European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday april 17,1989 newest hot collectors item rabbi cards Nal Timoff a they re More Ihachi twice the Sie of baseball cards. Come four to a pack and show faces considerably older than he average sports hero. But even without Bubble gum rabbi cards Art the rage among orthodox jewish Young sirs. Lusyd to collect baseball cards said Meyer Brull u. I gave them up after . 1 gave them to my brother. These ire More interesting his brother. Yussim. Ii. Agreed. They re something different from baseball cards. My teacher used w give out pictures if you were Good in claw. So i got a lot thai  like i hair counterparts in inc base bail world rabbi cards arc collected by youngsters and same adults who buy them by the pack and Intoc to gel pictures of All 36 of inc orthodox religious leaders featured thus far. The card Hack includes the rabbi s place and Date of birth school me and other facts in both English and hebrew. In Judaism rabbis Are teachers As Well As spiritual leaders and in closely knit orthodox communities they arc usually revered role models the cards produced by torah publications arc inc brainchild of Arthur b. Shugarman. More than 300.000 cards from the first series have been sold since their introduction last August and a second series will be out in about a week said Shugarman 3j. An accountant who lives in Baltimore and works in suburban Towson torah publications is a non profit organization and any Money it makes probably  used to lower costs forthe next series of cards a Brearman said. It s for the children said Shugar Man. The father of iwo Young Daugh ters. A s  Shugarman said the next pack is expected to sell for 99 cents. The current tour card packs Cost 79 cents in most locations. They Are sold at religious goods stores throughout the United slates and in Canada and some european countries lie said. Backers defend agreement to Cut deficit Washington a administration and congressional leaders defended themselves sunday against charges that i hair agreement lock the 1990 by decl deficit to $99.4 billion was unrealistic. And based on accounting gimmicks. This was the Best that could be done said the chairman of the Senate budget committee Stin. Jim Sasser d Tenn. The while mouse chief of staff John Sununu said the agreement achieved a very significant redux tin of the deficit the most  has been inc chairman of the Senate finance committee. Sen Undy Belsen. D Traas who refused  the White mouse ceremony last Friday announcing the agreement. Belsen questioned a provision in the agreement which forecast an additional $5.1 billion in Revenue. The source of thai Money has not been negotiated and president Bush has refused to boost taxes to Cut the deficit. Critics of the arrangement were an gered. Sununu said because there is not a big lax package in  the edit a $5.1 billion he said would. Come almost entirely from inc in creased Revenue that comes when you reduce the capital gains tax s4.8 billion a proposal that 1 think in the past sen Ator Bentsyn has been in favor  Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and Sununu said the administration would not agree to raise Revenue next year by increasing the Federal Tat on Gas Oline but they refused to discuss whether such a tax is possible for 1991,. Administration and congressional leaders described the agreement As an eight year High water Mark for budget cooperation Between democrats and re publicans. "1 think that what this bipartisanship Means is thai we put behind us eight years of confrontation and gridlock that occurred with inc Reagan administration and produced absolutely monumental peacetime deficits for this agreement Sasser said. It sets the stage for some significant budget reductions in 1991 and beyond. The chairman of the House by decl committee rep. Leon pan la a Calif. Said the alternate to not working to Gether frankly is chaos. Congress would not be Able to put Lungi Lher a Button Reso Lution and Congress is not going to do anything about tax increases without inc support of the president. That limited our  pan la described the agreement As a first step. There in t anybody either from the White House or from Capitol Hill that does t believe More has to be  pane la predicted Hal the budget Defi Cit would fall below the ceiling of $100 billion set by the Gramm Rudman Law but Sasser said he thought the deficit would be above $99 billion possibly As High As $110 billion. Sasser called the agreement a minimalist agreement. 1 would like to have done much  Sasser appeared on Abc to s inter Vicki program this week with David Brinkley Sununu and pane la on lbs to s face the nation and Brady on Abc to s meet inc  legislative session ceremony after a Lurins Vint stale Hep. Jim unite leads his Hwo re Rel Diin the smile in the Florida House of . H s in first Uruu Rajit Tel be held in inc chamber during a it Slathe session. Burke in a Dernus Cral from Miami and his wife. No sol from Miami is a la new Commerce Commilles lawyer. Faa May charge pilots who did t admit convictions Pittsburgh up the Federal aviation Admi nitration May Bong criminal charges and administrative sanctions against hundreds of pilots who did not disclose alcohol or drug convictions on applications the Pittsburgh press said sunday. The Faa investigation is part of a two year Effort by inc transportation department to keep pilots who May be drug or alcohol impaired out of the cockpit the newspaper said. The Faa inquiry will continue despite a Legal setback from judge George Carr. Who ruled in Tampa  the Pilot s Faa application form is too vague to support a criminal prosecution inc press said Justice department and transportation department officials mid inc Florida decision has not affected plans to press similar charges against pilots around the country who failed to disclose convictions to the Faa the press said. We have referred a number of these cases to . Attorneys offices said John Rosengren chief of projects and analysis with the transportation depart ment s inspector general s office. And we re going to continue to go Forward with this  Bible Totin delegates Gamble on their virtue Greensboro. N c. Up can Bible hell baptists find salvation in sin Clyt Hal question v As put to delegates at the Southern Baptist convention s an Nual meeting being held this year in Las vegas the Bawdy City that makes a Vir tue out of sice. The Greensboro news and record re ported sunday thai vie delegates Hope so convert sinners i Tunny the june 11-15 session. And some May even do a i ill a rung themselves i so asked for m travel Advance in quarters laughed the res. Mike Moore. Pastor of Greensboro s Friendly Avenue Baptist Church. The annual meeting has drawn quite a crowd in recent years As fundamentalists and moderates Battle for control of the in 8 million member denomination. The strip in Lai vegas is mile after mile of Neon lights advertising casinos where such vices As drinking and gambling hold Sway Slot machines known Ai one armed bandits Are in every Nook and cranny scantily Clad hostesses Are Jendy with a smile and a deck of cards. I really think it s a wonderful Opportunity fora witness said the Rev. M o. Owens a fundamentalist Leader from re Estonia no. Owens said some a posts plan to go to the casinos to preach the gospel. Hut Owens acknowledged hat a few do Gale May be led unto temptation and delivered unto evil i m sure there la be a fir people who maybe Cross Over the line once in awhile to go in the gambling places he said there May be some who go out of Cinosi by. Thai just one of the asks we Mac Bui the Rev. Otis Davis pastor of. Sedgefield Baptist Church in Greenb said he does t believe his Baptist Brothers will fall into sin. If people have their Heads put on right they re not going to act involved in that kind of thing Davis  with North Carolina which his 1.1 million baptists Nevada is a Baptist desert with Only 21,000 Mem Bers. Southern Baptist spokesman Al snacks Ford said some delegates May be surprised at what they see in Las vegas., you gel off inc air plane and the Eon course is lined with Slot machines Shackleford said. You can l get in Sandoul of the hotels without seeing the Gam bling it s