European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Calendar Denmark film april France 31st Flower Ger Ardmer april this is the towns Celebration of with thousands of blooms on the the Parade begins at 3 but the floats will be on display from 10 so that visitors May Admire the admission is 30 groups of More than 20 May get a discount on grandstand Contact organisation society Des f88401 Germany May april 27may this is one of the big festivals of the year in with More than exhibitors from All Over the Advance tickets Cost 4 Marks for adults and 2 Marks for that is a savings of 2 Marks per tickets Are available from Maimart  d6800 Mannheim great Britain embassy world professional snooker Crucible april Badminton horse Badminton House in Avon near Bristol and Chipping april 18 International trials consist of show Cross country and first International clowns Bognor april performances by the worlds Best a Street Parade and film show Are Italy 63rd Bozen wine regional wine fair for the South april farm april Artisan april 19may this International handicraft fair includes exhibits by groups and among the items displayed and for Sale Are leather wooden Metal embroideries and musical Switzerland Golden Rose of May Turkey childrens throughout the april gallery Austria Vienna Albrecht Durer animal and Plant studios of the april 9june France Vasco Euil exhibition of paintings in the april 12iate Paris from the Bible to grand april 12may Germany Munich Franjo Dragan Branko Lovak in hell and hell until april great Britain Edinburgh Munch and the City Art april 15may the Netherlands Eindhoven new yorker artists original drawings and ton Smits april 13 May the collection of 74 original cartoons from 23 cartoonists for the new yorker Magazine is from the Jimmy Heineman among the cartoonists represented Are Chas George Mort Arnie Charles Ronald Searle and James after the close in the exhibition will travel to Barcelona and it is open except Osterlo Imi Rijk museums april 14june Switzerland Chur 4 Obwald Ner Guendner checkpoint Charlie museum is profile in courage by to Craven staff writer in 1970 two each with a boarded a train travelling from East Berlin to West at a later the 5foot7inch East German Girlfriend of one of the men while guards checked the individual train the men removed the Matching narrow Side panels in the suitcases and hid the woman in the two empty she stayed in the cases for 70 minutes until the guards completed their the three safely escaped into West since the German democratic Republic East Germany was founded in More than 3 million about on sixth of the country have escaped to the visitors to West Berlin can visit the Haus am checkpoint Charlie museum at the checkpoint Charlie Border the two floors of the museum Are filled with escape devices used by people since the Berlin Wall went up in in addition to the escape the museum also features artists interpretations of the Wall in the form of drawings and As visitors enter the they Are faced with Walls covered with photographs and Brief texts appearing in German and French that describe the construction of the Berlin As Well As subsequent escapes and protests against Freedom knows no one showing a photograph of a 1961 but the Berlin Wall does in the night from saturday to the East Berlin population was hermetically isolated from West Berlin by armed who a few hours before did not know anything about the nature of their a museum panel the first Wall was Only about 8 inches and escapes were not one father was Able to secure his daughters escape by having a Friend hand the child Over the Fence to at this Early the East berliners could still wave to West Berliner friends and talk to them briefly at the East German Border guards even dared to Converse with West Berlin the ended this in 1963 the soviets reinforced the making it a Yard thick Concrete the checkpoints were covered with plastic and pits were dug to Stop dog alarms and searchlights also increased the the escapes continued despite the tightly enforced manmade some of the escape plans were simple others were much More and All endangered the escapees and their in 1963 an austrian merely bought a car that would fit under the lift bar at the he hid his Fiancee in the Back seat of the his Mother in the trunk and then sped under the bar at the after an argentinian used the same the guards attached vertical bars to the horizontal lift Twenty years two East germans fired a steel tipped Arrow attached to a length of fishing line across the a West Berliner Friend secured the and after they snaked a steel Cable Down the the East berliners sailed 100 Yards into West a West Berliner woman planned a sting operation to get her lookalike sister and her Sisters family out of East the two families met in the West berliners reported their car and papers while their papers were being the East berliners used the original papers and car to czechoslovakian found the abandoned vehicle in Vienna and even apologized for the assuming that a czechoslovakian citizen had escaped in the escapes have not been limited to in the Crew of a passenger Steamer on the River spree got the boats Captain drunk and locked him in his the Crew took Over the boat and transported their families and friends across the Border under the gunfire of East German Bernard Boettger escaped across the Baltic sea in towed by a homemade he travelled 15 Miles in five hours before he was picked up by the danish ship two families took to the air in fleeing in a hot air balloon that they had the 90foothigh balloon was the largest built in they travelled about 28 Miles in half an rising nearly 900 feet in the air to avoid the searchlights of Border not All of the escape attempts have been Peter Fechte was one of Many who tried to climb the spotting Fechte during his escape East Berliner Border guards shot he Lay a foot from the Sanctuary of West West Berlin police could Only respond to his cries of help by throwing him first a museum panel according to the museums Ravener the museum exists As a continual reminder of what has been done for the remains of the hot air balloon and Boettger submarine Are on display in the along with other escape such As altered cars and bogus a motorized Kite will soon be added to the the museum is open daily from 9 to 6 on Christmas the museum closes at 4 admission is Marks for for students or 2 Marks for members of groups of 10 or 12 stripes Magazine