European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday december 31,1988 states ringing with spate of by the Ash mailed press Starling new year s Day new stale Laws impose harsher penalties on Drunken Drivers allow certain convicts to a cry sentences at Home increase aids testing and designate not one but two official dances in California. In California alone 1,659 new Laws and voter approved initiatives Lake effect sunday including Nam ing the Square dance and the West coast swing dance,. The Jitterbug As official dances. California s cigarette lax goes up a hefty 25 certs per pack As a result of an initiative approved by voters in november despite heavily financed opposition from the tobacco lobby. Proceeds will go toward promoting health. Stales such As Rhode Island and California will implement Laws expected to increase testing for the aids Sims. Rhode Island s new Salute requires testing or convicts and prostitutes and intravenous drug users who arc arrested. The state also will offer voluntary aids tests to. Among others Hospital patients marriage License applicants and prenatal care patients. In California doctors May disclose a patient s Posi Tive aids antibody lest results to other health care providers without written consent. And a new Law makes it a felony for an aids victim aware of his illness to donate blood or commit a Soi related crime. Both Illinois and California will Start allowing cer Tain non violent convicts to serve part or All or their sentences at Home. Inmates will be monitored electronically. Gasoline taxes Rise a Penny in South Carolina and two cents in Iowa and Oregon. Four Arkansas communities make stale history wit new Laws allowing sunday sales of mixed drinks Little Rock North Little Rock Garland county and Wieder Kehr Village. Those caught drunk behind the wheel in some Stales. Face stiff new sanctions. New year s revellers in Illinois arrested for Drunken driving will have their cars impounded by police for up to six hours even if the drive has posted Bond. South Carolina s Highway safety act doubles fines for Drunken driving and requires police to confiscate the vehicles of repeat offenders. In California Drunken Drivers can be billed up to $1,000 by the California Highway patrol for the Cost of responding 10 accidents caused by their driving. An teens convicted of alcohol or drug related crimes could lose i hair Driver s licenses. New York slate will begin restricting Beer sales at sports Arenas including Yankee and Shea stadiums and Madison Square Garden. In Kansas county clerks will no longer have loss in new year new statutes unit Over Fine print now thai the legislature is requiring All slate documents to be printed in Type no smaller than eight Point a Type size typical of newspaper text. Lilly bugs in Illinois face Slider penalties after new year s six or Toms in jail instead of 30 Days. And starting sunday missourians will pay slate and local sales taxes on video rentals with proceeds going toward satellite equipment for educational broadcasts to schools. Among other slate Law changes Illinois parents ordered to pay child support fac automatic payroll withholding. Louisiana gets a Tough new Campaign finance la limiting individual and political action committee contributions for the first time. California parents of suspended students May be required to spend time attending the child s school. And to curb drug sales at schools a new Law prohibits students from carrying paging beepers except for health reasons. New York lawmakers salaries will Rise 34 percent from $43,000 to s57.500, making them the highest paid in the nation. Psychotherapy patients in Illinois will be Able for the first time in sue therapists to recover damages for sexual exploitation. A returnable Pel Law lakes effect in new York. If a veterinarian certifies thai a cat or dog purchased a retail is unfit its owner can return in or receive reimbursement for veterinary care. California department stores will be Able to charge any interest they want on instalment accounts or cred it cards until 1992, but can no longer charge annual fees for their cards. In Florida a strengthened Lemon Law on defective cars sets up slate run arbitration boards in eight cities to hear appeals from Consumers. In Connecticut the stale will have the Power to withhold and pay child support and Alimony payment from lottery winnings under specified circumstances. Washington slate raises its minimum wage from$2.30 to s3.s5 As a result of a voter initiative passed in november. New York will become the first state to keep track of prescriptions of valium Librium i and other iraqi Quiliz ers in order to identify doctors who May be Over prescribing them. In Massachusetts a major Auto insurance Reform Bill could mean about $200 million in savings for motorists who pay some of he nation s highest premiums. A new California Law bans manufacture and Sale of plastic guns unless they show up on a Ray machines at airports and other Security detectors. A second Cali fornia statute imposes $10,000 civil penalties for Mak ing or Selling realistic toy guns. Boston museum will return Art looted in Egypt Boston a fragments from nine ancient egyptian Tomb paintings will be resumed to Egypt because curators have concluded the were stolen from a Isle Century . Lomb the Boston museum of Fine arts said thursday the museum bought the paintings from an Ardealer in Amsterdam Netherlands in 1978 for an undisclosed sum and they Are not considered archaeologically significant museum officials said. Museum director Alan Shustack said he expects the artefacts to be resumed to Egypt in the Spring after a representative of the egyptian antiquities service comes to Boston 10 supervise packing and shipping. Shestack said he ordered research into the paintings last year Afler the museum s egyptian Art department expressed suspicions about Inci origin -. The museum decided to return the artefacts voluntarily because they apparently were stole by grave robbery and smuggled out of Egypt. The fragments came from the theban Tomb Ofamin Takht an official in the period of thutmose i and Date to 1450-1420 . Firm praised for Binning Coconut Oil from cookies Norwalk Conn. A a Man who spent s2 million to pressure the food Industry into making healthier products says he s pleasantly sur prised by i up Cridge farm s decision to Stop using Coconut Oil in Coukis and crackers. Ultimately Pep Cridge farms will have saved thousands of lives Phil Doltolo said thursday. Coconut Oil is a saturated fat that raises cholesterol Levels. People who have High Levels of cholesterol run a higher risk of clogged arteries that can Lead to heart disease. Pep Cridge farm announced wednesday thai in would Stop using co count Oil in numerous products including its popular original goldfish in response to Strong consumer  frankly i m surprised because Eppridge farm has a multimillion Dollar undertaking on their hands to change their products said Sokolof founder of the Nebraska based National heart savers Pepper dec farm will have to come up with new recipes for More than 50 brands of cookies and crackers said Sokolof whose group has campaigned against products using tropical oils. We must find oils that will proximate in Apical oils in terms of performance in the baking process flavor texture Mouth feel and shelf life stability Richard a. Shea president of the Norwalk based company said in a statement issued wednesday. Coconut and Palm Oil Are popular with food manufacturers because they help extend the shelf life of Foo products Sokolof said. Many products advertised As being free or cholesterol contain tropical oils that can help cholesterol Formatter consumption he said. Coconut Oil contains 100 percent More Satu rated fat than lard. Sokolof placed advertisements in newspapers in october depicting nine products he says Are portrayed ask ally foods but Are poisoning americans with saturated fats a 65-year-old multimillionaire who nearly died from a heart attack in 1966. Sokolof has spent j2 million 10 pressure food Industry giants int making healthier products. His father and a brother in Law died of heart at tacks. " Justice As the Brethren soured Chicago a reporter Bob Woodward has revealed that the late . Supreme court Justice Potter slew Art was the confidential source for his Best Selling insider s look at the High court the brethren.". -. In an interview published in the february Issue of Playboy Magazine the Washington Post reporter said he was willing 10 identify Stewart because the former Justice is dead. Stewart died in1965 at age 70. ,. / i m revealing his name now for the first time because it s Worth showing that there really arc sources people do talk Woodward said. It s not some reporter s imagination or some letter that comes in the mail with no address typed on a Standar typewriter Woodward said. You have relationships you nurture them and the pay  Woodward said he met Stewart at party in the Spring of 1977, the Breth Ren was published in 1979. Although Woodward was willing to identify his main source for the Breth Ren which he wrote with reporter Scott Armstrong he told Playboy he was not ready to identify deep Throat deep Throat was the key informer Woodward and Carl Bernstein used for. Their pulitzer prize winning articles uncovering the 1972 watergate scandal inthe Post and for their subsequent Best Selling Book All the president s  As you know. I m Noi along to Dii Siiss the identity of deep Throat or any other of my confidential sources who ire still alive Woodward said. I a Woodward said Stewart turned out Mohave real intellectual disdain for for Mer chief Justice Warren Burger and former attorney general John Mitchell both appointees of president Richard Nixon. Woodward said Stewart animosities became Clear As he worked on the Book and were probably the reason Stewar allowed him to have a be Aind Lac scenes look at the High court. What also came across. Was Stew Art s contempt for Richard Nixon Woodward said. He Felt that what had happened with Carl s Bernstein and my watergate reporting was very important for the country and for journalism and for subduing this rightist movement in Amanca Lamping it Down and saying whoa. The. 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