European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pai the stars and stripes saturday april 15.1989 is prices across . Jump sharply  York times retail gasoline Price tic jumped sharply in the Las two weeks reach ing their Hughet. Levels in More than in acc years. Prices Al some service stations the dramatic increases this month began in California but motorists in almost every part of Thi nation arc now being affected. Service station owners from new England to Southern California say they have been compelled by their own increased costs to pass them on to Consumers. So far this year however the increases in retail prices have lagged behind the Advance in wholesale prices. Al Willie s Mobil service station in Manhattan  Price of Premium unleaded gasoline Rose by 7 cents a gone up by 10 cents a gallon or More or about 10 per cent. Analysts and. Industry experts mostly  huge increases to to factors higher crude Oil prices an wide spread anticipation that gasoline supplies will be Stu Czeti by an increase in summer automobile travel. The Oil spill in Alaska s Prince William sound and fires Galto Alast week to $1,299. In West coast refineries have also affected supplies both and to  because we had to pay More it directly and indirectly analysts say the Gas Oliffe said Willie Cross the station s owner. I Jill several analysts predict that gasoline prices will stay people will com round because they have to drive any High for the rest of Spring and through the summer with Way. There in t must Tiey can do but pay the Price to Mantl remaining High for at least the next six months. At Belmont Arco Impf Tolland ore., prices have gone up almost every Day Abr the last week said Robert Peck the owner of the scr vice station. Prices Hay gone up Here something like 10 to is cents a gallon in the last two  in the Larf month the average Price of a gallon of Gaso line jumped 10.2 percent to $1.1063, according to Thelunda Nore Survey which checks prices at 12,000 gasoline stations throughout the country every to weeks. Gasoline prices have increased by 13 percent since january when the average Price was 98.04 cents a gallon according to the Survey which records the average Price of All grades of gasoline at both full service arid self serv ice pumps As Well As the lax. The latest Survey period ended on april 7, but service station owners say prices have increased notably since then. News updates Union Carbide pact new Delhi Lull the government  told the supreme court it had readied a $470 million settlement with Union car bide corp. On tie 1984 Bhopal Gas leak. 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Also thursday representatives of Solidarity and the Farmers Union Rural Solidarity met to prepare for he june elections that w. Ill include opposition candidates 2 a makers of of create pane to Hunt Down to and faded bases abroad by w1llia m j. Bartman Wash Neton Bureau Washington an Effort to flow unnecessary . Military installations overseas much like the one that recommended the closing of 86 Domestic bases is expected to begin this week. Now it s Lime to look at the overseas commitment we be ept to Sec which bases Are functional which ones should close Down said spokesman for rep. Brian  the War was Over or year ago Donnelly Jed rep. Patricia Schmo Cdr d-colo., planned on thursday to Intro Duce legislation calling for an overseas base dosing commission. Donnelly s spokesman said the Bill would not necessarily my Santa reduction of troops overseas. He said that Issue would be decided by the bipartisan of Mission that inc legislation would establish. Capitol Hill opinion on the Bill s chances is divided. Donnelly and sch to Cdr believe last year s Domestic base closings study also handled by a bipartisan commission should have included overseas bases. They believe their proposal is the logical Extension of the current stateside Effort. However a senior staff member on the House armed services committee said monday we Don t i pct to move that Bill. With one commission Al ready formed it s doubtful Congress will want to form another one so  other Capitol Hill staff members however gave the proposal at least an even Chance noting the growing con Cerns Over the unit states Lange share of the International defense Burden. Tin december the commission on Bast realignment and closure record Manj Tok the closing of 86 bases partial closure of Jive others and realignment of 54 bases i the plan was approved by then Secre tary of defense prank Carlucci in Jan uary and is now be arc Congress which must reject the entire list to save any facility. A Congress gave itself 45 in Sec Sion Days to act  proposal which Means it has until some Lime in May to act or the changes Lake place automatically. Close Friend of papcum Reou jailed pending trial Over Bank scandal Athens Greece a one of pre Mier Andreas map Androu closest friends was jailed on wednesday Pend ing trial for allegedly receiving stolen Money from the troubled Bank of Crete a spokesman for the District attorney s office said. George Louvaris. One of the key Fig ures allegedly involved in financial wrongdoings at the Bank testified for seven and a half hours before a Magis trate investigating the scandal which has rocked the socialist government since october the spokesman said. As he left the court Lai Vitris said i re specs the decision of greek Justice District attorney Dimitris Doris filed felony charges against Louvaris in february after three bodyguards working for the former chairman of the Bank told an investigating magistrate hat they had delivered boxes full of Money to him ill his Athens Home he also has been accused by the for Mer chairman George Koskotas of being the middleman in payoffs to government officials. Louvaris a former director of a state run Cement company has denied the accusations claiming that Koskotas allegations aim to damage his Friend the pre Mier. Koskotas 34, is jailed in Salem Mas spending extradition to Greece. He fled the country nov. 6 after he was indicted on multiple counts of fraud forgery and embezzlement for allegedly siphoning off More than j200 million from the Bank. Koskotas is accused of using Bank funds to build a publishing Empire and buy n top greek soccer team. In interviews from jail Koskotas said that the swindle was masterminded and authorized by. Papandreou and that Louvaris had acted As middleman for the Premier Papandreou has denied any involve. In the scandal and issued statements to the press that Louvaris was his Friend. The Premier also stated that he is not a judge and can t intervene in the work of  after Louvaris jailing government spokesman Sotiris Kostopoulos said Papandreou s statements still hold. Louvaris was one of two people who were constantly Al Papandreou s bedside when the Premier had open heart surgery in London last september. The other was Dimitra Liani the Premier s 34-year-old  officials from Papandreou s  socialist movement have been implicated in the Koskotas affair. The government s no. 2 Man agamemnon Kouts Gioupis resigned March 15 Over allegations that he had received Money from the former banker. He was the eighth Cabinet member to resign since the scandal surfaced. Crew efforts of save soviet sub led to casualties Moscow a More sailors might have survived the sinking Ofa so Viet submarine Oft Norway if Thev had realized sooner that the vessel could not be saved the soviet Northern Fleet com Mander said in an interview published thursday. People did t think about Retreat they were sure they would be Able to save the ship and so part of inc submarine s Crew did t gel a Chance to use the life saving equipment on Board adm. Felix n. Gromov told he defense ministry newspaper red Star the nuclear powered submarine carrying two torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads caught tire and Sank Friday killing 42 of its Crew of 69. The soviet Navy plans to raise the ship from its resting place 4,950 feet under the sea to determine the exact cause of the disaster soviet television reported. Ramov was quoted in the newspaper As saying the ship s log Book has been recovered along with Many other documents. He said it was Clear the construction of certain lifesaving devices on Board must be improved but final conclusions about what caused the Accident and its High death loll will be made by a govern ment commission. Soviet officials say there is. No danger of radiation leakage from the submarine because the Crew shut Down its reactors and neither of its torpedoes was armed for combat. The submarine s Captain Yevgeny Vanin pulled a Sailor through a smoke fill 1 Hatch and then died Asp struggled to reach his Crew according to soviet Media reports. Some survivors waited for Rescue in freezing Waters for an hour and a half. Only 19 of he 42 bodies have been re covered. The government newspaper Izvestia said a Short circuit probably caused the ire As the submarine headed to port after a Long voyage. ,