European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 it 1thes summer he stars and stripes monday september 2,1985 tourist Industry thrived despite concern Over Saf  York not despite con Cern Over air safety Amend we took to the skies in record numbers this Stuemer bom Barding european and Domestic Irist destinations at a rate of More than in illion passengers a Day. Us. Air carriers aided by the Dollar Strong purchasing Power overseas reports their busiest months Ever and even trans world airlines the focus of a 17-Day hijacking drama in june recorded an 11 per cent jump in traffic in july Over the same month last year. The Strong showing reflected the actions of travellers such As Steven Sonnabend president of the Wovetta Beach hotel on key Biscayne fli., near Miami. He and a Friend had planned to Fly to Greece Israel and Egypt. We had some concerns after the Hijack ing about dying into the area be said so we went to Spain and France  travel by automobile Alto Rose. The us. To nerd data Center an Industry research twp predicted that nearly half of " american would have taken at least i ramd trip of More than 100 Miles i tint labor Day rang Down the certain of the 1985 vacation team us Holiday weekend if exp Cdo to find Chr 32 million americans a Flioy of than a 1 Tonuu. S pc fou according to the  attend liter. Move can and re last year r automobile Asb however feared off other foreigners and Jet construction stiff for tourist business in Rubeo Witry. Bon. Lingering worries Over the is hijacking and a series of air crashes did Manifest themselves in some trip cancellations or changes particularly involving Greece where the Twa Hijack ing began. But even the greek tourism authorities forecast a 10 percent increase in Amer ii visitors this August Over a year ago. According to the air transport Hovich represents . Airlines air Lukcas up nearly 17 Pero Wand inter nations Cazlic More than 1 scent this july Over the saw Monib Las a. August was expected to Natch the face according to spokesman wilful Enan. He called the two summer Monti feb Miest in airline his tory As  number of Miles that . Nikci collected by the govern no he said allot Ltd that the riders for the first a  Day this i can travel Commisso item of 21 West european this Calendar year would produce s 1 of 6.4 million americans travelling to a. The figure represents a 12 percent increase Over 1984. The entire world this year has been a bargain because of the strength of the american Dollar said Lee Harmon marketing director of Patterson travel in Sac Ramento Calif. But the same economics that delighted american travellers abroad dismayed their foreign counterparts. Along the Maine coast for example inn keepers restaurant owners and antique dealers spoke ruefully of the Canadian who stayed Home this summer rather than pay si.35 or so in Canadian currency for $1 in us currency. Two Otta wans who did Brave the unfavourable Exchange rates and drove to Ogun quit Jfe last week were Angelaki a , and her Friend James a stereo Salesman. On the plus Side Fri said american gasoline was cheaper better giving him 30 percent More Miles to the gallon. According to the american automobile association gasoline prices this summer were generally stable and averaged just under $1.27 a gallon for regular gasoline and si.47 for Premium unleaded. Among the attractions said to have been hard hit by a decline of Canadian travellers was Glacier National Park in Montana where visits were Down about is Pel cent this july and August compared to last year. Even West germans Long among Europe s staunchest and Best financed travel ers have been intimidated by the Strong Dollar. About 200 cancelled five Tours they had booked for Southern Utah. The Swiss too were feeling the Pinch. Muller a Bank cashier and Kathari nig a dental assistant both of to Switzer of found the franc does not Bull Bat it used to. Halfway through a five manuf Savidg tour of the United states and Facada they have taken to sleeping in their Kuer bus. Travel  scattered parti of the country spoke or creased Competition from rapidly to proud but Purist facilities. In Ogunquit new to tend hotel construction along us. Router pcs nearly doubled the number of available Hanii to 2,500 in the last three years it%1 to the City s chamber of Commerce. Still said Elizabeth Lambert of the Ogunquit tourist information office it s like a tidal wave of people Here you can t find a room for the  news update sex official sentenced Jackson miss. Dpi for Mer state  Brooks has been sentenced pc nine Yean in Pris on for trying i extort $52,000 in Exchange for Posage of a horse bet Ting Bill. Once the third most powerful elected official in Mississippi Brooks sat silently 4 . District judge Tom s. Lee cured him on the importance of i 01 the of office and the Public Trust. Lee order do Brooks 60, of car Thage to Beflyn serving his sentence within 90 a. Hit attorney Boyce Housman sgd he would Appeal the sentence. Bond i buffa1 was set at waived extra agreed to charges of missing Gosch. Robert he Surry Namerod is after flee in waiver in an magistrate i Meier it of wire fraud ing John and pcs Minesa Range the Reti who Disasi while Zehv 1982. Sch fraud . A Bond 1,000 for a Man who lion from Canada and to Iowa to face suding the parents of Sper Carrier Johnny Meier ii 19, who Fri agent Here  to cauda signed a Yearance before us. And Maxwell. In Iowa on charge s accused of Contact Oreen Gosch of West asking Money to a f their son Johnny at the age of 12 piers sept 5, the Gosche Spud him is 1,000. But Meier later my them that rat Cue attempt Wai  actions Battle for control of shiite modems Beirut a rival shiite factions vying for control of Lebanon s biggest mos Lem sect clashed saturday and palestini an guerrilla Leader Loyal to Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat was assassinated. Police said at least two men were killed in fighting Between shiite amal militia and gunmen of the Radical Hezbollah or party of god in the South Lebanon towns of Tyre Nabati Yth and Kharouf the clashes flared As Modem areas of Lebanon were paralysed by a strike called by shiites to Mark the mysterious disappearance of their spiritual Leader. Imam Mousa Sadr during a 1978 trip to Libya. Thousands of shiites gathered for a rally organized by amal which Sadr founded in 1974, in the ancient town of Baalbek in the syrian controlled Bekaan Valley. There were wild scenes in Baalbek As shiite leaders including Justice minister Nabih Bern amal s Leader addressed the crowd in the City s roman ruins. Amal militiamen beat people with truncheons to control them and one of Bern s bodyguards was accidentally shot in the foot. In Sidoo s bin Al Hilweh refugee Camp a masked Assassin armed with a sue Ocer equipped pistol killed Mustafa Kassem khanate police said. He was the sixth Arafat supporter slain in the Camp in recent weeks in factional Reading Between Arafat s supporters and syrian backed Plo dissidents. Arafat loyalists took to the streets of the Camp. Locking roads and calling through bullhorn for a protest strike. Shorn quickly dosed and most of the Camp s 35,000 inhabitants took cover. Khalife was buried saturday amid efforts by rival faction to head off a new round of inter palestinian fighting. But in Sidon Osama Saad a Leader of the syrian backed popular Nas Serite Mili Tia that controls the port City churned in an interview with the Ash shirt weekly that his men have seized truckloads of weapons destined for Arafat s supporters. They were confiscated became they were not meant to fight the enemy Load but for the internal Battle Saad was quoted As saying. Associated press reporters in Tyre so Miles South of Bant reported that amal gunmen fired into a crowd gathering for a Hezbollah rally to Mark Sadr s disappear Ance. Hezbollah gunmen fired Back. There was no word of casualties. The amal command in Tyre said it wanted to disperse the crowd because it was competing with the mass rally in Baalbek. In West Beirut amal fighters patrolled the streets enforcing the strike which was widely observed. No casualties were reported. Beirut International Airport in the City s shiite controlled Southern suburbs dosed for two hours in Solidarity with the strike. The strike Call was ignored in Christi Neast Beirut. Christian and moslem snipers dulled across the Green line that separates the capital s two sectors. Lebanese army units dominated by christians battled with druse militiamen around the army held Village of souk it garb in Hills overlooking Beirut. There was no word on casualties. 8 senators arrive in Moscow to talk with Gorbachev Moscow a eight senator arrived in Moscow on saturday to meet with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev and help mend what one of their hosts called very bad relations Between the United states and the soviet Union. Senate minority Leader Robert c. Byrd , who Heads the delegation said he was carrying a letter from president Rea Gan that be will give Gorbachev. He declined to divulge its contents. The delegation is scheduled to meet with Gorbachev on tuesday and will be the first group of us. Senators to do so since he became the communist party s general Secretary in March. Byrd said the senators wanted to help pave the Way for a Summit Between the Leaden of our countries in Geneva in november. But he also stressed that they want to make the soviets understand they will have to satisfy the Senate before the United states could ratify any treaty with the soviet Union. This is a very critical time in the history of relations Between our two great coun tries and it May very Well set the tone for Many years in these relations said Byrd wearing a world War ii anniversary Lapel pin he received in Kiev the first Stop on the soviet trip. The american people want peace the president wants peace Congress wants peace he said. By coming Here we be Lieve we can contribute to what we Hope will be a constructive  Byrd and other senators repeatedly stressed that their visit was part of the process of pre paring for the november Summit but Georgi Arbatova head of the .a. And Canada Institute and one of the group s soviet hosts was More restrained. Arbatova standing on the Side while Byrd talked of the Senate s constitutional role in ratifying treaties said. That hat been understood since 1979 when the Senate did t ratify the Salt ii treaty speaking before to cameras later Arba Tov added we understand very Well the role of the Senate. The problem u we Don thave any treaty to  Arbatova who is a leading soviet spokes Man on relations with Washington was asked How important he thought the senators visit was. I would t connect it with the Summit he said. I think our relations with the sen ate and House of representatives Are very significant by themselves with the Summit or without the  asked for his assessment of .-sovietrelations, Arbatova said very bad i m sorry to  the senators accompanying Byrd Are Strom Thurmond . Claiborne Pell . Sam Nunn a Georgia Dennis de Concini a Ariz. Paul Sarbanes d-md4 John Warnerr a. And George . Pell headed a Senate delegation that met with then president Yuri Andropov on Aag. 19,1983. They were the last outsiders to me Andropov before he died the following february. Thurmond a senior Senate conservative with 31 years tenure is a frequent critic of the soviet Union and is making his first trip to it the soviet is a tremendous Power. To United states is a tremendous Power he said. If we can to anything to assist this Summit or Lay the groundwork that would help the people of these two great nation get together it would be to the Benefit of the entire