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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 9, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2ft and Bil Faff Northern Ireland a Irish Republican army guerrillas attacked troops and police in Belfast monday As British authorities launched a massive Security operation to keep the lid on this tur Bulent province when Queen Elizabeth ii arrives wednesday for h today gunmen up an army base and wounded reservist tension mounted following Row Days of and police said the iras provisional Wing claimed responsibility and warned it will intensify the when the 51yearold Monarch gets authoritative sources reported that Cap tured Ira documents indicated the mainly roman Catholic guerrillas plan a major offensive while the Queen b in police expect rouble we expect a lot of a senior police officer we expect  bomb commercial premises and attack Security forces rather than attempt any direct attack an her but were taking no the Ira is fighting to end British Rule and protestant supremacy in the they seek to reunite if with the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republic and View the Royal visit As a deliberate Politi Cal act to reinforce Northern Ireland British Hoy Britain Northern Ireland declared the Queens her first to the province since will go ahead As planned despite the mounting Vio h stirred traditional sectarian hostility Between the million who want to remain and the half Mil lion catholics who seek Union with the Catholic leaders invited Catholic political leaders invited to meet the Queen said they will snub the tension has been heightened by the Liming of the sandwiched Between two of the Mast inflammatory dates in Northern Ireland Calendar of thesty Are the sixth anniversary of the of the no abandoned policy of  but in named and when protestants hold their annual commemorative March in it was their i Polanski pleads film director roman Polaroid goes into court in Santa Monica where he entered a guilty plea to having unlawful sexual Intercourse with a 13yearold female in actor Jack Nicholson Bev Erly Milt Bouse in a about Polanski enters plea to lesser offence British militiamen and polio Strung a tight Security cordon around Bel fast monday to launch operation Road were blocked by thousands of people were and Catholic quarters where the Ira is based were saturated with Page Ujj Roger Gunson and admitted his Gunson asked him a number of questions about his understanding his constitutional rights and the fact that no promises had been made of a Light Gunson then asked Polanski to state what charge to which he was pleading i had Intercourse with a female person not my wife who was under the age of Polaroid said Gunson asked whether he realized at the time that the girl was 13 years the Europe Mutt own Tummy tiny twi limit club it Man polish born director said he the incident occurred March 10 at Nich olsons Beverly kills the actor was no present at the the charges were brought after the girls Mother overheard her daughter Tele Rittenband ordered two psychiatrists to examine Polanski before he passes sen he also ordered a hearing to deter mine whether he might be classified As a mentally Tsor Demasek Polanski acknowledged that he also understood that his guilty plea could Lead to a government move to Deport him As an undesirable n it to m h f u h d to 11 h p u h h n n c Canadian air control strike delays some flights Washington Puli the strike by Canadian air traffic controllers is causing delays of airline flights Over the North Atlantic and Canadian air us fed eral aviation administration reported North Atlantic routes to Europe thai normally overfly parts of Canada have been shifted southward to avoid Canadian territory and flights that overfly Canada to Alaska have been the fax the changes have added about 300 Miles and 30 minutes flying time to North Atlan tic routes to be announcement in the air traffic capacity of the North Atlantic has decreased by u per resulting in delays of up to three hours in some trolled by an Faa control Center on Long new parts of the North Atlan tic flights Ore controlled by Canadas Gander oceanic control which is not affected by the the shift of the North Atlantic routes also has affected some flights departing for Europe from the Miami these flights Are required to Fly further North to reduce the Burden on the portuguese traffic Center in the plights from Chicago and other Northern cities thai normally overfly Canada in route to Alaska have been rerouted to Seattle and Over use Pacific to avoid Cana Dian air the Faa said Only minimal continual from Pate j animal attraction planned mar Cozumel Oft the Yucatan Flea dolphins legally belong to Canova and will Likely but a Federal Taw gives ownership All Marine mammals captured since 1972 to the Whitman the government will have to decide what to do with 10 each to fact u the government says fit them Well let them Dick shark worlds said Over the i have a feeling  Tell us to give them toothed some have been in Captivity for he they Are used to being in eight feel of feeding four limn a Day and eating out of Peoples Handl 1 dont know what they would do if they were taken out to much deeper water and Folk singers seek Asylum Germany up two romanian members of a song group visiting West Germany have asked Tor political a spokesman fat the International week hero police Mooday deactivated a dynamite bomb found on the eighth floor of Thea Max building Feller the bomb forced the evacuation of of workers from the the next door to badly City music Ball and the Miduch skating rink opposite Patricks was one of Many that received threats after Tat weeks fatal bomb Ngi by the puerto Fticar nationalist group no one claimed responsibility immediately for placing the police the bomb w two of dynamite wired to a dry cell Battery Ullh a wrist Walch for a timer was deactivated at the scene and taken by us bomb squad to City Island where it was lobe det on handed watch police said the watch had Only one hand on the face so it was not known immediately what Lime the device was set logo employees of Amax american metals Climax found the device in a storeroom of the building at 1270 sixth at and immediately notified police who evacuated the lower 10 floors of the police dogs were sent into the building to sniff out any other explosive thai May have been in the police cordoned off the area surround ing the Rockefeller Center Complex Lopre vent the Large noontime crowd from Otoo claw to any possible venue Between and Slat streets was closed to the threatened building formerly known As the Rio building in us Art the americas last bombs exploded during the mid morning hours at the Chris Tian science building on Madison Avenue and the Mobil Oil building on East 42nd killing one person and injuring the Palm claimed responsibility for both the blasts were followed by hundreds of false bomb threats at other locations around the City and forced the evacuation of scores of including the world Trade Empire slate and pan am Dollar makes Strong Advance cont mat from Pant 1 was believed to have added to the dollars against the German the Dollar rate almost iwo pfennig monday to erne in Frankfurt up from Fri day5 this i dollars highest level against the Mark in tour weeks and almost seven pfennig above its record Low set nearly two Weeta con version in late after almost six weeks of slow but steady losses against european the Dollar was Oil by a two week decline brought on by the United sates1 big foreign Trade deficit and disappointing economic but on july 20 it began an unexpected fou Day dropped for two Rose for dropped and in London the Pound closed at Dol Lars Down from fridays the Price of Gold dropped by one Dollar in Europe major Bullion trading monday to close at dollars an fridays Price was Dol Lars an in Gold dosed at dollars an Down from dollars an ounce  
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