European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Al saturday february 8, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 in Cerini airy haste its dates for tax advice Bonn s&8 the internal Revenue service irs representative Here has announced the dates expert income tax consultants will be available at american consulates in Germany for assist Ance to . Citizens in filing their 1968 returns. Military taxpayers the irs official said should seek help infilling 1968 returns on income from the nearest Legal assistance office or their unit tax adviser. As in past years other . Taxpayers in need of advice mus make appointments to meet with a consultant through a specific consulate the Bonn official said. In this connection irs experts will be available to taxpayer sat the american consulates in Germany on the following dates Berli Bonn Breme Frankfurt mar. 26 to april 3mar. 10 to 21 apr. 11 to 15feb. 10 to mar. 3 Hamburg mar. 4 to 7munich feb. 10 to 20 Stuttgart mar. 17 to 21 stars and stripes today i Darld world oceanology conference London a the world s first oceanology conference and exhibition takes place at Brighton beginning feb. 17 and the soviet Union May steal the show. Experts from 14 nations will be at the conference on exploitation of the sea and sea bed. A highlight is expected to be a visit of the 7,000-ton soviet Ocean Survey ship aka Demik would be the first time that a soviet vessel of this kind has been on View in the West. The aka Demik Vernadsky is expected to bring 80 scientists to the conference. The United states will have the biggest single nation representation. Paul afoul of Law pays London up beatle Paul Mccartney was fined 936 Friday for speeding and for not paying Bis annual automobile excise tax. A Coventry court also ordered him to pay $20 in Back excise taxes. Mccartney pleaded guilty to both counts in a letter and told the court i admit keeping an unlicensed vehicle. It was an Over sight on the part of the people who look after my affairs but realize i am personally and ultimately Liz Richard delayed flu Paris a actress Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Richard Burton have been sent to bed with the flu and will have to delay their departure for the United Burtons had been scheduled to Fly to the United states Satur Day but their physicians have ordered them to stay in bed in Paris two or three Days. They now Hope to leave monday or tuesday. Muscovites dream and wait Moscow a car hungry russians were told Friday that efforts to get on a waiting list for the new russian built Fiat Are about As useful As trying to get a plot on the fact one newspaper implied that any waiting lists Are fraudulent and said sales centers will pay no attention to the when the Fiat finally goes on Sale. The Date has not been an news came As a blow to several thousand resourceful muscovites who have organized their own private waiting list and planto try to Force it in ahead of All other would be buyers when sales list is estimated to contain More than 30,000 names. Ltd Bubble bursts London up a briton was found guilty Here of being involve Din the manufacture of the mind bending drug Ltd for the North american Market valued at $2.16 was placed on probation for three years. The briton. John Michael Wool Lewis 23, had pleaded guilty to conspiring with others Between january and april 1967 to Manu facture prosecutor said that when police raided a derelict basement in South London last april they found a Laboratory quite Well set up for the manufacture of problem foams Over thou Combe England up the citizens of Thorn Combe have decided the Beltway to tackle their problem is to drink More problem facing Thorn Combe residents is Taat the town s Only pub the Golden lion had been scheduled to close Down ibis sunday became of Lack of business the citizens got together and debated ways and Means to save the pub from closing an leaving the town dry. They each promised to embark on Aone year Binge to prove the town could support the pub enough to justify its staying m already Drlak lug to Ca p a c i t a townsman Kenneth Ward said. Bui i la certainly manage an extra pint or two to save the pub it. Gen. Weyand will join . Peace team in Paris Washington a a vet eran army Field commander of the Vietnam War will become military adviser to the Nixon administration s peace negotiating team in Paris. He is it. Gen. Fred c. Wey and who came to know the chief . Negotiator Henry Ca Bot Lodge when Lodge was ambassador to South declined to comment on the reports but it was Learned he will leave for Paris this , 52, Back from Viet Nam Only five months has Bee the army s chief of Reserve affairs stationed in the spent 2 years in the War. The tall athletic native of a buckle calif., led the 25th in Fantry division from Hawaii to Vietnam and later was promoted to command of . Forces Inan 11-province corps area including request that Weyand be As signed to the . Delegation i Paris arrived about 10 Days ago. Pentagon sources said they assumed the request came from other senior . Officers it. Gen. Fred c. Weyand who served in Vietnam Weyand feels the United states cannot just get up and leave after spending More than 31,000 lives and billions of dollars in South Vietnam. He believes the South Viet namese army is improving and Progress is being made in pacification of the Countryside. But he recognizes thai . Authorities were late in getting Viet namese leaders to move firmly toward assuming the major role in the three Star general feels that if casualties continue to re main relatively Light the . Negotiators in Paris can work out an honorable settlement. Weyand will replace . George m. Seignious ii whose reassignment has not Bee announced. The new adviser is a product of College Roth receiving his commission after graduating from the University of califor intelligence officer in world War ii Weyand commanded an infantry battalion in five campaigns of the Korea War. During the Eisenhower administration Weyand was an aide of the Secretary of the army and later was the army s top officer in dealing with con Gress. 200-300 killed As piano bombs Biafra marketplace Umu Ahiaku Biafra a a crowded open Market in this biafran Village was bombed and strafed Friday in what May be one of the worst civilian casualty incidents of the nigerian civil officials on the scene estimated that Between 200 and300 persons were killed outright and hundreds More hours after the noon raid sturdy youths followed by Wail ing relatives were still carrying the dead Back through dust trails in the Bush to their Homes. The biafran information department said it was the second worst bombing incident of the War following the bombing of a Market in Osuocha last Yea when according to biafran Esti mates 500 persons bomb from what the Vil lagers Here said was a Nigeria Jet fighter bomber landed in the Middle of the Market. A second exploded in front of a Long Low escaped con arrested in ammo depot killings Dusseldorf Germany a a 24-year-old escape convict was arrested thursday night by Dusseldorf police i connection with the Jan. 20 slay ing of three West German sol Diers during a munitions depot raid in Lebach near the French after a Brief Chase was will Roesch who escape last november from an Essen jail where he was serving a sen tence for a series of Bank robberies in 1967.police said Roesch who committed the 1967 robberies wit guns he stole from the army while he was a Soldier closely resembles one of the two persons described by a survivor of the depot attack. Essen police officials learn Droesch was hiding in the Home of his wife s family in Duessel Dorf. When they arrived to ques Tion him Roesch escape through the Kitchen window but was arrested soon is the second person under Wolice scrutiny in connection with the depot attack. On Jan. 26, Lebach police confirmed they had in custody a 32-year old Man they suspect was involved in the Case. He is still in police , police Friday took into custody a 23-year-old Man who admitted firing several rounds at a Soldier participating in an army Man Euver near Ham Burg thursday. The Soldier had tried to Stop the Man who was taking shots at windows in a nearby building. Earlier thursday a 28-year-old Man was arrested after he shot at two soldiers guarding Hamburg Barracks. None of the soldiers was injured and police said they had no reason to believe the two incidents were connected or Politi Cally motivated. Maternity building. Village Lead ers said 15 women and children were killed inside. The Crater left by the bombs were approximately 15 feet across and seven feet deep. The bombed Village is about15 Miles Northeast of Oterri the big heartland town taken by nigerian forces late last year. The nearest front to the villages seven Miles away. The mar Ket held about 2,000 person when the plane first appeared overhead according to local leaders. It was especially crowded because of a rotating system of Commerce that makes i every eighth Day the most important Market in the area. Unidentified bodies Lay among the to a debris of the Market. Beyond the Market area firemen dug a common grave. Three bodies Lay beside it waiting burial unless claimed in time by relatives. The bombing claimed the lives of two of the Village s most important persons. In a Clay hut villagers mourned for Valentine Njoku 28, who operated the maternity clinic. One Hundred Yards away Sim Ilar mourning was heard for Rosanna Amadi 19, a nurse who ran a nearby clinic for children suffering from malnutrition. Return defector peeing demands Tokyo a communist China demanded Friday that the United states return former red chinese charge d affaires in the Netherlands Liao to Shu who has been granted political As Lumin Washington. Peking s official new Chin news Agency said the demand was made in a statement issued by the chinese foreign ministry thursday tiie news Agency said the state ment warned that the United states and the Netherlands Mustbe held responsible for All the grave statement claimed Liao was carried off to the United ates after being incited to be tray his country by the dutch government. Liao second Secretary of the chinese diplomatic Mission sought Protection of the dutch government Jan. 24 and later sought Asylum in the United states
