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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 5, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 d stripes today Darld Hassel in line for High Bonn Post Bonn a refugees minister Kal Uwe Vonhassel a former defense minister was named tuesday As candidate to succeed Eugen Gersten Maier As president of the West German bundestag parliament speaker at a feb. 15 , 55, was picked at a special session of the parliamentary caucus of Chancellor Kur Georg Kiesinger s Christian democratic party. His Choice virtually assures him the Job vacated by Gerstenmaier after a political storm Over the latter s successful claim to $70,250 compensation for deprivation of academic status by his ouster by the nazis from a University  Christian democrats As biggest parliamentary party have the right to elect the Moderator of the 518-Mem-Ber Assembly. Hassel an an stays in 1t.k. Failure s leave extended London a the soviet Union has grunted one of its most enigmatic and wildly unsuccessful citizens an extended leave of  notified the London zoo that an an. The russian giant Panda could stay Here until the endow february just in Case he can learn to do what comes  feat would mean mating with Britain s female Panda Chi Chi to produce the Wester world s Only babies of the nearly extinct Breed. An an was supposed to go Back Home at the endow january after six months of lukewarm court  s request for a further term of office was granted. Zoo officials were delighted but spokesman cautioned that the timing still leaves something to be desired. We Are still hopeful that an an can stay until the end of March the zoo spokesman said. This would include another Breeding season Forchi Chi. The trouble is we Don t really know much about giant pandas and they Are highly  communist China probably knows More about the pandas than anybody else. They have he Only eight captured pandas in existence except for an an and Chi Chi but they re mighty stingy on the subject. An an has been Here since August. He and Chi Chi have separate cages but a common outdoor pen where they lumber around and just sort of look at each other. Until now they be been doing their Best to abolish their own tribe. Bobbies try Dick Tracy stuff London a radio pictures of wanted criminals we resent to police patrol cars in Britain for the first time tuesday. Police in Sussex county in Southern England pioneering the technique described it As a major step Forward in police com  it is planned to transmit pictures to patrol cars All Over the country from a Central control  potential is tremendous said chief inspector James Sherwood head of Sussex police communications. O Neill dissolves Ulster parliament Belfast Northern Ireland up Premier Terence o Neil dissolved Northern Ireland s parliament tuesday and called in advisers to plan his reelection Campaign. To Neill s prime critics militant protestants already have fired the opening Volley of what is expected to be a bitter Campaign leading to the feb. 24 election. The militants oppose o Neill s conciliatory policy towards de mands for More equitable voting rights and fair housing made by civil right demonstrators on behalf of Northern Ireland s Roma Catholic minority. Student blast Canadian style Regina Saskatchewan up in . Cities water hoses Are frequently used to curb unruly student demonstrators. Here in frigid Saskatchewan Campus police used the handiest thing available snowblowers. About 300 student demonstrators attempted to prevent members of the University of Saskatchewan Board of governors from leaving the Campus. But when univer sity authorities turned snowblowers on the youths the boar members had no trouble driving their cars out of a parking lot. Good news for British Economy London a Britain s ailing Economy got a boost tuesday with an announcement that Gold and foreign currency reserves Rose by $12 million in january checking a three month  Treasury said the reserves Rose to $2.433 billion last month after loan repayments totalling $64.8 million. Scotland Yard recovers Art haul London a Scotland Yard tuesday announced the recovery of Art treasures Worth an estimated $288,000 which were stolen last month from the London Home of american movie producer Sam Jaffe. Detectives acting on an underworld Tipoff found the painting Sand sculptures in an empty apartment in the Bohemian Chelsea District. Seven paintings including works by Picasso Dufy an Chagall were recovered. The five sculptures included bronzes by Henry  ransacked Jaffa s elegant apartment in Belgravia Jan. 23 while the producer and his wife were out at a movie ironically one that featured an Art robbery. New Anglo French clash expected i Paris up France and Britain Are heading for a new � collision Over British attempts Toi join the common Market Well 1 informed French sources said tuesday. The clash is expected to com thursday and Friday in Luxem Bourg at the foreign minister meeting of the West european Union we French sources said foreign minister Michel Debre would oppose an italian proposal to set up obligatory foreign policy co ordination among the we Mem Ber nations. The italians Are tomake the proposal in an Effort to give Western Europe a unite voice in world affairs. The we includes the six common Market nations and Britain. Yanks called to beatles Rescue London a the beatles announced tuesday they have called in two americans to straighten out their tangled affairs. They have retained a new York lawyer John l. Eastman a their general counsel. He will look after their Legal affairs while the other american Allen Klein a specialist in entertainment finance looks after their business affairs. It is no secret that the beatles affairs have been in a bit of muddle lately. Their $3.4 million Apple co. Was formed to turn out their records and those of their discoveries and to handle their television film retail shop and other business interests. The company had notable successes with their own records bit it admitted wasting ume and Money on enterprises that did not pay. London visitors Frank Borman right commander of the Apollo 8 spacecraft which circled the Moon prepares to take his family to visit the . Embassy in London. With Bor Man Are from left his sons Edwin 15, and Frederick 17, and Borman s wife Susan. A Amazon has competitor for Loch Ness monster Rio de Janeiro a a International Hunt is under Way in the wilds along the Amazon for a legendary giant Snake which May be the last of it species. Brazilians and foreigners Are chasing All Over the area As Sev eral expeditions seek the giant which could be the main attraction of any zoo. Until two years ago the Snake was believed to be just a part of the Amazon Jungle mythology but then the huge animal was seen by italian  Falci in the South of the territory of Rondoni. He did not have the equipment to capture it and decided not to kill it. Betook some photographs while it was taking a siesta after apparently eating two calves for lunch. The Snake is part of the India legends about a Bouna and co Bra Grazide that would appear Here and there and frighten men and animals. It would shake houses just by rubbing against them while crawling by. Another Story tells of six members of one j family being killed by such Asnake. Some sources comparing t h pictures taken by Falci to Marks left by the Snake estimated it to measure Between 100 and 130 j feet and to weigh a ton. It is be shaved to be of the Anaconda species. They usually Are much smaller and Hunters and Scien its believe the giant might be if not the last one of the last of a species. In a museum in Belem therein one such Snake that is about 38 feet Long Ana weighs hundreds of pounds but is less than half the size of the one being chased. Falci has returned to Brazil to join the Hunt. This time he is equipped to capture the Snake and take it to a european zoo if someone does t beat him tit. Borman acts like budding politician London a Frank Bor Man the winsome Moo shot Pilot did a pretty Good Job of act ing like a budding politician  40-year-old colonel got stricken with the handshakes and it made him late for an appointment with Britain s prime minister Harold Wilson. Borman on the second Day of his Good will visit sponsored by the White House had a Date Atno. 10 Downing Street fixed for 12 30 noon and was  Downing Street was crowded with tourists and the girls and Young men in the for eign office opposite braved bitter cold to open windows and cheer. Photographers snapped away and officials stood by in front of no. 10. Borman like president Sand governors and prime minis ters before him broke away and moved among the crowd Shak ing hands right and left  
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