European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 20, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5activists Block Salvador Coffee at Calif port but the los Angeles times Long Beach. Calif. A waving signs with slogans such As Quot decaf inc death  about 100 activists rallied at Long Beach Harbor sunday to Stop Unton dockworkers from unloading 34 tons of salvadoran Coffee Beans from a colombian freighter. It was the fourth time this month that the vessel the Ciudad do Buenaventura has docked at a w est coast port but been unable to unload us controversial cargo because of protests members of an organisation that has called for a nationwide Boycott of salvadoran Colucc formed a picket line shortly after Dawn on a rain soaked Road leading to the pier where inc Ciudad do Buenaventura was anchored. Arriving Dock workers. Members of the International longshoremen s and warehousemen a Union honoured the picket line. Quot Boycott folgers. Boycott Hills Sal a Dor an cof acc kills a the protesters chanted. Eventually an agreement was announced in which the longshoremen would be allowed to work the Ciudad do Buenaventura. Unloading any and All cargo except the salvadoran conc Beans.  remarked one Union official a has become the flying dutchman of  Over a period of 10 Days the ship s cargo has been turned away at san Francisco. Vancouver. British Columbia Seattle and now the port of Long Beach. 2 5 Miles South of downtown los Angeles. Although leaders of the longshoremen vowed not to touch the salvadoran Coffee. There was no Way to verify independently what was being unloaded. Bruce Wargo. General manager of the Pacific Container terminal where the c Ciudad de Buenaventura had been docked since Early sunday refused to let reporters approach the ship. Later sunday however an operations manager for the terminal said that no Colucc had been unloaded. He said that because of the problems the Ciudad de Buenaventura had encountered in other ports there had never been any plan to unload the Coffee in Long Beach. The Bov col. Sponsored by a private group called neighbor to neighbor that opposes . Policy in Central America was announced nov. 21 to protest the murders in san Salvador of six Jesuit priests their Cook and her daughter. A salvadoran colonel and eight other officers and soldiers have been charged with the killings. Coffee is one of Al Salvador s most lucrative Cash crops sponsors of the Boycott maintain the action will put economic pressure on the .-backed government and ruling party some of whose members arc the country s largest Cottec producers. Some leaders of the ruling party have in the past been linked to death squads. But salvadoran officials contend the Boycott will backfire and Hurt the very people activist groups profess to want to help the peasant Farmers who depend on grow ing Coffee for their  propane car allowed to Burn itself out Emhouser. Texas api a a Railroad tank car full of propane burned through the Day sunday a Day after derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals touched off an explosion and forced several families to leave their Homes. Firefighters decided after the Accident saturday to let the propane Burn itself out. Rather than risk touching olt another explosion by dousing unseen hot spots in the ear. Said Apt. Darrell slave non of the Corsicana fire department. No one was injured. Firefighters under the supers Ision of the Texas Railroad commission pumped water into the burning Tanker sunday forcing the propane to Rise and bum Oil Stevenson said officials were unsure How much propane was left in the Tanker or How Long the fire would Burn several families within a mile of the Accident site were evacuated from their Homes saturday and All but three of the families were Back Home sunday. Investigators Haven t been Able to get close enough to the wreckage to determine what caused the 44-car Tram to lose 24 cars on a curve shortly before 8 30 . Saturday. The train belongs to the Burlington Northern Railroad. A spilled ear of sodium chlorate powder caused concerns firefighters said the chemical used in manufacturing explosives and cosmetics could feed the fire spreading Llamas beyond the scattered wreckage in a Remote area near pm House. A Community of 200 about 45 Miles South of Dallas. The chemical reacts violently with water. The three train Crew members underwent drug tests a Normal procedure following train derailments. The results Haven t been made Public. A Tanker Burns off propane in Emhouser Texas sunday. Firefighters decided to let the Gas Hurn itself out. Some overnight delivery to suffer for reliability postal service says Washington not a trading olt Speed for reliability the postal service plans this summer to eliminate overnight delivery of first class mail for millions of its customers. For a letter sent a Short distance the postal service s goal has been to deliver it overnight. That distance varies but in Many locations it includes mail within a City. Starting this summer the postmaster general said in an interview the boundaries of the areas in which mail is supposed to be delivered within one Day will shrink affecting from 4 percent to 7 percent of All letters. Express mail the service a Premium overnight service will not be affected. At the same time postal officials say. The service expects to raise its Standard of reliability so that More mail will be delivered without the serious delays that have occurred. The changes arc to take place at a time when the postal service is seeking a 20 percent increase in the Basic first class postage rate to 30 cents from 25 cents. To catch up with the rising Cost of healthcare benefits and other labor expenses that arc expected to produce a record $ 1.6 billion deficit this year. Last year the service delivered 85.8 billion pieces of first class mail. Postmaster general Anthony m. Frank said he was not pleased about the size of the increase but feels it necessary to meet the statutory requirement that the postal service be self supporting. In the 1980s. There were five years with deficits and five with surpluses. _ Quot we Are user paid a to the  Frank said of the postal service which was separated from the government in 1971 and receives no tax support. He pledged to reduce future Cost increases to one or two percentage Points a year less than the inflation rate beginning in 1990. He said costs Rose less than the rate of inflation in the first Quarter of the current fiscal year. Frank also played Down the importance of what he called the pulling Back of one Day deliveries to begin june 30. A it s not a degradation of service Quot he said. In Exchange for slower delivery of some mail he said Quot we be got to have better  the change would mean a letter mailed on tuesday to a destination in the same City would be delivered thursday instead or wednesday. Frank said that last year the new standards. Including reduction in one Day deliveries. Were introduced in the new York metropolitan area As an Experiment and they had resulted in almost no complaint. Because of the continuing Experiment there should be no noticeable effect in new York regional service when the changes go into effect officials say. In 1989 the percentage of new York area first class mail that was delivered in the one Day target climbed to 93 percent from 89 percent. Elsewhere the effect is expected to be modest though some newspapers and other publications have strenuously opposed the change because it could mean a loss in timeliness for their  of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 20, 1950 a state department officials questioned whether american businessman Robert a. Vogler could have been drugged or intimidated into pleading guilty of spying in his trial in Budapest. Hungary.30 years ago today. Feb. 20, i960 a the House appropriations committee granted the administration the $23 million it had requested to Speed up the nation s space program.20 years ago today. Feb. 20. 1970 a Detroit tigers Pitcher Denny Mclain was suspended indefinitely by baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn for bookmaking activities.10 years ago today. Feb. 20. 1980 a Pierre Elliott Trudeau scored a stunning upset Victory in Canadian parliamentary elections and immediately altered himself and his country As peacemakers Between the United states and the soviet Union