European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 6.1990 the stars and stripes Page 5 no More gang insignia sales clerk Jesse Cheek leans on a display Case in a Boston store that has come under fire from Community Lead ers for Selling baseball Caps with insignia of local Street gangs. The owner has agreed to Stop Selling the hats. Senate ethics panel expands scope of Durenberger probe Washington a the Senate select committee on ethics has expanded its investigation of sen. Dave Duren Berger. R-minn., to include a Deal through which he was reimbursed for renting his Minneapolis condominium to himself the senator said thursday. In addition Durenberger has asked the ethics committee to determine whether it was proper for him and other senators to run non profit organizations that raise Money from special interest groups he said. That request involves a think Lank that Durenberger helped found which is embroiled in allegations that the Durenberger senator used the organi action for Politi Cal purposes. The ethics committee already was investigating or parts that Duren Herger laundered speaking fees and used special interest groups to underwrite trips to his marriage Counselor in Boston. A group of Minnesota democrats who filed the original complaint against Durenberger wrote the committee last week asking it to look into the Complex series of real estate transactions that he used to get reimbursed from 1983 to 1987 for stays in the condominium in which he owned an interest. However Durenberger said in an interview thursday that the committee had already decided at a dec. 21 meeting to investigate the Condo Deal. That s Fine with me Durenberger said of the expanded investigation. I think it s logical that the ethics commit tee take on any Issue in which there May not be a specific Rule and help the rules committee give specific  the House bars its members from being reimbursed for staying in a Home in which they own an interest but the Senate docs not. Durenberger asked the rules commit tee to review the Condo Deal but the committee s staff tentatively concluded that the Issue was properly put to the ethics committee since there were no Rel Evant rules to be violated. The ethics committee s staff director Wilson Haney declined to discuss the investigation. Durenberger sold his downtown min Neapolis condominium to a partnership in which he was a member and later to a company owned by his former Campaign manager. In both instances he continued to live there but used Senate funds to pay his rent.  collected at least $9,947 in living expense payments from the Senate from july l983tojune 1987. Minnesota state sen. William Luther a Democrat charged in his dec. 28 complaint that  May have committed serious violations of Law including violations of the internal reve nue code and Senate rules through the real estate transactions. Battleships Iowa new Jersey Likely to be retired Washington Dpi the Towa and the new Jersey top the Navy s Mothball list in its plans to retire two of its four battleships next year defense department officials said. The proposal to Mothball two battleships submitted to president Bush for the fiscal 1991 budget he will present to Congress Jan. 29, would halve the number of the heavily armoured world War la Cra ships. The four battleships were taken out of Mothballs and modernized during the Reagan administration at a Cost of si.7 billion. It was reported earlier that the Navy has proposed retiring two battleships to save Money in fiscal 1991, which begins oct. 1. But the names of the two targeted for Mot Balling were not previously known. The Iowa and the new Jersey Are listed by the Navy As the most Likely candidates. The lop contenders said a defense official. The cutback would leave the Navy with two battled cd Noack a oui inc Nav Wii ii Iwu Uduc e Oklahoma governor asks dudes where s the beef a i a Len he a mtg i Idi Tun riot Lac to kill 1 Tel rtt t " ships the Missouri and the Wisconsin. The battleships each has a Crew of 1,600 and costs about $35 million per year to operate compared with $11 million for a destroyer and $15 million for a Cruis  Navy Hopes sacrificing the battleships will save its 14 aircraft carriers from administration budget Cut ters the official said. The Iowa was chosen because repairs to damaged gun Turret no. 2 from the explosion in april that killed 47 sailors would Cost an estimated $15 million to $20 million another defense official said. The Iowa was conducting gunnery practice in the Atlantic on april 19 when gun Turret no. 2 exploded. The Navy investigation concluded that the explosion was intentional and that gunner s male 2nd class Clayton Hartwig described As troubled probably touched it  findings came under severe criticism however from some sailors who served aboard the Iowa from some members of Congress and from Hartwig s family and friends. They contended the Navy was using the dead Sailor As a Scapegoat because it could not find the real cause of the explosion. The new Jersey was chosen for Mot Balling because it has the longest service life of the four having been commissioned three times since 1943, one official said. The new Jersey saw action of the coast of Lebanon in 1983. When it fired its 16-Inch guns at syrian positions. Navy officials later said the guns had hit Little of military , at the urging of then president Reagan or dered the reactivation and modernization of me first Iowa class battleship in the summer of 1981. The new Jersey was commissioned for the third time in 1982. The Iowa was re commissioned in 1984, the Missouri in 1986 and the Wisconsin the final ship of the class was recommissioned in 1988. Oklahoma City up the Chicken Industry is big business in cast pm Oklahoma but gov. Henry Bellmon raises wheat and cattle on his Northern Oklahoma farm near Billings. Bellmon chided the Oklahoma City chamber of Commerce for serving Chic Ken and Rice at its thursday luncheon. I want to tip off some of you City dudes Bellmon said. We in Oklahoma grow wheat and beef. I would think you could figure out something like Steak and Cabouli some  Bellmon whose remarks were met with laughter and applause said serving Chicken is like having a rancher drive to Dallas to buy a  near the end of his half hour talk Bellmon acknowledged that Oklahoma has an expanding Chicken Industry near the Arkansas slate Border. It s not that we re against chickens. It s just that beef is better he said. Chamber chairman William e. Dur Relt told Bellmon the next time you Are elected governor Well have wheat and beef for  Bellmon a Republican who served a previous term As governor in the 1960s and later in the . Senate has indicated he does not plan to seek re elec Tion. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 6. 1950 the six month old government of greek Premier Alexander Dom cacs resigned. 30 years ago today. Jan. 6. I960 a packed commuter train derailed in Monza. Italy killing 15 people and injuring 124. 20 years ago foday. Jan. 6, 1970 sen. Edward m. Kennedy. D-mass., testified for almost two hours at an inquest into the death of Mary to Kopechne who drowned after Kennedy s car veered off a Bridge and plunged into a tidal Pool in c Chappaquiddick mass. Kennedy who left the scene of the Accident was attempting to disprove speculation that the Young woman would have survived the plunge had he not departed. 10 years ago foday. Jan. 6. 1980 diplomatic sources in Islamabad. Pakistan said the number of soviet invaders in Afghanistan was 100.000 and climbing. Western analysts had estimated the soviet strength at Only 50.000