European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday july 26,1988 a sky Ful of daredevils up w Pilot Buzz Lynch foreground and three other dare Holiday inns. The other stunt pilots providing thrills for Devil aviators put their biplanes through a series of the crowd below Are team Leader to. Brown right aerobatics at a Dayton Ohio air show sponsored by Mike Vanwagenen upside Down and Randy Brooks. Proxmire wants to inaugurate presidential Bills Washington a Michael Dukakis or George Bush beware the next taker of the presidential oath of office May find the Federal government More miserly about pay ing part of the Tab when he kicks up his heels at the end of his first Day on the reason sen. William Proxmire d-wis., has slipped new rules into the conference report of the new defense authorization Bill now awaiting president Reagan s require the next presidential inaugural com Mittee to reimburse the defense department for equipment and personnel it supplies for inaugural balls and other private inaugural events. So Proxmire says when president Bush or presi Dent Dukakis Steps out on the dance floor at an invitation Only inaugural Ball next Jan. 20, the american taxpayer will no longer have to foot part of the Proxmire citing a recent general accounting office study said that when Ronald Reagan was inaugurate for the second time in 1985, Many of the events were largely planned staffed and executed by Federal employees at a Cost to the taxpayer of $ 15.5 the Pentagon alone spent $10 million Proxmire says. And it used 8,400 military served As vip escorts driving visit ing celebrities around the capital. The cars were Lent by american Auto makers but the Pentagon maintained them and filled the Gas tanks. Members of the inaugural committees had military Drivers for As Long As six served As escorts at inaugural events under orders to mix and mingle and to see that no guests were ignored. They also were used to set up the events themselves and to organize receiving lines once they were under photographers and cameramen took still and video pictures of the guests providing copies on request free of charge. They took tens of thousands of pictures a Proxmire staff member inaugural ceremony itself would not be included in the Bifi ing because by tradition and history it is a Public event. Nor would the inaugural Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol. Agency to probe reports of Mercedes problems Detroit Jupi the National Highway traffic safety administration has agreed to investigate reports of Sud Den acceleration problems on about 215,000 Mercedes Benz cars from the1984 through 1988 Model years a con Sumer safety group said monday. A safety Agency spokesman confirmed the Agency has begun an engineering Analy Sis into All models equipped with gasoline engines and automatic transmissions granting the petition for an investigation filed by the Center for Auto safety of Washington in a letter dated july 14. No Public announcement concerning the investigation was filed the Agency spokesman said. The Center for Auto safety petitioned the government to open the study in March. The latest investigation expands one started by the safety Agency last october which has been looking into reports of sudden acceleration on about 35,0001986 and 1987 Mercedes 300e sedans. Debra Barclay a spokeswoman for the safety group said about 215,000 cars Are affected by the latest investigation which is one of several probes now under Way by the safety Agency into unintended acceleration. In All about 4.7 million cars Are under investigation. Barclay said the Center has received a least 165 reports of sudden acceleration in the Mercedes cars with 125 accidents,46 injuries and one death linked to the alleged problem. Mercedes Benz spokesman . Shu Man said the West German luxury car maker would cooperate fully with the safety Agency. Group decries increase in financial planning fraud Washington up More than22,000 investors have been bilked of $400 million Over the past two years through fraud and abuse in the financial planning Industry state securities Regula tors said monday. Most disturbing is that we Are seeing substantial surge in the number of big ticket cases with investor losses in the eight figure Range said James Meyer president of the North american Securi ties administrators association. Meyer who also is director of the ten Nessee division of securities said a sur vey of 79 enforcement actions by 30 state securities agencies showed five cases in which losses in each swindle totalled $30 million or More. Those scams occurred in new York Illinois Missouri Oregon and Washington state. The group s Survey of fraud antabuse in the financial planning Industry was to be presented tuesday to the sen ate consumer affairs subcommittee which is looking into the fast growing largely unregulated financial planner Industry. The consumer federation of America believes there Are 400,000 financial plan ners in the United states. Virtually any one can put up a sign calling himself financial planner creating an enormous Opportunity for abuse and fraud. Legitimate financial planners including members of the International association of financial planners or the Institute of certified financial planners have Long expressed unhappiness Over the Rise of fraudulent activities by untrained unscrupulous or crooked planners. The states have stepped up criminal prosecutions of unscrupulous financial planners and also Are being armed with Tough new Laws and regulations aimed at bad Apple financial planners Meyer said. For example a Virginia financial planner convicted of embezzling $1.3million from 40 investors in eight states was sentenced to 222 years in prison. Windy City s airy indifference makes ban go up in smoke Chicago a despite a new anti smoking Law smokers were Light ing up monday in taxicabs Airport terminals bus stations subways and other forbidden has t been any difference today said Loice Wright a ticket agent with the Chicago transit authority. People Aren t paying any at Tention to the the Law which took effect sunday forbids smoking in enclosed Public places and requires employers to Des Ignate no smoking areas if requested by workers. Similar Laws have taken effect inner York los Angeles and other Cit ies around the , if non smokers Here were annoyed by smokers behaviour the police had t heard about supt. Leroy Martin has pointed out that the ordinance creating theban while it established fines of $25 to $ 100, did not give officers the Power of arrest. He s suggested that non smokers give dirty looks to people smoking where they should some non smokers Don t seem to Don t think it should be that big an Issue said non smoker jump Brien. Smoking has been a Way of life in this country for years. To take that away now is Frank Siemien who quit smoking two years ago said he does t like theban either. What else Are they going to take away he said. They la be coming into our bedrooms pretty soon and telling us what to do smoking in taxicabs also is outlawed taxi Driver Dean Davis Athree pack a Day smoker said ill smoke in my own cab no matter what the Law says. I will never Tell a Passen Ger not to
