European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Par the stars and stripes Friday. November 1. 1985 american fakes Marco Polo s route to China from press dispatches an american adventurer who claims it have followed Marco Polo s route to China save he is convinced the i3lh-Ccn Lury explorer s travel accounts were accurate. Hurry Kulstein. 55. Said at a news conference in peking that he followed Marco Polo s route after 14 years of planning and travelling. Ruts Cin who claims to be the first person since Marco Polo known to have followed the route said weather and problems of securing permission to enter countries forced him to make the Jour Ney in three parts. He travelled from Venice Italy across he Middle East to Afghanistan in 1975, before soviet troops entered Afghani Stan. In i i he crossed Pakistan and in 19x5 travelled through China along the ancient silk Road. Total travel Lime for the i 3.000-Milc journey was eight months Itas eight of the most exciting and  and difficult months of my  Rutstein said. Lie said he visited every identifiable chinese town mentioned by Marco Polo in his Book description of the  nobody else but someone who had travelled this entire route could have written it in such detail describing so Many customs and habits of the local people which still remain the  Sain Michael Wynn a new York writer who travelled with Rutstein in Pakistan and China. Ruts Cin said he Hopes the expedition will help disprove theories that Marco Polo never visited China. Mouse keeters return eight Middle age mouse keeters donned their cars to prove they can still thrill an audience 30 years after gaining Fame As children on the Mickey mouse club . Cubby. Bobby Tommy Lonnie Sherry Bonnie  and Darlene opened Mickey mouse club month at Dis Neyland Wilh a musical revue co starring Mickey and Minnie mouse and Donald Duck the 35-Minulc show being staged eight limes each weekend through nov. 24. Is a nostalgic re creation of the Mickey mouse club which first was broadcast on oct. 3. 1955, Disney spokeswoman Lorraine Santoli said. The show reaches three generations she said. You have the grand parents who Walch cd with their kids in playing Polo in Afghanistan Harry Kutt Tein 55, of Seattle enjoy playing Polo Marco Polo thai it. He became the Fin Porton to retrace Polo i 13,000-mile trek on the silk Road from Europe to the Orient. Pictured in the hindu Kuh Mountain of Afghani than Kutt Tein reached peking after Crofting 14 Mountain Range and tix Doi Ortt on Honebach. The 50s. The parents who were children when the show first came out and the children who can watch reruns on Cable. It s really a neat thing to Sec the crowd especially at the close of the show when there were actually tears in some  the reunion show ends As the television series did with the familiar a i c Sec you real soon be a Why because we love you to a  of the 39 children featured during the three  the show was on the air eight arc in the slag production and three others arc featured in a special Disneyland Parade. The mouse keeters who ranged in age from 7 to 14 on television Are now be tween 37 and 44. One of inc eight in the reunion show. Darlene will spic is now a surgical Irsic. Santoli said. Also Cal Rcd Are cubby o Brien who has played Drums Wilh the Beach boys and the band backing Andy Williams Bobby Burgess who went on to dance on the Lawrence Welk show Tommy Cole now a makeup artist Bonnie Lynn Fields who runs a school of tap dance and the performing arts Lonnie Burr a writer and actor and Sherry Alberony an actress who has a Mickey mouse shaped swimming Pool in her Back Yard. Nof such a bad Guy historians and Ocsid cols of the Island of Capri held a special ceremony to show the world that inc roman emperor Tiberius the Island s most infamous historical resident has been maligned throughout the centuries. Local officials were joined by scholars in Capri s main Square for the unveiling of a plaque honouring the Early 20th-Cen Lury american historian Thomas Spencer Lama and his of forms to rehabilitate the name of the emperor. A Book by italian writer Antonio Spinosa claiming that roman historians vastly  the reported atrocities Commil cd by Tiberius was also presented the Book. Tiberius the Emper or who did not love Rome says that in fact the Empire s second ruler was a great statesman and nol at All a  one of the sunny Island s greatest tourist attractions is the Villa Jovis Tiberius Home for the last 11 years of hit life. Nearby is Tiberius jump a Cliff from which legend says the aging and paranoid emperor threw suspected ran Spir Alors nearly 1.1 00 feel to the Rocky coast below. Tiberius successor to Augustus diet at the age of 79. Spinosa argues that Tiberius was a political moderate and that Iacre arc no historical references to his cruelties be sides those by roman biographers sue Tonius and Tacitus whom he Calls unreliable. He also says Hal under Tiberius whose Rule coincided with the death of Christ christians were allowed to Pur sue their Faith. Library marketing act the state run British Library one of the three largest in the world announcing that it wants to make More Money has published a strategic plan for doing so. We be got to gel our marketing act  said Kenneth Cooper new chief exc Culic of inc Library which has nearly 16 million volumes for reference and lending. The 40-Page plan advancing Wilh knowledge outlines How the Library Hopes to increase Revenue by 5 percent a year during the a Cal five years to account for 25 percent of ils budget. Cur rent Revenue mainly from photocopying for customers at Home and abroad brings in $18 million of the 567 million budget. Cooper who appealed to the govern ment to maintain funding so the Library won t suffer from inflation said at a news conference thai services to science and Industry will be improved by More electronic systems. Next year the Library will Start sending documents by satellite to Kurop. We be got news for you stars and stripes is delivered to mailboxes in most government housing areas for just $4.50 per month. A Rolth news and sports. Enjoy your favorite comics and columns. Profit from travel tips and consumer advice. If you live in government housing you can have All this in your Mailbox every morning. It s a convenience that won t Cost you a Penny extra. 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