European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. September 24,1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 fare nikes follow Lead of american new York a lines historically a Cost of air travel is in raising prices too several of amyl have matched its boost their cheapest 15 percent and Dout allies. Delta air lines and pan am corp. Were following Macri creases proposed b this week will take Al United airlines a lines were still s spokesmen for those american is one carriers and helped counts in the Derc Gul try. In the past it ofte to announce discount were forced to match. Under the fare Inci Max Saver Cut rate fare Cali Oncas. Which must Days in Advance will to $20 round trip. A i american Between a Giles for example Dpi from $338 round Iris tickets would remain m in addition fares seven Day Advance Ticki round trip. The same t round trip ticket Bou Advance would go to the penalty for Changi reservation would i of the ticket Price. Atlanta based Dulli in fuel prices along i of discount ticket prompted the airline creases in mid August t round trip fares by lure passengers in to autumn season. M were reduced by $ i last week in an Al of the losses the Ai. Coach one Way fares fliers because they h Vance Purchase t cheaper discount a a saturday night Sta those fares were for a one Way ticket. American air Rin lowering the Wing its influence an a competitors Ilia Tive that will res by More than cancellation pc tin rental airlines lid thursday they n s move. The in Merican earlier sept. 29. Northwest air ing the Mailer ices said the largest . Ioner fare Dis d airline Indus Las been the first competitors is the popular of ten used by a purchased 14  Saver ticket on and los an l jump to $358 he Max Saver refundable. Be raised on i by $30 to $60lias-los Angeles i seven Days in 38 from $378. Or cancelling a to 50 percent Aid a Sharp Rise a Large number sold recently match the in airlines slashed Uch As $160 to in stoically weak fares to Europe Ito next Spring. To recover some s boosted super Ivorid by business More lenient and in cents than and Don t require d by around $20 communist party Maverick Boris n. Yeltsin gestures As he addresses u Ruup of his supporters Friday Yeltsin thousands of supporters meet to celebrate pravda apology Moscow a Boris n. Yeltsin met with thousands of supporters Fri Day to celebrate pravda s apology for reprinting an article claiming he drank and spent his Way across the United states on a recent tour. I m thankful for your understand ing and for the fact that you did not believe this lie slander this action that evidently was directed against me Yeltsin told cheering supporters in be Lin Grad. A City about 20 Miles North West of Moscow where Yeltsin has Many supporters. Some 1,000 people jammed into a Hall and photographers on the scene said about 20,000 More listened to his speech on speakers placed outside the Hall. It was Yeltsin s first Public appear Ance since he returned from a nine City tour of the United slates monday. On the same Day inc communist party daily pravda reprinted an article from the italian newspaper la pc Publica alleging that the Silver haired populist engaged in a drinking and spending Binge while in inc United states. Pravda apologized to Yeltsin on thursday printing a Small item saying the journalist who wrote the Story adn t actually seen Yeltsin do any of the tilings he described. Yeltsin had described inc report As  on tuesday and wednesday. Yeltsin took part in a plenary meeting of the communist party Central com Mittee on ethnic issues. The Central committee has the Power to take disciplinary action against its members including removing Ihm from the party s policy making body. They expected after this planned action that i would declare at the ple num that i was leaving the Central committee Yeltsin told the crowd which interrupted him frequently Dur ing his hour Long remarks with cheer Sand applause. I was Only smiling Silling in the Hall he added. The former Moscow party chief told the crowd he also did t pack Down from the criticism of president Mik Hail Gorbachev s Reform program that he made in inc United states. At the end of the plenum Gorba Chev said yells in returned from America. He says How Good it is i America and we were All criticized by him including we Central committee members and the presidium headed by me " Yeltsin Lold the crowd. I Lold him right it was just like you describe in " yells in said. Gorbachev brought Yeltsin .10 mos cow in 1985 to serve As Moscow communist party chief and Yeltsin quickly became one of the leading advocates of Gorbachev s policy of greater open Ness. But yells in was forced out of his Jobin november 1987 after criticizing inc party at a Central committee meeting and subsequently lost his Post As a candidate member of the politburo. Picun would Reform death penalty appeals w Ashing Tow 4i4a committee appointed by chief Justice Willi Antr Tatu Lauist has called for streamlining death penalty appcas�l5sure swifter executions but Only after cond More 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 and 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. A i respect those who argue for Oul Riehl  death punishment he said but it serb rational to retain the penalty and frustrate its  Powell said however  vote to abolish capital punishment if he Gera state legislator because it has not Del erred  the United Jihei has the highest murder rate of any  the Only democracy that has , he noted. 11 said his committee s report Aims to Reform a system that encourages endless Legal mane vering years of delay and frenzied last minute moves to slave off execution. The committee report was submitted to inc . Judicial conference the policy making Arm of the fed conference postponed any a Liny  until its 28 jul the committee  Laws to limit in gun oath Row to two in  courts. One round would cell directly the second would be based on Al i 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 10 provide at taxpayers expense Legal help to death Row inmates throughout the appeals process. Thai is not the Case now. Another feature of the proposal is a six month dead line for tiling a Federal Appeal after an Inmair exhausts the stale court appeals no such deadline exists now. There arc some 2,200 convicted murderers on death Row across the nation. But Only 118 exc occurred since the supreme Cou Penally in 1976. Iii it Powell said  is issued to Only a a Bacon Viuca for inc 20,000 murders com Cash year and that the average lapse Between conviction and execution is More than eight years. Civil liberties lawyers called the plan s Promise of More Legal help for Dalh Row inmates an empty one because in offers is no Assurance that stale appointed lawyers will be competent. Over they said inc plan would severely curtail shite Leighl to use Federal appeals to Chal Lenge their Law Muhm Lance. It s a Public t i  the shot inc Gallows said Leslie Hampt civil liberties Union. She said the pore port is cloaked in moderate tones but there i ing moderate about what it  bar association president Stanley Chau Vin said he is concerned that fairness not be sacrifice for the Sake of  the report leaves Many questions unanswered Chauvin said in a Teller to the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee Joseph r. Biden decl