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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday september 20, 1977 $146,125 Rolls Royce hits the Road London up the world s most expensive car. A $146,125 Rolls Royce hit the Road monday. The Gold plated velvet upholstered dual air conditioned limousine was bought by millionaire Dubai business Man Bhatia Karani. The car is similar to a Rolls now being completed As a Silver Jubilee gift from the British motor Industry to Queen Elizabeth. But Karani s includes every possible option the Queen s will be less adorned and about $34,000 cheaper. It has everything except Bullet proof  Victor Barclay Man aging director of the London Rolls distributor that made the Sale. The phantom i land Aulette is Green with a White roof and $6,800 Worth of Gold plating including the flying lady Hood ornament that has its own burglar alarm. Inside is an 11-Inch television a cocktail bar an intercom and a special stereo radio Cabinet. The chauffeur sits on Green leather the passengers on Green velvet. Barclay said the car s Price tag includes automobile and value added tax. It took 60 men one year to build. Passersby Stop to Admire the world s most expensive automobile As it is delivered to a London Rolls Royce dealer. A photo is views distorted Spiegel says anti German comic books blasted Hamburg a a prestigious West German newsmagazine complained monday that american soldiers based Here get a distorted View of German life through comic books portraying Hitler s world War ii soldiers As blood thirsty  the report in the Hamburg based Der Spiegel coincided with a warning by West German president Walter Scheel against a spiral of anti German prejudice. To the irritation of the Bonn government the International news Media have interpreted recent events As giving signs of a potential for a Neo nazi revival in West Germany. In circulation figures going into the millions German soldiers Are depicted As blood thirsty killers Spiegel said. It Pic tured covers of sgt. Rock and Blitz Krieg saying that printing of the latter recently had been abandoned. Everywhere on the  posts in Day Hoorns Pool rooms and Barracks. Gis prefer to read War comics the Magazine said. Stars and stripes bookstores sell gis and their dependents four million comic books a year half a million of them War comics far exceeding sales of Playboy time or Newsweek the Magazine said. This has something to do with the fact that most soldiers cannot  Spiegel quoted Cpl. Eugene r. Snider of Indiana Polis As equipping. Spiegel said a poll of 23,000 san Diego third Century roman Hall found near turkish Village Istanbul a archaeological dig Gers have unearthed the roof Section of a Structure believed to be a roman concert or a meeting Hall dating Back to the third Century the Anatolia news Agency reported. The Agency said the discovery was made in the Vicinity of the Village of Arif in finite along the Mediterranean coast and near the ancient town of Myra Navy recruits established that "37 per cent were unable to read on a loth Grade  of 200,000 soldiers who joined the army in 1974, Only 78,000 finished High school it said. Many sign up for duty behind bar rack Gates Only because they want to escape unemployment or avoid prison terms after a criminal  half of my friends. Call the Ger mans nazis Snider who has been stationed in Germany six months told the Magazine. And these comics have a lot to do with  the Magazine Calls horror Book lets including Blitzkrieg sgt. Rock fight in the army the losers i combat and the unknown Soldier make up about 12 per cent of total european comic Book sales to gis the Magazine said. It quoted Henry s. Epstein circulation manager of stars and stripes As saying the bookstores run by the armed forces newspaper make the comic books Avail Able to soldiers from Naples to Kirch  a speech to the 23rd annual Conven Tion of the International Union of local authorities president Scheel said that accusing West Germany of fascist tendencies would be the surest Way of Render in european unification  delegates from 35 countries Are attend ing the convention. Bonn government officials have said that finding signs of a Neo nazi revival in recent events is unjust and distorts attitudes of the majority of West germans who have created the freest state Ever on German soil. The reports have noted an alleged Hitler nostalgia wave connected with the first showing of a postwar German produced documentary movie on the nazi dictator. Reaction to the escape last month of nazi War criminal Herbert Kappler from Italy. And Calls for repressive measures to Deal with terrorists in the Wake of the sept. 5 kidnapping of industrialist Hanns Marti Schleyer. The German picture held by these comic Reading gis is largely influenced by comics and old War movies Spiegel said. The most popular cover hero ser Geant Rock the Tough no who is the Backbone of the army and puts an end to nazi villains torturing children and  i prefer Reading him most the a a Zine quoted up. Edward Shuster of Hawaii sergeant Rock and his men Are armed with .50-caliber machine guns and eat bul lets for  Spiegel quoted sol Harrison president of National periodical publications inc in new York As denying the company s products were anti German. We report How it really was. Harrison is quoted As saying. War is hell they Are enemies and that s  a Saleswoman in Darmstadt told tin Magazine we have entire american families come to the store and buy comics for $12 while their kids Don t even have a decent Winter coat to  the gis know next to nothing about the germans to whom according to Mili tary orders they Are supposed to be Good neighbors Spiegel added. It said Snider told its reporter when in came to Germany last Winter that he thought people would be grateful for Beni us liberated from their nazi Oppre -. Sors. I was totally shocked when i arrived All these cars a id All these  time says War criminal still at work new York a nazi Germany s notorious Angel of death is reportedly still at work. Time Magazine says or. Josef Mengele who was Given that title by prisoners at the Auschwitz death Camp because he decided who would die in the Gas Chambers is participating in similar crimes in Paraguay. Mengele was also accused of conducting hideous medical experiments on prisoners at the concentration Camp. Quoting sources in Paraguay and nazi Hunter Simon Wiesen Thal time says Mengele has been in the South american country since 1959. According to Wiesenthal the War criminal has a Home in puerto Stroessner but spends much of his time in a restricted military zone. The Magazine quotes its sources As saying that Mengele is an adviser in a paraguayan government Campaign to Hunt Down ache indians in the Remote Chaco Region and subject them to slave labor. The government denied the allegation the Magazine also reports that israeli intelligence has decided against attempting to Kidnap Mengele and bring him to trial Aswan done with Adolf Eichmann in 1960. The risks of such an operation would be too great time says adding that the israelis have already lost at least one agent on reconnaissance Mission in Paraguay. Mengele was Well known to Auschwitz survivors who said he divided entering prisoners into those who would die immediately and those who would be kept alive for labor and medical experiments  
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