European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 24, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 23 big order hikes Lead of Boeing Seattle a the Boeing co., mov ing toward a sales record widened its Lead in worldwide Jet Airliner sales Friday with the announcement that Braniff International plans to buy $426 million Worth of its planes through 1981. Boeing expects 1978 sales of about $6 Bil lion a commercial aviation record. Boe ing which has built More than half the Jet liners now flying set the current record of $4 billion last year. Braniff International said it has placed a firm order for 10 new Boeing 727-200 trivets and one 747-200b jumbo Jet to be completed in 1980 at a Cost of about $209 million. In addition the airline took options for 10 More 727s and another 747 for 1981 at a Cost of $217 million. Braniff Board chair Man Harding Lawrence said he expects the airline to exercise the option by de Cember. We re always pleased to hear from Braniff John Wheeler Public relations manager of Boeing commercial air plane co., said Friday. Braniff s 727 order reflects High demand for the Short to medium Range jetliner Boeing s hottest Selling plane Wheeler said. It is the largest Selling commercial air plane in history with 1,571 orders now on the books he added. Our production is sold out through 1980," he said. Braniff s 727s will be the newer models in that class carrying about 155 Passen Gers in . Mixed class service com pared with the Standard 727-100, which car Ries about 120 passengers. The Boeing 707, which Many airlines Are phasing out is second with 934 orders to Date he said. The Braniff Sale brings to 421 the total orders for the 747, the largest commercial jetliner built Wheeler said. The jumbo Jet has a maximum Range of about 6,000 Miles and can carry 350 to 450 passengers. The latest Purchase by Braniff was in addition to earlier orders totalling about $382.7 million to be delivered in 1978 and 11 new jets scheduled for delivery in 1979. The Braniff announcement was the lat est in a series of International coups by Boeing which faces Competition from a consortium of european firms and from american firms Lockheed and Mcdonnell , Boeing contracted for a total of $3.8 billion in sales to Eastern United and Singapore airlines and British air ways. These soldiers had no complaints about women Drivers after watching this German woman skilfully Man Euver another Good Man Euver her tractor and trailer loaded with sugar beets around their column of a Mored personnel carriers during the certain shield exercise. The photo was taken near the Small town of Langen Berg. Rudi Williams photo for is mayor had intervened cd i Cago College strike May end by Jack Lesar United press International Chicago mayor Michael Bilandic who reluctantly entered talks Between teachers and strike bound City colleges saturday announced an agreement that could Sal Vage the semester for 110,000 students. But negotiations brought Little Progress in a dozen other states where More than 300,000 students from kindergarten to College have been idled or otherwise affected by school strikes. Bilandic who at first refused students pleas that he intervene in the strike called both sides together Friday morning and kept talks in session until 4 . Saturday when he emerged to announce the Tenta Tive Accord. The main Issue in the dispute was a demand that faculty members teach an extra course each semester. Details of the settlement were not divulged. The agreement must be voted on but both sides were optimistic that classes could begin monday. The strike has delayed the opening of the nine City colleges since late August. Student leaders angry at the Prospect of losing a semester of Classwork had urged Bilandic to enter the negotiations. School officials had warned the fall semester would be cancelled if the strike was not settled by monday. Rhodesia ends sweep against Mozambique guerrilla bases Salisbury up the military command saturday announced the completion of four Days of air and ground strikes against Black nationalist guerrilla bases in Mozambique and said martial Law has been imposed in some sectors of rho Desia. A communique said All the forces taking part in the attacks against guerrillas of Robert Mugabe s Zimbabwe african National liberation army Are Back on rho  the pullout was said to have been completed saturday morning. The military command said no details would be released until participating com Manders had been debriefed and imposed a total news blackout on the raids. Several suspected guerrilla Camps were believed to have been attacked starting wednesday morning and there appeared to have been some resistance. Three rhodesian warplanes two can Berra Jet bombers and one Hawker Hunter Jet fighter bomber on thursday had to make emergency landings at the new a rum air Force base adjoining Salisbury International Airport. The operations the first of that Type officially acknowledged since the military command reported 10 guerrilla bases were knocked out in july were personally supervised by Rhodesia s supreme Mili tary commander it. Gen. Peter Walls. Walls announced in a statement that martial Law has been proclaimed in cer Tain carefully selected areas in  he did not spell out what martial Law would entail and did not name the areas affected. I must emphasize that the declaration of martial Law has been primarily de signed to facilitate operations by the Secu Rity forces against terrorists and those who assist them by acts of lawlessness he said. Classes also will resume monday at Eastern Michigan University where strik ing teachers accepted a new contract Friday. New negotiations were ordered Satur Day in strike torn Bridgeport conn., where 271 striking teachers have been jailed for refusing to return to their work. Connecticut education commissioner Mark Shedd sent telegrams to Bridgeport school officials and teacher representatives directing them to meet saturday and to continue talks until a settlement is reached. Shedd said he was hopeful a settlement could be reached in time to open schools monday for the City s 23,000 strike idled students. But there was Little optimism for a speedy settlement in Bridgeport s other teachers strike a walkout by professors at the University of Bridgeport. The professors walked off the Job Friday opening Day of classes for 8,000 students. Classes at the University were not officially cancelled but few were held. No Progress was reported in Cleveland where 101,000 students Are out of school. All 8 crewmen a Navy plane killed in crash West Poland Maine up the bodies of All eight crewmen were found late Friday in the wreckage of a Navy anti submarine plane that crashed earlier in the Day. Pieces of the Navy p-3 Orion fell onto a Hilly Rocky area showering debris near a House and a trailer Home. The Maine National guard said the big four engine Turboprop plane based at Brunswick naval air station apparently collided with a smaller aircraft before exploding. State police said radar also showed two planes involved in the Accident but search ers did not locate wreckage of a second plane. Authorities said one of the Navy plane s wings apparently Tore Loose before the crash but most of the fuselage apparently fell straight to Earth and flattened twisted and Tore apart upon Impact. Only a Large Section of the Tail remained intact. The plane burned after the crash setting off some fires in the Woods but Crews covered the wreckage scene with foam and con fined the fires to the immediate area. Other walkouts affected students in Tacoma. Wash., and Dayton Ohio and in smaller districts in Michigan Indiana Massachusetts Maine Pennsylvania. Minnesota. New York new Jersey and California. Continued from Page 2-1 City of san Francisco attacking the constitutionality of the measure which limited property tax assessments to the 1975 Stan Dard. The measure dropped property taxes by As much As 50 percent and allowed Only a Small increase in future years thus drastically reducing income for local govern ment particularly school districts. The court said a primary argument was that proposition 13 was so drastic and far reaching that it constitutes a revision of the state Constitution rather than a Mere amendment. The court held that on the contrary the initiative was modest both in concept and effect and does not change our Basic governmental  in its 62-Page opinion the High tribunal dismissed another argument for unconstitutionality that proposition 13 dealt with More than one subject by saying the initiative procedure itself was specifically in tended to accomplish such kinds of re forms through its function As a legislative battering ram Russel sheim gis give 10,000 Marks to town Russel sheim Germany funds to help the handicapped and mentally retarded in this main River Auto manufacturing Center have grown by More than $5,000, a gift of american soldiers working on a tiny Cavern  "5,000-Mark checks each were presented to mayor . Storsberg by men of the 106th transportation in. The Money was raised through sales of bratwurst hamburgers and Beer and at the Dunk tank and fuss Ball kick game at Azbill Barracks during German american Friendship Day when the six acre Cavern s Normal population of 225 grew to about 5,000