European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 30, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Mobil to Sells. Africa holdings at big loss new York Mobil corp., which has done business in South Africa for 90 years said Friday it was leaving the racially divided nation and will take a net loss of$140 million on the move. The withdrawn of Mobil the largest american company doing business in South Africa leaves 135 other american companies still debating inert Accord ing 1o the Washington based investor responsibility research Center a not for pro ii association funded by institutional investors. The Oil giant said it was Selling operations once valued at More than 1400 Mil lion 1o general mining Union corp. Ltd. For More than is s3 million in  and $10 million that was expected to be the operation s 1989 profit. After adjustments for lasts and accounting the company will record a net Book loss of s140 million on the Sale of a refinery and retail and commercial Petroleum marketing networks. Mobil chairman Allen e. Murray blamed . Foreign policy including a 1987 Law that eliminated certain lax credits for . Companies doing Busi Ness in South Africa for ultimately forc ing the pullout. Murray said  a result of the change earnings in South Africa were taxed twice and the effective tax Rale on South african earnings by . Corporations was 72 percent since 1986 when Exxon corp., the biggest . Oil company left South Afri Ca Mobil had insisted that it would hot Bow to pressure to Dis invest. But in the last four years More than 170 american firms have withdrawn from South Africa because of its race policies. Most sold their operations at what were considered Low prices to South african controlled businesses. Mobil employed almost 2,800 people in South Africa and became a Symbol of foreign business reluctance to leave de Spile condemnation of the while led government s suppression of the Black majority in the system called apartheid. Even so Mobil was rated no. 1 for the list two years by a group that monitors . Companies adherence to the so called Sullivan principles the voluntary Ami discrimination guideline for companies operating in South Africa. Mobil s agreement with Gen Cor continues Mobil s equal Opportunity policies and provides the Mobil foundation s3 million a year at lust until 1994. The foundation provides education housing and other assistance mostly to Blade South africans. Anti apartheid groups cheered Mobil s decision to leave South Africa. Mobil succumbed to anti apartheid pressure said Diane Bratcher of then to Faith Center on corporate re Sponski Billy an association of religious institutional investors that has targeted Mobil since the 1970s. Whether they la say that or not. That s Why they Are Selling their  Mobil Stock closed at 150.75 a share on the new York Stock Exchange Down 50 cents from thursday s close. Saffier will plead not guilty in death of comatose son Chicago a the Young father who held Hospi Tal workers at gunpoint As he removed his comatose baby son from life support systems and held him until he died Wil plead not guilty to a first degree murder charge assistant Public defender Richard Scholz said. Rudy Linares 23,  Painter from suburban Cicero faces the murder charge in the death Early wednesday of his 16-month-old son Samuel. Samuel had been in a coma partially brain dead since he swallowed a balloon at an aug. 2 birthday party blocking the How of oxygen to his brai n. Or Gilbert Goldman Samuel s physician at paediatric intensive care at rms Prelc Nan St. Luke s Midi in Center said the child was considered to be in an irreversible ," but he said he did not believe he could legally comply Wilh the family s request months ago for withdrawal of life support although he was personally and professionally  Linares told reporters. I did it because i love my  me is free on a $75.000.recognizance Bond but was ordered by Cook county judge Robert Bastone to undergo a psychiatric examination to determine whether  any danger to himself or anyone else Public defender Philip Mullan told Lac co re Linares took matters int mown hands after a nurse left a message on the family s answering machine that said Samuel was to tic  a Long care residential facility to die peekaboo employees of ii mop can Iran in Grill Demi knn., Check out strings of culion it Slind to Lic Curne to j head. The Are from tuft Cal rolling Cheri i in Barman and Jackie crap Laski. Now vice9 has gone what s left for Miami Miami a after five years of so Cit. Clothing Sleeker automobiles and pastel color schemes the cops of to s Miami vice have busted their last dealers doers and hustlers on the Sleazy underside of this Semi tropical City. But while the series has ended in the United slates one mystery remains unsolved can his image sensitive Metropolis make its vice ? most   the policy show s hip combination of Glitz and menace brought a new Wiki of excite Mentlo Miami s tattered image. But some fear the program s obsession with drug smugglers and violent crime May have scared off tourists and other outsiders. The last scenes were shot thursday night at a luxurious House in Miami Beach and the cast and Crew held a fare Well party at the Beach Friday night. Miami vice is generally recognized for us influence on men s fashion television filming techniques and Rock music scores for television. As its popularity grew life imitated Art and both Miami and Miami Beach saw a Boom in Bright pastels and a glorification of Art Deco. But some civic leaders said Friday they winced even when they heard the title of the new show. Here came a show to be called Miami  shoot pm up said Sid Ney Levin a founding member of the. Beacon Council a group of prominent businessmen. I think if you could have taken a vote that Day they would have voted the o show out of  Levin said he perked up though when the first show aired on sept. 16, 1984, and he saw the glitzy Intro Isaw the Way they pictured the Community the pastels All the water the a Iii bang opening the. Quaint Little places at the Beach lots of Birds he said adding that Miami at the Lime had an image As a place where Jour grandparents went for vacation. " vice s color and excitement and drama gave of the feeling Ofa new Civ. A City that a lot of tourists had never seen. Levin said. It made a fashion Trenda Miami style. There had t been a Miami style since the 1940s and 50s." Bui he said Many people who promote the City will be relieved to see the show go because of its emphasis on violence and drugs. The plot of the last show has the Mam characters Sonny Crockett placed by Don Johnson and Rico Tubbs played by Philip Michael Thomas going to the fictional South Anh ricin country of Costa Morado to bring Back a corrupt dictator to testify against International drug traffickers the ending is secret. A by officials Are not saying whether cracked and Tubbs will be killed off when they make their last stand. The set has been closed to visitors for. The past several Days. The Fra show is scheduled to air in the United states May,21. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today ,. April 30, 1949 lev Durocher manager of the new York giants was sus Pended b baseball comic Mioner . Happy Chandler for sinking a fan after the giants were beaten 15 2 by the Brooklyn dodgers. 30 years ago today. April to 1959 be Mauiu Ofa Cash crisis created by lower tax revenues Michi Gan gov. G. Mennen Williams announced that the state would not be Able to pay slate legislators and judges. 20 years ago today ,. Ai Ril 30, 1969 the House judiciary committee approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would abolish the electoral College and establish nation wide popular election of presidents 10 years ago  30, 1979 Gen David c. Jones chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the nation s military leaders were still undecided on the proposed strategic arms limitation treaty