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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Day in the parliament Adolfo Premier of the outgoing government of registers protest As he stands on stairs in the parliament and watches a struggle during the attempted at the first vice Premier for military Gutierrez Mellado in civilian clothes is forcibly prevented from leaving the scene by members of the civil a pm Igor coup fails in Spain authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 311 february 1981 is doily and sunday if 21855 a Madrid up King Juan Carlos and Spanish democracy survived an at tempted coup by righting army and civil guard officers tuesday without panic or two Hundred paramilitary guards surren dered at midday after holding 350 deputies at gunpoint for 17 it had become Clear they had next to no support in the related Page dont ringleader Antonio Tejero de Molina told the Dep the Only thing happening Here is aboard blazing army truck Pershing Rockef explodes by the stars and stripes Stuttgart a Pershing capable of carrying a nuclear exploded near Here tuesday after the army truck on which it was mounted caught an army spokesman the rocket did not carry a warhead when its propellant the spokes Man and he added that there were no injuries in the explosion which occurred outside the town of 20 Miles East of 80 families were evacuated from the immediate according to Walter mayor of German police estimated damage at the combined value of the destroyed rocket and the army spokesman said the missile rocket motor and guidance Section were destroyed in the fire which apparently started when a fuel line on the truck ruptured and caused a Flash it spread so quickly that there was no time to use extinguishers aboard the the rocket transporter and missile were from the 56th Field arty at Schwa Ebisch 30 Miles East of the equip ment was engaged in routine Maneu vers when the Accident the army spokesman the truck fire broke out around Sipple and firemen fought it until when there was an Sipple said there was Little the fire department could do to Stop the he that there want much continued on Back Page that in going to land 30 or 40 years in Jaime Milans Del army commander in the Eastern City of withdrew tanks and artillery he had sent into the the withdrawal came after Juan Carlos denounced the re Bels and threw his weight behind democracy As commander chief of the armed the leaders of the nostalgic for the dictatorship of Generalissimo Francis co sought a military government to end the nations fledgling democracy and crack Down harder on the Basque guerrillas who took 114 lives last year and now hold three foreign consuls the siege at parliament ended in conf with the smell of failure in the scores of civil guards Clad in fatigues jumped out of first floor windows and tried to others ran out of the front door into the arms of officers who had surrounded the building throughout the tense the most of them were taken in buses to a Tejero was taken under arrest to civil guard Headquarters despite his insisting continued on Back Page cafes reducing Gas prices Munich the dollars sustained strength will bring Down fuel prices for cafes customers in Germany and the Netherlands beginning March the new prices for Premium in Germany will decrease about seven cents while regu Lar will drop by six according to William newly appointed director of the Safe Europe services Divi diesel customers will be Able to get a  these which almost reverse last months Price Are a typical exam ple of the unpredictable fuel Market and the volatile Dollart Omark Mazyck in the customers will get a  per gallon Price break for regular and diesel prices will drop about a Mazyck said fuel costs have risen but that Safe Europe was Able to Purchase local currencies needed to pay those costs at a favourable the net result is a decrease in Price at the he Mazyck declined to speculate on future Gas pricing because of continuing Market continued on Back Page  
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