European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 9. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7company settles War Bracelet Case Washington up a Virginia company agreed tuesday to Settle government charges that it and others misled Consumers who bought desert storm bracelets. The settlement is related to an october 1991 suit the Federal Trade commission filed against voices for Freedom a Northern Virginia company Barbara Wyatt Todd Wyatt and William von Meister in connection with the marketing of the bracelets. The Etc said phone base systems inc., a telecommunications service Bureau located in Vienna va., has agreed to Settle charges stemming from its role in the marketing and Selling of a desert shield desert storm bracelets by voices for Freedom. Phone base operated a message Center and provided assistance to voices for Freedom in soliciting Money from Consumers through the Sale of the bracelets the Etc said. In its complaint against phone base the Al c alleged that the company and the other defendants falsely represented that a voices for Freedom was a nonprofit charitable organization. A substantial portions of the funds from the defendants Bracelet sales would be used to support a message Center for troops stationed in the persian Gulf. A the person making some of the solicitation Calls was doing so in some official capacity in connection with the desert storm desert shield operation. A Consumers would receive their bracelets within a few weeks of making their purchases. The Etc also alleged the defendants failed to disclose to Consumers who purchased bracelets by credit card that a temporary Block a or hold a of $100 would be put on their charge accounts for each Bracelet purchased. The Agency s Case against voices for Freedom Anil the three individual defendants is still pending. On nov. 15, a judge issued a preliminary injunction against voices and the Wyatts prohibiting conduct of the Type alleged in the complaint and freezing their assets. The consent agreement which does not constitute an admission of guilt would prohibit phone base from making misrepresentations in the future about a the non profit or charitable nature of any organization for which Money is sought. A the portion of funds that will go for a charitable or non profit purpose or be contributed to a Charity or nonprofit organization. A the Public Benefit to be derived from the charitable or non profit activity that will receive Money As the result of the Sale of any product or service. The order would also prohibit phone base from Quot misrepresenting in the future that Telephone solicitation Calls Are something other than solicitation Calls and would require phone base to disclose a clearly and conspicuously the Cost of the Call if any. And the fact that the caller can avoid charges by hanging up  phone base also would be prohibited from claiming that a representative of the Federal government is contacting Consumers unless express approval has been obtained. The order would prohibit undisclosed a Block Quot or Quot holds Quot on Consumers credit card accounts in excess of the delivered Price paid by the  Aims to make Bush one term chief by . Dionne the Washington Post Rumney . A something has happened to Patrick j. Buchanan a presidential Campaign the More time he spends on the Campaign Trail the More it looks As if he really wants to win. And in order to win his attacks on president Bush Are getting increasingly Tough. A a in be undertaken to get the Republican nomination which translates into dumping George Bush and making him a one term president a Buchanan said in an interview tuesday. Such a Campaign he said must inevitably be a divisive a though he insisted that his Effort would a a Energizer rather than Divide his party. It is certainly energizing the White House which was sending in vice president Dan Quayle on wednesday to stump this economically distressed state for his increasingly unpopular Boss. Bush plans his own trip to new Hampshire next wednesday. And Many democrats Are also energized about the chances that Buchanan might help them topple Bush in the fall. They say Republican inclined voters at least will give a hearing to attacks on the president s economic policies from a fellow Republican. And if the message takes hold party leaders said they think voters might support a Democrat later. Just tuesday in a Campaign tour that took him All Over new Hampshire a North country across the Border into Vermont and then Back to Industrial Manchester Buchanan made charges that any Democrat would be proud of. A emr. Bush you recall promised to create 30 million jobs a Buchanan told a rotary club in White River Junction it. A the did no to Tell us he would be creating them in Huangdong province Yokohama or  for Good measure he pointed out to the rotarians generally a frugal crowd that Bush Quot is the highest taxer in american history and Quot has run up the largest deficits in american  on tuesday morning Buchanan travelled to a Sawmill in the Small Mountain Community of Rumney to denounce an aspect of the free Trade treaty with Canada that he said is hurting the american finished Wood Industry. A these people have a legitimate grievance and George Bush ought to be dealing with it a he said. And tuesday night Buchanan made a Point of standing in front of a sweater factory that Bush visited in 1988. A when George Bush came Here in 1988, they still had 400 employees a he said. A but As a result of gop Hope til Patrick Buchanan visits an avid supporter former new Hampshire gov. Meldrim Thomson left. Imports flooding into the . This Plant shut Down in 1990. A it raises grave questions about the theory under which George Bush has been operating. I done to think the president of the United states my old Friend or. Bush appreciates what is happening to Many of the Mills and industries in this  with Bush in Japan Buchanan Campaign workers unfurled a map of new Hampshire on the Wall of a factory in the heart of Manchester and blazed a Searchlight into the heavens in a symbolic and Media catching Effort to Point out to the president just where new Hampshire is. Still no one will Ever mistake Buchanan for a Democrat. He regularly bashes the democrats in Congress and Calls for term limits and tax cuts. Indeed one of his major criticisms of Bush is that the presidents willingness a to Compromise and collaborate with the big spenders on Capitol Hill Quot has created a one party  files suit to get Duke s name on . Ballot Providence . A the Merican civil liberties Union went to met tuesday to Force Rhode islands Creary of state to put former Kun flux Lan Leader David Dukes name on the Republican presidential primary ballot. A Access to the ballot is a fundamental get a said attorney Michael Dibiase to filed the suit in Federal court. The threat of a similar lawsuit last Eek prompted Massachusetts Secretary of state Michael j. Connolly to do an about face and allow Dukes name on the Bay state primary ballot. At the same time Rhode Island Secretary of state Kathleen Connell reversed course and granted conservative commentator Patrick j. Buchanan a place on the ballot after the Acle threatened to take her to court. But Connell said she would not place Dukes name on the ballot for the March 10 primary. Dukes Rhode Island supporters immediately launched a drive for the 1,000 signatures needed to Force his name onto the ballot by petition. But they said Only 650 had been collected by the tuesday deadline. Connell refused Duke a ballot spot on the grounds that he was not a National political figure. National political figures Are automatically entitled to ballot position in Rhode Island. In South Carolina the slate gop voted to hold a primary instead of selecting delegates at a convention effectively allowing Duke and Buchanan to Campaign openly in the state. Duke also will appear on Republican primary ballots in Michigan Mississippi Tennessee and Texas the Acle said. Georgia a Secretary of state moved to Pul his name on the ballot there but state Republican leaders blocked the move