European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 10, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 . Racing to find funds for december paychecks United nations apr this Christmas season is a time of frantic mane vering to find enough Money to run the United nations. Holiday salary advances have been cancelled and . Staff members May get no december paychecks at All. Day and night . Financial chief Kofi Annan has been telephoning foreign ministers and finance ministers to plead for Early payment of their countries 1992 . Dues. In addition Annan has been shuffling accounts so the world body can meet its december payroll. The 32,000 or so . Staffers worldwide a wonder whether they i be Able to put bread on the table the next time that the Check is supposed to be coming a he said. As of Early december Only 115 of the 166 . Nations had fully paid. And the United states is by far the biggest Deadbeat a accounting for $355.5 million of the total of $523.1 million in arrears that All nations owe the regular . Headquarters budget. In addition $456.2 million is overdue to cover the costs of peacekeeping missions of which the United states owes $141 million. Under president Ronald Reagan the United stat it s began withholding its dues payments to protest the then persistent anti Western tone of the . General Assembly and to Force budget cuts on the world body. By the time Reagan decided in 1988, his last year in office that . Reforms were being effective and the world body was shaping up the United states owed about $1 billion. President Bush and Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii have urged Congress to pay the Back dues but in a period of tight . Budgets Congress has so far Only kept even with current dues. . Coffers Are so Low that the longstanding Holiday practice of advancing the staff part of their late de Cember pay in their mid month paycheck so they can use some of the Money for Holiday shopping has been cancelled. Since the delinquent countries can t be relied on to pay up Annan has been telephoning those that regularly pay their . Dues in full and on time begging them to pay 1992 dues Early. The generous givers include Canada Norway Denmark Sweden Finland and the Netherlands. Gop logo a the Republican National committee has selected this design As the official logo for the Republican National convention to be held in Houston next August. The logo designed by Rodney Vannerson and Allan Rod Wald of sugar land Texas will be printed on thousands of souvenirs and on material that will be distributed to More than 40,000 convention participants. Class of Richard Nixon still hanging around . By Mike Causey the Washington Post Washington hundreds of former political appointees a who came into government to help president Nixon with his pledges to clean up Washington and reduce the size and Impact of the bureaucracy a Are nearing eligibility for 20-year pins As career civil servants. Some Learned from president Johnson administration appointees How to Burrow into the civil service. A handful made it through All or part of president Carters administration. Most however returned to government when president Reagan took office. Those who served in the Nixon Ford Reagan and Bush administrations Are fully vested in the Federal pension program that Many of them once considered too generous. A i came to town to help save the world at the old hew department of health education and welfare never thinking 1 would be Here very Long a said a Nixon Era appointee. He said the democrats gave him the Boot a but instead of going Home i found a Job on Capitol Hill then moved downtown to the executive Branch of government with Reagan. I m Here to stay and my political Days Are  a Newspaperman who took a press Job with the Nixon administration said he had a some rough times under the Carter people. They kept me Down but they kept me on. With my military service. In a now a 30-year government worker and proud of  a career civil servant who took a policy Post in the Carter administration said that a the Nixon people were obsessed with the idea that Lyndon Johnson had buried democrats at hew labor and other places to sabotage programs. At hew i know they checked the voter registration of High ranking career employees and checked their pedigrees to see if they were political. The Carter people were less paranoid and not As efficient in routing out  a a. I still spot some of the a class of Richard Nixon vets on the Street a he said. A remember the old line a we have met the enemy and he is us a Well some of these old bureaucrat washers have become what they set out to . Gang deaths double in 5 years report says los Angeles up a gang homicides have increased steadily in los Angeles county making 1991 a record year with twice the number of gang related deaths As five years ago the los Angeles times report Ted. As of last week the los Angeles county sheriffs department had recorded 194 gang related homicides compared with 170 in All of last year the times reported sunday. The police department has recorded 330 gang killings passing its record of 329 for 1990. In All More than 700 people have died in gang violence in police jurisdictions throughout the county a from Long Beach to Pomona the newspaper noted. The largest increases have occurred in predominantly hispanic communities Many of which had managed to control the problem in the mid-1980s. In the police departments Rampart division which covers Large hispanic communities 43 gang related killings had been recorded by the end of october. There were 32 in 1990 and eight five years ago. Police attribute the Rise in violence to disputes Between longtime Chicano gangs and newly formed immigrant gangs a Many of them composed of Central american refugees who have fled War torn countries. The sheriffs East los Angeles station reported 37 killings this far in 1991. In 1988, there was none. In the jurisdiction of the sheriffs department which serves More than 2 million people in an area covering three fourths of the county about 75 percent of the gang homicides this year were the product of Black on Black or latino on latino crime. Of the 194 homicide victims recorded this year by sheriffs officials 125 were hispanic 53 were Black 10 were White and six were asian or Pacific islander. About 76 percent of the victims were themselves suspected gang members. Garth Lucifer could be match from Hippo heaven Homosassa Springs Fla. Apr it looks like a perfect match a at least Hippo thetic ally. Lucifer a 25-year-old male Hippopotamus needs to find a new Home because the Florida department of natural resources wants to kick him out of a state Park at Homosassa Springs. And 200 Miles to the South a 9-year-old Hippo named Garth needs a new Friend because his male pal Percy died in August. So Lucifer is about to move to Garth a Home Octagon wildlife Park in Punta Gorda Fla. A although no one knows for sure whether the pair will get along once they share the same Pond. Both hippos have something in common though a hard Luck. Lucifer is about to lose his Home because state officials who acquired Homosassa Springs three years ago said the Hippo does no to fit into their vision of the Park s future. A a we be changed our focus to animals native to Florida a Park manager Tom Linley said in an interview with the Miami Herald. Garth on the other hand has been lonely since Percy died. Since Percy a passing Garth has been morose according to Park staffers and has even refused his favorite food a dog  ban press from Ohio convention Cleveland a times Are Tough for communists everywhere and that a Why reporters were banned from a weekend convention of the communist party .a. Delegates must a feel free to speak out a a spokesman said. The party a 25th National convention is normally open to reporters and visitors but this year the party allowed Only a few guests into the downtown meetings saturday and sunday. More than 500 delegates attended. Party guards carrying Walkie talkies patrolled outside the meeting rooms and few of those wearing Delegate ribbons would disclose their identities when approached. A it is a difficult time a said Mike Bayer a party spokesman who came out of a meeting to explain that there would be no Access for reporters. A i would t Call it turbulent but there a a lot of disagreements a some arguments about what we Are going to do. A we have a lot of issues to address and want the delegates to be Able to feel free to speak out. We Don t want the press Here to inhibit  party officials asked the Sheraton City Centre hotel not to Post meeting times of the convention hotel employees said. A i can see Why they done to want any of you in there a one Delegate said. A a it a chaos in there. They done to have any idea what they Are going to do and everyone seems to have a different Agenda. Some people even want us to change the