European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 20, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9city Council backs off from Public paddling idea from wire reports Sacramento Calif. The City Council.  touch a Public paddling idea with a 10-foot pole \. A a a. A. A the Council voted 5-4 tuesday not to discuss councilman Josh panels proposal to adopt the Singapore style punishment for vandalism. He got the idea when he found one of the City a buses. Already covered with  suggested Public spanking in a downtown Plaza Wouk be a deterrent. He said he got 50 Calls of support from As far away As Boston on tuesday morning alone. A in Singapore american teen Ager Michael p. Fay is serving a four month prison term and recovering from four lashes of a Rattan Cane for Spray painting a cars. A a a a a. A a a a a trial slated in ship Case new York a a trial for seven men charged with alien smuggling in the Saga of the freighter Golden venture has been ordered by a judge in Brooklyn. The ship was beached with a loss of 10 lives nearly a year ago. . District court judge Reena Raggi on tuesday rejected a plea bargain for the men six alleged a a enforcers who were to keep order aboard the ship and Weng you Hui who allegedly directed them from new York and Bangkok Thailand. However Raggi said she might accept a guilty plea from a burmese Seaman among the seven a Huan Shao Ming. Ming who allegedly was at the Helm at the time of the grounding in the pre Dawn hours of last june 6, said he was forced to Beach the vessel which was carrying As Many As 300 illegal aliens. Athletes face charges Stanford Calif. A the Santa Clara District attorneys office and Stanford University officials considered a wide Range of charges wednesday against seven student athletes who were arrested after allegedly defacing the famed Quot Gay liberation sculpture on Campus. Stanford police sgt. John Mcmullen said the arrested athletes included backup quarterback Mark Butterfield Star first baseman Dusty Allen and outside linebacker Jason White Mcmullen said the vandalism occurred sometime around 2 . Monday. Police responding to a Call saw the athletes and gave Chase catching All seven. The athletes allegedly battered the sculpture with a Bench and splashed it with Black  ring cracked Huntington . Police broke up a London based International counterfeiting ring with the help of an englishman arrested in Huntington for carrying $10,200 in bogus $100 Bills. / $ about $19 million in fake English Irish Spanish nigerian and romanian Bills and printing plates for the bogus . Bills have been seized in London said Mike Young special agent in charge of the secret service in West Virginia. Timothy Olsen Vetland 43, of London was arrested in March and helped investigators break open the Case Federal authorities said. Five others in the ring were arrested four in London and one in Miami. Less Chance of irs audit Washington a a taxpayers Odds of getting audited by the internal Revenue service Are growing even As the total of uncollected taxes swells a congressional report says Between 1981 and 1992, the chances of getting audited fell from one in 56 to one in 110 for individuals and from one in 20 to one in 33 for corporations the general accounting office said. Even those numbers May be misleadingly optimistic the watchdog Agency said because a airs classifies certain taxpayer contacts As audits when in fact taxpayers books and records were not  Over the same 1981 to 1992 period the annual estimate of uncollected taxes mushroomed 67 percent. It went from $76 billion to $127 billion a an amount that could have sharply reduced the record $290 billion deficit in 1992. The Gap represented 18 percent of what taxpayers owed the government. Irs commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson who has been in the Job a year has vowed to reduce that to 10 percent by 2000.police get information in attack on germans Palm Springs Calif. A several people have come Forward with information about the attack on a German couple that left the woman dead and the Man unable to speak authorities said Klaus Pfleger 64, and his wife Gisela 62, were enjoying the Scenic View of the san Jacinto mountains about 50 Yards from their car monday when attackers took their wallets and shot them Gisela Pfleger was shot in the head several times and killed. Her husband was shot once in the shoulder arid twice in the head. The couple Are from Emmerich a City near the dutch Border. People who were in the area volunteered information that May help investigators identify the suspects or their vehicle Deputy Mark Lohman of the Riverside county sheriffs department said wednesday. Meanwhile the condition of Klaus Pfleger was upgraded from critical to serious at desert Hospital Lohman said. V unable to talk because of surgery to his Chest face and Windpipe he was communicating with detectives through writing and hand gestures Lohman said. Composite drawings of two attackers were expected  released  set up a checkpoint on route 243 near idyll wild wednesday and asked motorists whether they had been in the area monday afternoon and might have. Seen something. Investigators searched a 16-mile stretch of the twisting two Lane Highway looking for a third straight Day for any evidence discarded by the assailants. Pfleger a daughter was at the Hospital officials said. A second daughter was expected to arrive from Germany on thursday. Pfleger a Oral surgeon or Peter Scheer said reconstructive surgery will begin next week to repair Pfleg Eros jaw and cheekbones which were shattered by the bullets. He estimated it May be up to a month before he can be  honors who fought in Washington apr two lawmakers who took part in the a Day invasion of Normandy were among 56 members of Congress and two Cabinet officers honoured by the Pentagon for their world War ii military service., a a \  a a a a a a Quot. Sen. Strom Thurmond , and rep Sam Gibbons d-fla., received a standing ovation at a ceremony organized by the defense departments 50th anniversary of world War ii commemoration committee on wednesday. Secretary of state Warren Christopher Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen Thurmond Gibbons and the others received commemorative medals from defense Secretary William Perry. The event Drew about 400 people to the smithsonian institutions National air and space museum. Thurmond 91, was a civil affairs officer assigned to restore governments in liberated towns but he volunteered to fight on a Day. His glider crashed in an Apple Orchard in the French Village of , said Chris Cimko the senators press Secretary. The glider touched Down Between the German front line and reserves about Dawn on june 6, 1944, Cimko a said v v a a a v a a the literally fought alongside the 82nd airborne for several Days before reverting Back into his civil affairs officer role a she said. Gibbons 74, was one of the thousands of paratroops who jumped behind enemy lines before Dawn. A the was in the 501st Parachute infantry of the 101st airborne division and he was a part of the initial assault Force that parachuted in to do the ground work for the invasion a said Gibbons aide Rich Davis. A the landed alone in the Middle of an Apple Orchard with German soldiers not 70to 100 Yards away. There were 15 or 16 of them and All of them were firing their weapons at the  Gibbons thinks he was Able to slip in undetected because the germans were blinded by their own muzzle blasts Davis said. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was one or several lawmakers honoured by the Pentagon Tor their service during world War k. A the slithered away and Over the course of the next few hours rounded up a group of people a some of whom were from his division Many of whom were not a and they accomplished their first objective of securing the line at the Douve River Quot the aide said. Gibbons will participate in commemoration ceremonies in France at the end of May. Thurmond will remain Home so he can attend his youngest son s High school  finds work is cancer free new Rochelle . Apr less than a week ago Catherine Rosen was out of a Job after telling president Clinton about a Lump in her breast that she feared could kill her. Clinton told her to a hang in  she did and now Rosen has a new Job and has Learned that the Lump is not cancerous. A i have such a sense of Relief a the new Rochelle resident said tuesday. Quot i just want All this behind me and i want to go on with my life.�?�. The 45-year-old bookkeeper was invited to meet Clinton after she wrote to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in support of the administrations health care Reform plan. In the letter she described How she discovered the Lump just As her employer went bankrupt. Although she went to work for another company two months ago her health insurance would not cover treatment of the Lump for 11 months because it was a a pre existing condition a she wrote. She met with Clinton on May 9. The next Day she was fired. Rosen said she feared it was because the company had Learned of her potentially serious and expensive health problem. Her bad news prompted Clinton a encouraging words and also led to an offer of free tests from or. Alvin Chisholm director of radiology at the new Rochelle Hospital medical Center. Rosen had the tests monday and was told the Lump was a just a tissue  also monday she was offered a Job with a company she declined to identify