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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 25, 1959

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo4 the stars and stripes taif stay augut 25, 1959 Sukarno lays Down drastic economic policy in Indonesia Jakarta up president Sukarno has taken a series of r a s 11 c economic measures to bring order to Indonesia s chaotic Economy in line with his guide democracy program. Sukarno is sued orders partially devaluing currency Ina move designed to Cut Down the amount of Money in circulation. He decreased the value of indo Nesia s two largest denomination banknotes by 90 per cent freezing 90 per cent of All ban deposits exceeding 25,000 Rupiahs $2,200 abolishing the existing b. E. Busti exports  b. E. Base originally was 100, but it has risen to 332 percent making an import Dollar Cost roughly 37 Rupiahs. All Frozen de posits will retreated As an obligatory loan to the government on a Long Ter basis and will be Given a reason Able rate of  tariffs on exports will be 20 percent of the Sale Price. Import duties will be set in accordance with the division of six existing categories of goods ranging fro essential commodities which have no duties to luxury goods which will have 200 per cent of the Pur Chase Price As duties. Only bar weeded time to get sizzling new York a the craze Babee bar almost sizzled Here and no wonder. Neighbors smelled fumes coming from the upper West Side bar and called police who found a Rube Goldberg Type contraption that could have set craze Babee  the basement a clock radio was hooked up to a hot platoon which Lay a Book of matches. A 50-foot strip of cloth saturate with what smelled like gasoline led from craze Babee s basement upstairs into the  clock was set for 5 am but a patrolman turned it off an hour  phone in the bar rang about 10 am and fire marshal Edwin h. Sheppard answered. The Man calling said he was owner of the bar Lewis Moore 44, of new Mon Mouth . Sheppard told him to come right Over but instead Moore voluntarily turned up at police station. At the station Moore said hews a professor of speech at the Newark Branch of Rutgers University and also a lawyer. A rut Gers spokesman however said there was no Lewis Moore on the faculty. Police said insurance on the craze Babee Only last week had been increased from $25,000 to $32,000. Moore was charged with attempted  said there was a Strong smell shoes. Of gasoline on Moore s it was indicated the government will give subsidies in the import of essential commodities particularly in the Case of Rice. Reds exterminating race says Dalai Lama 80,000 feared dead in Tibet new Delhi a Tibet Freedom struggle so far has Cost 80,000 lives the Dalai Lama told newsmen at Musso Orie. Tibet s god King had said earlier he had every reason to believe the Panchen Lama had been arrested by the communist chinese. That is the Way the chinese operate and after All the Panchen Lama is a Man with feeling for his country people and religion the Dalai Lama said. Fighters Are still Active in East Ern and northeastern Tibet particularly in the Cha do and gym Daares according to latest reports , the Dalai Lama  More chinese than tibetans now in my country the Complete extermination of the tibetan race in its own motherland is in Progress the Dalai Lama said adding the chinese Are essentially an expansionist  he said he welcomed the decision of the International commission of jurists to Send a team to Tibet to study a charge of genocide and hoped the chinese would give every facility to this nonpolitical Mission so the truth could become known. I take three lumps Raccoon first brought to German from Canada 25 years ago have certainly made themselves at Home in the Eder see area South West of Kassel. Asp photo Fulbright favors address by Premier Washington up chair Man j. William Fulbright dark of the Senate foreign relation committee said he personally favors inviting soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev to address Congress providing the russian Leader can be assured of reason Able  said if Congress was still in session when Khrushchev Ballerina Heaton forced to retire London up the dancing years of British Royal Ballet Prima Ballerina Anne Heaton have ended abruptly at 27. At the Peak of her career she has been told she mus t retire be cause of arthritis in the right foot. For three years miss Heaton has danced on despite frequent pain. That s not fare Malden mass. A when the bus he signalled failed to Stop Robert Bryan 39, hopped a cab overtook the bus boarded it an punched Driver Walter  Crowley. Crowley charged Bryan with As Sault. Begins his american tour sept. 15,"i see no reason the Leader should not be invited to address a join session of the Senate and the House. But he said if congressional leaders such As House democratic Leader John w. Mccormack Mas strongly opposed any invitation to Khrushchev the Matte should be dropped. Mccormack Al ready has objected to such a move. Fulbright said if Mccormack another House leaders were Adamant Khrushchev could be invited to speak to the Senate alone. At any rate he said he would ask the foreign relations committee to in Vite the soviet Leader to lunch. Session indefinite Fulbright said Khrushchev certainly is a Man of importance and suggested it would be educational for lawmakers to hear the russian Leader. Any invitation to Khrushchev to speak to Congress would be con Tingent upon the House and Senate still being in session. No definite Date has been announced for the adjournment of Congress but most speculation has entered around mid september. Fulbright also said Khrushchev us Grants government reforms to Nyasa land Zomba Nyasa land up  Robert a r m i t a g e has announced constitutional changes forthe Colony promised in Britain s House of commons last month. This is the first step in cons Titu ional Progress since the disturb ances in Nyasa land last  Are the main changes africans Are to get two More seats on the legislative Council bringing their number to  african members from the legislative Council will be appointed to the executive Council. There also will be an increase of two seats held by official members appointed by the governor. The life of the present Legisla Tive Council has been extended beyond May i960. It is hoped that such a period will not greatly exceed one year any member of the legislative Council who is the subject of a governor s detention order shall vacate his seat if the governor so directs. The governor now has the Power to appoint africans to occupy the seats of any african member which May become vacant these measures says an official statement issued in Zomba Are interim ones to tide Over the difficult period which lies ahead Dur ing which Normal conditions May be restored. A should not be invited to speak to Congress unless there were Assur ances there would be no embarrassing incidents. Fulbright s attitude ran counter to most publicly expressed con Gressional views. It came As it was Learned several top labor leaders will meet with Khrushchev despite an official Al Cio Boycott. Demos assert Nixon coup in tour of soviet Washington a vice pres ident Richard m. Nixon s russian tour has been described by the democrats As a calculated publicity coup that neatly snatched the headlines away from new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller. The democratic digest said Nix on deliberately spoiled Rockefeller s plan to make the recent governor s conference in puerto Rico his personal Island in the Sun by dominating its publicity. Rockefeller the democratic National committee Magazine said was basking in the excitement of the Romance Between his son Steven and Anne Marie Rasmus sen who were married saturday in Norway and his own care fully prepared statements concern ing his presidential  Caribbean excursion everything seemed to be going As planned for Rockefeller said the digest but there was Justine thing wrong while Rockefeller was planning to capitalize on the publicity of his Caribbean excursion Hurricane Dicky had been gathering Force. By the time the governors conference convened the Island which was to be the governor first venture into the sunlight of presidential publicity was almost completely blacked out by the storm of press reports resulting from the vice president s  wide awake cabbies Birmingham Ala. Up it s against the Law for a taxi drive to sleep or doze in his cab while parked on a Public Street Here. European edition army Navy air Force col John d. Nottingham Usan editor in chief it col t. 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