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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, July 17, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 17,1991 the stars and stripes leap of love a ,s,, n a pay phone use restricted in Chicago drug areas Chicago apr pay phones in two drug ravaged neighbourhoods no longer take coins at night As Illinois Bell tries to disconnect dealers from their buyers. A Illinois Bell is trying to take the phones out of the hands of criminals and make them available to our customers when they need them a said Sam Foster the company a Public communications manager. Foster said monday that for the next three months More than 50 phones in the two neighbourhoods will work Only for emergency operator assisted or credit card Calls Between 6 . And 6 . A we done to think Many drug dealers will want to use those options because then there will be records of their Calls a said Illinois Bell spokesman Geoff Potter. Potter said residents of the South and West Chicago neighbourhoods had complained that drug dealers tied up phones. Jay Miller who Heads the Illinois chapter of the american civil liberties Union said the plan discriminates against poor people and invades callers privacy. A there Are other reasons than drug dealing Why someone might want to make a Telephone Call without having a record made of it a he said. A a they re trying it in areas where Many people done to have phones of their own and Are More dependent on pay phones than people in Richer  but Acle officials had no immediate plans to file a lawsuit. A we done to think its going to work at All anyway a Miller said. Alderman Percy Giles said he welcomed the Experiment in his West Side neighbourhood even though it might make legitimate pay phone use inconvenient. A a we be been looking for a solution to this problem for a Long time and this restriction is the Best idea in be heard of so far a Giles said. Potter said 1 the no coins Experiment suits Chicago. A in los Angeles where there a been a lot of theft of calling card numbers they be tried the exact opposite a requiring All nighttime Calls to of Coin Only a but that a not the pattern Here in Chicago a he said. A in Milwaukee the Telephone company tried to discourage the aug dealers by putting Only rotary dial phones in phone Booths. That was supposed to make it impossible for them to use beepers on those phones but the drug people simply went to electronic shops and hardware stores and bought devices to simulate the right  Byrd opposes Al 6 Sale to s. Korea Washington up the powerful chairman of the Senate appropriations committee introduced a Resolution monday to kill the administrations proposed Sale of f-16 fighter jets to South Korea. In a Senate speech sen. Robert c. Byrd d-w.va., said his Resolution was based on legislation that bars any military Sale to a nation that has failed to fulfil its pledge of financial Aid for the persian Gulf War. Byrd said that South Korea still owes the United states $179 million of the $385 million pledged to offset the Cost of operation desert storm. A this is the smallest percentage paid of any of the nations that made pledges a Byrd said. A quite obviously Korea has not fulfilled its  the Section prohibiting arms sales to nations that have not fully made Good their pledges was included in the desert shield and storm supplemental appropriations Bill that provided $15 billion to tide Over the Pentagon until the commitments Are  said the language was included a to give the president additional leverage with which to encourage our allies to Ante  a unfortunately the president has chosen not to use this leverage and appears to have a different interpretation of this  . Jews jailed for refusing to testify new York a a Federal appeals court on monday upheld the jailing of a hasidic rabbi and his wife for refusing on religious grounds to testify against other jews. Nochum and Esther Sternberg of Brooklyn have been jailed since june 18 when a judge found them in contempt for refusing to answer questions before a Federal Grandf jury investigating a tax fraud scheme involving two jews. A three judge panel of the 2nd . Circuit court of appeals refused to free the couple. A the Law of this circuit is Clear that the refusal to testify before a grand jury for religious reasons does not outweigh the compelling state interest in hearing All evidence bearing on the subject of a grand jury investigation a the court said. The panel also noted that prosecutors granted the Sternbergs immunity in Exchange for testimony. Hasidic jews Are members of a sect of mystics that originated in Poland in the 18th Century and that emphasizes Joyful  cow yes headless cows Braintree mass. Up managers of the Hilltop Steak House Are baffled As to Why anyone would Cut the Heads off the restaurants trademark Herd of life size fake cows. They vow the Herd Complete with Heads will be replaced. Vandals decapitate six of seven fibreglass cows outside the restaurant this weekend and also made off with a calf cutting it off at the hoofs police said. None of the missing Heads or the calf has been recovered police said. A nobody has called up claiming responsibility no Radical vegetarians a assistant manager Marion Burke said monday. Another assistant manager Robert Griffin had a theory. A a somebody a probably mounted them on the Wall Quot he said  
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