European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1978 the stars and stripes Page 27 Fords profits hit record billion Detroit tap Ford motor prof id leaped 73 percent to a record billion in chairman Henry Ford it says the automaker every Penny of 2j3 it was the first Lime Ford profits topped substantial earnings Are an absolute necessity it the company is to remain profitable in the face of government de mands or More fuel Abuy Ford said the earnings increase was credited to Wegher lain of and notably in Birome and South said outside North America accounted for 42 percent of Fords worldwide the big percentage hike partly reflected the recovery from a 197b Stree against says Nixon self insecure from Page i Hal Denun believes these pos Lold night excursions were Nixon Way of letting off steam when things were very tense or he was very Hal Denun recalls that when he first met Nixon at the Republican National Conven Tion i 1956 my first thought was that he had been were almost incoherent is monologue rambled on  while everyone around him looked at each other Haldeman said he later discovered that these slurred latent night monologues were e feature of Nixon on the Campaign trial they were cause not by but by the utter fatigue of Long Days of Cam the fact is that Nixon  drink when he was one Beer would transform his Normal speech into the Barri bang elocution of a bowery what was even More bizarre was that when he waa merely not drinking at the same phenomenon would Haldeman said that in All with Nixon he never saw him the problem was he didst need to drink to excess to Start losing his faculties and Washington birthday special set up for an Frankfurt an Europe will Salute american ingenuity in a special broadcast on Washington monday from to officials Laid american with lbs news reporter Charles will examine americas Talent Tor technology and Allaround those to be interviewed include a devel oper of the inventor of the elec tronic to game producer of sesame Street and the 16yearald owner of an electronics parts store in Cleveland american knowhow will be Broad cast during the an today appear says Haldeman says Nixon was artificial and downright embarrassing with in often presenting them mementos like a basketball player hand ing Oft Adwll behind his whom Nixon described As one of the finest Public servants he had says in a Book just released that Nixon could never relax because at a deep set Haldeman Book traces that insecurity loj Iii truly Humble he never let us forget that his Mother had to scrub writes the Book also paints a vindictive Nixon wanting to go for the Haldeman the seamy episode with Ted Ken Nedy and one of my orders for a 34hour surveillance of the Massachusetts senator to Cash him in the sack with one of his the president hated formal dinners and always wanted to Speed even saying once that for the next gathering to put a Stopwatch on ill Bel we can finish dinner in under an Nixon used to Hal Denun an introvert in an extroverts proves perhaps accounting for his awkwardness in contacts with one staffer at the Halde Man used to mimic Nixon awkwardness at greeting guests in the Oval office and handing them a memento Cut tie plus of the visit from a desk he Nixon would abruptly turn take one from the drawer and without looking Back thrust it toward his guard Losky pipe line Haldeman also describes a Nixon that was indivisible rom the official political Only once in my entire relationship with him Over Many years were my wife and i invited to an informal dinner at his and hat was in to this Day he Doest know How Many children i have or anything else about my private life he never asked and i waa his eos Cost professional he said he ended up with the Job As chief of staff just for this explaining Nixon could never have had such friends As Herb Klein or Robert Finch in such a close both Klein and who headed Teft the Nixon administration after real Ting they were on the he didst see me As a person or i As a human i was a a a whose hair is now longer than the Brush Cut he had in the White said that the Berlin Wall i am supposed to have constructed around Nixon resulted from what became halite mans secret i soon realized that ills president had to be protected from time and again i would receive vindictive suspect turns up in blasting of handing Aff n Ball behind his then he would turn to the Man and Tell his Standard joke that in my Drew a laugh give this to your wife or your whichever you Harriman brother Dies up Roland har brother of former new York Averell Harriman and a noted figure in harness died at the Harriman family borne in Orange he was 82 years closing Stock prices through the Courtesy of Boche Halsey Stuart i Imam com w4 in a i to Ssiss Cincin Milf ten ss0 s1 m us n j 41 j to Firul Erthl Liq tiny at in at at to on Nam 4ij in a a u in 1u 1l4 4ij a 111 i at 1u m i in to Fli 411 to huh run to heft to tuft Xii Geol ounce up 114 at lit i Giaui it Tinl it he h lit is ij4 in lit ill 1li lit in Forth tt4 to at Xuat u Tatj Tatj to Alaska a authorities say they Are investigating a suspect who May have been involved in an explosion and leak that temporarily shut Down nil How in the tra Salaska but Este police Are releasing few details of their investigation into the second act of sabotage against the Oil was flowing normally through the 800mile line Friday after being shut off almost u hours because of wednesdays which ripped a 2inch Hole through the crude carrying George pout said the Type of explosive used in the blast was not definitely but he said the person responsible has knowledge of the use of investigators have said a 2dioot length of slow burning believed to be the re Mains of a primer Cord used to detonate the was found in the last dynamite blasts ripped some insulation from the pipeline and dented some fixtures on an elevated Section of the but the pipe itself was not two men were arrested in the one pleaded guilty the other the line carries Prudhoe Bay crude to from there the Oil is shipped by Tanker to refineries in the Continental the spilled Oil was pumped from the ground to Tanker trucks for transport to the nearby North pole refining Fiat Lemma said officials at the scene reported Gallons of Oil hut been removed from the Lite by Dow Jones averages my in Lam nut an but even adding the earnings Ford Estl trusted it lost in profits vre Rewell worldwide sales totalled also a to percent increase from prof its represented per share compared with a year the per Stre earnings reflected a five Farfour Stock the full year figures compare with 1976 profits of million on sales of Bil Fords after tax profit was for each Dollar of sales up from cents Iii Ford is the second automaker to report a record financial performance in general motors earned Bill lion on Mica of the remaining member of the Auto Industry big three is expected to make us yearned report next american motors whose fiscal year ended last earned million or 6 cents a share for the 12 bar gainers reach Accord at american Washington a bar gainers for american airlines and the transport workers Union reached tentative agree ment on a new contractile thursday averting a threatened act strike thai would have shut Down the spokesmen for the two sides said they settled on an Accord just minutes before the strike deadline set byline Union wan the Union represents american or Onet Bird of the airlines work details of the agreement were withheld pending ratification by Ivhon hold communications and meteorology positions airlines service the airline serves g9 cities in the United Mexico and the operating about nights and carrying the two sides had been negotiating in pensively since wednesday Charles company vice pres ident for employee said the two sides agreed on a a month retroactive to last when the old Accord he said the new contract would expire March the Union had extended the old con tracts deadline until 18 and the two bides continued negotiating during a 30 Day Cooling off period mandated by the Railroad labor conversion rates London api fridays closing Rales of the Dollar to european figures arc expressed in dollars to the British other local currencies to it ii a unit it juju dim to Ujj Tom n Tattu these Are com Nordal banking rates and in most cases am not available to the Public at the exact Rale the Sale of Marks to personnel far personal use will be at the Rale of on which is based on a Price fixing Al midday and allows for Standard handling charge