European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 8 the stars and stripes tuesday april 25, 1978 humor with Grain of Salt London Ltd one Momcil of Black humor broke up both l a. And soviet negotiators at the strategic arms limitation Salt talks in Moscow last week. American officials revealed  the meeting a soviet Dele Gate accidentally brushed a Button which rang a Bell on the Green Cov ered negotiating table. Of of there goes  said a member of the soviet team to a Roar of laughter. No Experiment held. None planned France denies Neutron bomb test Paris api France denied monday it has exploded an experimental Neutron bomb and a statement issued by president Valery Giscard d Estwing s spokesman said no such experiments arc planned. The newspaper France soil said last week a recent underground blast at muru Roa atoll in the South Pacific the French nuclear testing ground was a full scale Laboratory Experiment of a Neutron bomb. The report quoted a senior Mili tary officer As saying France was still three or four years away from actually deploying Neutron weapons. President Carter said last month he was delaying . Production of Neutron bombs in a bid for arms restraints from the Krem Lin. T a. Neutron weapons Are Small War Heads that would be placed on Lance mis Siles and artillery shells. They produce twice the deadly radiation of a convention Al nuclear bomb but less than a tenth As much explosive Power heat and fallout. This Means the bomb can kill people while causing Little damage to property a statement issued by  Palace spokesman Andre Arnaud said that appeared in certain Kerning experiments by Iron bomb Are not serious. No of this kind has been  French officials previously a Fatall comment on the report in uat2 Long standing policy of refuse Keetion of any kind on nuclear to minister Avon Bourges was have told the defense co Mohoni National Assembly the. Report Artie taken  saudis building Airport twice Manhattan s size new York int saudi Arabia is building what Industry sources say is the largest and most expensive Airport in the world. It will be almost twice the size of Manhattan and will Cost at least s4.5 Bil lion. The Airport is now under construction outside of Liddah. The saudi commercial the Prince is a Good skate Prince Charles has a go at Britain s fastest growing sport during his visit h North London with bbl to film team. The Prince was a commentator for a special film on Young people that was screened monday. Had 1 known in Advance that there would be skate Board Here i would o course hive brought a helmet and All the other protective paraphernalia be said. A capital on the red sea. It will have a Singu Lar feature a passenger terminal wit More space than the two 110-Story world Trade Center towers combined but will operate Only one month of the year. Reports of various segments of the Over All Airport project first proposed More than 10 years ago have Long appeared in Trade circles. But the saudi government has been reluctant to discuss it and the companies involved say they have been warned not to discuss it. In a series of interviews with both saudi and Industry sources however a Clear picture of the project s size and scope emerges. The Airport Complex All air conditioned will replace the current Small facility at Liddah which is too close to town to be expanded by much. It will include a year round commercial terminal with a 16.000-passenger-a-Day capacity a Royal Pavilion for the saudi ruling family and visiting Heads of state a 46,000 metric ton cargo terminal an air Force base a 200-bed Hospital and quarantine area a hotel seven mosques housing for the Airport staff and a Large maintenance Plant for the burgeoning Fleet of the saudi National airline saudia. All Concrete sur faces will be faced with Marble. The 10-million-Square-foot Hadj Pil Grimage terminal is designed to process As Many As 3 million moslem during the single month of the year when they con verge on Liddah for the pilgrimage to Mecca islam s holiest shrine. 30 Miles tothe East. In All the Airport will cover an area of 41 Square Miles on desert land 12 Miles out Side of Liddah. By contrast Manhattan covers 22.6 Square Miles and the United Stales s largest Airport Dallas fort Worth has a land area of Only 27.5 Square Miles. It Cost �10 million. We thought surely that it would never be duplicated anywhere in the  said William e. Conhard president of the los Angeles based Ralph m. Parsons co. His company supervised the Dallas fort Worth project. Parsons was called in by the saudis to oversee the Liddah International Airport is months ago. Leonhar said. The project was getting much bigger than it was supposed to be said Forrest c. Six a Parsons vice president and the project manager and needed a manager to supervise the Overall  1965. The Airport had been visualized As a Small Enterprise costing not More than 20 million. By 1967, when design  companies came mated Cost had soared to Ozithe saudis shelved period of time then reversion of it and put it out to i West Germany s Hoch Tief aiding for what had by then be million  1975 the saudis were View the Airport As a Nat Alithe words of a Well placed Man. In april 1976, a new produced adding Many com bomb i costs to the Airport. Strike ends at Claridge s after 2 we London a at at Claridge a one of London s i hotels ended monday when i waiters left the picket line and f  during the strike Patro Tittl put up with limited room service i item dining choices including Cal offerings As Steak and kidney pier Stew. The waiters who had set i in front of the hotel led t strikers Back to work and i serve breakfast. A spokesman for the hotel i what led to the end of the began Over the firing of a tin year old Richard Elvidge. B pickets said the 112 strikers i ultimatum either to return Toi their jobs. Claridge s denied making a the hotel management said by fired for not putting enough my at Ouille. Drinking Tea during r and failing to carry out Tan proper  he claim for Union activities. An Indus will hear his Appeal in May. The hotel announced that i the staff that stayed on strike will receive an a r to vacation and the option of Stock Pany or a Cash payment. Russ finally allow Charlie Puka 89, to leave Moscow in ply Charlie Puka is going Home. The 89-year-old american who has been trapped in the soviet i Mon for almost a year picked up his exit visa monday and said he would be leaving this week for Phila Delphia "1 feel id he said wearing a floppy Black Felt hat and a huge Grin the first thing i m going to do is sleep i m going to go Sec a movie picture and stuff like that and see my friends " Charlie was born in the trans carpathia Region of the old Austro hungarian Empire and left for the t a. When he was 20 years old he fought in the i s army in world War 1 hid became a i s citizen in 1939 when world War ii ended in 1945. Charlie s old Home turned up As part of the sonet Union he decided to to Home for a visit last year but through a misunderstand ing perhaps on both sides ended up with a soviet passport instead of a visitor s visa then the bureaucracy Turni a Charlie s visit into a Nightmare the retired Pennsylvania Coal Miner had tried unsure fic0. The Sav it l Nion s a last Augustl my i no Hussy irslg01 involved m i Szelast fall and made a number of formal and informal a Roaches Toi the soviet foreign mistry on is behalf . Charlie called the embassy for help hut a break in Charlie s Case came after i med pres International reported his , who says he has relatives in i Cila sport. 1 a. Hns been living in the vill la with a sister he lived on 45 rubles in a the soviet government hut Charliene kept returning to Moscow to fight the Good bureaucracy "1 i Jin Tell them a  said Puka Bright behind a pair of thick glasses. I wanted to to i out of  then Charlie hunching slightly around an uld wooden Cane and a i s Umbay last seen heading Home