European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 23, 1977 the stars and stripe5 Page 5 House votes i year Block on Fra s ban on saccharin Washington up the House voted tuesday to Block for at least one year the food and drug administration s proposed ban on saccharin. Rejecting arguments the move was unwise because of new evidence linking the artificial sweetener with cancer the House approved by standing vote an Amend ment that would forbid toe Fra from using Federal Money to promulgate or enforce the ban through sept. 30,1978. The provision was attached to a measure carrying $21.7 billion to fund the Agri culture department and related agencies for the new fiscal year starting oct. 1. The House then approved the Overall Bill 380 to 35, and sent it to the Senate. The amendment was sponsored by reps. Harold Volkmer d-mo., and Jamie Whitten a miss. Haldeman surrenders at prison to begin term for watergate crimes Washington a . Haldeman the second most powerful Man in Richard Nixon s White House has entered prison. He walked into the Gates at the Federal minimum Security facility at Lompoc. Calif. Tuesday at 5 , the Bureau of prisons reported. Haldeman reported for his confinement .1 19. " a few of the More than 800 contestants entered in the 13th annual Sand Castle contest get to work at Cannon Beach. Castles in the Sand Ore. Entrants from All Over the world including Switzerland. Africa and Japan had to Start building us Low tide a Day ahead of schedule. He and formic ally. Gen. John n. Mitchell had been or dered to surrender to prison officials by june 22.Mitchell planned to report to the Federal facility at Maxwell air Force base near Montgomery ala., wednesday morning his lawyer  men Are under a 2 a to a year prison sentence for their part in the water Gate cover up. Never before have men who held such great National political Power gone to prison. Haldeman. The Man who ran the Nixon while House is a convicted perjured. Mitchell is the first attorney general to be convicted of criminal acts. By reporting Early. Haldeman apparently tried to avoid reporters but newsmen were on the  was the 24th Man caught in the watergate web to enter prison. Mitch Ell will be the 25th and probably the last. For Haldeman. It was exactly 28 months from the Day he Mitchell and Domestic aide John d. Ehrlichman Wen sentenced by . District judge John j. Sirica. He and Mitchell carried their appeals All the Way to the supreme court where they were d enied a hearing. They have asked the court to reconsider but chances of that Are  one was closer to Nixon the fallen president than these two men. Mitchell had been Nixon s Law partner and the director of his two successful presidential campaigns Haldeman had worked in Nixon campaigns since 1956. Devoting him self to the task so completely that people said if Nixon had t had a a Haldeman. He would have had to invent one. Mitchell now 63. Carried out the Law and order edicts of the administration Haldeman. Now 50, was the gatekeeper of the Oval office deciding who could and who could not get in. Each Man Mast serve at least 2 j years unless his sentence is commuted by presi Dent Carter or Cut in the next three months by . Mitchell and Ehrlichman were convicted of 14 felonies m the water Gate coverup. And finish before High tide so the castles could be judged before they were washed away. Up photo rep. Claims . Rejects sky Flash because Britain dropped a acs of time Washington Upil the . Whose own Sparrow air to air missile has performed poorly in tests. Dropped plans to buy a better British system after England decided not to share in the Purchase of about $33 billion in  aircraft for nato. Rep Thomas j Downey. . Said  question of the British sky hash missile and the us. Azacs airborne warning and control system airborne command posts that would be used to direct a nato air War came up before a House budget committee task Force that was questioning Pentagon air expert Charles e Myers  said . Plans to buy the sky Flash As a partial replacement for its own Sparrow a1m7 missiles were dropped after the British announced last March they were getting their own Nimrod Early warn ing aircraft rather than take part in the Purchase of Azacs the a vacs costs $125.6 million per plane. The sky Flash works and the a1m7 does  said Downey referring to poor performance by the Sparrow in the Viet Nam War and failure of an improved ver Sion to meet performance requirements in recent test despite the test failures the defense department last january ordered a go ahead on an initial $82 1 million production Survey reports . Firm May design Arab pipeline Nicosia. Cyprus a saudi Ara Bia s government owned Oil company. Pet Romin has awarded the l s firm of Brown and Hoot a contract for design and Engi Neering services and studies for the projected trans arabian Oil pipeline the Middle East economic Survey reported tie 1.270-Kilometer. 48-Inch pipeline is to run from the oilfields of the saudi East Ern province to the red sea coast it is i ducted to Cost $1 53 billion and is to have a capacity of 2 3 million barrels a Day contract on grounds it was the Only medium Range missile available the sky Flash is cheaper it s been successfully tested 13 or 11 limes by the Brit ish and it s  said Downey. Myers said the High intensity Type air War forecast for nato might not be the Best use of the costly downward looking radar of the Azacs. It May turn out the justification for Azacs is that first few hours when it could warn of impending attacks he  Navy is still evaluating the sky Flash whose seeking system is regarded As three years ahead of . Missiles British sources said there now appear to be Little Chance that the us. Will buy the missiles however they said the proposed sky Flash Sale had been Linkel to Azacs Myers conceded after the session that test results looked Good on sky Flash but he declined to tie the sky Flash to the Azacs Deal and said that if the Pentagon really thought they wanted and needed it. Ivy would have proceeded " june 23,1947 Joe Louis has signed a $300,000 contract for a three month tour of Europe fighting regulation four round Tun litle matches in France Spain and Italy Louis reportedly said he preferred Al to fight in Germany and added be would have nothing to do with Max sch Meling. Whom Louis knocked out in the lint round of their second title fight. June 23, 1957 new York Yankee out fielder Hank Bauer was arrested in new York on a charge of felonious assault of complaint of a Delicatessen store operator who charged be was beaten by Bauer in the Copacabana nightclub. The alleged brat ing occurred while Bauer and a group of Yankees were celebrating the 29th birth Day of Yankee infielder Billy Martin. June 23, 1967 the supreme court in Washington refused to delay a lower court order that Alabama s Public schools be de segregated next fall. Gov. Lurleen Wallace Tiad asked that compliance with the order be delayed until a formal Appeal could be filed