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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 15, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 Security training for Summit Armbri Swiss soldiers wearing Berry coils agile so be cold conduct Security raining exercises in the Garden of the Milson de Siuss Urt left l Versoi near Geneva Switzerland site of the upcoming superpower Summit. President and mrs. Reagan will s it it heavily guarded Swiss mansion during their slip in Geneva for the meeting we h soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. I a a �  i archbishop s aide in Beirut on hostage Mission Beirut a Terry Waite the archbishop of Canterbury s special emissary arrived Here wednesday on a Mission 10 negotiate the release of american hostages held by shiite moslem extremists. I m Here on humanitarian grounds because i want to see a Resolution to this problem. And because i Sec some Hope Waile told reporters on arrival. Lebanese Security guards and militiamen at the Airport whisked the envoy through a scrambling throng of report ers and television Crews. He was taken through the terminal ringed by militiamen linking arms without immigration formalities. Yelling guards bundled Waite into a Sedan. The car sped away with a Rifle toting militiaman hanging put the window and Waite jammed in the Back seat Between militiamen. Before leaving London Waite termed his Mission the most dangerous he has undertaken. The 46-year-old experienced negotiator has secured the release of captive Bri tons held in Iran and Libya. Waite embarked on his latest Mission after making con tact with an unidentified intermediary in Beirut Over the missing americans. Waite is a special adviser to archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie the spiritual head of the Church of eng land. Runcie said tuesday Waite was a joint envoy of his Church and Pope John Paul ii and the Pope is corresponding with  but the Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said wednesday that while the holy see was aware of wait s Mission and hoped he would succeed Waite could not be Terry Waite considered a papal envoy. Waite told reporters at London s Heathrow Airport the messages 1 have received contain something of Hope something of a threat and a bit in  he added. I be got a Chance because i be go a  the Contact had intensified in the last few  he said. Wail was not promising a breakthrough though. On previous occasions there has been an identifiable person or group or government to Deal with. This time it is much More diffuse and therefore this Lime it is much More difficult and much More dangerous. I am going unprotected. 1 have to put my Trust in those i am going to meet but the same is True for them. They have to Trust me he said. Six americans arc missing in Lebanon but Only four signed letters of Appeal sent last week to Runcie and presi Dent Reagan. Islamic jihad a fundamentalist moslem group that has claimed responsibility for abducting inc americans said oct. 4 it killed one of the six. Diplomat William Buckley in retaliation for Israel s air strike on Palestine liberation organization Headquarters in Tunisia. It released blurred photographs of a body said to Bobuck Leys but . Officials say there is no proof Buckley is dead. The letters delivered Friday to the associated press Bureau in Beirut were signed by the Rev. Lawrence Junco a roman Catholic priest Terry Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the a and two officials of Bei rut s american University Hospital director David Jacob sen and agriculture Dean Thomas Sutherland. Colonial sons from Down under moving up in fir Fain by Marcus Eliason London a the Empire has struck Back with All the Hallmarks of the australian stereotype britons love and hate bigness bluntness brashness and Beer. Two centuries after capt. James Cook the explorer claimed the continent of Australia for Britain its colonial sons Are Back and claiming a chunk of the Mother country from boardrooms to to studios from the movie Industry to the publishing world. In a move that has stunned London s financial world australian brewery head John Elliott is bidding for a company four limes the size of his own in the biggest corporate takeover attempt in British history. Elliott s $2.57 billion bid for Allied Lyons the British brewery spirits and foodstuffs giant seems to prop up All the stereotypes in the endless conflict Between loudmouthed aussies and Pommie  in one Corner is Elliott a former Rugby Star who sips his Beer straight from the can and scorns his English rival As antiquated second Best and crying out for an injection of australian brio. His adversary is sir Derrick Holden Brown who prefers Claret to Beer and Dis misses Elliott s bid As ludicrously invade  stereotypes Are what Australia and Britain Are All about observed Yvonne Preston London based correspondent of Australia s Sydney morning Herald. Elliott s elders Ixl company markets Fosters Beer in Britain with to commercials featuring australian comedian Paul Hogan at the London Ballet outside the Tower of London or at Stuffy wine tasting sessions. He drawls wryly about the idiosyncrasies of his English hosts Between sips from his Mug of Golden  Australia began its colonial history As a British penal Colony. For a Century All the British saw of Australia was its visiting Cricket players and in wars its soldiers. While austra Lia s population swelled with British Immi Grants lured by $25 ship fares Only in the Early 1960s did australians begin flocking Here As tourists roots seekers or artists craving recognition. Contact with the sophisticated Lon Doner left australians with a deeply imbedded cultural cringe which is Only now wearing off Philip Knightly wrote ear Lier this year in the times. In the More sensitive australian the cringe expressed itself in a willingness to denigrate everything australian. The less sensitive australian compensated for his cringe by loud aggressive  England was swamped with jokes about the australian in his Bush hat. Corks Dan gling from the brim to keep away the Flics. Britain s satirical Monty Python troupe spoofed such things As an australian philosophy class debating whether Socrates could out drink German philos her a thur Schopenhauer. Robert Mackie a lecturer at the australian studies Center in London says the stereotypes linger but the cultural cringe is dead and in its place you have a much More assertive  australian movies Rock music to films and literature have done much to straighten out the cringe he said. Illy whacker by australian Peter Carey was a candidate for this year s Booker prize. Britain s most prestigious literary award. Mad Max beyond Thun do Rome is London s lop movie Hii the latest of numerous australian films to ski International acclaim in the past decade. A frequent theme of australian drama and film is the notion of the aussie doing the English gentleman s dirty work. In world War i. Thousands of australians were killed in the assault on Gallipoli. In Turkey which australians blame on the ineptitude of British commanders. In i93j. Charges that the English Cricket team purposely tried to hit an austra Lian batsman sparked riots in Australia and almost caused a diplomatic rif1. In 1975, Australia went into an uproar when sir John Kerr Queen Elizabeth la s governor general in Australia resolved a deadlock in parliament by dismissing the elected labor party government of prime minister cough Shillam  
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