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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday september 10,1977 new Public servant Joseph p. Kennedy Iii son of the Assas by busies himself at work in his new Sinate former new York senator and Job at the Community services admin . Attorney general Robert f. Kenne is ration in Washington. A photo predicts Good import year Chrysler unveils five new Small cars for 78 Detroit a disagreeing with theother Domestic automakers Chrysler corp. Predicted thursday that imports would continue to hold a sizeable chunk of the . Market in 1978. Chrysler unveiled three new intermediates and two new japanese made sub com pacts with two new .-built Small cars to debut in january. The new models and demise of All but one of Chrysler s big cars is expected to boost the company s Fleet average to 18.8 Miles a gallon for 1978. A three Miles a gallon gain from the current Model year. Federal Law requires the automakers to average 18 . Or More for All the 1978 Model cars or face stiff fines. We anticipate that imports will continue to sell the 16 per cent of total car sales which they have averaged Over the past five years a slightly different position from some others in the Industry said . Brown a Chrysler executive Vic president. Imports accounted for 22 per cent of All Domestic car sales last month. Since Janu Ary they have held 19 per cent of the .Market. Ford motor co., general motors and american motors corp. Have said the new Domestic Small and subcompact cars would deflate the foreign car Market share. Ford chairman Henry Ford ii said that within a few years . Automakers would drive imports Back to their shores. Brown said that since some car buyers Are biased toward imports Chrysler will continue to offer foreign cars indefinitely. The no. 3 Domestic maker now imports the Small Dodge Colt and Plymouth Arrow and is adding two new japanese made sub compacts for 1978 the Dodge challenger and Plymouth Sapporo. He estimate Chrysler will sell about 130,000 imports in 1978. Other new models that go on Sale about oct. 7 include a sporty version of the Charger called the Dodge magnum be and Chrysler Lebaron and Dodge diploma station wagons. The Chrysler executive forecast 1978model sales of 15 million 11.4 million cars and 3.6 million trucks. Traditionally bullish pm has predicted sales of 15.5 Mil lion and the other two companies have said they expect 1978 to be at least As Good As 1977, which is estimated at 14.6 million sales. Chrysler will get even More involved with the Small car Market come january when it introduces the first .-built sub compacts the front wheel drive Dodge Omni and Plymouth horizon. Brown said Small car sales both domes tic and foreign should go up from about 47 per cent of the total this year to about 50 to 51 per cent next year and Chrysler expects that segment to account for about 60 per cent of its 1978 sales. Only the new yorker remains in chrysl ers Large car lineup for 1978, and it will be downgraded to an intermediate for 1979. Large cars dropped for 1978 include three station wagons new yorker Royal Monaco and grand fury and the Royal Monaco and grand fury cars. Brown also predicted continued strength in Chrysler s  truck and motor Home sales with 1978 sales estimated at 500,000 units. He sees Chrysler car sales at 1.5 Mil lion. He said Chrysler s 1978 prices will aver age about 6 per cent Over current models. Stateside Rosalynn Carter supports Exchange programs Washington a first lady Ros Alynn Carter gave a boost to people to people diplomacy by hosting a White House reception for representatives of 11 International Exchange programs. Among the visitors were 50 directors of the Friendship Force which was inaugurated in july when georgians exchanged visits with citizens of new Castle eng land. The first lady travelled to Brazil in 1973 with a similar group the Georgia partners of the americas. She pointed out that through the 10 oldest Exchange programs that were rep resented at the reception 400,000 . Citi Zens had been involved in More than 400foreign communities. That s a lot of International Good will she said. Dog Day afternoon Bank robber seeks parole new York a John Wojtowicz whose robbery of a Brooklyn Bank five years ago inspired the Book and film dog Day afternoon May soon be freed from prison. A Federal judge Here has reduced Wojtowicz sentence from 20 to 15 years making him eligible for immediate parole. Wojtowicz now in the Federal correctional Center in Lompoc calif., has applied to the California parole Board for an immediate release. Hie Board will Rule on the application later this month. Wojtowicz attempted to Rob a Chase Manhattan Branch in Brooklyn in 1972, but police cornered him in the Bank. He seized Bank patrons and workers As hostages and held off police for 14 hours. Wojtowicz who says he is bisexual said he planned the robbery to finance a sex change operation for his Boyfriend who subsequently had the operation using part of the $7,500 Wojtowicz received for movie rights. Youth indicted in deaths of 2 Presley mourners Memphis term. A treatise Wheeler 18, has been indicted by a Shelby county grand jury in the deaths of two Young women who were struck Down by an automobile that swerved into a crowd of mourners outside Elvis sit Presley s mansion Here. Wheeler was indicted on two counts of second degree murder in the deaths of Alice Marie Hovater and Juanita Joanne Johnson both 19 and both from Monroe la. A third woman was injured and remains in serious condition at methodist Hospital in  three women were among about 1,000 mourners and sightseers gathered outside Graceland mansion in the predawn hours of aug. 18, two Days after the Rock and Roll Singer died of a heart ailment. Authorities say a car driven by Wheeler swerved off Elvis Presley Boulevard in front of the mansion and struck the women. Missing body puzzles no. Hospital officials Newark . A state investigators and officials at St. Michael s Hospital Here Are baffled about the missing Corpse of an 83-year-old romanian immigrant who died at the Hospital last year. The dead Man Michael Kaplan left an estate of $32,000 in savings and a sealed Safe Deposit Box. Without a death certificate officials said his wife and four Chil Dren in Romania can t inherit his estate. Hospital records indicate Kaplan died there on june 23,1976. Dominick Labella of Newark Bis lawyer said he called the hos Pital in july and asked officials to hold the body while Labella notified his client s Kin in Romania. Labella said it took him six months to reach the dead Man s family but when he contacted the Hospital Kaplan s body was missing. John Coleman spokesman for the Hospi Tal said they have searched records checked with funeral directors and asked nearby new Jersey College of Medicine and dentistry if the body was used a Ca Daver in medical classes All to no Avail. David Rockefeller named to trilateral group new York up David Rockefeller chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank has been named As North american chairman of the trilateral commission an unofficial policy oriented group linking Japan North America and Europe. Rockefeller replaces Gerard c. Smith who was recently appointed . Ambassador at Large and special representative for non proliferation matters. The trilateral commission is a private organization founded in 1973, which focuses on policy oriented analyses of major issues of concern to North America West Ern Europe and Japan. The commission has about 250 members and meets every nine months in each Region by turn. The next meeting will be in Bonn Ger Many in october and will include discussions on East West relations and food production in Asia. Auto von Nef works in a ringer Lansing Mich. A for a year state supreme court Justice John Fitzge Rald has been getting Calls from the White House ships in the Pacific and military brass in Iceland. The Telephone snafu has the phone company and the army puzzled. Somehow Fitzgerald s office phone got hooked up to the military network called Auto on. The network is off limits to private Citi Zens and is not supposed to be used by Mili tary personnel for their personal  judge and his Secretary say they Are not annoyed by the mysterious Calls he gets like several intended for a Navy Casein Naples Italy. Some of these military people laugh i mean belly laugh Over the fact that we Are somehow hooked into their system said Fitzgerald s Secretary Marianne Jones. They think they Are reaching Naples and at first they seem a Little embarrassed when we Tell them they have Lansing Mich.,"she said. But we be had wonderful conversations and first hand weather reports from All Over the  of jeez said army col. John Nolan in Arlington va., when told the Calls have been coming into the judge s office since August 1976. The judge should t be getting those  said Nolan chief of the Auto on operations Branch in the defense communications Agency. Auto on is army shorthand for Auto Matic voice network a centralized worldwide Telephone network for military bases and other government offices which uses circuits leased from american Tele phone and Telegraph co. The last five digits of Fitzgerald s number 3-0123 Are the same As the Naples base number but a Michigan Bell Telephone co. Spokesman says that does t explain the problem. Nolan and Bell officials say they will place a tracer on the judge s phone to figure out the problem. Bell says the mix up is apparently no threat to National Security. It s an important line the Bell spokesman says but it s not the hotline to Moscow or anything like   
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