European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 c the stars and stripes saturday february 15, 1992 at a glance the billion Dollar toy business is not child a play. See Story about the International toy fair in Nairn Borg on pages 14 and 15.Bush under attack democratic presidential contender Bob Kerrey called his rivals health care proposals Quot unpardonable Quot while president Bush Drew fire from candidates in both parties. A Page 4reporter protects source new Day reporter Timothy Phelps has refused to Tell special Senate investigators the source of information for his october 1991 Story revealing Anita Hill s sexual harassment charges. A Page 5rape victim revealed the Beauty Queen who was raped by Boxer Mike Tyson gave people Magazine permission to run her picture and name. A Page 6europe�?Ts Street people Europe has a new underclass hundreds of thousands of homeless people victimized by hard economic times or social upheavals. A Page 8hearing Lor 2 libyans in an apparent Effort to head off a Western embargo Libya said Friday it will hold a Public hearing with the two men wanted by the United states and Britain in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103. A Page 9signs of life the government said that retail sales climbed a surprisingly Strong 0.6 percent in january the biggest jump in eight months. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. .16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 faces a no places. 18 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 break from Page 1 651 campuses Friday As a a common sense precautions for its nearly 600,000 students. Since sunday storms have killed at least seven people and swamped hundreds of Homes and businesses with water and mud. Preliminary damage estimates in los Angeles county alone top $7.6 million. Gov. Pete Wilson who declared los Angeles and Ventura counties disaster areas and sen. John Seymour r-Calif., planned to Survey the flood ravaged Sepulveda dam recreation area in los Angeles on Friday. Rick Leifield assistant chief of engineering for the army corps of engineers in los Angeles said the weeks storms rank As Quot a 100-year event a or the worst that might be expected in any 100-year period. The storms have been blamed for two drownings traffic crashes that killed three people and the death of a Man and a pregnant woman who were suffocated by a mudslide. The missing include two skiers believed to have been buried by an Avalanche on mount Baldy Northeast of los Angeles a Marine whose helicopter ditched at sea and a Man who jumped into Orange county a rain swollen Santa Ana River to elude police. The storms devastation was apparent at the regions beaches where sewage infested Waves crashed onto Shore. Seventy Miles of los Angeles county beaches were closed after being contaminated by raw sewage flushed out of storm strained treatment plants. The coast also was awash in mud uprooted Trees timbers and other trash. A you  believe How Many empty Oil cans steering fluid cans Are carpeting the Beach right now a said Adi Liberman executive director of heal the Bay in Santa Monica. A a there a every imaginable kind of  officials in Ventura county also closed some beaches because of High bacteria counts. Residents were warned to avoid Contact with sea and Creek water and people with Wells were advised to boil their water to avoid typhoid and dysentery. Residents in coastal Canyon and suburban neighbourhoods built sandbag canals and barriers thursday. A a we be gone through at least 40,000 sandbags since last thursday a said Malibu fire capt. Virgil Lockhart. In los Angeles Woodland Hills Section volunteers shored up Steep Muddy hillsides to keep them from tumbling onto houses below. The fishing s great Down at intersection Irvine Calif. A California Highway patrol officer Alvin Yamaguchi caught a 35-Pound Carp at the Corner of Irvine Boulevard and Lambert Road and that a no fish Story. Yamaguchi 35, and partner Bill Grant were directing traffic on City streets flooded by torrential Rains when the fish adventure began. A a in be never seen anything like it a Yamaguchi said thursday of his catch. Wearing knee High rubber boots the two officers directed Drivers away from closed streets to passable routes Yamaguchi said. He was concentrating on cars not Carp when his partner started whooping. A the started Yelling at me a Yamaguchi said. A i looked Down and there was this great big fish. A i had to take a picture a he said. A no one would believe  from Page 1 ister Levan Sharas Hatidze As an observer. As the leaders gathered at midday around an Oval table under a tapestry of Lenin russian president Boris Yeltsin nominated ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk As the meetings chairman a considering the difficult  Yeltsin was referring not Only to the Dis Pute Over separate armies but also to the tug of War Between Russia and Ukraine for control of the powerful Black sea Fleet and for the crimean Peninsula where the Fleet has its Headquarters. Commonwealth leaders predicted As they arrived in Minsk on thursday night and Early Friday that they would not reach unanimous agreement on a unified Force. A there is no Way to preserve a single armed Force. A single armed Force can exist Only in a single state a itar Tass Kra quoted Kravchuk As saying. A if a single armed Force exists. Then it will be the end to democracy because the military will be Superior to ail states a Kravchuk added in remarks broadcast on Commonwealth to. Even Nazar Baev who favors a unified Force said a the Commonwealth does no to even exist now As it was  Yeltsin the main Backer of a single Commonwealth Force has said Russia is prepared to form its own army to protect itself. Such a Force would be the most powerful in the former soviet Union automatically possessing most nuclear and conventional  from Page 1 still carrying on. But it could have quite an Impact and could be quite a  a a we re looking at How it will affect us a said Canadian embassy spokesman Robert Todd. Todd said Canadian officials were discussing the Issue with other members of the Moscow diplomatic corps. On thursday russian officials shrugged off the separate fares crafted last week As no big real. A we Are being charged a lot of Money too a said russian foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin. A done to think you Are being discriminated  Churkin said he was warned to expect protests but had not yet seen any. Journalists also were affected and the foreign correspondents association which won a Battle against having to pay dollars for tickets was gearing up for a protest Over the split fare system. The plunging value of the Ruble against the Dollar made travel cheap for foreigners and Aeroflot a badly in need of hard currency to buy fuel and stay aloft a devised the Complex fare system in response. A Domestic flight that would Cost a russian 250 rubles could Cost a foreigner As much As 42,800 rubles. For a russian 250 rubles amount to a Good weeks pay a and reflect a recent increase in airline fares which have gone up along with everything else. But at the general Exchange rate of 100 rubles to the Dollar that ticket amounts to just $2.50. So Aeroflot says the Quot foreign Ruble Price a can be established by multiplying the Ruble level of Domestic rates. By. 1.713796�?� and rounding the answer to the nearest Dollar. The answer a in this Case 428 a is the Dollar Price. But since the previous attempt to charge foreigners for their tickets in dollars led to a protest Aeroflot said the new Dollar fare will be translated Back into rubles at the general Exchange rate thus resulting in a fare of 42,800 rubles for the 250-Ruble ticket. Bill Dawson a Moscow staff member for the the european commission said his wife was recently asked to pay 18,000 rubles $180 for a ticket that would Cost a russian a fraction of that. A but everything is negotiable Here Quot he said. Bargaining brought the Price Down to 9,000 rubles $90. A a it a a reasonable rate for any other airline but not for Aeroflot where there a a greater risk of crashing and the service is nil a Dawson said. Foreign tourists to the soviet Union were always asked to pay for their travels in hard currency. The new decree expands the policy to resident  from Page 1 of Rostenkowski. Democrats on the ways and Means committee spent several hours behind closed doors thursday writing a substitute for the tax plan recommended by Bush. The democrats Hope to Complete work on the measure this week which would Clear the Way for a House vote As Early As next week on what kind of a tax reduction the country will get in this election year. A a it a basically a fair credible package that is pretty balanced Between Middle class cuts and incentives for economic growth a said rep. Robert t. Matsui a Calif. At the heart of the emerging Bill is a tax credit of up to $200 per wage earner $400 a couple this year and next. It would be financed by imposing a new 35 percent tax rate on High income people and a 10 percent surtax on millionaires. Bush would not comment to reporters about the democratic plan but Fitzwater said raising taxes on the wealthy is a the most Basic kind of a tax increase you can  a it clearly puts Congress on a track of raising All the brackets Over a period of time. When the top bracket goes up they All go up a members and aides guessed that democrats were in agreement on about 70 percent of the measure which was proposed by Rostenkowski. They Are still debating for example whether All corporations should get a rate reduction or whether it should be targeted to smaller companies. Rostenkowski a plan picks up several provisions from Bush a proposal including a tax deduction for interest on student Loans penalty free individual retirement account withdrawals for Home buyers and for paying medical or education expenses and special Relief for real estate professionals. The Bill dropped a Bush proposal to give a credit of up to $5,000 to some Nome buyers. But it proposes that the $125,000 profit that a person 55 or older May take tax free on the Sale of a principal Home be raised each year to account Tor inflation. Once ways and Means democrats agree on their Bill it still will be a Long Way from becoming Law