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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, January 20, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars  stripes monday january 20, 1986 bargain Hunters Buck crowds at sales .1.i _ i  in a u 1 Illuv co Lorl l a jul n rail r1 t 11 11 Fly Allf i by Tony Naurot ii Quern birr Bureau , Germany the Buck a piece Price ing on thousands of pieces of used govern Mcnol furniture Braught Oul the beast in the Busl of shoppers through out Germany Friday. Linger bargain Hunters snapped up the furniture during european defence re utilization  Market ing re Giussi sales. Beds bureaus bookcases chairs servers  a abcs were grabbed  sat on in n Nuernberg Region Ware House so compel ing buyers would not grab Mem away. Families worked Best together. As an adult picked a piece he or she left a child to sit on it. The doors opened Al 9 .,  streams of people rushed 10 Plant lags  tape on the 2,000-plus pieces As those who followed pulled off tags  removed the tape. If you did t have anything by 9 01." said Cindy Bra As from Hillesheim you were out of  brims found a server that did l hive a scratch on it. And she was silting on in. Hannah Ressler  Christine Dobbs were squat Ling in n fore.-,i of soft backed chairs. My husband is Oul fighting in a forger Dobbs Naid  res scr added mine s out there fighting the  despite the Lack of manners  the aggressive shopping tactics the Sale s sponsors say they he a Chad to net rid of this stuff  Nuernberg Region chief capt. Michael Sime  than 130.000 pieces of furniture with no place to go Are stacking up in warehouses in bad lock. Fuerth. Grafe Woehr Munich. W Burg Katuc Bach bind Luch  . Thai officials suy. Is Only in Southeastern Germany. The reason sting said is because Brand new lure in a diving in Germany by the shipload to replace the 30-year-old Supply bought on i lie German Cion oms Back in the r50s,. Sting pointed out there is nothing wrong with the furniture. It s just not in  Hestad. Some pieces sold Friday were peeling  filled but others like Raza s server were in excellent Condi Tion. She said she found in by being patient. It was hidden behind some bookcases she said. It s All solid Wood said Tony Kerr. Sales director Ai Nuernberg  the brains behind the Sale. This was Tony s idea Stine said if we would i do this we d probably have Lothro it  stood before a Blo Klong Snow dusted Heap of the same kind of furniture being sold inside the Ware House. He explained the first Choice is to put such items Back into the system to find a need within the defense department then fill that need. Thai s Oculi an example Kerr said a rail car full of furniture w1� belie pm to Berlin monday where this Type of firn Ilure is preferred. Vic Send Choice is to sell " Ubu Sab items thai s what the Al Sale was Ull about. Nex come donations. More than 2,000 pieces were Given 10the German red Cross for distribute to the needy  orphanages. The fourth Choice is to sell the furniture As scrap Wood for i in Ruckland. Finally if none of that works we have to pay Iso Nurki about 560 to have in hauled away Kerr said or sell l u firewood. We Don t like to do that the Nuernberg Region is in the heart or the 1st army div area. Because the division was searing up fas for scr disc certain Sentinel some decided to have an invitational Sale Only for sold hers june to the Field. About 800 pieces went during the tuesday  wednesday Sale. This is especially Good for non command sponsored troops who can t afford to buy a Houseful of Furni Ture Stine said fat 20 Bucks you can furnish a whole House he said. _. Sales were also held at bad Krecu Nan mama Kas Tel 1 Ludwig Surg. Munich  rein main a Ger Many. Officials say they plan to offer Mure $1 sales crash victims bodies taken to Guatemala City Guatemala cite Guatemala a Small planes on sunday shuttled a few bodies Al a time from the isolated Northern Jungle site where 90 people died in the worst air crash in guatemalan history. Six americans were among those killed. The twin engine Caravelle Jet operated by the private Aero Vias airline crashed saturday on it approach to Santa Elena Airport about 150 Miles North of Guatemala City while dying tourists to the ancient mayan ruins of Tikal. All aboard died. There was no immediate explanation Tor what caused the crash. The first 12 bodies were brought Back late saturday to the capital s International Airport. Besides the americans a preliminary list from the airline indicated that 58 of the victims were guatemalans six were from Colombia four from Venezuela two from Mexico two from Canada two from the Netherlands two from Costa Rica two from Britain two from the dutch Antilles  one each from West Germany Italy France  Greece Gerry Waters a spokesman at the . Embassy in Guatemala cily. Said the names of the dead americans would not be released until the embassy was advised that families were notified the French built plane which Aero Vias had rented from the ecuadorian airline Scala was used for flights to Santa Elena to handle heavy demand for travel to the ruins. The Airport is about 25 Miles South of the ruins in the department of Paten. The last Contact the control Tower at Santa Elena hat with the Pilot was it 7 58  Saturday 33 minutes into the 40-min Ute flight from Guatemala City. The control lower said there was no indication of any problem with the plane. Jorge Escobar of the National weather Center said the crash occurred in Good weather the winds were Calm  the visibility  planes bringing tourists to Tikal do not Fly directly to the area lest vibrations dam age the ruins considered among the finest of the mayan kingdom Tikal one of the largest  possibly the oldest of the mayan cities consists of to tits groups of courts  plazas built on Hilly land above surrounding swamps  inter connected by Bridges  causeway. The ruins Dale from the classic Era about 300 . To 900 . Some crash victims had come to Guatemala to Lake port in tuesday s inauguration of president Vinicio Tercio elected dec. 8 Al the nation s first civilian president in 16 years. They included Aristides Calvani. 67, a for Mer foreign minister of Venezuela who once headed the Christian democratic pan there. His wife Adelila  daughters Granela 23,  Maria Elena 25, were also on the flight. N. Y. Man charged in . Kidnapping new York a a Manhattan resident was arrested saturday night in connection Wilh the european abduction of an Arab billionaire brother a Federal Bureau of investigation spokesman said. Mustafa tin 43, was arrested at his Home at 9 30 . Saturday kidnapping charges said Fri spokesman Joe Vali  complaint filed in new York alleged that Zein made phone Calls to the United Arab Emir alas ambassador to Britain in which he identified himself  engaged in Ransom negotiations Valiquette said. The ambassador Sayed Mohammed Al tajik said he paid a j3 million Ransom for the release of his businessman brother Mohammed Sadiq Al tajik who was Kidnap Ped in London s exclusive Knight abridge District on Jan. 6. Despite the payment the victim continued to be held in a South London House by four men until he escaped Friday morning dragging with him into the Street the bed to which he was secured by four chains. Britain s Domestic news Agency press association said a manhunt had been undertaken by police in Switzerland Italy the United slates  several Middle East countries All of which were visited by an unidentified Arab intermediary. Valiquette said Zein appeared to be the suspect mentioned in that report. This per son was alleged to be an intermediary he  report said the International Hunt for the intermediary had been concentrated in the United Stales based on evidence from sophisticated eavesdropping devices believed to include a phone Bug used by police while negotiations were going on 1 press association Laid the Ransom Money which was paid in Beirut May have been designed to finance a terrorist group. Or to contribute to Iraq s massive War Effort against  the ambassador said the decision to pay was made by his whole family but that he himself would not have handed Over any thing. Press association which has a reporter permanently at Scotland Yard said the Kidnap victim was seized at gunpoint after leaving his office  forced into a White car. The victim told police he was kept in the same room for 11 Days but released from time to time for exercise  was not treated badly apart from being drugged  blindfolded. Detectives of the Yard s anti terrorist squad still were guarding the Kidnap victim saturday at his brother s Home in Carlton House Terrace an elegant georgian Row off the mall  Trafalgar Square. Burt warns against appeasing terrorism Hamburg up . Ambassador Richard Burl in an interview published sunday told germans that appeasement of terrorism will increase its danger. Burl defended the american sanctions against Libya in an interview with the newsmagazine Der Spiegl the Magazine is one of the severest critics in Germany of the United Stales. Burt told the Magazine that there Are Many sources of terrorism in the Middle East but that libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy is responsible for a great part of it  he provides terrorists Wilh a strategic base. Burt suggested that Der Spiegel s questions on terrorism indicated a belief that countries should capitulate before in. History is full of examples that Leach that appeasement of terrorism results in More  More deaths Burt said. Asked if he was disappointed at the fail ure of the German government to join the United states in imposing sanctions against Libya in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on the Rome  Vienna Austria airports Burt said Germany  the United states still were considering Libya s connection with  discussing the question of the participation by German Industry in the american. Star wars research program Burt said it is up to the Bonn government whether an agreement is reached or not on the Strate Gic defense initiative. He said he thought there would be one but whether or not there is ski participation is no litmus lest for German Ameri can  news update libyan student funds Washington a the United Stales is making an exception to its order freezing All the american Bank accounts of Moa mar Kheda by s government  will allow libyan students to continue to draw Money to pay for tuition  related school expenses . Officials say. And the officials said new Stu dents from the North african coun try will be permitted to go to the United states. March for peace san Cristobal de Las Casas Mexico a More than 100 members of the March for peace in Central America have entered Mexico on the final leg of their trip that began dec. 10 in Panama. The International group including 80 americans had planned to travel by bus  on foot through the five Central american nations Costa Rica Al Salvador Honduras Nicaragua  Guatemala but they were denied entry to Al Salvador  Honduras. They spent much of their time in Nicaragua where they were warmly received by the left Wing sandinista government  they met with president Daniel Ortega. The group entered Nicaragua on dec. 19, it Day after they were ordered out of Cosla Rica following an attack by a Billle tossing mob  
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