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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, February 15, 1981

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Holds Russ guilty of breach Washington up the soviet War of words deepened with the state department accusing the soviet Union of violating a 1972 agreement that neither superpower would try to achieve strategic advantage Over the the charge was levelled after officials revealed that a secret dinner meeting took place this month Between Secretary of state Alexander Haig and soviet ambassador Anatoli it was arranged by Charles Percy in an unsuccessful bid to ease tensions Between the two related Page the accusation against the soviets was delivered by state department spokesman William Dyess in response to a charge car ried by the soviet news Agency Tass that the had violated the 1972 Moscow the Tass charge was particularly ironic in View of the soviet intervention in Ethiopia and Dyess the record clearly indicates that the soviet Union is responsible for the ineffectiveness of the we would expect the soviets to live up to he the agreement amounts to a code of behaviour for the in which both pledged to avoid situations that would threaten or intimidate the Dyess would not confirm or deny that the Hai Dobrynin dinner had taken place continued on Back Page Over 130 injured the Sims an stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 301 february is Doniv and sunday 1 f 21855 a Gar Wood will get do but not prison from press dispatches Camp Marine Robert convicted of collaborating with the Viet Cong and assault ing a fellow american prisoner of Friday was ordered Dis honorable Dis charged from the service but was not Given a prison the made up of five officers who served in the Vietnam deliberated Jess than an hour on his which included demotion to private before his the jury could have put the Only american of the Vietnam War Era convicted of aiding the in prison for the jury also ordered him to forfeit the one weeks pay that had accrued since his the lacked authority to Rule on an estimated in Back that Money could still be awarded to Garwood if his lawyers succeed in an action they plan to file with the court of the Back pay has been accumulating since a Marine disappeared in Vietnam in Gar Woods base pay at the time was about a but that amount has grown steadily Over the years to More than in Garwood received a combat pay Bonus and an overseas pay he also got a Bonus for All the time he was held As a prisoner of All of Gar Woods pay from the Day he disappeared was invested in savings account that earned about 10 percent inter est the sentencing came after Garwood ended months of silence Friday and pleaded for telling the jury that he is mentally sick and has suffered enough for his actions in an eight paragraph statement from the 34yearold Indiana Man was read by a defense lawyer to the the statement said that Garwood does not dispute testimony by former pos that he acted As an inter Roga informer and guard for the Vietnam Ese communists during two of the 14 years he spent in he does not know How to explain what occurred in Vietnam 14 years ago he does not know what anyone can say to continued on Back Page Dublin cabaret Blaze kills 49 Dublin a an Earl morning Flash fire in a Dublin nightclub killed 49 people and injured More than police said survivors of the inferno at the stardust cabaret spoke of panic and pandemonium among 700 to 800 dancers when the fire erupted mysteriously just before 2 police said almost All the casualties were in their teens or Early the club in a Northern Dublin was crowded for a disc dancing the Irish government named next tues Day As an official Day of mourning for the victims of the eyewitnesses said the electricity failed when the fire plunging the building into darkness and making dancers Grope for the front Entrance and for unlit screaming youths were burned or asphyxiated As they struggled to open locked doors or Tore vainly at windows covered on the outside with Vandal proof Iron hours after the no victims were identified because they were so badly the City morgue fleeing dancers said the polystyrene Ceil ing smoked and then flared into a showering dancers with molten one of the 17yearold Tommy said i saw All the Back seats on then the roof started coming continued on Back Page they dont need 14 to show their affection by Rudi Williams Bremerhaven Bureau chief Germany it was when six cars and two Small trucks slowly rolled through the streets Here with Flower shop owners pass ing out thousands of Flowers and hundreds of potted plants to the mayor and other citizens of the Northern German port As far As anyone can this was the first Celebration of Valen tins tag Valentines Day in Northern most of the German population didst know what was going so a member of the women club explained the Story of Valentines Crete was the German vice president of the club in i remember that said the first time i heard about Valentines Day was when i became a member of the ame continued on Back Page in Loving anticipation a Young Soldier with a bouquet of roses anxiously scans the crowd of arriving passengers at the Frankfurt International Hes waiting for the occasion is much More than just a typical Valentines Day in the life of the As youll agree after scanning Page Stephanie James  
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