European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 13, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 world economic woes to persist if report says Bird of a different Feather this otherwise comely actress might in to s the bionic woman where an elicit a double take from passersby for army of female robots dressed up As More than one reason. The weird Las vegas showgirls threatens to As makeup was for use in a future episode Sault planet Earth. A photo Washington a the world econ omy is characterized by High unemployment and serious inflation in Many countries and there is Little likelihood of any rapid improvement the International monetary fund said sunday. The fund said it will require skill patience and courage on the part of Many governments to keep the situation from getting worse. In its annual report the if said unemployment in the Industrial nations during the first half of this year was still near the Peak Levels of the 1974-75 recession. It attributed the failure to reduce unemployment mainly to the moderate Pace of output growth which has barely offset the Normal growth in the labor Force in most countries. Economic growth rates Are generally subnormal in a setting of High unemployment excess Plant capacity and lagging investment. Inflation is also a widespread problem the if said. Better than most the report said the . Has done better than most in reducing both inflation and unemployment although the jobless rate was still High at 7.1 per cent last month. It hit 9 per cent during the recession. Fears of worsening inflation Are pre venting most nations from promoting More rapid growth of their economies to reduce the jobless rate the if report said. Because of the constraints imposed by these problems most member countries indeed almost All Are considered to have Little room for Man Euver. In the Short run the scope for improvement in the present unsatisfactory economic Situa Tion is thus limited the report added. The if which seeks to promote inter National monetary cooperation and currency stabilization in the non communist world has 130 members including the . It will hold its annual meeting jointly with the world Bank in Washington beginning sept. 26. While Progress in improving the Economy has been slow in most nations the if report said a gradual approach is probably the Only Way to proceed without making the problems of inflation and unemployment worse. It traced responsibility for most of the current economic problems to the four fold increase in world Oil prices in 1973 and1974. But not All countries have done badly in coping with the situation. The so called big three economies of Germany Japan and the ., where inflation has been Best contained Are now in a relatively Good eco nomic position it said. One development that could upset the world Economy would be a move toward restrictions by major trading nations the if said. There Are pressures in the ., for example for Trade barriers to protect individual industries such As steel. If the forces of protectionism Are not resisted the resort to restrictions on Trade would harm the open International trading system it would not provide any real Solu Tion to the economic problems confronting the Industrial economies and could have effects destructive of Prosperity in the world Economy the if warned. Recaps dropped in Northeast rail patrons must tote own Washington a starting tues Day rail travellers along Amtrak s North East corridor Between Washington and Boston will have to haul their own bags. In a Cost cutting move the rail Corpora Tion is dropping its last 80 recaps at 10 stations on the route. However elderly or handicapped Pas sengers will be Able to get help if they Call Amtrak in Advance a spokesman said. Eliminating Redcap jobs should save the ailing quasi Public rail corporation $1.4 million in salaries and benefits he added. The 80 recaps Are among 180 Railroad workers losing their jobs in the cutback at a total savings of $3.3 million. The decision to eliminate Redcap service was made very reluctantly last week said Thomas Ramsey Amtrak s manager of stations in the Northeast corridor. He said he originally wanted to hire four More red Caps two in Washington and two in Phil Adelphia in the coming fiscal year. However a $4.2 million Cut in his $22.4 million budget request forced a Choice be tween Redcap service or ticket sales personnel along the nation s most heavily travelled rail sector he said. One of our attempts was to keep lines at ticket counters the same length they Are now said Ramsey. More of our custom ers Benefit from that than from our Redcap  Amtrak requested a Federal appropriation of $534.1 million for fiscal 1978, but got �188.5 million. Arn Trak Das already announced plans to eliminate about 22 daily trains from the 120 operated in the Northeast corridor to reduce Turbo service Between Chicago and Milwaukee and to Cut the number of runs made by about seven Long distance trains. It also wants to raise ticket prices. Elimination of the Redcap service along the corridor Means an end to a tradition begun around 18%. Sept. 13, 1947 the . Has demanded the immediate release of nine american and British military men seized by Yugoslavia in the Vicinity of Trieste. The state department sent an official pro test to the yugoslav government demand ing the release and protesting the maltreatment of the prisoners. Sept. 13, 1957 the United nations general Assembly agreed to continue its hungarian debate in a special night meet ing As nation after nation took the floor to denounce the soviet Union for brutal re pression of the hungarian people. Sept. 13, 1967 . Bombers staged their heaviest raids of the War against Hai Phong North Vietnam s largest port hit Ting two of the main Bridges in the City the main rail Yard and a sprawl no Vure Hanisi hat. A spokesman said the raids wore aimed at sealing the port and Bhar King the by nement of War supplies  on the docks. One  Piane was shot Down. Freed Nashville term. A a pretty 19 year old banker s daughter kidnapped four Days before from her College Campus Here was driven to North Carolina on sunday and released unhurt after a $150,000 Ransom was paid. Within hours authorities arrested a Man and a woman. Annette Adams a blonde who had reigned As a Beauty Queen at her High school in Maryville tenn., was reunited with her parents at the Burke county Sher Iff s office in Morganton n.c., 300 Miles East of Here before Dawn. Authorities said they recovered More than $148,000. Soon she was Back in her Hometown where her father . Adams is presi Dent of the Bank of Maryville. Her face was puffy and her eyes red from crying but she said she was All right. I was not Hurt she said. I was Well treated. They did not bother me. They never threatened to Hurt me at All. They moved me around a lot. I was blindfolded most of the time but i could usually Tell where i was by leaks in the Blindfold and such. I m glad to be Home she said. Then she broke into tears. Authorities arrested Shelby Ann Baker 28, of Winter Haven fla., and Wayne Edward Garrity 2