European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus on 4 Jeffes Fri Iii London Fox Crement has in Bella Ltd if the rot is not allocated More than Wollon to Revi Iai nowhere haste decay of cities in us decaying of Britain August 1977 the stars in by 11 Ion program Iri Ersulyn Fefe v l i x t cities cities serve and whole Region around them social and economic said environment Secretary Peter if cities so to a Large extent do sour society that the urgency of tackling the a labor party has made saving Britain crumbling inner cities a personal crusade since he was pointed to the 15 months the exodus from areas of Cillus thai teemed with life and Commerce has reached alarming Shore look note o american Urban Trou Bles when he announced the Aid program and used it to raise the Specter at Urban Archy As warning of what could happen cat Lahhah wants linked to sizable private a significant shift in of tidal planning strategy and underlines the Gravity of the crisis thai has been creeping up on British society strict world War if the program also reversal Tho policy of successive governments to get people and Industry to move out of the big clues into new satellite towns built around office in says Aln paralleled what has happened in North he experience of new York should provide us with a Salu tary reminder of just now rapidly a City can slide into decline if powerful countervailing action is not the Aid comes in three separate pro Grams Over the next three years the or equivalent of billion for housing trial coupled with tangled and piece million in direct id Grants and is million meal is one of the major reasons for the decay thai now injects inner Urban the Success of this population and Indus for renovating four major Dulios earmarked for direct government lat Aid Are Manchester outside of Scotland biggest City and considered one of the worst Ute four Are the most glaring examples in Britain of 1 cities suffering from what one government official described As Urban the which prime minister James if Washington there arc no atheists at consolidated Ever since the new York blackout coned lawyers have been working Day and night to prove what happened was an of of they cant prove that the lord did they will be spending their next 20 years in court fighting lawsuits from the Bronx to the Lipof Solen i stopped by to tee How con Edison lawyers god bless the receptionist said As she looked up from her 1 just warned to speak to one of coned Isons i told thou compost at the wrong she Flaherty is at Bradley is at a prayer breakfast meeting and sell Man a with his rabbi this sounds like a religious con Edison would never hire a lawyer who didst believe in she most have been pretty shaken up by the i she the lord moves in mysterious we must not question his Deci Sion to Black new York at most thes Inopportune he must have been very angry at the City or he have never sent Down those bolts at lightning to smite Ohr Power you people believe that ii was god who did it As Flaherty Trolo in his Brief the lord give ctr Light and he to kith it the Power of con Edison is i edition John  Detluf Elmer  a Tow Henrt thit i mule Rand Tor armed of Tran to Suri Trimi if Puri Towl in  Law Amord f3rtff Tim Ripa sign at of Agni Aitto a u i pole Row or to War oct of Lertg do pm tort or Stejr Lirtsm Al do in  military id the Apo  1tkii Pulun ii 10 ohm Dormi Lafelt 1c Perdix 111 i  in Ltd Tun Omin Tun i Aai it 211 Vino turn Vark are4 Coda 2ti b27 1jh Stond news us heart pint Bull Din do Twat Mililli he at Mil Rutlt Tulare dam using us Anim i ref Tim or Nuffer Btag de it ctr f Igor to Iii Iasi Civ 6rr up c Apo Mil 1 1111 in Dennl a Ltd Jotun 1m circulation offices Ciui Lun Evgr lust Cuita a twin my  4sm am i Merlh Fowman Mil p1u at Mil gun v air do so you Are not looking for any other reason Tor the blackout i what other reason could there possibly be every safeguard known Man Wasin operation at the but there is no fail Safe when the lord turns his Wrath against it con Edison position that new arc sinners she you have Only to walk Down 42nd Street or eight Avenue to know Why god was we Are living in n virtual Sodom and she Why didst god just Black out the porno shop and Heaters showing Fri itch Repir Tesla hews Somdal even the lord cannot smash one of our circuits without pulling the others out of besides this happened in the summertime and there was sinning going on All Over the particularly in apart ments and houses where the wives were away on forgot about con Edison knew about the and our engineers feared the Wrath of cod for a week before the but we fell As a Power it was not aur place 16 warn the populace that if they continued heir behaviour the lord would Loose the fearful lightning of his powerful Swift do you think the act of god defense will bold up in court we can Only Pray it if the courts decide against then no one will Ever be Lieve the lord is trying to Tell the people As Bradley said to his Bible class if this blackout Doest make people believers nothing i heard an Organ in the whats that i its the beginning of coned has Vesper services for its employees every is this something new we started them the Day after the ii was the Legal departments it an electric Organ i hear its the lord Only knows when he will strike us areas of major More than million people have left London since world War ii and reduced the capitals population to just Over 7 Mil Riv planners forecast that the exodus and decline will continue for another 15 years Al least by their London will have a population of million by since inner one Britain biggest cities awl part of the Industrial sprawl that chokes the English has lost on fifth of its Popula exodus front Liverpool live pools some have fled the Pott City in the last decade along with hundreds of businesses ranging from Stree Corner Gro very stores to major the people remaining in the inner City areas include a High percentage of the poor and the unemployed jobless because factories and offices moved out of the Metropolis for Greener and More spacious housing in Many areas is considered there Are weak tracts of demolished torn Down for re development but Tufi abandoned when the Money ran there arc also Large numbers of elderly the ailing and thuse who have re fused to leave the areas in which they were bom and however ugly those districts Are most of the Young the the ambitious have employment is the said an environment ministry if we can gel shops to Well gel the and when we the we gel its a very human i y inadequate homing one reason Given for the deterioration process has been inadequate housing pro Grams by local municipal the new plan seeks to remedy critics maintain that nothing much will be achieved until the govern ment and municipal authorities act to bring Down the sky High charges for land and office space which they say have contributed to driving businessmen out of metropolitan once Britain greatest sea has acres of unwanted land in its inner with no specific Public funds to develop it or any signs that Industry is prepared to take a Chance on London once the Hub of the empires is the govern ment has plans to develop but Industry has shown Little inclination to move Many nonwhite immigrants have moved in and racial problems have crime rates Are High and unemployment Levels Are far above the National inner for has a so per cent unemployment rate and in some parts of Soo blackened inner More than to per cent of the youngsters Are out of work with Little Prospect of finding according to official some britons contend that Only a Mas Sive injection of Public funds can atop Urban decay and they maintain that toe coping with the nations gravest economic crisis since world War cannot afford from Mai Barry Mccaffery entitled he found prisoner of wart article having spent More than live yean1 Ai prisoner the North  i have More than 2s years in the air Porter 1 feel lorry the major was offended by the article this Type treatment May to expected captive of the rus ask the men wbb have been the air Force survival training pro Grams Are not designed to prepare airmen and equanimity and i seriously doubt hat the army programs Are any different in they Are designed to educate the individual As to what to expect if he docs become a thus enable him to combat the enemies efforts at subversion and the survival pro Grams in the air Force do not stress surrender in a escape and evasion arc yet in the event you arc captured As a result Landing in the Middle of the enemy or while in Conlous you arc taught to continue to we arc taught to never surrender willingly while haying the Means to resist but this dues not moan commit Mccaffery study of the prisoners on the North vietnamese led him to believe our generally commendable be Havior was not a product of Mickey mouse training i question his study the Mickey mouse training in the code of conduct i and inc Tihor received helped immeasurably and one of the prime factors in our if he Wichet to confirm i suggest he compare the statistics Viet Nam behaviour and korean behaviour the code of conduct and Mickey mouse training were the Deci Sive factors in the resistance to aur Cap David Kford Torrejon Spain blisters explained after Reading the article a Bittle those  blisters of Nijm Egen 1 thought i should add my opinion id f was the orderly for the 1st 30th int learn and i Tuu was very much surprised at All the Blister my Tarn match these men have been preparing for the March for three they went through a 100mile Walkoff in Siuw gun and still quite a few them never had Blis then we reported it Hohenfels As part of Niheu Sarteur that they had to March through there in my the cause of the Blis ters there Aad to these men were use to Fiat Cobblestone and Brick and anything uial is in the Schweinfurt what they could no handle were things such As seven per cent Hills with the Down slopes or Only 30 meters of level ground Between after the first Day at Hohenfels a few of them were getting Lor the first after the second my hands were filled treating by the time we got to Nijm Egen some of the men already were nursing blisters that would get worse during the the men experienced no other problems with the conditions mentioned in the Arti Cle Road my Only recommendation u to leave Hohenfels out next year and to substitute a site that will not tear up toe feet so 4 Michael de Lasu Annony