European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday August 14,1993 free Trade pact details Are finally ironed out Washington a the United states Mexico and Canada have reached Accord on Side deals to the North american free Trade agreement demanded by president Clinton. A the agreement was announced Friday at news conferences in Washington Ottawa and Mexico City. Daylong Telephone negotiations among Washington Mexico City Ana Ottawa resolved the impasse Over . Demands that violations of environmental and labor standards be punishable by Trade sanctions. Such an agreement clears the Way for Clinton to Send the measure to Congress something he said he would t do until the Side agreements were completed. The pact must also be approved by Mexico s Ana Canadas Legislatures. Environmental and labor groups oppose the pact on grounds that it would harm the already polluted Border Region and cause a loss of . Jobs to Mexico. The Trade agreement would create the world s largest free Trade zone by removing most barriers to the free flow of goods services and investment among the three nations Over a 15-year period. The agreement which is supposed to take effect Jan. 1, would create a free Trade zone with 360 million Consumers and annual production Worth $6.4 trillion. This historic agreement we can Reform a Trade relationship with Mexico that has been driven More by Accident than design a  Trade representative Mickey Kantor said. I Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen called the agreement a very Good  a we soon will be Able to take Naftal to Congress for approval and get on with the business of creating 200,000 new jobs for americans a he said. Earlier in the week Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell rejected a Compromise on Side deals that came after six Days of negotiations in Washington. The Bush administration agreed to the pact but Linton demanded supplemental deals a with Teeth covering the environment workers rights and Protection from sudden import surges. The mexican Stock Market fell in heavy trading thursday on news that Campbell refused to Compromise on Trade sanctions proposed by . And mexican negotiators. The main Index was off 1.72 percent. Gossip helps to muddle of alleged Hollywood Madam los Angeles apr murder drugs and alleged police complicity surfaced thursday in the widening investigation of reputed Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss. But Rumor and contradiction complicated the unfolding Case. The unsolved slaying of a woman in the Venice area 14 months ago was linked to the Fleiss investigation in news reports. But police capt. Glenn Ackerman said bluntly its just a Media  Karen Dee Cook 23, was shot to death in the Drivers scat of her crashed Corvette. A it has nothing to do with Heidi a Ackerman said. Earlier this week the drug overdose death of 22-year-old waitress Laurie Dolan was connected to the investigation into upscale Hollywood prostitution rings. Ackerman also dismissed reports that off duty police officers worked As Security forces for the Fleiss Call girl ring that allegedly catered to the Rich and famous. Sex allegedly Cost customers $1,500 per encounter. A if cops get involved it s that they fall in love with a Call girl or something. But Security give me a break a Ackerman said. Possible involvement by off duty sheriffs deputies was being examined. But Deputy Pat Hunter said a there is no information to indicate that this investigation is related to the criminal Case involving  Fleiss allegedly oversaw an operation that catered to Hollywood a entertainment elite. On monday she pleaded innocent to five felony counts of pandering and one count of transporting and possessing cocaine. Records seized at the Fleiss estate allegedly include the names of prominent customers but authorities Haven to disclosed any names. Meanwhile actor James Caan was furious Over a report linking him to Fleiss. A a it a shameful and its harmful a Caan said in a Telephone interview with the associated press on thursday. He was reacting to a new York Post Story claiming Caan a often spent time partying at Fleiss Swanky  a a it a not True in be had enough bad publicity in my career. I done to need this. In be got a wife and 2-year-old baby. 1 done to go out and party. I Don t want to be trashed. Its just hideous a Caan said. Caan said he met Fleiss once years ago but a i never Ever once partied at Heidi a House. I was there once stopped by with friends for about five minutes. That it Fleiss Caan was it. I have never partied up  the new York Post Story said Fleiss a was hopelessly in love with Jimmy and the infatuation drove her to appear a with some of her harem at a 16th birthday party for Caan s son Scott. The article said that Fleiss prostitutes wore a tight jeans bustiers and pumps a Ana that they drank liquor and smoked cigarettes with Caann a son and his friends. The Post cited As its source one of Fleiss former Call girls. The newspaper also quoted Caan s publicist Paul Bloch As saying that Caann a acquaintance with Fleiss was limited and that they never had an affair. Fleiss Isnit talking. A a in a sorry. Its going to take a bit longer to return everybody a phone Call. Please be patient a she said on the Telephone answering machine at her $1.6 million Home. The second death linked to the Case occurred March 2, three Days after Dolan was taken to Cedars Sinai medical Center by Jacob Organ. Organ is an associate of Ivan Nagy a former Fleiss Boyfriend and accused wanderer. The coroners office ruled the death accidental but sheriffs homicide investigators arc still examining evidence in the Case. Police said Nagy arrested last week for investigation of pandering and Fleiss ran competing Call girl rings. A my client Wasny to involved in anything untoward whatsoever a said Orgado a lawyer Terrence a. Roden. A the took her to the Hospital a tragedy occurred she passed  appraisals waived for flood victim Loans Washington apr federally regulated financial institutions have been ordered to Stop requiring Normal appraisals of real estate collateral on Loans to flood victims in nine midwestern states. Five Federal regulatory agencies issued a joint order thursday exempting Banks savings institutions and credit unions from obtaining Normal appraisals on real estate pledged As collateral Tor Loans. The exemption published in the Federal Register on wednesday will last three years. It affects institutions in disaster areas in Illinois Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota and Wisconsin. Appraisals normally Are required to ensure that property pledged As collateral has sufficient value to cover the loan if it is not repaid. The agencies Are the office of the comptroller of the currency the Federal Deposit insurance corp., the Federal Reserve Board the National credit Union administration and the office of Thrift  says plan must face Cost of children s care from wire reports Washington a children a hospitals could face financial ruin if government health care reforms done to keep in mind that sick children Are More expensive to care for than ill adults a spokesman for the institutions says. A children Are not simply Small adults a Lawrence a. Mcandrews president of the National association of children a hospitals said at a news conference thursday. The association which represents 128 children a hospitals said the government payment plans under discussion could mean the hospitals costs would outrun income. A children younger than age 2 require 45 percent More nursing care than adults a according to a study commissioned by the association. Children a Hospital expenses Are higher because they can to take care of themselves As adults can the group reported. Children need More nursing care. Closer monitoring specialized equipment and doctors with greater expertise it  proposes bomb new York a a letter the Fri retrieved from bomb suspect Nidal Ayyad a personal computer indicates that terrorists weren to satisfied with the world Trade Center explosion and threatened to bomb the twin towers again. The letter obtained by new York new Day is similar to another letter taking credit for the bombing that was sent to newspapers four Days after the feb. 26 blast. Both were signed by the liberation army fifth battalion and end with the same inscriptions. A unfortunately our calculations were not very accurate this time a the second Unm ailed letter reads. A however we Promise you that next time it will be very precise and Etc will continue to be one sic our targets in the us unless our demands Are  Are sought Washington a the state department said thursday that it had sought clarification from the israeli government on Jonn Demjan Juk the retired Ohio Auto worker accused of nazi War crimes. But it declined to say whether american diplomats pressed for his release from prison. On july 29, the israeli supreme court unanimously threw out his conviction of being a Ivan the terrible a a sadistic nazi death Camp supervisor. But Demjan Juk has been kept in Israel while prosecutors consider whether he should be tried in other holocaust related  supports Brad Bill Washington a passage of the Brady Bill would keep some guns out of the hands of criminals the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms said thursday. But at spokesman Tom Hill conceded that it a will not shut Down the pipeline _ weapons. And even attorney general Janet Reno of illegal said thursday that passage of the Bill would be Only the first step toward controlling illegal guns on the  Brady Bill would require a five Day waiting period and a background Check before the Purchase of a handgun. The Bill is named after Jim Brady the White House press Secretary who was wounded during an assassination attempt on president Reagan in 1981. It is one of the Linchpin of the anti crime initiative announced by Clinton on  rights measure Tallahassee Fla. A a Florida lawmaker has proposed a Bill that Moulti allow men to maintain parental rights to any future children by registering with the state As a potential father. Than a month after a toddler raised by a Michigan couple was turned Over to her biological Parent sin Iowa by court order sen. Ronald a. Silver a Noil Miami Beach filed his Bill in the Honda legislature. Dubbed the a pants on Bill the measure would require an unmarried Man who has sex with a woman to Register with the state As a potential father if he want Rio keep parental rights in the event of a pregnancy. A what we re saying is when a Man has sexual Intercourse and puts his pants on he son notice that a child May be conceived a Charlotte Danciu a a 01 Awer who authored the legislation said thursday after the Bill was filed. I y /