European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday october 31, 1967 the stars and stripes failure writ Large in filling ballpoint Gap technology soviets meet their Waterman by Aaron Einfrank Moscow Nana having pioneered space exploration the soviet Union is now wrestling with a new technological Frontier the ballpoint  current soviet obsession with the ballpoint is a Good example of the government s de termination to make the Stan Dard of living More like that of the  few years ago no one Here would have dared mention that the soviet Union could launch a sputnik but not make a decent ballpoint. Now the dirty Linen is being washed in pubic be cause this is the Only Way the government can Reform the amazingly inefficient soviet Industrial establishment. In the soviet Union the Ball Point pen has the Aura of National trauma something like Waterloo to the French and Stalingrad to the germans. Marx ism leninism simply made no provision for  years soviet citizens ignominiously had to rely on for Eigners for their ballpoint pens who handed them out like Colum bus giving away trinkets to the indians. When i arrived in mos cow last May i had to give two ballpoint pens to the maitre d to get a table reservation in a  was in1965 that the world s second mightiest Power began closing the ballpoint Gap. Mass production was started in Lenin Grad and Kharkov. Last year 5.5 million pens were turned out the soviet Union has a popu action of More than 230 million Izvestia the government news paper proudly reported on the breakdown in the following Way of course there were some difficulties. The Ink paste is still of Low Quality. Colors Are  Quality of plastic could be setter. But the main thing is that we finally have ballpoint pens. But they did t , having made the initial breakthrough Russia the attempted to mass produce a really Superior pen that would write longer and better. Eleven million pens were planned for this year. Twelve million were planned for next year including eight million Long Range super pens that could be used without frequent refill ing. But the Effort to make a More sophisticated Long Range super pen has hit snags. The production of pens has fallen far Short of the original projections. Izvestia lamented a ballpoint pen is not an automobile but if you think it is easier to make you Are  for the new pens could not be produced in sufficient Quantity. The worst obstacle was the Ball itself. Soviet Industry just could t come up with the High Quality Alloy balls which the new pens  exasperation Izvestia wrote the time passes while the Ball Rolls from one office to another but nobody knows when it is going to reach the  it almost seems that the so Viet Union s key technological problem in the 1970s is not Toland a cosmonaut on the Moon. It s providing the cosmonaut with a decent ballpoint pen to Jot Down his scientific observations that poses the real test for soviet technology. But loses $25o million expo 67 closes Drew 50 million Montreal a expo 67 closed sunday in a Blaze of fire works salutes and oratory after drawing More than 50 million visitors in a six month run record for world fairs. In closing ceremonies prime minister Lester b. Pearson declared that expo 67 was on of the most imaginative acts of Faith in Canadian Enterprise an ability Ever  the prime minister said the fair had made canadians More conscious of their own capacities and  Only disappointing aspect was the size of the deficit. Thesis expected to reach $250 Mil lion far above the $47.5 million forecast in 1963 when the govern ment gave the  the record attendance which surpassed the old Mark of42 million set by the Brussels fair of 1958, expo officials said rocketing costs were responsible for the  remove the debt the fed eral government will pay 50 percent the Quebec provincial government 37 per cent and the Montreal City government the  were other Black Marks Between the opening on april 28and the closing. Many visitors complained they were being exploited by Motel owners. A 30-Day strike of bus and sub Way workers beginning sept. 21 slashed attendance and reve Nues. Highlight of the fair was the program of More than 90 National and special Days which brought Kings Queens presidents and prime ministers to the exp grounds on St. Helen s and notre Dame islands in the St. Law rence River and the Montreal  program began May 2 with the visit of emperor Haile Selas Sie of Ethiopia. There followed visits by president Johnson Queen Elizabeth ii and presi Dent Charles de  total of 50,326,648 visits were made to expo 67.officials said 221,554 people at tended on the shortened final Day. Eden Calls Viet pullout a disaster London up lord Avon formerly conservative prime minister sir Anthony Eden said sunday night an unconditional american withdrawal from Viet Nam without any reciprocal agreements would be  the 70-year-old elder states Man who retired from politics in january 1957 in the Wake of the Anglo French Suez debacle spoke at a dinner opening a five Day International affairs seminar in Claridge s hotel organized bythe Westinghouse broadcasting  Avon recalled that As British foreign minister replayed a leading role in the 1954 Geneva conference that brought peace to Indochina after eight years of War with the French.1954 formula still Best he said the 1954 Geneva agree ments still offered the Best framework for a settlement be cause the purpose of these agree ments was the right  he said Progress towards any settlement must depend upon the establishment of a government in South Vietnam that has effective control Over Large parts of the country and particularly of the villages which Are the True life of the nation because of this the efforts that the United states is making to create such a condition Are o primary importance the former prime minister said. Whatever arguments there May be about the policies which Many years ago led to american commitments in Vietnam these Are events of which account Hasto be taken in both the military and political , therefore who per slots in clamouring for an unconditional american withdrawal is asking for something which cannot be realized and which if ii did take place without any reciprocal agreements would be utterly  via have betrayed others new miss Lebanon will be represented at the 1968 miss world contest in London and miss universe in Miami by 19-year-old Sonia fares just elected miss Lebanon in Beirut. A photo Ridge s spying upgraded Bonn up the soviet intelligence colonel who defected to the United states this month masqueraded As a life of the party businessman in West Germany and May have been an even bigger spymaster than the authorities have disclosed it was reported sunday in . Col. Yevgeny Yevgenya a Runge 39, whose defection led to the arrest of at least four alleged soviet agents in Bonn May also have betrayed photo magnate Hansheinz porst and Alfred Pilny a porst employee the nationally circulated news papers Welt am sonntag and Bild am sonntag  far West German authorities have refused to acknowledge any link Between Runge s defection oct 10 in West Berlin an the oct. 24 arrest of porst and Pilny accused of treasonous relations with East Germany. But according to sunday s re ports Runge began his spy master career in West German Yin 1955 As a vacuum cleaner Salesman in Nuernberg head quarters City of porst s 50-Stpre photographic materials Empire and that his first assignment was to break in  May have made espionage Contact with porst at the same time the papers suggested. Welt am sonntag said Pilny was then a private Tutor to porst s  further evidence link ing the photo magnate to the two Bonn spy cells steered by Runge for the soviet Kab Bild a sonntag said a woman neighbor of Heinz and Leonore Suetterlin recognized porst As a frequent visitor to the Suetterlin Home inborn when i saw the photos of the millionaire it struck me like a lightning Bolt the woman identified As the wife of a Bonn police Man was quoted As saying. Hews the big Broad shouldered stranger i saw Many times on the Suetterlin  mrs. Suetterlin a senior Secretary in the Bonn foreign ministry committed suicide in jail after being arrested oct. 12along with her photo journalist husband a French embassy messenger and hotel waiter. Runge is the first Kab Resi Dent spymaster in West Germany to fall into Western hands. He has been compared in importance Tocol. Rudolf Abel arrested in the United states and traded for u2pilot Gary Powers and Gordon Lonsdale arrested in Britai nand traded for British business Man spy Greville Wynne. Barber s a Beauty american actress Beverly Adams on location in Portugal for the filming of the movie Hammerhead gives her husband Vidal Sassoon a haircut on the Balcony of their hotel at Ca Scull near Lisbon. A photo