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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 8, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stress Pfifle 27 Slippery smacker Lisa of Toronto gels a she will never she was selected from among be Spectator Marine land in Niagara to Japan Airliner damaged be kissed by killer Pound responding la Trainer Cal put meters named a Walery Stock on Lisas jumbo Jet is pelted by erupting Volcano Tokyo up ii a Volcano erupt cd sunday in Northern sending a column of smoke nearly feet in the pelting a jumbo jetliner with rocks thai cracked cockpit windows and Spray ing Ash and debris overs 24mile police on japans northernmost main Island of hokkaido ordered tourists and area residents to take shelter at schools and other Public no casualties were the japanese meteorological Agency said the i win peaked Usu erupted twice within three hours sending a column of Gray smoke feet into tha All Nippon airways said smoke jetting Roff the raging Volcano engulfed one of its Lockheed tristan airliners and that Racks cracked two cockpit the carrying 317 passengers and Crew members from capital of hokkaido to Nagoya in Western was forced to return to the airlines aviation authorities have ordered planes flying to and from site of he 1972 Winter to steer Clear of the Usu area on he southwestern part of the the explosions sprayed fist sized rocks am n worns neighbors Nairobi Cap ugandan president idl Amin warm that he will not think twice about dealing militarily with neigh Boring countries if they allow ugandan exiles to carry out subversive activities against amen did not name the countries to which he but he has accused Kenya and Tanzania of harbouring hostile elements and backing plots to topple he has often threatened to invade he two As 24 Miles from the covering the roofs o houses and hokkaido officials estimated damage to nearby nearly ready for har at about located by Scenic Lake the Usu area attracts a Large number of tourists during the most of them had come to watch an annual fireworks display at the fool of the the meteorological Agency said the eruptions followed a series of More than 000 minor earthquakes during a 36hour the Agency said it was the first major eruption of Usu in More than three dec it said the Showa a Henzan was created near Usu in the tatters major eruptions in a team of seismologists from hokkaido University went to the Mountain to study the seismologists said there was Little Chance a new Volcano would be Cre ated this Ottawa a air traffic controllers walked off the Job Early sunday at most of Canadas do Mesic and International air travel to and from Canadian Canadas major owned air Canada and privately owned up air cancelled most a few were rerouted through and provincial airlines re ported their services shut air lines operating in Canada were reported through american and in some cases busing air travellers to and from Northern resistance in Quebec the Only pocket to the strike was in Quebec City where control lers stayed on the but the Airport was closed Quebec controllers Are members of a French speaking aviation group which is at Odds with the Canadian air traffic control association Over using French transmissions in Quebec air an air Canada spokesman said of approximately m Dally scheduled nights trips Between Landing Points 20 would operate the strike a Complete shutdown of air traffic control services was announced by can Adan air traffic control association president Jim the association has been involved in a wage dispute with the government for nine the decision to Call a general in Stead of the 24hour routing strikes planned for Midnight was in reaction to transport minister Otto langs threat of legislation to impose a contract settlement on the controller incensed Livingston said controllers were in Censed at the governments tactics in the labor catch has decided to Call a we Pleu shutdown of air traffic control services rather than the less disrupting rotating strikes we had originally he said at a news Livingston some air traffic controllers will remain on ditty to provide service for mercy far Northern resupply missions and emerged he told reporters some controllers also would stay on duty at newfound to Supply Normal service for flights Between Europe and the Lang said after a special Cabinet meet ing saturday that the government Wilt re convened parliament tuesday to try to pass an emergency Bill curtailing the strike and imposing a such a Bill would require unanimous consent of parliament to be passed imme if one my refused to support the it would have to go through readings in the commons and Senate and could not be passed before thursday at the the controllers association rejected new contract proposals offered by the govern ment Friday night in Effort to avoid n they catch made what they called a counteroffer accepted a Board conclusions but had no change of their position he said catch for the past two months had held firm on its demands for a wage in crease of per cent for he said this would workout to about per cent in subsequent in our View this in cd esd of guidelines said we were simply not in a position to sign a contract on that to had offered to them the ultimate we Lang the last contract expired Kuwait warns it might act against Dollar Kuwait up Kuwait sunday said it would take Steps to protect the Purchas ing Power of its Oil revenues if the Dollar the worlds Oil pricing currency continued to slide on International Kuwait will Lake measure to protect the purchasing Power of its Oil revenues if the dollars rate of Exchange in terms of other International currencies continues la acting minister for Cabinet affairs Jassem a Marzouk told to did not specify what the measures might he added that Kuwait be Heves the present fluctuation in the Dol Lars value is a temporary the comments came several Days after kuwaiti undersecretary for economic affairs Mohammad Nasir said Kuwait and several other members of the Organ Lollon of Petroleum exporting countries open were in favor of switching from the Dollar to the International monetary funds Spe Cial drawing rights sir at the unit for pricing the sirs value is computed from in but open finance ministers meeting in Vienna last week did hot even discuss the despite speculation that Adecir Sion on switching from the Dollar might come at the i the Dollar has slipped on International exchanges in recent hitting an All time Low against the German Mark on july h has generally rebounded in the past German economic slump forecast Hamburg a rising unemployment and a slowing growth rate will hamper West Germany Economy in the remaining months of Oer Spiegel news Magazine said quoting what it called a secret government the predictions in he scrolled secret government forecast by economics minis Ter Hani a Roderichs showed unemployment climbing rapidly in the next five Matins and finishing with a years aver age of million jobless rate of about 5 Der Spiegel at the beginning of this Chancellor Helmut schmidts leftist Liberal coalition government said ii hoped to reduce unemployment to a 1977 monthly average Fridrichs also acknowledged that the governments goal of tj5 per cent economic growth ibis year was unattainable and that the growth rate of Western Europe most powerful Economy would be 4 per cent at the Magazine West Germany economic growth could reach per cent in 1971 if unemployment declines Friderichs reportedly said in the forecast sent to Schmidt and other Cabinet unemployment had been Drifting Down Ward since the ib77 High of u Muon Job less or per cent in reaching a Low of persons or l per cent of the work Force in but the trend reversed in climbing to or user the Federal labor office said last Spiegel said Friderichs believes unemployment could decline to a monthly aver age of about in 1978 but that joblessness averaging monthly will persist into the  
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