European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / saturday december 1,1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Toledo Ohio up Milli Vanilli which lost its grammy award for faking its songs was charged with consumer fraud in a suit filed by a radio station that sponsored one of its concerts. Maumee radio station Wren claimed the duo defrauded it and its listeners by not performing live music during a concert this Spring. Air personality Diane Scribner said thursday Wren is asking the Lucas county common pleas court to award $200 damages for each Jerson who attended the performance and an additional $500,000 in punitive damages. In addition to duo members Rob pilatus and fab Morvan the suit named the duos producer Frank Farian and their Label Arista records As defendants. Scribner said it was up to the record companies to ensure that musical acts were genuine. He said the suit also seeks an injunction that would prevent the group from performing in the future. A. A. A a listeners reaction to the groups loss of the grammy award and the stations subsequent dropping them from its play list has been mixed Scribner said while older listeners applauded the move younger Jis tenders still want to hear the songs she said. Another Toledo radio station had dismissed the group As a fraud in april shortly before the Toledo concert. Wiot staged a a Bury Milli vanillin event by breaking the duo s records and using them to fill potholes in its parking lot. A we were the first people to really speak out against them a wit spokeswoman Cara Sabin said. A Arista records in Beverly Hills calif., referred requests for com Tient to its new York office but attempts to reach a spokesman there were unsuccessful a the Crew of the space shuttle arrives at the Kennedy space Center thursday night. The Crew includes from left Robert Parker Guy Gardner Sam Durrance Jeffrey Hoffman Ronald Parise Vance Brand and Mike lounge logo optimistic about sunday s launch Cape canaveral Fla. Apr columbian a seven astronauts expressed optimism that the shuttles fifth countdown would Lead to liftoff As the clock ticked toward this weekends launch. 1. A "thistime., Why i think we have a very Good feeling. We re ready to go a Columbia s commander Vance Brand said after arriving with this Crew late thursday from Johnson space Center in Houston. A Columbia is scheduled to blast off at 1 28 . Sunday. The countdown pro ceded uninterrupted thursday and meteorologists forecast a 70 percent Chance of Good weather at launch time. Nasa. Has been trying since May to Send up Columbia with the $150 million Astro Observatory which the Crew will operate. Because of Hydrogen leaks three previous countdowns came to abrupt halts hours before liftoff. Numerous repairs were needed before the shuttle was pronounced Safe. Problems with the Observatory also forced a postponement. Comet Levy one of the objects to be observed is moving rapidly out of the solar system and is not nearly As visible As it would have been in september during the last launch attempt. A a you Veall heard comets Are harbingers of bad news and bad Luck. Well this time we have no Comet so we re going to go a said astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman one of the Crews four astronomers. Among those reluctant to get their Hopes up arc scientists who have been working on the Astro Mission for years. Quot we re just As excited the Only qualifier is we be Learned to be somewhat skip tical if it will actually happen until we see it get launched Quot said Arthur Davidsen of Johns Hopkins University principal investigator for one of astros four telescopes. L astros three ultraviolet telescopes and one a Ray Telescope will focus on some of a the hottest objects in the universe. The Mission originally was scheduled for 1986 but was delayed by the challenger acid Conj that year. Bush signs immigration act that is Good for America Washington up a hailing it As the most comprehensive change in More than half a Century in the Way the United states accepts newcomers president Bush signed a landmark immigration Bill that is Quot Good for America.�?�. The immigration act of 1990 seeks to increase the influx of doctors scientists and other skilled workers unite immigrant families and streamline the process for deporting illegal aliens convicted of  this Bill is Good for families Good for business Good for crime fighting and Good for America a Bush said at a White House signing ceremony Quot we Welcome both it and the generation of future americans who it will bring in to strengthen our great country a the new immigration Bill overhauls current jaw that stresses unification of immigrant families Over admitting immigrants with needed skills which critics say has worked against europeans currently about 85 percent of ail immigration comes from latin America Ana Asia. The new Law will increase total immigration from 540,000 in 1989 to 700,000-a year in 1993 to 1994, of that total 520,000 visas during each of the three years would be reserved for immigrants with family members 4nrthe United states. \ beginning in 1995, annual immigration Levels will be set at 675,000, with 480,000 visas set aside for family  Law does not cover immediate relatives of . Citizens such As spouses minor children and parents who Are admitted without regard to visa allocation limits., it is estimated that 220,000 of those immigrants enter the United states each year Bush said provisions in the new Law covering skilled workers and investment Quot will promote a More compel Tive  specifically immigration based on jobs will increase from the current 5a.ooo a year to 140,000 per year with special emphasis on highly skilled workers in demand in the United states. Some of those include doctors nurses scientists veterinarians electrical engineers com Puter experts and therapists. A in addition 10,000 employment  set aside for those who invest at least $1 million in a new Enterprise in the United states and hire at least 10 workers. The Law also eases or eliminates decades of prohibitions on foreigners because of political beliefs As Well As exclusions for homosexuals prompting Bush to Caj it Quot the most comprehensive Reform of our immigration Law in 66 years. \ in the area of Law enforcement the Law will Aid the Justice department in deporting illegal aliens convicted of crimes in this . Land firm pleads guilt to fraud conspiracy Miami apr general development corp., once Florida a largest builder of planned communities pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy and received five years probation thursday for bilking buyers on overpriced Homes. Following thursdays conviction and sentencing Federal prosecutors said an expanded indictment naming four More defendants and some 50 additional mail fraud counts was Likely after the original Federal indictment was issued in March the Miami based Developer sought chapter 11 bankruptcy Protection. The guilty plea before . District judge Le-1 Nore Nesbitt was part of a plea bargain backed by assistant . Attorney Norman Moscowitz. Under the plea agreement general development admitted conspiring to defraud people who bought 1,500 Homes for a total of $100 Mil lion from july 1985 to july 1986. The 35-Yeurold company had been accused of making an $850 a a million profit through institutionalized fraud in sales of f 1,000 Homes sold from 1982 to 1989. F re