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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 d the stars and stripes Friday november 16, 1973 Princess Phillips Start trip London a Princess Anne and her husband of 24 hours capt. Mark Phillips flew to Barbados thursday after noon for the Start of a honeymoon cruise aboard the Royal yacht Britannia. After spending their wedding night at an undisclosed location the newlyweds left London s Heathrow Airport As regular first class passengers aboard a scheduled Boeing 707 flight of British airways for the nine hour trip to Barbados. The Royal couple last to Board the plane smiled As they were driven across the tar Mac in a Maroon Rolls Royce belonging to Queen Elizabeth ii Anne s Mother. As they reached the Cabin door Princess Anne and capt. Phillips turned and waved happily to the 300 Well wishers. Nine of the 11 remaining first class seats were reported booked by journalists. No special arrangements British airways officials said no special arrangements had been made for the couple. There was no special dressing room for the Princess. Meanwhile Anne was told that she is a victim of sexual discrimination and should take up the cause of women s liberation. Baroness Summerskill Laberite and Veteran Champion of women s rights noted in a House of lords debate thursday Anne s remark in a television interview monday that she was not impressed by the women s liberation lists. I feel that she should have positive views on the subject owing to the discrimination exercised against her As heir to the throne in favor of two Small Brothers lady Summerskill said. Paint egg hits Berlin cd s car Berlin a an egg filled with red paint hit the automobile of the . Berlin commandant thursday. The parked vehicle was struck while maj. Gen. William w. Cobb was inside an officers club open ing an ethnic exhibition. A . Army spokesman confirmed the incident. He said the unoccupied car was struck by the egg hurled from within a group of about 75 students. What the Stu dents were protesting against was not Clear. The Harnack House officers club once a residence of Albert Einstein As a guest lecturer in Berlin is adjacent to the free University of Berlin. It has been the target of repeated incidents involving leftist Radi cals opposing . Policies. The army spokesman said the demonstrators were dispersed by German police summoned to the scene. The ethnic expo is an army sponsored exhibition featuring the heritage of Ameri can ethnic minorities. Emergency Airlift to Israel is ended Dover Del. Up America s Emer gency Airlift of arms to Israel which started a month ago and delivered More than 22,000 tons of War Materiel has ended. The last planes left Dover air Force base Early tuesday bound for Lod Airport in Tel Aviv. Later in the Day after the Pentagon ordered the Airlift halted some c5 transports waiting to depart were unloaded. At the Pentagon defense department spokesman Jerry w. Friedheim announced wednesday that the around the clock Airlift had Given Way to a slower but less costly arms sea lift. Lip readers reveal Royal whisperings London up a smiling Prince Philip led his daughter Princess Anne up the aisle in Westminster Abbey wednesday turned his head and asked Sott Voce Aren t you nervous no of course not she answered. The Exchange was Only part of the whisperings which passed Between members of the Royal family As they acted out parts in what was As much National Celebration As the wedding of the Princess and the Captain. The whisperings could t be heard they weren t intended to be but the London daily mail employed lip read ers to decipher them. Princess Anne still on her father s Arm looked Over and said there Are such a lot of people  just like my wedding the Prince replied. Just at that moment Mark Phillips s Best Man capt. Eric grounds turned to the bridegroom and said they re coming Don t look  but he did. When she arrived Princess Anne asked capt. Phillips Are you All right and walking Down the aisle later she said to him in t it magnificent i Don t know All these people she said As she surveyed the packed congregation. Familiar with the duties of Royalty the Princess warned her Hus band As they reached the great West door in the Abbey be ready to acknowledge the crowd on the Way  in the Royal procession behind the couple going Back to Buckingham pal Ace the Queen Mother summed it up Aren t they so Happy she said. Timetable starting in 7975 East reportedly has troop Cut plan by John Lawton Vienna up the Warsaw pact allies have proposed a timetable for East West Force reductions in Central Europe beginning with a 20,000-Man cutback in 1975 by each Side sources at the Confer ence on Force reductions said thursday. A spokesman for the soviet delegation said a proposal had been made but refused to give details. The soviet Delegate denied a statement by a spokesman for the Western allies that no Concrete proposals had been made yet during the negotiations which Are now in their third week. Conference sources said the communists had proposed that the initial 20,000 Man cutback in 1975 be followed by a 5 per cent reduction of North Atlantic treaty organization and Warsaw pact forces in 1976 and a 10 per cent reduction in 1977. The cutbacks would include soviet and american troops stationed in Central Europe As Well As other forces along with their weapons the sources said. Chief . Negotiator Stanley r. Resor said at the opening of the conference that soviet and american troops should be reduced first. The communist proposal for equal cutbacks in 1975 also runs counter to the Western argument that the Warsaw pact the Energy crisis touches american military forces by Mike Shanahan Washington a slowly but surely the Energy crisis is touching the Ameri can military forces at Home and around the world. Inside the Pentagon the largest single user of Petroleum military officers and civilian bureaucrats Are keeping their jackets and Sui Coats on. The temperature has been dropped from about 75 to below 70 degrees. Related Story on page9. On the High seas Navy ships Are steaming at slower speeds 16 instead of 20 knots. Air Force flying time for both train ing and operations has been reduced and the use of cockpit mechanical simulators is being increased. At least three countries troubled by . Support of Israel have put the Navy on no Tice that . Ships May no longer refuel in their ports. However defense department planners have announced no dramatic plans to re Duce the military s consumption of Energy. Officials first said the defense depart ment had already Cut its average fuel con sumption from last year by 14 per cent before president Nixon s speech last week on the Energy crisis. Later they acknowledged that half of that reduction was the result of the end of military operations in Indochina. At the height of the vietnamese fighting the Pentagon consumed about a million barrels of Oil a Day. The daily average in 1973 was 750,000 while there still was some indochinese fighting compared with the current approximate daily average of 650, 000 barrels. The air Force says its fuel reserves in Guam and Indochina Are As High As they were during the heaviest fighting in Viet Nam. But a spokesman declined for Security reasons to disclose the level of reserves which he said would be left there. Officials emphasize the Pentagon accounts for Only 2.5 per cent of total . Energy consumption including 3 per cent of Oil consumed in the United states. Deputy defense Secretary William p. Clementsjr. Has ordered a 6 per cent reduction in consumption meaning a Lessen ing of some air Force flights and training operations among All the services. It was disclosed wednesday that the Philippines and Singapore would no longer allow ships of the . 7th Fleet in the Pacific Ocean to refuel at their docks. Up reported that the Arab Oil embargo has denied the . Military nearly half of its Petroleum supplies and has forced it to invoke a Little used act giving it priority Over civilian users. Arthur i. Mendolia assistant defense Secretary for installations and logistics said the defense department would have to make up its loss of 300,000 barrels of foreign Oil a Day from Domestic supplies up reported. He said the 1950 defense production act was invoked nov. 1 for the first time to Force Petroleum producers to meet de sense department requirements before filling civilian orders. Major reductions have been made in military operations he said but 1 to 2 per cent of the already shrunken Domestic Supply would have to be diverted to the armed services. Of the foreign producers who previously supplied More than half the serv ices daily requirement of 650,000 barrels Only Iran still allows Sale to the United states he said. To meet the crisis Mendolia said the 300,000 . Troops in Europe and the 60 ships of the . 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean have been forced to dip into their War reserves military Hying hours have been Cut Back 18 per cent Navy ships have been ordered to reduce steaming Days ships returning from overseas will lower Speed ships based on the Continental Atlantic and Pacific coasts will spend 54 Days out of every three months in port and armed forces vehicles Are under a 50-mile-per-hour Speed limit should make numerically larger cuts than nato to reflect the East s numerical troop superiority in Central Europe. According to the Independent Institute for strategic studies nato ground forces in Central Europe total 777,000 men com pared to 871,000 Warsaw pact troops. A spokesman for the Western allies said thursday s 78-minute meeting the sixth since talks began oct. 30 was extremely  he said the negotiations were becoming increasingly More specific but insisted that neither Side had As yet made any con Crete proposals. Speakers at thursday s session were representatives of Czechoslovakia Bel Gium Canada and Romania. Also taking part Are Bulgaria Britain Denmark East Germany Greece Hun Gary Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Turkey the United states and West Germany. The conference resumes tuesday. Liz Taylor getting checkup san Diego a actress Elizabeth Taylor is hospitalized at the Scripps clinic and research foundation Here for what Hospital officials describe As a routine an Nual  temperatures l 46 43 so 31 43 50 65 39 30 48 19 37 55 67 so 46 35 54 53 42 33 50 57 49 46 57 65 57 28 42 43 31 50 23 35 53 22 68 58 58 47 h 76 66 63 73 73 70 82 72 45 75 44 46 71 84 57 61 46 76 67 74 44 59 68 66 80 66 80 68 60 57 66 40 81 41 44 74 39 82 73 79 80 Alban Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville atlant Atlantic City Austi Baltimore Billing Birmingham Bismarck Bois Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlingto Casper Charleston , w. A. Charlott Cheyenne chicag Cincinnati Clevelan Columbia . 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