European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday september 8, 1978 pan am. National announce merger new York up pan american world airways announced thursday a definite agreement with National airlines Ona merger and at the same time said it will abandon service to Paris and to Moscow and most of Eastern Europe on oct. 29. The decision to give up the Moscow route which pan am worked years to get was a  pan am executive vice president Daniel a. Colussy said pan am had found that the traffic collection and distribution system in the communist countries is to tally controlled by their state owned air . Plans new Dollar prop Steps Washington a Treasury Secre tary w. Michael Blumenthal said wednes Day that the . Probably will take additional measures to support the Dollar in International Money  was nothing specifically new in the statement As officials have indicate previously that other moves to bolster the . Currency Are , the Dollar has been relatively stable on world markets this week and reaffirmation of . Intentions to take fur ther Steps could give the Dollar a psycho logical  discussion of the Dollar occurred Dur ing a meeting Between Blumenthal an Takehiro Sagami Japan s vice minister of finance for International  a statement released by the Treasury department afterwards Blumenthal Wassail to have reviewed for Sagami the Steps being taken after concern was expressed by president Carter Over the recent Sharp decline in the Dollar and disorderly conditions in the foreign Exchange  Blumenthal indicated his expectation that the . Would be announcing further actions As decisions Are reached to Deal with this situation the statement  outlined Japan s new program to expand Public investments by about $13billion in order to help reach the 7 percent economic growth target this year that the japanese pledged at the july economic Summit conference in  was said to have welcomed the  Sagami Blumenthal meeting occurred As the . And Japan continue separate talks involving senior Trade officials on ways to reduce the Trade imbalance Between the two nations that according to officials Here has been a key Factor in the decline of the Dollar in world exchanges.. Officials argue that protective Trade policies by the japanese Are blocking .imports that could help offset the imbalance which is expected to exceed some$11 billion in Japan s favor this year. The current Trade talks Are focused on fisheries lumber and agricultural products. Participating Are Robert Strauss the White House special envoy for Trade negotiations and two japanese Cabinet officials. Lines and consequently Competition for business in those countries is not Possi  am will also drop service oct. 29 to Vienna Prague Bucharest Belgrade an Budapest. Its Only remaining service to the East european communist countries will be to Warsaw by Way of Frankfurt. Service also will be dropped to Lisbon and Ankara and to Boston and Portland  summer pan am launched a bar gain no frills service Between Bosto nand Amsterdam which was its Only remaining service from  s Only explanation for the Deci Sion to drop service to Paris Vienna an Lisbon was that increasing costs and com petition of both foreign Flag and other .flag airlines on these routes were causing declining  merger agreement with National Calls for payment of $41 a share for nation Al Stock or a total of $350 million Cash. National will become a pan am subsidiary and will be renamed pan american .a.,  companies said no pan Ani employees will lose their jobs because of the merger and pan am has agreed to use its Best efforts to see to it that no National employees including members of manage ment Are displaced. While pan am Long has been seeking Domestic routes a number of . Flag Domestic airlines have been granted Over seas routes by the cab including National which Only tuesday was granted additional flights Between new York and Amsterdam. National already flies Between Miami and Amsterdam. Frank sings for her supper entertainer Frank Sinatra and Kath Leen Sullivan Alioto one of six democrats competing for sen. Edward baseball Bill s revenge Brooke s Senate seat rap to reporter before attending a $250-per-head fund raising dinner for her in Boston. Sinatra is a longtime Friend of mrs. Alioto s Hus band former san Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto. Associated press fan wants Short off Senate lineup Washington a baseball Bill Holdforth has never forgiven Bob Short for moving the Washington senators to Texas. Now comes Holdforth s revenge an at tempt to derail Short s Minnesota race for the .  strategy sessions at which More than a few Beers were consumed the 27-year-old bartender and four friends formed the committee to keep Bob shortcut of  the committee held its initial Effort wednesday night a Beer bust to pay for an and in sunday s Minneapolis Tribune urging Minnesota voters not to support Short. Holdforth said about 250 people paid $10each to raise most of the the $2,700 Cost of the half Page and and others who could show up to drink made contributions. The rest came from auctioning the original copy of the and he said. This is the same baseball Bill he says exactly How and when he picked up the nickname is a Long and murky Story who draped a stuffed Dummy of Short Over the railing at Robert f. Kennedy stadium in 1971 during one of the senators Las games in Washington. That Cost him his Job As a stadium usher. He later paraded the Dummy through the stands to the Dod names balance talks adviser by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington is defense Secre tary Harold Brown has appointed  r. Blaker As his personal representative at the Mutual and balance Force reductions mfr negotiations in Vienna  this capacity Blaker will be the Secretary s principal adviser and agent for mfr a Pentagon spokesman said thurs  the Secretary of defense s representative to the mfr negotiations Bla Kerwill report directly to Brown. The mfr negotiations under Way since 1973, Deal primarily with the military balance Between nato and the Warsaw act. Blaker a resident of Columbia md., holds a doctorate of philosophy in political science. His has previously worked with con Gress and was an assistant director of the congressional budget office. Blaker is the author of a Book and sever Al articles on the chinese and has written about the planning process in the depart ment of defense and on the military bal Ance in Europe. Cheers of downcast fans. Washington newspaper stories say he doused Short with Beer when the owner brought his Texas Ranger team to Balti More in 1972. Holdforth claims he arrived at Short s Box just after the incident and contends he would not have wasted Good Beer on the Man who ended 71 years of baseball tradition in , the former senators owner is battling rep. Donald m. Fraser for the democratic Farmer labor party Nomina Tion for the Senate in tuesday s Minnesota primary. The general election Winner will fill the remaining four years of the late sen. Hubert h. Humphrey s term. Humphrey s widow Muriel appointed to succeed her husband is not  people of the great state of Minne Sota must make a decision the and says. Bob Short held our Trust for three years As senators owner and we were Short changed so before you vote tuesday please consider these facts about Bob Short As we know him. Consider what he promised us then what he  the and then lists quotes from Short such As i did not buy the team to move it and the committee response three years later he moved the