European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 13, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 27 Nixon downplays Kissinger continued from Page 1 Israel during the 1973 yom kippur War with Egypt and Syria. In describing his selection of a successor to his first Secretary of state William , Nixon said he had Little Choice Tut to give Kissinger control of both the Slat department and the National Security staff i d gone through the Rogers Kissinger feud for four years he said and i did t want to buy another feud with another Secretary of state such As Connally who hotel ruins yield seven More bodies Amsterdam Dpi firemen have pulled seven More bodies from the rubble of the downtown hotel Polen placing the death toll from monday s Flash fire at 20 and increasing probability that 13 person still missing also died a police spokesman said thursday. Officials have not released the names of the victims nor of 22 persons hospitalized from the Dawn Blaze that levelled the 19th-Century hotel within 30 minutes and gutted an adjacent building. But they said one of the dead eight of the injured and most of those still missing were from a swedish tour group staying atthe Polen another of the dead and four of the missing were argentines official said. Search win continue authorities said the search will continue and said there were increasing fear those Stilt listed As missing could still be under the Polen s charred of the dead an a year old woman lived in the building adjacent to the there were no immediate indications of further victims from the building which housed a Book shop on its ground floor. Some of the hotel guest jumped fro windows to flee the fire. One Slid Down a makeshift rope fashioned from bed Sheet before the building collapsed. Health officials say less than half of the dead have been positively identified Point ing out that the victims were in and were not carrying their cause of the Blaze has not yet been established but Amsterdam fire chief Chris Baay has said arson was highly in Kissinger might feel threatened his Posi Tion of being the president s major foreign policy Kissinger remained in the Cabine through former president Gerald Ford s abbreviated term but Ford stripped him of the White House Post in 1974. A spokes Man for Kissinger said thursday that he would have no comment on Nixon s re Marks. As edited by Frost from much longer conversations videotaped several weeks ago in California the 90-minute foreign policy dialogue provided footnotes rather than new chapters on the diplomatic triumphs and trials of Nixon s aborted presi Dency. Some of Nixon s remarks served How Ever to elaborate on the pragmatism with which he approached problems. The Tele cast thursday night made Clear that he still is fascinated by big Power diplomacy. He made the following Points Nixon said he had rejected an egyptian plea for a joint soviet american Mili tary Force to impose a cease fire on the Middle East in 1973 because it would have been sheer madness to invite potential confrontation Between superpowers in so strategic an area. Describing the yom kippur War As a object lesson in the value of detente Nixon recalled that Brezhnev had hammered me at a mid-1973 Summit meeting about the necessity of an israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands and the president Marshall plan for Africa in the works Young Abidjan Ivory coast up Andre Young said thursday the strife Between Whites and Blacks in Southern Africa Mustbe solved without speaking at a news conference the to the United nations said the . And its allies were formulating for Africa development policies similar to the Marshall plan that helped Stop communist expansion in Europe after its destruction in world War ii. Young faced the press after a two Day closed door review of african issues with american ambassadors from african Capi tals and a prolonged conference with Felix Hou Houet Bovigny 73. President of the Ivory coast and Black Africa s elder statesman. Had stipulated that the . Will not let Israel go Down the As a consequence Nixon said the nuclear Alert he ordered during the War in response to an ominous note from Brezhnev threatening unilateral intervention in the Middle East was a message which would get through to Moscow. Neither Nixon nor Frost noted that the Alert came shortly after the so called sat urday night massacre of the watergate period and that contemporary reports suggested that Nixon approved rather than initiated the Alert. Acknowledging that the . Had forced Israel to forgo an Opportunity to de stroy the egyptian 3rd army Nixon com pared his method to that of the film version of a mafia godfather saying of the israelis. We gave pm an offer that they could not contended that the imposed military restraint had been in Israel s self interest a View not shared in Tel Aviv because such a pyrrhic Victory would have led Toth a ,. To Tom it a Njoo 21 .mi,400 us .11700 ii a i i Wein no Jav 1 0 most Active up int w Mast Kum stocks in Crit go con posit Ifo Klina Ai 4 . Soil a Chol. I4joo i 47.joo 11 Dow Jones averages new York api Dow Jwo a Cloung re or Mian to Clow 20 Tram port 6i Slot i j4i.a in ill to 309 to a lilt h to thurs come 1.m oj7 -0.0 an pilots to train in Germany in Olstadt Germany a . Air National guard fighter unit was scheduled to land Friday at this German air base i Central Bavaria. Members of the 36th tactical fighter Wing from Pitburg a Are already Here on temporary duty working with their hos German air Force representatives preparing in Olstadt a to receive a7d Corsair from Ohio and Pennsylvania air National guard Ang prepare for the tactical deployment of the air National guard s 121st tactical fighter Wing from Rickenbacker fab Ohio and the greater Pittsburgh Airport in Pennsylvania. Pitburg a specialists Are serving in a Liaison capacity with their German counterparts Here. Pitburg engineering police finance transportation logistics and communications personnel have expanded and americanized available facilities so that arriving guardsmen and guards Menwill be Able to pick up their duties quickly in an unfamiliar environment a Safe spokesman said. Acting As Safe sponsors for members of the air National guard unit Are col. Charles w. Kern 36th Tow Deputy com Mander for resources management and capt. Ronald Hoover of Pitburg a s Logis tics plans Section. One third of Pitburg s specialists will remain with the 121st during the two week deployment to provide logistical deployments of .-based fighters such As this one Are designed tenable . And German air Force Mem Bers to improve their ability to conduct joint operations and to evaluate standardization of equipment and procedures. The deployment also will test and exercise nato s capability to receive and augmentation forces the spokesman said. Volcano erupts in Aleutian Chain Akutan Island Alaska api volcanic eruption has been reported on Akutan Bland 1,000 Miles Southwest of an chorale in the Aleutian Chain according to the . Geological uses spokesman said there is a Vil Lage on the Island but there was no Wordon whether the eruption was a threat to them. The Island is about 30 Miles East of dutch Harbor. The spokesman also said the Volcano has erupted More than 20 times in the last 200 years. The last eruption was reported in 1973. The first sighting of the volcanic activity was made by the coast guard Cutter Iron Wood. Earlier an airline Pilot reported sighting Ash and incandescent material. Conversion rates Brussels Dpi thursday s closing rates of the . Dollar to european currencies. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies to dollars May 11 urn. 2.1711 .4.1104 .2.4400 or 11i 2.144 British Pound. German Marki French franc. Dutch Guilder. Belgian franc italian lira _ a. Swiss franc i924j 11311 greek drachma 37.00 17.07 turks Ellra. 17.10 a Spanish Peseux. 40.14 40.wthese Are commercial banking rates and in most cases Are not available to the Public at the exact rate indicated. The Sale of Marks to . Personnel for personal use will be at the rate of 2.35 on Friday which is based on a Price fixing a midday and allows for a Standard handling charge
