European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday. June 10. 1980 operation Snow White ii nets ?3 others furniture drug probe snares 55 gis Hof Hanau. Germany is fifty five . Servicemen were among 68 persons apprehended Here in connection with a month Long.  drug bust during which police confiscated illegal drugs Worth $1.8 million a v corps spokesman said monday. In All. Police seized 1.850 Grams of he Roin. 800 Grams of hashish and marijuana and 255 units of Ltd. A special drug suppression team code named Snow White ii was created in Laic april and we Rcd through Early june to counter the increased Sale and use of drugs among . Military personnel the spokes Man said. An additional 34 . Servicemen were apprehended on drug Possession charges during the period May 29-Junc i when unit commanders and military police in the Hanau military Community conducted health and welfare inspections and Gate searches. Charges have been filed against 48 americans thus far. The spokesman said. Six germans five turks one iraqi and one italian also were  soldiers were arrested and More than $8 million in drugs were seized in the first Snow White operation in 1978.the team involved in the latest drug sweep included military police criminal investigators military police investigators and German Law enforcement agencies. S. Calif., Ariz. Egypt accepts Carfer plan quake causes of a pave Paestine talks Little damage san Diego a an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale rolled through Southern California Southern Ari Zona and a portion of Mexico but caused Little  at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena said the quake struck at 8 28 . Sunday and was Cen tired in Mexico about 50 Miles South of Mexicali on the . Border and 125 Miles Southeast of san Diego. Some Small aftershocks also were recorded. Authorities said the Only damage reported was an electrical transformer Blowout in Brawley Calif. Mexican red Cross officials said they had not received any requests for assistance. Buildings Sway the rolling motion of the Earth lasted 60 to 90 seconds near the epicentre. Build Ings swayed and water splashed out of swimming pools in the los Angeles and san Diego areas. Damages last october when a quake Mea Suring 6.s on  Richter scale struck the area. At the Imperial county sheriffs office in Al Centra Deputy Lawrence Powell called sunday s shaking a Good solid Roll  Powell said that As a precautionary measure sheriffs deputies were roping off streets near the county building which was condemned after the october quake but not yet torn Down. This was a rolling earthquake and not s shaking one. There is quite a differ ence said a police officer in Calexico an Imperial Valley Community also hit by the october quake. Cairo up Egypt monday accepted president Carter s initiative to revive the Frozen palestinian autonomy negotiations with Israel despite the absence of israeli assurances sought by Cairo on major controversial issues. But president Anwar Sadat qualified the move by saying an israeli egyptian Macri can meeting proposed by Carter and accepted by Egypt will be of a preparatory nature and will not constitute a resumption of the negotiations themselves. We have agreed to the american proposal that the egyptian chief Delegate go to Washington along with the israeli chief Delegate to discuss How to surmount obstacles standing in the Way of reconvening the negotiations Sadat told reporters at Suez City. They arc not going to resume the negotiations he said. No. They Are going to consider How to surmount the obstacles fac ing  foreign minitor Kamal Hassan Ali said yes when reporters asked following a meeting of top officials in Cairo whether Egypt accepted the initiative spelled out in a Tetter Carter sent to Sadat sunday. We consider the american initiative satisfactory Ali said. The american proposals slated in the letter can be a basis for resumption of the  the Washington meeting will group Ali israeli Interior minister Josef Burg and . Middle East envoy sol Linowitz. Sadat said Egypt has proposed a Date Lor the session but i d rather not disclose it  Ali said the Date has yet to be fixed in consultations with the United states and Israel. Cairo s acceptance was the first thaw in a month Long crisis that began with Sadat s freezing the negotiations for Lack of Prog Ress on the plan to Grant self Rule to 1.2 called psychological warfare Russ blast budget plans Tor . Radio stations Moscow a the communist party newspaper pravda on monday assailed As psychological warfare recent moves by the is. Congress to increase the Bud gets of radio Liberty radio free Europe and the voice of  soviet communist party newspaper reasserted the Kremlin s position that . Broadcasts targeted at this country and other soviet bloc nations Are in Glar ing contradiction with principles embodied in the 1975 Helsinki  commentator Vladimir Bolshakov noted that the House committee on inter National relations had approved an imme Diate boost of j3 million in the combined budget for re and re which Are based in Munich but funded by the United slates. Also Voa s current budget was brought up to $83 million and will reach approximately $100 million in the next fiscal year Bolshakov wrote. Such a steady increase of expenditures. U not at All caused by inflation As officials in Washington try to assert a times the pravda commentary did. Instead it said the lavish spending on the radio stations is part of a Carter administration program aimed at stepping up warfare against " pravda contended that Only simpletons could fail to see thai such foreign Broad casts contradict the Helsinki principle of non interference in the internal affairs of other states. Million palestinians living in the occupied Jordan West Bank and the Gaza sector. Officials said Carter s letter did not con Tain the assurances Cairo had sought As a prelude to resumption of the negotiations. Egypt wanted Israel to Shelve parliamentary action on a Bill legalizing the status of Jerusalem As its capital and to freeze construction of new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Diplomatic sources said however the United states has told Egypt there was Rea son to believe Israel May be persuaded to delay action on the Jerusalem Bill while the negotiations were going on. Ali replied no comment when asked whether the United states had obtained. Such assurances from Israel. 2 cosmonauts return after space lab visit Moscow up two cosmonauts who made a four Day visit to the orbiting salyut 6 space lab in a new computerized spaceship monday returned safely to Earth the Tass news Agency reported. Cosmonauts Yuri Malyshev and Vladimir Aksyonov made a soft Landing in their soyuz-t-2 spaceship 124 Miles Southeast of the town of  in the soviet re Public of Kazakhstan. Tass said the two spacemen feel  the pair left behind two other Cosmo nauts Leonid Popov and Valery Yumin who have been in space since april 9 in an apparent attempt to set a space endurance record. Yumin is co Holder of the current record of 175 Days in space. The main feature of the latest flight was the spaceship a newly designed one with a built in computer that allows cosmonauts More autonomy in making in flight Maneu vers. On previous flights cosmonauts had to depend on data from ground based computers. The soyuz-t-2 spaceship docked with the salyut 6 station Friday. During their four Day slay the two spacemen also tried out a new spacesuit thai features advanced plastic making it lighter and More flexible. Malyshev and Aksyonov were the 10th Crew to visit the salyut 6 lab which has been in orbit for 2vi years. Their launching came Only two Days after the return to Earth of another pair of cosmonauts Valery Kubanov and hungarian Bartalan parkas who had spent eight Days aboard the space lab. Maj. Gen. Hearn Dies Palo Alto. Calif. A retired army maj. Gen. Thomas Hearn. The chief of staff to Gen. Joseph vinegar Joe soil Well in Asia during world a ii has died atthe age of 89. May be Cut continued from Page ii Money for new furniture Byrne said. We be pretty much decided to make do with what we have. Fortunately Wei have excellent restoration and repair capabilities which can extend furniture  Normal life expectancy for most furniture a 15 years said Hani Dieter Seidel Usa eur housing Supply officer. Approximately $90 million of our fund lure assets 40 percent Are More than 25 years old and have far exceeded their nor Mal life expectancy he added. Much of the furniture in Usa eur has been re covered and renovated three or four times he said. In an Effort to avoid future furniture support problems service  be ing encouraged to ship More of their per Sonal furniture and other household items overseas under provisions of the armed forces joint travel regulations St officials said. Jars govern the amount of personal property service members can move from one location to another at government sex  has t Given us enough Money Over the last 10 years to keep on to of our restricted partial allowance str program Kane said. Its become More and More Cost effective to go with full str provisions. I d say Well be getting out of the furniture business on a permanent is sue basis probably within the next couple of years. You can see the handwriting on the  Usa eur or Usab officials Forsee any problems maintaining family furniture support for persons Al ready in Europe. Right now we re hold ing our own Byrne said. While the military May Stop providing a great Deal of family furniture support in the future officials said the government will probably still Issue some necessity items. Well be buying items that Aren t com Mon to the states like wardrobes storage cabinets Kitchen cabinets and that land of thing Kane said. But Well concentrate primarily on  once full str provisions Are extended to More service members military officials said they Hope to redistribute much of their furniture. 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