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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V Page 2 the stars and stripes at a glance a Security official looks at railing that was toppled Over by spectators after the University of Wisconsin beat Michigan in football saturday. Meanwhile officials said that they had found no signs police acted improperly in the Melee. See Story on enforcement halted the supreme court refused Mon Day to let Colorado enforce its anti Gay rights amendment White state courts judge its legality. Plan called dead haitian rightists opposed to Restor ing democracy in the Caribbean country say b . Peace plan is dead. �. Pages dangerous Celebration violent real life tricks marred America s Celebration of halloween on sunday. Page 7 Charity gifts Rise americans boosted their total Charity donations to $20 billion last year a Survey says. Pages boys trial begins two 11 year old English boys have gone on trial for murdering a toddler who strayed from his Mother at a shopping mall. Page 10 bad checks pay off bad checks Are a Good business for us. Banks. Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers to. 22 classifieds 26-28 comics. 22,24-25 commentary 15 computers. 11 crossword 22 faces a places. 23 focus 17-19 Horoscope 28 Jumble 28 letters. 14 Money matters. 16 sports to. 30-40 Vii stings 39 weather 13 Senate from Pago 1sencial if the ethics committee is to com plete its probe. The committee is seeking Senate permission to go to court to com Pel Packwood to obey a subpoena for the diaries. It wait a showdown no one relished. I deeply regret the necessity of being Here Bryan said yet told senators a re View of some diary portions had turned up evidence of possible criminal misconduct by pack pod apart from the Origi Nal claims of sexual harassment. The ethics committee has demanded More than 8,000 pages of Packwood s writ Ings As part of its investigation into allegations that the Veteran gop lawmaker sexually harassed More than two dozen women Over the years and used his staff to try to intimidate them into silence Packwood was among those listening attentively As Bryan serving his first year As ethics committee chairman outlined the arguments for enforcing the subpoena. Bryan said he recognized that senators weren t Happy about having to debate a col league s ethics. But he said what this committee asks is your support to move Forward to the next step to allow this matter to be heard by a Dodds from Page 1 Federal District court judge. I Hope that we can get this matter behind us and to resolve it. Me Council told colleagues that there was no partisan split on the panel. I want to make absolutely Clear that the committee s decision to Issue the subpoena was bipartisan was unanimous in fact and was based on a shared View of the facts me Council said. An aide to Packwood speaking on condition of anonymity had said before the debate began that behind the scenes negotiations were aimed at striking a Compro Mise for Packwood to turn Over portions of the  was no indication that the ethics committee was budging from its insistence that the Senate vote on authorizing it to ask a Federal court to enforce its subpoena. A Portland ore., newspaper quoted sources in monday s editions As saying that Packwood May have broken the Law by encouraging a lobbyist to offer his wife a Job in 1990. The Job offer was made while an Oregon court was deciding How much Alimony Packwood should pay his wife the paper said. The oregonian reported that Steven r. Saunders a lobbyist who has rep resented the japanese government and japanese companies told Georgie pack Wood in 1990 he would pay her to take the wives of his clients on Tours of an Tique stores. Tuesday november 2.1993 soldiers from Page 1 _ lined the right and the deep Blue of the Indian Ocean churned into surf on the left. Is us. Warships the Lamphi biotin _ _ 0__.a. J. % a a .0. To Home to fighter jets and marines still of Shore the  of 1 Wen barely visible of for Many soldiers this was their first glimpse of the chaotic Street. Their glimpse was just that the  chosen so it passes Only on the Barest Edge of the City. Many of the people the saw were picking through Mounds of Mil itary refuse. Along the Way were new checkpoints including one. Where the sandbags were still being stacked with american Flag snapping in the Strong Breeze. As with Homes one key for choosing the site was location. Victory base is far enough away to be almost unobtrusive to most a tar residents at a time when the United nations is to ing to avoid confrontation with the locals. But it s close enough that Abrams tub and Bradley fighting vehicles can Roar in quickly in an emergency. There was Little there other than Hardy shrubs and the battered Walls of several roofless buildings when the troops  hours tents were up along with Security patrols. Clear evidence that it costs More to administer them to department of defense dependents schools students. And ets officials Lump Dodds students with overseas civilians. The surcharge is designed to offset costs of serving Sites outside the United states say officials with the College Board the organization that develops the test and sets fees. For nearly five years Dodds officials in Arlington va., have been asking the College Board and educational testing service to justify the surcharge. They ques Tion whether it costs the educational test ing service $30,000 to provide tests each year to about 3,000 Dodds students with military mail privileges. It seems As if they re treating our Stu dents unfairly said Harvey Gerry Educa Tion support officer for the school system s Headquarters in Washington. We would be willing to listen to them if they would at least Tell us How they arrived at that $10 Fig  the Dodds Headquarters most recent requests for explanations were a Decem Ber and again in August the Long and Short of it is they really Haven t Given us a satisfactory answer Gerry said. Itu s legit then it s legit but if you can t Tell us then you must t really charge  the processing fee covers the Cost of International mailings shipments and Tele phone Calls said Brian o Reilly the col lege Board s director of operations and development for the sat program. The fee was established 15 Yean ago at $5. It was increased to $10 about three years ago. The College Board continues to charge Dodds students the fee based on a study it did several years ago o Reilly said. How Ever he refused to provide a copy of that study to the stars and stripes. He said a analysis of sat taken at test centers with army or air Force Post office or Fleet Post office addresses revealed that nearly half did t Haw military Matt Home addresses. Conversely there were among the Stu dents with Apo and Fpo addresses a number testing in centers that did t have App Fpo privileges o Reilly said. It became extremely confusing trying to sort  the College Board decided to continue to charge the same fee across the Board to make it fair Overall o Reilly said. Thai Sampai compares Tom 26 students  we no Apo address taking the sat test this week at shape Imer Nasonal school. Belgium whr�any28 costs for Dodds students at aft Aaion to Kate Apo 29t $6.09 costs for students in . 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