European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 2$, 1994 . T the stars and stripes Page 9 Compromise Bill Calls for tighter rein on lobbyists Washington a a package of re forms Banning most gifts to members of Congress and imposing new reporting requirements on lobbyists has won agreement from House and Senate negotiators. Supporters said monday that they expect no major opposition to the Compromise in either the House or Senate. R the Bill would require All professional lobbyists to Register and disclose who they Are working for How much they Are paid and the issues on which they Are lobbying. It would cover not Only the More traditional approach of lobbying in person but also the growing practice of grass roots lobbying generating contacts with Congress by mail Tele phone fax computer and advertising. Another Section would ban virtually All gifts to members of Congress from lobbyists and bar acceptance of anything More lavish than a $20 meal from Nori lobbyists. Postmaster says key reforms will give mail Clear sailing by Bill Mcallister Washington pos Washington postmaster general Marvin Runyon has labelled predictions of the . Postal serv ice s demise As the sensationalized grumblings of the postal prophets of doom and forecast a Rosy future Fortis Agency. Delivering a major address monday on his first two years As Agency chief the postmaster general conceded that he had encountered serious mail delivery problem during the past year. But he turned aside suggestions that those problems or new technological developments such As fax machines and email would undermine the postal service s Basic Mission. The end of the mail is nowhere in sight he said. Runyon added a caveat to his optimistic View of the future however telling an audience of 2,000 at the an Nual National postal forum meeting that the Agency needs some fundamental and urgent changes in the Way it does business. We need to make it so the peo ple of the United states get the Best bang for their Buck Runyon told reporters. He appealed to the Independent postal rate com Mission Congress and the Clinton administration to Back three major changes in the Agency s  streamline the cumbersome rate change process which now takes 10 months to change the Price of a stamp.  give the Agency Power to create new mail services without having to secure regulatory approval. Empower postal managers to remove executives who have failed to perform. The last proposal Drew the most applause of an statement in Runyon s address. Aides said it was prompted by the juror that erupted in Congress after none of the officials responsible for massive mail prob lems in Chicago was fired earlier this year. Runyon has complained that he has Little Power to remove poor performing executives and members of Congress have offered to introduce legislation making it easier to fire bad postal  also used his appearance before the forum a $3 million Trade show sponsored by his Agency and unaffiliated nonprofit organization to answer critics. He boasted that he had saved the Public $14 billion by postponing the next stamp Price increase until 1995 and that his budget cutting efforts would lower the Agency s fiscal 1994 deficit to $1.3 billion. That is a billion dollars better than the prophets of doom predicted Only a few months ago Runyon noted we said we would do it and we  berthed Queen Mary suited on a of Day Long Beach Calif. A the Queen Mary was rechristened on its do amond Jubilee anniversary by the grand son of its Royal namesake. Prince Michael of Kent smashed a bottle of Champagne against the giant a on the Hull of the famed cruise ship Mon Day. He repeated the words spoken by the original Queen Mary As the ship was launched sept. 26, 1934, in the Clyde River in Scotland. The vessel s Hull is encased in con Crete and it cannot leave its berth in Long Beach Harbor. About 200 people attended the Cere monies which included a Salute from the City Sfire pats. Speakers reminisced about the ship s history. George Kean of Clydebank Scotland was a 15-year-old apprentice shipwright when the Queen Mary was launched. Although work on the ship had stopped two years earlier workers re turning to the John Brown shipyard forthe christening marked the end of Finan Cial hard times for the Region. 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