European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 15, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 cafes to continue carrying sewing supplies by Charlie Bowde Munich Bureau Munich West Germany while slumping sales Are forcing Many stateside exchanges to close their sewing centers cafes Europe will continue to carry fabrics patterns and sewing notions. Cafes Europe sewing centers Are alive a dwell cafes Europe purchasing chief Roger Dix said discounting a recent article in the army time that gave the impression cafes was planning to shut Down the centers because of poor sales. That s predominantly in the states / Dix  an overseas environment As in Europe there s a much greater demand for clothing made at Home. We cannot afford to close All of our sewing  while sales of fabrics and sewing notions have declined steadily at stateside exchanges during the past four years sales in european exchanges have been on the upswing. At . Exchanges sales dropped from about $18.5million in fiscal 1984 to $8.9 million last year Accord ing to the Exchange s annual financial and statistical summary. Although european exchanges experienced a slight drop in sales from 1984 to 198s, sales since have increased to $9.1 million in 1987. Worldwide sales also show a drop during that period from $31 million in 1984 to $22.3 million last  sewing depart ment historically accounts for less than 1 percent of total retail sales. As at most retail sales organizations demand Dic tates Stockage Dix said. We do what the customer tells us he said. We May change some we May add categories to some and we May delete depending on what is moving and whats not that s the same in every department not just sewing  demand for fabrics in european exchanges has gone through an up and Down Cycle apparently linked to the Rise and fall of the Dollar against foreign Curren  the Dollar was Strong fabric sales dramatically dropped and officials began to Cut Back Pur chases. But when the Dollar crashed customer de Mand for fabrics and other sewing essentials jumped. At present there appears to be customer demand i Europe although sales have levelled and Are beginning to show a slight decrease Dix said. Still cafes Europe purchases of fabrics for 1988were More than double the 1986 order of $2 million. The current order includes More than 330 different styles of fabric from 40 companies. Random drug tests again blocked by judge san Francisco a govern ment weather forecasters have become the latest group of Federal employees to successfully Challenge the Reagan administration s random drug testing program. In blocking the testing . District judge Robert Schnacke on Friday cite the government s admission that no in stances of drug abuse or drug related safety problems have Ever been documented among National weather serv ice meteorologists. The testing was scheduled to begin aug. 26. Justice department lawyer Richar Hertling contended no such evidence was needed to allow drug testing of forecaster whose misjudgment conceivably could kill 300 or 400 people flying in a jumbo Jet in a storm. There s no need to wait for an Accident like that to  three other Federal judges two in san Francisco and one in Washington have blocked drug testing programs for Federal workers including Federal prison employees most of the veterans administration staff and Justice department employees. Another judge in san Francisco has upheld Post Accident drug testing of air traffic controllers. The programs Stem from president Reagan s september 1986 executive order calling for testing of employees in sensitive Federal jobs. The Commerce department which includes the National weather service has declared that All meteorologists and technicians hold sensitive jobs an should be subject to random urine test ing with about 5 percent to be tested each year. Illegal drug use would be grounds for removal from the Job. Richard him a lawyer for the 1,000-member National weather service employees organization said the random drug testing program covers about 3,800 weather service employees including supervisors and non Union members. Hirn said Schnacke s order applies Only to Union members who filed the suit but is Likely to discourage the serv ice from conducting any random drug tests. Schnacke said the government had offered no evidence that drug problems exist among meteorologists much less that Public safety is threatened. Schnacke said he could envision some Remote lonely weather station where you might want to take some artificial Relief to change the  but he added invading people s privacy on the premise that someday somewhere somehow some problem might arise seems to be going too  in issuing the injunction he said the Union was very Likely to prove in a trial that the testing violated the Constitution Al ban on unreasonable searches. The injunction binding until the Law suit goes to trial forbids drug testing of Union members without evidence that an individual employee is using drugs or asunder the influence of drugs on the Job. Snooze that set off alarm this Bur Gurville breakfast and that appeared in five Washington state news papers has been withdrawn. The fast food Chain said it received dozens of Calls from people who thought it was making fun of president Reagan. The enc to picture was taken when Rea Gan was attending a meeting in Bonn West Germany. The and pushed the benefits of the Chain s breakfasts. 12 palestinians wounded by israeli army gunfire Jerusalem a israeli soldiers on sunday shot and wounded 12 palestinians including five teen agers As Vio Lence flared in the occupied Gaza str Pat the Start of the moslem new year hos Pital officials said. The army said it closed the 140-Square-mile Gaza strip to outside Visi tors including journalists to prevent further unrest. Israeli officials said 187,000 palestini ans in a dozen locations in Gaza and the West Bank were living under curfew which confined them to their Homes in definitely. Defense minister Yitzhak Rabin re ported to Israel s 25-member Cabinet about the unrest. Rabin said the army s next objective would be to try to break the influence of palestinian committees that have been orchestrating violence and trying to establish self Rule in the occupied Territo Ries Israel radio reported. An unidentified israeli military offi Cial briefed the government leaders on the possibility of Yasser Arafat s pales Tine liberation organization declaring state in the occupied lands or establish ing a government in exile. Riots erupted sunday a Day after two palestinians died in confrontations with israeli troops. One victim was reportedly two israeli newspapers to be a 12 year old boy from the Jenin Refuge Ecamp in the West Bank. Other reports gave the victim s age As 18. Arab witnesses said that in several parts of Gaza trouble began after protes ters littered streets with nails sunday puncturing the tires of military vehicles. Outlawed palestinian flags also were draped Over electrical wires they said. Underground leaflets from mosle fundamentalist groups had called for demonstrations to coincide with the islamic new year 1409, and israeli officials had said they expected a new wave of  Gaza demonstrators hurled rocks at soldiers on patrol in eight neighbor hoods and refugee Camps and the troops responded with gunfire wounding 12 palestinians Hospital officials said. Six of the shootings occurred in the Balya refugee Camp at the Northern end of the Gaza strip. Two of those shot were18 and suffered moderate gunshot wounds in the arms or legs said officials at Al Ahli Arab and Shifa hospitals. The other six injuries occurred in thes Hati refugee Camp and the sheikh Rad wan and Tufa neighbourhoods of Gaza City said the officials who spoke on condition of  also fired live ammunition and tear Gas at dozens of Stone throwing rioters in Nablus the West Bank s larges City Arab reporters said. No injuries were  army which is frequently slow in reporting on incidents involving Vio Lence said the reports were being  sunday police blocked 15 Mili Tant israeli nationalists from entering the sacred Temple mount also the site of two of islam s holiest  shall enter the Temple mount in any possible Way and win this fight. We will intensify our fight to free the Temple mount said Gershon Salomon Leader of the militants whose group is called the Temple mount  of his group pasted a plastic Blue and White israeli Flag on a Metal police barricade near the Entrance to the Al Asa Complex. They also Sang nationalistic israeli  Temple mount is the site of two ancient jewish temples the earliest erected in the Days of King Solomon in the 10th Century