European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 23, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 27 Orient express excitement Glamor intrigue. Exotic Era ends with the final journey Istanbul a a chapter in rail Road history ended sunday As the last scheduled Orient express from Paris pulled into Istanbul s is Rucci station on the shores of the bosporus. Unlike its glamorous forebear this train had Only one first class car and. If there were spies or secret agents aboard they kept a Low prof Ilc. First class passengers leaned from the windows and opened bottles of Champagne spam frees five enemies of Franco Madrid up the Spanish govern ment sunday began releasing the deadliest enemies of the former Franco regime flying five Basque separatists to exile i Belgium. The five members of the organization Eta Basque Homeland and Liberty and once sentenced to death were transported during the night under heavy guard from Spanish prisons to a military air base South of military plane flew them to Brussels the National news Agency Cifra said. The 19 remaining Basque political prisoners Are to be released and in most cases exiled in the coming Days according to Basque politicians who entered with the Interior min ister. Meanwhile in the Basque Industrial Hub of Bilbao red carnations from 40,000 communist supporters greeted Dolores Barru i la Pas Onaria in her first Public appearance since returning to Spain nine Days ago after 38 years of russian exile. La Pas Onaria the passionate one81, spoke with a forceful yet emotion filled voice of her Joy at returning to her native Muskadi the basques name for their land which straddles Spain and France. But she ref red to her exile Home As the great soviet country and declared it is possible to build socialism and live without legendary Iba Ruri still titular head of the Spanish communist party electrified the anti Francois forces in the 1936-39 civil War with her oratory and slogan they shall not she told the crowd at the Bilbao exposition fair forty years ago i left Muskadi but never in sadness nor in Happi Ness has my name nor my person been absent from tired she appeared last on the communist rally program and spoke for Only 10 minutes. To celebrate the end of the Era. Apparently unaware of the momentous occasion second class passengers spilled out of the train and into the Melee of traffic and the hawkers that crowd the station. Reporters and television cameramen gathered around the train which was pulled by a turkish supplied i Csc Loco motive. Some passengers joined hands on leaving and Sang Auld Lang Vianello Fausto. 67. Said a part of the Good old Days goes into history with Grace and Pride. Nothing has matched this train. No other Means of transportation can approach the exotic atmosphere it has at ways , a Veteran train conductor said. I m old. And i like old trains it s As simple As Hope that Well go Back to horses As the sole Way of journeying across the Conti it s soup Turtle Tom Smith shows off at Center City minn., a 30-Pound snapper he caught in South Center Lake. Hell dish up Turtle soup to kids at a Halfway House. A Witch doctor cure not cause Paw Paw patient Dies suddenly London a kidney transplant patient William Scharf. Whose doctors last month used strips of tropical Paw Paw fruit to heal an operation incision died of a massive Haemorrhage in London s Dulwich Hospital saturday the Hospital announced. J j doctors said scarfs unexpected death was not related to the wound Healing remedy used for centuries by african witchdoctor. His death came Only five weeks after kidney transplant specialists dispatched scarfs new Bride to search London stores for the exotic fruit so they could place strips of it across the infected " although rare in England this Lime of year one specially store had Paw paws on order and mrs. So liar paid h.25 for the fruit i can t Tell you How Happy i Scharf said shortly after the Paw Paw treatments were initiated and the wound began to heal. In another six months i m going to be like a Superman. I feel belter than i Ever did. It s a ridiculous but almost miraculous cure but saturday the 31-year-old financier who had been readmitted to the Hospital two weeks ago far observation and tests died very suddenly the Hospital said it is not yet known Why but the doctors treating him said the Haemorrhage has nothing to do with either his transplant or his wound the Hospital statement added. An autopsy is scheduled Early this week authorities died two hours after chatting with or. Michael Bewick chief of the transplant team that performed the kidney operation in Early april. He Scharf was a bit depressed at being in Hospital but there was nothing to suggest what was going to happen later Bewick said saturday night certainly our use of the Paw Paw is to tally irrelevant to his death my own feel ing which can Only be confirmed by the postmortem is that something completely unexpected happened inside the he added the Haemorrhage was at least a foot away from the transplant area and therefore could not be related in any Way to the use of the fruit Bewick said 20 to 25 per cent of kidney transplant patients died most of them in the first Throe to six months following the operation. Every member of the medical team which cared for Scharf during his illness was shattered by his he added. said that he much detests planes and original Orient express was established in 1883, running from Paris to Istanbul via Munich Vienna Budapest and Bucharest crossing the Danube River by boat and ending up in Istanbul. In later years Sofia and Belgrade were included on the 1919, the so called Simpson Orient line was established As an offshoot run Ning along the Mediterranean coast. Eventually on that route there were twice weekly journeys Between Paris and Stan its original course the Tine was nearly 2,000 Miles Long and it was consid ered the safest and most luxurious Way of getting to in the aisles some of the 20 american British an French passengers on the final trip said they were disappointed at the Start be cause of Lack of water poor food service and not enough attendants deficiencies they had t expected on the last journey of such a famous line. But an atmosphere of camaraderie grew As the train left Paris and the 60-hour Farewell trip was marked with Champagne and dancing in the aisles on virtually every Mckay a san Rafael calif., paper manufacturer said he had a marvelous time living in the journey s atmosphere of excitement although he hated at first the idea of travelling in a train for two and a half was pleased with the service and even the of water to Wash our faces did t bother he said. I consider myself Lucky to have joined the s300-a ticket Case of Champagne Bert Bommers. A dutch journalist regretted not enough Champagne was bought to last for the whole trip. He said a Small amount brought aboard at the Start of the journey was used up right away and trav Elers had to buy a new Case at the turkish Border to save for the Farewell ceremony at representative of rolling Stone James Llor wite. 33. Of new York almost lost out on part of the was walking in the station during the Stop at said. Suddenly i saw the train pull ing out it sneaked away and i ran after it like mad. But could t catch up with he look a taxi and caught up with it at a Stop about 170 Miles ahead. I 011 jetliner Check was ordered by Faa Washington api emergency inspections on Lockheed l1011 Jet airliners were ordered last month following a Mal function aboard a Delta Airliner in flight the Federal aviation administration Dis Faa said it issued an emergency airworthiness directive april 15 requiring a special inspection of the aircraft s Stabi Lizer. The checks were completed within 24 hours on the 79 a dolls registered in the order was issued after a bearing jammed in the Tail of a Delta l1011, Locking the Stabilizer in position and preventing the Pilot from leveling the plane for Normal flight. The Light from san Diego continued in a nose up attitude and landed safely at los Angeles its scheduled destination the Faa said. Slide traps climbers Sion. Switzerland a one Young Swiss alpinist was killed and two others were missing Falci they Ere swept off Bya huge Snow slide on the Grund combing Mountain in Southern Switzerland. Police said the three were on the Way to Star climbing the Peak when they were sur prised by the slide
