European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 19, 1977 German business leaders in hiding Bonn not since Urban terrorists started to attack German businessmen As Well As politicians a few weeks ago the corporate leaders of Europe s richest nation have gone underground. Take Rudolph Bennigsen Forder. Presi Dent of Veba a big Energy conglomerate that controls aral the largest German owned Oil company. He apparently is concerned because the terrorists after killing a banker and kidnapping an industrialist in Quick succession said they planned to attack someone concerned with Energy at Veba s Headquarters a company spokesman declined to disclose the chair Man s whereabouts or to provide information about company executives and the arrangements made to protect them. The situation is the same at other Well known German companies a blackout on information about company officials and a frosty reply to requests for interviews. Company presidents just Don t want to draw attention to themselves any More commented an executive who said his directors no longer told him anything about their movements. Corporate leaders in West Germany have always surrounded themselves with fears spread of conflict More pomp and circumstance than have politicians who Are imbued with the american tradition of openness and informality. Now the politicians Are hiding behind a vast deployment of barbed wire armoured cars and policemen with machine guns while the men who made West Ger Many prosperous have simply disappeared from View for invisibility seems to offer better Protection against terrorists than guns and bodyguards. Private bodyguards Are certainly in brisk demand As can be seen from the big advertisements Security companies have been placing in the press. The government also provides police bodyguards to an undisclosed list of businessmen and others it believes to be in danger. Recent events have shown that such Protection has limited Success against deter mined terrorists now numbered by the government at 1,200, with 6,000 More As Active sympathizers. Despite elaborate Security precautions or. Jergen Ponto chairman of the dres Dener Bank was killed in his drawing room by terrorists in july. This month or. Hanns Marlin Schleyer a prominent industrialist was abducted by terrorists Idi Amin alerts pilots of fighter bombers Nairobi up ii president Idi Amin has ordered Uganda s fighter bomber pilots to report to their bases at once be cause of fighting Between Ethiopia and so Malia radio Kampala said sunday. The radio broadcast monitored Here said Amin warned that unless action is taken to halt the fighting the conflict May spread to All of East Africa. Amin said that it appeared that the 49 nation organization of african Unity is dead because it is silent on the he called on Oak officials to advise the current chairman of the Oak Albert Ber Nard Bongo of Gabon to take urgent Steps to keep the situation from worsening. Amin commented that if no action is taken the fighting May spread to the whole of Eastern Africa the radio said. The broadcast also quoted Amin As saying that he feared that if the Horn of Africa is neglected other african nations May reclaim their natural boundaries which were illegally hanged by the Colo Nial Amin also warned Somalia to keep a close Eye on its Southern Border a reference to the Boundary with Kenya. Amin said Somalia should be Alert All the the radio broadcast gave no indication How Amin planned to use his air Force which was supplied and trained by the so Viet Union if hostilities were to spread on the african Horn. While Amin has not publicly declared his allegiances in the conflict he is said to be a Friend of president Siad Barre of so Malia. Kenya has publicly sided with the ethiopians in the conflict despite the great Ideo logical differences Between pro Western Nairobi and marxist Addis Ababa. Somalia has claimed portions of North Ern Kenya As Well As Southern Ethiopia As part of a historical greater while expressing fears that other nations might follow the somali example of laying claim to other countries this is precisely what Amin did last year to Kenya. Following the israeli Rescue of hostages at Entebbe Airport last year Amin accused Kenya of blockading Uganda and threatened to bomb the kenyans to open away to the sea. He also charged that parts of Western Kenya had been illegally taken from Uganda Early in this Century by the Brit ish. Western observers noted that the conflict on the Horn had produced unusual political allegiances and that some nations had cast their lot not with their friends but with the enemy of their enemy. After a gun Battle in which his three armed police guards and his Driver were killed and Over 300 shots were exchanged. In a recent article the business Maga Zine Wirtschaft woche said the Best Way for company executives to protect them selves against terrorist attacks was to keep their movements and whereabouts secret. A list of "15 Golden rules of Security urged them to avoid such dangerous activities As solitary walks talks with strangers in bars and discussions about personal movements where someone might overhear. That businessmen appear to be follow ing such advice with their usual thorough Ness underlines the deep psychological Impact of the terrorist wave. At the finance ministry a High official lists terror ism As a Factor contributing to what he termed German Industry s Lack of Confidence in the future and its reluctance to the government is budgeting an additional $500 million for internal Security next year. Just kicking around China new York Cosmos soccer stars from left Pele Franz Beckenbauer and Shep Messing visit at the Gate of heavenly peace in peking after the team s arrival in the chinese City to play two games As part of its tour of Asia. A Bhutto now in Karachi May go to Lahore jail Karachi a former prime min ister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was transferred Here sunday by pakistani Federal Security forces after his arrest Early saturday in his Hometown of la Kana. Bhutto was lodged in the District jail briton recalls his Callas interview from press dispatches London t Maria Callas in one of the last interviews she gave before her death Friday of a heart attack in Paris told a British broadcaster that the old callus is Alan Sievewright of London s Capitol radio and a lifelong Callas fan who saw every performance she gave at covent Garden saturday recalled his three hour meeting with the Soprano at her Paris Home four weeks ago. I got a sad feeling being with her he said. At one Point she asked me if i lived alone and when i said yes she said -1 think it s possibly better for All of us.1 she was preceded into the room by her two poodles one of them More than 15 years old. She said you know i be always replaced my dogs with the same kind of dog when one Dies. I be often thought you should be Able to replace human beings in that Way but i be found that you can to " she mentioned no names but some re ports have suggested that Callas never re covered from the death of greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Sievewright had gone to Paris to ask Callas if she would consider being inter viewed before a live London audience per haps with musical highlights from her career and the proposal was under consideration. He said Callas was not interested in giving master classes like those she gave at new York s Juillard school in 1971. She said i be found that they Don t necessarily want to know. I would like the big ones to come to she was referring to the Prima Donnas who have succeeded her on the world s operatic stages. She also said she had been asked to write a Book about herself. I will not write a Book she said because if i were to do it i d have to Tell the truth and that would Hurt too Many people. Better for me to be meanwhile friends of the opera Star said saturday that her body will be Cre mated As she had wished and buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery tuesday or wednesday. A Public memorial service will be held before the cremation at Paris s greek orthodox Church in Georges Bizet St. On saturday hundreds of admirers filed past the apartment House where Callas lived to sign a Register of condolences. After spending saturday night in the District jail at Shukkur a town some 50 Miles Southeast of la Kana. Police sources said Bhutto might be taken to a jail in Lahore in the province of Punjab where he would be required to appear from time to time before the Lahore High court where a number of cases against him Are pending. Reports reaching Karachi said police have arrested 26 persons for staging pro test demonstrations in la Kana and nearby villages saturday against Bhutto arrest. Bhutto s supporters numbering some 500, had blocked All roads leading from la Kana to towns outside. All shops also were closed in protest. When police arrived they were stoned by demonstrators and fought Back with tear Gas and Bill club charges. After the arrests of 26 persons the situation was brought under control when the rioters Learned that Bhutto had been taken to Shukkur. Royal couple Back in Spain Madrid up _ King Juan Carlos and Een Sophia have returned from a 10 Day 12,000-mile tour of Venezuela and five Central american nations
