European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes monday october 1,1990stripes expands classified ads to sem weekly the stars and stripes will expand its classified advertising to two Days per week and increase the Price of ads in that Section starting sunday advertising director Dale Estes announced. Four pages of classified ads will begin appearing in stripes to plus Magazine every sunday. Four and a half pages already appear in stripes every thursday or Friday depending on the country to which the papers arc delivered. Adding a sunday classified Section is designed to raise Revenue for the newspaper and increase service for readers Estes said. A in the United states sunday has historically been a High readership Day for classified ads a and it was a natural Choice for stripes management after the decision was made to expand service he said. A si.50 increase in the Price of classified ads will also take effect sunday. A three line classified and will now Cost $6.50 for a single run up from $5 for three lines in the past. Each additional line costs another Dollar. However a special two Day rate has also been established to encourage readers to buy ads that will be published in both the thursday Friday and sunday classified sections. The rate for two Day ads is $7 for three lines or 50 cents More than the single Day rate. Again each additional line will Cost another Dollar. Room will be made for the sunday classifieds by merging stripes 12-Page sunday Magazine with the 12-Page to plus Magazine and setting aside four of the 24 pages for ads. The combined Magazine will carry the to plus logo on its cover. John Taylor editor of the sunday Magazine said the combined product will continue to carry television and movie listings Book reviews humor opinion columns and other features. A there will be As few changes As possible a he said. A we done to want to confuse our col. Gene Townsend stripes editor in chief said classified advertising is Beine expanded to serve the Reader and Gener ate additional Revenue for the newspaper he said combining stripes two sunday magazines into one will not a take awl from the Estes said customers who buy a classified and can ask for it to be published starting on the Day of their Choice. The dead line for submission of All ads remains mondays at 4 . For More information Contact the classified department at ets 348-8349 or h Vilian 06155-601349.. Summit ends on plan for children United nations a the worlds largest Summit meeting convened sunday As More than 70 Kings presidents and prime ministers forged a Multi Bulion Dollar strategy to save the children described As the Earth a most precious resource. Under the strictest Ever . Security Blanket leaders were escorted into the Emerald carpeted general Assembly Hall by children in National costume holding their nations flags. Large portraits of children from every continent adorned the Walls. A children a chorus Sang of peace. President Bush saying that a saving one child is a Miracle a told world leaders a we hold an unprecedented Summit for those who will live in and Lead a new world their voices still faint and unheard. A let us affirm in this historic Summit that these children can be saved when we live up to our responsibilities As a world Community of adults of parents a he said. It was not known whether the final draft declaration a the action plan for the Summit a would be signed by the United states. The declaration commits nations to work toward ending disease hunger poverty and illiteracy. All of those goals Are endorsed by the . Government but the declaration also commits nations to work toward signing the . Convention on the rights of the child. . Conservatives take exception to some of the provisions of the convention which has already been ratified by More than 40 nations. The conservatives Are concerned that the convention does not define a fetus As a child with rights and that it bans the death penalty for persons under 18. Late sports peace from Page 1 Hurt in vehicle accidents and a Sailor was accidentally electrocuted on a ship. A saudi Man was killed in a collision of a taxi and a Marine pickup truck. Saddam a speech read by an announcer said tensions could be reduced in the Gulf a if dialogue replaces the policy of threats and warnings if the language of peaceful politics replaces the policy of troop buildups and threats of the use of Force. He said foreign countries could help in solving the crisis. But he again linked any solution to israelis withdrawal from the occupied Gaza strip and West Bank and the pullout of syrian forces from Lebanon. A peace could not be achieved without the settlement of All the problems of the Region a he said. Saddam said he wanted to launch a dialogue with France to explore the possibility of using French president Francois Mitterrand a ideas on the Gulf crisis As the basis for a settlement. In a speech sept. 24 before the . General Assembly Mitterrand suggested settling the conflict Over Kuwait together with other problems in the Region including the israeli occupation of Arab territories and the lebanese civil War. In new York on sunday president Bush went to a Church service with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and continued an intense weekend round of diplomacy with leaders gathered for a . Summit on children. Bush was to address the general Assembly on monday. Brent scowcroft the presidents National Security adviser said Friday that the United states is considering requesting . Authorization for military action against Iraq. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze said sunday that soviet forces will participate in any action against Iraq authorized by the world body. Shevardnadze said a we will comply with any decision with any Resolution of the Security Council. And that would include anything regarding the involvement of the soviet troops under the Flag under the auspices of the United a he spoke in an interview on Abc news a meet the in the persian Gulf . And British warships stopped and searched an Indian ship ferrying hundreds of refugees fleeing Kuwait. Another vessel docked at the United Arab emirates with 705 evacuees on Board and a . Navy official in the Gulf said it also had been searched. The official said boarding teams found no cargo that is prohibited under the . Trade embargo on Iraq. In the saudi port of Yanbul about 2,000 French soldiers most of them foreign legionnaires and 50 vehicles came off three ferries and joined convoys to the northeastern part of the country. The French soldiers Are part of an estimated 200,000-member multinational Force dominated by about 165,000 americans. The Pentagon estimated last week that about 430,000 iraqi troops were in Kuwait and Southern Iraq. Police arrest peace activists St. Louis a the Pittsburgh pirates clinched their first National league East title since 1979, beating the St. Louis cardinals 2-0 sunday on Doug Drabek a three hitter. Stuttgart West Germany a amps a peace activists Cut through a Fence at . European come Headquarters saturday planting Flowers and an Apple tree before they were picked up by police. About 10 people entered Patch Barracks through the perimeter Fence about 8 15 a.m., command spokesman capt. Rick Guidry said sunday. Military police spotted the demonstrators and called the German authorities who apprehended them. A they arrested us because we did no to want to leave a said Jurgen Neitzert Leader of the group that Calls itself a Neucom along with planting Flowers and the tree the group displayed children a drawings and seven crosses Neitzert said. A the goal was that we wanted to replace the american command Center with a peaceful Community of the people of Europe and the world a Neitzert said. The group also handed out fliers calling for the nonviolent disarmament of the european come. Police released All but three of the groups members saturday. A judge will probably decide on whether to release the remaining three monday Neitzert said. The groups members Are from East and West Germany Japan Austria and the Netherlands. They also support latin american Solidarity and ending Trade and nuclear from Page 1 incentives for businesses in Energy exploration and for research and development. A the bipartisan congressional leadership and i have pledged our yen Best to get this plan passed into Law by oct. 19,�?� Bush said at the end of the budget negotiations that began last May. With the fiscal year about to begin the House and Senate convened a rare sunday session for a Down to the wire vote in an Effort to Avert $85 billion in crisis budget cuts. Lawmakers were voting on a Stop Gap legislation that would allow the government to function while the budget Bill is under consideration. The components of the final budget Compromise were a delicate political balance Between taxes and spending. The package boosts taxes on gasoline and All forms of Energy reduces medicare benefits and leaves the Pentagon spending Levels below the rate of inflation. A this will be seen As sufficient pain i think a said Foley. Overall Bush said $134 billion of the savings would come from new taxes and fees. Another $170 billion would be drawn from defense cuts and $120 billion from reductions in Benefit programs like medicare. The rest would come from reduced debt payments. Negotiators completed their work Early sunday afternoon after Bush returned from a Busy workday at the United nations in new York. In one of the final Battles Bush abandoned his Effort to win a reduction in the capital gains tax rate. In the end the proposal never made it into the final package but neither did higher income tax rates on the wealthy that democrats had demanded in return. With no agreement Federal spending would have automatically been slashed by $85 billion monday. Many of the governments 2.1 million civilian workers would have been forced to take unpaid Days off and the Public would have faced curtailed services. The furloughs would have included air traffic controllers workers who process social Security checks and Fri agents. Under the budget agreement the Federal gasoline tax will increase to 19 cents a gallon up from 9 cents a gallon. All fuels would also be hit with a new tax based on their Energy Content. This would apparently provide another 2-cent increase for gasoline. Cigarette taxes would be increased gradually by 8 cents per pack up from its current 16-cent level. Alcohol taxes would also go up. Luxury items ranging from furs to fancy cars would have new 10 percent tax. Defense spending would be reduced by $10 billion in 1991, above the amount the services would need to keep up with inflation. The military budget has been pegged at $306 billion before the proposed budget Cut. The elderly and disabled who now pay $28.60 per month for medicare coverage of doctors expenses would see that Premium increase to about $34.30. Overall half of the savings in Benefit programs -$60 billion a would come from medicare split evenly Between recipients and providers such As doctors and hospitals. In addition upper income taxpayers will pay More to support the medicare program. The government now takes 1.45 percent from paychecks to finance medicare up to an annual limit of $51,300. That ceiling will be increased to $73,000, an official said. Farm support programs would be Cut $12 billion Over rive years. Payments to civil servants and retirees would be reduced by $14 billion
