European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 23,1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 fare hikes follow Lead of american new York a american air lines historically a Leader in lowering the Cost or air travel is showing its influence in raising prices too. Several of american s competitors have matched its initiative that will boost their cheapest fares by More than is percent and double cancellation penalties. Delta air lines Continental airlines and pan am corp. Said thursday they were following american s move. The in creases proposed by american earlier this week will take effect sept. 29. United airlines and Northwest air lines were still studying the matter spokesmen for those carriers said. American is one of the largest . Carriers and helped Pioneer fare Dis counts in the deregulated airline Indus try. In the past it often has been the first to announce discounts that competitors were forced to match. Under the Tare increases the popular Max Saver Cut rate fare often used by vacationers which must be purchased 14 Days in Advance will be increased by $ 10 to $20 round trip. A Max Saver ticket on american Between Dallas and los an Geles for example would jump to $338 from $338 round trip. The Max Saver tickets would remain non refundable. In addition fares will be raised on seven Day Advance tickets by $30 to $60 round trip. The same Dallas los Angeles round trip ticket bought seven Days in Advance would go to $438 from $378. The penalty for changing or cancelling a reservation would double to so percent of the ticket Price. Atlanta based Delta said a Sharp Rise in fuel prices along with a Large number of discount tickets sold recently prompted the airline to match the in creases. In mid August the airlines slashed round trip fares by As much As $160 to lure passengers in the historically weak autumn season. Most fares to Europe were reduced by $ 100 into next Spring. Last week in an Effort to recover some of the losses the airlines boosted super coach one Way fares favored by business fliers because they have More lenient and Vance Purchase requirements than cheaper discount fares and Don t require a saturday night stay. Those fares were raised by around $20 for a one Way ticket. Chuck Aaron and Bob garb claim to have spotted a boat shape on mount Ararat in the Central dark part of the picture. 2 americans 100 percent sure they be discovered Noah s Ark Istanbul. Turkey a two americans claimed thursday to have discovered Noah s Ark on the Southwest Side of mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey while flying Over it by helicopter. Chuck Aaron the Pilot said Square boat shape was spotted 14.500 feet up on the Mountain in a place usually covered by a Glacier. The Gla Cier retreated this summer because of the High temperatures in the Region near the soviet Border. We Are 100 percent sure this is the  Aaron said in a Telephone interview. Various claims of discovering the Ark have been made since Turkey listed a ban on climbing the Mountain in 1982. Many Christian fundamentalists who interpret the Bible literally believe the Ark must be on mount Ararat. The biblical account in the Book of genesis said that after the deluge the Ark came to rest on Ararat with Noah s family and a cargo of male and female pairs of every kind of Ani Mal. But geologists say that although there is evidence of a flood in Mesopotamia in sumerian times it is impossible for a ship to make landfall at an Altitude As High As mount Ararat. Aaron who is from Orlando fla., said he and his partner Bob garb. A Columbus Ohio pharmacist Dis covered and photographed the object they believe is the Ark during a sept. 15 flight. He said he and Garbe have made five flights in the last three years in search of the Ark on the 16.000-Fontmountain, which is known in turkish As Agri Dagi. He said the Glacier on the Mountain Only melts enough to expose the boat every 20 or 30 years. Aaron and garb belong to the or Lando based Immanuel expeditions foundation. Aaron said they used do nations and $60,000 of their own funds to finance the expedition. He said they plan to return a Cal year for a june climb to the spot with a team of 20 that will include geologists and archaeologists. Aaron said they based their search on information provided by an Ameri can piloted Davis of Albuquerque,. Who saw the same boat shape Al the same spot during a flight in 1943.and on Oiler sightings. Al least three american groups searching for the Ark have focused their attention on a formation that also lies on the Southwest Side but at the much Lowe Altitude of 5,200 feel. Turkish geologists say it is Only a Rock shaped by thousands years of erosion. Plan would Reform death penalty appeals Washington a a committee appointed by chief Justice William h. Rehnquist has called for streamlining death Penally appeals to assure swifter executions but Only after condemned murderers Gelmore Legal help. Thursday s proposal promptly was denounced by civil liberties lawyers. They want to be Able to kill More people faster said Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid an defender association. Retired supreme court Justice Lewis f. Powell who Heads the committee said the hard fact is that the capital punishment Laws of 37 states arc not being enforced by the courts. I respect those who argue for outright abolition of death punishment he said but it seems irrational to retain the penalty and frustrate its fair  Powell said however that he would vote to abolish capital punishment if he were a stale legislator because it has not deterred murder the United states has the highest murder rate of any nation and is the Only democracy that has the death penalty he noted. Powell said his committee s report Aims to Reform a system thai encourages endless Legal mane vering years of delay and fran Rich last minute moves to stave off execution. The committee report was submitted to the . Judicial conference the policy making Arm of the fed eral courts. The conference postponed any action on the report and any recommendation to Congress until its 28 judges reconvene in March. The committee recommended that slates enact Laws to limit inmates on death Row to two rounds of appeals in stale and Federal courts. One round would Challenge a verdict directly the second would be based on alleged violations of the condemned individual s rights. The current system permits successive rounds of appeals in the Federal courts. Stales that choose to adopt the new system would be required to provide at taxpayers expense Legal help to death Row inmates throughout the appeals process. That is not the Case now. Another feature of the proposal is a six month dead line for filing a Federal Appeal after an inmate exhausts the state court appeals. No such deadline exists now. There arc some 2,200 convicted murderers on death Row across the nation. But Only 118 executions have occurred since the supreme court reinstated the deat Penally in 1976. Powell said that the death penalty is issued to Only a fraction of those convicted for the 20,000 murders committed each year and that the average lapse Between conviction and execution is More than Highl years. Civil liberties lawyers called the plan s Promise of More Legal help for death Row inmates an empty one because it offers is no Assurance that slate appointed lawyers will be , they said the plan would severely curtail death Row inmates right to use Federal appeals to Chal Lenge their lawyers  s a Public relations ploy. To facilitate the Rush to the Gallows said Leslie Harris of the american civil liberties Union. She said the Powell committee report is cloaked in moderate tones but there is Noth ing moderate about what it  american bar association president Stanley Chau Vin said he is concerned that fairness not be sacrificed for the Sake of expediency the report leaves Many questions unanswered Chauvin said in a letter to the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee Josephr Biden decl