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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 22, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 Veteran newsman picked As Pentagon spokesman from the associated press Washington defense Secretary William Perry has chosen Kenneth Bacon a Veteran reporter and editor of the Wall Street journal As the Pentagon s new top spokesman. Bacon 49, has been appointed assistant to the Secretary of defense for Public affairs. He succeed Kathleen Delaski who is on maternity leave and will take a position in the Pentagon s policy shop. President Clinton is expected to nominate Bacon to the higher ranking position of assistant Secretary of defense for Public affairs which requires Senate confirmation a Pentagon statement said. That step will be taken after passage of the fiscal 1995 Pentagon budget which permits the Elevation of the Post the statement said. In his reorganization of the Pentagon staff former defense Secretary Les Aspin stripped the spokesman s Post of the higher rank. Suit filed in nazi Case Washington the Justice department filed suit tuesday to revoke the citizenship of a retire Cook in Florida who is suspected of participating in nazi sponsored acts of persecution. Juozas Joseph Budreika 77, of Gulf port fla., was accused in the suit filed in . Distinct court in Tampa fla., of false testimony and wilfully concealing his wartime activities when he applied for immigration in 1958 and for . Citizenship in 1967.".  y \ Budreika is suspected of serving in a lithuanian battalion that was armed sponsored and controlled by nazi Germany. In 1941 and 1942, the battalion killed thousands of unarmed jews and other civilians in Lithuania and in the area now known As Belarus because of their race religion political beliefs or National origin the department said. The department s nazi Hunting unit the office of special investigations has stripped . Citizenship from 50 people and 42 have been removed from the United states. Heated debate expected s on smoke Banat by Aaron Nathans los Angeles times Washington with a witness list including organizations from nearly every walk of american life Federal work safety officials opened a Marathon hear ing tuesday on a proposal to ban smoking in virtually Al workplaces including restaurants and bars. Although the Federal officials have waged a Broad As Sault on smoking and tobacco Over the last year the hearing by the occupational safety and health administration should provide the widest ranging government forum yet for debating the effects of secondhand smoke. More than 350 speakers Are to testify. The opening Day provided a glimpse of things to come As Ted Grossman a lawyer for tobacco . Reynolds told members of the Osha panel that under his interpretation of the proposed Rule a judge All alone in his Chambers Reading a Book could t Light a pipe right John Martonik r Osha acting director of health Stan Dards programs answered yes. The witness list in addition to representatives of the tobacco and anti smoking lobbies includes a Casino association beverage groups a carpet and Rug Institute a postal workers Union an air traffic controller group and the refrigeration service engineers society. The Osha Rule would confine smoking in the workplace to enclosed ventilated areas. Employers would be required to develop written indoor air Quality plans a which would be enforced by Osha inspectors. Osha s decision to develop rules on indoor air Quality including rules affecting environmental to Bacco smoke flows directly from our duty our statutory responsibility to protect the right of american workers to a Safe and healthy workplace said Michael Siverstein Osha director of policy. Tobacco advocates Are sounding alarms Over the Rule which they claim is too restrictive. The Only possible Way to make this plan work is to create a heated ventilated chamber where no business can be conducted no drink or no food can be served said trom Lauria assistant to the president of the to Bacco Institute in Washington. Lauria said most Busi Nesses would opt to ban smoking in their buildings rather than spend the Money to create a smoking room. Osha is not Likely to have an easy ride if it is to endorse its plan after hearings end the tobacco lobby i expected to Challenge the Rule in the courts. A coalition of health groups that includes the Ameri can cancer society endorsed the plan pointing to statistics that list involuntary smoking As the third larg est cause of premature death. Suit May have broken the ice for obese Folk Nashville Tenn. A a 360-Pound woman who sued a theater because she could t fit in its seat Sis glad she stood up for her rights her lawyer says. Deborah Birdwell settled her Federal lawsuit against the car Mike cinemas Chain for an undisclosed amount. She feels she hopefully has broken the ice for obese people and others lawyer Jim Goodman said tuesday from his office at the persons with disabilities Law Center in Atlanta. She Hopes they will stand up and demand to be treated As human beings and if they arc not they know they have a course of action he said. Birdwell 38, sued last september after being denied Access to see Jurassic Park at a Cookeville theater three months earlier. Birdwell who is 5-foot-4, said she offered to provide folding chair but was told it would create a fire Hazard in he wheelchair Section. Attorneys for the Columbus  car Mike did not return a Telephone Call. Polish team decks pack for bndgef7f/e Albuquerque . A teams from Poland took first and third place in the ninth world Bridge championships mixed pairs Competition while an american who ranks no. 1 in the world and a German finished second. Apolinaire Kowalski of Warsaw and Danuta Hochever of Olsztyn finished More than 250 match Points ahead of top ranked Bob Hamman of Dallas and Sabine Zenkel the reigning european mixed pairs Champion. It was the first time Kowalski a chemical Engineer and Hochever a mathematician played As partners. They had been in fifth place heading into tuesday s finals. Each has also represented Poland internationally in other sports Kowalski in swimming and Hochever in fencing. Finishing third was the polish team of Ewa Harasimowicz and Marcin Niewski. Final totals for the mixed pairs were 4,864.48, or 59.73 percent for Kowalski and Hochever to 4,616.69, or 56.69 per cent for Hamman and Zenkel. Harasimowicz and Lesniewski finished with 4,590.72, or 56.37 percent. The rest of the top 10 were from the United stages China and France. Composer Jule Styne Dies Panzer arts & crafts Panzer Laserna Bob Lingen graphics & screen preparation Multi color printing Quality to shirts team uniform printing order by mail Mon ttiu.1 to 9 p m. Sat sun.10 . To 6  2928, Panzoni Kaif line Btty Lynnen calf us Alden 4312-479 or clv.07031-15-479. New York a composer Jule Styne whose Brash Broadway musicals such As Gypsy and funny girl showcased such stars As Ethel Merman and barbra Streisand died tuesday. He was 88. Styne won an Oscar and a Tony and wrote 1,500 songs during a seven decade career that continued into the 1990s. He gave both Streisand and Carol Channing their signature songs people and diamonds Are a girl s Friend respectively. He also created music for Judy Holli Day in Bells Are ringing Phil silvers and Nancy Walker in do re i silvers and Nanette fab Ray in High Button shoes Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray in two on the aisle Carol Burnett in fade out fade in Robert Morse in sugar and Mary Martin for whom he wrote several songs for Peter pan. Styne was the last link to such master american stage composers As Irving Ber Lin Cole Porter George Gershwin Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers who honed their Craft on Broadway in the 1920s and 30s and whose tunes were the pop music of the Day Styne s masterpiece was Gypsy written for Merman who played the domineering Mother of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The 1959 musical which has lyrics by Ste phen Sondheim includes the defiant eve Afua Jule Styne in 1991 Grything s coming up roses and the lyrical Small world. He won an Academy award for three coins in the Fountain from the 1954 movie of the same name and a Tony for hallelujah baby in 1968. 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