European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 18, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 sport Aid runners link up at acropolis Sudan runner Khalifa Omar right Holdi up the olympic Lorch la join the lame of the Span Aid Lorch held by irk runner Pun Ayiotis Soulls at the base of the Parthenon on the ancient acropolis in Athens saturday. The greek capital ii inc first european Slop or the sport Aid Campaign which has been organized to Rake Money for african fam Ine victim. Sliding behind the torches Are culture minister Melium mar Capri and Premier Andreas Pap Mildrew the second Slop of 12 european capital for Omar and inc sport Aid Torch la Madrid Spain. Sport Aid culminates May is in new York City. . Expects cocaine smuggling to jump in 86 Washington a the volume of cocaine smuggled into the United slates could Mare than double this year while marijuana shipments arc expected to drop by almost a third according to government estimates released saturday. The . Customs service estimates that 275,000 pounds of cocaine will be brought Inlo the country in 1986, compared with 130,000 pounds in 1985, said sen. Lloyd by Olsen Date is who released the figures. Marijuana smuggling meanwhile is expected to drop to an estimated 22 million pounds compared with 30.6 million pounds last year. Customs spokesman Jim Mahan said the turnaround  matter of economics. By the time cocaine Hils the Street it s going to 50 for about Lay s 135,000 a Pound is. $600 or �700 a Pound Tor Mari Juana Mahun said tip in order to pet si35,000 Worth of marijuana you re going to have to Havican awful lot of  another reason for the lower marijuana figure is an awful lot or marijuana is being grown in the . Now and a higher Quality of marijuana Mahan says. Heroin smuggling la expected to increase somewhat from about 10,000 pounds in 1985 to 13,050 pounds in 9sfi, according to the customs estimates. About 18 percent of the cocaine or 50.000 pounds is expected to come to . Borders from South America by Way of Mexico Bentsen said Mahan said Mexico has become a prime transshipment Point Tor cocaine com ing from  customs expects Mexico to be the import Point for 35 percent of the heroin in 1986 and 30 percent of the marijuana Bath drugs Are produced in Mexico. Muhan said most marijuana used to come from colom Bia but the mexican share of the Market is increasing because of the demise of Jain .-Mcxican eradication programs of a few years ago. In an apparent response to increased in Rocc Mcnol efforts in Florida drug smugglers arc turning More and More toward mexican routes into the United states officials say. In 1985, customs estimated about 15,000 pounds of cocaine came into the Southwest and Pacific regions areas that usually receive illegal shipments by Way of Mexico that figure accounted for about 12 percent of the total cocaine smuggled into the United Stales. Customs has recently announced it is adding about 200 agents along the. South Western Border of Floc United suites. Deal san said he is seeking to form a Bur  Tusk Force with other senators and congressmen from the Southwest which he snid would be similar to what they had in Florida Tuluii worked quite Wel previous customs service estimates re leased by a Emsun showed u 50 percent in crease in cocaine smuggling into the United states through the southwestern Border in 985 compared to 9s4. Customs said about 6,250 pounds were smuggled in through the Southwest it 1984 and predicted 9,750 pounds we Ltd arrive through the Southwest in 1985. But the Southwest in i bus still Only accounted Tor about 1,5 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United Stales with the Southeast bearing the Brunt of Ilie illegal drug Trade. About 78 percent of cocaine came in through the Southeast in 19 15, customs estimated. Cyclists Paris bound Tor a High time on old wheels by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart they departed from a City famed for car manufacturing a City celebrating the car s Footh birthday. An automobile club sponsored their trip. But. If the irony was apparent to the 16 cyclists who left Stuttgart for pans an saturday morning on old fashioned Penny Farthing bicycles they did t show it. The cyclists members of an International club called the. Vele Ranen Fah Raug verb and plan to average to Miles of Riding each Day during the two week excursion spending the first night at Freud Anstadt in the Black for est. Many of them dressed in clothing styles popular in the late 19th Century the Era when the Penny Farthings were manufactured. It was the second occurrence of the biannual event according to club spokesman Gerhard turn Mcmann a retired teacher who lives nearby in Carling in. Museums loaned it few bicycles to participants for the trip am cyclist Peter Scherber Riding to Paris with a son and a grandson owns several bicycles in the procession. The rest belong to other members. The tour began Al Schloss Solitude an 18th-Century summer Palace on Stuttgart s Western fringe. Awaiting the Start of the trip several cyclists pumped heir machines in Degas circles on the cobblestones in front of the Palace for the Benefit of the Many photographers attending their departure. Then tour organizer Fritz Ludmann astride a Bike with a 71-Inch front wheel called the riders into formation at x a,m., and they set off Imo the Light fog. Ludmann a Bank manager carried a Post Horn and wore a red Knapsack containing letters German municipalities Are sending to partner communities in France. Wuennemann said the cyclists plan to deliver the messages to municipal officials in each town including bar la Duc where the bicycle pedal was invented they Hope to meet with the French prime minister when they reach Paris he said. Wuennemann said anybody who wants to buy an Origi Nal Penny Farthing in Germany should expect to pay 5,000 to 7,000 Marks about $2,272-13,182and even More in England. My son is Riding a Friend s Bike Wuennemann said. I saving up Money to buy one  craftsmen in England s midlands District made the first Penny Farthings in 1879, Wuennemann said. Culled Hoch Raeder High wheels in German the bicycle s English name stems from the size ratio Between the front wheel and the rear wheel which is about the same As that Between two obsolete British coins the old Penny and the Farthing. They became Papular quickly but local British authorities became concerned when Many cyclists died from injuries they suffered during accidents Al the Many Public bicycle races which occurred then. After i bad they were not built because they were too dangerous. They had improper brakes and when people Tell Dawn they hit their Heads Wuennemann said adding that for that reason the smaller whetted cycles which replaced them were known first As safety  by 1910, All of the principal technical features of the Bike were invented he said