European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday february 12, the stars and stripes Page 3 today orld v2 Boss discounts sabotage Mexico City a the Man whoop Hitler s v2 rocket testified Monda a cent of then tailed to hit Kaplan. Blamed sabotage. Of sabotage belief May Nave been the Rea nazi guards executed slave labourers at world War ii rocket production Camp German Gen. Walter Dornberger 73 a Cosert hearing. A in Jim Ier. Now an american Chozen a j geared before the special hearing of a Ger Briancourt trying three men for killing it or More of the rocket Plant slave labourers. Dornberger testimony was taken at the German embassy since Dornberger spends his Winters in Mexico. Dornberger said he believed the rockets that failed to hit Britain did so because of technical failure and not sabotage. He disclaimed any know ledge of the executions. ,. Y Steps up Hunt for missing boy Vire Gio. Italy up police carried out a rare House to House search tuesday looking for a 12-year-old boy missing 11 Days and feared also set up roadblocks around this North italian City of 53,000 population stopping and searching cars leaving via Reggio both measures Are fairly rare in Italy but so is kidnapping especially of object of the police Hunt is Ermanno Lavorini son of a Tex tile dealer who disappeared Jan. 31 after going for a bicycle ride in a Park near his Home. Since there has been no definite word on his Fate or Ime Between spins Edinburgh up George Rafferty 21, will be 74 years old before he will be allowed to drive a car again. Rafferty was jailed tuesday for a year for defying the ban which lasts 56 years until2022. British Ballerina shelves career London up top flight Ballerina Nadia Nerina Groo Medas a successor to Margot Fonteyn is giving up dancing at the height of her career to Start a Nerina is 41 and expects her baby in july. Miss Nerina married to London banker Charles Gordon runaway from her Home in South Africa at the age of 17 and since then has risen to be one of the Royal Ballet s and Europe s top Ballet stars. She has danced All Over the world. Some of her greatest Success shave been Tours with the Royal Ballet in the United states and in Russia at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Chickens got sandbagging Bologna Italy a Italy s anti adulteration police squad arrested five persons Here monday and charged them with sell ing Sand for Chicken charge said the five prepared a mix made mostly of Sand at a farm in nearby Forli. Then sold it in containers carrying the labels of some of Italy s top producers of real Chicken feed. The anti adulteration squad was set up several years ago Socope with increasing complaints of adulteration in the country. More Boondocks for composer Athens up Zorba the greek con Poser Mikos Theodorakis has been ordered to spend another six months of banish ment in an isolated Mountain Village authoritative sources said Here. Theodorakis 43, was arrested and imprisoned for several months after the military takeover of Greece in april 1967. Last september he was banished to the Village of Hatouna in Peloponnesus. No reasons for the order were Given by the government. His music is banned in Greece. . Rejects immigration curb London up the House of commons tuesday rejected Abill designed to Cut to a Mere trickle the flow of Commonwealth immigrants into Bill was introduced by former conservative common wealth Secretary Duncan Sandys. The House killed it on its first Reading by 247 votes to 126. Although no official figures Are available it has been estimate that Britain s coloured immigrant population today totals Between 1 million and 1.5 million. Travel ban turns screw on West berliners again by Hubert j. Erb Berlin a East German has taken another dramatic step in its drive to Force West Ger Man political representation out of West Berlin while gaining greater measure of control Over land routes to the City. This is the larger meaning of the transit ban imposed on Mem Bers of the West German Parlia ment and stale Legislatures whore to elect a new Federal presi Dent in West Berlin March 5. It is an action that has the expressed approval of the soviet Union. An Allied statement re minding the russians that they Are responsible for Berlin accesses not Likely to change the situation. For some time the russians Ginger peachy american actress Ginger Rogers Percheron a canopied Couch in her dressing suite at a London theater where she will open feb. 20 in the musical almost$5,000 was spent redoing the suite which now boasts nearly 206 Square Yards of Pale Pink silk on the Walls and ceiling. A Canada makes 1st move to recognize red China _ Canada Isi reports from informed source first step toward pos in Taipei tuesday said nationalist ashment of diplomatic China is ready to break diploma. Tic relations with Canada if its last minute Effort to prevent of Ottaw taking the sible establishment relations with communist China. External affairs minister Mitchell Sharp told the House of commons monday that a Contact had been made to seek talks with Tawa from recognising peking fails. The sources said president of sino can Dianthe chinese concerning the Chiang Kai Shek recently Reaf whole Range the move brought an imme Diate protest from the nationalist chinese government on protest note the second in five Days reportedly said Canada s action endangers the peace of the expels phony Pope Milan Italy up a for Mer French priest who Calls him self Pope Clement Xiv and predicts the world will end feb. 20 was expelled from Italy statement said Michel Colin was declared an undesirable person and escorted by police to the French Border Post inthe Mont Blanc Tunnel. Colin and about so followers including High priestess Maria Staffler gathered last week Nea Merano in Northern Italy to await what Colin called the endow the world. He said Only his followers would be saved. Colin announced last Sunda that he intended to go to the Vatican next sunday and Pray atthe Tomb of Pope John Xxiii who he said recognized him As Pope of Fatima and head of the Church of the and several followers recently demonstrated in St. Peter s Square distributing leaflets to passersby and pilgrims on their Way to attend Pope Paul s weekly general protested his expulsion which he said amounted to two cardinals of his Church left by car with him. Firmed his opposition to any two China policy in any form mean ing that his government will not have official relations with a country which recognizes both communist and nationalist China. Severe blow in Ottawa the nationalist Chi Nese ambassador to Canada said. The Canadian action is Tanta mount to giving encouragement and support to the tyrannical Rule of the chinese communist regime and deals a severe blow to the700 million chinese people in their struggle for the Canadian move followed Campaign Promise by prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to actively seek an Exchange of diplomats with communist China. The move had support in parliament from the opposition conservative party As Well As tru Deus s Liberal party. Have followed a policy of Ever tightening controls on West Ber Lin Access by letting the East germans take the spotlight. In effect the East German shave total of ground traffic other than that officially rep resenting the United states Brit Ain and parliamentarians banned Are but part of a rowing list of people the germans refuse to let through even when they submit to Thor controls. I the latest ban includes All members of the West German armed forces about 450,000 men. Last year East Germany i banned members of the Ultra right Wing National democratic party calling it Neo nazi. That was a difficult move to Challenge and when no protest was made the blacklist promptly was sex handed to include All leading West German officials. Added to the direct bans were regulations calling for visas an passports for Al West germans travelling to and from West Ber Lin As Well As for freight trans i port taxes. This was a psychological blow that still reverberates for a put germans in the category of for Eigners while travelling in Ger is against this background that the latest East German action and the russian support it got come into Sharp focus. 1 clearly As a West Berlin mass circulation newspaper by declared the forthcoming presidential election is but another of a Long list of pretexts used by the East germans to impose evermore stringent Access regulations. Successful Campaign that some Public sentiment Isi expressing doubt about the wis Dom of holding the presidential election Here is but another sign of the Success of the communist War of nerves. It is a difficult Challenge to meet. The communists have been scrupulous so far to avoid a direct confrontation with the Allie by making sure that their traffic is not hindered. In practical terms this lets an Allied vehicle go through a Spe j Cial area controlled by russians while germans and non official foreigners wait in line for East German clearance or reaction. Obviously the communist think they have hit on a tactic that not Only will promote the reduction of a vital West German presence in West Berlin but also Force recognition of East Germa the passport and visa regulations were imposed Las summer. West Berlin morale was at its lowest Point in Many year because of what was a decrease in Confidence that the people Here can maintain their Contact with the Confidence certainly will not be bolstered if the latest action also is left unchallenged. With the Way left open for the communists to add further Strin gent measures whenever it suit their policy. By said let s not kid our selves. After the measures announced More Are headed of aids German ship Hamburg up11 . Air Force planes have dropped medi Cine to the West German research ship meteor for 16 crewmen nth dysentery military spokesmen said. The ship is near the Cape verde islands off West Africa
