European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday february 29, 1992 pumped up in Little Rock a film Star Arnold Schwarzenegger leads a Little Rock ark., third Grade class in push thursday. Schwarzenegger who is visiting state fitness councils in the South said children in Arkansas Are Flabbie than most. Schwarzenegger is promoting the presidents Council on physical fitness. Defense witnesses say Noriega tracked drug Money for Dea Miami up a drug Money couriers who appeared to pass through Panama s airports with impunity were closely monitored by Manuel Noriega a narcotics agents and their movements were reported to . Authorities a police official has testified. Noriega is on trial on 10 counts of racketeering conspiracy and importing and distributing cocaine. Several prosecution witnesses earlier testified panamanian authorities counted the millions of dollars Money launderers brought to Panama but made no Effort to arrest them. Lucinio Miranda head of Panama a narcotics interdiction Agency said thursday that the couriers were not arrested because there is no Law against bringing Large sums of . Currency into Panama. A there was no reason for them to be arrested a Miranda said. It is a crime to take More than $10,000 out of the United states without filling out the proper reports. Miranda said narcotics agents turned Over to the . Drug enforcement administration detailed reports showing when Money couriers arrived the registration numbers and names of the pilots on planes they took and the amount in dollars they carried. The Dea then used that information in its drug investigations. A they were the ones who could take action in the Point of origin a Miranda said. He said Noriega had full knowledge and approved of the cooperation his men gave the Dea. A the was always concerned that any information be supplied to the Dea a Miranda said. Miranda said he and other panamanian narcotics agents also helped track a cocaine shipment seized from a plan Load of freezers in Miami. Miranda said he arrested a key suspect in Panama and escorted him to Miami a on instructions from Noriega a lawyers Are trying to show that at the time the deposed dictator was accused of turning Over his country to colombian drug smugglers he was actually helping the United states strike out at narcotics traffickers. After the . Invasion of Panama a operation just cause a the former panamanian dictator gave himself up to . Drug enforcement officials Jan. 3, 1990, and was transported to the United states to stand trial. Coast guard blamed in spill Washington a laxity by the coast guard permitted a ship with a history of safety and insurance violations to continue operating thus contributing to a spill of 441 Drums of arsenic into the Atlantic Ocean last month a senator contended thursday. A fall the regulations in the world Arentt Worth a thing if they Are not enforced stringently and consistently a said sen. Frank Lautenberg d-n.j., who chairs the subcommittee on Ocean and water Protection. Had the coast guard enforced its regulations the Santa Clara might never have been allowed to sail he said. Instead during a trip from new York to Baltimore on Jan. 3-4, the Santa Clara hit a storm off new Jersey that pitched 21 cargo containers overboard including four holding 441 Drums of poisonous arsenic trioxide. Most have been located on the Ocean floor As several Federal agencies plan their retrieval. Gotti associate identified As Hitman by the new York times new York a a new witness testified thursday about seeing the slaying of Paul Castellano on dec. 16, 1985, and identified Anthony Rampino a John Gotti associate As a gunman fleeing the scene. It was the second successive Day that a witness described the shooting and identified a participant As someone the prosecution portrayed As a Gotti associate. The Castellano slaying is a Central charge in Gotti s racketeering murder trial in . District court in Brooklyn. The witness 36-year-old Angel Rodriguez of the Bronx testified that he was on e. 46th St. In manhat Tan when Castellano and a top aide Thomas Bilotti were shot to death in front of Sparks Steak House. After the shooting he said he saw two men in Long dark Coats walking rapidly toward him. He said he thought they were the gunmen. One Man he testified had Large eyes and sunken Cheeks a like a after detectives showed him photographs a year and a half later Rodriguez said he picked out a Man As a the a prosecutor Patrick Cotter told the jury that the Man in the pictures was Anthony Rampino. Rampino a reputed Gotti associate in the Gambino crime family is serving a Long prison term for drug trafficking. A .food Banks for pets available to needy owners from wire reports Milford Conn. A pets also suffer when their owners have financial problems so organizations Are setting up pet food Banks. A if people can to feed themselves and they be got pets they certainly Are not going to feed the animals a said Chuck Hopkins supervisor of the Milford food Bank. The Elm City Kennel club is donating dog and cat food to the West Haven emergency assistance task Force which provides food fuel clothing and other assistance to needy people. Quot we would rather give them food than have them give up their pets or have the pets euthanized a said John Ferrie of the Kennel club. A we Are really concerned about seniors a acting animal shelter commission chairwoman Stella Donenfeld said wednesday. Donenfeld said she would try to meet with the director of the Milford senior citizen Center to discuss pet food taste in condoms Racine wis. A giving out condoms is Fine but distributing mint Flavoured ones goes too far the mayor told officials of the City a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Mayor n. Owen Davies on wednesday told the clinic to cancel an order for 1,000 mint Flavoured prophylactics. He said there was no proof a this Type of device has any special health Benefit a and anyway complaints from the Public were pouring in. News of the Purchase had a hit the Rock stations in Chicago and created an uproar Davies minivans lauded Detroit a a health Magazine has honoured Chrysler corp. For the safety features of the automakers minivans. A your leadership in the safety Arena has shown a commitment that goes beyond profit Quot Richard Porter publisher of prevention Magazine said in a statement. A it is a commitment to the safety of the consumer which is the highest value of the Dodge caravan and Plymouth voyager were named the safest passenger vans in prevention a 1992 a Safe car of the year awards. The award winners were selected based on the performance of their automobiles in evaluations by the government and private for Daley sought Chicago a what a fit for a King should be fit for the Man who ruled Chicago for 21 years the City Council says. The Council on wednesday unanimously approved a Resolution asking the . Postal service to create a postage stamp for mayor Richard j. Daley who died in 1976. In introducing the Resolution Alderman Burton Natarus said he was motivated by publicity Over a planned stamp honouring Rock a no Roll King Elvis Presley. Daley a was one of the most influential National political figures throughout his tenure As mayor of Chicago and was considered by Many Tope the most influential and powerful local political Leader in the country during that period Natarus said. Daley has at least one thing in common with Elvis. Both have been dead for at least 10 years a a requirement for stamp depiction unless the person is a former Krol improving Philadelphia Cardinal John Krol admitted to a Hospital feb. 19 after complaining of an irregular heartbeat is improving the Hospital said thursday. Krol s condition was upgraded from critical to guarded a spokesman for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital said. Tests had determined that the 81-year-old former archbishop of Philadelphia did not have heart trouble but had a bacterial infection said Marie Kelly a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia archdiocese
