European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. April 1989 the stars and stripes pages More visas requested for soviets a Asnoff flooding immigration system Washington api the bus administration seeking to open Ameri Ca s doors to All emigrants from the soviet Union who want to enter the United tales announced it is asking Congress to approve an additional 30,000 visas a year Over the next five years. We re trying to make sure we take care of everybody from the soviet Union who wants to come in a state depart ment spokesman said. He said legislation has been sent to Congress to ease a steadily growing Back log of soviet visa applicants. Immigration and naturalization serv ice official said they Are optimistic con Gross will approve the legislation. Ins commissioner Alan Nelson said he. Also is sending More. Inspectors to Moscow and Rome to help Speed the processing. For years the United slates has pressed the soviet Union to Case its Emi Gration policies particularly for jews. With an exodus taking place under so Viet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev s policy of openness or glasnost the United Stales has been unable to handle the flood or applicants. More than 19,000 soviets Are waiting to be interviewed at the . Embassy in Moscow for permission to enter the United states As refugees and anole or 7,000 arc waiting in temporary quarters near Rome. At one Point the United slates even asked the soviets to hold up exit permits until the backlog Cou a be cleared. The current rate of soviet application has been running about 4,000 a month and allocated refugee slots were due to run out shortly. Those being denied Access under the refugee quotas were offered parolee stat us but that did not give them govern roil t funding nor did it allow them eventually to apply for citizenship. Lynsi summer the problem was Clacer in cd by a change in the Justice depart ment policy that ordered the ins to de Termine refugee status for soviets on a Casc by Casc basis rather than As a group. That is the procedure for other refugee  a Stopgap measure the stale department in january shifted 7,000 unused slots meant for vietnamese Refu gees to accommodate the soviet Over flow. -.  some estimates project about 40,000 soviet applicants this year the administration had budgeted for Only half that number. The proposed amendment to the immigration and nationality act would allow 30,000 immigrant visas per year Over a period of five years for those peo ple whose admission would be in our foreign policy  while the spokesman said the primary beneficiaries arc Lilc Cly to be soviet Citi Zens the Law could be used for other nationalities. Under a 19bo Taw aliens must prove they suffered persecution or have a Well founded fear of persecution in their Homeland to qualify for Refuge status. Under  legislation new entrants would be considered Immi Grants and unlike refugees would not be granted government financial sup port. Eat with care Nobuyoshi Kurooka a new of restaurant Nippon in new York holds a Platter of fugue or Tiger Puffer fish Sush. Nativ available in Mil Rahimun the fish eaten by the japanese for 2,000 years must be to Jerly cleaned or consuming ii can be fatal As it is to about 100 japanese annually. Wright defends Sale of books to College in lieu of speaker fee Washington a House speaker Jim Wright a Texas. Under investigation by a House ethics commit tee acknowledged wednesday tie sold ice copies of Hisook reflections of a Public Man to a Texas univer sity instead of accepting a 43,000 speaking fee that would have violated the chamber s rules. Wright s income from the Book sales jts 1,650 would not have been subject to hoi imitations but the speaker publicly defended his actions in his first Public comment on the subject saying i Don t think in arc s anything wrong with  at the. Time in october 1984," Wright already was bumping against he maximum  could accept m speaking fees for the year under House rules. I addition the fee offered by inc school. Southwest Texas Stile University was-$1,000 More than  permit per speech. The panel resumed its closed door deliberations wednesday after a two Weck easter break and com Mittee chairman rep. Julian Dixon d-calif., said he expected some conclusion would be reached next week. Dixon also said the car Nikic was Ashing the Housel add $600,000 to its budget for this year in part to cover growing costs of the Wright probe. On the University Issue,.Wright told reporters he had not asked for an honorarium for the speech and was surprised when a Check Arri cd at his office. When an aide suggested that. The speaker sell the school$3,000 worm of books he agreed to do so. Wright then sent 504 copies of the Book to he school said University spokeswoman Al Murdock. Former smokers Burn up fewer Ca ories Likely to pick up pounds that would have yielded Wright income of about$1.650, which he could then accept because Book royalties do not fall under the 30 percent salary limit that applies to speaking fees Wright had neared that limit 124,630 for the majority Leader s Job he then held in june of that year according to his financial disclosure form in addition to the Issue of evading income ceilings the ethics panel also was deliberating whether the speaker should have reported As gifts a series of Bene fits he received from a business partner. Fort Worth Developer George Mallick whether Mallick had a direct interest in legislation which would have made any gift Over j100 improper and whether in working 10 include forbearance language in a Bill dealing with savings and loan institutions Wright improperly used influence on behalf of a business partner. According to a source sympathetic to Wright three other charges have been dropped. The charges concern Wright s alleged intervention with Federal banking regulators on behalf of troubled savings and Loans inter cession with government officials on behalf of a Texas 011 and Gas  use of a government Paist Ataide to compile parts of a Book. Wright s bulk sales of the Book and whether he use them to evade House limits on outside income from speaking and writing fees have become a focus of attention by the House ethics committee which is looking into the speaker s finances. Ethics committee members said there May be other potential rules violations As Well but declined to cite specific rules involved. Sands of time new York. Not smoking causes people to use More calories a new study has found so when smokers quit they re Likely to gain weight even if Thoj Cai inc same amount at they did when they smoked. The study published wednesday in the new eng land journal of Medicine counters the widely held belief that people gain weight when they Slop smoking because they substitute food for tobacco. In a separate study to be published later this year researchers found nicotine in cigarettes makes smokers use More calories. The researchers have not deter mined Why nicotine Hui this effect. The report relives former smokers of the guilt Hal it s All their fault said or. Nancy Rigutti Otisie Institute for the study of smoking behaviour and policy at Harvard University weight gain when they quit smoking is probably Ari effect that they can t do much about she said. Although researchers have suspected that smokers May have faster metabolic rates than non smokers thereby causing them to use More calories most pre Vious studies found the increased use of calories among smokers was so Small it. Was insignificant. The new study was done by Kenneth a. Perkins and his colleagues at the we slim psychiatric Institute and clinic at the University of Pittsburgh. Perkins said eventually people who Stop smoking will reach a new higher weight of 5 to 10 pounds greater than their weight when they were smoking Stilt he said it is much healthier to Stop smoking than to continue. Non sea Lars would have to gain More than so pounds to be at the same risk of cancer and heart disease As smokers he said. Smokers walk around nil the Lime Ai  artificially depressed weight ergot i said. But they Are trading their health for a very Small gain or. In this Case toss she added. We know there is such a thing As an unhealthy Way to be thin. Just As hinging Ana starving is an unhealthy Way to be thin so is  latest study found smokers use an average of an extra 100 calories a Day about the same number of calories that would be expended by walking a mile. Over a month an extra 100 calories a Day translates into about a Pound of fat. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 7, 1949 the Public health service Asti mated thai about one out of every four marriages in the United slates begun in 1948, or 415,000 marriages would end. In divorce. 30 years ago today ,. April 7, 1959 in a television interview in Washington Gen. Lauris Norblad supreme Allied com Mander Europe said nato forces were not adequate for their Mission to defend Europe. 20 years ago today. April 7, 1969 peace demonstrators marched in some of the nation s largest cities including new York Chicago and san Francisco in the first mass protest against the War in Vietnam since the Start of the Nixon administration. 10 years ago today. April 7, 1979 thousands of mourners poured into the streets of pakistani cities to protest the Cuccu lion of it Ilnikar Ali Bhutto by inc military government of president Mohammad Zia Ul-haq.,