European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Exi i arms supplies to 3 african nations Georg Gedda Washington a ideological and tribal rivalries have touched off a major political realignment in Northeast Africa and intensified Competition Between the United states and the soviets in that Stra the United states is moving toward in inaugurating or expanding military Supply relationships with Sudan and All of which feel threatened by soviet arms buildups in rival the administration also is consulting with Congress on a proposed million package of nonlethal equipment for which has cancelled a military assistance treaty with the soviet at a news president Carter said the sales to the area Are not incompatible with his objectives of achieving a Overall reduction in arms transfers in the coming Carter also addressed himself to the situation in which is reassessing its Friendship with the soviets because of mos cows new partnership with Somalia bitter the president tried to minimize the possibility of major superpower Competition in discussing this dispute by noting that assistance to Somalia is being coordinated with saudi France and each of the latter countries has strategic or historical interests in the political evolution in the Horn of discussing the recent clash Between Egypt and Carter also said that the United states and the soviet Union acted with Complete restraint in order not to prolong the interest in providing assistance to Sudan is based on its intense rivalry with Ethiopia to the East and Libya to the North both Are recipients of Large scale soviet military a state department spokesman Dis closed that it has agreed to consider sym pathetically a request for military Aid from which has been trying to put Down a Libya supported tribal american officials acknowledged it was thes european edition Billy John  Mart editor Elmer Magor Henry mawr Tel it Nowr ii m Ulm 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Stal wart pro marxist the somalis cordially received a Threeman eco nomic team several weeks ago and other economic assistance will be visit ing the country in the coming somali president Muhammed Siad Barre apparently began reassessing his links with Moscow after the soviets gained a foothold in neighbouring the ethiopians have accepted Large scale soviet military assistance and expelled diplomatic and military personnel three months this amounted to a Complete flip Flop for which had received More than million in Aid Over the past at the heart of the Ethiopia somalian dispute is a somali claim to a Large Section of Eastern Ethiopia inhabited mostly by ethnic the decision of Sudan to open a military Supply relationship with the United states is another sign of a sudanese shift into the Western relations Between the two countries reached a Low Point in 1973 when Sudan refused to take Strong action against palestinian terrorists who assassinated ambassador Alco Noel and a top Sudan previously had close ties to the soviet Union but relations became strained following an abortive communist backed coup attempt several years diplomats wife didst take part in protest Washington a the state department has denied a report that the wife of an american Diplomat in South Africa took part in a demonstration in protest against the demolition of three Black shanty towns near Cape spokesman John Trattner said the embassy in Pretoria has been in Contact with South african authorities to set he record two South african newspapers alleged that Judy the wife of com Mercial affairs officer Tom joined in the anti demolition the Williams couple is Trattner said Williams was in the area wednesday morning to assist a family of her acquaintance in connection with the family forced but he said she was not present that afternoon when the demonstration letters to the we Are writing this letter after spending a very frustrated weekend of Nonte Levi Sion viewing for the Friedberg half of the Friedberg the other half of the Community being the bad nauheim housing area that continues to have out standing to Early one Friday evening the picture and sound went out on the to sets operating in Ray Barracks which houses units of the 3rd armoured division and an american housing area of substantial numerous Calls were made to trouble Telephone number from residents of this Community with the results being that the Antenna system was checked by the local engineers and it was determined that it would have to be reported to Worms and they would have to make the this is where the frustration comes into apparently there was no response to this so another was made to see if a response would be apparently the great Powers in Worms Hdldn t think it was important enough for them to bother after they had perfect to recep so Why bother we Are into our fifth Day of either non existent or very very poor reception pending on the will of the piece of equip ment that has gone this is not the first incident of this nature Here in this has happened on numerous occasions in the last few it seems to us Here in Friedberg that the people that control the maintenance operations for an dont care if this area gets decent to reception or not it would seem More economical to fix it right in the first than to keep on coming Back All the time for minor for the last few months the reception has been continually poor with frequent the outages we understand be cause of the cheap equipment that an has to work our Gripe is with the in competent Way that the trouble Calls Are handled by the people that can fix these it is the same with this function As with the functioning of most of the other facilities Here in if they had any com they would be out of id Friedberg editors note first Bill St signal com the a signal command has the operation and maintenance responsibility for the of nov microwave system and local distribution maintenance is contracted out through the area maintenance and Supply when an area outage or a de gradation a performance is felted pen Onod Ibold report us Probki totto local to trouble reporting they in turn report the problem to this Ait we do Patcha a maintenance team to the affected the complainants la the letter indicated that they bad followed the above pro but received no response from an investigation of the incident by ibis revealed that some where the reporting procedure had not been the Friedberg comm potty command ers office is the Central Point of Contact for reporting to the commanders representative indicated Hurt not Only were no Calls received reporting a prob but also there was some doubt As to whether a problem oily a Survey of the resident of Ray bar Racks housing area revealed that to reception in the area is adequate and no tub five Day outage Ever for frustrated to friedberg1 who be Lieve that we Worms dont think your problem was important Root my to bother the St signal command Cor net any problems that we dont know about if you have a Call Fried Berg military 2301 there is someone at those Mun Era 14 hours a Day for reporting which the Friedberg military com your cooperation in reporting problems promptly my accurately will Lessen the response time of the Nancy humpty history recently you published a letter object facts the reply perhaps the Point of the spot is not that the Nursery rhyme characters  put humpty dumpty Back its that they be cause he was i would like to Point out that the Nursery rhyme humpty dumpty is meant to por tray attempts to reconstruct the ancient roman the author meaning is no one could put the roman Empire Back it is Clear then that this rhyme was not intended to be interpreted As portraying any form of racial or it is simply a state ment of fact As of the authors in we find that the an spokesman reply with regard to  and  is clearly a misinterpretation of the meaning of the John Rogers Germany Way to world peace now is the time for All Good men to come to the Aid of their when i was so Many Happy songs were waiting to be the taste of love was As rain upon my 1 Long for when i was As i sit Here i think of the Good from evil As a Man and a Man i would like to separate the Good from the there is More evil in this world than we should fight to save one another rather than to kill each in the Back of my Bead r have this thing on Mankind the word you think what does this in my words u Means to be kind to your fellow if everyone was to abide by this we could reach our a lot of people come go and lib matter Whit your race you should work together on getting along together and remember each other Ai a person and through this someday we shall reach world peace Mark Williamson Gennawy seeks Penfriends mow w Moo Iii of or Iri dlr Taro memo a mod Moonts cwt to Mon Ducor it Maciol Iyul to   it Man my Caywood tar Oak for Zwior Sam Uvari  in Niue i crop a Orul Ai Public it lotion i will the Noopa to Tond Doullut of our club to Wom warm it Tenud in moving a cnut Ron friends 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