European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday november 10, 1985 faces n places Florida s top cop is the shy Type from press dispatches the top cop in Florida does t have a television contract does t drive a sporty car and won t even let you to take his picture but in the past 13 months he arrested 363, seized $6 million in narcotics and confiscated 208 guns and 13 vehicles. Oscar Baez is a publicly unknown Miami undercover policeman and he s determined to keep it that Way. But his work has been so outstanding that the Florida retail federation has singled him out As the stale s police officer of the Bac 29, who often spends his workdays busting drug dealers seizing firearms and executing search warrants outside darkened doorways claims he be comes a different person in his private life. I m not that Way in real life Bacz said. I am quiet. I Don t like crowds. I m anti social a four year Veteran of the Force Bacz has never fired his .38 except on the practice Range. He drives a clunking Plymouth dresses for work in jeans and sneakers. But he has one thing in common with Abc television s Fla Shily dressed. Ferrari driving Miami vice characters. He finds that his Days arc Seldom Boring. Last week he helped thwart a plan by a gang from some like it hot Frank it a Hakiman for , in Santa Barbara calif., Dit play a hat a to ill Teal at a Trad fair in Chicago. It wot ont of 50,000 product exhibited at tin b3rd National hoi my Kiwi Marfa Courtn Aito Chahon How. Colombia to free three colleagues from jail. When police were trying to crack a truck hijacking ring Baez went undercover and won Roneid Cnoc of the hijackers by providing them with a fake hand grenade. The result was five arrests. Recently he busted a marijuana ring based in Cuba. It was holding 800 pounds of pot. I seem to do it very easily. I enjoy what i am doing he said. If i did to i would t do it the Havana born Bacz was raised in Miami and was a member of inc . Special forces before join ing the Miami police department. He has won 50 commendations for his work been named officer of the month a record four limes and was Miami s 1984 officer of the year. Actor discovers Turkey drop even a Hollywood Type can learn something in the ozarks. Says actor Peter Strauss who recently discovered in Arkansas the unique tradition of dropping turkeys out of air planes. It s just part of the annual to icy Trot Celebration at Yellville says Strauss who spent several weeks in nearby Little Rock while filming under siege a television movie about terrorists. On a recent tonight show Strauss told Johnny Carson that the turkeys and some animal tights activists Don t think much of the tradition of flying Over Back areas of Lille Rock and pushing about 10 live Birds out of the plane from 200 to 300 feet up. Turkeys Don t Fly do they Carson asked. Well they claim they do said Strauss who said inc tradition is that if the Turkey Flics away he is free but if the Bird lands in someone s arms or Yard they have their thanksgiving Turkey Early. They All look like but Tarballs to me coming out said Strauss who told Carson he also Learned about state fairs Catfish and grits championship rabbits and Friendly folks. What s in a name a lawsuit Tova Borgnine the wife of actor Ernest Borgnine and the namesake for a line of cosmetics says the Tovar Beauty Salon is cashing in on her name. In a suit filed in Federal court in los Angeles mrs. Borg inc s company Tova corp., accused tic Salon s operator Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub of infringing on its trademark which was registered on april 26. Tovar manager Leslie Bohn said the Salon opened april 16. Weintraub made no comment. Beverly Hills based Tova corp. Advertises its products As a Facelift in a Magazine ads feature photographs of the Borgnine and text in which he says the Cream makes him look 10 years the products contain Cactus extract which mrs. Borgnine says is a Beauty secret she discovered on a trip to Mexico. Greek tourism increases a total of 6,185,347 tourists visited Greece in the first nine months of 198s, a 17.2 percent increase Over the same period last year the National tourist Organ Riding High a Pau a by Pokett hit Hood through a mount a on an of Volpatt and nov at fan motor hot. It it on of five och for the afro of mow 75 of 24 it old and 9 it High unit Auto along High traffic route. Iza Tion has announced. A total of 965,120 tourists arrived in Greece during september compared with 838,634 for september 1985, an Overall increase of 15.1 percent nto Statis tics showed. But Only 40,396 came from the United Stales during september a 31.9 percent decrease on last year s Fig ure of 59,361, the statistics showed. The drop in american arrivals was attributable to last june s . Travel advisory warning americans to steer Clear of Athens Airport following the Hijack of a Twa jetliner flying from Athens to Rome. Britons topped the september arrivals list with 234,470 visitors a 30.8 percent increase followed by West Germany with 145,582 arrivals a 20.2 percent increase Over september 1984. The figures said. According to the figures the highest increase 122 per cent was in visitors from Switzerland. They numbered 63,509 arrivals compared to 28,500 in september 1984. R books for the whole family chm Wrt dictionary microwave Cookbook
