European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes a of to expand test of Naf personnel  2 a More violence erupts in . Poll tax  8 a air Force hoop sters win  21 a North admits he ran Contra  28 the Stussi Antr Pes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 327 saturday March 10, 1990 a a 25 Dally and sunday d 8693 military boosts drug War Rol Atlantic Pacific Caribbean targeted Washington apr the Pentagon on Friday announced plans to expand its role in the Bush administrations War on drugs by deploying a wide array of warships aircraft and communications equipment in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Caribbean. A we will act swiftly methodically and in Accord Ance with our nations Laws and traditions a defense Secretary Dick Cheney said in a prepared statement. Stephen m. Duncan Cheney a coordinator of drug enforcement policy told a news conference the plan As developed by regional commanders would Cost nearly twice the $450 million appropriated by Congress for Pentagon anti drug efforts this year. He said the serv ices would have to a cough up out of their hide the extra funds. The administration has asked Congress to approve $ 1.2 billion in Pentagon spending on the drug War next year. Duncan said the new strategy does not give the defense department any new missions in the drug inter see drug War on Back Page Bush tricked by phony Iran Call Washington apr president Bush knew a caller claiming to be iranian president Hashemi a Sfanjani might be an impostor but spoke with him a on the off chances it might signal a breakthrough for . Hostages the White House said Friday. A the presidents feeling was a what if its real i want the american people to know and the families of the hostages to know that i am willing to Check out every possibility a a presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Fitzwater conceded that the phone conversation last month was an embarrassment since it turned out to be a hoax. But he added a this phone Call is just another reminder of the fact that we will pursue every Lead we can  he also said the episode reflects the frustration the administration faces in its efforts to find ways to press for the release of the eight . And 10 other Western hostages being held in Lebanon. The administration does not know who initiated the hoax and could not Rule out the possibility that it originated within a faction of the iranian government Fitzwater said. Bush brushed off reporters questions about the phone Call during an event in no Rose Garden declaring a said it  n apparently was a reference to statements by Fitzwater and other administration officials. Episode was first reported thursday by lbs news. Meanwhile a Sfanjani said in a ser on broadcast on Tehran radio that ran s stature in the world is so High the strongest Power in the world and finh Ca Power on Earth is striving to inrwl1 up Ltd n8 with your executive r even through Telephone  Down Ali Nan the that such a global ties Hii via its intelligence Cap Abili Thi s Ina person it cannot identify a a if ,ran8e occurrence much or. 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In february the West German weekly Magazine Quick financed a study of 17 East German cities that East is amps. Scott a. Miller two factory smokestacks poke through the Haze behind the Rev. Karl Heinz Dallmann a lutheran minister in pollution plagued Melbis East Germany. Found Fulfur dioxide Levels to be Many times higher than those in West Germany. Karl Heinz Roth who headed the analysis by a Stuttgart technological Institute said the Fulfur dioxide pollution in Mol Bis was 100 limes higher than the level in West Germany s highly Industrial Ruhr Valley. The East German cities of Eisenach Gotha bad Berka Bitterfeld. Erfurt. Weimar Hoyc Stcin and Zwickau ranged from being twice As polluted to 44 times More polluted than comparable areas in West Germany Roth said. The institutes study focused on Sulphur dioxide because it is one of the most widespread pollutants emitted by East German Industry. A we actually expected even higher pollution counts in East Germany a Roth said. 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