European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday August 1,1991senate oks Strauss As soviet envoy Kimmitz confirmed As ambassador to Germany Washington apr the Senate on tuesday confirmed former democratic party chairman Robert s. Strauss As president Bush a ambassador to the soviet Union. Action in the full Senate on a voice vote came late in the Day after the Senate foreign relations committee voted to recommend confirmation of the 73-year-old former . Trade representative. Meanwhile Robert Kimmitt breezed through his Senate confirmation hearing As Bush a Choice to become the ambassador to Germany. He underwent Only cursory questioning on his role in the Iran Contra affair and . Policy toward Iraq before being confirmed by the full sen at. Among other appointments confirmed by the Senate were Charles Untermeyer to be associate director for to a casting at the . Information Agency Charles r. Bowers to be ambassador to Bolivia Morris d. Busby ambassador to Colombia Sally g. Cowal ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Luis Guinot jr., ambassador to Costa Rica Arthur Hughes ambassador to Yemen Christopher . Ross ambassador to Syria and Frank g. Wisner ambassador to the Philippines. Strauss earlier told the foreign relations committee at his july 16 hearing that he shares the Bush administrations scepticism on Large scale government assistance to the soviet Union. In taking the Post he will give up his Washington Law practice which paid him $4.5 million Over the past 18 months for a $115,300 annual salary As ambassador. Kimmitt 43, a West Point graduate and protege of Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii said he is looking Forward to being a participant in managing the .-German relationship a at a critical  a we face the major tasks of relocating our embassy to Berlin and drawing Down . Troop strength in a manner that maintains peace and Security a said the undersecretary of state for political affairs. He first appeared before the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on european affairs. Later in the Day the full committee on a voice vote recommended that the Senate confirm Kimmitt and the full body followed suit on a voice vote tuesday night. Kimmitt  executive Secretary of the National Security Council when Oliver North Quot and former Cia propaganda specialist Walter Raymond proposed a fundraising Campaign to promote the Reagan administrations Contra policy. Kimmitt passed the proposal along to the White House counsels office which rejected the idea of having chief executive officers of major corporations meet at the White House. The counsel reluctantly acquiesced to having potential donors meet off the White House premises. Sen. Joseph Biden d-del., asked Kim Mitt whether he recalled discussing that matter with North and he replied that he did not. Wealthy americans eventually gave $10 million intended for the contras through the tax exempt National endowment for the preservation of Liberty that North promoted. At the state department Kimmitt  on a powerful inter Agency group called the deputies committee which recommended approving numerous requests for exports to Iraq of items with potential military application. The subcommittee did not question him on that subject. Gifts of life Jane Franks left kisses her twin sister Elizabeth Kelley on tuesday As she recuperate from a Al Devand pancreas transplant at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Franks also received a kidney from the same donor. The identical twins were diagnosed As having diabetes when they were 6. Former wife wants Deadbeat father sentenced to prison Phoenix apr a woman whose sex husband ducked paying $108,000 in child support said tuesday one welcomes his offer to Start paying off a decade�?T3 debts but she d like to see him do it from behind bars. Susan Aldrich a former husband Gregory Morey surrendered to state authorities after he gained National notoriety by Topping a published list of the country a worst child support scofflaws. Aldrich believes he a sincere when he says he wants to Start paying $600 a month in keeping with the divorce court order that he help maintain their three teen age children. But she Isnit sure that he  disappear again if he got a Chance. A legally and morally id like to see him pay for this a Aldrich said. A ten years in jail would be Nice to go along with this so he could see what humiliation is like a my kids have had to see what humiliation is  Morey 35,  free on his own recognizance tuesday after surrendering last week to face three felony counts. He  fired from his Job As a restaurant manager in Utah on May 14, Days after the publication of a list of Deadbeat dads compiled by the National Council of state child support enforcement administrators. Morey who has remarried and has a year old daughter has offered to work out a schedule to Start paying the support $200 a month for each child and his debt $74,000 in Back child support and $34,000 in  has certain taste for California tax Law by Ted Appel United press International Sacramento Calif. Its another a Only in californian Story. The states tax collection Agency is trying to determine what constitutes a taxable snack food item and what is a non taxable food item a and it comes Down to some pretty weighty debate. Such As what is the difference Between a Granola bar and a chocolate covered breakfast bar during a Public hearing tuesday in its search for a logical Way to implement a sales tax increase members of the stale Board of equalization resorted to tasting different foods to determine whether they were snacks or a regular Quot food. A please done to argue logic with us a Board member Ernest Dronenberg said Tongue in Cheek to a chocolate maker who insisted her mousse balls were not Candy but a tax exempt gourmet dessert. A a we re into form Here not  the Board took Public testimony on emergency regulations to implement the sales tax changes enacted by the legislature and Republican gov. Pete Wilson to help erase the state s record $14.3 billion projected deficit. More than 4,000 Quot food products were subjected to the tax on Candy and snack foods july 15. In the absence of emergency regulations from the Board confused merchants have been forced to guess what is taxable. For example genuine Fried pork rinds Are exempt from the tax because they Are a meat product. But identical looking imitation pork rinds Are a taxable snack food. Most a amp is Are taxable because they Are Candy. But a amp is made with thicker shells to keep them from melting if used in baking Are exempt from the tax because they Are designed for cooking. A Granola bar would be taxable under the proposed regulations because it is a snack food but Granola Cereal is exempt. And some Board members want to make chocolate covered breakfast bars exempt from the tax a provided they contain at least 25 percent of the recommended daily nutrients and Are designed to replace a meal instead of accompany it. A a you re driving the Industry crazy a said Don Beaver president of the California grocers association. A a a either make them All taxable or All  big grocery stores with computer scan ners can program the tax changes into their Cash registers and collect the Levy fairly easily Beaver said. But clerks at Small groceries and convenience stores with older Cash registers must ring up the tic individually. A a you be got thousands and thousands of clerks who have to memorize this stuff a Beaver said. T. Board members sympathized but said they were bound to implement the tax increase 1 a your Job Here is not to argue about whether water crackers should be taxed or Graham crackers should be taxed Board chairman Brad Sherman said. A your Job Here a and its a Tough Job a is to define Graham crackers to define the word Cracker to differentiate Between a Charlr nifty rth a full dig a