European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Pentagon pulls Back More than 100 b52s from Guam to . Friday november 23, 1973 the stars and stripes d Page 27 by Fred s. Hoffman Washington a the Pentagon has pulled More than 100 b52 bombers Back from Guam to the United states re storing most of them to their original nuclear striking Force Mission after the end of . Bombing in Indochina. Defense sources say the move which kidnappers free Georgia Mother and daughter Jonesboro a. A authorities reported thursday that two female hostages kidnapped in a plot to gain Freedom for a Man charged with Bank robbery have been released unharmed. The Rev. E. M. Nelson a methodist min ister told authorities that the kidnappers three armed men demanded the release of a Man charged with Bank robbery in Exchange for the Safe return of the minis Ter s 44-year-old wife Jackie and their daughter Debbie 16. Police chief Howard Smith of Clayton county said the hostages held for about 30 hours were Safe and apparently in Good condition. He said they were released by the kidnappers without any negotiations with any Law enforcement Agency. He said that the women were picked up on a Rural Road and taken to a town in Georgia and that the police chief of that City notified Clayton county authorities that the hostages had been found. Smith refused to say where the freed hostages were located but said they Proba Bly would be Back in Jonesboro within hours. Smith said that although authorities have no firm suspects at this time we have some real Good  the chief called the kidnapping an amateurish operation. He said the Man the kid Napers sought to release would have re fused to leave custody of the Clayton county jail had negotiations gone that far. Cosmos 608 is launched Moscow a the soviet Union has launched satellite number 608 in its multipurpose Cosmos series. Started in july accelerated sharply last month during the Mideast crisis which brought the threat of a .-soviet confrontation. Nothing has been said publicly but sources report that about 85 of the giant air Force Jet bombers were rushed Home from Guam when . Military units were placed on Alert around the world. Counting smaller withdrawals earlier this leaves 25 b52s on Guam and another 50 in Thailand. American b52 strength in the Pacific Southeast Asia area now is Down to a Little More than one third of the 205 Long Range bombers which took part in the last major bombing Campaign against North Viet Nam. Nixon administration officials have claimed that Campaign which included heavy strikes against Hanoi helped bring about the Vietnam peace agreement last january which led to final . Troop withdrawal and return of american War prisoners. The final b52 strike was flown against communist led insurgents in Cambodia shortly before the congressionally ordered halt in All . Military operations in Indochina last aug. 15. The air Force reportedly wanted to Fly the b52s Back to the United states As rapidly As possible so the heavy bombers could be returned to their strategic nuclear mis Sion. But the White House was said to have vetoed a rapid reduction of b52 strength in the Pacific Indochina area. Key officials Felt the larger Force served to deter pos sible North vietnamese offensive thrusts against South Vietnam Cambodia or Laos. Conversion rate Brussels up thursday s official rate of the . Dollar to european Curren cies. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies to dollars currency nov. 22 British Pound. 2.3825 German Mark 2.6360 French franc 4.4950 Swiss franc 3.192 italian lira 593 belgian franc 39.3550 dutch Guilder 2.7275 swedish Krona 4.42 norwegian Krone 5.57 danish Krone 6.05 finnish Mark 3.767 austrian Schilling 19.25 Spanish peseta 57.17 military banking facilities will sell to . Personnel Friday at 2.62. The finance offices will be 2.63. Nov. 21 2.39 5 4.4337 3.1855 594.10 39.00 2.7068 4.33 5.55 5.98 3.737 19.05 57.23 Marks rate at resurgent Dollar reaches 5-month High in Frankfurt London up the Dollar moved strongly upward on world Money markets thursday touching a five month High in Frankfurt and gaining ground nearly everywhere. Dealers in Frankfurt and London said traders were marking the Dollar upward in anticipation of favourable . Trade Fig ures due monday. The Dollar s strength switched interest away from Gold which dipped slightly in Price. The Dollar closed in Frankfurt at 2.636 Marks the highest level since june 7. It moved upward in Brussels Paris London and All other european currency exchanges. It closed unchanged in Tokyo at 280 yen. In Brussels the Dollar gained More than three quarters of 1 per cent reaching 39.355 belgian francs at the close. The Dol Lar improved from wednesday s 19.00 aus Trian schillings to 19.25 in Vienna. It moved up to 2.7275 guilders in Amsterdam and climbed substantially in All three scandinavian markets. London trading marked the Price of the Pound Down More than a Penny to $2.3805 at mid afternoon. The Dollar closed higher in Zurich at 3.1935 Swiss francs up from 3.187 at thursday s Market opening. The French two level Market also marked the Dollar up to closing rates of 4.445 francs for the official commercial Dollar and 4.5775 francs for the financial Dollar tourists use. Gold in London fell to $90 an ounce at its morning fixing and traded downward later to As Low As $89.50. The median Price by late afternoon was $90.10, ten cents higher than the closing rate in Zurich. No Stock list the new York Stock Exchange was closed thursday because of thanksgiving. Magazine confiscated tanks leave Athens military censors press Athens up tanks that were used to suppress a three Day student rebellion pulled out of Athens thursday but the army tightened its grip on Greece with uni formed officers taking Over press censor ship. Until thursday censorship was carried out by officials of the press secretariat. The first decision of the army censors was to confiscate the biweekly Politika Theata political theme which was strongly critical of the regime of president George Papadopoulos. News sources said the current Issue carried several articles criticizing the government and praising the demands of Stu dents whose seizure of the Athens polytechnic school nov. 15 led to three Days of Street fighting in which 12 persons died and about 150 were injured. Amid complaints of maltreatment of prisoners greek authorities acting under martial Law continued thursday to Hunt suspected participants in the rebellion. The City was Calm for the fourth straight Day but the 10 . To 5 . Curfew remained in effect. Relatives of Andrea Koundouris son of a former National Radical Union Ere Deputy defense minister arrested Satur Day said wednesday the student tried to commit suicide because they treated hims  constant Inos Alavanos a lawyer and son of a former Center Union parliament member also suffered police maltreat ment his family said. They gave no de tails. Photos found portraying Getty without an ear Rome a a Rome newspaper thursday received photographs portraying Paul Getty Iii without an ear. Earlier an ear had been mailed to an other newspaper As evidence that Kidnap ers were detaining the grandson of the american Oil billionaire. The photographs were accompanied by a final Appeal from the abductors and a Long Handwritten letter by Paul. The 17 year old youth called on his relatives to pay the Ransom. He said he feared further mutilations and then death. If you do not pay i will never return Home neither will my body return Home the letter said. Paul pleaded to be taken seriously. The letters and five pictures were found by newsmen of the Rome newspaper ii Tempo under a sign on the superhighway of the Sun Between Rome and Naples be fore Dawn. An Anonymous caller had instructed them to go there and pick up a plastic bucket with evidence that these Vered ear really belongs to  i beg you to pay what and where my kidnappers want. It is useless for you to ask a simultaneous release. I beg you All you mama you Grandfather you papa and other relatives of mine pay Paul s letter said. You have already said that you agreed on the  at Guildford England a spokesman said that american Oil magnate j. Paul Getty will pay no Ransom to release his grandson. Or. Getty s position has not changed the spokesman said in a Telephone inter View from Getty s elizabethan mansion at Sutton place near Guildford. As far As we know no Ransom has been paid by the boy s father  the kidnappers originally had asked for a Ransom of $16 million. They reportedly Cut it to $3.4 million recently. The government so far has reported 250arrests. Chief government spokesman Spyros Zour Latizis denied reports that hundreds of persons were killed and urged that claims be checked by the International red Cross. Wednesday night six former members of the government of the late George Papandreou issued a statement calling for the return from Paris of their onetime rival former Premier Constantinos Kara Manlis to resume Power. American guards slain in Argentina Cordoba Argentina a a terrorist machine gun attack Here thursday killed an american executive and three of his bodyguards police said. About 15 Young people believed to be members of the people s revolutionary army Erp machine gunned John a. Swint and his bodyguards As he headed for work in a chauffeur driven car with another car of guards following. Swint headed Tran sax an automobile parts factory which is a subsidiary of the Ford motor co. Headed to office police said Swint was headed to his of fice thursday morning when his car slowed for a Large truck parked across the Road. As the car eased around the truck gunfire broke out from All sides. Bullets poured from a building and from two Small cars which helped Block Swint s Sedan in both directions police said. The attackers fled in three automobiles and left no indication of Why they attacked Swint police said. Argentina has been swept this year by a wave of extortion kidnapping and assassination. Since january several Hundred persons have been kidnapped including at least six americans and a score of other foreign businessmen whose companies paid an estimated $10 million Ransom. Some kidnappings Are not reported official , 450 Miles West of Buenos Aires is the heart of Argentina s automotive Industry and its most volatile political Cen Ter. Right Wing and left Wing elements of president Juan d. Peron s movement have been waging a War of revenge apparently in efforts to attain ideological supremacy. The police have blamed most of the kid Narings and other violence on the marxist led Erp. But there Are at least a half dozen guerrilla groups in Argentina including left Wing Peron its.  Consul freed after Venezuela shootout Maracaibo Venezuela up police shot it out with kidnappers of West Ger Man Consul Kurt Nagel thursday and freed him on the outskirts of this Oil Center police sources said. Nagel according to unofficial reports was slightly injured. The 37-year-old Cologne born venezuelan citizen was abducted tuesday night from the University of Zulia where he lec Tures in Law. The sources said National guardsmen exchanged gunfire with a group of men on a Road 18 Miles from Maracaibo freeing Nagel and capturing two of his alleged kid Napers