European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes sports saturday november 14,1992 military sports group chasing the spotlight by Walt morals Sere staff writer Sembach a Germany a its most commonly known As c1sm. In French its the consent of Erna on a i do sport my it arc. No matter what you Call it the International military sports Council is undergoing major change As it strives for better visibility while weathering member draw Downs and defense budget cuts worldwide. Cism wrapped up the second of its two annual executive committee meetings Here this week. The meetings were headed by the cism president Gen. Jean Douget of France cism Secretary general it. Col. Francois Pilot of Luxembourg and Usan it. Gen. Ret Clifford r. Rees cism vice president and permanent president of the cism communications committee. The executive committee meetings plan worldwide championship calendars and make recommendations to the annual worldwide convention the general Assembly. The next general Assembly is set for May 8-15 at Varna Bulgaria. Rees is charged with making cism better known worldwide. As a Means to that end pfc announced Cismas first television agreements with eur sport and Belgium a sport vision. Quot we have a relationship with eur sport to include cism activities in eur sport programming a a Rees said. A we have an informal agreement for 13 programs to be shown on eur sport throughout a years time. There arc still Many people who Don t know about cism. We Are still trying to get the word out about the goals of the sports  those goals Are to sponsor worldwide Friendship through sport Pilot said. Quot the first Mission of the executive committee is to follow up decisions of the general Assembly and to make proposals for the upcoming general Assembly a Pilot said. Quot our second Mission is to plan the sport organization Calendar for 93, the probable Calendar for �?T94-95 and other projects up to the year 2000.�?� there Are so Many cism events spread Over North America Europe Africa and Asia Rees said a once every three Days the Flag goes up on a cism  the 93 Calendar includes 21 world championships a cism record100 regional championships and 11 sports clinics in Africa and South America. A we arc organizing these clinics in the countries that ask for them a Pilot said. Quot cism will pay for the instructors to come to the clinics. Each member country pays membership fees and cism has sponsors. We try to schedule world championships at least two years in Advance to avoid conflicts with the championships of International  the �?T93 Calendar also includes Cismas first triathlon which was added after cism conducted a successful triathlon in Kaiserslautern this year in conjunction with the German american triathlon. Just As its member nations Deal with draw Downs and declining budgets a cism also has to adjust to changing demographics and declining dollars. Quot the tendency is to draw Down the military in most nations that maintain a military Quot Douget said. Quot that a Why we re looking for other sports Dicj Plines that will allow cism to involve More mature athletes. We will keep As Long As possible the 24 cism sports that civil a once every three Days the Flag goes up on a cism championship a says cism up Clifford r. Rees. Ians participate in. A we need the support of the National and International sport federations because every country a defense budget is being reduced. So the defense ministers and secretaries of defense Are giving us less and less Money for  Rees said cism will make up for the loss of younger athletes by offering More masters categories in its world championships. A Many countries Are moving away from a draft a Rees said a so Many countries Are looking for sports that the older More mature athlete can participate in As they move to a Volunteer professional Force. A the activity level will probably be the same but the nature of that activity will be  when asked by a German female reporter about female participation in cism Pilot said the organization is encouraging More participation by women. Quot of our 21 championships a Pilot said Quot Only three exclude women european football soccer boxing and wrestling. We Are pushing women participation in our  a Only about 2 percent of the German army is female a Douget said. As an example of female participation Douget pointed out to her that Quot a French woman won the women a portion of the triathlon Here in Kaiserslautern Quot Cismas most visible world championship is basketball the . Finished seventh in cism world championships in China this year. The basketball world championships move to Italy in summer of 93, Seoul Korea in �?T94 and to the United states in �?T95.floridians file suit for $3.5 billion Tampa Fla. A a claim for $3.5 billion in damages is among the first of a promised blizzard of lawsuits by Tampa Bay a jilted ownership group challenging baseball a refusal to relocate the san Francisco giants. A this is just the beginning a vowed managing partner Vincent Naimoli. Quot there san old saying done to get mad get  a the multimillion claim was filed in san Francisco late thursday in response to a sept. 4 lawsuit filed by a san Francisco group against Naimoli and giant owner Bob Lune. Naimoli alleges his contract was interfered with and asked for a change of venue to get the suit out of san Francisco. Explaining the $3.5 billion figure Naimoli said a if you look at the loss in revenues to the investors if you look at our costs if you look at the loss of economic Benefit to the. City of St. Petersburg and the area of Tampa Bay the thousand jobs that have been lost the 27 years of revenues on the Florida Sun coast dome lease it Aggregates to Over $3  in a separate action thursday Naimoli his Tampa Bay partners and the City of St. Petersburg want the court to invalidate letters they signed promising not to sue major league baseball its clubs Ana employees. The suit filed in Florida circuit court in Pinellas county named the National league major league baseball and All no clubs except the giants As defendants. It accuses baseball of not dealing in Good Faith with the Tampa Bay group saying baseball failed to give a fair and timely consideration to Tampa Bay a offer. The suit said baseball a openly and notoriously solicited competing proposals took an Active role in the formation of the san Francisco investors group and then furnished the group with confidential information about Tampa Bay s contract. The actions came two Days after san Francisco investors who bid $100 million to keep the giants from moving sued the City of St. Petersburg. That lawsuit asks the courts to declare that they did no to interfere with the Florida offer. A there has been a great wrong done a Naimoli said. A we have a Bona fide contract. We had the Best contract Quot the Tampa Bay investor added. A in the United states of America things Are not sold to the Low bidder who comes in after the  meanwhile Florida attorney general Bob Butterworth said his office and lawyers for St. Petersburg have begun a fact finding Mission that will remove the a cloak of secrecy surrounding the areas seventh unsuccessful attempt to acquire a team. Quot the facts we heard Are much More egregious than what we be heard about or read about in the newspapers a Butterworth said after meeting several hours thursday with Naimoli. Although attorneys and City officials Are still plotting Legal strategy St. Petersburg is expected to Challenge baseball s exemption from antitrust Laws granted in a 1922 supreme court decision that was affirmed in 1972.bruins subdue flames in final 2v2 minutes by the associated press Boston a Gord Roberts scored with 2 32 left and Dave Poulin added an empty net goal As the Boston Bruins Defeated the flames 5-3 thursday to deny Calgary goalie Michael Vernon his 200th nil win. In other games thursday penguins 4, Nordques 4 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh remained unbeaten at Home but managed Only a tie with Quebec As Martin Rucinsky a third period goal tied it following a pair of go ahead goals by the penguins Joe Mullen. Mario Lemieux was held without a goal for Only the third time in 18 games. Flyers 8, islanders 5 Philadelphia Mark Recchi had two goals and four assists As Philadelphia Defeated nil new York extending the islanders losing Streak to five  7, North stars 2 Bloomington Minn. Rookie Teemu Velanne had two goals and two assists and Rick Tabaracci made 39 saves As Winnipeg ended their eight game Road losing Streak in impressive fashion embarrassing  4, Sharks 3 Daly City Calif. Edmonton continued to rebound after a disastrous Start As Petr Jim a a tie breaking goal in the second period sparked the oilers to a Victory Over san  7, canucks 4 Inglewood Calif. Jari Kurt Tomas Sandstrom and Mike Donnelly each scored two goals to help los Angeles beat  1, blues 0 Chicago a Jocelyn Lemieux got the games Only goal and de be four made 16 saves for his 11th career shutout As Chicago climbed into first place in the Norris division with a Victory Over St. Louis. Chicago has 19 Points one More than Tampa Bay and Toronto following it s fourth straight Victory