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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                                The stars and stripes monday january 20,1986 bargain Hunters Buck crowds at sales   Bureau Fuerth Germany ital Jucht a piece Price tag on thousands of pieces of used pal brought out the Bead in the Best of she Oul Germany Friday. It Ger bargain Hunters snapped ii the furn Ilure during a Uro can defense Oculi ligation and Market ing regional sales. Beds bureaus Ami Casci chairs servers and tables were grabbed and Sut on in i Nutron Borg Region Ware House  buyers would nol grab Ihm assay. Families worked Best together. As an adult picked piece he or she left a child to sit on it. The doors opened at 9 a.m., and streams of people rushed to As i hat tape. If you did t have anything by 9 01," said brains from Illus Liml you were out of Luck r�7a.s found a server that did t Havi no Rich on it and she was sitting on it. Hannah less scr and Christi jobs were squat Ting in a Forest of soft Bacu hairy husband is out fighting in a Forai Dobbs said and its scr added mine Souy fire fighting the  despite Thoy Hrtko of manners and inc aggressive a Plant tags and tape an the 2,000-plus pieces who followed pulled off tugs ind removed the shopping tactics the Sale s sponsors say they could the happier. We had to gel rid of this stuff somehow Nuernberg Region chief diet. Michael sting said. More Nan 110,000 pieces  with no Placebo arc slacking up in warehouses in bad Loplz or Munich Wurzburg Kallur . That officials is Only in . A a tha reason   Furni lure is arriving in Germany t5rmbkid to replace the 30-year-old Supply omy Back in inc 50s.j sting  is nothing wrung with Nai in style he said sold Friday were peeling and pitied Sike rain s server were in excellent Condi a font she said she found it by being patient. It was hidden behind some bookcases she said. It s ail solid Wood said Tony Kerr sales directorate Nuernberg and the brains behind the Sale. This was Tony s idea Sling said. If we would to this we d probably have to throw it away Kerr stood before a Blo Klong Snow dusted Heap of the same kind of furniture being sold inside the Ware House lie explained the first Choice is to put such items Back into the system to find a Neil within the defense department then fill that need. That s Rutili action As in example. Kerr said Jua a Woof furniture was being Stul to  pm Yew hero this Typ of furniture is prcfjjifj0l the Sci  is to sell or auction unusable  the is Sale was All about., Tat come donations. More than 2,000 pieces were Given to the German red Cross for distribution to the no Fly arum orphanages. The fourth Choice is to sell inc furniture us scrap Wood for is a truckload. Finally if none of that works we have to pay Iso res about 160 to have it hauled away Kerr said it As firewood. We Don t like to do  Iberg Region is in the hear of the jul  "  the division was gearing up fast for  in Sentinel sting decided Mohave an ln"irilhmrffiimnlf7" soldiers going to the Field. About 800 pieces wow tache tuesday and . Pfiste this is especially Good for non com Nib troops who can t afford to buy a Houseful  Sling said. Far 20 Bucks you can furnish a whole House he said. Sales were also held Al bad Krecu Zynch Mainz Kas let ludwigs Burg Munich and Rhein main and. Ger Many. Officials say they plan to offer Marc $1 sales. Oregon radio hoax touted non existent car Portland Ore. A commercials on several local radio stations de scribed the Sta drive 2000 As a car of the future that needed no gasoline required service every 200,000 Miles and could accelerate from Zero to 50 Mph in 5.2 seconds. The Price was less than $8,000, and the car was to be available feb. 1 at a dealer near you sound too Good of be True it was. The Sta drive 2000 was unmasked Fri Day As an advertising Experiment conceived Ana sponsored by the Portland area radio Council which hoped it would show How effective radio u As an advertising too. Friday after a crush of press inquiries and pressure from the Oregon attorney Gen eral s office the Council began broadcasting spots acknowledging that the car did not exist. The ads unveiling the hoax had not been scheduled to air until this  Are in the Middle of looking Al the situation said Jan Margosian consume information coordinator in the financial fraud division of the attorney general s of fice. She said the advertising Campaign far a non existent product appeared to violate various provisions of he unlawful Trade practices act which permits fines of up to�25,000 per violation. Tile commercials ran dozens of times on various station i unfortunately it was done to prove the effectiveness of advertising but i m afraid Ihu is going to do Tjie opposite Margosian said. It was pretty shocking to us because when we heard the advertising we wondered How they were going to prove  she said not one person we asked believed it was a hoax. It was a very believable hoax Dave Milner vice president and general manager of Kex radio and president of the radio Council said the Campaign was patterned after one in Cincinnati that promoted a fictitious shopping mall. Miner termed the Portland Campaign kind of unreal and kind of a spoof. He said concerns about he non existence of the product were allayed by the fact that it was not inconveniencing people to go somewhere or spend Money. " dan1 know what other problem litre is 1 he said of questions raised Over tie commercials. John Kobasic president of my Clibbon & Kobasic inc., the Portland advertising Agency that placed the ads issued a statement Friday disavowing any involve ment in the project we had nothing to do with the design of the Campaign or even the product1 in ques Tion but simply facilitated Media place ment Al parc s request Kobasic snid. By. Man charged in . A of Nap a a Manhattan resident was  night in connection with the  fan Arab billionaire s Broth or Ctm Ricau of investigation spokesman said Mustafa Zein 43, was arrested Al his Home at 9 30 . Saturday kidnapping charges said Fri spokesman Joe Vali Quette. A complaint filed in new York alleged that Zein nude phone Calls to the United Arab emirates1 ambassador to Brilain it which he identified himself and  negotiations Valiquet Eupr the ambassador Sayed to or Mcd Al Tumir said he paid a $3jjjbran Ransom for the release of his  brother Mohammed Sadiq old Fiir who was Kidnap Ped in  knights Ridge District  payment the victim continued teff 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. Maritain s Domestic news Agency nation said a manhunt Imph , the. Middle East countries ajl Pihu revisited by an the said Zein appear pig the �1 mentioned in thai report i was alleged to be an intermediary he said. The report said he International Hunt for the intermediary had been concentrated in the United slates based on evidence from sophisticated eavesdropping devices believed to include a phone Bug used by police while negotiations were going on 1press association said the Ransom Money which was paid in Beirut May have been designed to finance a terrorist group lol raq s massive War of 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 and forced into a while victim told police he was kept in them or 11 Days but released fro time to a inv for exercise and was not treated badly a Hiram being drugged and blindfolded. Detectives of the _ squad still were guarding the  saturday at Jiu brother s Home in Carlton House Terrace an elegant georgian Row off the mall and Trafalgar Square. Burt warns against appeasing terrorism a ambassador Richard sunday told germans Lhasa a. Terrorism will increase its danger. Burt defended the american sanctions against Libya in an interview with the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. The Magazine is one of the severe is in Germany of the United Ujj Burt told the magma Iannat there Are Many source Sal i prism in the Middle East bul a libyan Leader foam Maris responsible for a great part of it and he provide terrorists with a strategic base. Suggested that Der spic Itab Jun  countries  fore it _ Seinen of terrorism re and More deaths Burt said. Salted i he was disappointed at the fail ure of the German government to Jain the United slates in imposing sanctions against Libya in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on the Rome and Vienna Austria airports Libya s   discussing the question of the participation by German Industry in the american Star wars research program Burt said it up to the Bonn government whether an pc reached or not on the Strate initiative. He  would be one but whether or is Julijs. Ski participation ii no litmus lest  can  news update libyan student fund Washington a railed states is making an sex aits order freezing All the a Iback accounts of Moa mar Spida by government and will alow Libya student to continue f draw Mon a to pay Tor tuition Banff related 1 expenses us. Office Fusay. Ano the officials said new in dents pm the North a Jeican coun try will a permitted go to the United Szces. 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