European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes april 1977 Viet Leader welcomed in France Paris up vietnamese prime min ister Pham Vandong began an official visit to France on monday that reflected Hanoi need of Western Aid for postwar anxious to regain some of the in fluence it once held As the colonial Over lord in gave Dong the kind of glamorous Welcome usually reserved Tor chiefs of Dongs arrival in Paris on a fou Day official trip heralded Hanoi determination to lesson its exclusive dependence on the communist bloc now that the Vietnam War has been Over for two years and the North and South have been reunited for the past Gray haired and slightly flew into Paris in an old Savic Buiu ibid Turboprop jetliner to n heros Welcome Complete with full military a crowd of cheering Vietnam Ese residents and a Host of French officials headed by prime minister Raymond Barro greeting him at orly first Vii ims buttoned up in a Gray Topcoat and clutch ing a Black i in his left hand Pham at attention while a Republic guard Aumi on Llic National an i hint 11 was 1 junes lies trip to Paris since thinyont1 years ago Dong left Paris in a Hull when the vietnamese nationalists talks with France marking the Start three decades of warfare in indo in a gesture of reconciliation president Valery Giscard do stain has invited Marcel former Deputy defense minister and a Neme daled Indochina War to the midday banquet Giscard is giving for on wants in expand cooperation Hig card was captured by Viet Cong troops after Frances defeat Al Dien Bien Phu in 1954 that marked the end of French me in the French were hoping to conclude a number of major economic accords with Ting whose government has made it Clear it wants to expand its cooperation with Japan and the United slates to Speed up its reconstruction and develop France has provided billion francs i million in Aid to Vietnam in recent last week it granted Hanoi an additional credit of million francs Mil lion for the Purchase of French capital French officials predicted dung will sign a major Accord in Paris granting the Elf Aquitaine Oil group permission to Prospect for Oil in the presumably Oil Rich Waters off Vietnam Eastern and Southern indications were was determined to keep the balance even before the various Western Powers court ing its a Village Church and the quiet bavarian Countryside form a peaceful backdrop As Rufic phantom ii of the 363rd peaceful Mission tactical reconnaissance Wing is readied for a Mission at a Ritang air aircraft from the Wing were in a two week deployment from their Home base at Shaw air Force air Force photo arranges Raf show for Schmidt West Germany a British prime minister James who wants West Germany to boost los troop offset ordered the Royal air Force into action monday for Chancellor Helmut beginning a today tour of units in the British forces in Callaghan invited Schmidt to this Royal air Force base on the dutch Border for a two hour private air they watched 30 Jaguar fighter bomb ers scramble skyward in a fast Takeoff they were the targets of a Low level fighter attack at a Hapier missile and they watched a British Crew service one of the Green camouflaged supersonic jets at a Bunker i have been Schmidt asked if his meant he was coins during increasing Bonns annual million contribution to support Britain forces in Schmidt laughed and air forces and navies arc highly expensive All Over the Britain has soldiers and air Force personal stationed in West the foreign Force second Only to that of the United which has army and air Force in the Swiss arrest 3 High officials in suspected Bank fraud Switzerland a three senior officials at the credit suisse Branch Al Chiasson were arrested monday in what May be Switzerland largest Bank fraud the state prosecutors office credit suisse is one of the three largest Banks in and authorities said the losses could run As High As 1100 state prosecutor Paolo Bemas Conis office said details on the charges against the three would be announced the arrests allowed a on week credit suisse Headquarters said the three had been charged with mis routing fiduciary accounts to a Liechtenstein based holding company that invested the Money in three italian credit suisse said the mis routed funds went to in which used the Money to buy interests in Albare Lamare and the Bank said it has taken Over the inter ests but Hast determined their credit suisse said its reserves were Ade quate to handle the highest imaginable under Callaghan financial austerity the House of commons slashed Britain 197779 defense budget about 7 per cent from billion to billion last parliamentary opponents of the cuts have warned that this will result in a significant impairment Callaghan is known to want Germany to increase its financial support for the Brit ish troops stationed on German the germans have been helping to offset costs with million payments in each of the last five years but i hair agreement ran out last asked if he and Callaghan would discuss the offset payment Schmidt re we wont have the this is a troop sea Hunt ships depart before season is Over Newfoundland api the Seal Hunt for Large ships off Northern Newfoundland ended sunday but the six Cana Dian and five norwegian vessels participating left several Days government officials they said the Canadian ships gathered the pelts of Harp Well below their quota of while the norwegians exceeded their quota of by the norwegians faced no penalties for exceeding their quota because the extra 500 were within the allotments for both in addition to the Harp the norwegians took Hood seals and the Canad an the Hood quota for each country was with another available or the first vessels to reach land based Hunters can continue taking seals until the latest available Fig ures showed Landsman in Newfoundland had plane lands after bump causes Alert London a German Lufthansa jetliner landed safety amid an emergency Alert at London Heathrow Airport monday after the Captain reported an unexplained bump Over the airline Lufthansa London office said Engi neers who examined the Boeing 737 after it landed at Heathrow with 105 passengers on a flight from Cologne found no signs of leaving the cause of the bump a while the Captain was flying the plane Over Belgium he fell a bump which he could not a Lufthansa spokeswoman he thought Al the time that he May have been hit by something and radioed air traffic control at the Airport ordered a full scale Emer gency Alert and ambulances and fire engines stood by near the but the plane landed quite the airline the Airliner later took on another Load of passengers for the return to one of the West German businessman Franz said there was a loud bang at the rear of the plane and everyone went nobody knew what had we were told by the Crew to keep our seats and remain quiet while the aircraft another Walter said he was silting at the Back of the aircraft when the bang it seemed to come from underneath me he one of the Crew members had a look at the Back of the Jet but did not appear to find the aircraft made a perfect Genscher to visit Russia Moscow a West German for eign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher will pay an official visit to the soviet Union in mid june at the invitation of the Tass giving no specific Date for the
