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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Moluccan plans hint at new plot Assen the Netherlands up an uneasy Calm settled Over the South moluccan districts of Assen and Bove Smilde sunday following a massive weapons search which turned up a detailed plot for a new hostage taking attack. Community leaders expressed fear forthe future. Police arrested 33 South moluccas in the Day Long House to House operation sat urday. All but four were released after questioning but 16 will be charged with Ille Gal weapons Possession. Assen Public prosecutor Piet Munten dam said the searchers who moved in at Dawn with armoured cars dogs Hal tracks and mine detectors discovered Complete plans drawn up by South moluccan extremists for a hostage taking operation against a certain  taken seriously he did not give further details but said the plans were such As to be taken seriously. He said the youth accused of drawing up the plot had been apprehended. The military search operation coming on the heels of sniping and other violence by South moluccan youths protesting the trial of eight comrades accused of staging a twin hostage seizure at a train and a school last Spring has caused concern among dutch and South moluccas alike. Relations Between the dutch and the 40, 000 South moluccas in Holland already have been strained by a series of violent acts already including two twin hostage seizures by militant youths pressing the moluccan demand that Indonesia Grant in dependence to their spice islands Home land. Most South moluccas condemn the Vio Lence preferring to press their goal by peaceful contacts with authorities. The search action. Certainly has created a wider Gap  South Molus cans and dutch said . Tue usury a moluccan Community Leader in Assen. We Are afraid our authority Over the Community has been undermined by. The search actions because they tend to demonstrate that there is no sense in talking to dutch  Johannes Manusama self styled presi Dent of the phantom Republic of the South moluccas said a thing like this does t help very much for a solution of the whole problem. To make it effective you would have to repeat such searches every week and then you have a police  observers wondered if police would stage similar searches in other moluccan neighbourhoods throughout Holland. A dutch resident of Assen near the moluccan District said if the police had not acted i m sure that quite a few of the dutch population around Here would have. We Are not afraid of them the Molus cans. If they can get arms i know that we can do so As Well. And i know quite a few people who have done so  army truck runs into German Home Leitheim Germany a private Resi Dence in it Venhofen was damaged Early sunday morning when the Driver of a five ton army truck lost control on a curve and ran into the House an army spokesman said. In addition to damages to the House two fences were also damaged. It Venhofen is about 15 Miles Southwest of Augsburg. The Driver and three passengers All of the 3rd in 17th Field arty 72nd Field arty group were injured and taken to the army Hospital in Augsburg. One suffered a broken Arm and the others were treated for minor injuries. The truck and a water trailer it was towing were total losses an army spokes Man said. Monday september 12, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 27 straightening out a detail of history Lula Parker Berensen 93-year-old sister of wild West outlaw Butch Cassidy visits movie land Wax museum in los Angeles where she stops to Admire the Wax statue of Paul Newman who played Butch in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance  in California to approve a to documentary on the life of her brother she claims he did not die in a shootout As depicted in the film. A statue of Robert Redford As the Sun dance kid is at the left. A photo disputes flare in other industries . Breadline grow with s London up britons spent another Day on the breadline sunday with no end in sight to a strike by most of the nation s Bakers and disputes flared in other areas of Industry. Shoppers prowled the few stores open Selling bread after 57,000 bakery workers launched a nationwide strike saturday Over a Public Holiday pay dispute. The bread famine will be Felt More on monday when the big retail outlets will be without any supplies. Smaller Independent bakeries and Bakers shops which Supply about 20 per cent of the bread in England were not affected and they stepped up production in a vain Effort to meet the demand. Long queues formed Early in the morn ing at those shops which had bread after a frenzied Rush cleared the shelves of the big bakeries saturday. The Bakers Union said it was prepared for a Long drawn out Battle. There is no Way my members Are going Back to work until they get the just settlement they deserve Union Secretary Sam Maddox said. The Union called the strike when the employers the Bakers federation docked a Day s pay from those bread men who had refused to work Over the August Bank Holiday. The government s arbitration Concilia Tion advisory service Aca which negotiated an end to the last National bread strike in 1974, will make another attempt to bring the two sides together. Housewives fearing the worst bought up supplies of yeast and flour and newspapers blossomed with recipes on How to bake your own bread. Elsewhere on the Industrial front tool room workers at the Lucas company Over ruled shop stewards and voted to end a 10 week strike that crippled a Large Section of the British motor Industry. Worst hit was the government backed Leyland firm which ceased production on seven models because of a shortage of components a stoppage that idled 16,000workers. The Ford motor company meanwhile offered its 53,000 workers pay increases of less than 10 per cent in the face of demands for a 15 per cent raise sparking Union threats of a walkout. An inter Union Row threatened a serious conflict throughout Britain s shipyards. The trouble stemmed from the intention of the state owned firm of British shipbuilders to recognize wage bargaining from the Small ship building and Allied industries management association despite protests from the More powerful confederation of shipbuilding and engineering unions. Begin names former aide As adviser against terrorists Tel Aviv up Menahem begin s chief operations officer from pre state Days of underground War against the Brit ish was named sunday As the prime minis ter s adviser on the War against terrorism a government spokesman said. Avichai Paglin who begin once said has military Talent that Borders on Genius served As chief operations officer when begin headed the Etzel hebrew acronym for National military Organiza Tiona guerrilla group that attacked British targets until the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Known As Gidi in his underground Days Paglin 55, planned the 1946 bombing of the British Headquarters in Jerusalem the King David hotel. Nearly 100 British soldiers jews and arabs were killed in the blast which demolished a Wing of the six Story hotel. With the end of the underground War against the British the jewish guerrilla organizations were unified into the Israel de Fence forces but then prime minister David Ben Gurion banned Paglin fro service. Paglin went into private business making headlines when it was revealed in 1960 that he owned the factory that manufactured the oven used to cremate convicted nazi Adolf Eichmann  
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