European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 tanks rolling through Village make German residents jittery by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau chief Germany Paul Luehrs was stand ing outside watching the tanks passing through the Nar Row Street in front of his shop last month when portions of the ceiling it was not the buckled ceiling and fallen tiles in his shop that upset Luehrs the he said last it was the scare he got when the German army tank swerved and rolled up onto the sidewalk where Luehrs and a child were if i didst have the child by the i dont know what would have he armoured vehicles rolling through this North German farm Community have prompted the local legislative body to ask both the 2nd army div stationed in nearby and units of the the 3rd German army Panzer div to bypass the area when travelling to training asks notification of use failing the unanimously approved Resolution asks military authorities to notify the township when they plan to use the roads so that police can Clear parked cars from affected a similar Resolution was passed last summer and sent to appropriate according to Peter township a seven mile rail Spur is planned to help armoured units in the area move their according to Jan assistant chief of staff for civil 2nd army it will not alleviate the situation in Bev As far As american needs Are unlike the German said american units do not use the areas near Beyerstedt for the 2nd army div needs the open spaces for readiness test ing that requires mobilization on Short he Beyerstedt lies in the Middle of one of the Only areas we can use around Karcz readiness testing requires deploying up to five armoured battalions with More than 350 vehicles under conditions similar to those that would occur in actual he Karcz said he understood the recent complaints and said he met with a town official after similar complaints surfaced last As a the americans have Given one to two Days notice to town officials and police before the readiness testing said town officials met in late june with Harald commander of the 3rd Panzer one township official at that Han Guenther said he was encouraged by the with a population of is the largest among nine villages in the township of More than nearly in Maneule related damage was paid to township residents in divided equally among township the amount comes to about per sixty on tanks and 850yearold farming communities Are not natural while several local officials said they understood the need for training most said the number of those exercises has increased during the past two the problem is that someone has to carry the Bur Karcz the number of readiness tests has declined this year compared with last he he said there have been two such tests this he could not Supply an exact number for last we Are asking for a Little said Hans Guenter mayor of last year the main culprits were the american he said this German armoured units have caused most of the Paul Luehrs he criticized German units for driving too the americans lower their Speed when driving through town he i understand that there must be the former Soldier mean he estimates damage to his store could approach Greaf train robber7 celebrates 20 years of Freedom Rio de Brazil up great train Rob Ber Ronald Biggs celebrated 20 years of stolen free Dom monday with Champagne in his Rio Hillside idea there was a Celebration lunch commemorating july when Biggs scrambled Over the exercise Yard Wall of Wandsworth prison in England to Start two decades of globetrotting Biggs fled a 30year jail term received for his part in the million robbery of a mail train carrying sacks of used banknotes in As Long As he remains in he is there is no extradition treaty Between Brazil and eng and Biggs is father to a brazilian born 11yearold under local protects him from expel Biggs escaped to Belgium and calling himself Ronald then hopped around the world to Australia As Ronald by 1970 he arrived in Brazil by Way of Panama and the tropical Seaside City was Biggs final Jack a Scotland Yard caught up with him after a newspaper reporter found Biggs and tried to sell the As there is no time limit for my crime under English i am theoretically still now Brazil refused a British deportation plea and allowed Biggs to but hemmed him in with he cannot or stay out at he reports weekly to Federal but Biggs has found his Niche helping his son known in Brazil As nightclub dancer Raimunda build a Bud Ding career As a pop Singer and television but i dont keep his the House is in his Biggs what matters in my life now is the happiness of seeing Mike grow up As a Good he i want him to follow his own to develop his career and to Mike Biggs Success has been a Windfall for the who legally cannot even for his Biggs now has a part share in an Ipa Nema nightclub and a House Over looking Rio Bridge of Friendship brings 3 to Japan Tokyo a three american High school girls Are visiting Japan at the invitation of a japanese Pilot who attacked their Oregon town with firebombs 43 years the exp lot said in just returning the hospitality i received when i visited Brookings 23 years Nobuo Fujita said in a Telephone i want to act As a Bridge of Friend ship Between our was the Only japanese Pilot to bomb the american Mainland during world War raining incendiary bombs on forested areas of a coastal town in Southern Oregon near the Border with Lisa Robyn Soiseth and Sarah Cor All arrived in Japan from Brookings on monday to begin a six Day they Are visiting local High schools and the Tsukuda expo an International science and technology exposition North of the students were selected from 25 Brook Ings Harbor Jaycees president Michael Moran Fujita said he carried out his bombing missions on 9 and he returned both times in his sea plane to the submarine that brought him close to the american West it was an order that he did not he but added that there were no military targets for his there was really nothing he he returned to Brookings in 1962 at the invitation of the town parched soil a photo Singer Harry Belafonte lets a handful of dry Earth blow from his hand outside the Kassala Camp in a once Fertile Valley in drought stricken Eastern Belafonte visited Ethiopia and Tanzania As a member of the for Africa entertainer says governments must feed the worlds starving London a country music Star Kenny Rogers said that governments not individuals or Rock groups must be responsible for feeding the worlds people cannot feed people the problem is too he governments must feed the and our Job is to persuade them to do Rogers said the United states top Rock stars who produced the hit song we Are the world had raised More than million and had succeeded in getting the government to give billion to drought affected african we have done what we set out to he the first time you see a picture of a starving you Are affected by but the 50th time you see it you just flick Over the next Rogers 1 think people have gotten fed up with us in the same our Job is it is now up to the governments to take Homes sought Tor menagerie spared from death decree England a wanted car ing Homes for one one four two two goldfish and two swarms of they Are the pets of the late Mary who died at age 77 in a Ponyman strap her will required that her pets be put to death because she did not believe anyone would treat them As devotedly As the Royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals said Friday it intervened too late to save mire houses seven red setter which were put to but it said the other pets were spared after an Anonymous Benefactor agreed to indemnify the executors against possible Legal action if they failed to comply with the the executors plan to meet and discuss ways of finding Homes for the rest of the russian seeking exit visa ends 100day hunger strike Moscow up a russian married to an Ameri can nurse has announced the end of an interrupted 100 Day hunger strike that failed to win him an exit visa to join his wife and two daughters in Yuri denied permission to emigrate for six said he ended his hunger strike which had been interrupted for two weeks of forced hospitalization for various including an Appeal from his a Baltimore Balo Lenkov said he had been promised by soviet authorities that his visa request would be processed in the next two