European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 7 higgins9 goal was to Moke his family proud Louisville by. A by the time Marine it. Col. William r. Higgins Kofl Tor cot Cje he was Well on the Way to fulfilling the ambition he expressed in his senior yearbook for my family to always be proud of  his Uncle Del Burl Eagle of Lancaster said following Biggins abduction feb. 17 in Lebanon that whatever happens Higgins would continue to make his fam ily and his country proud. He loves his country Eagle said at in time. He is capable of standing up As Well As an Ordinary Man will under the Circum stance 1 Don t think they could bring enough pressure or pain to cause him to betray his country in any Way. I think he would die  on monday lebanese kidnappers hold ing Higgins 43, said in a statement they have sentenced him to death As a spy for Israel i fryns was a one time aide 10 former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. When he was abducted he headed a is  erg Rou assigned 10 a United nations peacekeeping Force in South  Pentagon official said at the time of the abduction thai Higgins was on Tempo Rary detail serving As the chief of the b a. Truce supervision organization s Lebanon observer group. The group monitors cease fire violations on the Lebanon Israel Border. Hig gins As the top ranking american officer assigned the group held the title of senior . Military observer. When Higgins was growing up i Southern Jefferson county in the late 1950s and Early 1960s, his friends never expected the Chunky cheerful youngster to make his career in the military. He was just pretty much an average Guy it Southern High school Rudy Fischer an old Friend recalled after Hig gins abduction. I think people were kind of surprised when he went into the marines Fischer added. You think of the  being Macho types and he really was t like  even so Higgins won appointment lowest Point but chose instead to study at Miami University of Ohio on a Navy Roth scholarship. He opted for the marines rather than the Navy after suffering seasickness Dur a col. William r. Hiff tins ing a summer cruise to Scandinavia his brother in Law said. Others who knew Higgins in Louisville remember him As a Bright Well rounded Young Man who stood out in school and on the athletic Field. Higgins whose friends knew him As Rich or Pinky earned mostly a and b s. He played guard on hit High school football team in 1962 and 1963. He gave us 100 percent Effort said Henderson Wilson then the team s tin coach. Higgins was president of his soph Omore class vice president of his senior class and won membership  Beta club and key club according to his senior yearbook. His fellow seniors and teachers voted him one of the top 10 members of the class of 1963, based on scholarship leadership school spirit and personality said Ralph Allen an assistant principal he was commissioned As a second lieutenant when he graduated from Miami of Ohio and later earned Mas Ter s degrees in human resources management at Pepperdine University and political science at Auburn University. Save social Security fund says Book Washington a keeping social Security s promises to today s workers will be a lot easier if the government stops using the system s Trust funds to cover deficits in other Federal programs three Brook Ings institution economists say. Using the Trust funds As a form of enforced National savings would Spur economic growth and Case the Bur Den of providing pensions in the 21st Century for the so called baby Boom generation the economists say Ina Book released monday. The economists gave a qualified yes to the ques Tion they posed in the title of their Book can Ameri Ca afford to grow old paying for social  but their assessment is contingent upon Early action to wipe Oul the deficit in the government s other accounts. One author Barry p. Bosworth said there is no Way to do that without raising taxes. Bosworth and colleague Henry j. Aaron and Gary Burtless also suggested that even if social Security Trust funds Are used As a form of National savings the payroll tax May still have to be raised by 6.9 percent age Points Over the next 75 years to keep social Security and medicare front running deficits. The total payroll tax is now 15.02 percent divided equally Between employee and employer. It is scheduled 10 Peak in 1990 at 15.3 percent or 7.65 percent for each. Social Security is currently rolling up $40 billion annual surpluses that soon will become s100 i ilium a year surpluses the growing surpluses in the social Security sys tem camouflage a major deterioration in the budget balance for non social Security and medicare operations said the Brookings experts. The payroll Las ostensibly earmarked for retire ment survivors disability and Hospital insurance i being used increasingly to pay for other government expenditures such As defense and interest on the pub. Lie debt they  the government reported a $ 155 billion Bud get deficit for fiscal 198b, it was $110 billion in the red if the tji billion surpluses in social Security and med icare were not counted.  1940 4s so 55 so 65 70 75 to 8 Brennan finder to keep $40 million treasure recuperating offer surgery Washington supreme court Justice William a Brennan is re ported in satisfactory condition after sur Gery to remove his Gall bladder. No malignancy was detected during the surgery monday afternoon a court spokeswoman said. He is doing very Well she added. ,. Brennan 82, was admitted to Bethesda naval Hospital lost week and originally was diagnosed As suffering from pneumonia. He had been suffering from chills and fever. However further tests showed that Bren Nan was suffering from Gall bladder disease which his doctors said can display similar symptoms the spokeswoman said. Brennan is expected to return to work bythe Lime the court begins its january session. Last week a court spokeswoman reported that Brennan was responding to treatment with antibiotics and thai he might return to work Early into a four week recess the court began on Monda Brennan the court s oldest and senior member had participated in the court s Oral arguments last wednesday and reported Ybos enjoyed Good health recently. His last Hostila Bizalion occurred in a gust 1987 when he checked into the Mayo clinic in Rochester minn., for tests on a troublesome prostate gland. Tests revealed he did not have cancer. Boston a treasure from a pirate ship that has been buried in Sand off Cape cod for 271 years be Longs to the Salvage entrepreneur who found it the Massachusetts supreme court ruled. Barry Clifford will be entitled to keep the artefacts including Gold and Silver now Worth an estimated $40 million and will not have give the stale of Massachusetts a 25 percent share according to Clifford s attorney Allan. Tufankjian. In a unanimous opinion the High court rejected the stale s claim of sovereignly Over the wrecked sailing ves Sel whydah which Sank off Cape cod in april 1717.- / \ it s a great Christmas present Clifford said in a Telephone interview from his Home in Chatham calling the whydah the Only pirate ship in the world Ever to be found and salvaged. This is it. There s really nothing   he said it was unfair of the stale to claim one Quarter of the find when All the risks associated with underwater Salvage were taken by him and his company maritime underwater sur vey sync. In 1982, based on research from contemporary accounts Clifford found the ship under about 14 feel of water and s feel of Sand. V since 1983, maritime surveys using sophisticated sensing and recovery technology has recovered some 200,000 artefacts from the site while waging Legal Battles with the state the Federal government and rival treasure Hunters Over who owns the wreck. Recently Clifford announced plans to search Boston Harbor for the re Mains of the wooden Tea chests thrown into the Harbor by the colonists during the Boston Tea party. He has also proposed creating a museum in Boston to display artefacts from the whydah and from any re Mains of the Tea party. Mary Breslaur a spokeswoman for attorney general James Shannon said the state s interest was to preserve the historic artefacts for future generations and that the goal had been largely achieved. The state High court ruled that the key Legal Issue was to decide whether the state or the Federal government exercises sovereignty Over the offshore Sands where the whydah was found. It found in favor of Federal Law which is More favourable o salvages than Instate Law.-. V thus the claim of the common wealth founders on the Shoals of Feder Al sovereignty As surely As the whydah foundered on the Shoals off Wellfleet Justice Neil Lynch wrote for the High court. " crash kills family of 5 on shopping trip glenv1lle, , a five members of a family on a Christmas shopping trip were killed when their car collided with a truck that was careening Down the Road after losing a wheel authorities said. Dennis. And Susan school Cruft. And Kheuv three children were burned beyond recognition in the crash sunday morn ing said Gilmer county sheriff Victor Kirkpatrick. The. Family lived in the Small Community of Troy 12 Miles from glenvillc.,-.  their children14 year old Joseph 9-year-old Melanie and 3 year old Jennifer were travelling to Charleston when the left front wheel came. Off a truck heading in the opposite direction. The truck went out of control and. Crossed the Center line hitting the Schoot crafts car head on Kirkpatrick said. Both vehicles burst into Lames. Two men in a passing vehicle stopped and broke the truck s Windshield to pull the Driver and a passenger to safety but they were unable to reach the school crafts Kirkpatrick said