European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 2,1990 n on speaking Washington apr the Senate voted wednesday to ban outside speaking fees a custom sen. Robert c. Byrd said puts lawmakers a at the level of used car salesmen in the Public a esteem. The 77-23 vote on an amendment by sen. Christopher Dodd d-conn., attached the Honor aria ban to a Campaign finance Reform Bill. The ban would take effect next january. At present senators Are allowed to accept up to $27,337 a year Iti Honor aria. A when a significant part of our salaries comes from hustling and that a what it amounts to we Dent grate ourselves Quot Dodd said. A was Public servants our salaries should come from the Public  the House voted last year to give up Hon Ofaria effective Jan. I 1991, but also boosted the salaries of its members from $98,400 to $124,000 then. Reluctant to vote themselves a 25 percent pay boost the Senate had skirted the Honor aria Issue up until. Wednesday. A the scandals of the past two years have put a Black Mark on Public service and raised Public cynicism to an All time High Quot Byrd said citing $9 million in Honor aria senators have accepted Over the past decade. A a wite about at the level of used car salesmen in the Public s esteem. The Senate voted last week to denounce sen. David Durenberger r-minn., for violating several ethics standards including skirting the limits on Honor aria in a Book publishing Deal. Six other senators arc under investigation by the Senate ethics committee for alleged actions involving savings and loan institutions and department of housing and Urban development programs. Dodd s amendment won the support of 53 of the Senate a 55 democrats and 24 of its 45 republicans. Gop Leader Bob Dole of Kansas one of the largest recipients of Honor aria said he agreed with Dodd on the need to eliminate senators Honor aria income but not on the strategy of doing it without a pay raise. A in january House members will be getting paid about $22,000 More than senators. And we could be getting about $22,000 less for years to come Quot he said. Dole said he had considered trying to Amend Dodds measure to include a raise that would return Senate and House salaries to parity but acknowledged he lacked the votes to win its passage this close to the november election. Despite the vote several lawmakers doubted that the Honor aria ban will be enacted because of its attachment to what republicans claim has become a highly democratic partisan Campaign finance Reform Bill. Sen. Mitch Mcconnell r-ky., said White House chief of staff John Sununu told him wednesday morning that president Bush would veto the current version with its democratic proposed ceilings on How much candidates can spend in an election. On largely party line Voles democrats Defeated amendments to strip unions of their tax exempt status if they engage in politics and to allow Union members to demand refunds of any dues spent on elections or lobbying. Republicans claimed the votes Demon strata that the democrats Campaign finance Reform Bill and its spending ceilings is a a partisan charade that will assure a veto by president Bush. 81,000 chickens destroyed after outbreak of Salmonella Allentown a. Apr More than 81,009 chickens have been destroyed and 1,500 will undergo blood tests because of a Salmonella outbreak that left 67 people ill officials say. A commercial egg producer in Pennsylvania who was night a identified voluntarily killed one a House Quot of chickens according to Margaret Webb of the animal and Plant health inspection service of the . Department of agriculture. The chickens Are believed to have Laid eggs that caused at least 67 people to become ill with salmonellosis a bacterial illness that causes headaches fever diarrhoea and vomiting. A Webb would not identify the producer because tests begun earlier this week have not yet confirmed contamination of the eggs or lock. The egg supplier has been restricted since Friday from Selling eggs outside of Pennsylvania or from using eggs within the state for anything but pasteurized egg products Webb said. That precaution was taken because of Laboratory confirmed illnesses among people who ate eggs and egg products at several Perkins family restaurants in the past five weeks. Judas priest Lead Singer Rob Halford sings a phrase from the song a better by you better than me a a during his testimony in Reno Nev on tuesday. Bands Singer says album has no subliminal messages Reno Nev. Apr the Lead Singer for Judas priest says the heavy Metal group once recorded a phrase backward but did no to Bury subliminal messages promoting suicide in an album blamed for the deaths of two Young fans. Rob Halford was the first of four band members to testify in a lawsuit brought by the parents of the two fans. A there arc no subliminal of any nature Quot on the 1978 album Quot stained Glass a he said tuesday. Halford testified he recorded a backward phrase in the song a love bites on the British bands album Quot defenders of the Faith in the mid-1980s.Halford said he recorded the phrase a in the dead of the night love bites backward and played it simultaneously with the same words recorded Forward. He said the backward version sounded like garbled speech. District judge Jerry Carr Whitehead who is hearing the Case against the band and lbs records without a jury asked Halford Why he did it. A when you re composing songs you re always looking for new ideas new sounds. Just As an artist would add another piece of paint to a Canvas a Halford said. He said it was the Only time he could recall deliberately using the technique on any of the groups 14 albums. Halford earlier gave a 10-second a Cappella demonstration of his vocal style using a better by you better than me Quot a song the families claim contains subliminal messages that led their sons to shoot themselves in a suicide pact Halford Sang a better by you better than me you can Tell her what 1 want it to be Quot accenting the end of each line with a Huff of breath. The families of Raymond Belknap and James Vance claim those lines contain the subliminal message a do  the youths shot themselves in a deserted Church playground in 1985. Belknap 18, died immediately. Vance then 20, blew away the Bottom half of his face. He died in 1988 of complications from his injuries and the various medications. The band and lbs records deny any hidden messages exist. They contend the supposed a do it Quot sounds Are an exhalation of breath and a combination of Drums guitars and  turn out for Boston Mapplethorpe exhibit Boston apr dozens of supporters and a handful of protesters greeted patrons arriving wednesday for the opening of an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs that incensed sen. Jesse Helms and got a museum director arrested in Cincinnati. The crowd of about 150 people largely made up of those supporting the show was orderly and no incidents were reported. An estimated 200 visitors were lined up outside less than an hour alter the museum opened its doors said Denise Spencer a marketing assistant at the Institute for contemporary Art. Which is showing the exhibit. The Small museum is allow ing just 75 people at a time to View the exhibit. Quot these people Are trying to Force their morality on the rest of us Quot said Jim Edgerley of the Conser Valise american Freedom c coalition As lie stood among a crowd of demonstrators patrons police and reporters on the museum Steps. As Edgerley spoke two men stood in front of him locked in a deep passionate kiss. A see this is the kind of behaviour this is promoting a Edgerley said. Oles praised the show. A a in a read a lot about it and i was curious. 1 went to see what was objectionable but 1 did no to find it objectionable. 1 thought it was inter sting Quot said 70-year-old Eleanor Bleakie. Meanwhile a Public television station that had broadcast the most sexually explicit homoerotic photographs from the so called a a a portfolio on its newscast tuesday night said wednesday morning that it got about 100 Calls in reaction to the newscast most of them supportive. But several people said they were swearing off Public television forever a station official said. Producers of web he a 10 . Newscast said they aired the Quot a portfolio Quot pictures tuesday to let viewers decide for themselves How they feel about them a the coverage thus far never shows you this. All you get is what is in the mind of the writer. And we want our coverage to let the viewer decide with both sides presented a said John Vanscoyoc the stations managing editor. 1 he photos have stirred a National debate Over Federal funding of work deemed offensive. Despite Vitorts by protesters to have the photos banned support for the show has been Strong in Boston. A Mapplethorpe supporter was arrested1 tuesday after disrupting the news conference of a coalition opposed to the showing. Artists and playwrights gave speeches in support of the exhibit and marches and rallies were planned for wednesday. David Ross director of the Art Institute said he was proud to have the show of 124 photographs taken by Mapplethorpe from 1969 until shortly before he died of acc mired immune deficiency syndrome last year in Boston at age 42.  we have to fear is the suppression of these ideas. C Ere talking about Art a Ross said a this is not a pornography exhibit. This show is a Celebration of  a Mapplethorpe exhibit scheduled in june 1989 at the Corcoran gallery of Art in Washington was cancelled after Helms the arc conservative Republican from North Carolina branded the work obscene. Helms objections prompted Congress to limit National endowment for the arts Grants. Before those limits the Mapplethorpe tour had received about $30,000 from the Nea about 10 percent of the Cost. A showing in Cincinnati led to obscenity charges against the director of the contemporary arts Center but a Federal judge barred police from confiscating photos from the exhibit