European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday March 19, 1986 shooting Blind a photo with eyes closed an attendant at a Nuernberg Ger Many fair shows How modern Technics can turn a Blind person into a Sharpshooter. The secret is a photoelectric cell which scans the target converts its image into a tone and registers the sound through sensitive ear phones. The intensity of the tone tells the Blind shooter when to Zero in on the target. The weapon was part of a Hunting and sport Rifle exhibit. Sex financier Sindona sentenced in Italy for plotting Man s death Milan Italy a a Milan court tuesday convicted former financier Michele Sindona of planning the murder of a Bank examiner and Sindona was sentenced to life imprisonment. Robert Venetucci 63, of East Northport n.y., accused of being the intermediary Between Sindona and the Assas sin also was sentenced to life in prison. The 65-year-old Sindona a former financial adviser to the Vatican was charged in the indictment with paying $50,000 to William Arico of Valley Stream n.y., for the shooting of Giorgio Ambrosoli who was examining Sindona s collapsed italian banking Empire. Ambrosoli was shot to death outside his Home in Milan in 1979. Arico a convicted Bank robber fell to his death in an escape attempt from a Federal prison in new York in 1984. The Milan court which began hearing the Case last june announced the verdict after eight Days of deliberations. Sindona was extradited to Italy in 1984 while serving a 25-year term in the United states for fraud in the collapse of the Franklin National Bank the biggest Bank failure in american history. The sicilian born Sindona was first tried in Italy on a charge of Bank fraud in the collapse of two italian Banks he controlled. He was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Heathrow customs officials go on strike London a London s Heathrow Airport was almost wide open to smugglers tuesday As customs offi cers began a three Day strike against earlier working hours a Union official said. Only a few management and non Union staff members were left to Cope with some 60,000 passengers expected through Heathrow on tuesday. Ashley Wellman chapter Secretary of the civil and Public servants association said that 350 men and women walked out at 8 . In the arrival areas of the three terminals after two one Day strikes in the past month failed to resolve the dispute. A British airports authority spokesman said that Hon esty boxes had been put out inviting Homecoming travel ers to fill in forms listing their dutiable goods. Customs and excise later write to ask for any duty payable. I heard that the last time they put out these boxes they found a stick of gum and three buttons in one of them said a reporter from Brenard s news Agency which covers Heathrow the world s busiest International Airport. Wellman said his members object to starting work at 6 . Instead of 7 . When the new terminal 4 opens on april 12. World today soviets duplicating nazi crimes in Afghanistan deserter claims Oslo Norway up soviet forces in Afghanistan commit the same kind of atrocities against civilians that nazi troops carried out against soviet civilians in world War ii a deserter has said. Nikolai Movchan said at the end of a two Day International hearing on Afghanistan that morale among soviet troops is Low because the reality they face is different from what they had expected. We were told that we were to defend the afghan people against foreign enemies and that this was also part of the defense of the Southern part of our own Border he said. Instead soviet troops were routinely sent out on Retalia tory missions against civilian targets in response to attacks by the afghans. Tea remains favorite drink in Britain new figures show London up against a background of weak ening auction prices and Ever increasing Competition from other beverages Tea remains the  drink for britons latest figures from the Tea Council show. The British consume around 180,000 metric tons of Tea in a year which is More than North America and the whole of Western Europe combined. Tea accounts for More than 45 percent of everything drunk in Britain on a daily basis with the exception of water. Statistically put 80 percent of britons drink Tea. That Means every British Man woman and child of 10 years or More drinks about four cups a Day. Musical traffic signals helping Blind Cross streets in peking peking a peking is introducing a musical crosswalk system to help Blind people Cross streets in a City where most pedestrians pay no attention to traffic signals the peking evening news has reported. Traffic signals at the intersection of Chang an Boule Vard the City s main thoroughfare and a Rig using peking s main shopping Street play music when it s time to Cross the Street the newspaper reported. The musical crosswalks Are being tested by the peking municipal science association and the Public Security administration Bureau it said. In other parts of China musical signals Are being tested at bus stops and in front of department stores to Aid Blind commuters the newspaper said. Most danish parents would stay Home with kids if paid poll finds Copenhagen Denmark a most danish parents would be willing to quit working for awhile to stay Home and look after a child in its first year if the state paid them to do so according to an observer opinion poll published in the conservative daily Jylland Posten. The poll was taken in february after a mothers organization captured attention in the danish Media by Sug Gesting that either the father or the Mother should be paid to stay Home with the youngest children. The mothers were protesting that families were forced for economic reasons to put their children in Public institutions during working hours. In the typical danish family both parents must have jobs in order for the household to make ends meet. U.s., Marshall islands sign missile Range pact Honolulu a . Officials and the Marshall islands government have reached agreement giving the . Military continued Access to the Kwajalein missile Range an army official said monday. The Range about 2,500 Miles Southwest of Honolulu is used to test guidance sys tems aboard Long Range missiles fired from Vandenberg fab in California. The agreement effective until sept. 30 of this year is retroactive to last sept. 30, when a similar pact expired. The new agreement provides for payments of $10 million annually the old agreement provided for $7.5 million in payments annually. The new agreement would remain in effect until sept. 30 unless a compact of free association Between the Marshall islands and the United states goes into effect army spokesman Pat Robbins said from Kwajalein. The compact which would supersede the new agreement has been approved by con Gress and signed by president Reagan. It also Calls for payments of $10 million annually and assures . Use of the Range for 30 years. The compact would provide self govern ment and continued . Economic Aid to the Marshall islands. It still must be approved by the United nations and would terminate the marshalls status As a . Strategic trusteeship. The new agreement was signed saturday by . Representatives and Republic of the Marshall islands president Amata Kabua in Majuro capital of the Marshall islands said Robbins. The Money paid under the agreement is to be distributed to Kwajalein atoll land owners who Are restricted to the Island of Ebeye. Since feb. 14, landowners have been conducting a sit in on Kwajalein Island the main missile Range facility to protest the Lack of an agreement. Protesters remained on Kwajalein on monday and Marshall islands chief Secre tary Oscar Debrum was scheduled to meet with them monday afternoon Robbins said. George Allen the Honolulu attorney rep resenting the landowners was on Guam and unavailable for immediate comment his of fice in Honolulu said. The agreement announced monday was reached after months of negotiations be tween Debrum and Trust territory of the Pacific islands High commissioner Janet Mccoy Robbins said