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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, May 10, 1977

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday May 10, 1977 Barf prove luring Rich plan loads new York an airborne Armada of avid Art collectors invades eng land this week with their Check books targeted at disposal of the Baron Mayer de Rothschild collection. It s billed As the greatest Sale since the French revolutionaries Cut off Marie Antoinette s head an sold off the contents of Versailles. The rothschilds acquired a lot of Marie s property and among the items coming under the Hammer at Mentmore in Buckinghamshire Are two of the milk Buck ets she used when playing at Dairying. They re pretend buckets made by the Sevres porcelain factory and painted to look like Wood apparently it never dawned on the Queen to buy the real thing. The buckets Are expected to bring about $8.000 apiece and even at that they re among the cheaper items. The contents Are expected to bring a total of from $7.5 wild act hits the Street Joy and Ron Holiday of St. Petersburg fli., draw some startled looks from Montreal pedestrians As the floridians take their a month of siberian Tiger Hercules for a downtown walk in the Balmy weather. Hercules i part of a wild animal act presented by the compleat a Montreal nightclub. Dpi photo million to $16  towers is also up for grabs to anyone willing to pay about 8 million for a House which among other attractions has Over 200 guest rooms. The British press has been saying that ironically Only an Arab Oil Sheik can afford to buy the monumental Symbol of  about the Sale is worldwide. Chartered and private jets Are scheduled from the Island of Bahrein in the persian Gulf Dallas Houston new York. Los an Geles. San Francisco. Zurich  Texas millionaire has invited a couple of dozen people to Fly Over in his private plane from his private  Park a met the auctioneers have sold 80,000 copies of the catalogue at $60 each. A new printing is being rushed through the presses. Kuwait buys 8 jets from ., France Kuwait a Oil Rich Kuwait has beefed up its infant air Force with eight new Jet fighters from the United states and France the government announced. It said four  skyhawk War planes and four French made Mirage jets have joined the air Force lately. Defense minister Sheik Saad Abdullah Al Sabah inspected the new jets and attended a Drill operation conducted by kuwaiti pilots trained in the United states and France. The sky Hawks were the first warplanes Ever received from the United states officials said while the new mirages brought to 12 the number of Jet fighters bought from  of defense Abdul Razek Al Khamis told reporter Kuwait will get More Mirage jets from France at the rate of four per month for an unspecified  said Kuwait s arms Deal with the soviet Union does not include warplanes. The Deal he said is mainly for surface to air missiles. Kuwait recently earmarked is 5 billion for arms purchases from Western and soviet sources. H has concluded a $200 Mil lion Deal with Britain involving Iso tanks and other types of hardware. Organist Fischer Dies Wilmette Iii. A Irwin Fischer an organist for the Chicago symphony or Chestra from 1944 to 1967 and composer of two symphonies died Here Al age 73. Truce panel discusses Diaz ambush among those going to England for Utt Sale which starts a Yll and will go on for nine Days Are the Prentice a Ltd i owns Neiman Marcus in Dallas and Berrr Dorf Goodman in new York. They no among the supera fluent flying from a rein As Are or. And mrs. . Vincent r Whitney Warren is Hying from Vienna the John 6. Boweres Are making their War via Paris a Paul Getty s daughter in Law is in the Madrid group and Norton slim is sending his expert buyer with the lot Angeles group along with Daryl key & Rector of the Pasadena museum of Art. Most of the world s great museums Are sending representatives. Even if they Don t buy. They want to look at the collection which has never been publicly shown sir Francis Watson the British Ait expert was overwhelmed when be saw it and commented that it is questionable if the combined collections of the richest museums in the world could equal  of preeminent value Louis Xiv desk has been classified by the British government As of preeminent value and rotheby s has put no Price wait because of the classification. It is expected to go for More than any piece of furniture has Ever been sold for previously. That would be Over half a million  is being sold by the seventh Earl of Rosebery great grandson of Hannah Rothschild. She married the fifth Earl who is said to have told american friends that he had three ambitions in life to win the Derby to marry an heiress and to be prime minis Ter of  evidence of Success a Silver statue of his Derby Winner. King Tom is on sate for $10.000 there is Mentmore. Which Hannah an orphan brought to him and history tells that indisputably he was prime min ister of England. The Only failure recorded in Rosebery s life was his marriage proposal to Winston Churchill s widowed Mother. Lady ran Dolph Churchill she turned him Down and married a Man half her age. Bigger than a Palace Mentmore. One of the most sensational sights in England looks like a Royal Palace Only bigger. The 19th Century rothschilds lived As Queen Victoria would have if she had had the Money. For instance the bathroom fixtures Are Marble commodes made for Louis Xiv and Louis Xvi. Pierced and fitted with basins and taps. Meyer de Rothschild said they were cheaper than new ones. The front Hall 40 feet High has a Marble fireplace designed by Peter Paul Rubens for his own Home. A Rubens painting when one comes on the Market brings from Al million up. Unc charges n. Korea with Wanton killing Panmunjom. Korea a the United nations command accused North Korea monday of the unprovoked and Wanton killing of a South korean Soldier and demanded that those responsible be punished. North Korea denied the attack which the command said occurred last tuesday in the Southern half of the demilitarized zone about 40 Miles East of Here. The communists said the charge was an out and out fabrication by the South korean puppet clique to justify keeping  Troops in South  Exchange came in a one hour. 40 minute meeting of the military armistice commission Al this truce Village on the Doz. It was the first meeting of the com Mission since oct. 9. And the first incident reported since the aug. 18 killing of two american officers by North korean guards  100 newsmen from several coun tries peered in windows of the building As the commission met across a table straddling the line Between the two  chief unc Delegate. . Army maj. Gen. John k. Singlaub said. For the second time in eight months this commis Sion has been convened to discuss the kill ing of a unc Soldier by your  Singlaub said a South korean foot patrol was ambushed on the Barrier Fence at the Southern Edge of the demilitarized one. "1 protest the Wanton killing of this individual and Call upon your Side to punish those involved. And to inform this commission when you have carried out your  Singlaub said. North korean chief Delegate maj. Gen. Han jul Kyong said none of our person Nel has crossed the military demarcation line much less fired at soldiers of the South korean puppet  afar Issac vote for Independence Djibouti afar and Issac up the Quarter million people of the territory of the afar and Issac voted by More than 99.5 per cent for Independence from France in sunday s referendum final unofficial results showed monday. No major incidents were reported Al though police said a Little girl lost several fingers when she picked up a flare a Heli copter had dropped the flare to determine wind direction for a Landing. Aboard the helicopter was one of the several International teams sent by the United nations the organization for Afri can Unity and the Arab league to observe the referendum. In a companion ballot in this last Afri can territory under a european Flag the Only slate running for a constituent Assem Bly collected 90 per cent of the vote with the other 10 per cent abstaining. The As Sembly will draw up a Constitution. The territory is scheduled to become in dependent june 27. Probably under the name of the Republic of Djibouti. Independence is expected to intensify the territory s severe problems. It is strategically located at the Horn of Africa where the red sea joins the Indian Ocean. This makes it a potential Pawn in regional or global quarrels. It is coveted by its two neighbors. Ethiopia and Soma Lia and us own population is split betwee the afar. Who Are ethnically related to the Ken ionians and the Issac. Who Are close tothe somalis. France almost doubled its 6.000-Mangarrison to 10,000 men to help insure a peaceful election. But it is yet to be decided whether the French military presence will continue after Independence. The newly elected constituent Assembly of 65 men is headed by Hassan routed. Anissa Leader who said he Hopes to forge a United nation  
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