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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, November 30, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes monday november 30. 1992 \ at a glance 1 some old favourites Are making a comeback this Christmas Gill giving season. Parents arc expected to buy millions of toys this year including Barbie . Joe and erector sets. Sec Story on pages 14-15. Gramm controversy sen. Phil Gramm helped a troubled Texas Thrift operator Deal with regulators after the businessman picked up More than $50,000 Worth of building expenses on grammes Home a newspaper  Page 4 mayor convicted the mayor of Passaic n.j., was convicted of five Federal tax charges and two counts of  Page 5 accuser Felt pressure one of 10 women making allegations against sen Bob Packwood of Oregon said she was pressured by a Friend of his to remain silent about allegations of unwanted sexual  Page 6 Day of Leisure president elect Clinton relaxed with a game of Beach volleyball and a jog through downtown Santa Barbara Calif a Page 7 linking up a computer network allows students to each fill out a single application and funnel it electronically to several colleges Page 9 Outlook improving a firm for temporary employment said the . Job Outlook appears to be improving everywhere except the  Page 17index Abby Ann Landers .20 comics.1820 commentary.13 crossword.20 faces in places.10 letters.12 Money matters .17 sports.2128 to listings .27 weather .11 British Treasury chief pressed to quit amid financial scandal  _ try Acuri a hire inn the news of the world report on the approved within the Treasury i woul London a Treasury chief Norman Lamont faced pressure sunday to resign following disclosures that a $7,000 private Legal Bill was paid by Public funds. The costs were incurred 18 months ago when Lamont evicted a so called sex therapist tenant from the apartment he owned in London. Quot i think undoubtedly he should go. I think it is a serious error of judgment on his part to seek help and an even More serious error of judgment of somebody a part to help him pay it a labor party Deputy Leader Margaret Beckett told sky television news. Lamont said the Legal costs Quot arose solely because of my Public position As Chancellor of the  the news of the world tabloid in april 1991, reported that a so called sex therapist was renting the chancellors London apartment and had turned it into a sex parlor. Lamont had the tenant evicted follow ing the news of the world report on the grounds that the tenant had broken the tenancy agreement by using the $755 a week apartment for business. Lamont said in a statement released saturday night that the Treasury department had decided to pay the Bill a covering the initial Legal Cost of issuing an immediate statement and the subsequent costs of handling press inquiries following reports in the news of the  the remainder of the $34,800 Bill to evict the tenant was paid for by conservative party sources the statement said. A none of the costs incurred in evicting my tenant were met from Public funds a Lamont said. John Watts a conservative lawmaker said the decision to use Public funds for Lamont a Bill was made by senior Treasury officials not the Chancellor. A knowing How tight the Treasury is in releasing Money for anything if this was approved within the. Treasury i would assume there is no question about its propriety a Watts told British broadcasting corp. Radio. But another conservative lawmaker John Carlisle said Lamont should be moved out of his Job As Chancellor a to restore Confidence Back to the Treasury. A i think that if a member of parliament. Incurs such costs really through his own Choice then obviously if there Are Legal Bills to pay he must take them a Carlisle told bbl radio. Opposition Liberal party lawmaker Alan Beith said Lamont should repay the $7,000. A this was a private matter and should not have involved the taxpayer or the Treasury a Beith said. The Legal Bill juror followed thursdays report by the Sun newspaper that Lamont had exceeded his credit card limit at National Westminster Bank five times in the last eight years. Probe in Clinton passport file extended Washington a acting Secretary of state Lawrence s. Eagleburger says he is continuing a probe of White House involvement a including any role played by James a. Baker Iii in the handling of president elect Clinton a passport files. Quot the Issue to some degree on this has got to be what did Baker know and when did he know it a Eagleburger said saturday on in no a Evans and Novak. The slate department inspector general said in a nov. 18 report that Baker White House chief of staff Learned of the search of Clinton a passport files sept. 30 or oct. 1, in the throes of the presidential Campaign. Neither Baker nor aide Janet Mullins a who told Baker about the search a has commented publicly. Eagleburger said he ordered the inspector general to continue investigating because a there were a whole series of questions we simply   Eagleburger insisted he is not a trying to look at this to Eagleburger find some Way to get at Jim Baker a Eagle burgers a predecessor. But a the questions whether there were Telephone contacts with White House staff. Those questions Are not at All Clear a Eagleburger said.,. State department official Elizabeth m. Tamposi left a message with a White House employee describing the search. But the inspector general could find no one at the White House who would acknowledge taking the message. State department aides conducted the two Day search of Clinton a passport files amid accusations by conservative republicans that Clinton had made moves to renounce his . Citizenship during the Vietnam War. The inspector general said he had not found any evidence that the White House orchestrated an attack on the Clinton  Page 1 Lenic including Banning a Radical right Wing group but has been criticized for not doing enough. In a radio interview broadcast sunday on deutschland Funk Kohl vowed that Germany will use the full Force of the Law against a the Radical right  but he said that proposed constitutional changes to limit the number of refugees and toughen Germany a Liberal Asylum policy would not resolve the problems of racism and violence against foreigners. He said Germany a Prosperity would have been impossible without help from foreign workers such As the turks Ger Many a largest minority group Many of whom were recruited to work in labor Short Germany in the 1960s. Meanwhile in car Samba Turkey thousands attended the funeral of an ethnic turkish woman and two children killed in a firebombing attack on their Home in Molln Germany on nov. 23, turkeys sem official Anatolia news Agency reported. Anatolia said burning German flags were thrown from houses As the coffins were carried to the graveyard. A German embassy representative As Well As four turkish government ministers and several parliamentary deputies attended the funeral it said. A Germany has not reverted to nazi Germany and will never do so a German embassy official Hans big Haber said in a speech in turkish during the funeral. A handful of right Wing extremists have been arrested in the attack in Molln the worst since the violence flared. After the attack authorities banned the extreme right Wing nationalistic front and raided Homes of its members across Germany seizing explosives weapons and Neo nazi propaganda. The banned group has not been linked to the Molln attack. In Jerusalem the israeli Cabinet said it a strongly condemns the Neo nazi racist and anti semitic Phenomena in Germany and views them with concern and  the Cabinet demanded that German officials fight right Wing extremism with a the full Force of the  from Page 1 Power. Over the weekend  officials pulled Down signs pointing to the Europa i Umont and the . Consulate that could become targets of tuesdays protest. Police were to limit the March from place Bordeaux to Weinau stadium in what is expected to be the largest Farmer demonstration the City has seen High schools were to be closed Loi the Day and the red Gross mid hospitals Weie Alci cd or have a cads a mulled posts along the March route. Empty Hospital Beds were set aside. In the latest anti-. Violence royalist militants citing Solidarity with the Farmers set off firecrackers and smoke bombs outside a Twa office in Paris on saturday. They Spray painted "u.s. Go Home on the building Wall and plastered the windows with handbills. A poll published saturday indicates most French voters support a veto of the Accord reached nov. 21 Atter Washington threatened to slap heavy tariffs on White wine and Grain products Bergovoy has Hite atoned a veto unless concessions Are made m world Trade talks that resumed m Iene a i of week the agreement removed a key stumbling Block to the talks sponsored by the general agreement on tariffs and Trade or Gatt that could Lead to hundreds of billions of dollars in global com mercy by dismantling Trade barriers. Apart from protests by belgian Farmers France finds itself alone in the i2nm Tion dec which backs the subsidy cuts the Issue could undermine dec efforts to create a stronger Union and single Market of 340 million people. France last week agreed to continue protecting its banana growers in Martini quo and Guadeloupe who staged crop Ting trikes that stranded thousand tourists  
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