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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 9,1986 the april edition of car and Driver Magazine de scribes the world s third longest stretch limousine As "36 feet of party  the 16 passengers who can news up Date couple s benefits cited Concord . A a couple who apparently killed themselves and the woman s three children to protest the government s treatment of veterans received at least $29,000 in annual Federal benefits officials said. I would not say they were hurting financially Robert Tomlinson District manager at the social Security office in Littleton said. It really does t make any  bodies believed to be those of Michael Dean 43, a disabled Vietnam Veteran his Girlfriend Caroline Hull 32, and her three Young children were found in the charred ruins of her Home. Four of the five died of gunshot wounds while a fifth died of smoke inhalation and gunshot wounds authorities said. Refugees dilemma Miami a Haiti is inviting Back All the refugees who fled during the Duvalier years and Many residents of Little Haiti one of Miami s poor est neighbourhoods must decide whether to go Home to uncertainty or stay in a country where they face prejudice and Uncertain immigration status. We re scared to go. The country is still upside Down said Frantz St. Vil a janitor who said he fled Haiti six years ago after he was jailed and beaten. I have a Job Here. My wife is a police officer. We have car payments. Our children Are in school. No Way Are we going Back to stay  since president for life Jean Claude Duvalier resigned and fled to France a month ago an official has signed 600 to 700 visas haitians need to visit their Homeland. He said most have been for people with political or business interests in Haiti. Suit dismissed Trenton . A a state judge has Dis missed a lawsuit filed by the widow of an heir to the Johnson & Johnson Fortune seeking to wrest from her Stepson control of her late husband s pet charities. Saying there was insufficient evidence that Prince ton sculptor j. Seward Johnson or. Mismanaged the assets of the two foundations Superior court judge Paul g. Levy dismissed the claims of Barbara Piasecka Johnson widow of j. Seward Johnson or. The judge said mrs. Johnson brought her claims in bad Faith with unclean hands in an Effort to defend the last will left by Johnson or. That gave her virtually All of his $500 million estate. Johnson or s children have challenged the will in a lawsuit in new York claiming it was signed under duress by an ailing Man in an incoherent state. Mrs. Johnson 49, a polish emigre met Johnson or. While she was a maid at his Princeton mansion. She was 34 and he was 76 when they entered her first marriage and his third. Pilot loses License new York a the Pilot of a us air jetliner that skidded off a runway in Pennsylvania last month has had his License revoked because of his reckless behaviour according to the Federal aviation administration. Capt. Robert l. Farris or. Was flying the dc-9 when it skidded past the end of a Snow covered runway on feb. 21 at Erie International Airport. The plane rumbled Down an embankment and came to rest straddling a Public Road. One person was Hurt slightly when the plane was evacuated and the plane s nos gear and radar dome were damage stretching out the Miles be seated in the $150,000 vehicle can ride in Comfort while enjoying the Limo s two bars two color television sets three sound systems Telephone mood lights Dpi photo or even a Jacuzzi. The Limo was built by the Ultra limousine corp., which has its Headquarters in la Palma Calif. At least 5 die when car bomb explodes on East Beirut Street Beirut Lebanon a a car bomb exploded sat urday on a crowded East Beirut Street outside an office of president Amin Gemayel s Christian phalanges party. Police said the blast killed five people and wounded at least 42. Shortly after the explosion Christian gunners shelled the Barbir District in moslem West Beirut killing two people and wounding three police reported. Police said syrian backed moslem gunners in Hills near Beirut fired shells into the residential districts of Christian East Beirut but there was no immediate word of casual ties. The car bomb blew up on Jaa twi Street in the Christian neighbourhood of As Rafieh at 1 15 . When the area was packed with weekend shoppers and employees leaving their offices for the Day. Police said most of the casualties were civilians. The Small Renault was parked in front of the Napoli Candy store facing the Entrance to the 16-Story building that houses the phalanges office police said. The top police explosives expert chief warrant officer Youssef Bitar estimated the car was rigged with 275 pounds of int. The explosives were wired to four 81mm mortar shells but they did not detonate he said. Pools of blood Lay in the debris strewn thoroughfare near a Crater 5 feet deep and 9 feet wide gouged out by the blast. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The blast set a gasoline station and about 30 cars on fire. An hour after the bombing a Jaa twi Street resident said he could see a massive Cloud of Black smoke billowing from the area As the Gas station burned out of control. Ambulances raced to the scene with wailing sirens and militiamen of the right Wing phalanges party took to the streets to try to help evacuate casualties said witnesses requesting anonymity. It was the third car bombing in Christian East Beirut in three weeks. East Beirut has been plagued by bombings since Gem Ayel s loyalists crushed rivals led by syrian backed Chris Tian militia commander Elie Hobeika Jan. 15. More than 350 people were killed in the one Day Battle. Since then 45 people have been killed and 180 wounded in bomb explosions. Most of the casualties have been civil ians. The last major car bombing was feb. 24, when five people were killed and 25 wounded in a blast outside a supermarket in the sinn Al Fil neighbourhood. Price War in Tennessee drops Gas to less than 70 cents per gallon Nashville Tenn. A a gasoline Price War in Tennessee has at least one station Selling regular for less than 70 cents a gallon and one local Industry official predicting even lower prices. It s still falling and a lot of people have said it will continue to fall at least until. March 15," said Jack Beach president of Beach Oil a Nashville distributor. But Oil analyst Dan Lundberg said the Price War is limited to Tennessee and can t last for Long despite a world crude Oil glut that dropped the prices of the main grades of . And British oils below $12 a barrel this week for the first time since 1978. The local Competition has resulted in a Price of 69.9 cents per gallon of regular at the Jet Market on Highway 79 in Clarksville. Shell stations operated by super Oil co. In Johnson City Mountain City Elizabethton Erwin and Bristol vice president Steve Leonard. We be definitely got a Price War going on up Here said John Dohnal president of Reich Oil a Clarksville fuel distributor. Lundberg who publishes a newsletter and tracks the Price of retail gasoline at 17,000 stations nationwide said the situation in Tennessee is not common. It is not symptomatic. There is no National Price War he said reporting that the National average Price for regu Lar leaded at self service pumps is 98.04 cents per gallon. Lundberg said the average Price per gallon paid by dealers in Tennessee was 68.6 cents per gallon. Add the 22 cents in state and Federal taxes levied in Tennessee and the actual average Cost to dealers is 90.6 cents a gallon he said. It is a glimpse into How Short that Price War can last which Are Selling regular leaded for 88.9 cents per gallon because the dealers Are giving away about 20 cents per have been lowering prices almost every Day said company gallon More than what they re paying for it he said. Aids spreading faster in Europe than in ., German legislator says Bonn a some 2,000 people in 10 european nations suffer from aids and the number of patients is doubling at a faster rate than in the United states a German member of the european parliament said. Dieter Schinzel a social democratic legislator told reporters in Bonn on Friday the number of aids patients in Europe doubles every eight months compared with every 11 months in the United states. He said 2,006 patients in Britain Denmark Ger Many Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg ire land Greece Italy and France had aids at the be ginning of 1986. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome Breaks Down the body s immune system and in mos cases is fatal. Schinzel said an estimated 600,000 to 1 million euro peans carry the aids virus. It is not known if All people carrying the virus will be afflicted with aids  
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