European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 26, 1977 agent Monomer $85,450 disappear . Renters ripped off in a town by Floyd Harrington Kaiser lantern Bureau chief Kaiserslautern Sis at least so american families living in a German apartment Complex Here May lose a considerable amount of Money because of the recent disappearance of the rental agent who managed the properties. Ramona Ashe manager of a five build ing Block of 90 apartments on Pariser Strasse near Vogel Weh. Is being sought by German police who say she apparently disappeared with an estimated 200,000marks about $85,450 in Utility deposits and rent payments. Ashe managed most of the 90 apartments for More than seven is unknown at this Lime exactly How couple pays $1 million to kidnappers Las vegas up a Bank vice presi Dent and his wife a former Western comedy Star were released by kidnappers tuesday after an estimated $1 million Ransom was paid authorities n. Fruzza vice president of first National Bank of Nevada was found near the isolated Community of Pahrump 45 Miles from Here. His wife Polly was discovered handcuffed to a bedpost Inan older Section of the showboat hotel a hotel Casino on the Eastern Boundary of this gambling resort. She at on time was a Western comedy Star who to iced under the name Polly of them appears to be harmed physically in anyway said Jack Keith agent in charge of the Fri couple was held hostage in their i is vegas Home monday night unti Fruzza could get into the Bank vault tues Day morning. Fruzza was instructed to Goto the vault and fill two satchels with said million dollars would be conserva Tive said one investigator when asked How much Money was taken from the vault to pay off the drove to the Bank before Busi Ness hours and while there told Empl Yeshe and his wife had been kidnapped and were being held hostage. He drove away from the Bank alone following directions written on a note in the seat of his car. Fed eral agents Fruzza was at the Bank his 50 year old wife stayed with the people kept them hostage All night. And this morning retaining his wife in custody directed Fruzza to go to the Bank and obtain Money and follow instructions they had left in his car. He followed the instructions obtained the Money and said Keith. Many american tenants past and present will be Hurt financially by Ashe s disappearance police said. Most rented the apartments for Short periods of time Usu ally six to eight months while waiting for government quarters to become available. Ashe collected no Marks from each tenant before they moved into the apart ment police officials said. She told the ten ants the Money wan for Utility deposits an also that the tenant should pay Utility Bills to her rather than directly to the Utility companies police said. However. Instead of using the Deposit Money to have the utilities put in the new tenant s name she left the utilities in previous tenant s name and kept the de posit Money police said. When a family left to move into government quarters they were told they had used up the de posit or were Given Only a partial few families challenged this practice police Gas company officials discovered the discrepancy in names in which the utilities were listed when a new tenant decided to handle his own transactions. They sent a representative to can Vass the apartments to find out who was actually living there. During the investigation the present tenants were told the utilities were not in their names and that they would have to make another Security de after the Gas company representative left the americans held a meeting and decided to take the problem to the to Jelweh housing referral office. Right now this office is acting an a coordinator said Heinrich Reinhardt chief of housing referral. We be got to had out who has lived there who paid deposits to mrs. Ashe and who the landlords has asked that everyone who has lived in the apartments to bring i copies of their receipts and rental con tracts. Ill do my Best to get the Ameri can families Money Back. How far i can push it i Don t know yet he Date investigations have shown that a number of landlords have also lost Money. Ashe had reported their apart ments Vacent but had in fact rented them and pocketed that Money too police said. New data on n. Korea buildup led to no pullout stand Singlaub says Washington a the general whom president Carter reassigned for criticizing administration policy on Korea testified wednesday that North Korea is building up its might and he is convinced Carter s plan to withdraw . Ground forces would Lead to . Gen. John k. Singlaub. Whom Carter fired As chief of staff of . Force sin Korea for criticizing the withdrawal plan told a House armed services sub committee his fear of War is based on new intelligence of the North korean buildup.. Intelligence discovered this year that the North koreans have increase their number of tanks from 500 to 2,000 Over the past four or five years the Gener Al general who is awaiting reassign ment by the army said that is in addition to the North korean increase in combat ships and it fighters that has already Bee publicly reported. Contradicting a con Gressional budget office study Singlaub testified that North Korea s military Power is Superior to South Korea s now even with the . Forces there. Rep. Samuel s. Stratton d-n.y., chair Man of the subcommittee before which Singlaub testified asked if he was . And korean military officers overwhelmingly agree the . Withdrawal will ultimately Lead to is absolutely Correct the Gener Al he was asked if he was saying it might Lead to War or it will Lead to replied that korean military officers state Flat out unequivocally that when . Forces Are withdrawn North korean president Kim in Sung will attack and i said that from a military Point of View i agree with he testified that a number of . Mili tary officers were willing to go along last year with withdrawal of . Ground forces from Korea but have changed their mind because of the intelligence on North Korea s increase in its ability to , defense Secretary Harold Brown told the National press club that hand Gen. George s. Brown chairman of the joint chiefs of staff believe that withdrawals of . Ground combat Force from Korea can be faithfully accomplished Over the period of four to five Secretary Brown said in prepared re Marks this is contingent on maintaining . Air and logistic support for the South korean forces continued strengthening of those forces and the firm commitment of the United states to the Security of the Pentagon chief expressed full Confidence that the Republic of Korea can successfully assume the full ground combat role in the next four to five did not directly address the question of whether As Singlaub claims the pullout of about 33.000 . Ground troops will bring War but the implication of Brown s words was that he disagreed with this defense Secretary noted that South Korea outstrips North Korea in population by nearly 2 to 1. That its Economy is substantially bigger and growing and that it has a $5-billion, five year program under Way to upgrade its armed Long term trends on the Peninsula tend to favor our ally in the South Brown said senior . Officers including Gen. John Vessey. Commander . Forces in Korea were so concerned about the danger that they asked the join chiefs of staff for the rationale of with drawing .forces.he said the joint chiefs never answered that have not heard any rationale we have not heard any reason Given sing Laub said. It is making our Job extremely he said generals in Korea were asked to comment on a number of different options for withdrawing the . Ground troop Sand said the president s plan for the phased withdrawal Over four or five Yean is the least made it quite Clear some would be disastrous he said and we ended up with the least if the publicity months ago about the North korean tunnels under the demilitarized zone Between North and South Korea was exaggerated. Singlaub replied i assure you those tunnels Are very very real. Those tunnels pose a serious threat to South said vehicles can be driven through them and troops can March through them three general said he. Naively answered a question about the Impact of the withdraw Al in an interview with a Washington Post reporter John Saar believing he would not be quoted by name. The Post has said the general agreed to be quoted by name. Singlaub was recalled by Carter shortly after the interview was said he never made it Clear at the time to the reporter that the interview was on background which would have pre vented use of his name. I Learned later i should have done that the general Testi fied. Temperatures airline bombed bans Cuba flights fort Lauderdale Fla. A the main office of Mackey International airlines a charter company which recently began flying to Cuba was heavily dam aged by a bomb wednesday. The firm s owner said he was calling off All flights to the communist ruled will not Fly to Cuba under any circumstances said Joe Mackey. I hate to give up but too Many lives Are involved. Iam not going to risk one of my employees for the Broward county fire department said the 12 15 am. Explosion blew away the front of the one Story build ing which houses several other businesses related to the airline or operated by the same owners. There was no fire. Windows were shattered in an office building across the Street. Broward arson and bomb investigators picked through the rubble looking for clues to the blast. They said they believed it was caused by dynamite. An Anonymous caller told a in Miami that a bomb was placed at Mackey air lines in fort Lauderdale by the Boitel commandos. As the human rights of the people there Are violated we will continue our organization of that name honors Pedro Luis Boitel who died while on a hunger strike in a cuban jail in 1973. Boitel was serving a 25-year political the time of the blast Mackey vice president Jim Reynolds was in Havana negotiating for rights to begin regular flights to the Island. Mackey has made several flights to Havana in the past few years. Sen. George Mcgovern. . And other Congress men have been among the Mackey said there would be no More flights of any kind to Cuba. I m going to cancel everything he said. I Don t care who wants to go to Cuba they can find their own Way l h w 13 Albany is 12 Albuquerque 57 n am Anllo 41 Anchorage 51 n Asheville u 67 Atlanta u \ Atlantic City 66 is Austin it n Baltimore s4 it Billings 6s ii Birmingham 63 91 Bismarck v 61 Boise a n Boston n it Brownville u k Bullaro 67 m Burlington 41 79 Casper 63 u Charleston. S c. 59 n Charleston w. A. 61 4 Charlotte 44 11 Cheyenne u 90 Chicago 60 u Cincinnati 63 As Cleveland 63 i Columbia. S. C. U 16 Columbus u � Dalias it. 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