European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday november 20,1988 Estonia s Freedom claim May be annulled Moscow a a soviet parliamentary commis Sion saturday said Estonia s declaration of sovereignty runs counter to the Constitution in a ruling hat Couldst the stage for a Kremlin annulment of the Baltic Republic s action. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on an official visit saturday in new Delhi India said thai some estonians arc acting too emotionally but that the tens Baltic republics will Settle Down. What is happening in Estonia is perestroika Gorbachev said. But he added that not All Points raised in such de Bates were constructive. Some Are purely emotional and this has been causing some negative reactions Gorbachev said in his first Public comments on Eslo runs briefs Marcos weeping wife turn Over financial records Honolulu a former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda reported Friday to the Fri to turn Over financial records and submit fingerprints and Palm prints As Well As voice and handwriting samples under a Federal court order. Fri agents cleared the building before the Marcoss arrived at 5 20 . Mrs. Marcos clutched a handkerchief an wiped away tears As she walked beside her Hus band who was sealed in a wheelchair and Wear ing a neck Brace new York attorney Richard Sibcy had said Marcos would obey the order despite ill health. Sibcy and attorney John Barniko of san Francis co accompanied the Marcoss who have been indicted on Federal racketeering charges. Serb albanian tension mounting in Yugoslavia Belgrade Yugoslavia a hundreds of thousands of serbs rallied saturday to de Mand More control Over the troubled province of Kosovo where tens of thousands of ethnic albanians staged renewed anti serbian protests mid mounting tension Hal meld riot police closed All roads leading into Pristina late saturday to prevent More eth Nic albanians from streaming into the City to join at least 20,000 demonstrators still roaming the streets a senior police officer told the Asso Chat Cypress. The move later confirmed on Belgrade television followed a warning on the state news Agency Tan Jug that extraordinary measures could retaken in the crowds in Pristina a240-mile drive South of Belgrade did hot mostly Young crowds ignored warnings from local communist party leaders to disperse an a reporter said from Pristina. Tan Jug and Kosovo s communist leadership said the Situa Tion worsened from hour to hour it was the third straight Day of Street protest sin Pristina triggered by the forced resignation of two ethnic albanian communist leaders. Nia s Challenge to soviet authority. Related Story photo Page 8. In Estonia s sister Republic of Lithuania activist seeking More autonomy met to decide How to react to a decision by local lawmakers not to directly Challenge Moscow s control one activist said. The estonian parliament on wednesday passed declaration of sovereignty in All but foreign and de sense matters and approved a constitutional Amend ment giving itself the right to veto soviet Laws. The official soviet news Agency Taw said saturday that the commission for legislative proposals of the National supreme soviet found the amendment to in estonian Constitution passed wednesday ran counter to the supreme National Law. The commissions conclusion was submitted to the presidium of the supreme soviet the country s highest executive body which summoned estonian leaders Toa Moscow meeting. The lithuanian parliament Friday approved a Mea sure making lithuanian the official language of the Republic and embracing As its hag that of pre soviet Independent Lithuania. But the legislators dropped a proposal for limited sovereignty without a vote after the Republic s part Leader said Estonia s declaration violated the soviet Constitution official Media Latvia on Friday 50,000 people gathered in the capital Riga to Mark the 70th anniversary of pre so Viet latvian Independence said Boris Sokolov of the democratic Union a fledgling opposition party. Bill from Pago 1 creased treatment rehabilitation and education. And in a separate area it toughens child pornography Laws and creates a new Federal offence for those engaged in the business of distributing obscene materials. The measure provides about $500 million for spend ing in the nation s Battle against drugs even though the Bill s authors had estimated it would Cost $1.4billion in the first year alone to finance All provisions of the Bill Calls for the new president to name a cab inet level drug Czar a position that pays $99,500 year and must be confirmed by the Senate. The Czar officially known As the National drug policy outline an Overall plan for enforce ment and treatment programs. The Law Grants the new official virtually unprecedented Powers particularly in the right id intervene in the budget making process of government 30 or so agencies involved in anti drug pro Grams will be required 1o submit their proposed drug budgets to the Czar who will have the Power to revise them if they do not comply with the strategy document the bipartisan measure was approved on a 346-11vote in the House and passed by voice Vole in the Senate during the waning Days of the congressional session Ait month. The legislation contains stiff penalties for drug traffickers and users. Serious drug offences would carry stiffer minimum prison measure also makes it possible for those posses sing Small quantities of drugs intended for personal Useto be hit with up to si0,000 in civil fines although they would have the right to court next september those convicted of drug offences could face loss of student Loans and other Federal benefits including Public housing Grant con tracts Loans mortgage guarantees and some forms of veterans Aid. It would not include social Security medicare welfare benefits veterans1 disability another safety net programs. The new Law also makes i1 a Federal felony to Dis Pense anabolic steroids without a prescription and it establishes a maximum penalty of up to three years imprison plus fines. ".-. Grounding of bibs ruled put Ellsworth fab . Kupij the . Air Force does not plan to ground bib bombers after the crash of a $280 million Jet in South Dakota official said saturday. Sac has not. Taken the additional measures that followed the crash of another bib on nov. A said col. Larry Greer director of Public affairs Al strategic air come Headquarters Al of Liitt fab near Omaha. Neb. That crash grounded for inspection All 98 a lbs. The bib that crashed thursday at Ellsworth of had been cleared after a three hour inspection. There was no fire on Board the bib which is de signed to carry nuclear bombs before it crashed while attempting to land at Ellsworth near rapid City on thursday night or car said. There were no weapons aboard the plane officials said. .--.-. " the Jet s four Crew members ejected. Three suffered minor injuries and were hospitalized at Ellsworth the fourth who suffered Back injuries remained hospitalized saturday at Wilford halt medical Center at Lack land fab in Texas. The month s first bib crash occurred near in Texas four Crew members involved in that crash also ejected safely besides Ellsworth and Dyess the bombers Are stationed at grand Forks fab n.d., and Mcconne Tafb near Wichita kan.--. On Friday sen. J. James Exon d-neb., chairman of the Senate armed services committee called on the air Force to ground All of the nuclear bombers until the cause of he crash was determined late news Buenos Aires Argentina a Crislina Onas Sis heir to the multimillion Dollar Fortune of greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis died saturday of Aheart attack local news Agency reports said. Crislina Onassis who had arrived in Argentina Only recently died in tort Guitas a country club about 25 Miles Northwest of the capital said the press reports. She was 38 years old. Tax from Page 1 regain its vigor and for the american people to enjoy a Long term Standard of living comparable to the rest of the developed i. But the Gao said it saw no Quick or painless solutions 10 the deficit which stood Al si50 billion in the budget Yea that ended sept. 30. It also rejected four budget solution that have been proposed we cannot grow our Way out of the problem an approach favored by some in the Reagan administration an reiterated last week by the conservative heritage foundation. Public demand for government services Vio solve problems ranging from drug abuse aids education and homelessness to drought and Forest fires grows As pastas revenues the Gao said. ". We cannot freeze our Way out of the problem during his presidential Campaign Bush repeatedly rejected higher taxes and advocated a flexible freeze on spending. The Gao note that the great bulk of the budget is in such politically sensitive areas As social Security farm Price supports and de sense or in fixed interest costs. we cannot reach oui an effortlessly gather in some magic Pool of democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis pro posed raising revenues by collecting the Jug billion or More in unpaid tax liabilities annually. The Gao said administrative costs would be High and it would require several years to train new inter Nal Revenue service agents we cannot sequester our Way out of the problem through mechanistic for Mula based program cuts of the sort pre scribed in the Tramm Rudman housing a. that Law is aimed at balancing the budget but the Cao noted that As much As 80 percent of the budgets exempt from Theta s mandated cuts. Although the deficit has dropped fro the record Levels reached earlier in the Reagan administration the problem i worse than it appears the Gao said. For example it said the real deficit inthe government s general fund is not si55 billion but $252 billion. A $97 Bil lion surplus in social Security funds makes the general deficit look smaller. Even worse there is an explosion of unfunded costs waiting to Greet the new administration it said. Among the biggest is the crisis in the nation s savings and loan Industry which the Gao estimates will Cost $50billion to fix muh of it financed by tax funds. it also listed a cleanup and modernization of nuclear weapons plants costing $130 billion and said the defense department s five year plan Calls for at least j200 billion More than is Likely to be available. a. The Gao also said president Reagan strategic defense initiative will Cost at least 69 billion in ill first phase it Saidis billion plus will be needed for Long run modernization of computer an communications systems s2s billion for the air traffic control system and $28billion for construction of a space Sla. Icon -. A a in another report on the deficit the heritage foundation recommended holding the rate of spending growth to less than 4 percent a year and said the deficit would be eliminated in 1993, the private group said a tax increase would threaten economic growth that has produced the Revenue that already has reduced the deficit
