European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday september 12, 1977 balloonist pass Halfway Mark Marshfield mass. A two men passed the Halfway Mark sunday with no reported problems in their attempt to be the first to Cross the Atlantic in a balloon. The double Eagle a 55-foot neoprene coated Nylon balloon was reported to be 850 Miles East of Labrador and 200 Miles Southeast of the Southern tip of Greenland sunday afternoon. That put the balloon and its pilots Ben l. Abruzzo 47, and Maxie l. Anderson who celebrated his 44th birthday on Satur Day past the Southern tip of Greenland on the flight headed for Europe. Originally the target area for Landing the Craft was France but Mike Leavitt a ground Crew spokesman said the balloon was on a More northerly route and might land in the Southern part of the United kingdom or Norway. W. Germany reopens Contact with kidnappers Bonn up Chancellor Helmut Schmidt s government reopened negotiations sunday night with the kidnappers of a leading West German industrialist As his wife appealed to authorities to meet the terrorists demands. Communicating with the kidnappers through a Geneva lawyer acting As inter mediary Schmidt s government demanded new evidence that the guerrilla s hostage is still alive and More details of their proposal to Exchange him for 11 other terrorists now in prison. Without knowing the destination of the 11 whose release is demanded so that Over flight and Landing rights could be arranged beforehand no Crew would be willing to Fly them the government told the kidnappers. The government also said the kidnappers should state How they proposed to arrange the Safe release of industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer if a bargain were made recalling in this connection that the kid Napers killed four persons when abducting Schleyer. The West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported the government at a crisis staff meeting wednesday decided not to surrender to the terrorists by accepting their demands. It said a video tape the terrorists sent the government showed a broken Schleyer who apparently had been drugged. Schleyer s wife Waltrude asked authorities to meet the terrorists demands. I am aware that the majority of our people expects a firm stand by the govern ment and rejects an Exchange in the form wished by the terrorists mrs. Schleyer said. But i ask you to consider that in our free social order the dignity and the life of every individual is our highest Legal Quali other considerations including the state s right to punish crime must be subordinated to the saving of human the kidnappers got in touch with Geneva lawyer Denis payot although in a letter received by the French news Agency Agency France Presse Friday morning they rejected the idea of an intermediary insisting instead that the government have All of the kidnappers letters and All of the government s replies read on National radio and television stations. In earlier communications the Kidnap ers demanded the government Call off the police search release their terrorist com rades from prison give each of them 100, 000 Marks about $44,000 and Fly them to a country of their Choice. Otherwise they said they would kill Schleyer. Schleyer 62, is a member of the Board of the Daimler Benz automotive company chairman of the employers association and of the federation of Industry. Five persons wielding sub machine guns and pistols kidnapped Schleyer in Cologne monday evening after killing his Driver and his three police bodyguards. Theologians Heinrich Albertz Hellmut Gollwitzer and Kurt Scharf and author Heinrich Boh issued a statement pleading with the kidnappers to abandon this Mur Burma Oil find reported Rangoon up Burma s state run newspaper has reported that the govern ment has discovered an estimated 48 Mil lion barrel Oil Reserve in an area 350 mile North of Here. Derous barter of human life against human be quite Clear about this that further killing will Only destroy everything you wish to achieve and have unforeseeable re sults for our entire country also for your friends in prison the four concluded. None that we can see said Leavitt when asked sunday if there were any prob lems. Everything seems to be going along he said the balloon was travelling at about 46 Miles per hour and had averaged a Little less than 45 . Since taking off. It was flying at an Altitude of about 8,000 feet compared with an earlier 5,500 feet. He said the balloon could reach Europe late monday or Early tuesday. After a Cool and wet night aloft the balloonist peeled themselves out of their Down sleeping bags sunday morning and began to gain Altitude. The two Are seeking to become the first balloonist to Complete the 3,000-mile trip. Fourteen previous recorded attempts failed several ending in death. They re approximately 1,500 Miles into the flight and we re still looking for Europe by late monday Leavitt said. Abruzzo and Anderson both from Albuquerque new Mexico have emergency survival and air and surface radio equip ment. Their Gondola is built like a boat so it can float if forced Down at sea. Study says Sun is Only Clear Energy option left Washington a the cheapest and Best Energy option for the entire world today is to harness the major portion of All commercial Energy that is currently being wasted according to a world watch Institute researcher. At the same time Denis Hayes writes in rays of Hope the transition to a Post Petroleum world there is Only one Clear Cut Energy option left the published by . Norton the 240-Page volume details an exceedingly dismal out look for world Energy. For example world fuel consumption has tripled Over the past 25 years while Oil and Gas consumption quintuple and electricity has grown almost sevenfold. The nuclear dream is rapidly fading away and continued heavy Reliance on Coal could Lead to profound and irreversible alteration in global climate. The fivefold increase in Oil prices Over the past few years ensures that third world countries will never be Able to count on Energy from Petroleum sources. Sports in Brief Endicott . Up or. Gil Morgan scored the first Victory of his career sunday shooting a final round 69 to finish at 14-under-Par 270, Good for a five shot win Over Lee Eider in the $200,000 . Open. Sunday s baseball american league 1st game Toronto 200 000 010 3 9 1 new York 102 100 Oox-4 6 0 Byrd Willis 4 and Ashby Tidrow Lyle 8 and Munson. A Tidrow 10-4. A Byrd 2-10. Or Toronto fairly 19. New York Jackson 25. Detroit 1000000012100 Boston 000002 40x-6 9 1 Arroyo Miller 7 and Parish Lea Stanley 9 and Fisk. A Lee 8-3. L Arroyo 7-16. Or Boston Rice 38. Cleveland 000 022 010-5 9 0 Baltimore 321 120 Oox-9 13 0 Dobson Buskey 4monge 6 and Kendall a Rinsley Drago 8 and Skaggs. A Grimsley 13-8. A Dobson 3 11. Or Cleveland Carty 13. Baltimore a Cices 17. National league St. Louis 200 300 000--5 8 1 Philadelphia 003 300 Oox-6 8 1 Denny Sutton 4metier 61 and Rader Lonborg Brusstar 5garber 8 and Boone. A Brusstar 5-2 l Sutton 0-1. Or Philadelphia Luzinski 36. Montreal 000 100 120 4111 Pittsburgh 330 003 lox -10 16 1 Holdsworth Landreth 1schatzeder 3alcala 5atkinson 7brown 8 and Carter Blackwell 8 Kison Tekulve 8 and Dyer. W Kison 8-8. L Holdsworth 22. Or Montreal Valentine 24carter 25. Pittsburgh Robinson 25parker 20. Los Angeles 002 000 000-2 7 0 Cincinnati 400 100 01x-6 9 0 Rhoden Hough 7 and Yeager Grote 8 Billingham Hume 3 and Bench. A Hume 1-3. A Rhoden 16-9. San Francisco 000001010260houston 001 000 000-1 7 1 Halicki Lavelle 8 and Hill Andujar pent 9 and Herrmann. A Halicki 14-10. A Andujar 11-6. Or Houston Cabell 15. New York 000 040 0037 13 0chicago too 300 0003 7 1 Todd Myrick 5lockwood 8 and Stearns. Broberg 5g. Hernandez 7lamp 8p. Raus chel 9 and Mitterwald. A Myrick 2-2. Or. Reuschel 19-8. Or Chicago Trilo 7. Some experts believe that two trillion dollars is a conservative estimate of the combined Energy related capital needs through 1985 of Europe Japan and the . If conventional Energy options Are Pur sued. The entire world thus stands at the Edge of an awesome discontinuity in its production and use of Energy the senior researcher for the Washington based Institute concludes. Noting the tremendous Gap in Energy requirements Between the wealthy nations and the poor Hayes said that today the fraction of americans who have air conditioning use More electricity for that one purpose than 800 million chinese use for everything. The . Lavishes More electricity on lighting than is generated by the continents of Africa Asia and South America combined. Pressing his argument for conservation Hayes urges that it not be confused with curtailment. Curtailment Means a cold House conservation Means a Well Insu lated House with an efficient heating system. Curtailment Means giving up automobiles conservation Means trading in a seven mile per gallon status Symbol for a 40-mile-per-Gauon commuter vehicle. Energy conservation does not require curtailment of vital services it merely re quires the curtailment of Energy waste. Investments in saving Energy whether to double the efficiency of an Indian Villag ers Coo stove or the elimination or Energy waste in a steel Mill will save far More Energy than similar investments in new Power facilities can produce he adds. He cites the advantages of such renewable Energy sources As wind water Bio mass and direct sunlight in that they add no heat to the global environment and pro Duce no radioactive or weapons Grade materials. Hayes cites the innovative wind Power research being done by the Danes and groups in a number of developing coun tries hydroelectric development focusing on Small turbines in Japan Switzerland Sweden and China Brazil s $400 million Effort to convert sugar Cane and cassava into ethanol for fuel Sweden s extraction of Energy currently accounting for 7 per cent of All its Energy from its Forest products industries and the development and use of anaerobic digesters in Korea India and China. Thai rat Hunt nets 20,000 Bangkok a More than 5,000 thai villagers launched a rat Hunt Nab Bing More than 20,000 rodents in a Day Long operation. Co stanza Calls Lance a burden7 continued from Page 1 have All the information he said. He added that the committee was not Given the information about Lance s Bank ing and financial problems that has since come out. Controversy also surrounds the use of a Bank plane by Lance and overdrafts by his Campaign committee when he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Georgia in 1974. Newsweek Magazine reports that Lance May have made questionable use of a Mili tary plane in his role As budget director. Jackson said he believes Carter has been Hurt temporarily by the Lance controversy but i be been around Long enough to know it s rather foolish to make contemporaneous judgments in this fast moving world. It May change in Detroit sunday Georgia gov. George Busbee said that if Lance is guilty of All the accusations made against him he should go to jail. But he said Lance should not be destroyed by informed Busbee in Detroit for the National governors conference said Lance should not resign before he has had a hearing before a proper panel. Vice president Walter Mondale also said he believes the budget director should have a Chance to answer charges made against him before he decides whether he should leave the Carter administration. Time to be fair i think this country has time to be fair Mondale said sunday before addres sing the annual conference of the second judicial conference of the United states at Buck Hill Falls a. Busbee who Defeated Lance in the 1974 Georgia democratic gubernatorial Pri Mary said he thinks Lance is a Man of integrity but said he is concerned about the charges made. If or. Lance is guilty of what they accuse him of being guilty of. Of course i think this is terrible and i think he ought to go to the Penitentiary for some of the things i be seen if they were True Busbee said. However Busbee said he thought it is wrong if you ask a Man s resignation before he s even had an Opportunity to defend himself. And generally speaking most of these issues have been by Well informed sources someone High in government " he said. This Type of thing is wrong. It s just not right to gut a Man and destroy him on Well informed sources " gov. John d. Rockefeller in of West Vir Ginia a Democrat said Lance should not resign until he has his Day in court and if his Day in court does not work out Well for him then i think he should Republican William Milliken of Michi Gan also said he is willing to wait until Lance has time to defend himself but added however there is a question of credibility whether he could Ever serve of democratic gov. Jerry Apodaca of new Mexico said he did not think Lance should resign As of this Day. But i think it has become apparent that Public Confidence has been eroded to the Point where or. Lance can no longer be effective As part of the Carter he said that if Public Confidence is not restored then obviously or. Lance would have to Europe mostly Cloudy and Cool with afternoon rain showers \�1 Itle chan9e tuesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 73, Low 49. Sunset monday 6 47 . Sunrise tuesday s .soa.m. 4am 4pm 65 65 56 54 57 so 82 72 75 63 70 63 Adana p Athens p Aviano p Berlin cd Brussels p Copenhagen cd 4am 4 of 57 66 63 59 48 57 72 68 90 72 77 77 Frankfurt London p Madrid c Munich p Paris p Rome p p cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a Clear. Det 25,31st weather so
