European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 18. 1991. The stars and stripes a Page 54 Oil firms to pay California $220 million los Angeles up four Oil companies have agreed to a tentative $220 million settlement of two lawsuits accusing them of Price fixing during the 1970s and Early 1980s, state officials announced Friday. Chevron Texaco Shell and Mobil will each pay the state $45 million in Cash. They will also dedicate their non heated Oil pipelines to common Carrier status producing at least $40 million Over the next 10 years in revenues to the state from higher prices for Oil produced on state owned tidelands at Long Beach. The settlements Stem from Federal and state lawsuits filed by the state and City of Long Beach against seven Oil companies alleging conspiracy to fix prices at artificially Low Levels for crude Oil the companies purchased from the state Between 1971 and 1977 and again from 1980 to 1985. A a Atlantic Richfield settled with the state for $22.5 million in 1984 and nocal agreed last february to a $77 million settlement. Friday s settlement leaves Exxon As the sole defendant in the suits. It is scheduled to go on trial sept. 3 in Federal court in los Angeles. Exxon spokesman Les Rogers said the company. Based in Irving Texas does not plan to reach a settlement. A Exxon did not do what the plaintiffs Are  Rogers said.4home alone4? it4s not just a movie anymore St. Paul Minn. Apr the hit movie Home alone about a boy thwarting burglars with imaginative mayhem became reality for one 13-year-old-boy. Just ask the Guy who tried to break in while Ryan Hendrickson was Home alone. Ryan was watching television wednesday night when he heard a noise that sounded like a window screen being Cut. A i ran to the closet and grabbed a Bat a Ryan said thursday. A i went into the dining room where i saw him cutting the window with a knife. A the put his left hand in first and i was waiting for his right hand to come in. And i took the baseball Bat and i hit him As hard As i  the Man ran. Ryan called 911. A i was just afraid and i hit at the first part i seen a Ryan recalled. �?o1 really did no to have time to think about  Joyce Hendrickson who works nights As a welder said she has told her son what to do if someone tries to break in while she a not Home. 1 a she said if somebody does break in get out if you can a Ryan said. A but if they Are coming in hit any part of the body you can  Hendrickson said the House had already been broken into three times and that Many other houses in the neighbourhood had been robbed. A you worry when you leave your son alone what with the Little kids getting killed and things a she Saij. A a in a so glad he did no to  Ryan thinks he May have broken the Many a hand. Police it. Richard Dugan said Ryan took a Chance in hitting the burglar. A preferably we would like to see them in an incident like this Call 911,�?� Dugan said. But he admitted that police like the fact that the boy got in a lick against a bad Guy. A a we re going to be Riding around looking for a Guy with a big hand a Dugan said. Ryan Hendrickson with baseball Bat in hand stands at the window where a would be burglar Cut the screen. In the stars and stripes 10years ago aug. 18,1981 a Secretary of state Alexander Haig announced that the United states would resume deliveries of f-16 and f-15 jets to Israel ending the two month embargo on delivering . Warplanes to that nation. The embargo was imposed after israeli planes destroyed an iraqi nuclear Power Plant. .20 years ago aug. 18,1971 a americans rushed out to buy foreign cars French wines diamonds fancy dresses and other imported goods before president Nixon a new 10 percent import surcharge went into effect at the retail level.30 years ago aug. 18,1961 a the United states Britain and France protested to Russia that the communist refugee barricade in Berlin is  the United states said that it expects the soviet government to lift the Barrier. 40years ago aug. 18,1951 a More than 700,000 delegates to the East Berlin Quot world youth festival Quot defied the orders of the festivals communist sponsors and poured into the Western sectors of Berlin. Harvard says immigration policy forces aids conference out of . By the los Angeles times Washington a Harvard University sponsor of the 1992 International aids conference will move the prestigious scientific meeting from Boston to a location outside the United states to protest . Aids immigration policy University officials announced Friday. Harvard a decision Calls into question whether the annual conference will Ever be held in the United states again. A i think its important that this meeting be in the United states a said or. Paul Volberding president of the International aids society which oversees the conference. A the major research is being done Here. The major people doing the research Are Here. Its crazy not to be Able to have it  the Bush administration still has not announced its final aids immigration policy. But Harvard conference planners said they Felt they could delay no longer since the meeting is Only eight months away and current immigration regulations continue to bar the entry of All aids infected people for any reason including travel. Harvard had threatened last year to abandon the conference if the immigration rules were not changed. The 1992 conference was expected to attract some 15,000 people from around the world to Boston. President Bush speaking to reporters before beginning a round of Golf at his vacation Retreat in Kennebunkport Maine said it was a too bad that Harvard had decided to shift the meeting. A but  find other ways to get together so it does no to bother me a he added. Bush called the immigration Rule a Good sound policy a and said that a the american people i think Are supportive of  he also defended his administrations aids programs saying the Federal government a is spending $4 billion a year on aids research and our scientists Are by far the most prestigious and most Forward looking in the research  a a we la continue to Lead in aids research a Bush continued. Quot Well continue to be compassionate. Well continue to treat aids As a health  some observers however believe the administration would be just As Happy to see the meeting take place As far from the United states As possible so As not to Call attention to aids at a time when a presidential Campaign is Only weeks away. A a a it a very Clear that the administration is More interested in politics than Public health a said or. Mervyn of. Silverman president of the american foundation for aids research. Harvard officials said they have not found a site Lor the 1992 conference. She gets custody of dog he gets fake Plant Lexington by. A a. Judge named Barker said a Dachshund  be caught in a Domestic dogfight and overruled a court commissioner who granted joint custody of the canine to a divorcing couple. Fayette circuit judge George Barker awarded full custody of 4-year-old muffin to Valerie Ann Cummins saying she loved the dog More because she listed it As a Tinval a Abler on her schedule of assets. A the husband did not even list the poor thing at All but did list an artificial Plant which the court will award to him a Barker wrote in the decision issued earlier this month. Cummins and her former husband Jan Smits did no to have any children during their seven year marriage. A Domestic relations commissioner at their divorce awarded the couple joint ownership of muffin who would switch Homes every two weeks. Smits attorney Charles Boarman said his client would abide by barkers order. Cummins who Calls muffin a a person in a fur Cou Quot said thursday she and her former husband bought the dog from the humane society when it was 5 weeks old. Quot there a not enough Money to replace her a Cummins said