European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday september 10, 1977 Channel conqueror Canadian Cindy Nicholas 19, is wrap Ped in a Blanket and comforted by her Mother Vicky in Folkestone England after chopping Over 10 hours off the two Way English Channel swimming record. Up photo Canadian girl shatters 2-Way Channel record Dover England up Cindy Nicho Las a blonde 19-year-old Canadian student who sliced 10 hours five minutes off the record for swimming the English Channel nonstop both ways has Only one More ambition. Next year i want to be the first woman to swim the Channel six times she says. The 5-foot-5 science student at Toronto University talked thursday Only a few hours after she became the first woman to achieve the two Way feat. Only four men Graham declares Hungary visit Complete Success Budapest up . Evangelist Billy Graham said Friday his first visit to a soviet bloc country has been a Complete Success but i have not joined the communist he told a news conference at the end of a week Long visit All the reasons that brought him to Hungary had been More than asked if he had changed his opinion on communism Graham replied i have not joined the communist party. Nor have been asked to join but the world is Chang ing and both sides Are beginning to urides tand each other More a number of things have surprised me the terrific traffic jams that remind me of american cities the material Well being of the people and also that people can go to Church and really worship god he said. Graham said if he is invited to another soviet bloc country we will most liking his five objectives in visiting Hungary he said they were one to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had the Opportunity to bring five evangelical Mes sages in which i gave invitations to accept Christ and hundreds of people have Given their lives to have managed the trip before her and the fastest came nowhere near her time. He was american Jon Erikson of Chica go who clocked 30 hours in 1975. Cindy roundtrip took 19 hours 55 minutes de spite a 10-minute Holdup on the French coast at Cap gris Nez where she spent 10 minutes battling surging Waves that scraped and bumped her Over barely sub merged rocks. Swimming 90 strokes a minute she reached Cap gris Nez from Dover in 8 hours 58 minutes Only 13 minutes outside the Al time Best. After scrambling ashore at Cap gris Nez under Channel swimming rules she immediately plunged Back in and headed for England at 92 strokes a minute. She got there in 10 hours 57 minutes and crawling onto Shakespeare Beach shouted than god i finally made the classic Straits of Dover swim courses 18 Miles in a straight line but tides and currents Force swimmers to Coyer at least another five Miles on each crossing. Moluccas riot for 2nd Day at dutch trial site Assen the Netherlands a Young South moluccas rioted for the second Day running Friday shortly before a Public prosecutor demanded maximum jail terms of ten years for seven of their com patriots on trial in this Northern town for hijacking a train and seizing a school broke out in the Early hours of the morning As Over 100 crack dutch anti riot police tried to smash their Way into the barricades moluccan neighbourhood to search for weapons. The police were held Back for More than an hour by snipers shooting from inside the barricades and when they eventually broke through some officers were pinned Down in a Street by heavy automatic gun fire authorities moluccan woman was wounded in the head by gunfire and a policeman was injured by flying Glass but neither was de scribed in serious condition. The police raid needed approval at government level in the Hague because of the explosive situation caused by the twin sieges and the the height of the trouble police were hacked up by armoured cars and a helicopter which hovered overhead beaming a powerful spotlight on the moluccas neigh boyhood in the West of the town. The shooting entered on a Community Center used by the moluccan youth move ment which police believed to be the Stor age place for weapons. But after driving Back the moluccas and searching the building police said no firearms were found although a Large Quantity of gasoline and articles used for making Molotov cocktails were seized. Police said no arrests were made during the disturbances. Many moluccan Homes were severely damaged in the Battle. In the heavily guarded court a few hours later Assen Public prosecutor Carel j. Van olde Beek demanded ten year jail terms for the seven surviving moluccas involved in the twin sieges which began May 23 and ended june 11 when dutch marines stormed in with a Hail of gunfire. Six of the nine terrorists aboard the train As Well As two of their hostages died in the Rescue operation. Van olde Beek demanded four year imprisonment for an eighth moluccan accused of helping plan the raids. The court is due to announce its verdict on septem Ber 22. The eight moluccas showed no signs of emotion As Van olde Beek announced his demands in a 21-minute address but a Murmer rippled through the courthouse packed with relatives of the accused and moluccan Community elders. One of the moluccas charged with the train Hijack Junus Riri Masse 27, listened from a Stretcher As the prosecutor demanded he be jailed for ten years. Riri Masse an Art student has been hospitalized since the siege ended with Bullet wounds to his arms and legs. The other moluccas accused of the train Hijack Are Marcus Lum Lessil 23, and Andreas Luh Ulima 18. Those charged with the schoolhouse siege Are Isac then 28, Tommy Volnaya 18, Gustaaf Tehupuring 24, and Willem so Planit 26.marcus Patty 23, is accused of helping plan the the prosecutor announced his de mands the South moluccan liberation front one of the militant youth move ments demanding an Independent Home land in Indonesia called a news conference and warned further violence could not be ruled out. Soviets All for Western books at fair Moscow up Western books Are so popular at the first Moscow International Book fair that they May not last the show. Exhibitors said they were either disappearing or being so thoroughly thumbed that they were in danger of falling apart. Tony Moggach of Penguin books said he lost 29 of his 102 books on tuesday opening Day of the nine Day fair and was Down to 59 books by late thursday. At the times Mirror publishing co. Booth crowds of russians waited for a Chance to Leaf through a deluxe Coffee table edition of Dali published by . Abrams a times Mirror subsidiary. One Man asked me How much it Cost and when i told him $50 he said that Noth ing. He saw it for $276 at a second hand shop and that was cheap Here times Mirror president Martin Levin said. Ardis publishers of Ann Arbor Michi Gan which specializes in soviet and rus Sian literature and thames and Hudson of London which was showing a number of Art books closed off their joint Booth to allow Only 12 visitors in at a time. Things were just disappearing too quickly Ellender proffer of Ardis said. Exhibitors were not allowed to sell or give away books from their exhibits under the fair regulations. Organizers said the state would buy them at the end of the exhibition. Robert Baensch vice president of Harper and Row s International division said pilfering was unusual in the West but in what he called countries of Book hunger like Poland Yugoslavia and until recently India it always happened. Space for up of 600,000 names allocated computer to help Yard s Branch London a Scotland Yard s Spe Cial Branch which deals with political crimes is to feed dossiers on tens of thou Sands of people into a new criminal Intelli gence computer to tighten up National Security the times of London reported Friday. Yard spokesmen declined to confirm or deny the front Page report. One said we cannot discuss this at All. National Security is the times said the program is a Pilot scheme involving the computer in which the Branch was allocated space for up to 600,000 names. The $1.57 million computer at the Yard has space for 1.3 million re cords. The paper said an unnamed police source denied the special Branch will Usealla the space allocated to it. However the times added the system will be used to store intelligence records from a total of at least 1.15 million dossiers compiled by the Branch and the Yard s other specialist units such As the drug fraud and illegal immigration squads. This data split into 27 categories includes records on known criminals terrorists other suspected lawbreakers and subversives with addresses aliases habits and documentation culled from other government agencies the paper reported. The activities of the special Branch formed nearly 100 years ago to Hunt Irish terrorists is shrouded in secrecy. It also helps other Security agencies Deal with espionage. Its main task in recent years has been to combat the Irish Republican army the latest generation of Irish guerrillas. The Ira is fighting to end British Rule in Northern Ireland and has waged a sporadic terrorist Campaign of bombings and assassinations in English cities since 1972. British army intelligence a Northern Ireland has been using a computer to help it combat the Ira and other terrorist groups since the fall of 1974. The system considered one of the most advanced in use by Security forces in Europe contains information in an Esti mated 500,000 persons in the province authoritative sources said. The system s Central Bank is linked to a dozen inputs in military poets around the province and one of its main functions is identifying vehicles used by the gunmen and bombers
