European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 16, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 11 aquarium s Star attractions curator Calls Sharks magnificent animals who re misunderstood letters to the editor equal Opportunity Job policy by Robert Lockean Diego Calif. A the very thought of the sinister dorsal Fin rising from the water the stuff of legends and More recently movies is enough to Send the bravest swimmer splashing Pell Mel for Shore. But at a Safe distance swimmers and non swimmers alike Are fascinated by the shark. A Case in Point is the $2-Millionshark exhibit which opened this summer at sea world aquarium Here and the 18 per cent Rise in aquarium attendance for which the Sharks Are mostly credited. Sharks Are dangerous of course. That s part of their fascination. But they Are also among the world s oldest creatures. They Are actually Picky eaters. Some swim i fresh water. They re magnificent Beautiful Ani Mals not something that should be killed on sight said Raymond Keyes curator for sea world and an authority on Sharks. Keyes concedes Sharks Are eminently suited for killing. But he believes an irrational almost primitive fear the revulsion usually reserved for snakes keeps most people from appreciating the shark s near perfect adaptation for its role in the natural order of the sea. The top carnivores Sharks Are the Lions and tigers of the Ocean the top carnivores he said. The prey on most things and very few things prey on  any shark can be dangerous to swimmers in certain situations Keyes said but you have to remember that there s nothing personal about it. It s not like they re seeking people out to attack  the shark is defending his territory. Or he makes a mistake and think the mail is something else flopping around in the water. He thinks the Man looks like something to eat. A few species such As the great White villain of the movie jaws Are aggressive by nature. But said Keyes Inmany instances when a shark sees some european edition col. Billy e. Spangler Usa. Editor in chief a tool. . Taylor Usan. Deputy editor in chief Mert Proctor. Managing editor Elmer d. Frank. Production manager henrys. Epstein. Circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for . Armed forces overseas. The stars and stripes is published in conjunction with the armed forces information program of the department of defense. Contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official View of the . Government the department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of displays in this newspaper concerning commercial publications does not constitute an endorsement by the department of de sense including the military departments. Military address the stars and stripes Apo 09175. 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Thing he does t understand or something that frightens him the shark will  Sharks have a major role in preserving ecological balance. In their search for food Sharks impose the Law of natural selection removing the sick and the weak of other species so Only the fittest  said that with about 30 Sharks of nearly a dozen species in the tank Here workers have to make sure that the Sharks Don t follow All their natural habits such As imposing their own pecking  is usually a top animal and we see this in our enclosure As Well he  in Here you have a condition with very confused territories. When there s aggression Between animals in the wild one will usually flee to another area. But in the tank there is nowhere else Togo so we re very careful not to stir things  especially applies at feeding time when each shark is fed individually with Long handled tongs. Keyes said the Ani Mals receive Frozen fish and squid that Are fortified with Vitamin supplements. Contrary to what we Are led to be Lieve Keyes said the shark is a very very delicate animal. They re very Selec Tive in what they will  said the shark tank at the profit making sea world billed As the largest collection of captive Sharks is intended to educate the Public about the shark and to serve As a research  do scientific research on any animal he said you have to be Able to keep that animal in your Laboratory. This is our Laboratory and its a rather sophisticated  said surprisingly Little is known about Sharks although they Are among the most ancient of living creatures. Developed before Dinosaur Sharks Are found in the Fossil record As far Back As 250 million years ago he said. They developed before the dinosaurs and their Basic bodies Are still the same. Through All those millions of years of evolution Sharks have developed into several dozen species that fill different eco logical niches in virtually All the world s  fact Keyes said some Sharks have adapted to fresh water. Bull Sharks for instance have tra veiled 1,600 Kilometres up the Mississippi River and regularly Migrate up Centra american Rivers. In Central America he said the natives Are just terrified of them. And with Good reason. Bull Sharks Are mean  dutch free Slasher of Van Gogh portrait Amsterdam a a dutch Painter who slashed a self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been acquitted and released from prison after spending Over four months in  court based its decision on a psychiatric report which said 33-year old Mathijs Van Rem was not responsible for his actions at the time. The report added however that the Painter appeared to have re  custodian of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam said he saw the defendant making punching movements at the paint ing. When he approached Rem immediately turned in his knife but he had already made two Diagonal cuts in the dutch master s self portrait. Rem then waited quietly for his arrest and was kept in custody until his release. I was discharged from the army in 1977, and i returned Here to stay with my  him i was Able to secure a Job in the club systems where he is also pm  was t easy As they had to advertise the Job i wanted for two weeks in order to give military dependents and local nation als first crack at it. Fortunately neither stepped in and i was employed. For per Sonal reasons i resigned and sought other Means of  a civilian goes for a Job usually limited to non appropriated funds to begin with you Here that All american pledge equal Opportunity  course that is if you Are first Mili tary dependent second local National thelast and least Plain old american civilian. Somehow that quite does t fall under my list of definitions of the word  can see where the dependents May need the extra Money As my fianc6 and Ido considering the Dollar s dilemma and i understand that the government like the army has it s Way in respect to the wrong Way the right Way. And they have their sometimes incomprehensible ways of doing things. What present is their flagrant use of the term equal Opportunity when that s nothing of the  be even experienced discrimination within my own lowly employment status when i applied for a managerial position. The Only other contender was male. The Job was supposedly equal Opportunity. Though the male in question was a Friend he was unqualified for the Job. He got the  to my prospective employer he was hired because of the heavy lifting the Job demands. In the army i was in an All female Section in a signal battalion Soi be hauled my share of heavy equipment. And there s always dollies or other cart Type aids. That same Man who got the Job has already lost it but my application was t drawn or referred  m not trying to Buck any systems who can All i m saying that if the government employers Are not going to employ equally they should t make the false claims. Name withheld bad Kreuz Nach Germany experts probe hidden Dollar drop influences by Clyde h. Farnsworth Washington not has the Dollar fallen too much if so Why leading experts have been looking atthe numbers since the Dollar began its brutal Tumble 16 months ago and they Allagree that there is no justification for the full magnitude of the decline either in the inflation or Trade deficit statistics of the United  is very hard to explain the depreciation of the Dollar and the appreciation of the Mark and the yen by economic factors alone says Alan r. Holmes executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of new York. The West German Mark and the japanese yen have been the strongest currencies against the Dollar. Holmes blames what he Calls the vicious Cycle by which the Dollar s decline accelerates inflation which in turn accelerates the drop in the Dollar s  the decline by making imports More costly and less competitive an exports less costly and More competitive should help the Dollar Rise. But the feed Back effects of inflation transmittal Are a pernicious influence this is recognized by International monetary officials As one of the weaknesses of floating rates Ever since they displaced fixed rates As the monetary Star some five years ago. But while arguments still simmer Over the respective advantages of flexible versus fixed rates some other analysts Point to still another influence at work a vested interest of some american Banks in lower quotations for the Dollar. David Edwards a former Citibank employee in Paris has charged in a suit file Din Federal court in new York that his former employer and other leading Ameri can institutions deliberately drove Down the value of the Dollar for their own profit. The profit he then said was funnelled into tax  disputes these and other allegations by Edwards. Yet some other analysts take them  of these is a biweekly review of monetary matters called Green s commodity Market comments which reports that most big american Banks Are heavily Short the Dollar meaning they have sold dollars hoping to get them Back later at a lower  s How Green s explains what is happening a foreign representative of an american Bank visits customers in Germany say and offers them Loans at lower in Terest rates than could be obtained from German  american Bank then Sells dollars to Purchase the West German Marks which it then Loans to the new German client. As suming that the maturity of the loan is six months All the banker is interested in is by How much the Dollar will be lower in the markets when he receives the German Marks Back to repurchase the , says greens it does not even re Purchase dollars but uses the returned German Marks to lend to another client thereby continuing the Short position against the  Are no exact figures on How Many foreign Loans made by american Banks might follow this scenario. But a report issued last january by the comptroller of the currency the Federal Deposit insurance corp. And the Federal Reserve boards owed that on june 30, 1977, there were $164.2 billion in foreign Loans outstanding. Of which $103.3 billion or 63 percent had a maturity of less than one  figures indicate a substantial Short position. But while american Banks were extending Loans in foreign currencies Many other american institutions and Pri vate citizens were fleeing the Dollar Pur chasing Swiss francs German Marks japanese yen and other hard currencies in the expectation that they would Rise in  the 12 months ended june 1978, the annual rate of inflation in the United state was 7.5 percent. This compares with 3.6 percent in Japan 2.7 percent in Germany and 1.1 percent in  the other hand Italy s inflation was 12.3 percent Britain s 7.4 percent France s 9 percent and Denmark s 10.6  some of these countries experienced a higher inflation rate than the United states All of their currencies appreciated against the Dollar indicating that something other than the inflation Gap was responsible