European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pale 28 the stars and stripes february keep Eye out for yanks Tol Ghr Cali itt i i Paje i authorities commissary official believe that no Mercury loaded fruit has reached their customers and Are not taking As Stronk Acton As the British who Are asking that All oranges be returned to their cafes officials said thursday that Alt now locked by snack cafeterias and for its school lunch program have been put on a hold by the Aafke chief veterinarian until military veterinarians can Check them at the local incoming shipments also will be checked before they Are put out for oranges in Stock will be Pul Back on the shelves As soon As they have been inspected to see that they Are said a who explained that since cafes has no Central pm curment for fresh each local facility does its own purchasing either from the commis sary or from any of about so approved local the air Force and army veterinarian which checks foods at us Reub and Safe said in a state ment thai it was fell there was no reason to suspend Selling israeli or Spanish oranges in stores or through its military Issue a spokesman explained Hal after Check ing with the agriculture department representatives at the embassy in it was decided that the origin of the tainted fruit was probably localized to the part of Rotterdam and involved Only about cases of oranges that came in one ship r theres no evidence that in is justified to ban any israeli or Spanish we advise however to Lake reason Able said a spokesman from army med explaining thai the contaminated oranges Are easy to a Large sized Needle was used to inject the leaving targe holes in the contaminated the area around the injection soon becomes soft and disco after cutting open the a liquid of a Silver metallic can be if any customers find such co Tami Nate appearing fruit they should take it to their nearest medical facility and ask them to Transfer it to a veterinarian he ii was first announced by William defense subsistence Skei in can rec of fresh pro schools closed Duce procurement for the thai the commissary system in Europe had no oranges from Israel in Stock nor Ever it was teamed that israeli oranges had been on Sale at the commissary in Chu pointed out that dare itself Only has been buying oranges from Spain or the mainly from the and that As far As he knew there were no israeli oranges on he saw no reason to panic he explained after 11 was pointed out that the Berlin commissary did carry the israeli noting that Only a few Large commis including that Are allowed to do heir own local purchasing of pro Valley Snow spreads to Seaboard by United press International a snowstorm spread thursday from the Ohio a Ley to the Middle Atlantic sea glazing highways and closing hundreds of and Nasty Winter weather plagued most of the nation on groundhog the National weather service ventured the Assumption that the groundhog Proba president pledges to defense of canal Conini Ueck Page it posing questions often raised by treaty critics and providing his own for he Many americans argue we bought we paid for its he response was we do not own the Panama canal inca we have never had sovereignty Over it but rather have Pur chased the right to use it through annual payments to we have never needed to own the Panama canal he anymore than we need to own a i mile wide strip of Carter also raised the question of whether the United slates would have the right to 1 Cut Dora cd by Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker of former secretaries of state Dean Rusk and Henry every member of the joint chiefs at staff and on overwhelming a my did not see his but chroniclers two Well known groundhogs Punxsutawney Phil and Sun Prairie Jimmy reported Ihler furry prognosticators did indeed see heir see phils tradition has for bodes six More weeks of up to s inches of Snow fell in the appalachians of Southwest Virginia and lighter snows spread across much of North Carolina and a 1inch snowfall whitened colonial win Ramsburg hundreds of fender Bender accidents crippled traffic on Virginia an estimated 20 vehicles were involved in one Chai reaction pileup at and traffic came to a my coming halt on interstate m West of North Carolina state employees were Raleigh Hun Drefs North Carolina and Virginia called off j which has cleared it for floor the treaties also have overwhelming or Oughlin latin mls but predictably they Are opposed abroad by some who Are  United slates and who would Tike to see i a disruption of our the storm moved into he East from the where at least 3 inches of new Snow blanketed stowing worker efforts to Clear Side streets still boo cd by Snow from last weeks blizzard and turning unsalted expressways into Sii Koerv the City is running Short of Statt of us midwestern and Eastern tog blanketed much of the South and we agree Mart with Panama not out in a statement of under he negotiated last August with plan to in later thursday dare issued a ment which said that in View of lit Public news releases involving israeli i Spanish it had temporarily t Pended procurement and distribution of i israeli fresh fruits and vegetables r Spanish Citrus fruit and that military urinary medical authorities were to increase the surveillance in of All such produce on hand at i sales the Agency announced that through i embassy in rapport had be established Between it and the health 1 is itry of the Federal Republic of to assure that new developments and j a Lions relative to potentially contaminated produce would be made known to forces at the earliest possible is reiterated that the foregoing tons were precautionary in l inspection results indicate that no government owned fruits or pc have been determined to be Conta by a liquid Mercury like the seem to be i a More cautious a message l cast on the British forces network in Many ordered that All no no what country they came Beretini to the Nasafi stores patronized by the t ish armed continued from Page j health and customs of flails checked i merits of oranges crossing the hot sales of oranges were suspended in four germans in the stale of broke out in rashes and became their stomachs after eating Oranje Ujj the health ministry suspected or but an examination later showed oranges had not made them Nick but t imaginations might the dutch health ministry thur Adav thai not Only Isreall were being checked but Spanish after Mercury was found in a up Bolasw a up Warkel at 1 near the West German health thursday morning thai police r Mercury had been found in three j oranges sold in the town of near but later police Midi were not sure they Spanish and i verdict until Testa an j plated the search for poisoned i Oner an organization calling itself thai wine commando of the Arab i sent photostat of a in English to the West or health mind strand worser Nasont our goal is r  hesitate to deploy whatever that our National Security Imer would be argued  Corsica club bombed Arib i territory but Israel by transforming Panama from a passive and sometimes Dee old resentful bystander cd partner whose uner by a Well operated Carter said the United states u not  to the president the wants the co it Thi of Fri fat so 8