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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday september 6, 1977 40,000 fans Rock out at Karlsruhe concert despite drizzling rain and Gray skies a crowd of about 40,000 thronged wild new woman struck killed by propeller East Tawas Mich. A a Washington Post editor who helped break the Story on the scandal involving former rep. Wayne Hays was killed sunday night when she walked into a moving air plane propel Ler. Marion l. Clark 34, who most recently was editor of the Post s Potomac Section died of head injuries at the scene Accord ing to Losco county sheriff s deputies. According to a witness the Small plane had just landed at the county Airport in northeastern Michigan and was taxiing toward fuel pumps when Clark hopped out. Witnesses told deputies she walked toward the front of the plane apparently without seeing the whirring propeller Blades. Clark was on the team of Post reporters who reported that Hays then a Congress Man from Ohio had a woman on his office payroll who was employed mostly for sexual favors. Hays did not run for reelection. Colleagues at the Post said Clark was in route to visit her parents or. And mrs. Don Clark of Grosse Pointe who have a summer Home in this area. The parents were at the Airport when the Accident occurred deputies said. Pidgeon released from intensive care Santa Monica up actor Walter Pidgeon was out of the intensive care unit at St. John s Hospital sunday for the firs time in a month but described As still in serious , 78, was admitted to the Hospi Tal aug. 4 for surgery to remove a blood Dot from his brain. He was described during the weekend As Alert and eating solid  Parkst Adion in Karlsruhe Germany sunday to hear the music of Santana above left led by Carlos Santana right. Chicago Rory Gallagher thin Lizzy Udo Lindenberg and the panic orches tra Lake also played. Is whetted 8-Day Odyssey with fugitive con she was too scared to Fry escape Des Moines Iowa a a Michigan woman says she was so scared during an eight Day Odyssey with an escaped convict that when he fell asleep drunk at the movie Star wars she sat beside him and watched the rest of the film. Evelyn Vantassel now reunited with her family said she made no attempt to escape because she was paralysed with fear. He s a Man. I m a Little woman. I m old the 58-year-old woman explained to amazed police after they captured Douglas Henry 22. If i run hell kill me for sure i  said an officer who took her statement i think she did just the right  Vantassel said Henry tied her up Only during their first night together after she was taken at knife Point aug. 25 from a summer cottage near Marquette. Instead of fleeing she said she tried to keep her captor Calm. After the movie was Over last thursday she had to shake her Abductor awake and Lead him Back to their Motel according to a report in sunday s Detroit news. Henry had just ordered a Steak dinner with Champagne for Vantassel when he was captured unarmed thursday night by Fri agents in the dining room of the Down town ramada inn. Cracks in Atlantic floor eyed As a waste dump Washington up two scientists believe cracks in the Atlantic Ocean floor might be the perfect nuclear waste dump a place where the lethal material could lie undisturbed by earthquakes for 250,000 years. Yale geochemist Karl e. Turekian and or. Peter Rona of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration Noaa say further exploration is necessary. But they believe plutonium placed in canisters might be buried safely under sediment in the Atlantic floor cracks that form a capacious natural prison in vaults six Miles Long and two Miles wide according to a report released by the com Merce department. Rona is a geophysicist at Noaa s Atlan tic oceanographic and meteorological laboratories in Miami part of the com Merce department Agency s environmental research laboratories. Turekian is a geochemist in Yale s geology and geophysics department. Even if the canisters eventually leaked the scientists said much of the nuclear waste would be imprisoned by chemical processes in the deep Ocean sediments and Waters  if any waste escape that it could take a thousand years to Rise to the Ocean surface where it could beg into affect humanity they said. The length of time Between release of substance to the Ocean Bottom in the Atlan tic and its arrival at the surface will be on of the longest in the Ocean system perhaps a thousand years they  and Rona stress that a Perma nent disposal site must be found for the radioactive wastes which now accumulate in temporary repositories so they can lie undisturbed for As Long As 250,000 years. During that Span of time no earthquake May Jar them living creatures cannot be exposed to them and they must not be car ried away by Ocean currents or under ground streams they  two believe current knowledge of the geological chemical and oceanographic nature of the Eastern Atlantic fracture zones warrant further investigation As Safe burial ground. A . Government Matron said Van Tassel is not the Type to scare easy. She s an extraordinary woman said Dottie Nigro 36, who stayed with Van Tassel from her Rescue thursday night Ata Motel Here until her reunion with her family on  s so cute so Little said Nigro. I called her Mary Martin. But she s made  Henry escaped from a Marquette prison farm on aug. 22, authorities said. He was surprised by Vantassel and her husband Leo a retired vice president of Northern Michigan University when they arrived a their cottage. Authorities said Henry tied Leo Vantassel to a tree before abducting her. Henry is being held in the Polk count jail in Des Moines under $100,000 Bond on Federal kidnapping charges pending an extradition hearing later this week. He faces a possible life sentence if convicted. Could cause blowouts Augsburg Germany up Detec Tives have seized explosives hidden in two automobile tires police said. The tire were delivered to the service station of a department store in this bavarian town. Best Sellers up publishers weekly fiction the Thorn Birds Colleen Mccullough the crash of 79 Paul e. Erdman illusions the adventures of a reluctant Messiah Rich Ard Bach Delta of Venus Anais Nin full disclosure William satire dynasty Robert s. Elegant Oliver s Story Erich Segal coma Robin Cook condominium John Macdonald the investigation Dorothy Uhnak nonfiction Book of lists David Wal Lechinsky looking out for no. T Robert ringer All things Wise and wonderful James Herriot the dragons of Eden Carl Sagan your erroneous zones or. Wayne w. Dyer the camera never blinks Dan rather the path Between the seas David Mccullow Ullh Vivien Leigh Anne Edwards it did t Start with watergate Victor Lasky the grass i always Greener Over the septic tank Erma Bombeck  
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