European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday september 4,1977 a touchdown that brings no cheers a sight to bring fear to the beholder a Tornado cuts a Swath through Marathon Gold lusting Drakes hit Silver lode Pittsburgh a it might be called a modern Day version of Prospect ing for Gold. But it was a Mountain of lot Tery tickets that Tom and Philomena Drake went through when they struck what they say is a $ 10,000 vein. The Mcmurray pa., couple who vowed to bet their savings to win the state s Mil lion Dollar lottery came across the ticket Friday night after 34 consecutive hours of work Tom Drake said in a Telephone inter View. Ticket sales for the Pennsylvania in Stant Bingo lottery will end sept. 6 and the Drakes who said in May they would Gamble $20,000 in assets must turn in All qualifying tickets by sept. 26. They have been scratching tickets Day and night to meet the deadline. So far they have spent $ 12,000 on the game. This ticket puts us ahead Drake said. But he added that he and his wife would spend saturday going through another Batch of tickets in search of the elusive $1 million prize. Plane motor burst Rains Metal on town new York a an internal Metal failure caused an engine on a trans world airlines jumbo Jet to explode shortly after Takeoff raining Metal debris Over the Long Island Community of Valley Stream an airline spokesman said. The Boeing 747, flight 840 originating in los Angeles and bound for Rome returned safely with its 239 passengers to John f. Kennedy International Airport on wednes Day  were no reports of injuries in the air or on the  falling debris did cause minor prop erty damage to cars and houses police said. Windows were broken in some stores in a shopping  sounded like a gunshot said a Nassau county policeman who heard the blast while on his Way to work at the Valley Stream precinct. Right after that i heard what sounded like engines  county in the Central Section of Wisconsin As it makes its Way menacingly some delayed 24 hours toward the town of Wausau in the fore ground. A photo British airports again cancel 40% of flights London up British airports again axed 40 per cent of incoming and out going flights saturday As the nation s air traffic control assistants continued an in definite strike that is costing airlines a total $3.4 million a Day and causing flight delays of up to 24 hours. Airline spokesmen said their companies were operating at least 60 per cent of their flights the traffic level adopted when the assistants first walked off the Job aug. 26. Len Vass spokesman for the air control lers Guild said even though the nation s air controllers have been processing flight information manually since their assist ants walked out High safety standards were being maintained. The 850 assistants who normally oper ate Airport computers walked off the Job to pressure the government to Grant a  hike already approved by the civil Avia Tion authority Caa. A spokesman for the assistants said they were consulting with other members of their Union about the need to escalate the  if we get the support of the rest of the Union we May get More cancellations and the airports May even close for a period he  flight cancellations and the defection of thousands of travellers to Road sea and rail transport has prevented mass chaos at most airports a Caa spokesman said. We re operating As we have been All week said a spokesman for British air ways which announced cancellations of 46 Short haul and four Long haul flights Satur Day. Air France said it had cancelled a flight and  american said it had consolidated several charter flights to new York and Washington. Everyone is being carried he noted. Airlines reported delays ranging from a few minutes for Short Continental flights to 24 hours for some Long haul Charters. Transatlantic flight were being delayed an average of five hours they said. British airways the major user of the nation s airports estimates it is losing be tween $1.7 and $2.55 million a Day. Other carriers set their total losses at another $1.7 million. Meanwhile French air controllers in Paris and several major provincial cities decided to continue their slowdown move ment at least until sept. 19, thus extending their original plan by 10 Days. But in Spain a strike scheduled by air controllers for sept. 15 appears to have been averted a spokesman for the controllers said. Arafat says Plo joined soviets to foil . Efforts Beirut Lebanon a Yasser Arafat says his Palestine liberation organization has formed an Alliance with the soviet Union to foil . Peacemaking efforts in the Middle East. Arafat also said he has received Assur ances from Moscow that the soviet Union will not take part in any reconvened Geneva peace conference unless the Plo is invited As a full fledged participant. The guerrilla chief was briefing Plo leaders on his meetings with foreign min ister Andrei a. Gromyko and other soviet officials in Moscow earlier this week. Ara fat s remarks were published today by his official weekly newspaper Palastine Al thaw a. Arafat said his talks with Gromyko dealt with the need to Check any Progress of american sponsored peace plans which he said were in Israel s favor and against the Arab nations and the palestinians. Soviet officials have assured me the soviet Union will not take part in the pro posed Geneva conference if the Plo is not present from the first session the guerrilla Leader said. The soviet Union is co chairman with the United states of the Geneva peace con Ference that convened briefly after the 1973 Arab israeli War and then adjourned indefinitely. Stewart turns Down gym delay Washington a supreme court Justice Potter Stewart saturday rejected the request by a group of current and former Kent state University students to further delay construction of a gymnasium Annex on the Ohio Campus. Attorneys for the group known As the May fourth coalition later refiled their petition with Justice William Brennan. They said that if necessary they would try each of the nine justices to Stop the building on the Hill where Ohio National guardsmen shot into a group of youths during an anti Vietnam War demonstration on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding several others. Court officials said earlier that one jus Tice was unlikely to reverse another Justice in such situations. No response from Brennan was expected before tuesday because the court closed for the labor Day Holiday minutes after the papers were refiled. A temporary restraining order against the Kent state trustees and the construction company is to expire tuesday. It had been extended until tuesday by the sixth circuit court of appeals to allow the coalition to Appeal to Stewart. Student body s request the University s student government however last week asked the Ohio supreme court to halt All construction activity at the site. The Federal appellate court and . District court in Cleveland had ruled that Federal courts had no jurisdiction in the Case. The coalition was arguing that it had a right to petition the Federal government for a redress of grievances. It said that the form of its petition seeking designation of the Hillside As a National historic site would become meaningless if construction began. Stewart without comment filed through the court clerk his rejection of the coalition s petition that he continue a ban on construction there until the full court could decide issues raised in its lower court suits. The full court does not meet again until later this month. Stewart hears petitions from that Region while the justices Are on vacation. The Interior department is still consid ering the request for such a designation of the Hillside As a place where significant american history was  temperatures l h 70 86 63 71 68 87 43 61 61 85 67 87 73 85 74 98 71 95 46 78 69 92 43 70 55 89 72 92 74 90 71 75 68 73 42 89 77 86 70 90 68 91 53 79 69 83 71 90 70 85 66 90 71 84 70 95 71 91 71 91 70 76 67 87 43 66 68 91 42 67 51 70 50 82 38 73 70 93 43 75 75 88 74 91 72 91 67 95 73 81 Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlingto Casper Charleston . Charleston . 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