European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday july 27,1988 news briefs Reagan sends Canadian Trade Bill to Congress Washington up president Reagan heralding a new Era of growth Opportunity and Friendship sent Congress legislation monday to implement a  free Trade agreement and to create the largest free Trade relationship in the world. Throughout North american history when Ever and wherever Trade barriers have been Low ered we be seen our economies Bloom like Mountain Meadows Reagan said during a White House ceremony. And this agreement is a Sun rising on a new morning of vitality for the United states and  promising vast numbers of new jobs and opportunities on both sides of the Border Reagan sent the legislation to Congress which under fast track rules has 90 legislative Days to approve or reject it without amendment. The legislation has been approved in principle by the appropriate committees and is All but certain to Clear the full Congress. The Trade pact signed Jan. 2 by Reagan and Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney after difficult negotiations would remove most tariffs and non Tariff barriers Between the two coun tries Over 10 years creating the world s largest free Trade relationship. King of hashish smugglers arrested at med mansion Palma de Majorca Spain up the Leader of the world s biggest hashish smuggling ring was arrested at his Mediterranean mansion As part of an International sweep by american British and Spanish authorities officials said. Dennis Howard Marks was arrested monday on the Day a 14-count Federal indictment was unsealed in Miami charging him and 21 others with narcotics violations racketeering and Money laundering. The organization has smuggled hundreds of thousands of tons of marijuana from Thailand and hashish from Pakistan into the United states since the Early 1970s, said Jack Hook a . Drug enforcement administration spokes Man in Miami. Carlucci to visit air base naval Sites in soviet Union Washington a defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci is expected to make an unprecedented visit to a soviet air base near mos cow and naval facilities on the Black sea during a visit to the soviet Union beginning next week a senior department official said tuesday. Carlucci is scheduled to leave Washington on thursday rest in Helsinki Finland arrive in Moscow on monday and travel to Sevastopol in the soviet Crimea before heading for Turkey next thursday said the defense department official. While in Moscow Carlucci is expected to visit the general staff military Academy in Moscow the Lubinka air base about 30 Miles West of the soviet capital and a base housing the Truman division an element of soviet ground forces. He. Is expected to Fly to Sevastopol on wednesday. Former aide says Meese probably broke the Law from Page 1 also infringed the provisions of the gratuity statute. A possible defense against a gratuity charge being applied to or. Meese is that All of the things of value he received from or. Wallach were done in the name of Friendship and had no relation to any of the official acts performed by or. Meese which benefited or. Wallach Weld said. My conclusion was that there were simply too Many official acts performed by or. Meese to Benefit or. Wallach and too Many things of value conferred by or. Wallach on or. Meese for a prosecutor to con clude As a matter of fact or Law that the gratuity provisions. Would not  not Only did or. Meese perform Many official acts for the Benefit of or. Wallach but his efforts in that regard were unusual in the Case of we tech the Oil pipeline and Meese s decision following a receipt of a memo from Wallach on behalf of the regional Bell Telephone companies. In return or. Wallach appears to have become Over time the financial Johnny on the spot for or. Meese said Weld. According to Weld As Well As an 814-Page report by Independent counsel James Mckay some of the items of value which were provided to Meese by Wallach included Legal services for which Wallach did not charge Meese arranging to provide Meese with the services of financial manager w. Franklyn Chinn and helping arrange a $40,000-a-year Job for Meese s wife Ursula. Weld said that he had outlined his views of Meese s culpability to president Reagan and vice president George Bush As Well As congressional leaders and other White House aides. It is Well documented that or. Wallach enjoyed unparalleled Access to or. Meese and saw him frequently throughout the time or. Meese was in the White House and at the Justice department Weld said. I concluded that if or. Meese were an Ordinary Public official he would be prosecuted under the gratuity Law. When i was the . Attorney in Boston we successfully prosecuted building inspectors who accepted gifts from friends who maintained they merely wanted to get in Good or say thanks or expedite an otherwise lawful official action. And when i was head of the Justice department s criminal division in Washington i reviewed and approved the indictment of a sitting . Congressman who took an action to Benefit a company in his District and received two free trips to Florida from a business and social acquaintance who had an interest in the company. The congressman was indicted and convicted of a violation of the gratuity  the Federal gratuity Law is a felony punishable by up to two years in prison. Mckay came to the conclusion that Meese had not vi9lated the gratuity statute based largely on the conclusion that the things of value that passed Between Wallach and Meese were done in the name of Friendship. Marcos from Page 1 National  representatives of Marcos Are talking with philippine officials including Aquino s brother Jose Cojuangco and the philippine ambassador to the United states Emmanuel Pelaez trying to work out the $5 billion Deal according to a. James Gregor a univer sity of California at Berkeley political science professor. Gregor who has been in direct Contact with the Marcos Camp in Hawaii and with . Officials in Washington d.c., said Marcos has agreed to stay out of filipino politics stay out of the capital of Manila and support Aquino if he is allowed to return. But the ousted ruler accused of siphoning billions of dollars from the National Treasury during his tenure As president has asked that his son Ferdinand Marcos jr., be allowed to run for political office perhaps for governor of the family s Home province of Locos Norte Gregor said. Asked about the $5 billion offer Pelaez said you have Long ears. I m not sure whether i can walkabout it or not. I d rather you did t ask  Marcos spokesman in Honolulu Gemmo Trinidad however quoted Marcos As saying the report about a $5 billion offer is totally  the president Marcos told me negotiations Are going on but they do not involve any Money trin Idad told the associated press. He said he had no information on who was participating in the negotiations. Estimates of the amount of Money allegedly diverted from the philippine Treasury by Marcos and his associates Range from $1 billion to $ 10 billion. The alleged $5 billion offer was so High it reportedly caught philippine officials by Surprise and raised suspicions As to How much Money he May have put away. That s Why the negotiations Haven t been easy Gregor said. Everyone in the Philippines is saying if he s got $5 billion maybe he s got $40  bases from Page 1 Able one and that we should stick to  he declined to elaborate saying revealing More details could create More difficulties. The Manila government is pressing for an increase in the $ 180 million it receives annually from Washington for use of the bases. Before the talks began Mang Lapus said $ 1.2 billion annually would be More  the talks Are held every five years to review terms of the 1947 agreement allowing the United states to maintain Clark a Subic Bay naval base and four smaller installations. . Spokeswoman Mary Carlin Yates told the associated press in a Telephone interview that the break was temporary and that the . Side headed by ambassador Nicholas Platt expects the talks to resume  she denied that the . Panel approved a joint statement that was read to reporters. It said there was a substantial disagreement on the compensation Issue As a result of which the philippine panel moved for the suspension of the  As has happened several times in the past there has been a temporary break in the talks Yates said. We do not consider the talks suspended. Such temporary Breaks occur from time to time particularly when one Side needs time to consider a proposal from the  during previous interruptions however neither Side had described the talks As  in pre Vious instances spokesmen for both sides said talks had been temporarily recessed because of foreign travel by negotiators or to allow time to study proposals. Sergeant from Page 1 in the Mountain View subdivision about9 30 . Monday when gunmen opened fire with m-16 rifles. His Home is about one mile from the base s main Gate. The assailants also killed his two Ger Man Shepherd dogs police added. Police officers who spoke on condition of anonymity said a preliminary investigation indicated the killing May have been the result of a marital dispute. They said Blackmer was estrange from his filipino wife and was living with another woman. Police picked up the wife Maria for questioning late monday but said no charges had Bee filed. Blackmer was the first american serv ice member slain in the Philippines since october when communist rebels killed two air Force enlisted men a retired air Force sergeant and a filipino civilian . Ancestry. But a filipino investigator who also requested anonymity said the style of the killing and weapons used did not fit the pattern of guerrilla attacks. Rebel assassination teams normally use .45-caliber pistols and fire at close Range he said. In the other incident . Official said Esther Billa Heacox 41, wife of Navy Petty officer James a. Heacox was found fatally stabbed late sunday about three Miles North of Clark a. Master sgt. James Katzman of the Clarnc Public affairs office said mrs. Heacox s body was found in the car after witnesses saw the vehicle run off the Road and two filipino males flee. Her husband assigned to a Navy communications station in nearby Tarlac province said the victim left their Home to drive to Clark and was carrying about $150, which was missing. A base spokeswoman air Force  Jadick said . Authorities had not imposed any new restrictions on the nearly 26,000 american troops de sense department civilians and dependents living in this City of some 200,000