European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 15, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 rare films arms spending worldwide a " expected to top $940 billion trash dump los Angeles a a film historian s nine month search for a missing movie Library ended two hours too late and As Many As 300 films from Chaplin to chinese apparently were carted off to a Landfill and buried under 3,000 tons of garbage. I figure there s a Cache of films Down there Between 1930 and 1940 that s going to blow everybody s mind Paul Caruso of archival research company said Friday. A sanitation official said it will Cost at least $2400 a Day for Caruso and a Host of volunteers to dig through the mess to recover the films from the Schull Canyon Landfill in suburban Glendale. Caruso was awaiting word Friday on whether he and several volunteers could begin digging. Steve mag win of the count sanitation department said Caruso would have to rent digging equipment to search for the films. The county prompted by the american film Institute allowed Caruso to stake off the area where he believes the films Are buried and agreed to hold off dumping More garbage at the site for at least a week giving Caruso time to raise Money for the search. Rumours of vault Caruso whose company recovers old film libraries said he worked for nine months to Trace rumours of a film storage vault used from 1940 to i9s5 in an old studio in Hollywood. Using a 1927 map he found the studio turned office building. It was in the Middle of renovation i h Walls torn and material being thrown away. The vault hidden for years behind Walls erected to make office space had been opened and All but emptied when Caruso arrived on the scene last monday. We got there two hours too late car Uso said. He recovered 21 films at the site including three Charlie Chaplin films from 1927 to 1932, and a silent Charli Weaver film. There also were pre world War ii films from China and Taiwan. But 200 to 300 canisters had been thrown in an Industrial size trash bin and hauled away to Glendale. Bob Rosen of the american film Institute said it was unlikely that anything done by Chaplin and buried under the garbage is rare because there Are multiple prints of most of the actor director s works. Washington up world Mili tary spending will exceed $940 billion this year but for the first time since world War ii the two superpowers supplied less than half of the Market in 1984, a state depart ment study says. The report found the combined share of the world s arms Market supplied by the United states and soviet Union dropped below half but they and their allies remained major arms merchants. An extensive Survey of military arms pro Gramin 145 countries Over the last decade was included in a report world military expenditures and arms transfers 1985, issued by the department s arms control and disarmament Agency. The report found thai world military spending grew by 6.5 percent reaching a new High of $810 billion in 1983. It Esti mated the total will be $875 billion for 1984 and $944 billion this year. The report said the $1 trillion level predicted for 1985 in last year s report will not be reached mostly because of economic fac tors such As the Strong Dollar and Exchange rate updates. Superpowers Are slipping the re it said the United states an soviet Union have been the world s largest arms exporters since world War ii an until recently their combined Market share far exceeded that of All other arms exporters. In 1984, for the first time their combined share of arms deliveries fell below half of the world s Export Market following a steady 15-Ycar decline. The report also cited a dramatic in crease in arms exports from nations out Side the formal . And soviet led nato and Warsaw pact alliances. The most prominent among these in 1983 were China South Korea. Finland. Spain Switzerland Yugoslavia North Korea Pakistan Israel Japan Austria and Bra Zil. The combined .-soviet share of arms exports declined from 78.5 percent in 1969 to an estimated 48.9 percent in 1984, the report said. The . Share declined from 59.7 per cent in 1969 to an estimated 22 percent in 1984. The soviet share has increased from soviet military Aid to 3d world i near East South Asia sub saharan Africa i latin America East Asia Pacific equipment deliveries in number of units 1980-84 tanks sell propelled guns 3,160 500 405j320 Light Armor 5,640 i ? surface to air missiles 7-480 j350 Chicago Tribune graphic 18.8 percent in 1969 to an estimated 26.9 percent in 1984. In 1984, nato allies other than the United states accounted for 24.3 percent of the world Market Mare than the unite states itself. The Warsaw pact nations other than the soviet Union accounted for 8percent. Soviets spent most for 1983, the soviet Union spent the most of the countries of the world on the military $258 billion. It was followed by the United slates. $217 billion China $34.5 billion Britain. $27.4 billion saudi Arabia. J27.2 billion France. $23 8 Bil lion West Germany. $23.6 billion Poland. $12.3 billion Iran. $11.9 billion and Japan is 1.5 billion. The leading arms importing country in 1983 was Iraq. $5.1 billion. It was Fol Lowed by saudi Arabia $3.3 billion Libya. $1.0 billion Egypt $1.7 billion Syria $1.7 billion the soviet Union. $1.2billion Jordan $1.1 billion Argentina. $1 billion and India $ i billion. . He i copiers reported being sold of iraqis Washington up Twenty scat helicopters originally designed As troop carriers for Iran arc being sold to its per Sian Gulf War enemy. Iraq with a . Warning that they arc not for military use it was reported saturday. Some . Officials Are concerned the Sale to Iraq of 45 of the aircraft by Bell helicopters text Ron of fort Worth Texas violates the administration s arms Sale embargo in the persian Gulf War. The Washington Post reported. The Sale has also raised eyebrows in the defense and Commerce departments be cause of the military potential of the Craft officially earmarked for the iraqi ministry of agriculture the Post reported. One . Official told the Post the Heli copter was clearly a dual use item with a potential for military  3 inmates stabbed despite lock Down in Texas prison Huntsville Texas a despite a lock Down that keeps inmates confined to their cells 24 hours a Day three prisoners at the Texas department of corrections cof Field unit were stabbed Early Friday after five assailants apparently Cut their Way out of their cells. One of the victims was hospitalized with Itab wound said spokesman Charles drown. The two other inmates were treated at the infirmary. The Coffield unit at ten Nessee Colony in Anderson county was among 13 prison units locked Down ear Lieras officials tried to quell gang violence. The assailants were Able to Cut the bars with some Type of Metal Brown said add ing that a 7-Inch piece of Meul from a fan guard was recovered. The five assailants were placed in Security detention. Brown said. About 3,500 minimum Security inmates were released from lock Down throughout the system thursday and Friday leaving 9,000 prisoners confined to their cells in 13prisons. Prison officials have been easing the lock Down All week. Prison director . My Colter ordered Sands of time 17,000 inmates locked in their cells monday after four prisoners were stabbed to death within 24 hours. The entire system the nation s second largest with 38,000 prisoners has been described by officials As very tense. William Buckley hospitalized in Detroit after Chest pains in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 15,1945 Gen. Douglas Macarthur tightened his military Rule Over Japan with orders that closed the japanese naval College put the Dom i news Agency out of business and instituted an intensive press Campaign to acquaint the people with the facts of Japa Detroit a author and columnist William f. Buckley or. Was admitted to the coronary unit of a Hospital Here Friday after complaining of Chest and stomach pains an aide said. Buckley 59, was in Good and stable condition at Harper Hospital. He cancelled his appearance before the state bar of Michigan s annual convention and was taken to Detroit receiving Hospi Tal then to the coronary care unit at Harper said his Secretary Francis Branson. Buckley s Chest discomfort episodes have been reduced but have not been totally eliminated said Harper spokesman Timo thy Ball. Or. Buckley is in Good condition his vital signs Are Good and in general his Laboratory signs Are Normal said or. Joshua Wynne chief of cardiology at Harper. There was no indication Buckley had suffered a heart attack or that there was any heart damage Wynne said. He might be released sometime during the weekend Ball said. Detroit tigers manager Sparky Ander son replaced Buckley As the convention s featured luncheon speaker. Institute inese atrocities. 30 years ago today. Sept. 15, 1955 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer returned Home to a hero s Welcome from his momentous conference in Moscow with soviet leaders. He predicted that thou Sand of German War prisoners soon will be released from soviet prisons. 20 years ago today. Sept. 15,1965 the 1st Cav div became the first . Division to establish its base in the Interior of South Vietnam away from the Protection of a coastal base. 10 years ago today. Sept. 15, 1975 Rembrandt s masterpiece the night watch housed in Amster dam s risks museum was slashed and disfigured by a knife wielding dutchman who fought off a guard in t assault