European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 12,1990 the stars and stripes Page final rules set for alcohol warning labels Washington not alcoholic beverages we have to carry health warning labels in nine months headed government warning in bold capital letters under final Treasury depart ment regulations. The final rules As under temporary rules in effect since last november re quire that the warning say according to the surgeon general women should nol drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery. And May cause health  a Law passed in 1988 requires a health warning Label to appear in a conspicuous and prominent place on All alcoholic beverages bottled or sold in the United states after nov. Is. 1989. A spokesman for the Bureau of Alco hol. Tobacco and firearms which administers the Law. Said the final rules arc More specific than the temporary rules about How the labels should appear to the consumer and require the warnings be in larger Type. The new rules will go into effect in nine months but companies can apply for a 120-Day Extension. Alcohol producers arc Given until the end of the nine months to comply with the new rules. Companies had been advised by the Bureau to order no More than a year s Worth of labels under the temporary rules. For bottles holding less than 3 liners the minimum sic of the letters in the Label will he 2 Millimetres or about one thirteenth of an Inch High. Or containers holding More than 3 liners the minimum Type Sie will be 3 Millimetres or about one eighth to one ninth of an Inch. That is almost exactly the size of the Type used in this new a paper article. While the rules Are More stringent they still do not satisfy All the demands of groups like the National Council on alcoholism and the Tenter for science in the Public interest a consumer group concerned about nutrition issues. Those groups wanted five rotating labels a system now used on cigarette packages. They also wanted the labels to warn among other things that Alco hol increases the risk of developing hypertension and liver disease and is a drug that May be addictive. Watergate residents oppose homeless Village Washington Al l an aluminium Village for the homeless is going up across the Street from an expensive Washington apartment Complex but the High and might a who live there arc telling the its not in pm front  the object of their dismay is a Cluster of seven while trailers tucked into a Small Triangle in View of the watergate which has some of the loftiest apartments in the capital Civ. Labor Secretary Eli Abele Dole and her husband. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas the most powerful Republican in the Senaie. Live in the watergate. So do authors High ranking military people big name journalists. The three apartment buildings and a condominium building flank the watergate office building which gained Fame in 1972 when burglars organi de in for Mer president Nixon s re election committee were caught inside democratic party Headquarters. The watergate residents have filed suit to Block the shelter for the homeless. The seven trailers hooked up to sewer and Power lines Are behind the Howard Johnson s Motel on Vir Ginia Avenue also a bit player in the watergate Saga As the sue where the burglars placed their Lookout with the recording equipment for bugs they planted in the democrats offices. The trailers Are read Lor occupancy by up to 108 men and women Many of them now living on scam grates patches of grass benches and doorways in the area the 680 people at the watergate Don t come straight out and Sav we Don t want to House the  their lawsuit against the District of Columbia is More discreet based on a claim that the City failed to run the shelter idea past the Fine arts commission which decides in certain areas whether a Structure is appropriate. Federal judge Oliver Gasch handed the residents a setback last week a refusing to Block work on the site lie said the area is outside the jurisdiction of the Fine arts commission. The residents still can Appeal the judge s ruling. What i would like to know is exactly what neigh boyhood they would like to Send these folks to says Lois Williams a lawyer for the homeless. The  residents have an answer through their lawyer. Vernon w. Johnson Iii a softball Field four blocks away would be Ideal. In truth. Many of the watergate residents Don t have much to look at anyway. The trailers Are on a Small Palch of ground Between the Motel and a Highway Entrance ramp. And beyond that is a ices than Scenic pret Al of converging ramps and overpasses with a few grates venting heat from a nearby Power Plant. It Don l make a Damn to me whether they open thai shelter i Gol my  said a Man called to Hawk who has been living on the streets of the neigh a trailer t Illume for Washington s homeless has residents of the Vule Runte Complex up in arms. Boyhood for 10 years. Still the 62-year-old Mohawk said the showers in one trailer sounded Good to him. Nothing like that exists under the overpass where a do in Mounds of blankets and sleeping bags lie in a Circle. Tony galling 26, said he had heard about the efforts to put the shelters elsewhere. I think it s pretty selfish to do something like thai he said. We Don t Bolher anybody Over there we Don l do anything but ask for Money once in a while. We Don t harass  Leroy Brown 59, said he had a Job changing truck tires until three months ago when a car careening Down the exit ramp hit him. Stopped until the Driver could assess the damage to the vehicle then sped off. I m glad it is there he said of the shelter due to open this week la will be a lol belter than standing out Here in the  the controversy Over the trailers is rooted in an agreement reached Between inc District of Columbia and advocates for the homeless requiring shelter for everyone who needs it. Unable to meet the conditions the District govern Mcnol has been paying fines now totalling is 15,000, into a fund for the homeless. The people who will use the shelters have a simple idea of neighbourhood said Williams. It s very hard 10 gel Ihm to move to other shchors. There arc at least 100 people right now who live within walking distance. It s not As though hordes of new people want to move Ruby Barnhard. Who lives in a Small two Story House Between the trailers and the watergate Complex complains about inc opportunists who Sil on grates and ask passing motorists for Money. These arc the people we d like to gel rid of she told the Washington Post. We Don l need More  Barnhard a real estate agent is one of two individual plaintiffs named in inc Suil. It claims that the Home less facility would have a dramatic and negative Impact on inc neighbourhood and thai inc residents Are entitled to no less consideration than inc  the homeowners hired a real estate appraiser. Harry horseman to assess the trailers Impact. In an affidavit he said homeowners live Iacre for convenience and Security and because in is one of the most desirable addresses in the District. A Low vacancy rate and comparative High rents indicate thai residents Don t mind paying Clra to live in this close in neigh  on inc of her hand horseman said the homeless compound is unsightly. The Impact on value is Likely to be  thai argument was dismissed by the judge As highly  galling from his quarters under the elevated High was says he s willing to share inc neighbourhood even if the homeowners Aren t. One Day they might be out on the  he said. They would be More than Welcome Over  Virginia demos have no one to oppose Warner  a. Richmond. A. A Virginia democratic leaders said saturday they have no candidate to oppose sen. John w. Warner after they spurned a supporter of political Exir Chmisl Lyndon Larouche who offered to run As a Democrat. Paul Goldman chairman of the stale democratic parly and a close adviser to gov. L. Douglas Wilder said no demo crat has expressed an interest in running against Warner and the party will not hold a state convention this year unless someone slips Forward by March 15. Warner. 62. Is in his second term and is the highest ranking Republican on the  services committee. No one says he s doing a Fine Job Goldman said after about 100 demo cratic leaders gathered at a hotel for a democratic stale Central committee meeting. I d love to have a candidate to run against  the meeting was interrupted briefly by several supporters of Larouche a for Mer fringe presidential candidate who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy and mail fraud. Nancy Spannaus a Larouche supporter who wants to run against Warner As a Democrat was Preyan cd from speaking. I have a dam Coralic program Spannaus said As party regulars shouted no and gel her out of  Alan Ogden a Larouche activist accused the democrats of tacitly support ing Warner and pics Ideal Bush by Refus ing to run a candidate. This is nol the communist party Ogden shouted before being escorted from the Mcling by hold employees. Slate Central committee members adopted rules that would make in virtually impossible for Spannaus to win inc dam Coralic nomination. Under the rules any candidate who warns to run must win the support of 20 percent of the delegates picked at local caucus meetings for a convention to be held