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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 14, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 stars inc St  today i Oki need for vital British role Bonn up the British and German chiefs of government agreed thursday that a United Europe without Britain is Incon  prime minister Harold Wilson and German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger issued a joint declaration at the close of their second round of talks saying that for both our countries a United Europe is inconceivable without  went on to add at a press conference after the talks that he considered the continuing dispute within the european Community Over Britain s membership application is undermining such Unity As already exists. James Bond going into the cold Rome a Sean Connery will attempt tossed a bit More of the James Bond image by undertaking the portrayal of norwegian Polar explorer Roald Amundsen in a soviet italian film  producer Franco Cristaldi has announced the scottish actor had agreed after secret negotiations to Star in the red tent which details the adventures of italian explorer Umberto Nobile who piloted an Airship with Amundsen across the North pole in 1926. Cristaldi said Connery will work on the film for six or seven weeks beginning at the end of the month. Much of the shooting will be in mos cow. The $14 million film also stars Cristall s wife Claudia car Dinale and British actor Peter Finch who portrays  died while attempting to Rescue Nobile who crashed in an Airship on the Arctic. Pope urges czechs to stand firm Vatican City a Pope Paul i thurs Day urged the people of Czechoslovakia to Stan firm in the face of political distress in their land. Act manfully suffer like Strong men retain a secure Calm wait under the shield of pure con science until the unleashed storms become Light gusts of  Pope issued his words of encouragement and support in a nine Page episcopal letter to the country s roman Catholic Community. The letter was dated feb. 2. It was released Here thursday As part of the commemoration of the Lith Centennial of the death of St. Cyril apostle of the slavs. Connery Pope Paul first German heart transplant Munich a a Munich University doctor thursday per formed West Germany s first heart transplant. The operation was done by or. Rudolf Zenker 65, a prominent surgeon who has closely studied the heart operations of South Afri can or. Christian Barnard. The names of the donor and recipient were not immediately known. 1st Larynx transplant claimed Ghent Belgium up Jan Baptist borremans 62, a Village policeman was in satisfactory condition thursday two Days after undergoing the worm first transplantation of a human  at the Ghent University Hospital said the patient was coming on As satisfactorily As can be expected under the  the transplant was perform Din six hour surgery by prof. Paul Kluyskens 46, assisted by five other surgeons an immunologist and an  involved the grafting of a Larynx Complete with muscular attachments and mucous Mem branes. Medical sources said major difficulties were the connection of numerous very Small blood vessels and re attachment of vocal cords to cartilage in re placement of the Normal connection to nerves. The sources confirmed that if the transplant is not rejected borremans will be Able to speak again although in monotones Only. In Case of rejection the patient who suffered from an incurable Throat disease May nevertheless eventually learn to speak again by retraining of the oesophagus the sources said. Pre strike violence in Pakistan Karachi a violence erupted in scattered parts of Karachi thursday on the eve of a massive nationwide Gen eral strike against presiden Ayub Khan s regime. Groups of students and youth roamed Karachi s business Cen Ter shouting slogans and de manding restoration of demo cratic rights Friday s strike had been called by an eight party opposition group the democratic action  Lahore More than 25,099 workers chanting we want socialism and Down with Amer lean capitalism staged a four hour protest March through the City demanding higher wage Sand an end to economic sex  trouble during Nixon visit Paris a the Corom woisted general confederation of labor Cut thursday called on its members to participate actively in an action week for peace in Vietnam which we coincide with the visit of president Nixon to Paris. The Cut said the feb. I Kareh 8 action week had been Cal Orby the National Council of the peace movement. Ninon will arrive in Paris feb. 28 and leave March 8there was no indication of the nature of the action planned. Red led front wins India state new Delhi a the Over whelming Victory of the com nudist led United front in the key state of West Bengal in India s special five state elec Lions has stunned prime minister Indira Gandhi s nationally ruling Congress  Congress leaders who had been campaigning in West Ben Gal had confidently expected their party to emerge As Testate s strongest with enough seats to run a government single hand edly or with the help of a handful of pliant coalition part , the United front romped Home to an overpower ing Victory of 210 seats three quarters of the Assembly. The Congress party took Only 55 seats. Following the West Bengal rout Tuyla Ghosh the state Congress party Boss has re signed from the Central Congress working committee the top National policy making body. The West Bengal Congress president Pratap c. Thunder also resigned after losing his constituency to a United front candidate by 5,000  Calcutta Stock Market has sagged following the unite front Victory and industrialists have warned that there will Bea flight of capital from the state if its government stirs up  left communists the dominant element of the unite front have risen from 43 seats to 69 so  told the United front has 181 seats 40 More than it needs to run the state. When the United front minis try takes Over next week India will have two of its 17 state governments in mainly communist hands. E. M. S. Namboodri ipad the communist chief minister of the Southern state of Kerala which has an unsteady coalition govern ment is in Calcutta meeting with the victorious West Bengal Lead ers. Observers expect that the Kerala and West Bengal communists will As in the past try to coordinate their movements. Just what these will be is at the moment unclear. Wedding eve Princess Henriette of Auersperg and Arndtson Bohlen and Halbach son of Haried Knipp beam at a press reception in Salzburg Austria before their wedding at Luehn Bach Castle near the City. Associated press photo . May censor sister george9 Iceland unemployment highest since Early 30s Reykjavik Iceland a Iceland is experiencing its High est unemployment rate since the Early 1930s, according to a government report. As of Jan. 31,unemployment was 6.8 per cent of the available work Force i said. Adding to the problem is a fishermen s strike that began Jan. 20. Iceland s Economy has been damaged by falling fish prices on world markets and by poor catches in the past two years. London up Britain a chief film censor said thursday i thai an explicit love scene be tween two women May have to be deleted from the Noyie the killing of sister George before i it can be shown in Britain. J the director Robert Aldrich isaid he would raise hell if the i scene Between British actresses Oral Browne and Susannah York is Cut. The film a Black comedy Setin London left new York audiences and critics gasping at it premiere there because of the love scene Between the two act resses. It is the length and explicit Ness of the love making scene that is causing concern John Trevelyan Secretary of the British Board of film censors said in an interview in the Lon Don evening Standard. This Section of the film aroused some extreme reactions in America Trevelyan  critics Are generally More Liberal when it comes to sex on the screen but one must be very careful about possible effects the film might have  a spokesman for Aldrich said the director regards these Quence As integral to the theme of the film. He would resist any cuts the spokesman said. In fact he would raise hell Over  replied. We shall do As we consider fit and requite prepared to defend our  said the rest of the film meets the Board s for adults Only criteria. The film is expected to have its London premiere next month. Have Pill in Throat Here s warning note Frankfurt is a professional society for opera singers in Germany has warned sopranos that they May lose their High is if they take the  february Issue of die  2, a mag Azine for singers and actors in German Heaters quoted or. Kaj Gilstorff a danish physician As reporting on two cases in which sopranos lost their highest tones after taking contraceptive Pill for Only a week. After withdrawal of the pills the vocal changes immediately disappeared the Magazine , who is on the staff of the Copenhagen University clinic and is official doctor for the Royal danish theater told of his findings in a lecture on the vocal problems of singers before Royal society of Medicine symposium in London. Knife through head is no bother Mexico City a take the knife out of my head Humberto Vazque pleaded wednesday As ambulance attendants carried him into the emergency Ward of a  All began in Cuernavaca about 40 Miles Southwest of Here when Vazquez spent a night consuming the local brew with his Best Friend. An argument followed and the Friend rammed the knife through Vaz quez1 head the handle sticking out on one Side and the tip on the other Cuernavaca police piecing to Gether this strange tale said Vazquez decided to seek medi Cal attention and walked to a bus Stop. A crowd gathered and stared at him. Frightened Vazquez ran to another bus Stop where he got a bus quickly. The Driver was horrified at sight of the knife Pierc ing his passenger s Skull and drove to a police station. At the station Vazquez gave his Story of the fight. He said the wound did t bother him Al though he knew the knife was sticking through his  the interrogation he was taken to a doctor who refuse to tackle the delicate surgery. Vazquez finally was taken to Mexico City by ambulance. A team of four surgeons extracted the knife from Vazquez Skull in a five hour operation. They gave him a 50-50 Chance to survive  
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