European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday june 3, 1977 four new cardinals named by Pope Vatican City a Pope Paul visas named four new cardinals and will ele vate them in a consistory june 27, the Vati can announced  americans were among them. It will be the sixth and smallest consistory in the Pope s 14-year reign. The four new cardinals Are i. Bishop Giovanni Benelli the Vati can a Deputy Secretary of state or Deputy Premier who will become archbishop of florence.2. Archbishop Bernardin Gan tin former archbishop of Cotonou Benin and currently head of the Vatican curia s Justice and peace commission.3. Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger of Munich. 4. The Rev. Luigi Ciappi theologian of the pontifical  Pope also identified a prelate he had designated a Cardinal in Pector in his breast and kept his identity secret at a consistory last year. He is Bishop Frantl suck Tomasek apostolic administrator of Prague  designation apparently was kept secret because the Vatican was having consultations at the time with Czechoslovakia s communist  new designations increase the membership in the College of cardinals the princes of the Church who elect the Pope to 137. Of those 18 Are 80 years old or Over and by papal Law cannot participate in the balloting. Swiss Bank agreement specifies tight controls to curb secrecy abuse Zurich Dpi Swiss Banks rocked recently by a wave of scandals agree thursday to tighten controls to prevent abuse of Switzerland s banking secrecy regulations. They pledged in particular to be More careful about accepting funds from foreign depositors either trying to avoid  or taxes. The agreement in the form of a Conven Tion signed on one hand by the Swiss National Bank and by the Banks and the Swiss Bankers association on the other was prompted by the huge loss incurred by the credit Bank s Branch at Chiasson. That loss estimated at i billion Swiss francs $400 million involved taking in flight capital from Rich italians and changeling the Money to the Texon holding company in Liechtenstein. The loss represents credit Bank guarantees granted Ille Gally by the Chiasson Branch. Jet foil cuts 2 hours off London run London a Europe s first Jet foil service went into operation wednesday and Cut two hours off the seven hour plus journey from London to  50-mile-per-hour american built boat capable of carrying 212 passengers took 140 passengers on this inaugural trip in wide bodied jetliner  Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation co., which chartered the 16.8-Mil-lion Boeing Jet foil will use it for a year to evaluate the economics of operating a service in Europe. If it proves successful other services May be opened  s 134-mile run from Lon Don s Tower Bridge to the belgian port of Zeebrugge took the 11 won Craft three hours and 20 minutes. The trip costs $56. Including s5 for a train from the belgian port to the capital. In All the trip took 5 i hour the Jel foil. Named the flying Princess operates with its foils submerged and free from wave action. It is said to give smooth ride in Waves up to 12 feel american gets Book award for services with Enesco Paris api the 1977 International Hook award for outstanding services to the cause of Bouks has been awarded to Julian Behrstock recently retired As director of Enesco s division of free flow of information the organization announced Here. Behrstock an american was a member of the secretariat of the . Body for 28vears and for the past 12 years headed the program to develop publishing m develop ing nations. He headed the Enesco sponsored International Book year in 19?. Explaining the new convention Alfrede. Sarasin president of the Bankers association said that it in no Way changes the banking secrecy Laws and in fact amounts to what the Large majority of responsible Swiss Bankers have been doing All along. Chiasson could still have happened eve if the convention had been signed earlier Sarasin told a news  convention also does not modify Switzerland s system of numbered ban accounts where the identity of the account Holder is known Only to the top three Menat any Bank. But the Banks pledge to take greater care both in accepting funds and in manag ing them applies both to Normal and numbered accounts Sarasin said. The title of the convention signed thurs Day was. Convention relating to the use of banking secrecy and the responsibility of Banks to exercise  it said that Banks must know exactly who is opening an account in order to pre vent abuse of the banking secrecy Laws and any violation of the  violations it said will include opening and managing accounts of which the Legal source is unknown. Acceptance of funds which the Bank should know had fraudulent origins. Giving assistance in operations de signed to escape tax or move flight capital. In Case of doubt details must be demanded from the client the convention said the articles of the convention Are applicable without restriction to numbered accounts and to All other analogous forms of accounts and  it said. The problem of numbered accounts is thus considerably  convention to enter into Force july 1, provides for the establishment of an arbitration commission to be presided Over by a Swiss Federal  convention will last for five years to be extended or modified by common agree ment. Bearding the Constable Constable John Powers of Kitchener Ontario is a cop with a Hobby he collects Moths and butterflies. Here i a few of the colourful creatures crawl Over Powers face and demonstrate How deadliest in four centuries he would look with a Beard. Toe consta ble s collection contains 6,000 different specimens from All Over toe world. He raises them for purposes of studying genetic variations. A China admits severity of quake new York a chinese officials have acknowledged that last summer giant earthquake cast of peking was the deadliest since an estimated 830.000 per sons were killed in a quake four centuries ago. The new York times reported thurs  times in a dispatch from Tokyo said details of the july 28 quake in the Industrial City of Tangshan 100 Miles from peking were revealed by chinese officials to Cinna and Larissa Lomnie. A husband and wife research team from the National University in Mexico  tie chinese have not announced a death toll. Western observer believe at least 655.000 people died in the quake. Lomnie said chinese officials did not deny such High casualty figures the times reported. Lumnitz quoted chinese officials As saying the quake Cut a path of destruction four Miles wide and five Miles Long through the City and threw some people six feet into the air. It registered Between 7.8 and 8.2 on Thek Ichter scale. The researcher told the times he and his wife were not permitted to visit Tangshan during their two week trip. But after re viewing scores of photos and disaster descriptions Lomnitz suggested to the chinese the quake must have killed More people than any since 1556. When 83c.ooopeople perished in the Shenski quake history s deadliest. He told the times that the chinese officials acknowledged that the Tangshan quake was the worst since then. Lomnitz said he found evidence that before the quake scientists were afraid to make earthquake forecasts for fear of punishment if their predictions were wrong the times reported. But since the quake. Communist part chairman Hua Kuo Feng has encouraged such predictions and has told scientists they will not be held accountable if the tremors do not occur. The Richter scale measures ground motion As recorded on seismographs very increase of one number Means tenfold increase in magnitude. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area 4 moderate damage 5 considerable damage. 6 severe damage. A 7 Reading is major earthquake capable of wide spread heavy damage 8 is a great quake capable of tremendous damage