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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 20, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Charles meets Chicago mayor Michael Bilandic s wife Heather left. A Prince Charles in Chicago but of he s charming Chicago a Emily Mittl stood in the floodlights of the hotel Entrance As Prince Charles heir to the throne of Britain swept away in a White Lincoln. Shorter. He s Shorter than i thought he d be said the Middle aged woman standing on the red carpet As police swirled around her. She clutched a Plas tic tote bag commemorating the Silver Jubilee. Maybe it was just that the Security guards were so tall. But of he s charming. Handsome. And such Beautiful Blue eyes. Some girl s going to be Lucky to get  Charles 29, arrived tuesday for a Day and a half visit that was to officially begin wednesday with the laying of a Wreath at City Hall and a Parade like walk to the Chicago Board of Trade with streets closed off just like St. Pat Rick s Day in the words of a City offi Cial. Admirers of the Bachelor Prince waited along guarded walkways for his arrival. The most patient of the waiting persons appeared to be elderly women. Charles opened his visit with an off the record press reception at the Drake hotel. Sipping a Gin and tonic he moved gracefully around the new Avenue one room restaurant at the Drake followed closely by Peter Jay British ambassador to the ., greeting each guest intern. Most of the guests forgot they should address him As your Royal High Ness and came out with Prince Charles instead and no one curtsied. Charles leaves Chicago thursday for stops in Cleveland St. Louis Atlanta and Athens a. Charleston . Houston san Antonio los Angeles and san Francisco. The visit is his first official trip to the  And is a kind of belated tribute to the american Bicentennial according to British officials. He was last in the  When he and his sister Princess Anne were the guests of former presi Dent Richard m. Nixon in 1970. 70 in bloodstream report says Young cleared in probe of allegations he aided pornographer for funds Washington a . Ambassador Andrew Young has been cleared of allegations he wrote a letter on behalf of a convicted Atlanta pornography dealer in return for contributions to president car Ter s Campaign the Justice department said. But a Justice department spokesman confirmed that an investigation of Michael thevis who is serving an eight year prison term on pornography charges is continuing. The spokesman declined to say what the investigation involves or whether Young is still part of it. Plea for surgery Young according to a spokesman for the ambassador wrote two letters to Federal prison officials while he was still a con Gressman asking that thevis who was crippled in a 1973 motorcycle Accident be transferred to a prison where he could undergo treatment for a hip injury. The new York daily news quoted unidentified sources As saying that the investigation was reopened after a former prison inmate told officials thevis had told him that thevis funnelled $150,000 into the Carter Campaign through Young. But attorney general Griffin Bell said in a statement tuesday the allegations which we have had against Young have been checked out thoroughly and found to be without substantiation the investigation focused on whether Young wrote his letters in support of thevis in Exchange for a Campaign contribution said a Justice department source. While in prison thevis wrote several let ters to Young then a congressman complaining about his prison sentence. He said Ford recalls 41,000 78 cars Washington a about 41,000 1978 Model Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr autos Are being recalled because of a transmission shift linkage problem that could let the vehicle Roll when the gear is in the Park position the transportation department announced. The recall involves cars built before sept. 29. Their automatic transmissions have the shift lever mounted on the steer ing column. Drugs May have killed Presley Memphis Tenn. A ten drugs were present in Elvis Presley s blood Stream when he died in August and they probably contributed to his death a published report said wednesday. The commercial Appeal quoted sources As saying or. Jerry Francisco Shelby county medical examiner May Rule multiple drugs As the cause of the Singer s death. Francisco reached at his office late tuesday would not confirm the reports but said he would probably hold a news conference on the autopsy Friday. Francisco originally ruled Presley died of cardiac arrhythmia from unknown causes. He said at a press conference held nearly six hours after the death thai there was no evidence of drug abuse. Among the drugs the sources said were found in Presley s bloodstream were an Antihistamine often used to control Hay fever or allergies codeine a derivative of opium often used to relieve pain and found in some cough medicines demerol a Nar Cotic used As a sedative and analgesic and several Tranquili Zers including valium. The sources said the drugs were All within prescribed Levels but the interactions of All of them had an effect on the Singer s diseased heart which was at least 50 per cent larger than Normal. Francisco and or. Eric Muirhead chief of pathology at Baptist Hospital met with Vernon Presley the Singer s father and executor of his estate tuesday afternoon. Francisco met with his staff that evening to review autopsy information prior to deciding what cause of death to place on the Singer s death certificate. Pathologists have been working to de Termine the cause of the Singer s death since aug. 16 when he was rushed to Baptist Hospital after being found unconscious on his bathroom floor at Graceland Man Sion. The autopsy report took almost two months to Complete because of the difficulty in identifying the drugs in the Singer s bloodstream the newspaper said. It was too severe for a victimless crime. A spokesman for Young said that other than two letters Young sent to prison officials there was no link Between the two men. He said thevis was one of Young s constituents in Georgia s 5th congressional District and that it was not unusual for a congressman to write such a letter. Missing . Gem dealer s body found san Juan puerto Rico a the body of missing new York Diamond dealer Abraham Shafizadeh has been found and identified after a confused week of missing bodies and searches through paupers Graves. Pathologist Rafael Criado said tuesday night that he could not determine an exact cause of death for Shafizadeh but said there was a fracture of the left Cheek. An unidentified Corpse first believed to be Shafizadeh had been shot five times before being set afire but the body identified As that of Shafizadeh has no Bullet wounds and was not burned. The first Corpse was one of four John does exhumed from paupers Graves in an Effort to find the right  body sought authorities originally had been looking for a badly burned Bullet riddled body found in the town of Ciales on july 29, just one Day after Shafizadeh disappeared Wilh some $200,000 to $300,000 in Gerns. Col. Hector Lugo director of the Bureau of criminal investigation said police will now try to find out who killed Shafizadeh and two other Gem dealers Here in the  a a years. The investigation has been marked by conflicting reports from police and poor bookkeeping by medical examiners and officials at the City cemetery. Although police Here were notified by Shafizadeh s relatives that the Gem dealer had disappeared with a Small Fortune in diamonds on july 28, investigators did not connect the disappearance with the body found on july 29 until a local reporter pointed out the possibility. And although Shafizadeh s brother or. Farokh Shafizadeh Hakimi of Chicago visited the City morgue a number of times he was not informed that the body found on july 29 matched his brother s description. When officials thought the body was located but it turned out to be the wrong body officials exhumed three More bodies. Two other Mainland jewellers were robbed of their jewels and slain Here in 1974, both with a .38-caliber pistol Leo Dershowitz 53, of Brooklyn and Howard Block 34, of Chicago. Their murders were not directly linked to that of Shafizadeh. Nuke Carrier Eisenhower joins Fleet Norfolk a. A the nuclear Carrier Dwight d. Eisenhower joined the  Fleet tuesday welcomed by the former president s wife Mamie Eisen Hower As one of the most moving events other life. This is a Pearl the last Pearl in the memory Chain of my life Eisenhower 80, told the crowd estimated at 15,000. Ican t imagine anything More  the ceremony commissioned the 95,000-ton vessel said to be along with its sister ship the Nimitz the largest warship in the world. Defense Secretary Harold Brown hailed the new Carrier As an integral and versa tile element of a broader deterrent Capa  recalling his recent visit to the Carrier Saratoga in the Mediterranean Brown said the contribution of this element of  Naval Power to protect the Southern flank of nato cannot fail to impress anyone who sees it and the soviets see it every Day. Indeed they watch it constantly and watch it with Clear respect he said. In 1971, a year after the Eisenhower s keel was Laid the Navy projected the Cost at $616 million but places it now at More than $756 million. After a year of training cruises the Eisenhower is scheduled to deploy to the Mediterranean with a Crew of some 3,000. The ship is the Navy s third nuclear car Rier  
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