of mrs. Will was totally inaccurate and thai he acted Only after receiving the consensus of career non politically appointed prosecutors in the department. Neither mrs. Will nor her husband could be reached for comment wednesday evening. Vintage German wine going sour Baltimore up the . Marshals service is trying to sell More than 10,000 cases of Vintage West German wine that has been silting in a City warehouse for 18 months and is close to becoming sour grapes. An auction held tuesday in . District court failed to produce a buyer and therefore prolongs the agony for the 4-year-old wine nobody wants to pay for. The wine which arrived in Baltimore in january 1986 aboard three polish Ocean line freighters was being auctioned for $60.000, Well below its original Price tag of 1250,000, officials said wednesday. Perhaps what scared off potential buyers Wai the apparent deterioration of the 126,084 bottles of wine ii has been sitting in a warehouse for 18 months growing older but not graciously. In most cases agin would increase the value of the drink but the shipment in question has been silting upright a position detrimental for corked spirits. The wine West German Pic reporter Nabinett Zeller Liebra Milch and Mosel Krisling was destined . For a Kentucky distributor but the distributor never showed up with the Cash. Polish Ocean lines lawyers unsuccessfully tried to negotiate payment of their freight fees from inc rec a the West German firm that shipped the wine and then filed suit against the wine itself in an Effort to collect. Suing the wine created a Federal lieu a , Peggy Chaplin a lawyer for polish Ocean lines claimed experts have tasted the wine and said it is turning into sour grapes. 6 guardsmen die in crash of c-130 Greenville miss. A a military transport plane crashed and burned in a fireball wednesday near the Greenville Airport killing he six air National guardsmen aboard authorities and witnesses said. The aircraft a four engine Turboprop c-130 used to transport troops and equipment crashed about a mile North of the Airport around 2 40 . The aircraft was assigned to the 1 b9ih tactical air lift group of the Arkansas air National guard and was on a training Mission said maj. Jim Bates Public affairs officer at Little Rock fab four bodies were recovered by late wednesday and the remains of the two others were believed under the wreckage said col. Dennis Wood another spokesman for the base. A spokeswoman for the air Force base a. I a Debo Rah Doyle identified the dead As maj. Andrecs r. Zwaan. 39, a Pilot with the 189lh tac air lift group at the Arkansas air National guard based in Little Rock staff sol. David Bingham 24, a member of the 181st tac air lift so at Hensley Field in Texas 2nd it. Mark r. Brandt 24, of the 180th Tae air lift so at Rosecrans municipal Airport at St. Joseph to. 2nd it. Thomas d. Lecce 28, whose Home unit is the 934lh tac Airlift group of Minneapolis and master sets. Edwin j. Smith jr., 35, and Danny w. Holland 39, both assigned to the 189th. Bates said a Board of officers will investigate the Accident  
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