European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a news briefs the stars and stripes saturday july 21,19902 of captains safely eject from plane before crash Force captains returning to their base in England safely ejected from an Al 11 fighter plane snort by before it crashed Friday about 60 Miles West Oflyn Ciurlik. Pilot Robert Travis suffered Only minor injun a a i. Sgt. Arts a Basic was not injured. Both were taken by Heli Ries according to base spokeswoman tech. _ Marty Davis. Weapons system officer Richard copter to the 39th tac group Hospital in in Ciurlik for observation. T the men Are assigned to the 55th tac fighter so 20th tac fighter Wing at Raf upper hey Ford England. Davis said the plane crashed about 1 . In a Gorge in an isolated area of the Countryside. The capsule carrying the Pilot and Crew member parachuted on a Knoll above the Gorge she said. The men were returning to Raf upper Heyford the cause of the crash is under investigation by a Board of officers Davis  praises . For backing German Unity Bonn West Germany up a West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher Friday praised the . Administration for backing German unification and promoting a new relationship with the soviet Union. Genscher made the unusually warm remarks in an article he wrote for saturday s edition of the nor see Zeitung which he concluded with the words a thank you  he urged fellow germans to a Stop and look across the Atlantic in the midst of the headlong Rush toward unification. Genscher said that . Support for unification a has been unequivocal right from the Start Bush blasts Democrat sin Billings Mont. Apr a president Bush lashed out Friday at the democrats saying their a stranglehold on Congress is to blame for the skyrocketing deficit and a government by gridlock in  Quot Twenty nine out of the last 35 years of Democrat control is Long enough. We must have More republicans in Congress a Bush said at a $100-a-plate fund raising breakfast for gop Senate candidate Allen Kolstad Montana a lieutenant governor who is trying to unseat incumbent democratic sen. Max Baucus. Bush reiterated his Promise to negotiate a budget agreement a without preconditions and said that a we Are getting some Good cooperation with the leadership on the democratic Side of the aisle in those talks. He devoted most of the speech to a strident attack on the opposition who control the Senate by a 55-45 margin and the House by 257-176. Bush is hoping to wrest Back control of the Senate for the gop in this fall s 34 Senate races. A enough is enough. We must end this a deficits Don t matter mentality a Bush said. A i do not want to preside Over these godawful deficits that Are saddling these Young people Here with billions in  he attacked Congress for not passing his educational excellence act and his version of child care legislation and blasted it for adding $3.5 billion to his request for $800 million in emergency Aid for Panama and Nicaragua last Spring. Later in remarks prepared for an anti drug rally for Billings youths in Daylis stadium Bush criticized Congress for not passing his anti crime package. A to win the War on drugs we must have a United Effort a he said. A a it a time for Congress to act. Our children our communities and our cops have waited Long  Bush was flying later to Cheyenne wyo., to attend a Frontier Days Parade and rally inspect the nation s Only Squadron of 50 my missiles in their silos at Warren fab and get in a Quick fishing trip to the Middle Crow Creek fishing area before heading Back to Washington. At a gop fund raising dinner in Boise Idaho on thursday Bush defended his reversal on tax increases and blamed Congress for the looming $160 billion deficit. Addressing 900 people at an event that raised almost $200,000 for rep. Larry Craig a Senate race the president said Congress a appropriates every Dollar and tells the president How to spend every single  a i have said i will negotiate without preconditions. And i will a he said. A you be seen the firestorm about revenues being on the table a said Bush who sowed discord in Republican ranks last month by abandoning his a no new taxes Campaign pledge and acknowledging that tax Revenue increases Are needed to Cut the deficit. Quot Well i be done my part and now it s their turn. A truly comprehensive package not a temporary band Aid. There must be Reform of the budget process and there must be real spending control a Bush said his voice rising to a shout. A the american people Are entitled to that a meanwhile congressional democrats charged Friday that president Bush was playing election year politics by blaming them for the mounting Federal deficit. As House republicans struggled with the Gopas position on tax increases House speaker Thomas Foley and sen. Lloyd Bentsen the democrats 1988 vice presidential candidate took vehement exception to Bush s blame the democrats speech in Montana. Rep. William Gray of Pennsylvania the no. 3 House Democrat said Bush a comments at a gop fund raising breakfast were an example of a usual elec Tion year  from Page 1 won the 2nd congressional District. The District covers most of new Orleans he lost a re election bid in 1942, but reclaimed the Job in 1946, beginning a string of 22 consecutive victories by him or his wife. He eventually became House majority Leader. He presumed Dej a a a in 1972. His wife took Over his seat in March 1973 after winning a special election. She was re elected nine times never getting less than 60 percent of the vote. Was presumed dead in the disappearance of a plane in from Page 1 North admitted to Many of the activities for which he was later charged. The government must show by a a preponderance of the evidence that no use was made of North s immunized testimony either by witnesses or by the Iran Contra prosecutor s office said the appeals panel. The hearing would Deal with the testimony of witnesses before the grand jury that indicted North As Well As with witnesses who testified at his trial. A jury convicted North on May 4, 1989, of three of the 12 charges he faced hordes from Pago 1 toll. A Milkshake was served melted and the big Mac _ fou the same when grown under Glass in these Northern was a bit Flat because iceberg lettuce does no to cuff quite latitudes but the Fries were Salty and Golden a Straw stood in a second shake and soviet customers found lettuce wondrous enough without worrying about its ability to fluff up a Sandwich. Four hours into their Day few of the 250 Young people cooking and staffing 27 Cash registers managed obligatory Mcdonald a smiles but All were unfailingly polite. For soviets accustomed to snarling clerks slopping out cafeteria hash this is nothing Short of unbelievable. A we really like the service Quot said a smiling Irina Korunova who came to Moscow from the town of Merom 150 Miles to the East with her husband and Small son. A a it a so clean not like a soviet restaurant a marvelled Nina Balitskaya a student teacher who admitted to having braved the line 15 times. For Galina Voy Evodkia of Moscow the line and the prices were just too much. A for this kind of Money i could sit in a real restaurant and be served a she pointed out. A and its not fast. I had to stand in line for an hour and a  a big Mac costs 3.75 rubles or a Little More than two hours pay for the average soviet worker. Restaurants in state hotels charge 2 to 3 rubles for an entree while private soviet restaurants May demand 10 to 50 rubles. Already Mcdonald s has spawned a soviet clone. Across town on Waganka Square the same yellow and red colors spell out a a hamburger  that is the russian transliteration of hamburger because the language has no letter  Mcdonald a figured the demand would be overwhelming when it opened its restaurant six months ago. But managers were stunned when the volume hit 30,000 meals a Day. Now its More than 50,000. The restaurant is the chains biggest and busiest. To Deal with the mob of customers the staff has nearly doubled from 630 to 1,100, said operations supervisor Glenn Steeves from Mcdonald a of Canada which operates the restaurant in a joint venture with the City of Moscow. The crush and resulting staff expansion also created dozens of unexpected openings for front line supervisors and an unforeseen Boon. Suddenly Mcdonald a Promise of fast promotion for Peak performance was a reality a and a marvelous incentive to stay working hard and honestly. Karina Pogosov 21, said she was hired As a regular Crew member for the opening in january and in six months was promoted to shift supervisor on the counter overseeing 40 to 45 staffers. Her salary has More than doubled a from 250 rubles a month Mcdonald a starting wage and about average for soviet workers to 550 rubles. When Mcdonald a opened even soviet staffers expressed worry that it would lose a Fortune to staff theft considered by Many soviets a More important Benefit than salary. But Steeves said Clear warnings of prosecution and strict accounting have worked. A aiding and abetting an obstruction of Congress in connection with a november 1985 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran. A altering and destroying National Security Council documents detailing his efforts to provide military assistance to the contras. A accepting an illegal gratuity a $13,800 Home Security system from retired air Force maj. Gen. Richard Secord whom North had enlisted to get arms to the contras and assist Reagan officials in their Iran initiative. The appeals court reversed North a conviction for altering and destroying Csc documents saying Gesell had Given an erroneous instruction to the Kuiv on How to weigh evidence of what superiors might Nave told North to do. President Bush who was vice president at the time of the Iran Contra affair and had dealings with North was told of the ruling his spokesman said but the White House declined any  the Poindexter Case assertions of tainted testimony Are Quot a big Issue in our appeals and the former National Security adviser was very pleased with the ruling said Richard Beckler one of his lawyers. Becky Eros office and Iran Contra prosecutors Are preparing documents for Poindexter a Appeal. North and Poindexter were both convicted of concealing from Congress the . Governments role in a legally questionable november 1985 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran. A presidential document approving the shipment was t drawn up until after the missiles were delivered. North a conviction for destroying Csc documents led to his Marine $23,100-a-year pension being revoked. A Marine corps spokesman said that if North a attorney requests a review a that would be something that the Marine corps would have to look  the potential for a tainted trial was High in the North Case because his immunized testimony a was carried live on National television and radio replayed on news shows and Analysed in the Public Media Quot the appeals court said. T the majority ruling said that in regard to detailed hearings on the admissibility of testimony in such a Case we readily understand How court and counsel might sigh prior to such an  it a could consume substantial amounts of time personnel and Money Only to Lead to the conclusion that a defendant a perhaps a guilty defendant a cannot be prosecuted a the panel added. A yet the very purpose of the fifth amendment under these circumstances is to prevent the prosecutor from transom Griffing into the inquisitor Complete with that officers most pernicious tool a the Power of the state to Force a person to incriminate himself it concluded