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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 it the stars and stripes monday september 5,1977 Dale Emery s funny car dragster disintegrates in above photo after flipping Over the rail top photo during a Quali dragster disintegrates fiction attempt for the 23rd . Nationals at Indianapolis raceway Park. Emery 38, of Dallas was taken to a hos Pital in Indianapolis for treatment of broken Arm concussion and possible internal injuries. A photos 5,000 crowd Hillside near Budapest Graham in first East bloc Sermon Budapest a More than 5,000people from throughout Hungary and neighbouring East european countries crowded a Hillside North of Budapest sunday to hear evangelist Billy Graham preach his first Sermon in an East bloc country. Graham preaching from a timbered podium before a background of poplars and acacias told the crowd he had come to Hungary with an open heart and an  i want to learn about your nation want to learn about your lives i want to learn about your churches i want to Lear about your Christian dedication and sense of responsibility within your own social Structure Graham said. But most of All i want both of us to learn together from the word of  the Sermon which avoided East West politics marked the first Public appear Ance in Hungary for the 58-year-old Nort Carolina evangelist who got his Start two decades ago preaching about the evils of godless  aides said the visit to Hungary one of the most Liberal countries within the soviet bloc might Lead to other trips to Church groups in Eastern Europe. Later sunday Graham was to deliver the main Sermon at evening services in by soviet probe to get meteor solar data Moscow a the soviet Union has launched a geophysical research rocket designed to gather data on meteor parti cles and radiation from the Sun s Corona Tass has reported. The soviet news Agency said the rocket called vertical-5, was sent up to an Alti tude of about 300 Miles from a site in the european part of Russia. The rocket car ried an a Ray spectrometer a wide band photometer and a device for taking Pic Tures of the Sun As Well As equipment for registering meteor particles Tass said. Dap est s Central Baptist Church. Aides said the morning service would probably provide Graham with his largest crowd of the we Klong visit. In welcoming Graham the Rev. Sandor Palotay president of the Council of free churches which extended the invitation thanked the hungarian authorities for per mitting the faithful to engage in religious activities once they have done their work for the Community. A hungarian Flag flew above the gather ing. Graham spoke beside a Large rough Hen Timber Cross. Hungary s state controlled Media made first mention of the Graham visit late sat urday. Hungarian television broadcast a Brief report on Graham s arrival saturday at Budapest Airport and the five Budapest and 21 provincial dailies carried a four line report announcing that Graham whom they called an american Church Leader had arrived. No details of his itinerary which will take him to the provincial towns of pecs and Debrecen were reported. Suit seeks to Block canal pact Washington a a lawyer for attorneys general in four states has filed suit in the supreme court against the Panama canal treaty which president Carter is scheduled to sign this week. George Leonard representing the four filed a petition asking that Carter and Secretary of state Cyrus Vance be ordered to show Why a preliminary injunction should not be issued. The treaty would give control of the waterway to Panama by the year 2000. But a separate treaty would give the United states permanent Power to ensure the canal s neutrality. The four attorneys general Richard Turner of Iowa Ted Sendak of Indiana Wayne Kidwell of Idaho and William Guste of Louisiana contend it is illegal to dispose of . Property by treaty and that any such action should require an act of Congress. We want to delay its signing until we determine if it is constitutional Turner said. The signing is scheduled for wednesday and the treaties must then be submitted to the Senate where ratification requires the approval of two thirds of the senators pre sent and voting. East Germany expels 7 More rights activists Berlin up East Germany expelled another seven civil rights activists who had protested the exiling of Folk Singer Wolf Biermann by the communist regime the committee for Freedom and socialism said sunday. The society said the seven dissidents arrived in West Berlin Friday. It said two of the exp Ellees were Young writers Wolfgang Hinkeldey and Michael Sallmann. The others were students and workers. They All came from the East German town of Jena. The seven were arrested after signing a Resolution protesting the communist re Gime s stripping of Folk Singer Wolf Bier Mann s East German citizenship last november. Two other civil rights activists prof. Or. Hellmuth Nitsche and or. Karl Heinz Nitschke also were expelled by the East German communists last week for de scribing violations of human rights in let ters to the United nations and president Carter. Miss universe honoured port of Spain Trinidad a Janelle Penny Commissiong of Trinidad miss universe has been awarded the trin Ity Cross Trinidad and Tobago s highest National award the government announced. She was honoured for promoting the image of her Homeland a spokesman said. Temperatures l h 48 63 68 87 68 82 63 74 71 85 6$ 72 53 91 63 80 68 95 75 89 74 94 73 104 64 82 Anchorage Atlanta Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Detroit fort Worth Honolulu Houston Las vegas los Angeles l h 73 82 55 76 77 84 74 87 73 89 86 106 65 75 66 88 55 71 76 88 58 72 69 88 72 89 Miami Beach Minneapolis new Orleans Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Salt Lake City san Francisco san Juan Seattle St. Louis Washington  
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