European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 26, 1989 the stars and stripes anti abortion groups Hope to reach terms with Sullivan Page 3 Washington a anti abortion lawmakers Are concerned about the views of Louis Sullivan presi Dent Bush s Choice to head the department of health and human services but concede they have Little Hope of blocking Senate approval of the nomination. Instead they Are pinning their Hopes on assurances by Bush transition officials that other top level he jobs will go to anti abortion activists. I m assured All will be Well in the end but it s growing curio user and curio user by the Day said sen. Gordon Humphrey r-n.h., a Strong opponent of abortion who is still waiting to meet with has Secre tary designate Louis Sullivan. Humphrey said he is concerned that some senators who have met with Sullivan in Advance of his confirmation hearing next week report that the nominee personally supports the supreme court decision that legalized abortion a View different from that of Bush who says he wants the decision reversed. Humphrey said he was not comforted by Sullivan s pledge that As a member of the Bush Cabinet he would Back the abortion policies of the president but he see Little likelihood the nomination will be blocked. Let s put it plainly or. Sullivan is the Only Black nominee to the Cabinet. It would be an embarrassment to the president an embarrassment to the Republican party if the nomination encountered any trouble and we Don t want that Humphrey said. We want to make the Best of the situation and that s what we be been striving to do by encouraging the White House to surround Sullivan with people experienced in government and who would actively support the president on abortion he said. Bush in a bid to placate anti abortion groups will name Constance Horner As undersecretary of has an administration source declining to be named publicly said wednesday. Horner director of the office of personnel management under president Reagan is considered acceptable by anti abortion lawmakers. The Horner appointment was initially reported bythe Washington Post the new York times and the Washington times. Sullivan declined to comment on the development tuesday. Sen. Orrin Hatch a Utah a conservative who has worked with Humphrey to extract the White House Promise that top level has jobs would go to anti Abor quake strikes South Central soviet Republic of Kadzhi Kristan landslides destroy Homes and kill an undetermined number of people sea soviet Union Afghanistan India Tion activists downplayed the controversy. He said he interprets Sullivan s support of the supreme court s 1973 Roe is. Wade decision to be simply a pledge to support current Law. Sen. Strom Thurmond , said that in his meet ing with Sullivan he said that personally he would favor abortions in three instances the life of the Mother rape or incest. But he says that he s going to go with president Bush s policies and i think that s  Bush also has said he favors abortion in those Sam circumstances. In addition Sullivan has said he opposes Federal spending on abortions except for those three exceptions a position Bush also has supported. According to sen. Bob Packwood a Ore. And ranking Republican on the Senate finance commit tee which has scheduled a feb. 1 confirmation hear ing for Sullivan the doctor was mystified by All the in Terest in the abortion Issue. I think he was stunned and not prepared for the Fervour Over something that he regarded As a relatively i slight part of what would be his responsibilities and Sullivan he has the proportion right it is a slight part said Packwood who supports a woman s right to make heroin decision on abortion. Has with a nearly $400 billion budget this year encompasses the medicaid medicare and social Secu Rity programs As Well As the Public health service an the food and drug administration. Packwood said he was impressed with Sullivan the founder of the Morehouse school of Medicine in at Lanta and hoped he would not be Hamstrung by anti abortion concerns in his personnel appointments. I would Hope that in picking someone who s going to head the health care financing administration that he d pick somebody that has some knowledge about How we can contain health costs not Are they pro Choice or anti Choice on abortion Packwood said. Farmers crying foul Over Ferm Couch potato Augusta Maine a a depiction of children who watch too much television As Couch potatoes has drawn a Tongue in Cheek yelp of protest that potatoes deserve better. In october the american Academy of paediatrics began broadcasting nationwide an animated Public service announcement depicting two Chil Dren sitting on a Couch watching television. Couch potato top much to Couch potato avoid this dreaded disease is Sung in the Back ground. Peter Kress Public relations director of the Maine department of agriculture fired off a letter to the Academy and the networks saying he wanted them to know that potatoes Are Good food. We simply had to let you know that potatoes and potato people Are not lacking in nutritional or personal Energy he wrote. We Appeal to you to reconsider using the Couch potato  after All potatoes Are Maine s largest Cash crop. More than 2.3 billion pounds of spuds Are harvested each year reaping $98.8 million for the state s Farmers who Don t spend a lot of Timeon the Couch. Michele Weber a spokeswoman for the Illi Nois based Academy noted her group did not Coin the phrase Couch potato and said the commercial was not intended to offend anyone. Crime rate in China leaped 45 percent in 88 Beijing up China s crime rate soared by a massive 45 percent last year and a senior Public Security official tuesday said the nation cannot return to the Days when its City streets were virtually crime free. You Lei Deputy minister of the ministry of Public Secu Rity said there were 827,000 crimes reported in 1988 in China s major cities the China daily newspaper said. The release of the crime statistics came amid a nationwide crackdown on crime that was launched last week in an attempt to get a handle on increasing eco nomic and social chaos. Soviets trim death estimate in quake from 1,000 to 274 up Shatora . A officials said wednesday that the death toll from an earthquake and mudslide in soviet Central Asia was Only about a Quarter of the 1,000 originally estimated and the called off efforts to find survivors. We will transform the settlement of Shatora into a common grave with a Monument to commemorate the victims of this catastrophe said Lhusain Kasymov the communist party chief in the Kadzhi Kristan Republic s stricken Gissart Region. He said there was no Hope of finding More survivors in Shatora where 52 Homes were buried and 100 Bod ies were hauled from the mud and debris. The Republic s prime minister Izza Tullo Kha Royev said 274 people were known to have died in monday s pre Dawn quake which toppled All 88 mud Brick dwellings in Oculi Bolo and sent mudslides As High As Sojet onto the villages of Shatora and Oculi Poyen. There May be a difference of five or seven people in the casualties but no More Kha Royev said in an interview on a Grassy Hill overlooking Oculi Bolo. The official Tass news Agency earlier made a prelim Inary estimate that up to 1,000 people died in the quake and mudslide. Officials on the scene did no explain the discrepancy in figures. A Day of mourning was declared in Kadzhi Kristan which Borders China and Afghanistan. All flags were at half staff plays and concerts were cancelled and restau rants were closed. The bitter truth is that nobody can be rescued from under a landslide provoked by the earthquake Tass said. But there were stories of miraculous survival. Khol Murod Bartov 17, of Shatora said his 6-Day old Cousin survived the quake after being held above the torrent of mud by her father who perished. Sergei Muratov 27, was found alive buried in the mud Kha Royev said. Tass said Muratov was in grave condition at a Hospital. The Agency said that Shatora the largest of the Sancken villages would be rebuilt near its former site and that construction would begin in several Days. The 40-second tremor which measured 5.4 on the Richter scale hit before Dawn monday loosening Lay ers of mud that cascaded onto the Rural villages. Last month a quake registering 6.9 on the Richter scale killed about 25,000 people in soviet Armenia. Workers using shovels and bulldozers dug for survivors tuesday. Vitaly Zhukov chief of a press information Center set up in the Wake of the tragedy said no survivors were found. Kadzhi Kristan officials said there would be no at tempt to dig out the bodies of victims unlike the efforts that lasted for weeks after the armenian quake. Moslem Law the sharia says that people buried alive must be left there Kha Royev said. Most  s 4.8 million people Are moslem. He said relatives of those killed in Shatora voted tuesday to Fence off the settlement and transform it into a common grave. But other officials said two families had objected and when foreign journalists visited the site wednes Day residents and police were digging with shovels int least two places. Zhukov said the Republic would need about 400 prefabricated houses for survivors in the stricken Vil Lages. Tass said that the soviet red Cross sent a plan Load of Relief supplies to the Region and that the armenian red Cross announced it would Send a Rescue team . A special Bank account was set up in Moscow to accept contributions to Aid victims