European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 28 the stars and stripes april 1978 Waltons grandpa Dies los Angeles a Veteran actor will the wrinkled Grandfather of televisions the has died of respiratory arrest at a Hospital a lbs spokeswoman said who died saturday evening at Midway had been hospitalized secretly since March said Janet Alston of a Ellen declined to say anything but confirm her fathers he didst like publicity and he want talk about his she Geer had been the White haired patriarch for six years on the a highly rated show about a family living in the depression and during world War based on Earl hampers Book the he won an emmy for the 197475 season As Best supporting actor in a drama he also had been nominated the year Geers death closely follows the return to the show of his television Ellen who suffered a debilitating stroke about a year Corby real life return to the series was blended with fiction to become the subject of this seasons final filmed Geer had More than half a Century of experience in various forms of entertainment and was widely known As a shakespearean he established the shakespearean gardens at the Globe theater in san Diego and at the University of some 50 years he appeared in tent show and also appeared with repertory companies and in various shakespearean he made his Broadway debut in the merry wives of other Broadway appearances included Cradle will Bury the waiting Haig continued from Page i nato allies who want the weapon Avail Haig said sunday that be would have liked to see the procedure somewhat better he said the incident was a source of some discomfort on both sides of the u the United states does not make the Neutron warhead available to he there Are a Host of other moves on the Agenda for improving our anti tank capability and this was essentially an antitank Haig said that by delaying a final decision on production of the Neutron has placed the onus on the soviet Union to slow its weapons the who was White House chief of staff for 17 of the Sto Miest months of the watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from the also said he does not expect to Tell his Side of watergate in the foreseeable he said i have no intention of com menting publicly on the watergate experiences of that at this juncture in going to hold my and 1 think it serves the nations interest Best that i do there was no Way to Tell when he might change his but certainly not in the near or foreseeable acupuncture used 1 St time to Aid birth in Yugoslavia Belgrade a a 28yearold woman from Maibor in North has become the first woman to give birth in this country using Needles As pain a press report said the report said doctors at Maibor hos Pital applied the chinese method of Acu puncture using 10 Silver Needles under the woman on her Abdomen and on her Natasa who gave birth to a said she Felt absolutely no pain throughout the will Geer to Young actors for sing out the news and meanwhile grandpa Walton was also a real life patriarch to dozens of Young actors who performed every weekend in a backyard theater in rustic Topanga several Miles North of in 1973 As a shakespearean Reading under a Sycamore Geer s the whole family was his sons built the place and All his daughters were who was divorced from no actress Herta had seven children and two each saturday and groups of Young actors some professionals and some beginners would gather at the Gree style theater for which Geer would preside Over As often As his Busy schedule the sunday which broadened to include works by John Steinbeck and other modern were held throughout the Spring and the called the the atrium will be the site of memorial lbs spokeswoman Alston the Date was ends Kremlin talks Vance sees Progress on soviet arms Accord London a Secretary of state Cyrus Vance ended his Moscow negotiations sunday claiming some Progress on a strategic weapons treaty and an improvement in but providing no he then flew Here for talks with Western foreign ministers on promoting Black Rule in the South Africa held territory of Nam american officials travelling with Vance hinted that the soviets had eased their opposition to sharing of cruise missile technology with the nato at the same the soviets were said to have taken a hard line on their backfire most analysts Are con Vinced that unless there Are limitations on production and a treaty might not Clear the the technology and backfire disputes Are two of the three key issues that have complicated the third involves efforts to Block new soviet intercontinental ballistic missile All three issues remain officials there was Little that relations got a boost during Vances talks in the at the soviet president Leonid Brezhnev acknowledged for the first time that energetic efforts Are required by his country As Well As by the to Complete the there was no acrimony Vance ended his visit at Moscow Airport with an exceptional Eulogy to soviet foreign min ister Andrei saluting him As a thoroughly professional practitioner of the diplomatic Trade and with few Peers in the modern this was in marked contrast to the Windup of Vances negotiations last Gromyko angrily accused the then of attempting to gain one sided advantages Over the soviet on which have been Vance said we have also made some Progress in moving towards a better understanding of the problems in he provided no among the current sore Points is soviet and cuban intervention in aboard the Vance the senior offi Cial who customarily briefs said improving the tone of the relationship is a thing you have to proceed with step by Brick by rather than something happening the who in the pattern set under former Secretary of state Henry Kissin Ger insists that he not be was particularly tight lipped about details of the weapons Moro party hints softening of Nodal stand Rome a the Christian Democrat party appeared on sunday to have softened its firm Nodal stand with the terrorist kidnappers of exp remier Aldo Moro while Pope Paul i and intermediaries reported no Contact with the kidnappers one Day after a deadline on Moros life after another leadership party Secretary general Benigno Zaccagni a said the party wants to find out through intermediaries a reply to questions on the Fate of Aldo Moro and to ascertain possible ways to achieve his Zaccagnini did not say the party will not Deal with the red brigades who abducted Moro March 16 anode handed talks on exchanging Moro with unspecified communist the party line had been that it cannot bargain with the terrorists because it would amount to a betrayal of democratic observers said the fact that Zaccagnini abstained from reaffirming the party refusal to bargain could mean that it no shying away from negotiations but enter into talks if it receives con passed Delsst of Ord plane Down without anal he the lights out in the two hours t hides came to the doctors among the the but they korean who ten minutes after to a big helicopter three hours 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