European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday november 116, 1973 Grace s costume criticized Princess Grace of Monaco second from left in first Row has drawn criticism for wearing White to British Princess Anne s wedding wednesday at Westminster Abbey in London. A daily Mirror Colum nist said it simply in t done and the Sun said it was a bit in bad taste for her to compete with the Bride. Among the Royal guests in the historic Abbey were from left front Row Prince Rainier and Grace Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe Langenburg who is Prince Philip s sister and Prince Georg of Hanover and his wife second Row exiled King Constantine and Queen Anne Marie of Greece Crown Prince Harald and Crown Princess Sonja of Norway and Princess Beatrix of the nether lands third Row Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sophia of Spain. A East Germany doubles visiting Exchange fees by Hubert j. Erb Berlin a East Germany put into effect thursday a doubling of Exchange fees for Western visits beyond the Berlin Wall an action West German spokesmen charge is a violation of agreements aimed at detente. West Berlin newspapers described the new measure As a Wall tax. Inundated by nine million visitors mostly West German so far this year East Germany for the first time included pensioners among those who must Exchange West German Marks for East Ger Man Marks at an arbitrary one to one rate. In the West three East German Marks bring one West Mark. Of no use at the Heinrich Heine Strasse Wal crossing Point a messenger said he was in East Berlin half an hour but had to Exchange 10 Marks. The East Money i got he said was of no use to me. In effect i made them a gift of 10  the prior rate for one Day s visit to East Berlin was a mandatory Exchange of five Marks. The per diem rate for a visit into the East German Countryside beyond Ber Lin has gone up from 10 to 20 Marks. Each West Berliner under the four Power Berlin agreement of 1971 put into effect last year May visit the East 30 Days in a year. This would make a mandatory Exchange of 600 Marks about $230 per person for visits beyond Berlin. While the acquired East Money May be spent few pensioners can afford that much Money and while staying with friends and relatives there is Little need to spend that much. Pensioners make up 50 per cent of those going eastward on a regular basis. West Berlin mayor Klaus Schuetz de scribed the new rates As a scandal of a special  spokesmen for All West German parties agreed that a cutting Down on the visitor flow is the motive and not financial Neces sity As the communist regime in East Berlin claims. Schuetz had appealed to East German Premier Horst Sinderman for a meeting of negotiators to discuss the matter before it took effect but the Appeal was ignored. East West negotiators were to meet Fri Day however. Schuetz said the new Exchange fees were in violation of the East German agreement with West Berlin which stipulates that the fees Are not to be changed without consultation. World today 8 get life terms for Ira bombings in London Winchester England a eight members of an Irish Republican army bomb squad convicted of launching a Ter ror Blitz on London last March were sentenced to life imprisonment thurs Day. A Winchester court hearing was con stantly interrupted during the sentencing by shouts and jeers from sympathizers in the Public gallery and from defendants in the Dock. At one stage the Public gallery was partially cleared. The eight including two Young Sisters who led the bombing expedition were found guilty wednesday of exploding two car bombs which killed one person and injured 216 others in London March 8. They had pleaded innocent though admitting membership in the Ira. On a separate charge of conspiracy to cause explosions they were jailed for 20years each. A ninth member of the group who admitted the charges got 15 years. A. 10th suspect was acquitted. The hearing took place against a tense background of possible Ira reprisals. Scotland Yard said it was tipped off that the Ira planned to grab hostages in a bid to free the eight. There were also reports that the Ira might retaliate with More bombing in British cities. The trial in the great Hall of Winchester Castle lasted 44 Days. Designer Elsa Schiaparelli Dies at 77 Paris up Elsa Schiaparelli the High fashion designer of the 1930s and 40s and creator of shocking perfume died tuesday night in her Home after an illness of two months her daughter announced thursday. She was 77. The Couturier one of the great names in Paris design and grandmother of actress Marisa Berenson died in a coma after a  daughter the marchioness Cacciapuoti de Giuliano said the designer will be buried saturday in an antique Chi Nese dress the color of shocking pin the cyclamen Pink that she launched in the 1930s in her fashion House on the place vendome. Schiaparelli s perfume shocking dispensed in a bottle shaped like a woman s body has been one of the Best Selling per fumes of France. Mail order cure for smoking claimed Munich a West Germany s renowned Max Planck Institute for psychiatry says it has evolved a 67 per cent successful method of teaching smokers by mail How to stay off nicotine. An Institute report said its psychology team evolved a method of self control for those who cannot get rid of the habit and tested it on 240 smokers. The rules sent in the mail to persons determined to give up smoking Are turned into "37 Steps to Success the report said wednesday. It included such suggestions As to buy Only Small quantities of cigarettes at a time changing the Brand every Day and to refrain from smoking at set times and places. The initial test involving 240 patients smoking More than 30 cigarettes a Day was highly successful with 67 per cent of them giving up the habit completely within six weeks the report added. Danes expect ban on sunday driving Copenhagen a the danish government thursday prepared the nation for a ban on private sunday driving and for the coldest blackest Christmas since world War ii. Trade minister Erling Jensen is expected to ask approval monday by a Spe Cial parliamentary committee for making the ban on driving on sundays effective nov. 25. Since nov. 9 danish motorists have with few exceptions been loyally adhering to new Gas saving Speed limits of 50 Miles an hour on highways and 37 . On Urban roads and streets. Jensen however said this and wide spread voluntary efforts to economize with electricity and fuel Oil Are proving in sufficient since deliveries of Oil to Den Mark Are expected to go Down by 20 per cent soon because of Arab Oil policies. Brezhnev will visit North Vietnam Moscow up Leonid i. Brezhnev communist party general Secretary is planning a visit to Hanoi following trips to India and Cuba in the next two months diplomatic sources said thursday. They said the trip to North Vietnam Brezhnev s first probably would come Early in the new year and would serve to emphasize continuing soviet Competition with China for influence in Vietnam. Brezhnev who turns 67 on dec. 19, has been to West Germany the United states France Poland Czechoslovakia East Germany and Bulgaria. He is scheduled to go to India nov. 26 to 30 and to Cuba in december. French shops stage 24-hour protest closure Paris a shops restaurants and Small businesses in France s major cities closed thursday for 24 hours to protest the government s anti inflation measures. Widespread Industrial unrest the Dis closure that the government s pro Arab policies have failed to Avert a fuel Short age and cold Rainy weather in Many parts of the country added to the atmosphere of gloom. A few fashionable dress shops stayed open along with the big department stores and most supermarkets. But the Small shops that still dominate the retail Industry were virtually All closed. Outside the big hotels it was almost impossible to order a meal or even to buy a Sandwich or a cup of Coffee. Large signs in store and restaurant win Dows said we Are not responsible for Ris ing  the government earlier this week tried to put a Brake on inflation by instituting Price and profit controls at the retail level. But wholesalers were allowed to set their own prices. The shopkeepers reaction apparently took the government by Surprise. Govern ment spokesman Jean Philippe Lecat Tolda television interviewer even the government can make a mistake  Pierre Messmer instructed agriculture minister Jacques Chirac to try to negotiate with the shopkeepers organizations after the end of the strike. But he said the controls would remain in Force for the time being. Meanwhile Jean Charbonnel the minis Ter of Industrial and scientific development gave the first official admission that France faces a serious shortage of Domestic heating fuel even though its pro Arab policy has made it exempt from Arab Oil restrictions. He said supplies of refine fuel from Eastern Europe had been interrupted and he urged that thermostats be lowered in All centrally heated buildings