European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 0 the stars and stripes . Sunday january 1 of 1993 Clinton backs Trade pact but seeks amendments by the los Angeles times Austin Texas a president elect Clinton promised Friday to seek prompt of the North american free Rade agreement despite his misgivings about the pact. After a meeting Here with mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari Clinton said that he would appoint a senior official shortly after his inauguration to oversee ratification of the treaty he also pledged to move swiftly to negotiate amendments to the 2,000-Page pact to Deal with his concerns on the environment and Job Protection. He indicated that he would not submit legis action to Congress to carry out the pact until his concerns were addressed. A it was the president elect s first meeting with a foreign head of state. The two leaders also discussed bilateral issues including immigration narcotics traffic and environmental enforcement along the .-Mexico Border. In addition Salinas said they discussed mexican a sovereignty and self determination a a reference to the 1990 abduction by . Agents of or. Humberto Alvarez Machain a physician suspected of involvement in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of . Drug agent Enrique Ca Marina in Mexico. The doctor s abduction angered mexican officials who Are seeking a pledge from Washington that it will not attempt to enforce . Law on mexican soil. The doctor was acquitted of All charges in the Camarena Case in a los Angeles Federal court last month. At a news conference with Salinas Clinton repeated his opposition to such abductions. Although pre inauguration meetings Between american presidents elect and mexican chiefs of state have become routine this one carried particular import because of the pending Trade deaf. The treat was signed by president Bush Salinas and Canadian prime minister Brian Muttonen last month. It awaits ratification by Legislatures in the three countries. Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari Speaks with elect Clinton in Austin Texas on Friday. A president Washington apr Federal prosecutors Are expanding their investigation of House ways and Means committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski it was reported Friday. Can reported that a Federal grand jury is looking into possible income tax violations by the influential ii Lino is Democrat. The Washington Post in its saturday editions said the grand jury is seeking records of All funds Rostenkowski has received or spent during the past several years. The newspaper and can quoted Anonymous sources. The Post also said it contacted Rostenkowski and he complained about the leaks. A i think i m being tried in the press a he was quoted As saying. Quot they done to have anything. But it makes me look  the original investigation of Rostenkowski focused on whether he and two other House democrats converted congressional expense vouchers or Campaign funds to Cash through transactions that were made to look like stamp purchases at the House Post office. Rostenkowski previously has denied any wrongdoing. The Post reported that at least two criminal investigators from the internal Revenue service have been assigned to work full time on the investigation in Washington and in Chicago. Previous accounts said Rostenkowski congressional office reported spending $29,672 in taxpayer funds to buy Stamps and his Campaign organization and a political action committee bought $26,000 in Stamps from the House Post office. Prosecutors reportedly also Are looking into More than $73,000 in payments made to Rostenkowski scam Saign committees since 1986 to rent office space in a building owned by the congressman and his two Sisters. Goose Dies defending its mate a a Mailbox Nassau Minn. Apr a Goose that took up a Mailbox for a mate after its real partner died was defending its new spouse when it was run Over by Snow mobiles its owners say. Quot it was As faithful As Ever and guarded the Mailbox right until the end Quot Mary Wildung said. The 25-year-old Honker which the Wildung never named lost its mate seven years ago. Soon after it adopted the White lanky Mailbox As one of its own. It flailed wildly at the letter Carrier and nipped at the farm couple when they picked up their mail. The Goose had been Quot buzzed by snowmobiles Early in december Wildung said. Later that month while she and her husband Curt were out the Snowton boilers returned. Quot when Curt came in and told me a they did it they of it i actually had tears in my eyes a she said. A  my eyes m sure they weren to trying to kill  the. ?9upie does no to want to press charges Wildung said they would like an apology. The Wildung Are considering a visit to the taxi Der j so use s carcass remains outside in a tub filled with Snow. Or they May Bury it near the Mailbox placing a Cement Monument nearby. A a let a see Mem try and run that Over a Wildung said. K Bush replaces member of embattled postal Board from wire reports Washington a president Bush defied a Federal judges injunction Friday and named a lifelong Friend to the postal service s Board of governors in a fight Over who has authority to set mail rates. Bush used a recess appointment while Congress is t p session to put Thomas Ludlow Ashley on the member postal service Board. Ashley is a former democratic congressman from Ohio and a lobbyist for the nations largest Banks. Six members of the Board engaged in a Legal Battle with Bush Over a proposed 27-cent stamp for mass machine prepared mail Wonia court order thursday barring Bush from firing them. But one of the six is Crocker Nevin whose term expired last month and whom Bush replaced Friday with Ashley. Since Nevin was a Democrat Bush was required by Law to replace him with another Democrat. The recess appointment could turn the postal services governing Board from 6-5 against Bush to 6-5 in favor of his demand to drop a suit in the . Circuit court of appeals in Washington challenging the 27-cent stamp. Congressman May resign Cincinnati rep. Willis d. Gradison or. Appears on the verge of resigning from Congress to become the health insurance Industry s top lobbyist in Washington. The 64-year-old Republican who was sworn in tuesday for a 10th two year term has called a news conference for monday at which he is expected to announce his resignation. Published reports last week said Gradison accepted an offer to become president of the Washington based health insurance association of America. A a Gradison would be banned by Law from having any direct Contact with his House colleagues for one year after his resignation. He would be allowed to give the insurance group advice and plan strategy for handling negotiations with Congress. Health care and tax policy have been Gradison s areas of expertise. _ Harrisburg a. A Short of locating 2 tons of Toast what can be done with an 80b-Pound piece of butter organizers of the 77th annual Pennsylvania farm show Are asking. Admire it says sculptor Raymond Mackintosh of 1 Oronto who churned the butter into a p state s $1.3 billion Dairy and industries. Piece of Art ice Cream agriculture officials unveiled the creamy yellow carving thursday.  i3� three years a butter sculpture by Mackintosh has marked the beginning of the show which opened saturday. The statue shows an old fashioned ice Cream Vendor wearing a Bow tie and scooping from a Street cart for a girl and boy. It is kept in a refrigerated windowed room for spectators at the Entrance to the r Arm show Complex he spent five 12-hour Days in the refrigerated room molding the butter onto a Metal Frame with wooden tools. Mackintosh said the sculpture was influenced by Norman Rockwell a illustrations celebrating americana. Man run Over by train Louisville icy a Douglas Sandlin was run Over by a freight train and lived to Tell about it. Sandlin who had been drinking heavily apparently fell and passed out in a Low spot Between the rails. A Cox train passed Over him Ealy Friday. _ the conductor spotted Sandlin and tried to Stop the Tram in time but could to said Jefferson county police spokeswoman Wendy Peters. Sandlin 26, did no to Wake up until More than an hour after he was taken to a Hospital. Nearby bar5314 run a or Beers at a Aith, was untouched by the train he  a a hot and Injo a by he a Parnell it