European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday april 12,1989 House panel c o i modifies 5&l bailout plan Washington a a House banking panel battled tuesday Over proposals to weaken the heart of the hush administration s savings and loan bailout plan by diluting a requirement that so. Owners Back Loans with More of their own  the first of a planned series or Voles on proposed tougher Cap Hal standards the House banking subcommittee on financial institutions adopted 30-1 1. A weak ening amendment offered by rep. Bill Mccollum r Fla. The administration wants to encourages is to gel but of areas such As real estate and insurance by Mcquir Taij owners to Back those investments entirely wit their own capital Mccollum s amendment exempts healthy thrifts already engaged in those businesses from the stricter . Jim Leach a Lowa argued against the change saying  not traditionally part of is Busi Ness helped push the Industry into crisis. What we re saying with this amendment is that vice in the past is acceptable Leach  the threat of a presidential veto subcommittee member were preparing later in the Day to Vole on a proposal that the administration says would gut the Central Reform in its Bill,1 re Side hush wants to increase 54l capital requirements by june 199 1 from 3 percent of assets to 6 percent contending thai the More capitals a  at risk the less Likely they will be to take undue risks a senior Treasury official this week reiterated the department s threat in recommend a veto if Congress Waters Down key elements of the  Compromise amendment on capital worked oui Over the weekend by aides to committee members. Would move up the deadline to june 1990, but  More broadly define capital making it easier to meet the  Reserve Hoard chairman Alan Greenspan in a letter tuesday warned the panel thai relaxing capital rules incites continuation of the conditions that have Ltd to the present  amendments raise the Specter thai additional Public resources May be needed to Correct the ritual Ion in the future Greenspan said in a letter to rep. Frank annul to. Do ii. Chairman of the , meanwhile sought to limit lengthy de Bate by his 47-Mcmbcr panel and to Cool the flaring tempers of members. After rep. Doug Barnard a a. Criticized an amendment that would require Large Banks to pay insurance premiums on deposits from foreigners which Are technically not insured the sponsor. Rep. Gerald Al Cijka drwis.,  amendment is dumb of in fact you Are in the pockets of the by Bankers which i am not he said Lou Arnard. Prompting Annunzio to admonish members to refrain from personal Alicks. By the Middle of tuesday s meeting inc second of lit rec scheduled All Day sessions the subcommittee had worked through just .50 or so of More than 180 pro posed amendments and aides were saying that the subcommittee s meetings May spill Over into next a Ink help tale a bar a carding the old reactor s Burc containment vessel up the Colombia Riu r. Reactor unit moved upriver for burial As protesters watch Portland Ore. A demonstrators looked on As a Columbia River Barge loaded with the Mammoth containment vessel from a Dis mantled nuclear reactor passed through the City Early tuesday on its Way to a burial site. Coast guard vessels escorted the Barge As it headed upriver toward a dump at the government s Hartford nuclear reservation in Washington state. The Columbi River forms part of the Boundary Between the iwo  about 50 demonstrators watched from the interstate Bridge at the City s Edge the Barge passed by without incident just after Midnight said a coast guard officer David Clarke the Barge headed toward the Hood River for the final Lee Ofinn 8,000-mile trip from slipping port. Pa., through the Panama canal and lip the Pacific coast a fire Brake out in the tug s engine room about 3 30 a.m., when the Barge carrying the reactor was just above Bonneville dam and delayed the trip for about seven hours. There were no injuries and at no time was there any danger of the reactor vessel going aground said Wendy Anderson of the Knapp town corp. In Portland which owns the tug. The Barge carried the 1,000-ton reactor pressure vessel from the Shippingport nuclear Plant which was shut Down in 1982 and dismantled. The vessel 45 feet High and 18 feet across was emptied of its uranium fuel and filled with Concrete to keep residual radioactivity from escaping. People arc just concern i Carolyn Dunn said atan earlier demonstration by about 20 people ,11 a pier in Astoria on the Oregon Side of the Columbia Rivert Mouth. We just wish h weren t  the main fear is that radioactivity from the vessel Wilt seep into the Columbia from the dump site she said. It s hot what goes up the River that we worry about at this Point so much As what s going to comedown the River in leakage later Dunn said. The . Department of Energy has said the Barge s cargo is no threat to the Public. House panel votes to reimpose and limits on children s programs Kleczka s amendment was Defeated 34-1 2. Washington a a House committee approved on tuesday legislation to reimpose limit on commercial in children s to shows and require broadcasters to provide Quality to programs for Chil Dren or lose their licenses. The House Energy and Commerce committee on a voice Vole sent the Bill to the House where it was expected to pass easily. Congress passed the same Bill toil year but then president Reagan let it die without his signature. The Federal communications commission in 1974 limited commercials to 9 i minutes per hour on Chil Dren s shows but repealed those limits in 1984. Rep. Edward Markey d-mass., said last week that some stations have increased their ads by More than 40 percent on children s shows since 1984 while the average amount of advertising on adult shows is about eight minutes per hour the Bill would limit ads to 12 minutes per hour on weekdays and to i minutes per hour on weekends pennsylvanians decide it s time to get in tune Harrisburg pm. Api the Penn syhania House has voted to Hare suite song Pennsy Lnla which would male the Keystone stale the 49th. Stair Lohar unofficial nine. Only new Jersey would be kit ton  House rated 135-59 for the Mea sure monday sending it on to the Senaie. Efforts to put one special song on the books have for years been tangled to politic As lawmakers pushed constituents creations. Stale government chairman Frank other said a committee of music Educa tors and professional Cost the song from More than 200 selections. The Gong features the. Chores Pennsylvania Pennsylvania May your future be fitted with Honor Ever lasting As your  the two verse Duttry was written about 20 years ago by Eddie Khoury and Ron Nie Bonner. To the cd and applause of his fellow House members rep. A me Gallen launched into singing a Nam song that he authored. Without a song Pennsylvania is out of tune he Sang. Without a song we re the erf Keystone state. We be got a state dog Tower and fish and even a  thin Blue line Case charge of perjury to be probed Dallas a a grand jury will investigate whether a former detective committed penury in testifying against Randall Dale Adams who was freed from prison Afler his 1977 murder conviction was overturned a prosecutor says. Adams attorneys have accused Gus Rose of changing his version of Adams reaction to being arrested for the 1976staying of a police officer Robert Wood. Assistant District attorney Hugh Lucas said monday the allegation will be heard by a grand jury probably in two or three weeks Rose now chief Deputy Constable in Garland testified in december that Adams never denied shopping Wood and that Adams claimed to have had a blackout about what happened. But Adams attorneys countered that Rose stated in the 988 documentary the thin Blue line that Adams bad almost overreacted his  there was no reason for him to lie on film said defense attorney George a. Preston who asked District attorney John Vance for the grand jury review. Adams conviction was questioned in the thin Blue  which pointed instead to Adams accuser David Ray Harris As the killer. The Texas court of criminal appeals last month threw out Adams conviction ruling prosecutors suppressed evidence and allowed perjury at the 1977 trial. Vance later dropped the charges saying there was not enough evidence for a re trial