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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday april 27,1986 two just disembarked passengers both of them born Well after the plane left the junkers factory begin a walk around to inspect the fuselage and wings of the boxy machine. Iron Annie built in 1939, still thrills pm text and photos by Tracy Baker there were murmurs from the crowd As the plane glided in fat and ungainly to land at the Eigelsbach Airfield. Had been hit so much i never thought we d get in the air. Brought us Home despite the Ami fighters. The plane is a 46-year old transport air Craft that has two nicknames tante jul and Iron  the voices were those of some of the nearly 200 germans gathered at the Small Field to see the junkers 53. Some were veterans who owed their lives to the plane some were teen agers born 30 years after the aircraft first took flight. Built in 1939 at the junkers factory in Dessau which is now in East Germany the plane was on Active duty with the Swiss air Force until 1981. The Iron Annie planes were a mainstay of commercial aviation from their debut in the Early 1930s and despite enor Mous losses on All fronts during world War ii a few survived and Are still in service. The plane at Eigelsbach is carrying Passen Gers on sightseeing flights Over the Rhein main area through Friday at a charge of 295 Marks per passenger. L be plots 6� about their jobs m a cockpit sparse by modern standards although some digital instruments have been added. British Schoolboy crowned As King of Swaziland Mbabane Swaziland up in heat dust and tribal splendor a British Schoolboy Friday became King Swati Iii of Swaziland in a secretive ritual Cere Mony. The 18-year-old student formerly Prince Makh Ostive was crowned in a ceremony attended by hundreds of Spear carrying warriors roaring the Royal Salute Baethe you Are the most  following hours of a secretive ritual and a Daylong wait by 20,000 subjects outside the Royal Kraal enclosure King Swati walked into the stockade leading a Phalanx of hundreds of regimental warriors. He stopped 25 feet from a covered dais where Heads of states and diplomats rep resenting 30 foreign governments were sitting and silently nodded his head in recognition of his introduction by chief of protocol John Dube. As if on Cue the cowhide and Leopard skin draped warriors roared the Royal Salute and the new King left the stockade. King Swati was scheduled to present himself to the swazi nation in All Day celebrations of dancing and traditional Mili tary displays by the tribal regiments at som Lolo stadium near the Royal Resi Dence Elusa Seni. The Coronation ends a four year hiatus in Royal Rule that began with the death of King so Huza in 1982. It was seen by Many swazi As the Cement for a new foundation in political control after National scandals of corruption and skirmishing in the Royal clan. Celebration of the new Monarch the sixth in More than two centuries was Evi Dent As hundreds of buses and cars con verged on Elusa  visiting dignitaries dancing groups and warriors filled the standing room Only stockade. On the dais South Africa s president Pieter w. Botha shared tight seating with ideological foes president Samora Machel of Mozambique and president Ken Neth Luanda of Zambia. Zambians quietly stared at the arrival of other dignitaries including Prince and Princess Michael of Kent representing Queen Elizabeth ii and president Rea Gan s daughter Maureen. The spectators burst into applause at the arrival of King Goodwill fwd Thini of the zulus who lives in a partially self governing Homeland within South Africa and King Mosho shoe ii of Lesotho  
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