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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page6 the stars and stripes monday november 4, 1985 Washington has red carpet out for Prince Charles Diana Washington a Britain s Prince Charles and is. Princess Diana drop by next weekend for a visit and already the City is brimming with enough Glitz and Mink to rival president Reagan s two inaugurations. With the future King of England and his wife still on a two week tour of Australia. Washington s red carpet has been out for Days. The question is whether it can survive the trampling of All the High society feet scrambling for a spot in the receiving line. The while House and the National gallery of Art have been besieged with hundreds of Calls from distraught so Royal couple s first Stop a private Tea with the president and mrs. Reagan Cia Lites asking if their invitations had been  to Newsweek Magazine some callers offered to donate up to i 100.000 to the museum in Exchange for a invitation to a dinner for the Royal couple. Charles and Diana arrive Early saturday and will spend three Days in the capital before flying to Florida on tuesday for a Polo match and a Charity Ball. It s Diana first real visit to the United slates not counting an Airport Layover in los Angeles some time ago. In Washington they la stay at the British embassy inthe grandly decorated Laura Ashley bedroom and they will Glide around town in ambassador sir Oliver Wright Silver Rolls Royce. First Stop a private Tea with president and mrs. Reagan. Nancy Reagan is said to be especially eager to Mak Echarles and Diana s stay a memorable one because of the courtesies they extended to her when she attended the Royal wedding on july 29,1981. That trip made while the president was still recovering from a gunshot wound Washer first major Solo Mission As first lady. Charles has visited Washington several times including once in 1970 when president Nixon reportedly tried to match him up with his daughter Tricia. Both the Prince and Tricia had other ideas according to Stephen Barry Charles former Valet writing in the nov. 1-3 edition of Usa weekend. Officially the primary reason for the Washington Slopis to visit the blockbuster treasure houses of Britain exhibit at the National gallery of Art which opened this weekend. Underwritten in part with a $1.2 million Grant from Ford motor co., it s the most ambitious project Ever Unap photo president and in. Reagan look at an exhibit at he National gallery or Art in Washington. De taken by the gallery and features More than 770 pre Cious objects from 220 of Britain s finest Homes. Charles is one of the lenders along with scores of others Amon British Royalty and aristocracy. Buckingham Palace has put out the word that Charlesant Diana Don t like to see the same faces at every event. The Royal couple put in a few of their own requests Singer Diana Ross and actors Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood. They la be among the 80 invitees to the Whitehouse dinner along w. H Singer Neil Diamond who presented Diana with a stuffed toy after she and Charles went to one of his concerts in Birmingham England a year ago. Filled out tax forms mistakenly used As . Parade confetti Kansas City to. A through a loading Dock mix up the partially shredded remnants of Origi Nal filled out Federal tax forms were used As confetti inthe Victory Parade for the world series Champion Kan Sas City royals. Officials said saturday there was no Way to knowhow Many of the financially revealing tax forms be came part of the 30-ton paper mix distributed to Rev Elers along the two mile route of last monday s Parade. It s kind of upsetting that your personal business i flying around out there on the Street for just any old body o pick up said Richard a. Williams of Prairie Village. A five Inch Square of his 1981 Federal tax return was found in a downtown Alley stairwell. I Don t know How that stuff ended up in the Parade but it was poor judgment he said. Last month when the royals made it to the world series the City Parks and recreation department went in search of paper to use for a ticker tape Parade. One of the places that donated paper was the rehabilitation Institute a non profit training Center for the physically mentally and emotionally handicapped workers at the Institute hired paper into confetti. One of the Institute s clients is an or Block  office in Johnson county kan., that needed to destroy tax forms from the late 1970s and Early 1980s.the company keeps the forms for three years in Case the internal Revenue service audits a client said her Nie Smith a regional manager for or Block. A couple of weeks ago several boxes of roughly Tor tax statements which were waiting to be shredded were mistakenly loaded onto a Parks and recreation truck that had stopped at the Institute to pick up boxes of confetti. A supervisor warned City employees about the boxes of tax forms but a second group of City workers was not alerted and loaded the boxes anyway said Gene Livingston manager of the Institute workshop. Normally we keep such tight control Over things he said. We feel so bad about it. We just screwed  irs Public affairs officer Bill Akright said Hoblock had not made any official blunders under Federal Law although irs officials questioned donating even shredded tax records for such a purpose. "h4r Block deeply regrets this incident Smith said. Every precaution is taken to ensure that file copies of old tax returns Are destroyed in a fashion Hatwill preserve the confidentiality of such  City officials said they were not concerned about trying to collect the ripped and discarded tax forms because Street maintenance workers soaked most of the scrap paper  s a 30 r Over no and passenger John Ryan 44, Morris Plains n.j., within minutes. Sta1tcpaacrcid-in, less than "00 Yards from Liberty Neon � new Jersey where police said 10,000 people were gathered to watch a fireworks display Pon sorted by a radio station and a few Hundred Yards West of the statue of Liberty the coast guard reported  
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