European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse 66 persons killed As soviet jetliner crashes in Cuba sunday May 29, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 Mexico City a a soviet jetliner crashed near Havana Friday and the cuban news Agency Prensa Latina reported 66 persons were killed and two others injured. Usa fails of perform in Germany Mildenhall England two . Air Force a10 ground attack aircraft landed at Raf Milden Hau North of Londo Friday after completing a 2,779 nautical mile nonstop flight from Loring fab Maine. The aircraft from the tactical air Gomel s 355th tactical fighter Wing at Davis Monthan fab ariz., touched Down at 6 54 p.m., completing the Atlantic Cross ing in 10 hours and 51 minutes. Each aircraft was equipped with three external 600 gallon fuel tanks and was re fuelled once by a kc97 Tanker aircraft from the 128th air refuelling group at general Billy Mitchell Field in Wisconsin. Both of the Aid aircraft will participate during a Usan tactic validation to be con ducted in Germany during mid june. This will involve the refinement and validation of a10 close air support attack tactics to the european environment. In addition to the tactics validation the alos will visa . Army installations in Germany and the Netherlands and will perform at Greenham common in the . Before returning to the United states in late june. Piloting the aircraft were u. b. Thompson Tulsa okla., com Mander of the 333rd tactical fighter training so and capt. Charles r. Harr. Wichita Falls a Raf Milden Hau open House and flight demonstration Here sunday the alos will be leased to Fairchild industries for demonstration and flight display at the Paris air show june 2-12, at Lebourget Airfield. A dispatch from Havana monitored rare said 56 of the 58 passengers and Crew aboard the aircraft died to the crash. The other fatalities were on the ground it said. Quoting cuban aviation authorities. Prensa Latina said the aircraft crashed about 3,300 feet Short of the runway As it was making its final approach to Havana Jose Martin Airport. Cuban authorities immediately set up a team to investigate the crash the news Agency said. The plane was in route to Havana from Moscow with stopovers in Frankfurt an Lisbon. A Canadian embassy spokesman in Havana said the plane was attempting to make an emergency Landing with on engine afire. Senate oks Sullivan As envoy to i ran Washington a the . Senate has confirmed the nomination of William r Sullivan to be ambassador to Iran he was one of a dozen ambassadors confirmed without debate or objection. Among the others All career foreign service officers were l. Douglas Heck to Nepal Rozanne l. Ridgway to Finland James Gordon Loonstein to Luxem Bourg Robert h. Miller to Malaysia Donald Clayton Bergus to Sudan Ronald i. Spiers to Turkey and Frederick Irvin to Jamaica. The National disaster survival test i l judgment 1. B e d 1 2. I b e d 3. A b e i 1 scow i ii. Alertness 1. My no1 2. Ust the number of potential Dai in. Stress 1 1. Yea no 9. In no1 2. Be no 10. My no i 3. My no 11. In no i 4. A no 12. My no5. Yaa no 13. My Noi 6. My no 14. In no 7. In no is. My no1 8. My no ii. Knowledge 1. Of 5. T f 8. T f Iff 8. F f 9. Of 3. T f 7. T f 10. T f 4 t f score Nymn v. Leadership 1. B e d 2. A be d score preliminary score i special scoring your final score i j this is the official test form for the National disaster survival a Home audience participation special to teat americans on their knowl Edge and ability to survive a natural or Man made Snyder As the Host will be joined by four co hosts Wally Schirra. Shana Alexander. John Amos and Kate Jackson in the program to be presented on sunday May 291977 4 Ao-6 . Use this teat form to indicate your answers to total your score and to compare your score with your family friends and other groups. Britain s Sale of the Century ends Mentmore England up with a final rap of the auctioneer s Hammer the Sale of the Century ended Friday with a multimillion Dollar outcome and much bitterness left behind. Record after record tumbled in 18 Sale sessions to Mentmore mania a breath less eagerness by professionals and amateurs Auke to pay almost any Price for an object from Mentmore towers. The 7th Earl of Rosebery. 48, put Many turreted Mentmore and its Rich Gaudy contents on the auction Block to pay an in Day an says begin would go to a Geneva peace meeting Tel Aviv up former defense minister Moshe Dayan said saturday prospective prime minister Menahem begin is willing to go to a Confer ence and discuss the Fate of All occupied Arab territories including the West Bank Christine Keeter divorced London a Christine Keek the red haired playgirl whose intimacies with a British Cabinet minister and a soviet naval attache rocked Harold Macmillan s conservative government in the 1960s, agreed to a divorce sought by her husband Anthony Platt judge Israel Finestein held that the 1971 marriage of Keeler now a and Platt a 37-year-old company director had broken Down because they had lived apart for More than two years. The couple Sepa rated in 1972. They have a 5-year-old son. Of Jordan. Dayan s comments came in radio inter views just before a crucial meeting of the leadership of begin s liked bloc to decide whether to affirm or reject Dayan s Nomi nation As foreign minister in a new liked led government. Begin 63, was to leave the Hospital sunday after treatment and follow up tests for a suspected heart ailment. He was to preside Over the meeting at his Small single bedroom apartment in downtown Tel was the Liberal Wing in the liked bloc that forced begin to re discuss Dayan s nomination which had stirred dissent also among the liked s prospective coalition of them archaeologist Yigael Ladin s democratic movement for change suspended All contacts with liked negotiators demanding that Dayan s appointment be called off. Hesitance tax Bill estimated at s7 million. Rotheby Parke Bernet the world s top auctioneer sold the fabulous furniture the priceless porcelain and shining Silver piled up in a great treasure horde in the 1850s by Baron Mayer de Rothschild. It also sold the Kitchen pots Boot scrap e is and fire tongs which for a Century made Mentmore towers the epitome of upstairs downstairs living. Almost every one of the 3,850 lots sold for double its highest estimated Price or More. The record setting Sale spread Over 10 Days should have left everyone Happy and almost did. But bitterness rankled among patriots Art lovers and defenders of Britain s Heri Tage that Mentmore towers was not pre served intact for the nation to enjoy. Yet the Sale pleased All the parties involved. Lord Rosebery should be Happy. With All taxes paid he could wind up with a net of some $1.46 million plus another $1.7 Mil lion or so from Selling the House itself its. 650 farm acres its Queen Anne Manor House and 28 other cottages. Rotheby s should be pleased. Its biggest american gets 83,361 -to-1 payoff on French horse race Paris a an american has won 183,362 on a French horse race but won t reveal his identity the owner of the cafe where he bought his ticket said. The cafe owner said the american paid one Dollar for the ticket and picked tour horses in the right order for a record 83.361-to-l payoff. The French Don t tax race winnings but the americans do and so far the camera shy Winner has not cashed in. Ever auction brought commissions Esti mated at j1.9 million. The government grabbed four top item for its museums and the National gallery bought a full length portrait of Madame de Pompadour for the National collection. Mobutu returns from front after rout of rebels Kinshasa up president Mobutu sese seko made a triumphant return to his capital saturday from a five week stay in Shaba where he directed his army s operations against rebels who invaded the prov Ince from Angola March 8. But the Victory in Shaba should not induce us to triumphant complacency As constant vigilance remains necessary Mobutu told cheering crowds. With the capture of Katanga the rebels last stronghold two Days ago the National news Agency asap had said the War was virtually Over. In a half hour speech at the 20th-of-May stadium he told the crowd he will reorganize the army so that Zaire cannot be at tacked from Shaba any he praised the political courage of French president Valery Giscard d Esta ing who put French transport planes at the disposal of Morocco to Fly 1,500 troops with their equipment to Shaba to assist Mobutu in beating Back the rebels. Morocco s military assistance was proof of the african Solidarity Mobutu said. He said the presence of cuban adventurers in Africa was a shame
