European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. June 19,1986 romantic plans Muke a female Gorilla pern through the ban of her age at the zoo id Gulf Breeze a. Moke on loan from the St. Louis zoo was brought in Golf Breeze o be mated with a male named coining reputed to be the largest Gorilla in Captivity. Japan air lines charged with unfair practices Chicago up United airlines Friday accused Japan air lines of engaging in discriminatory and anti competitive practices restricting the . Airline s acres co the japanese Market. United spokesman Dan Sheehy said the airline would file a complain with the department of transportation in Washington possibly As Early As Friday accusing Jal of violating the International air trans port fair competitive practices acl the complaint Shehy said accuses Jal of seeking to perpetuate a monopoly on computer reservation services in Japan by refusing to allow uni cd s Apollo services com Puter reservation system to write tickets on Jalin Japan. White we regret that we have to take a step As serious As this filing we must protect our rights to do business in Japan said John r. Occman United executive vice president for marketing and planning. The United complaint accused Jal of engaging i discriminatory and Ami competitive practices that re strict United s Access to the japanese markets. Shehy said United has spent More than two years trying to obtain the right to Issue tickets on Jal in Japan but that All efforts have proved fruitless. United officials charged that Jal a refused to sign the International air transport association form tick cd a riling agreement required by the japanese Bank settlement flan. The United complain said Jal s refusal to permit Apollo services o write tickets on Jal in Japan effectively denies United the right to Market Apollo to japanese travel agents and interferes with the airline s ability to compete in the air transportation business in Japan. Jal s denial of Access to United and Covia themual corp. Subsidiary that operates Apollo in Japan is inconsistent with the Basic principles of reciprocity and is detrimental to the commercial relationship be tween the United Stales and Japan Cernan said. Lawmaker says he s ashamed he considered laundered loan Clarkston a. A rep. Pal Swindall apologized Friday for considering a proposal to finance a is million Home with laundered drug and gambling Money saying he was wrong and ashamed but will still run for re election. The Republican congressman said his political future should be left up to the voters of Georgia s 4th District in Atlanta s Eastern suburbs. I was wrong to have Ever considered such a proposal to have discussed it Swindall said. I was wrong not to have gone to the authorities be fore 1 he said however that he made the rigid decision in walking away from the Deal before he got in Loo deep. I do know the difference Between right an wrong Swindall said at a news conference. Did not break the Law or do anything Swindall who appeared to choke Back tears while making his opening statement apologized to his sup porters and family for making them Bear this Bur Den Swindall said he would continue his Campaign for re a Lection because there is not another candidate who will reflect the majority View of this District in he said he has no ill will for the Federal investigators because he thinks what they were doing is exactly what they should be i think the drug situation in this country is such that we need Sling operations he said. The Atlanta journal and the Atlanta Constitution reported thursday thai transcripts of tapes made secretly by Federal authorities show Swindall was told Money he was seeking to borrow for a Home in Slone Mountain might be illegal drug or gambling profits. The Lapes were made by internal Revenue serv ice agent Michael Mullaney. Mullaney posing a Money broker for underworld figures was investigating Charles lec Hasney when the Atlanta Busi Nessman brought in Swindall to negotiate an $850,000 loan. La Chancy was indicted in february on Federal Money laundering charges Swindall said he did receive a $ 150,000 Check at one Point but he returned it uncashed. He said he terminated All dealings with lec Hasney when he began to stupid the Money was painted. A . Congressman ought to be totally above re proach he said. "1 was t above reproach. I will say that i have never been As ashamed about anything As i am ashamed about what i have Georgia democratic party chairman John Henry Anderson sent rep. Newt Gingrich r-ga., a Teller of complaint against Swindall asking Gingrich to sign it and Forward it to the House ethics committee. Gingrich who filed a complaint hat has Ted loan ethics probe of House speaker Jim Wright a Texas said thursday he would look into a possible investigation. Swindall at his news conference said he would Welcome such an investigation As Well As any other probe. Earlier Friday Guy Davis an Atlanta lawyer who was the Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1986, said he met with lec Hainey in jail Early this year and was warned Swindall would be politically damaged by the laundering investigation. State party leaders were told of the warning and rejected suggestions that they get another candidate into he race for Swindall s seat said two participants in the discussions Davis and Rich Richardson an Atlanta businessman and past financial contributor los Windall. Some believed that fat was such a or. Clean Guy that he d come oui of it Richardson recalled. Because the qualifying period has ended no name other than Swindall s can appear on the Republican primary ballot write in Voles arc not allowed in the aug. 9 Pri Mary so any Republican other than Swindall wishing to run would have to wage a write in Campaign in november against the Winner of the three Way demo cratic primary said Lee Raudonis executive director of the Georgia Republican party. Stateside Faa approves design of new business plane Washington not the design of thesta ship an unusual looking plane that is the first pressurized aircraft made or composite material has been accepted by the Federal aviation administration. The plane which was developed by the Beec aircraft corp., is made of layers of Graphite fabric surrounding a Core of honeycombed Nome a syn thetic lightweight material made by Dupont. When cured under High temperature and pres sure adhesive resins Bond the layers together into structures stronger and lighter than alumni num traditionally used in aircraft construction. Beech a subsidiary of he Raythelon co., has orders for More than 50 Slars rips which redesigned to be used As business planes. The aircraft has an unusual Forward Wing on it nose and Large vertical wingtips on the main wings instead of the usual Tail. It also has its Turboprop engines mounted in the rear which puts passengers ahead critic engine noise and vibration. . Hispanic population May pass 22 million by 90 Miami up a statistician for the census Bureau Friday that the hispanic population in the United states will Likely surpass 22 million in the 1990 census. Thai unofficial estimate based in part on newly recorded trends in Binh death and Mien lion among hispanic would represent an in crease of More than to percent since 1980. Edward by. Fernandez a demographic statistician Al the census Bureau said hispanic rep resent one of the fastest growing segments of i depopulation. Conservationists report sightings of 2 Wolf pups Manteo . Cap two pairs of red wolves Ihal were released into the wilderness have produced pups a Milestone in wildlife officials efforts to re introduce the Spucci into its natural habitat conservationists say. The sightings of two Wolf pups Mark the first time that a species previously extinct in the wild has successfully produced offspring after being returned to its natural environment said Michael Phillips a biologist Al the Alligator River National wildlife Refuge near Mameo. The animals have been declared extinct in the wild since 1980. Postal workers among 69 indicted in mail theft Case Chicago a complaints of missing checks and other valuables at Post offices in Illi Nois have led o charges against 69 people a stealing Money from the mail forging signatures and fencing property a . Attorney says. Twenty nine of those named in indictments arc postal service employees Many of whom worked together in Small rings said . Attorney Anton Valukas. Most of the stolen securities were . Trea sury checks Valukas said. Bui he could not say what amount the theft totalled or How Many people May have been also said Many of the stolen securities were welfare checks placing an immense Burden on those least Able to afford cemetery strike continues 300 bodies await burial san Francisco adj More than 300bodies remain unburied durig the third week of a cemetery workers strike South of the City and some of the 17 funeral Homes warned they soon May run out of storage space for caskets. We have ample storage space for about a month said Gene tessem an combat mar at White Oaks Chapel in san Carlos. But soon we might have to move to storing the bodies in funeral Hornet Are bearing an unfair Burden said Ivana Flynn administrator at Crippen and Flynn funeral Home in Redwood City. Ii should be against the by she said. Human bodies being Sluck somewhere wait Anglo be buried. I Don t think that s
