European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday february 7,1989 news briefs new paraguayan Leader Calls elections for May 1 Asuncion Paraguay a the provisional government of Gen. Andres Rodriguez who seized Power in a military coup last week on monday called National elections for May 1 to choose a new president and Congress. Earlier monday in his first meeting with re porters Rodriguez denied reports linking him with drug trafficking and said he would try to curtail any narcotics Trade through Paraguay. I detest drugs Rodriguez said. I swear As Catholic and As a family Man i swear on my children i have no connections with  wife of Dukakis enters anti alcohol program Boston a Kitty Dukakis the wife of gov. Michael Dukakis has entered an alcohol treatment program according to a statement is sued monday. The statement blamed the problem on the letdown after Dukakis presidential loss. In july 1987, mrs. Dukakis announced that she had recovered from a 26-year dependency on diet pills. She said she had conquered he addiction to amphetamines after undergoing treatment at a Minnesota facility in 1982. Dukakis said his wife 52, entered the Edgehill Newport facility in Newport r.i., sunday. Retired Justice Powell hospitalized in Florida Washington a retired supreme court Justice Lewis f. Powell was rushed to a Jacksonville fla., Hospital monday with a respiratory infection a court spokeswoman said. Kathy Arberg the supreme court s assistant Public information officer said Powell 81, was admitted to the Baptist medical Center. Powell is in Florida serving As a visiting dudgeon a three judge panel of the Lith . Circuit court of appeals. Powell retired from the nation s highest court june 26, 1987, citing concerns about his health As one reason. Bush s ethics adviser quits company to avoid conflict Washington a president Bush s Point Man for ethics policy c. Boyden Gray is resigning As chairman of a multimillion Dollar communication company to avoid any appearance of conflict of inter est the White House said monday. Gray Bush s official Legal counsel since 1981, had previously said he would remain chairman of the family owned Summit communications group inc. But would refuse a salary. He resigned effective monday after consulting with the Heads of Bush s new ethics commission Whitehouse press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said. Fitzwater said the action was prompted in part by new York times and Washington Post accounts Over the weekend that pointed to a Reagan White House policy forbidding employees from serving in such chairmanships or earning outside income. Fitzwater said there would have been nothing inappropriate about Gray keeping the Post in the Bush administration. But he said Gray was advised to resign by former attorney general Griffin Bell and Federal appeals judge Malcolm Wilkie chairman and Vic chairman respectively of the newly created presi Dent s commission on Federal ethics Law Reform. The duties of the White House counsel Are sufficiently Broad that it would be constructive to resign such a directorship to avoid any possibility of even the appearance of conflict Fitzwater told reporters. He said Gray would also put his personal assets into a Blind Trust. The Washington Post estimated Gray investments at $ 10 million. Bush has made a major Point in his presidency of stressing High ethical standards for government employees and has said he wants tougher ethical Rule than those he inherited from his predecessor president Reagan. Boyden Gray has the president s highest Trust an Confidence and he will remain the primary adviser to the president on ethical matters Fitzwater said. He said the office of government ethics approve Gray s financial disclosure forms annually throughout the eight years that Gray worked for Bush when he was vice president. Solidarity from Page 1 Union to exist. Walesa blamed Poland s economic and political Cri Sis on a Lack of freedoms but said he sensed the government was ready for change state run television re ported. The talks known As the round table Are the firs Between Solidarity and the government since the Union was suppressed by the martial Law crackdown i december 1981. If we work out at the round table. A confirmed consensus on the idea of non confrontational elections As Well As support for planned political and economic reforms there will be an immediate possibility to allow More than one Trade Union to exist at a give factory Kiszczak said. Kiszczak called for changes in electoral Laws and a new parliament that would represent a coalition  Solidarity has expressed willingness to see the opposition enter parliament. But it is reluctant to endorse the opposition s participation in a Cabinet that de spite Reform is Likely to be dominated by the communist party. Kiszczak a member of the party s ruling politburo said if Solidarity is legalized it cannot return to old ruts becoming the source of anarchy and  both sides agree that Compromise is essential if Poland is to overcome its $38.9 billion debt and chronic consumer shortages. Kiszczak proposed the talks in August 1988 during the country s worst wave of strikes in seven years but Walesa refused to commit Solidarity until the authorities agreed to legalize the Union. In a dramatic reversal of its seven year stand against Solidarity the communist party Central committee on Jan. 18 approved such a plan. Four Days later the Union said it was willing to talk. Tests from Page 1 either before leaving Europe or within 30 Days of arriving in the United states. The Cost of a new catalytic converter can Range from $150 to $1,000, with the average Cost Between $200 and $600. Installation charges Range from $30 to $50. Car owners who removed their catalytic converters to operate their vehicles overseas need Only have them reinstalled before shipping or upon arrival in the United states. Cars with new or reinstalled converters must detested 10 Days before shipment to the states. The Cost of the installation of the original or a re placement catalytic converter can be claimed As moving expense on income taxes said Marcia Shelton of the internal Revenue service in Bonn West Ger Many. The Cost of a new converter cannot be claimed. However few people will be Able to take advantage of the claim for installation she said. Beginning with the 1987 income tax year moving expenses Are a itemized deduction requiring $5.000 in itemized deductions for joint tax filers and $3,000 for single tax payers. Late last year when confusion reigned Over the new Epa requirements at least two commands in Europe incorrectly advised personnel in Germany to reinstall their catalytic converters by feb. 15, the stars an stripes Learned. The people who heeded that advice before the com mands issued revised information still can qualify for the Epa program according to army officials in Europe. They should keep All re installation documents and follow the initial annual and pre  test guidelines the officials said. An Early provision of the program required postin Bonds on All vehicles that required a replacement catalytic converter in the states. However defense department personnel who ship their vehicles via government transportation to a Mili tary port or vehicle processing Center no longer Are required to Post the Bond army officials said. But the converter must be replaced within 30 Days of the car s arrival in the United states. The car owner then must mail to the processing Center a document signed by the installing Mechanic. Those using commercial shipping services still mus Post Bond which can run As High As three times the value of the vehicle. The Bond Money is returned after the catalytic converter is replaced. Contributing to this report staff writer William Bartman in Washington Afghanistan from Page 1 to be out by feb. 15. Soviet diplomats said red army troops in the Western City of Shi Dand left their Garrison the last soviet Militar Complex in the country. The diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity said the soldiers headed Over the weekend toward Herat to meet a Convoy there. The soldiers were expected to reach the soviet Border wednesday or thursday. Pravda said soviet troops had by sunday remove defensive checkpoints on the Salang Highway to about 50 Miles North of Kabul at the end of a Tunnel that cuts through some of the roughest terrain on the withdrawal route. Pravda said insurgents did not fire on soviet convoys on the Highway the Only land route to the soviet Border from Kabul. But four avalanches crashed Down on re treating columns sunday killing three soviet soldiers and injuring a fourth the paper said. Three officers were also injured by terrorist grenades in a Kabul suburb sunday As the soviets handed Over motor vehicles to the afghans the newspaper said. In the soviet Border City of termed where a soviet airborne regiment arrived from Afghanistan monday military spokesman it. Col. Igor Korolev said the Las remaining red army soldiers were on the move toward the Border. He said soviet soldiers were moving out of Balkh a Mangan Baglan Parvan and Herat provinces. The troops of the 350th Parachute regiment were greeted by thousands of residents servicemen and rela Tives As they roared across the Friendship Bridge Over the Amu River into termed. The unit had been stationed i Afghanistan since 1984. Along the Road behind the Kabul Airport meanwhile several soviet soldiers manned Bunker checkpoints nervously clutching rifles. Andrei a 20-year-old Soldier from Moldavia said the troops would be flown Home sometime before feb. 15. He said they had not been told exactly when. Tass reported monday that heavy shelling by guerrillas in Kabul province killed eight people. It said one person was killed and two wounded in shelling in the cities of Ardiz and Khost in Pattia province. Rockets and rocket propelled grenades also hit residential areas in the City of Herat and the Airport in the Southern City of Kandahar Tass said. With the soviet pullout those cities Are held by the conscript army of president Najib a Force guerrilla com Manders say is demoralized and crippled by desertion. The highest ranking French Diplomat in Kabul charge d affaires Raymond Petit his wife and three Austria diplomats left the capital monday for new Delhi India. Also on the flight were relatives of yugoslav East Ger Man and vietnamese diplomats. Shevardnadze said his talks in Pakistan failed because insurgents refuse to share Power with Najib. He told a news conference that the soviet Union would continue to support the afghan government. The soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan in de Cember 1979 to replace one marxist regime with another and stayed to help fight the . And pakistani backed insurgents. The Kremlin says More than 13,000 soviet troops were killed and 35,000 wounded in the conflict