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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 3, 1962

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and strife facade fools visitors from free world Don t Seend  tourist. A list country plenty of the Street added. Nearby glanced Boulder and bunt out in there s no american of All people understand what that Means the czech s reaction was typical of that of Many people i talked to during a recent visit to Prague a City whose Graceful spries an handsome old buildings attest to a Rich history. Hundreds of american tourist come Here every year the czech continued and All they can do is Marvel that we Are not a poor in material things As some people in the West  so Many of them can t seem to grasp that what we Lack 1 the Freedom to say and do what we  he  american he had scolded was one of thousands of Western tourists who visit Czechoslovakia annually under guidance of the official czech travel Bureau Cedon operating with skill and efficiency Cedon arranges a tourist s entire stay in the country moving him from place to place in trains buses or hired cabs and depositing him at night in Well managed comfortable hotels stocked with a wide variety of Good food and drink. But that s the trouble another czech said. The tourists from the West Are All so Busy with their pre arranged schedules they never have the time to see How we live that is if they really care he said the police Don t shool non communists in their Beds anymore. They have much More sophisticated methods to keep themis  among recently instituted Means to hold them Down is a Law Al lowing local committees to decide Tunnel nears completion n due to crack Mont Blanc thursday press Nedy has named Clark a Washington Corre or the Des Molnes and Tribune and Mynne and Tribune As a1 the . Advisory Cotn-l4s. Information. Also appointed nov la radio program it la new York to first for Anne Astrew Anne in Nils hold her baby  Elisabeth As she prepare to Lefeve toe Cedars of Lebanon hos Pital in Hollywood. Toe child is this first born to the actress anther husband or. Robert Abeloff. United pm International Phot to the exit in Switzerland. The Mont Blanc Tunnel Start at the4,530-foot level la Italy and drops 330 feet to reach Chamonix. Mammoth chimneys and a Maze of air purification equipment Are to suck exhaust fumes from the 14.7 foot vault of the grand Stbernard and Mont Blanc Tunnel s 19-foot" Selling Arch. Every thousand feet along the roadways paved 24 feet across in grand St. Bernard and 23 feet to nth Mont Blanc Tunnel driven will find parking areas snack bars telephones Wash rooms and service stations. A 30-Inch sidewalk will line each Side of the Roadway under Mont Bianc. Grand St. Bernard will havea sidewalk on one Side a narrow emergency Lane on the other. Stations for Border police and customs officers Are to be grouped in huge squares at the Mouths of the tunnels. The Square on the italian Side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel u to stand on 1.3 million cubic Yards of Rock and soil excavated in  Are the first Highway Tun Nels under the Alps. Four railway tunnels have been handling the Load for Yean. Car and trucks fastened on Flat cars Are carried piggyback under the mountains an expensive and cumbersome opera Tion. The four rail Tunnel Are Simp Ion tend St Gothard and Frejus it Cen la. More than 200 years before Christ Hannibal brought an army across the Alps to make War on the romans engineers have come a Long Way since then. Still no place for lace in space race Washington the forme London Bureau chief of the communist czech news Agency Coklas been granted political Asylum to Britain the Home office said. Anton Buzek who has been working Here since 1945, made the request about six months ago and t was granted almost immediately i spokesman said. His wife an two children Are living with him. The Home office statement was issued after a newspaper printed the news. Buzek who served throughout Europe and Africa with ctr and recently was offered its foreign Editorship was quoted As saying one reason for his defection was state control of news gathering. The czechoslovak news Agency Ike All other communist news agencies is Only a tool of the party a Branch of its propaganda Effort he was quoted As saying. Whooping cranes Fly North Austwell Tex Mostof the world s last flock of whoop no cranes have winged North on heir annual Spring migration from he Texas coast to great slave Lake Canada. Iowa City hit by 4 suspicious fires in 2 hours Iowa City Iowa a four separate fires including one which ruined the first English lutheran Church flared up within a two hour period. Authorities said a Blaze which damaged the first Christian Church definitely had been set the other three also were of suspicious origin. Damaged in addition to the fir Tchristian Church were the Jim Dickerson motor co. And an Auto parked near the state University of Iowa memorial Union two firemen were Hurt fighting the Church fires but not badly. Pastor Roy Wingate of the lutheran Church one of the City s oldest said the fire there apparently started on or near the altar. Only the Walls and part of thereof were left standing. No damage estimate was Avail Able immediately. The first of the series of suspicious fires was discovered in the first Christian Church. Piles of books and other article were set afire. About the same time a Call came in that a parked car was on fire. Near the University s memorial Union. Policemen leaving the scene of the first Christian Church Blaze spotted Lames leaping up in the lutheran Church two blocks away. The fourth Blaze broke out in the automobile firm about 3 30 . Two hours after the first fire. Authorities said someone threw a kerosene pot Fiare through front window. Fortunately the flare bounced off Wail an landed right Side up. Damage Wai slight  
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