European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Snow hits areas by the associated press february the stars and stripes rail and air traffic in West Germany sunday is 3 available Snow Learin Clear blocked Iff bus and Streetcar traffic came to a Var in mid nearly ill flights from nearby Riem Airport were Cance de including International flights to Istanbul and traffic jams backed up at times for up to 25 Miles on autobahn Highway routes in Southern neighbouring Baden Wurtemberg and in bavarian Allau most trains m tracit3 disappeared under snowdrifts up to feet train sched Ules were delayed for hours in other parts of Southern Germany As Snow lows struggled to keep the tracks avalanches were reported in the Bavari an Alps at Heights above with continuing Snow increasing the Avalanche in blizzards swept across Wales and the Southwest Corner of England Over night and snowdrifts measuring up to 20 feet blocked knocked out Power lines and Cut off several towns and Tot its a living White said Len assistant chief police Constable in Dorset he warned everyone to stay in doors All major roads in Devon were the automobile association and an a spokesman described the Region As looking like an Arctic dozens v o Snow lows were stranded in deep unable to Cope with the Clearway opera across the Channel in up to nine i inches of Snow fell in Paris and Normandy before Dawn disrupting communal Ica tons and electric Power lines and Caus numerous traffic two were i de Gaulle the largest of the i three Paris waa closed to All tray for several hours while Snow was off the Pintoff to visit Kuwait Kuwait up prime minister Oom Elk staff of Malta will arrive in Kuwait March 21 for an official visit of several Days and talks on political and economic government sources among the unique contributions this collection of bes Fecla cled porcelain and plaster of former Secretary of state Henry Klinger is among the gifts from foreign government the United marked donor in they Are gathering dust in a general services administration Ware House in Washington a photo if gifts keep pouring Uncle Sam May have to set up a garage Sale Washington a still bristling Over the Star spangled earmuffs you got for Christmas consider poor Uncle Hes got a room full unique gifts from for eign like Ine stuffed boars head that soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev once presented to former Secretary of stale Henry Kissin or us Green and Black water color that korean president Chunghee kidnapped american reportedly released Colombia a Bogota g newspaper said saturday that peace corps Volunteer Richard kidnapped 13 months has been freed bytes twist Jeo Errilla captors and Muf secretly flown out of the newspaper Al quoting what it called reliable official said a botanist from was released last sunday after abductors received a if Wop Ransom there was no indication who paid the at the embassy and the corps office in Bogota were not in Annj Bitely available for Al Tiempo said Starr was Rek Sedin the about 7i where he was abducted it was flown out of the country on an executive Jet piloted by two colombian air Force the newspaper said his destination possibly was the but there was no Starr was kidnapped during a guerrilla raid on the Mountain Village of la Macare he had been working on a vegetation Survey in the suit was believed kidnapped by the colombian revolutionary aimed the nations oldest Rural guerrilla which hag been righting to overthrow the elected government and replace it with a marxist regime patterned after the Castro government in about six months after the the guerrillas sent a communique to a Bogota radio station in which they accused Starr of being a Cia the embassy denied Starr Haa any links with the intelligence Park gave to former House speaker Carl for that matter the Oriental Rug with the Seal of toe Pakistan air Force in the Middle that was presented to George chairman of the joint chiefs of the items Are among logged by the general services administration since 1974 when it took charge of handling for eign along with dozens of Silver Tea engraved cigarette site scar ves and carved elephants and a wooden map of Gabon they Are kept in a vault deep in the basement of a government normally seen Only by an Omni present electric Many of the More desirable like the Diamond from the president of Zaire to the late Hubert Are on Public display in my some such As the Baluch Rug from Are being used by the state department for official government Busi a practice encouraged by the and Central state University in has the two volumes of past and present that Dewey once re but other like the collection of bespectacled Plas Ter and porcelain busts of Kissinger marked donor unknown or the lamp with an Ostrich egg Are gathering the unmanned african Leopard skins from Chad have been they rotted and became an official sex most everyone who turned Over a gift willingly told who gave but not us the Silver candelabra and even a Snake skin writing set turned Over by that Agency Are All marked from a foreign govern government officials were required to turn Over gifts Worth Over beginning in on a new Law took effect upping the amount to 1100 but adding a Odd Fine for failing to turn Over if the gifts keep piling the govern ment May consider Selling off some of the possibly at but Nancy one of the Gas officials in charge of these said folks still Are blushing about the embarrassment of a previous auction held five years ago in san Francisco As far away As she to cause the least amount of embarrassment to foreign the stale departments chief of Proto Evan whose Job is to keep diplomatic feathers says be thinks another auction would be weve Lold foreign governments that we individuals cant receive any gifts Over he if they continue to Send it be an for them to rust or sit around Doest make coast guard ends search for lost trawler Bill Boston a the coast guard has suspended a search for the Provincetown trawler Cape declared missing with a Crew of four when it failed to make port six Days no sign of the 63foot scalloped turned up in the search of a area off the Southern shores of Cape
