European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday March 11, 1986 smokers May waive fhe habit during cruise Hamburg up smokers who want to Stop can take a Mediterranean cruise billed As the first anti cigarette voyage in history. The organizers announced monday a 15-Day cruise on the luxury liner Stella solaris designed to cure smok ers of the habit through acupuncture. The cruise Cost of 4,000 Marks about $1,785 includes the acupuncture treatment. The cruise which begins in Naples on april 19, has been organized by or. Hans Albert Courtial in conjunction with the Hamburg based German treatment Cen Ter for natural biological Healing. Courtial said the acupuncture treatment would last two Days and would take place during the cruise. Or. Florian Heiss the chairman of the Center said the treatment involves puncturing the ear with Needles to reach the addiction Center in the Central nervous he said that after the treatment smokers not Only will no longer have an urge to smoke but they la have no withdrawal symptoms. At the end of the treatment the smoker will Stop smoking from one minute to the next minute and will feel relaxed and positive even though he might seem to have lost his Best Friend he said. In addition to the acupuncture treatment there will be talks with the tourists to help motivate them to stay off cigarettes Heiss said. One passenger will help another Courtial said and this Solidarity will help prevent backsliding. Smokers will be helped in the cure by being away from their regular surroundings in the Sun with others who have the same problem he said. Courtial said the trip is open to All nationalities and knowledge of German is not required. Arld today India negotiating to Purchase submarines from swedish firm new Delhi India a the government is negotiating a multimillion Dollar Deal to buy submarines from a swedish company according to a published report. The United news of India news Agency quoted defense ministry sources As saying the government is interested in buying advanced submarine and torpedo technology from Sweden. It said India is negotiating with the Kockum company of Sweden for the Purchase of sophisticated submarines and the License to produce them. India already has an agreement with West Germany Toby two submarines. Saudi Arabia forbids putting Arab newspapers in garbage Jidida saudi Arabia a a new religious edict is going to make throwing out yesterday s newspaper a Touchy subject in the kingdom of saudi Arabia. Under the headline misuse of newspapers must Stop the English language newspaper saudi Gazette said the chief religious authority Sheik bin Baz has determined that arabic newspapers cannot be tossed into the garbage can. This is forbidden the edict said because arabic papers usually contain verses of the islamic holy Book the Koran and sayings of the Prophet Mohammed which form much of the basis of islamic practice and jurisprudence. It said that disposing of arabic newspapers in this Man Ner demonstrates disrespect for the holy writings. Although disposal of the papers in improper ways was forbidden no suggestions were offered for a suitable Man Ner of newspaper disposal. Israeli women soldiers seeking to Hitchhike at night face trial Tel Aviv Israel a women soldiers who Are caught trying to hitch rides at night will be court mar titled the weekly army Magazine Bama Haneh said. The regulations Are designed to safeguard the soldiers from assault and rape the Magazine said in its latest edition. Israeli women Are drafted at age 18 for two years of mandatory service. Those who Are stationed away from their hometowns sometimes hitch rides when they go on leave from their base. In recent years there have been several rapes of hitch hiking soldiers. One woman Soldier disappeared 14 months ago and later was found dead in an unsolved murder. According to unofficial estimates about one third of the army s approximately 170,000 soldiers Are women. The army does not release such data. Poisonous7 nicotine gum brings shutdown of soviet factory Moscow up a Macaroni factory responsible for the production of nicotine gum with a poisonous ingredient has been closed Down by the health ministry the government newspaper Izvestia said. Contact with a poisonous ingredient of the gum is fraught with dangerous consequences the newspaper quoted a health official in the Southern soviet Republic of Armenia As saying. Izvestia said health ministry officials hoped to have the problem at the factory in Yerevan Armenia the factory was producing 150 tons of the Stop smoking gum called gum Bazine annually and expects to pro Duce 800 tons annually after 1987. The soviet Union has received requests to try the gum ils 5asteraijy Czechoslovakia Poland Hungary Iceland and Cuba Izvestia said. One of 53,000 postcards ready to be mailed to Britain As part of Greece s Campaign to get Elgin marbles returned. Greek children write postcards asking return of the Elgin marbles Athens Greece a More than 50,000 greek children have written postcard messages seeking the re turn of the Elgin marbles in the latest round of Greece s Campaign to get the priceless classical sculptures from Britain. The cards will be mailed later this month to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher members of parliament museum directors and Ordinary Bri torts Accord ing to culture ministry officials. It s not just a propaganda exercise. We wanted to get greek children interested in historical and environmental problems and the marbles were an obvious example architect Yiannis Naz Lidis who conceived the project said in a Telephone interview with the associated press Over the weekend. The Glossy color postcard shows three headless Marble goddesses in swirling drapery. The group was among stat uary removed in the Early 1800s from the 5th-Century . Acropolis temples by a British Diplomat lord Elgin and the statues Are now displayed in the British museum in London. The word Back in English is stamped across the picture in Bright red letters. We printed 70,000 cards for a children s creative project held Over the new year. So far 53,000 Are ready for mailing Naz Lidis who runs an arts workshop in the Northern town of Verria said. He said the postcard messages mostly in greek but a few in English were signed by children aged Between 6and 16 dear English since you say you Are the most civilized people please give Back what you stole from us wrote Deborah Axiotis aged 10. Sir would you like it if we had taken big Ben and did t give it Back think it Over again and give us our statues Back wrote 10-year-old Dorina Dimitracopou Lou. You English stole our statues and you ought not Only to give them Back but to put them Back on the acropolis yourselves wrote Kavella Metaxa. Britain last year turned Down an official request by culture minister Melina Mercouri for the 17 Marble Fig ures and part of a frieze from the Parthenon Temple. The government said they belong to the British museum and were legally acquired by Thomas Bruce seventh Earl of Elgin while Greece was ruled by ottoman Turkey. 20 paintings by Hitler found in attic Brussels Belgium a some 20 Watercolour paintings by Adolf Hitler have been discovered in a Dusty attic near the cast belgian City of Liege a publishing House official said monday. Henri Mossiat a spokesman for Rel editions said the German nazi Leader painted the tranquil landscapes of Rural Northern France and Belgium while on leave from the front during world War i. He said a Book of the paintings will be published soon. Scientific analysis of the works showed the Aquarelle were painted before 1918, As they show landmarks that were bombed in that year. Mossiat said Hitler s signatures were dated from world War i when he fought in Flanders. The owner of the works who Mossiat said wanted to remain Anonymous will not exhibit the paintings. The daily la Meuse in Liege 65 Miles East of Here reported the paintings were found in the attic of a private Home in nearby Huy on the Meuse River it gave no further details. Mossiat said Rel editions will print the works in a soon to be published Book entitled secrets of the
