European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1978 the stars and stripes pole Tell Story after Vietnam 3 yanks smuggled pot new York a three americans held captive by the vietnamese for violating territorial Waters have admitted smuggling pounds of and the marijuana was the three made thai disclosure in an Wert new with Jon a reporter for a Public broadcasting station the interview was conducted in Vietnam on 3j the Day the americans released from Pentagon said a naval vessel had sighted their yacht the Orteg appeared to be in Good Vietnam had said that drugs were found aboard when the Alpert discussed his interview portions of which were shown thursday evening on the network purchased the film from who was in Vietnam working on a feature one of Tbs Charles Wifel of told Alpert we did it for the we were taking a simple Ruff for the Money we were smuggling a drug that we didst think was we Wen taking a a a ugh risk forme did not say How much Money was he Low Alpert the adventure began in International Waters off Thailand Antwan to end in International Waters off he said the group did not know where the marijuana came from or where it was to saffels companions were Cornelia Dauenbaugh of Vero and Wand Dickerman of the foot Bri lug owned by who spent 3fe Yean in the peace corps in us vessel is thought to be headed for about three to six Days away from where it was sighted by the Navy on according to the Trio said they entered the smuggling business because some friends made two or three Wen trips and made enough Money to retire for in the Affet said the vietnamese at first thought he and his companions were he said that after intensive questioning and discovery of the the vietnamese decided they were not at an administrative hearing Alpert was tatted to the Trio was fined vietnamese fell that for sure the american government would pay the Alpert As soon As hey told the government drugs were they never asked about these three a state department John he could not comment on the the americans they had insufficient funds to pay the Fine and were eventually released after the drugs and an underwater camera were seized and was paid for room and As part of their the three have pledged to pay the Fine at a they told Yam uni hold talks on Energy Riyadh Impi Energy Secre tary James Schlesinger met in Riyadh saturday with Oil minister Ahmed Zau Yamani for talks on bilateral relations and Energy related government sources Mitchell to enter Hospital sunday for operation Washington up former attorney general John Mitchell will undergo surgery for a ballooned abdominal Wood vessel with Justice department Permis Sion to extend his furlough from his doctor said who has been dig nosing Mitchell for an arthritic hip conc lion while the convicted watergate conspirator was on medical furlough from a Federal said his patient would enter Washington Georgetown University Hospital the original furlough was scheduled to expire that but the Justice depart ment announced Friday it had been extended until 27 to allow for surgery in a civilian Hospital Federal prison officials have said they could not guarantee the Fanner attorney generals safety in a prison Hospital serving the first year of a reduced Onemo Fourbear term for watergate coverup conspiracy in a Federal prison Camp in was originally fur touched for examination of his painful hip condition he is eligible for parole in Schlesinger flew into Riyadh from Jeddah saturday after two Days of talks with other government leaders and King abated on general principles of cooperation Between the two the american official is m a Tow which has already taken him to the visit to saudi which the has praised for to moderating influence in Middle East and world Oil policy followed a Stop in Riyadh last week by president who held talks with King Schlesinger a visit coincided with re ports of rising concern by saudi arabian officials Over the continuous slide of the american Dollar in world Money Oil circles speculated that saudi Arabia was worried with the dollars slide and on several occasions had entertained thoughts of substituting the Dollar As the currency used in Oil while both saudi and american officials refrained from making statements on Sam singers some Arab sources in Beirut said Schlesinger would attempt to secure a regular Supply of s to 3 million barrels of Oil a Day at stable prices Over the next three years build up Ameri can strategic Oil multimillionaire Laing Dies London a sir John who turned a Small family building business into one of Britain largest construction empires and became a in he process has the president of the company John Laing and who made much of his Money building tens of thousands of suburban Homes for worker in the was Brief herring season Sparks Battles san Francisco Fisher men seeking valuable herring now running in san Francisco Bay have come near to bloodshed in a Dos quarters scramble for chunk of a million Industry that makes us Money in Only a few weeks a fishermen gave dockside accounts of stolen Shotgun Tatt Ramm tap and vandalism general breakdown of the ancient rules of fishing youll never catch me fishing herring on the Bay so Imp As i growled gamer Cal Fisherman Jack Daykin of Landing Down the he Skippers to foot Pacific in one of the most sought after w Here at this time of with prices lining to Kab a ton a few years ago it California state Marine John litter said the Price is so High now be demand for herring a delicacy has increased or the or Are the rest of the fish is processed for fish meal and other san Francisco Bays herring season is among the earliest on the Pacific so the lucrative Market focuses on Thil area but fishermen say the generous rewards have attracted More boats to the Chilly Bay than it can the Central Bay Between san Francisco and the North end of the Golden Gale Bridge is Only about two Mitea wide and an estimated 300 boats have been jamming the since herring fwd to spawn in shallow areas near thick squadrons of boats have been climbing on each others backs Light and said Fisherman Stan at Sllison a few Miles North of the Golden Gate residents reported a huge net Ful of herring washed Shore last the net apparently had been the California department id fish and game last year issued Only Iso permits for the herring but this reportedly bowing to heavy it is allowing 225 boats to net the Liny Many boots Are from Oregon and there Are probably a lot More boats than permits Tiwald and game Jose pee Lav we do our Best to patrol ibis thing but its Tough with the limited manpower and resources we the complaints get red hot Over an inno vation introduced by the out state fish Ermen Small boats called Bow they Are open boats which spread nets Over the Bow instead of the an advantage in Maneule ability in shallow the Bow pickers have been shipped Here on flatbed the Battle involves big one Little Bow picker from Washington has captured 11 tons of herring during the current taking in almost in the last two fish and came who set quotas according to the types of nets closed the season thursday for ill letters after that method took purse Seine vessels Mil be allowed to continue fishing through March 31 or until their quota is ailing heart hospitalized Roy Rogers Hollywood a Cowboy Star Roy Rogers he been hospitalized for a heart ailment and will undergo open heart sur a spokesman at Little company of Mary Hospital in Torrance mid the spokesman said Alered the Hospital thursday for a cardiac Cathe Teri nation procedure to determine if there was potentially significant obstruction in the arteries supplying blood to the the lest indicated the need Tor which has not yet been Rogers la in excellent sold the who termed the operation a but now relatively procedure undergone by americans the Ohio born Singer actor buffered a problem with the arteries around his heart in but continued leading an Active cosmonauts test strength of space Home Moscow a four soviet Cosmo Nauru orbiting the Earth in the salyut 6 space station toted the strength of their three part space Home in saturday the flight control Center a reporting details of the hid one of the ran on a Treadmill while through out the a foot space Structure measured the resulting reporting Loebarth of cosmonauts Vladimir Jani Bentov and Oleg Makarov were to return to Earth on the soyuz spaceship following a stay aboard the while Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko remain aboard on a Mission that started studying the adaptation of cosmonauts to weightless new have been comparing medical data from the two sets of to see How their vital signs differ at a result of the varying amounts of time they have spent in 1 of Mcgovern claims disputed by Eagleton Kansas a sen Thomas Eagleton says claims by George Mcgovey hat Eagleton walked at dropping out As Mcgovens running mate in 1871 if his mental stability was under question Are in a copyright interview with the Kansas Oty Star printed Eagleton disputed some of the assertions in Mcgoy Verns the Missouri Democrat was quoted in the interview As saying that Mcgovey apparently was looking for a Scapegoat to blame for losing 49 tales in the 1972 weal dental Eagleton withdrew from the Ricket after disclosures that be had been treated for nervous exhaustion and he was Mcgovey said in nit Book that he Tele phoned two Phy indans just before Eagle Tan he said they uttered Penfie of medical history which i thought raised serious doubts about his capacity to carry the burdens and responsibility of the Eagleton told the Star he wan in the room with Mcgovey when those Calls were placed and was told by Mcgovey that Law doctors had Given him a clean Bill of
