European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. July 25, 1993 . The stars and stripes egyptian charged in . Terror plot Garden . A a Tarawa Mohammad Salch dressed in a to shirt shorts and sandals was enjoying a Cook out at a Motel near a tourist filled Beach when ome unexpected guests arrived Fri agents. Saleh ran witnesses said but was tackled by an agent. He became the Lith suspect arrested and charged with a conspiracy to bomb the United nations a Federal building in Manhattan and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels. Saleh 37, an egyptian appeared Fri Day before a Federal magistrate in Cam Den and waived his right to a hearing on whether he could be taken to new York to face bombing conspiracy and at tempted bombing charges. He was arrested thursday night with Ashraf Mohammed 31, at the sea Wolf apartments a Motel on new Jersey s Southern Shore. Witnesses said Salch was in the Middle of a cookout with his 5 year old son and friends Mohammed also egyptian was charged with harbouring a Federal fugitive. Their last known addresses were in Jer sey City James c. Esposito special agent in charge of the Fri office in Newark would not specify How Saleh was tracked Down. It was through a lot of hard conventional work on the Street he said. Investigators say Saleh was at a House in Queens ., last month when other plot ters were mixing explosives and that he Dis cussed getting cars to assist in bombings. Everybody is absolutely convinced he is right in the Middle of this group said new York City chief of detectives Joseph r. Borrelli. Federal marshals were to take Salch to new York City where he will face arraign ment this week. Mohammed was being held pending a tuesday bail hearing. If convicted Salch faces up to 15 years in prison authorities said. Mohamme could face up to five years in prison and a $5,000 Fine. Authorities say the men entered the United states in the 1980s. Saleh s Law yer assistant Federal Public defender Richard Coughlin said he believed the two Are Legal . Residents. Eight Muslim fundamentalists were arrested june 24 after Federal agents raided the Queens House and found five men allegedly mixing explosives. Another suspect was arrested june 30 in Philadelphia and a new indictment july 14 added a Man already under arrest in connection with the feb. 26 bombing at the world Trade Center. That blast killed six people and injured More than 1,000. Breathless affair John Chavez of Gilroy calif., draws Back from the flame while cooking a 3-Pound Batch of Calamari Fri Day at the 15th annual Gilroy garlic festival. One festival goer Gert Murphy of los gatos calif., lets the festival activities go to her head As she models a garlic Wreath. The three Day affair will feature such Delica cies As garlic Scampi garlic Pepper Steak and that old summertime favorite garlic ice Cream. Moscow owes  $4 million for parking offences Washington up the cold War May be Over but Washington still has an old score to Settle with Moscow $4 million in parking tickets left unpaid by former soviet diplomats. State department spokesman Michael d. Mccurry said Friday that the defunct soviet Union which closed up shop a few years ago owes nearly 25 times More than the next most egregious offender and More than two thirds of All diplomatic parking arrears. � but he said with a conspiratorial Grin Seldom seen in the confines of the state department briefing room the outstanding fines Are not an impediment to better relations with Moscow. I think when russian foreign minister Andrei a Kozarev and Secretary of state Warren a Christo Pher sit Down i m fairly certain that parking fines Are not at the top of the Agenda Mccurry said. Vada manager a spokesman for . Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly said the former soviet Union owes $4 Mil lion in parking fines Nigeria owes $150,000, Egypt owes $80,000, South Korea owes $74,000 and Zimbabwe owes $67,000. Foreign diplomats owe Washington $6 million in unpaid tickets he said. Since the nation s capital is suffering through eco nomic hard times like every other City in the United states manager said Kelly thinks foreign guests should pay up. The mayor indicated today that at a time when Weare cutting budgets and undergoing Belt tightening measures it would be Nice to have visitors pay their obligation to the City he said. Washington and the state department have come up with a scheme that officials think will help them collect the overdue diplomatic moola manager and Mccurry said. The state department in april suggested that Washington not renew diplomatic License plates unless All parking ticket debts Are paid they said. The proposal has not been approved they said but it is under consideration. Alaska claiming government broke statehood Law Juneau Alaska a Alaska one of the richest states in the Union is presenting Washington with a Bill for More than $29 billion. A lawsuit filed thursday in Washington accuses the government of repeatedly violating the Law that granted Alaska statehood in 1959 by closing millions of acres of Federal land to mining and Oil and Gas drilling. Gov. Walter j. Hickel a political Independent with a flair for the grand gesture said $29 billion is a conservative estimate of the Revenue Alaska was denied in the past 34 years. Last month he said the lawsuit could be Worth $70 billion. Kevin Sweeney a spokesman for Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt suggested that the lawsuit will not retaken very seriously in Washington. There May be a political basis for the suit but there clearly is no Legal basis Sweeney told the Washington Post. We Are unaware of any Legal reasons Why we d be obligated to Fork out $29 billion at Issue Are lands designated since statehood Asna tonal Parks wilderness areas wildlife preserves and refuges where drilling and mining Are banned. Hickel alleges that Congress induced Alaska to ratify statehood in 1958 by promising Broad opportunities to develop Federal lands. Instead Hickel said in statement thursday Congress has withdrawn More than 100 million acres of Federal land forever prevent ing it from producing any income to the  despite the Federal land withdrawals Alaska has profited handsomely from development of its Oil depos its. Oil taxes and royalties pay for about 85 percent of the state budget. Each resident gets Oil dividends of More than $900 a year. Alaska has no income or sales tax. Oil production is on the decline however and Many state officials fear the Cost of running the government will far exceed its revenues by the end of the decade. Driver Dies trying to jump drawbridge Vero Beach Fla. Up police say a school custodian was killed Here Friday while trying to jump his car across a drawbridge that was being raised. Zebedee grumpier 26, died when his car plunged off the Merrill Barber Bridge and landed on its roof inthe intr coastal waterway at 6 56 a.m., said police capt. Ronald Blanton. Blanton said grumpier received a Call at work at Beachland elementary school and told co workers he had to leave. He rushed out to his car and drove West on Beach land Boulevard until he came to the Bridge which was being raised for boat traffic and was at a 45-degree Angle. Blanton said the protective Gates in front of the Bridge were Down and warning lights were flashing. Blanton said grumpier drove around a truck stopped in front of him and went onto the Bridge where his car crashed through the Bridge opening landed on its top and Sank. Divers were called out immediately from a nearby fire station but grumpier was dead police said. Police said they did not know the nature of the Call grumpier received at work