European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse D fund tops $24,000 for Ramsten victims Page 2 d shiite Leader denounces kidnappers Page 3 o armed forces meet manpower reduction goal Page 5 d Heidelberg Mannheim Stilt unbeaten sports Page 23 the stars vol.47.no.1bb sunday. October 23, 1988 Woodmo Mingl d 8693 a Congress bolsters drug fight Rush of work ends session Washington the Looth Congress end ing a productive two year run saturday with an Earl morning flurry of action sent president Reagan a com Promise Bill providing new weapons to fight the War on drugs. Congress also approved tax adjust Cal legislation with a three year Price lag of $4.1 billion. Ii upped the Ante for Wall Street inside traders voting to increase fines and prison terms Tor individual offenders and to penal i a investment firms that permit the practice. But efforts to impose economic sanctions against Iraq for Poison Gas attacks against kurdish villagers were blocked in the House. Chairman Claiborne Pell d-r.l., of the Senate for eign relations Commilles said the sanctions Bill was bottled up by House members Beholden to special interests including the . Oil and agricultural industries. Pell vowed to try again on sanctions legis lation Early next year. A struggle to reconcile differences Between the House and Senate versions of the anti drug Bill caused Congress to abandon plans to adjourn for the year in Early october. A few senators remained to guide the upper Cham Ber through the final hours of the 100th Congress a virtually Elj of those up for re election nov. 8 had left town. All Bills were adopted by voice votes. In the House. Inc anti drug Bill was adopted 346-11. The lax adjustment Bill passed 358-1. The Senate adjourned at 3 16 a.m., about 20 min utes after the House closed Down. The drug package would fight illegal drugs through Law enforcement a lifter penalties treatment rehabilitation education and Aid for authorities in drug producing countries. It would make it possible for those possessing Small amounts of drugs for recreational use to be hit with up to 510,000 in civil fines and beginning in septem Ber to face loss of student Loans and other Federal benefits for even a Possession conviction. Murders commit cd or ordered during drug related felonies could result in imposition of he death penalty. Serious drug offences would carry a Liffor minimum prison icbms. The original purpose of the Tan Bill was 10 Corre terrors in the 1986 tax overhaul. Bui in its final form the Bill would do More than that. More than two years in the making the legislation now includes tax Relief for Farmers free Lance writers owners of Mutual funds of employer financed tuition and a variety of other interests. It also includes selected tax increases to pay for those benefits and a Bill of rights for taxpayers. Pressure to pass inc Bill came mainly from Farmers who no longer would pay the Federal i Csc tax and who would be allowed to deduct some expenses of producing livestock before the animals generate income. Pressure also turns from accountants and other tax see Congress on Back Page whale Dies others near open water Barrow Alaska a one of 1hrce rapped whales was presumed dead saturday but its companions inched toward open Waters eskimos Cut a string of breathing holes and a Hal icon scr equipped with a 4.5-ton nattering ram smashed path through thick ice. But a huge Ridge formed by colliding ice masses stood in the Way of a breakthrough for he califor continued on Page 28 ship collision kills of least two Airlift service for military called wasteful by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington the services waste thousands of taxpayer dollars by using Small military aircraft to ferry Pas sengers often High ranking officers instead of using less expensive Commer Cial flights a new general accounting office report shows. A Gao Survey of 153 randomly so in Clad military flights under a program known As operational support Airlift showed that 12 percent were More expensive than commercial flights Over the same air routes resulting in an extra $126,000 in air fare Bills. The report which focused on Small three to seven passenger jew such As the Cli and u-21 c-21 Lear Jacland t-39 Sabre liner contained a Long sea Airlift on Back Page cruise ship passenger Joanne Ford 13 left ashore after la collision. Piraeus Greece a a British icon Ager was missing and feared dead saturday after an Lilian freighter collided with a greek cruise ship carrying486 British students and teachers. Greek and Lallian officials disagreed on How Friday s collision occurred and who was responsible for it. Two greek crewmen were killed and54 passengers injured in the collision be tween the Container ship Ajic and the 6,300-Lon Jupiter which was steaming out of Piraeus Harbor. The collision Tore a gaping Hole in the port Side of the Jupi Ter which Sank less than n mile from Shore. There were no injuries aboard the Leal Ian ship which suffered a damaged Bow greek and British embassy officials said 14-year-old civic inc Barley of sul ton Oldfield England was inc Only per son aboard the Pupil or who remained unaccounted for. A spokesman for the jul Pricr s owners said friends saw the teen Ager As she was about to get into the water and she looked very greek authorities blamed the crash on the italian Captain but italian officials said it appeared thai the adage was not at fault. The italian skipper Flavio Cuminale was being held in Piraeus a pan South West of Athens on charges and is to appear before a Public prosecutor monday. The Adigo a R.L. on R.L. off con Tainer ship owned by Sicula Occa Nica spa sips line of Palermo Sicily allegedly ignored warnings from inc Jupi Ter s skipper Yiannis Hernis As the freighter was mane vering to Dock. The skipper radioed the italian but his warning Sims 10 have been ignored. By the time the i Talian skipper acted it was Toolate the Jupiter spokesman said. Port officials and inc spokesman said the adige s bulbous nose rammed the cruise ship amidships below the water prow lore a Gash Alt the Way up lose ship on Back Page
