European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Monday november 15,1993officials upbeat on Deadbeat to show by the new York times Martinez Calif. A supervisor Sunne Mcpeak wants fathers to support their children so the Cash starved county does no to have to. District attorney Gary Yancey wants the Public to tattle on delinquent parents who pretend they re broke. And Nancy Sanchez wants her former husband branded a Deadbeat. A a in a tired of this Guy passing As a Law abiding person a Sanchez said after seeing the face of her former husband Gregory Johnson scroll across a to screen As an announcer intoned Johnson a height weight race last known occupation last known locale and the number of his minor children. Johnson owes Sanchez More than $60,000 in child support. The supervisor the District attorney Sanchez and nine other custodial parents in Contra Costa county just cast of san Francisco Bay have joined to produce Packwood friends to Portland Ore a friends of sen. Bob pack Wood offered his wife Job paying a total of More than $57,000 a year just before the pack Woods divorce a newspaper reported sunday. The Job offers outlined in a letter from the senators lawyer to Georgie Packwood a attorney could have substantially reduced the amount of support Packwood would have to pay her. The letter dated May 31, 1990, and other documents Quot obtained by the oregonian provide details into conduct that sen. Richard h. Bryan d-nev., chairman of the Senate select committee on ethics suggested might Lead to criminal charges against Packwood. In a showdown Over Packwood a diary the Senate voted 94-6 on nov. 2 to enforce an ethics committee subpoena demanding that the Oregon Republican surrender his journals. The senator is under in Packwood vesti gation for allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances to More than two dozen women during his Senate career. Before the vote Bryan had said there was evidence in the diaries of potential criminal conduct outside the alleged sexual misconduct. Packwood defended himself saying that the original investigation had been expanded to determine whether he tried to have lobbyists hire his wife in Exchange for political favors. Federal Law prohibits Public officials from soliciting or taking favors or from accepting or soliciting a any thing of value a from someone whose business is affected by the officials Job. All four men who offered his wife jobs were friends of the senators. Steven Saunders and Tim Lee had worked for Packwood in the 1970s, As did Ron Crawford a wife Carol. Crawford a consulting firm also worked on pack Wood s campaigns. Lester Pollack was a Friend from new York University Law school. Also All four sometimes had business interests before the Senate the oregonian reported. Saunders who represents several asian interests was paid $25,000 by the japanese government to lobby Congress the year he offered Packwood a wife a Job. Packwood sided with Japan that year when Many members argued for Trade sanctions against the country. The action helped Saunders clients but was also consistent with Packwood a longtime support of free Trade. Lee owned an Oregon trucking business at the time of the Job offer to Packwood a wife. The senator talked about the business during a floor debate in 1990, citing Lee As someone who benefited from trucking Industry deregulation which Packwood had spearheaded. Pollack was a partner in the investment banking firm Lazard Freres amp co. And sat on the boards of directors of several corporations. Packwood a member of the finance and Commerce committees was in a position to influence Pollack a business interests. Five of Crawford a clients including the National Cable television association had issues before the Senate. Packwood was the Lone dissenter in a Commerce committee vote to regulate the Cable Industry. The senator later helped Block passage of the Bill on the Senate floor. A Public Access to show that began this month playing on 11 Cable systems. Called Contra Costa county s Deadbeat parents the show features several carpenters a free Lance Tattoo artist an osteopathic doctor and a stockbroker. All but one of the deadbeats Are men although the Lone woman has received the most publicity in local newspapers. The delinquent parents Are notified that they Are candidates for the show and Are offered an Opportunity to pay. The custodial parents Are asked for permission to broadcast information on the delinquent Parent because the publicity might be embarrassing to the chif Dren. Each month the show exposes a new group of parents from the county roster of those who owe More than $10,000 in child support and Are More than six months overdue in their payments. A a we re not out to punish people who Are making a legitimate Effort a said Karen Mitchoff an aide to me Peak. A we want to get people who Are thumbing their nose at the  Contra Costa officials expect that the show will motivate some people to pay up to avoid having their pictures on television. They also Hope that information from viewers will reveal hidden assets of those shown such As wages paid off the books and Bank accounts in different names. The primary collection problem officials say is not in finding the Deadbeat parents but in proving that they have Money. If viewers know of a Deadbeat Parent who is hiding assets Yancey asks that they intervene. A we Hope you la walk up and tap him on the. Shoulder and say a hey pal in a tired of paying my taxes to support your kids a a the District attorney said during a panel discussion of the Issue that opened the first broadcast. Nearly 500 bodies swept away by the Summers flooding await reburial in Hardin mo., last week. Victims reburied More than 700 vaults and coffins were washed away and the nine acre cemetery at one Point was under about 30 feet of water. Almost 600 sets of remains were recovered but Only 118 have been identified. The River _ carved out the cemetery a oldest Section where inadequate records and memories have yielded few clues to who occupied the Graves. For example the Section included a segregated area where Blacks were buried decades ago Many in unmarked Graves. Vernie Fountain coordinator of the disaster response team of the Missouri funeral directors association said the identified bodies were placed in newly marked Graves in another Section of the cemetery. Fountain and Snow said they would continue trying to identify some of the other remains. Tote bodies in the 24,000-Square-foot mass grave have been a carefully documented so that if an identification is made the vault can be located and the remains buried in a marked plot. Hardin to. Apr the Anonymous remains of nearly 500 people were buried in a huge mass grave months after the great flood of �?T93 washed the dead from what was supposed to be their final resting place. A a you re not supposed to be emotional you know a said Dean Snow the Ray county Coroner fighting Back tears As he sat on the lip or the mass grave and looked out Over the 476 burial vaults. The remains were unearthed in july when the Missouri River surged 3w Miles out of its Banks and through Harding a cemetery. The water swept tombstones vaults coffins and Bones into Fields and Hung them on fences and Trees. Some remains were deposited up to 18 Miles away. A you would think that after 314 months it would just be another matter of fact sort of thing. But my goodness gracious land Sakes alive a its not a Snow said As he lowered his face in his hands. A but now they Are Back All together in one place under gods  . Official downplays Haiti cocaine link Washington up a a top drug enforcement administration official says he cannot confirm claims by exiled haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide that his country is a major shipping Point for cocaine headed for the United states. David Rodriguez Section chief for Dea operations for Mexico and Central America which includes the Caribbean also said in an interview that he has seen no evidence to Back up Aristides claim that it was his opposition to the drug Trade that sparked the 1991 coup that toppled him. Aristide Haiti a democratically elected president was ousted in 1991 by a military dictatorship. The Clinton administration and the United nations Are trying to restore him to Power with an embargo of Petroleum products to Haiti. During a news conference last week Aristide said 40 to 48 tons of cocaine Are shipped through Haiti each year most of it headed for the United states. Rodriguez said deals Best official estimate of cocaine traffic through Haiti is �?o1,000 to 2,000 pounds a month. That would equal 6 to 12 tons a year