European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 8 the stars and stripes monday May 2, 1977 ready for the Long haul a world record for the longest bus body Ever built is claimed Lor this bus by the manufacturer. Wayne corp. Of Rich mond ind. The vehicle 62 13 feet Long and weighing 12 ions scats 121 adults 106 on a lower level and 13 on an upper level and can accommodate another 66 standees. It was custom built to transport workers to and from Oil Fields in Egypt. Like All buses in this size Range this one is towed by a so mitral tar. Up photo Raf Leader answers years of sniping we ii bombing raids defended London Ial i a world War i bomber chief hit Back saturday after years of sniping from historians and declared that the airmen of the Royal air Force bomber command and the 0 s. 8th air Force won the biggest ground Battle of the War " defending the men who flew from Brit ish airfields Day and night to bomb Ger Many. 85-year-old marshal of the Royal air Force sir Arthur Harris told a reunion dinner that German leaders themselves justified the bombing offensive Harris quoted the memoirs of Ger Many s former arms controller. Albert up car. Who said the land Battle had been won by forcing the German air Force on the defensive and lying Down vast quantities of men and guns needed desperately on the Hussion and Western  credit for the european bombing offensive should be divided equally be tween the americans and the  Harris who headed Raf bomber com Mand from 1942 to 1945.  the end of world War ii in 1945 Harris has kept almost total silence on Allied bombing policy a target of denunciation by British and american historians who said it was a waste of lives. The critics charged that the bombing the Ameri cans in Daylight raids and the British at night did not Hurt German morale and. Until the last months of 1945. Hardly affected the German War  has never written his memoirs and for years refused to give interviews about the War. His sternest critics charged him with genocide for collaborating with Winston Churchill in the policy of destroy ing German cities by air attack. Saturday night just returned from a vacation in South Africa and recovered from pneumonia. Harris accepted an invitation from the Royal air Force association a veterans group to address 700 wartime air and ground Crew members in a London  said his bomber command and the 8th air Force had compelled the German High command to inform Hitler. Slop the Bunin its or we cannot win " he said Hal Gen Dwight Eisenhower. Supreme Allied commander in Kurosu. Credited Allied bomber Crews with achieving the impossible in night attacks during the final German counter offensive at the Battle of the ardennes at a Lime when other air forces were grounded. Harris quoted past War German revelations that the weight of the bombing Offen Sive amounted to a second front Over the whole of Germany and because of uncertainty about the bombers next target the germans had to be prepared to defend every major City. Harris Saivii that apart from air defens units the germans had to keep another 900.000 soldiers. 20.000 88mm guns and 24. 000 Light flak guns continually on standby when they were needed elsewhere plus 2so.ooo men in repair bomb damage who might otherwise have been drafted into the forces. He said the German army was deprived of 50 per cent of its anti tank artillery and tens of millions of rounds of anti aircraft ammunition had to be manufactured at the Cost of shells for the ground Battle. He said Allied bombing accounted for about one third of German submarine production and that minefields Laid from the air Sank Many enemy merchantmen an hundreds of smaller Craft. To the charge of attacking the German civilian population. Harris said his reply was simple which Navy Ever conducted War against an enemy except against the Nalion As a whole when did any army besieging a cily Ever invite the civilians to leave Harris said the bomber Crews faced More terrible Odds than any other warriors in history. Bomber command alone had 47, 293 men killed or missing the reunion dinner was organized b former bomber Crews who. As one said Felt that after 30 years we wanted to do him  Hua urges rapid buildup of forces Tokyo ii l chinese Premier Hakuo Feng saturday published a Long article urging a rapid buildup of the chinese armed forces and renewed efforts to return Taiwan to chinese Rule Hua s essay was published saturday in Peoples daily official Organ of the chinese communist party. Japanese newsmen re ported from  of it were broadcast by radio scuba scoop claimed for soviet divers Moscow in Ali soviet divers with Aqualung have become the first humans in history to dive under the North pole the Tass news Agency said it said the information was radioed l � the research Institute of Arctic and Antarctica in Leningrad which is currently carrying out weather experiments on the Polar ice Cap for the first time in the history of sex a Loulion of the Arctic. Soviet Polar explorers held a series of experimental swims with Aqualung under the ice Cap of the geological Point of the North  Tass said the  Ujj Erk y said he expedit irm. Dubbed North Sis photographing the Polar Basin for the purpose of creating and checking on the Manf magical models of the weal hit Mil Rhinnie of the Northern peking and heard in Japan. The 14.000 word essay was entitled and Vance always the continuing revolution under the dictatorship of he proletarian  besides renewing China s claim to Taiwan and promising a military buildup. Hua said that the communist ideology developed by the late communist party chairman Mao tsp Tung remains China s Basic philosophy. Loyalty toward the Banner of the Mao tse lung line becomes the guarantee of Victory in the enterprises of our revolt  Hua wrote. File Tempo of Reform and modernization us the chinese Peoples liberation army will be seeded up. Preparations will be made to crush any enemy who comes to invade  the Chi Nese Premier added with our taiwanese Brothers we shall strive to liberate Taiwan and carry out our sacred duty of re unifying Taiwan with the  Taiwan is under control of the nationalist chinese government loser to the communist forces in the civil War thai ended with the establishment of communist Rule in China in 1949. The United states is committed by treaty to protect it. And Taiwan remains the chief stumbling Block to full normalization of relations Between China and the i United states. File lengthy essay by Hua appeared on the eve of China s May Day Celebration japanese specialists on China said it apparently was designed to establish Hua As Mao s successor in the Field of communist philosophy in China. Hua urged chinese to continue their study of Mao s thought. A fifth volume of Mao s collected works was published Richina last month. Haig says West can no longer bask in Security Annapolis my. A Gen. Alexei Der m. Haig says the relentless growth soviet military forces Means the West Ca no longer take Comfort in either the Quality or Quantity of its military might. We find ourselves today looking at balanced soviet  Haig said in speech at the u. S. Naval Academy thursday. Haig supreme Allied commander i Europe called for remedial measures hot in nato and within the . To regain Clear superiority Over the soviet Union. He told the midshipmen that Mai Laii ing a military balance with Russia Shoul be the primary goal while the . Works i establish a consensus among Large an Small nations that in the nuclear age to resort to Force is no longer