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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july rain fails to Dampen spirits during Bastille Day Parade Paris up it rained on president Francois Mit errands Parade but the 68yearold head of state kept up tradition and Rode through the thunderstorms at the annual military procession on Bastille Day Frances National Mitterrand had no sooner boarded a jeep at the arc Detriomphe with the armed forces chief of Jean nou to begin the Parade Down the champs Elysee when torrents of rain soaked both men and scattered the sidewalk the president found shelter on arrival at the covered presidential Tribune at the end of the mile Long where he was met by prime minister Laurent Fabius and exchanged greetings with his guest of japanese prime minister Yasuhiro the two hour military Parade is one of the highlights of the Holiday marking the 196th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison that began the French Mitterrand accompanied by a cavalry regiment dressed in White and was followed by a procession of marching soldiers and 385 military vehicles and a flyby of Mirage and Jaguar fighter Ransall transport super Stendard bombers and Gazelle and Puma no new military equipment was unveiled at the but nearly All the vehicles were painted in Maroon and the armed forces Experiment in camouflage also for the first Large numbers of women soldiers took part in the the rain stopped and the Sun was shining when the last processions of motorcycle police and fire trucks filed past the Mitterrand was to spend the remainder of the Day visit ing military academies while the rest of France and its overseas territories continued festivities that include fire works Street dances and open air Many tossing turned up sat urday night for the annual Street dance where the Bastille once stood in the Eastern Section of on a fou Day state visit to was among six Heads of state to appear on National television after the Parade to read pre taped Nakasone said France and Japan would March together into the 21st Century under the same Flag of Freedom and Democrat West German Chancellor Helmut italian presi Dent Bettino Indian prime minister Rajiv Argentine president Raoul Alfonsin and Ivory coast president Felix  also sent Goodwill Mes sages to Austria launches and Campaign to Lessen effects of wine scandal Bonn up the scandal of austrian Fine wines tainted with poisonous Antifreeze spread to North Ameri Ca As Vienna fought Back sunday with an advertising Campaign to prevent economic ruin for its health authorities in a total of six including those in have warned the Public not to drink austrian selected grape White wines found to have been sweetened with the toxic principal ingredient in anti die Helyne the additive enabled the poo Quality wine to be passed off As expensive Beeren Auslee and Eis Wein if ingested even in Small the chemical can cause kidney failure and even at least one Case of kidney damage and More than a dozen cases of mild poisoning have been reported among people drinking the wines in West Germany and the Neth Denmark and Britain have issued warnings against the following the example of West where millions of quarts were first hundreds of thousands of Gallons have already been sent Back to fearing a major backlash against All austrian wine exports to West Worth an annual the viennese chamber of Commerce hit Back with an advertising Campaign in West German newspapers which it bankrolled to the tune of West German orders for 4 million liners have already been threatening ruin for Small austrian Vint the appearing in weekend newspapers All Over West said All austrian wine could not be condemned merely because of one Case of a few Black sheep were the advertise ments Reinhard president of the German wine Asso said the Case showed the necessity for wine grow ers and dealers to set up an unofficial wine police nationwide to nip wine faking in the the austrian authorities have admitted at least liners of the tainted wine was shipped in bulk to West Germany for but estimates suggest 10 times that amount was spiked and put in circulation throughout Europe before the scandal about 17 varieties of wine supposedly from the Well known Neusie Ulersee and Burgenland austrian wine areas near the hungarian Border most labelled 1983 Vintage were involved in the iranians reportedly put together shredded secret documents London a the iranian students who seized the embassy in Tehran in 1979 restored secret documents that had been put through a London observer newspaper reported iranian Success in fitting together the pieces of shredded paper makes a mockery of hitherto accepted methods for disposing of secret the Liberal weekly the Only Consolation for the americans was by the time the documents were whole some of the information in them was out of it but other such As the names of Cia had no time the iranians Are believed to have passed much of this on to the weekly printed a photograph of three stages in the restoration the shredded paper looking similar to Wood shavings the shreds straightened out and loosely tied Down on a and the shreds joined together and with typing clearly each bit of shredded material was magnified on a Large screen before they were stitched the news paper quoted an unidentified iranian source As the observer said since Iran has been leaking the information in the reconstructed documents at regular and the latest Batch give a detailed account of How the Cia conducts its operations in a frontline Iran has a Long Border with the soviet according to the the documents showed that the Cia in Tehran was largely concerned with obtaining intelligence about the soviet finding out about soviet agents in Tehran and devising methods of luring soviet officials to one document concerned Eduard who was announced on july 2 to have succeeded Andrei Gromyko As soviet foreign the document described him in 1977 As first Secretary of the communist party in with a reputation As a firm and austere a former police who had tried since 1972 to overturn the habits of generations regarding easy political under ground capitalism and heavy the observer said while Cia agents worked hard to get to know soviet they sometimes paid too Little attention to what the soviets told the soviets said the Shah of Iran had cancer 18 months before the islamic revolution and two years before the disease killed him in exile in the americans Dis missed it As a the soviets also said they expected an uprising against the the americans discounted that As marxist pro world today 2 senior soviet officers killed on Active paper reports Moscow a two senior soviet officers with the naval air Force were killed recently while on Active the defense daily red Star death notices in the newspaper said that Alexei a Deputy commander of the rearguard naval air and Viktor Kokoreva died while performing service the notices gave no further Sidorov was said to be a much decorated Veteran of world War ii who held the prestigious order of the Only background Given on Kokoreva was that he had been a member of the communist party since 30 fans cause stage of collapse during fats Domino concert Andorra a a stage collapsed under american Singer fats Domino and his band during a concert but the fault was not the legendary  mans famous but that of 30 fans who climbed on stage during a rousing had started playing when the saints go marching As part of the regular close to his he was pushing his piano offstage with what one French newspaper called his falstaff an stomach when Mem Bers of the audience jumped onto the platform and it officials of this tiny nestled Between France and along the pyrenees said two Mem Bers of Dominos band suffered minor scandinavian Royalty on plane making emergency Landing Denmark a a swedish Mili tary plane carrying Denmark Queen Margrethe and Sweden King Carl Gustav made an emergency Landing at the danish City of the in route to the danish City of aarhus after funeral services in Luxembourg for grand Duchess Char landed without officials the twin engined prop plane continued to Sweden after examination of a nose wheel which pilots Felt on Takeoff from Luxembourg might have been the danish Queen had flown to Luxembourg in the Day on the same plane and was returning to a Castle at while the plane was delayed on the ground at she continued her trip by ferry and soviet troops in East Germany getting new adn says Berlin a soviet troops stationed in East Ger Many will soon get a new the official East German news Agency adn has Mikhail the commander of soviet troops in East and Alexei the chief political paid a Farewell Call on East German communist party Leader Erich adn Honecker told the outgoing generals that they contributed to the development and strengthening of brotherly relations of the two adn the Agency did not say who would succeed the two Western sources estimate that the soviet Union has about troops stationed in East one of its closest Warsaw pact Miles Davis gets new jazz prize at festival in the Hague the Netherlands a american Trum pet player and bandleader Miles Davis received a new International jazz prize at the tenth annual North sea jazz festival in this diplomatic capital of the nether the new named Bird after the late Charlie Bird was handed to Davis by the Hagues Dep Uty Piet during a closed ceremony at the festival buildings press the 11member dutch jury decided to Grant the award to Davis As he has been Able to push Back the frontiers for 40 according to the he has launched much new he has bridged the Gap Between the jazz generation and the Youthful Audi said Miles Davis is one of the most important musicians in jazz  
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