European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b the stars and stripes wednesday november 6,1991 British dependents of . Personnel wait on tax ruling by Amy Geiszler Jones. . Bureau London a a British judge will hand Down a ruling later this week that could Lay the groundwork for taxing British dependents of . Military members and civilians assigned to the United kingdom. The ruling will define a relevant association a in terms of whether the British dependents Are so linked with their american spouses. The term is key to either freeing the a Irish spouses from the unpopular poll tax or not. On monday a British Justice heard arguments at London a Roval courts of Justice regarding a phrase in a 1952 British Law dealing with visiting forces and their dependents. Thirteen British wives of airmen stationed at Raf upper Heyford were declared exempt from the tax in april by a local three member panel in Oxfordshire county. But the local government Cherwell District Council appealed the de it cation of the phrase. The decision asking for Legal clarify the interpretation of that Section of the visiting forces act of 1952 has a direct bearing on the Issue of poll tax exemptions because the Community charge legislation says that a person with a a relevant association with a visiting Force will be exempted from paying the visiting forces act defines relevant association regarding dependents As a a person not being a citizen of the United kingdom Ana colonies or ordinarily a resident in the United kingdom but being a dependent of a member of that visiting Force or of a civilian component of that lawyers for the wives have argued that if the phrase is interpreted to indicate that spouses need to meet one or the other of the two descriptions their clients would be exempt because they do not ordinarily reside in the United kingdom. Some live there Only because their husbands were stationed there while others follow their husbands to duty assignments elsewhere. Two of the original 13 have already left the country. The Cherwell Council has maintained that since the wives Are British citizens and Are living in Britain now they done to qualify As having that relevant association. The arguments of the sections syntax and semantics proved perplexing at times during mondays hearing even for the judge. When the councils lawyer said it thought the Section was straightforward the Justice said a it can to be. It does no to make grammatical earlier in the hearing he remarked that lawmakers a must have been drunk when they drafted a Frank flirt police officer stands amid weapons and antiquities in the apartment of an american animals weapons found in army civilian s Home by de Reavis staff writer Frankfurt Germany a animals on the endangered species list weapons munitions and a collection of antique artefacts were found in an apartment rented to an american civilian working for the . Army German police said tuesday. The american has been identified As Dan Petersen curator of the 3rd army div museum at Drake Cavern in Frankfurt a spokeswoman for the Frankfurt military Community said. Petersen is currently on temporary duty in the United states and is expected to return monday the spokeswoman said. Police spokesman Karl Heinz Reinstad said a on nov. 1, we got a tip from a humane society group that an american was keeping a Nile Crocodile in his oath room in an eighth floor apartment on the Dudichum Strasse in Frankfurt a Redelheim police entered the one bedroom apartment on monday around 4 . They found the 2-Yard-Long Crocodile in the Bathtub As Well As a 3-Yard-Long Boa Constrictor in a Wall closet and two Gal amp Pagos islands lizards being kept in a Glass terrarium in the living room a a fall alive and All on the endangered species list a Reinstad said. Also found was what Reinstad called a a veritable arms a there was an assortment of assault weapons with munition rocket launchers live grenades and mines a he continued. A to top off the find there was also a collection of antique helmets in the Reinstedt said the animals were Given to a zoo in the Rheinland Pfalz Region and that the source of the arms and helmets was being checked. Reinstad said Petersen May face charges of breaking the International Law on purchasing and keeping endangered species the German weapons control Laws and illegal Possession of arms team touring Sites in Hungary by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Lahr Germany a a Canadian forces arms control team is holding its first mock inspections this week of former Warsaw pact Sites under the terms of the pending conventional forces in Europe treaty. The nine member team flew to Hungary on monday morning and is scheduled to return to Germany on sunday after visiting four hungarian military Sites said air Force maj. Michael g. The Pylo staff data officer for the forces arms control verification group. Other Canadian and German officers Are accompanying the group As observers. The same cc-130 cargo plane that brings the team Back also will carry a hungarian inspection team to Germany Day ceremonies monday morning Ai Canadian forces base Lahr Airfield then hold mock inspections of Canadian and German military facilities from tuesday to Friday. Americans Honor their living War veterans on nov. 11, but canadians and most europeans set aside that Holiday to Cay tribute to soldiers who died in comat the mock inspections Are intended to give each Side a better idea of what to look for and to smooth out ambiguous interpretations of treaty rules such As those governing photography Tepplo said. He added that Canada is not the first nato nation to conduct such a test in the East a Turkey also has done so. The United states has not according to Marine col. Lawrence g. Kelley Deputy director of the . On site inspection Agency in Europe. But american inspectors already have carried out roughly 40 mock inspections of their own european facilities and those of 10 nato allies since last Spring Kelley said. Also a mixed team of czechoslovak and hungarian inspectors viewed an army site in Kitzinger in March and an american in Spector accompanied a German team on a mock inspection trip to Hungary in october. Representatives from the american Agency plan to attend the hungarian inspections of Canadas two bases in Germany next week Tepplo said. So far Only a handful of the 22 prospective signatories to the conventional forces in Europe treaty actually have ratified the document Kelley said. The treaty would take effect 10 Days after the last of the 22 nato and former Warsaw pact nations sign it. The . Senate is expected to consider the treaty this offers joint .-soviet weapons plan Moscow apr president Mikhail s. Gorbachev proposed tuesday that the United states and the soviet Union jointly produce military products and share technology so both countries can More rapidly eliminate their chemical weapons. Arkady Volsky a member of the soviet interim government told a news conference that Gorbachev made the proposals to . Deputy Secretary of defense Donald j. Atwood jr., who had come to investigate the possibilities of converting soviet military plants to manufacture consumer goods. Volsky said the two countries could make better military products and eliminate their chemical weapons faster if they worked together. Atwood made no comment on the proposals before leaving for Washington to report to president Bush on How the United states can help the soviet Union create a business climate that would encourage american investment h converting weapons plants. Donald Thomason an executive vice president at Kellogg co., said it would take six months to two years to convert some of the plants he had seen. Atwood told the news conference that the United states would consider the soviet unions requests for lifting the last restrictions on the Transfer of american made High technology to the soviet Union. He said a we want to see safeguards that the technologies do not get delivered to countries which Are trying still to build weapons of mass Atwood said his team of executive from firms such As Upjohn pharmaceuticals general electric appliances Ani general motors found that the Sovie Union has knowledgeable specialists an it is a Leader in some research and development areas such As lasers. But in Fields such As Micro electronic a they know they need investment which would give them the facilities to pc Duce world Standard products at woo it said
