European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 8, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 3israel wants fast of for loan Aid 1but Bush is petitioning senators to hold up guarantees Washington a despite president Bush a request for delay Israel is asking for prompt approval of $10 billion in . Loan guarantees to help in the settlement of tens of thousands of refugees from the soviet Union. On saturday Bush Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and other top administration officials called Senate members seeking agreement to Block the request for now. The Calls which Bush began Friday and continued saturday from the presidential Retreat at Camp David md., came after Israel refused to hold off on its bid for help. Earlier Bush urged Congress to Post Pone action for 120 Days. He said a debate in Congress could derail the Middle East peace conference the United states and the soviet Union Hope to sponsor next month. A a let a not blow it a Bush declared. Bush indicated displeasure with israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamire a determination to go ahead with the formal Aid request. A we done to need an acrimonious debate just As we re about to get this peace conference convened a Bush said. On saturday an israeli foreign ministry official said foreign minister David Levy has said that future soviet immigration to Israel could be jeopardized if the United states fails to approve the guarantees. The israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Levy instructed israeli ambassador to Washington Zalman shovel to seek urgent consideration of the loan guarantee request despite Bush Scall for a delay. Shovel submitted the request to Baker on Friday. Finance minister Yitzhak Modai was expected to hand the request to the United states ambassador in Tel Aviv William Brown on saturday. Levy asked shovel to Tell Baker that a without the guarantees Israel would have no Choice but to absorb fewer immigrants a the official said. Shovel was also told to say Israel a May have difficulty absorbing those who have arrived a the official added. Israel radio reported saturday that Washington has offered Israel a Compromise of tens of millions of dollars in extra financial Aid to Israel As compensation for a delay in considering the guarantees. The foreign ministry official had no information on the report. As Washington a largest foreign Aid recipient Israel receives $3 billion in annual civilian and military assistance. The guarantees would enable Israel to borrow the Money front commercial Banks at favourable rates with repayment stretched Over 30 the Breeze h. Norman Schwarzkopf left and former Washington redskins fullback John Riggins have a Little Chat Friday before they loaded up their shotguns and began firing away during the Orvis sporting clays Challenge at the Tinmouth it Hunting preserve. The retired army general was heading up a five Man team that was competing in the two Day event and Riggins was Captain of another Heads for Bermuda Miami apr a Small but intense Hurricane Claudette curved toward Bermuda with wind blowing at a constant 125 Mph saturday and a Hurricane watch was posted for the Island. A a it a a dangerous storm. Its a powerful Hurricane but it covers a relatively Small area a said meteorologist Mark Zimmer at the National Hurricane Center in suburban Coral Gables Fla. Tropical storm Force wind of at least 39 Mph extended Only about 70 Miles from the storms Center. A a we re looking for a pretty Quick turn to the right to the North. That will bring it in the Vicinity of Bermuda a Zimmer said. A the problem of course is just How close it will come to forecasters said it would take until midday today to get a Good idea of How close Claudette Wolf if be to Bermuda which will be affected late today or Early monday. With the hurricanes course taking it Over cooler water forecasters done to expect much change in strength. The system zipped from loosely organized thunderstorms wednesday evening to a tropical Storin thursday. It reached Hurricane strength Friday. A it was really intensifying rapidly a Zimmer said. A it now looks like its levelled off. We done to look for any further a gradual turn toward the Northwest was expected by noon today. A More northerly track could Lessen the threat to Bermuda and take it cast of the Island on a path into the Remote North Atlantic. A we done to Sec any threat to the Mainland now a Zimmer said. A with that turn to the North we done to see any threat right now to the East coast of the United sex is guard May lose . Citizenship Philadelphia a the Justice department moved to revoke the citizenship of a 72-year-old Man saying he concealed his work As an armed guard at three concentration Camps during world War ii. Nikolaus Schiffer of new Ringgold also concealed his membership in the nazi is deaths head battalion when he applied for . Citizenship in the 1950s, the departments complaint says. The complaint charges that Schiffer served As a guard at the Sachsenhaus sen Camp in Germany from August to december 1943, at the Lublin also known As Maidanek Camp in occupied Poland from february through july 1944 and at the floss Enburg Camp in Germany from August 1944 through april 1945. It also says he served in the nazi Waffen is at the is training Camp at Trawicki in Poland from february through july 1944. Schiffer could not be reached for comment. A tens of thousands of prisoners died in the Sach Senhausen Maidanek and floss Enburg concentration Camps As the result of shooting gassing hanging starvation forced labor medical experiments and other methods of killing a the complaint says. The complaint against Schiffer did not say that he killed anyone. But it alleges that his work As a guard a assisted the nazi program of persecuting various civilian groups including jews gypsies and . Offers postcards to help residents dump junk mail los Angeles up a junk mail the Bane of the average american Home Dweller seems As unavoidable As death and taxes. But not for Long in the City of los Angeles. Residents now have the option of kindly letting those junk mailers know a thanks but no a one of the frustrating experiences Many of us have is going to the Mailbox and taking out a handful of junk mail mail that is not solicited mail for the most part you wont even read a said mayor Tom Bradley self proclaimed hater of junk mail. A if you re like me it goes right into the wastebasket and i never read a word of it is such disposal of unsolicited junk mail a repeated 248 times a year by every . Man woman and child a that has led to the too fast filling of the nations landfills. The desire to reduce the junking of junk mail has prompted the Bureau of sanitation to make available to citizens pre addressed postcards. The cards Are sent to the direct marketing association in new York a the Clearinghouse of junk mail distributors a and request removal of their names from All mailing lists. According to the National directory of addresses and Telephone numbers the groups address is direct marketing association 6 East 43rd St. New York . 10017-4642 a help us and help yourself and get off those mailing lists a Bradley said Friday. In 1990, 63 billion pieces of unsolicited third class mail including 12 billion Cata logs were mailed to americans. Nearly 50 percent ended up in landfills and dump Sites. The Cata logs alone were produced by More than 74,000 acres of Forest. If Only 100,000 los Angeles resident chose to Cut off their junk mail deliveries More than 150,000 Trees a year would be spared said Felicia Marcus president of the City a Board of Public works
