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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 17, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 How of you like to be busted by a Chicken Washington up police and Federal marshals one dressed like a Chicken arrested 100 Fugi Tives lured to a sunday Brunch with promises of free tickets to the Washington redskins Cincinnati bengals football game. The suspects reported to the Washington convention Center after receiving a letter saying they had won the tickets from a fictitious Cable television company set up As a part of the sting. A drawing will be held for 10 Lucky winners to receive 1986 Washington redskins season tickets the letter said. In addition a grand prize drawing for a one week All expenses paid trip to super bowl xxx inner Orleans will be Given to a Lucky person and three of their guests none of the fugitives noticed that the fictitious com Pany. Flagship International sports television is an acronym for fist the marshals fugitive investigative strike team. Charges against the 100 men and women Range from illegal drugs to prison escape and murder police said. They said we were going to a football game said one handcuffed suspect who was loaded onto a Green school bus. Thai s false advertising sunday s festivities featured two costumed marshals one dressed like a giant Chicken and another dressed Tike an Indian. Both packed guns the Chicken carrying his under his right Wing. As the unsuspecting fugitives arrived they were Given name tags Reading hello my name is Coffee an danish pastry and escorted by Small groups to rooms. There they were welcomed by a marshal dressed in a Tuxedo then arrested and searched. It was just like an Assembly line Herbert Ruther Ford the chief . Marshal for the District of Colum Bia said. They went for it Hook line and  there were no reports of violence but two pistols were confiscated during the searches. Most of the suspects contended they were innocent. They re looking for my twin brother one Man said. Get the mayor out Here another said. A police officer said the presentation at the Conven Tion Center was so authentic that Many of the suspects were clapping their hands and singing the Washington fight song Hail to the  somebody s going to eat it Stofen Auto leaves a Hail of lawsuits Washington up a 1981 Gray Bow 328i has taken several owners for an expensive and litigious ride. Fri agents told Ralph Rinzler last March that the luxury Sedan he had just purchased was stolen property and took it away. Rinzler assistant Secretary for Public service at the smithsonian institution sued Heishman Bow the suburban car dealer who sold him the car and was awarded $28.000. Heishman Bow in turn sued the Man it had bought the car from Cort Landt Taylor of Falls Church va., and won $33,000. Taylor has sued the Man who sold him the car Frank Edward Smith of Cockeysville md., who has hied suit against of imported cars of Roswell ga., which sold him the car. A spokes Man said of is expected to file suit any Day against Pecac Hitrec rent a car inc., the Washington Post reported sunday. We All thought we were getting the genuine article said of s Gary Good Man. There was a Good title. It checked out. Now somebody is going to end up eating it he told the Post. Because each party bought the car in Good Faith the Only Way each can recoup his losses is to sue the seller for breach of contract. The Story began when a Nevada dealer imported a new Gray Bow 528i in the Spring of 1981. The car was sold to a Georgia dealer changed hands several times and eventually was purchased by Aaron Cohen of Atlanta. Cohen narrowly escaped death in an Accident in the car in 1983, and the car was destroyed. The car s License plates and identification number ended up on an identical Sedan that had been stolen in new York on april 27, 1982. Goodman and others believe the thief got the plates and filed for a title then sold the car and it ended up in the hands of peach True rent a car inc. The car has been returned to its Origi Nal owners. The thief. New York City police said is still at Large. The Fri re fuses to say How it Learned the car was stolen. Reagans join in singalong at Benefit concert Washington a president Reagan and his wife Nancy attended a Benefit concert for a local children s Hospi Tal and joined in singing hark the Herald Angels sing at the end of the show. The sunday concert with performers including pal bronc Natalie Cole and Amy Grant was taped for broadcast later in the evening on Abc television. The president and his wife came on stage at the National building museum at the end of the performance and joined in a Christmas Carole singalong. Before the show the president and his wife put two Teddy bears one in a Black Tuxedo and one in a while dress with red ribbons under the tree where guests of the program placed gifts for the hospitalized children. Taylor made wedding sneer Jama Taylor and actress  Walker drifter their  saturday evening .1 the kit sol at St. John the divine in Manhattan. Tartar Hose hits include you be cot. Friend and fire and rain has been married before to linger carry Simon. Bush cites anti terrorism Progress new York a vice president George Bush says America needs Good intelligence International cooperation Tough Laws and Strong leadership to combat terrorism and is taking Steps in those directions. Things have begun to change and change for the bet Ter he said after accepting an honorary degree sunday at a Yeshiva University convocation. In just the last few weeks the . General Assembly in a Resolution that the United states co sponsored and strongly supported passed its first unequivocal condemnation of terrorism Bush said. He said that on monday the Security Council will begin consideration of a Resolution against hostage Tak  the goal of terrorism we see in the world today is to undermine Western democratic society but there Are ways to meet this Challenge the vice president said. We need Good intelligence Good information on the plans and methods of terrorists and their supporters he said. Good intelligence is Why the United states was Able in the past year to uncover 90 planned attacks against american citizens and facilities overseas and to Stop them. We need to extend the reach of . Laws to those who would Kidnap or murder . Citizens overseas and legis lation is before Congress right now that would do exactly that Bush said. Any government or organization that embraces terror ism should be treated As an outcast starting with the Palestine liberation organization he said. Bush and israeli ambassador to the United Stales Cir Rosin no received doctor of Laws degrees. Earlier Bush and his wife Barbara paid a half hour visit to Cardinal John j. O Connor at his Manhattan Resi Dence. O Connor said it was a very pleasant very informal visit that included nothing of any political  "1 can assure you that he wished me a merry Christmas however the Cardinal said. Missionary spreading Faith in the tuba new York a a tuba can be a thing of Beauty say lovers of the instrument with the Oom pah sound. And 300 tuba players All huffing and puffing away at the same time can draw a crowd even in cosmopolitan new York. Thousands of shoppers and sightseers jammed Rocke Feller Plaza sunday to watch what has become an annual Holiday concert. The performers played Holiday tunes on tubas of All colors shapes and sizes. Christmas Trees sprouted from the Bells of several tubas while a lighted electric menorah nestled in another. Tuba Christmas As this Holiday custom has been known since it started in 1974, was conceived and con ducted by Harvey Phillips a .56-year-old professor of music at Indiana University. Phillips is a tuba missionary and evangelist who has devoted his life to improving the image of the tuba and of tuba players a minority he believes should not be forgot ten at Christmas time. People think the tuba is a silly instrument that just goes Oom pah Phillips told the new York times. Tuba Christmas helps us gain Public awareness the first step to respectability. There arc now 122 tuba Christmas celebrations around the country organized by Phillips As Well As tuba fast concerts that he has held throughout the world. I think there is so much tuba prejudice because it is so big and Clumsy and ugly said Rachel Robinson a 16 year old in the tuba chorus. People throw things in your tuba she said. Trans porting it is hard. Sometimes we have to put it on the roof of a car or tic it across the  Harvey has done More for the tuba than any Man alive said Garrett Wright. The 73-year-old double euphonium player played in another tuba Christmas in Akron Ohio on saturday and then in new York on sunday. There have been amazing breakthroughs he  is now a Man who can do flight of the Bumble Bee on the tuba. I did t think i d see that in my life   
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