European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday May 7, 1977 Tori Estop labor in . Voting from press dispatches to Nixon resurgent conservatives Riding on a tidal wave or voters anger at soaring living rusts and government imposed pay curbs have swept the labor party of prime minister James Callaghan from Power in greater i non and four out of six other big City areas in near country wide local government announced Early Friday so wed they administered a similar severe drub Bing to Tabor in the great majority of Rural party Leader Margaret Thatcher commented jubilantly the re sults Are splendid. The country has served notice on the labor government it is a bad night or the labor said the la Borics general Secretary Ron a Haywond. The Public is giving the Labo party a bad time Over what is obviously a protest against rising prices. The govern ment needs time to prove that its measures will bring about economic conservatives Are Britain s largest opposition party inside parliament commentators saw the swing to them As Omi Nous for the Tabones in the next parliamentary elections due sometime before october 1979annual inflation stands at 16 7 per cent he unemployment at i 39 million 59 percent of the work Force. Before the elections the a a borates con rolled 18 councils the conservatives 19 and independents four two of the remain ing 1.1 councils were controlled by formal conservative independents alliances an six were controlled by conservatives sup ported by independents on most issues. Inthe other five no group had Clear control. Main interest of the Conlest was Cen tired on Lemdon and the other six big met Roux Ithan councils in densely inhabited parts of the country. The a a notes had held Power in All seven since the last elections in 1973. Now the conservatives have taken Over mini them in a Mcjohn and four other councils greater Manchester in the North West Yorkshire also in the North the West m lands and Merseyside in the Northwest municipal councils Are responsible for administering a whole Host of Public serv ices from running schools state subsidized housing and health services to cleaning rams and collecting garbage and sponsor ing local arts and crafts British Newspaperman ordered out of Ethiopia in noon i Al i Peter Mason a correspondent for the i Ondon daily express. Has been ordered to leave Ethiopia by the leftist military government the newspaper papers us it had heard from other newsmen in Addis Ababa that Mason had been held fur 24 hours and then ordered out of the country. An attempt to make friends one of the British troops patrolling Ait Oman Catholic Section of Londonderry kneels to Chat with a Bay. The military is focusing its attention on the Young. Hoping the next generation can break the Cycle of bloodshed. A photo race with Rise in liquor prices swedes have record booze Binge Stockholm up1 swedes went Ona record breaking liquor buying spree last week and followed with a drinking Binge to Malch. Several hospitals reported a staggering surge in the number of outpatients seeking emergency treatment for acute alcohol had an enormous or. Goran Stolt. Head of the alcohol clinic at Ull Erak ers Hospital in Uppsala said in an inter View thursday. Much worse than the last weekend in april is usually wet one in Sweden april 3d. A Holiday known As walpurgis eve. Is celebrated with bonfires and booze to Welcome the coming of year was different because the state run liquor monopoly raised its Price by about 15 per cent effective May 1 a bottle of whiskey now costs abut co. Many liquor stores ran out As people lined up for hours to beat the hoarded liquor before the Price hike and then weren t Able to save it Stolt can t save it. They drink it right away. But even Ordinary swede drink much More when they have liquor at Home. We drink to get drunk he people from drinking was one of the reasons the government gave 3 escape Sardinia prison Quorp Sardinia Pupil three convicted thieves escaped from the Mamone penal Colony in the Interior of Sardinia officials said. It was Italy s 27th Jailbreak of the Yea Rand raised the total of escapees to 90. Some of whom have been recaptured or turned themselves in. New old Tolkien Book coming out ix3ndon i api a Book that j r r Tolkien started writing m 1917 As an invalid recuperating from War service in France will be published in she Early autumn a biography published thursday the tradition of the Man who made the Hobbit and Middle Earth a cult the new Book the Sirn Arillis a Sive mythology dealing with the creation of the world and the struggle Between elves and the Powers of evil he kept redrafting and revising and polishing but he would never put it in a finished said Humphrey Carpenter in the biography r s Book first written in a cheap Blue exercise Book is being put into final form by Tolkien s son. Christopher who first heard parts of the Sil Marilyon on his tatter s knee 40 years , author of the lord of the trilogy. Died in 1973 at the age of81 both the trilogy and the Hobbit were written years after Tolkien started the Silman lion and became world wide Best Sellers with sales of 10 says that Tolkien was an end less reviser and rent or and that he was still working on the Book in his final years to produce a continuous narrative Tol Kien merely had to decide which version of each chapter he should use. Or there were by now Many versions dating from his earliest work in 1917 to some passages written in the last few says car Penter. To produce a consistent and satisfactory text he would have to make a detailed collation of every manuscript and the Prospect of attempting thin filled him with when it announced the latest leap in liquor prices the hike had exactly the Stolt said. But the state took in a lot More lax Stolt said he thought it was very bad the govern men revealed the Price hike just before the Holiday. It s almost As if the slate wanted people to drink the Normal proportion of people going Toi Lle Rakers Hospital to get treatment for drinking problems is 40 per cent. Las week it was 90. This week has been extraordinary,too." Stolt said. They come when the liquor and the Money runs out another doctor said. Turkey arrests 20 in May Day bloodshed Istanbul. Turkey i api police an the District attorney s office announced the arrest of 20 persons for fomenting violence among crowds during a May Day rally Here in which 3t persons died. The 20 Are charged with carrying fire Ai irs. Shooting at a crowd and hurling sex list Sivu devices during the rally at a Central Istanbul Square. Police have attributed the violence to rival leftist actions another incident police in Nide Cen trial i Turkey. Reported the slaying of a High school student felled by a Bullet when shooting erupted Between student groups. Violence in Turkey s universities an secondary schools has claimed More than w lives this year. The wave of violence has Ocoine a major Issue in Turkey s general elect ions scheduled june 5
