European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday August 9, French tourism sick of f onto. Tint us Paris a when a tourist Steps up to a French hotel reception desk these Days and asks for a room the smiling answer is oui Monsieur what kind of a room would you like last year or most years be fore that during the summer season the reply would prob ably have been a Grumpy we re All filled the change in the answer maybe Good for the tourists but it s bad for the French tourist Industry which is sick. No one is quite sure what kind of remedy to prescribe. The student worker strikes Street fighting and general shut Down in May and june killed the summer season in and restaurant owners have written it off Asan almost Complete loss. The tourist centers in the provinces Are hoping to Salvage something from August but1968 is bound to go Down in history As an extremely bad year catastrophic is the Way May and june Are is the word for july. Hopeful is the Best that can be said for August. In sep tember the vacation villages will Wither and Paris expects to get Back to its old rhythm. Hotel keepers restaurant own ers nightclub operators and souvenir shop salesmen have one refrain the americans have deserted us. In Biarritz business in the luxury hotels was Down 30 to 40 per cent in july and no on expects to get Back to Normal full occupancy in August. The big Villas usually rented by americans Are empty this year. On the French Riviera Pau Laugier president of the regional tourism committee said forthe month of August the hotels on the Riviera will be almost full but no one will be turned away. Occupancy will be a least 10 per cent below last Only the americans urged to stay Home to help wit the Dollar Drain perhaps an gered by the policies of presi Dent Charles de Gaulle or scared away by the May june upheaval Are staying away. There Are fewer englishmen and not so Many germans i restrictions Are a limiting Factor for the English and the germans seemed to have been cancelled during drafter what the French Call the events in May and the frenchmen Are contributing to the tourism slow Down. Fewer Are leaving Home for vacation and those that Doare spending less Money and travelling Shorter Low prices As a Magnet Spain has been attracting hordes of French tourists in recent years. But in the first Days of july Only 40 per cent As Many automobiles crossed the Spanish order As last year and by the end of the month the figure was 70 to 75 per and Normandy relatively closer to Paris have benefited from this change in habit and the Ever growing Boom in camping has had a new stimulus. The luxury hotels have suffered beyond the disastrous Short term effects of the strike Sand student riots French tour ism has been going through along term sinking spell. Since world War ii the num Ber of foreign tourists visiting France had gone up steadily until it reached about 11 million persons in 1966. Then last year it dropped Back about 10 Pel cent. In 1967, for the first time frenchmen spent More on tour ism abroad than foreigners spent in France. Stars and stripes Edt Tob columns to and i Biafra military seeks j weapons not milk " Aba Biafra a the nigerians Are Given weapons. We get milk a biafran office complained motioning to a group of recruits drilling with Sticks instead of rifles. On a Dusty Road an elderly Man listened with interest to the report that a Supply plane had landed during the night at the nearby Airstrip. In his arms beheld his famished grandchild. Both Are refugees from these cession St War with Nigeria. I Pray to god that it did no bring milk again the officer muttered angrily. To these biafran survivalist not calculated in terms of Cal ories but in firepower. Every gun every round of ammunition keeps us ibos alive for another couple of hours biafran government spokesman said. When it gets to the Point where we cannot shoot Back then the big massacre will begin and that will be the end of the guns or milk dilemma appears especially acute to the leaders of the secessionist nigerian East province. They have declined proposals for a mercy land corridor through nigerian Federal territory while the fight ing continues. They fear nigerians will Poison the food in route. Military considerations Are counterbalanced by the aware Ness of world sympathy evoked by Biafra s starving millions. The problem has been met Bya Compromise guns often share the same precious air cargo with sacks of dried milk. For the biafran the Compromise is unsatisfactory because the Supply of both items is not German roman Catholic and protestant charitable organizations have attempted to avoid having their mercy ship ments mixed with planes making the danger Ous night run the Church plane Sas Well As the few weapons carriers Are flown by the Sam group of daring aviators organized by Hank Wharton a Ger Man born . Citizen from Miami. The Airlift begins in Lis Bon and reaches Biafra by Way of the portuguese Island of satome off the West african coast. The same Black tropical night Shields the gun runners and the milk runners. Then the blackness is suddenly broken by a flickering necklace of Oil lamp set out along Biafra s Lone land ing strip. The strip formerly was an Asphalt Road just barely wide enough to take the few old four engined super constellations used in the Airlift. Biafran soldiers nervously Crouch along the runway and snuff out the lamps once the plane has taken off again. The soldiers impatiently await the weapons while missionaries and physicians just As impatiently await the milk. Doctors estimate they would need 50 tons of nutrients a Day to counter the starvation but Only 10 tons have been coming in each week. In refugee Camps doctors face a dilemma of their own whom to give the scant rations of milk. Some resolve it by selecting Only those starving Chil Dren considered to have a Chance of survival. The worst part of it for Usis not seeing children dying which is tragic enough a Bia fran doctor said at a refugee Camp near Anwa. It is having to decide each Day who gets the Why people reads a sitting in the Alex compound in Madrid recently i decided to conduct my own Public opinion poll to determine exactly Why people read the stars & stripes. I had often wondered if people were victims of habit got tired of waiting for the International Herald Tribune or were merely avid fans of Ann Are the results which should prove something of nothing else than the fact that people like to be asked question question Why do you read the stars and stripes answers in order As they were asked i Don t. I buy it for my wife. It is the Only paper locally that carries Ann buy it for the crossword Puzzle. I m waiting for one that actually takes up to 24 minutes to do. Then i m going out an celebrate by burning my pencils in the Middle of Barajas sports Section of course. Are you some kind of nut or something i m making a collection of photos that appear on Page one which have no follow up be never been to Germany and i like to read All uie articles about Germany like Rhine wine the Krupp Industrial Complex and especially about the recreation areas around Well this May sound kind of silly but i like to compare the wire service stories found in the stripes with those of the. Herald Tribune. Surprising omissions you get lost Perdon Pero to no Hablo Ingles. Unprintable i like the women fashions but sadly they Don t run them often enough you see i collect pictures unusual pictures of course of the president doing Odd things. You remember dial famous one of him holding his dog by the ears i have hundreds of this sort of thing. Just the other Day i got one of him a peach can you imagine like its new Vitamin a it gives me an excuse to get out of the House on sunday mornings.",. A Well i m married to a Spanish girl and it helps Ihm to read the stripes. She s almost at the sixth Grade level of Knusli now. I figure next year Shell Advance to the , Man it s like this i dig sports see if s cheap .-,.,.since the last remark was one of the nicest. 1 decided o terminate my interviews having satisfied myself hint people Seldom give exacting nor True answers to questions from pollsters or do they . Allen e. Kussell ret Madrid Spain the managing editor replies thank you very much for conducting the poll. It proves at least one thing to me 12 out of 15 in your area have a sense of humor. Yes and hosiery prices i be just discovered the pack the Vendor had hosiery fold ers printed forms hosiery with yes code numbers re Tail Price and reference data. These folders indicate a 99-Eenl Price which was an yes sell ing Price not a . Selling Price. In january worldwide a up schedules became effective and As such were applied yes merchandise. Rather than dispose of the thousands of pre priced Kent folders Ven Dors now apply a sons Layover the old marking Wiit a new Selling Price of $1.10,the yes customer still sates about 40 cents according w current stateside 1 in 300 May have crime potential bar Harbor Maine a new studies Indi ate that genetic defect linked to crime and violence May be upwards of six times More common than previously of affecting one Man in 2,000, the abnormality May be present in one out of every 300,according to three prominent defect involves the make up of a Man s chromosomes 4tfgrouping of the genes which Are the m v a n s for transmitting heredity. Normal women have sex chromosomes designated a while Normal men have sex chromosomes designated with the defect discussed at the seminar have an extra element in their sex Chromo Somes which Are designated by. The Pyy condition gained worldwide attention recently when Daniel Hugon a French stable hand accused of murder ing a prostitute was found to have Pyy chromosomes. Age of budget Nylon stockings i bought at the yes was t so Thrifty after All can you explain please Why the yes would cover the manufacturer s recommended stateside retail Price of two pair for 99 cents with an yes sticker Reading $1.10. I thin this is ridiculous mrs Dorothy Gillespie Croughton England editor s note you still got a bargain according to yes. Here is the reply the hosiery to which the writer refers Are code num Bers 473 330 460 and 473 130 470. As a convenience to yes a reminder to correspondents All letters to the editor must contain full name Amu the writer and must be signed. All correspondence is to of the writer s name will be deleted upon request Llu i Reserve the right to edit and condense letters. There also has been Specula Tion that Kichard speck convicted of killing eight chicag nurses is Pyy but his Case still is before the courts and the role of an Pyy condition is not Clear. The three geneticists or. Park s. Herald of Harvard medi Cal school or. Malcolm Ferguson Smith of Glasgow University Scotland and or. William of the University of ver Mont spoke at Johns Hopkins University with March of dimes support. European edition col James a Campbell Usa it col. F. & Michael jr., a Ftp Mert Procto Relmer o. Frank Henry 8. Epstein production thai Neipp a i an author lied publication of the department of d we . Armed Force Over a. The Star and to tripe in j int my , . European command in Epport of to _ if it let of univ. Information program of the department of of a. Content o Ler men of trip do not Nec earlly reflect Uio official Al in of Tho u need it a the department of defence. 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