European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 6, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 lunar flight is. Loony Rastie Paris riskier than space Borman Paris a col. Fran Borman commander of Apollo 8, got his first close up look a France wednesday and said his motorcycle escort took More risks in Paris traffic than he and his Crew took on their flight round the Moon. Borman accompanied by his wife and their two teen aged sons arrived on the second Stag of an eight nation european tour. The astronaut received a Rous ing cheer from a Small crowd mostly orly Airport employees As he stepped out of the . Air Force Jet plane that brought the family from London. At a crowded news conference half an hour later at the . Embassy Borman said there were Many potential hazards on his lunar orbit but none a great As the French motorcycle police had As they brought usher in the Paris Borman and his pretty blonde1\ wife Susan answered a Volley of questions from French news i men. Borman said he did not feel the risk involved in the Apollo 8 flight was any greater stars find stripes today Darld von Hassel voted in narrowly Bonn up1 the West German bundestag wednesday elected Kai Uwe von Hassaj former defense minister and refugee min ister its , a 55-year-old Deputy of Chancellor Kurt George Kies Inger s Christian democratic party fills the Post left vacant Bye Gen Gerstenmaier who resigned last month. Hassel known As a conservative ran unopposed but still Wonky Only 262 votes to 123, just two votes More than the absolute majority required. Beatle Paul ready to say 6i do ? London up the pop music weekly disc said wednesday that it under stands beatle Paul Mccartney plans to marry a new Yor girl Linda Eastman 27, on or around feb. 16.miss Eastman is a Divorcee with a 6-year-old , the last Bachelor of the Beulos will be 27 injure. Miss Eastman is the Daugh Ter of new York attorney Lee Eastman. Her brother John has just been appointed Gen eral counsel for the beatles. Disc said a spokesman for the beatles would not comment on the report and added hat there were always rumours about Paul. Liner Elizabeth finds her faults London up the liner Queen Elizabeth ii whose Maiden voyage ended in dismal failure when her turbines began vibrating May finally get to sea again in late March it was announce wednesday. The engineering firm which built the Turbine rotors causing Al the trouble said wednesday they finally have found the fault. They described the trouble As an error in repaired rotors will be returned to the ship on March 7. Engineers expressed the Hope the ship will be Able to go to sea again two weeks later to make certain everything is shipshape. Bonn fights sonic booms Bonn up the government will bar All supersonic air liner flights Over populated areas of West Germany the bundestag was told Boerner state Secretary in the transport ministry said there could be no Compromise on this question because sonic booms could cause severe damage to unless a technological breakthrough eliminates this risk the government will either bar supersonic jetliners from West Ger Man air space or limit them to subsonic speeds he said. Iii Spain it s brr or Madrid a Spain shivered wednesday under one of Winter most bitter assaults. The Snow piled up in the North and rain drenched the in Navarre province was slowed by an ice coating Over Snow. Temperatures of 10 degrees were reported in Barcelona Leon province and at Avila in the mountains North of Sebastian had its heaviest Snow in recent years. Stomach ulcer cure claimed Sapporo Japan a japanese medical researchers said they have developed a new process to cure stomach ulcers. Masayoshi Sumiki assistant professor at hokkaido University in Northern Japan said the process Calls for injecting into the troubled spot a combination drug with a syringe Needle attache to a medical Hber scope. Sumiki said he and his team had successfully applied the process to More than 50 cases of gastric ulcers. He said the secret in the process which he claimed cure stomach ulcers in three weeks to one month lies in the combi nation of eight varieties of drugs. Included among them was theone which reactivates cell systems Nai Nikl said. Russia dooms Wii collaborators Moscow a a court in the byelorussian town of Gomel has sentenced three men to death for acting As guides for nazi troops during world War ii Prada newspaper said v. V. Chizh n. I. Petrovich and i. F. Nekrash Evien will be shot by a firing trial which lasted two weeks and heard testimony from dozens of witnesses also resulted in the sentencing of four mento is years imprisonment one Man to 12 years one Man to 10 years and one Man to seven years pravda was no explanation Why the trial came so Long after the end of the War. The soviet Union has no statute of limitation son War crimes. Ugly business Jill Dockerty 23, and Victor Loveday. For Merly a labourer get together to answer an inquiry at the ugly Model Agency in London. Jill a 6-foot redhead does part time dressmaking when not working with the Agency which was created because there is a need for people who look like Ordinary people according to a director. A photo As easy As in 67 customs misses a missile9 again Cologne Germany up anyone caring to steal an Ameri can made sidewinder missile should find it As easy to air freight it directly to Moscow to Day As it was two years ago. Three alleged communist agents sent a similar rocket to the soviet capital by air freighting 1967. West German journalist Harald Schimmel pfennig say the feat could be repeated now with ease. He made up a Dummy sidewinder from papier mache labelled it replacement pipes and took it to Bonn Swahn Airport. West German customs officials lied their rubber Stamps with Friendly abandon Schimmelpfen nig said and the Moscow address on the consignment Docu ments raised no eyebrows. Not until the Case was about to be loaded onto a Moscow bound plane the journalist said did he reveal his joke to the customs customs spokesman said said tuesday As a Rule Wedon t Check out everything sent unless the item is on our list of forbidden articles or we become i suspicious. We assume that peo pie Are basically honest. If we j checked out every shipment the would be delayed for j Schimmel pfennig who de scribed his actions in the Koeln j or express newspaper said after leaving the Airport he in crated the sidewinder Andi drove through nearby Cologne with the Tail end of the mock missile protruding from the trunk of his automobile. Nobody took any notice he said. Only a West German army noncommissioned officer pulled him up at the Airport Schimmel pfennig said and asked him to put his camera away since photography was forbidden in the journalist s joke was inspired by the theft by alleged communist agents of a sidewinder missile from a Luftwaffe airbase in 1967. They drove several Hundred Miles with it through West Ger Many to a North German Airport where they shipped it by air freight to Moscow. That missile too stuck from the Back of the thieves car without raising an suspicion. Than his previous space experience the two week Long gemini 7 orbit in 1965. You know your ship extremely Well you learn what the risks Are and you either accept the risks or Don t he said. Fie told a questioner that a failure in Apollo 8 would have been extremely difficult to handle but added that makes you rather philosophical so you Don t worry o Susan smiling demurely Dis agreed. There a a great Deal i of tension in our Home during that 6-Day period she said. We did t get much sleep. This Isone Point where we Don t agree. Apollo 8 was much More difficult for me than gemini 7." i asked about the radiation Haz Ard in space. Borman said he Rew s personal dosimeter Dur ing the flight gave negligible readings. But. When the men had blood tests later on the Cruiser Yorktown. Doctors for a while thought they found some Evi Dence we might have encountered some cosmic Borman admitted this caused him a Little bit of however after creating quite astir and waving their arms about the doctors reached the conclusion the radiation absorbed by the spacemen was insignificant he said. Borman was asked Why his tour did not include the soviet Union. I m not sure Why not he replied. I do know i would like very much some time to visit Russia. I think very highly of their space said he looked Forward to International cooperation in space exploration with the United states Russia and the european countries concentrating on Dif Ferent areas of space and the pooling their acquired knowledge and experience. He expressed doubt whether it would be prac tical to form mixed International Crews or Crews including women As Well As of the French newsmen asked what Borman s objection was to flying with a female astronaut. My objection is sitting right Here beside he said with a Grin pointing at his the laughter had died Down he added i m speaking in All a huge cheering crowd greeted Borman later outside Paris City Hall where he went to receive the City s honorary Silver of All the political groups in the French capital s City Council including the communist party were on hand to congratulate the Astro naut and Toast guests included Jean Jules Verne grandson of the french19th Century novelist Jules Verne whose Book voyage from the Earth to the Moon foresaw Many of the details of the Apollo 8 flight. As Borman emerged from the City Hall after the ceremony his car was surrounded and temporarily immobilized by the cheer ing waving crowd. Salazar leaves Hospital condition still Lisbon up former prime minister Antonio de of Veira Salazar returned Home wednesday from the Hospital where he has been since a Cere bral Haemorrhage struck him Down last sources said Salazar 79, is still in poor condition but can carry on very simple conversations. They said he has never asked about his past life or who his successor was
