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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 30, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 v60 minutes Crew detained at missile protest Warrensburg to. A Mike Wallace and two "60 minutes colleagues were detained temporarily by authorities Friday while covering a demonstration at two nuclear missile silo Sites where five pro testers were arrested officials said. The lbs news employees were released after about an hour and no charges were filed against them according to a lbs spokesman. Officials at Whiteman fab whose Secu Rity police detained the eight people issued a statement saying damage at the missile Sites included Cut fences slogans painted on Walls and damage to an electrical outlet. The state of readiness of the missiles was not affected the statement said. The five protesters who were charged with wilfully injuring government prop erty claimed to have disarmed the two mis Sile Sites near this Western Missouri Community. They said their Good Friday protest against nuclear arms followed the biblical Precept to beat swords . After the network workers were released Wallace left for Kansas City International Airport but producer Paul Fine and sound technician Craig Gibson remained at the Johnson county criminal Justice Center to retrieve film and equipment confiscated by the authorities lbs spokesman Roy Bur Nette said in new York. Max Geiman an Fri spokesman in Kan Sas City said the film and equipment were returned to lbs Early Friday evening. Wallace said he could not imagine that there would be any charges against the lbs people. We were not on  the arrests were made by Johnson county authorities after Federal officials notified them that people had trespassed on Federal property said Deputy Glenn Seymore. Two of the protesters were at one site and three were at the other. A protester who identified himself As Ken Rippetoe 23, of Rock Island 111., said the group used hammers to destroy geared tracks on the missile silo lids. He said they also poured blood in the form of a Cross Spray painted disarm and live and Cut some wires. The source of the blood was not immediately identified. Another protester who identified herself As Jean Gump 58, of Morton Grove 111., said she was inspired by a woman who was among four people convicted last year in Kansas City for damaging a missile silo near Higginsville mo., in 1984. Our children do not have a future while these missiles Are going to be in the Earth said Gump. We have to devise other ways of solving our problems and i Don t think the government can do  the other protesters identified them selves to reporters As Darla Bradley 22, and John Volpe 39, both of Davenport Iowa and Larry Morlan 26, of Bettendorf Iowa. The five were taken to Kansas City where assistant . Attorney Tom Larson said complaints were filed charging them with wilfully damaging property of the United states. They were to appear later before a Federal magistrate. Customers at an Amoco gasoline station in Indianapolis line up to take advantage of a Penny a gallon Sale sponsored by a local radio station on Friday. Motorists cheap Gas a photo started lining up two hours before the four hour Sale began at 6 . The line of vehicles reportedly stretched for four Miles. Striking Twa flight attendants arc a Kennedy Airport in motorcade new York up a motorcade of striking trans world airlines flight attendants circled Kennedy International Airport with blaring horns and flashing lights Fri Day jeering replacement workers and warning travellers their safety is threatened. Other striking flight attendants walked a picket line outside the Twa terminal screaming obscenities at re placements leaving the terminal after completing flights. The strikers carried placards with messages warning travellers their safety is threatened by their absence. The cars in the motorcade which arrived at the Airport at about 3 p.m., surrounded an airline bus carrying some of the replacement workers and police had to restrain the pickets standing nearby. Twa s1 top negotiator on Friday accused the head of the striking flight attendants Union of misrepresenting management s proposal and gave the Union 24 hours to decide whether it will put the offer to its members a reported. Bill Hoar the Twa negotiator also said the airline was disappointed with the Union s counteroffer presented Friday. Neither he nor the Independent federation of flight attendants would disclose the terms of the Union proposal. We remain extremely far apart a quoted Hoar assaying. Victoria Frankovich president of the Independent federation of flight attendants did not immediately respond to the company s demand for a vote by the rank and Filea said the strike by about 5,800 attendants began March 7 when the company unilaterally imposed new work rules that added at least a dozen hours of work a month without pay. Vietnam returning 21 sets of remains agrees to new talks Washington a the Republic of Vietnam has agreed to give the United states 21 sets of remains suspected to be those of american servicemen on april 10 in Hanoi administration sources said Friday. Vietnamese and . Officials also have agreed to hold another series of technical talks to discuss the search for missing american servicemen the sources said. The officials who agreed to discuss the matter Only if not identified declined to specify the Date for the new round of talks but said they would occur toward the endow  according to the sources the United states expects to. Receive 21 sets of remains and possibly More during the april 10 repatriation. As has been done previously the remains will be flown from Hanoi to the army s Central identification Laboratory in Honolulu for identification. The United states had originally proposed to receive the remains on april 1, but the vietnamese said that Date was unacceptable the sources said. Richard l. Armitage the assistant defense Secretary for International Security affairs announced March 11 the vietnamese had disclosed during the last technical meet ing in february that they had at least 21 remains to turnover to the United states. The vietnamese also said had uncovered 49 remains in recent months when they searched the Rural Countryside for americans missing from the War Armitage said. Of those 49, Armitage continued the vietnamese identified 21 As suspected americans. Of those the vietnamese have already tentatively identified 10, he said. The vietnamese also informed the . Delegation they were still investigating 21 other reports from the country Side that could Lead to the recovery of remains Armita Esaid. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 30, 1946 it. Gen. Lucius Clay . Mili tary governor announced in Stuttgart that the German food ration in the american zone would be Cut from 1 550 calories to 1,275 calories april 1 because of the world food shortage. 30 years ago foe a. March 30, 1956 communist Hungary s biggest purge trial of the Stalin Era was officially branded a mis take based on false evidence and its innocent victims have been declared legally rehabilitated most of them posthumously according to Hungary s communist party chief Matyas Rakosi. 20 years ago foe a. March 30, 1966 Federal officials in Chicago said two mystery witnesses will be brought before a grand jury investigating charges of  terrorism in the scheduled Cassis Clay Ernie Terrell title bout which never came off. 10 years ago today. March 30, 1976 Richard Aden 75, Early Day film Elsaw �  
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