European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 5, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 5duke opens Maverick White House bid Washington apr David Duke launched a renegade Republican presidential Campaign wednesday accusing president Bush of Selling out his party on civil rights and allowing welfare to turn americans cities into a wastelands of crime and drugs and broken  the former Kun flux klan Leader and one time nazi sympathizer announced his presidential bid less than three weeks after he was thrashed in the Louisiana governors race. In that Campaign he got just 39 percent of the vote but a majority among Whites with an anti welfare anti affirmative action message that critics said was thinly veiled racism. A i believe a majority of republicans support my position a Duke said. Duke 41, said he was neither a racist nor intolerant to any religion. But he railed against affirmative action and said he feared America was losing its a a underpinning As a Christian society. Duke left open the possibility he might run next fall As a third party candidate if he fails to wrest the nomination from Bush. Dukes announcement was interrupted several times by demonstrators and hecklers. One screamed a nazi goddamn nazi a before she was escorted from the room. Also forced from the room was a rabbi who tried to confront Duke on the dais while carrying a sign Reading a David Duke. The nazi of the �?T90s.�?� Duke said that his life had been threatened and that he might request secret service Protection. In his announcement and during questioning by reporters Duke highlighted the themes that riveted National attention to the Louisiana governors race. He criticized the recently enacted civil rights legislation As reverse discrimination against Whites and said America was becoming captive to a welfare underclass he blamed for raging crime drug poverty and Educa Tion problems. He called for a workfare program and said he would encourage welfare mothers to use birth control. A a we be got to reduce the welfare illegitimate birthrate a he said. Duke apologized for his racist past and predicted conservative Blacks would support him. He also said he could not condone a the Gay lifestyle and did not believe homosexuals should be allowed to serve in the military. Duke said he would not run in new Hampshire s february primary but would enter As Many others As possible. He is the first candidate to announce he would oppose Bush in gop primaries. Conservative commentator Patrick j. Buchanan also is planning to Challenge Bush from the right forcing the White House to engage in primary politics it had hoped to  urged to test electronic garage doors Washington a citing the deaths of 48 children the government is urging owners of electronic garage doors to test them for a safety feature that will Stop and retract the door if it hits something. By Law garage door openers manufactured for Sale in the United states since the beginning of this year must have the automatic reversal system. Since 1982, 48 children aged 2 to 14 have been killed by the doors according to the consumer product safety commission. On tuesday the commission and the Industry coalition for automatic garage door opener safety urged door owners to test the devices. Officials suggested that the owners put a Board an Inch or two thick on the floor and close the door. When the door hits the Board it should Stop and reopen itself. The Industry also is issuing warning stickers telling people not to close a door with somebody under it not to let children play with the controls and to watch the door while it shuts. A a garage door is the largest moving object in the Home a said Jacqueline Jones Smith chairman of the safety  protester arrested after Home repossessed Colrain mass. Up a Man who has refused to pay Federal taxes for More than a decade to protest military spending was arrested tuesday for failing to vacate his Home which had just been repossessed by the government. Randy Kehler 47, who was imprisoned for resisting the draft during the Vietnam War was sentenced to six months in jail for civil contempt after telling a Federal judge he planned to return to the property in Colrain officials said. His wife Betsy Corner was released after she pledged to stay away from the Home. Kehler was removed from the House by Federal marshals who declared the dwelling . Property and padlocked the former official in Navy charged with supplying secret data to firm doors said court Dorsey a member of the War tax resisters support committee. Kehler and Corner have refused to pay Federal taxes since 1977 on grounds that their Money would be used to support the . Military. The couple have paid local and state taxes and donate an amount equal to their Federal tax Bill each year to non profit groups that help the poor and victims of War Dorsey said. The internal Revenue service seized the couples Home in 1989 and put it up for auction. Unable to find any bidders the irs sold the property to the Federal government but the couple continued to occupy the House with their 12-Ycar-Oid daughter Lillian. In thl stars and strip s Washington a a former High ranking civilian Navy official was charged tuesday with giving secret Pentagon procurement information to an emboss no had formed his own consulting firm. James e. Gaines former Deputy assistant Navy Secretary was the latest defendant charged in the Justice departments Long running investigation of Pentagon procurement fraud known As operation 111 wind. Gaines was charged with providing internal Navy studies and information about Navy procurement to Melvyn Paisley. Paisley formed the consulting firm in 1987 with William Galvin after resigning As assistant Navy Secretary for research engineering and systems. The seven count indictment charged Gaines with conspiracy to defraud the government conversion of government property receipt of benefits by a Public official and use of interstate Telephone lines to promote a crime. The indictment was returned by a Federal grand jury in Alexandria a. If convicted Gaines 64, of Seattle could be sentenced up to 37 years in prison and fined $1.75 million. The indictment charged that Gaines gave Paisley and Galvin advice on How their company Sapphire systems inc., could become a subcontractor on a classified Navy project. He also is accused of giving Paisley and Galvin information about Navy plans to seek bids on a variety of weapons projects. The indictment charges that Gaines gave Paisley a classified Navy document about the Navy a policy on the radar for the f/a-18 Hornet. Paisley asked his wife instead of his Secretary to copy the document. According to the indictment Gaines told Paisley a wife a nobody would put a Nice girl like you in  Paisley gave Gaines a lithograph valued at $1,300, according to the indictment and prosecutors. Gaines also received tickets to a play and was promised new tires for his daughters car it said. Paisley was sentenced last month to four years imprisonment on unrelated bribery and conspiracy charges. With his guilty plea a total of five corporations and 41 individuals have been convicted in the scandal since 1988. The indictment was the product of evidence provided by wiretaps and Galvin who has pleaded guilty to separate charges in the �?o111 wind investigation said a Law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Paisley too agreed to cooperate with the investigation. But at his sentencing last month prosecutors complained that Paisley had failed to live up to that agreement. Paisley 67, the highest ranking Pentagon official convicted in the investigation agreed that he had disgraced the Navy but told the court during his hearing last month a a in be been a Patriot All my  in pleading guilty last june 14, Paisley admitted that he agreed to take kickbacks from three defense firms in return for helping them win lucrative manufacturing contracts during his service As assistant Navy Secretary for research and engineering. Porky pig promotion offends stutterers san Juan Capistrano Calif. Apr Porky pigs appearance in a Mer Randise Catalon proclaiming a add a Long to delay do do your Holiday shop it ing today a has drawn criticism from a stutterers a rights group. The Catalon listing Warner Bros. Inc. Oods is offensive said Ira Zimmerman it of the National stuttering project based in Orange county. Cartoons featuring the stuttering porker done to bother his group but repeating letters to depict the speech impediment does he said. A everybody in the world knows Porky has a stutter Quot Zimmerman said monday. A i done to believe everyone needs to be reminded of that. It is inappropriate to de pict stuttering in  Karine Joret spokeswoman for Warner Bros. Inc., said a letter was sent to Zimmerman apologizing if the portrayal offended him. The company never intended to demean stutterers she said. The company does not plan to withdraw the Catalon but the next edition wont include Porky she said.10 years ago dec. 5,1981 a Joe Frazier made a disappointing return to the ring As he battled to a 10-round draw with Floyd a a jumbo Cummings. Critics said a a smoking Joe a the 37-year-old former heavyweight Champion showed More Quot paunch than punch in his first trip to the ring in almost 51/2 years. 20years ago dec. 5,1971 a Indian forces advanced into East Pakistan in a drive to establish an Independent Bangladesh but lost ground on their Border with West Pakistan. Meanwhile the United states called for an urgent meeting of the . Security Council in an Effort to halt the Indi an pakistani fighting. 30years ago dec. 5.1961 a at a closed session of the 14-nation Laos peace conference in Geneva the Western Powers and the soviet bloc concluded a far reaching agreement on How to maintain the peace and neutrality of Laos. Britain and the soviet Union were named joint guardians of peace and neutrality in Laos. 40years ago dec. 5,1951 a the United states demanded that Hungary release four american airmen whose c47 was forced Down in Hungary by soviet fighter planes nov. 19. The United states also asked for return of the plane