European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Ind feuds stored in the county courthouse where All wills Musl be kept. Dis inheriting one s spouse is illegal in All sales unless by prenup Liaf agreement Marc Ollen resorted to in these Days of second and third marriages. Lawyers Point out thai despite the publicity will lights generals often because of Iho amounts and the celebrity status of the decreases few wills Are actually broken. For that matter few Are actually contested in new York Day 20,000 wills Are probated each year according 1o Sobel. He says about 200 Are contested and Only about so actually go to trial. Sobe 3ays that the most important thing he tried to impart to a wry is that whether the will is fair or unfair is none of its business. I stressed Hal that was nol Iho Issue. The Issue is simply whether the will was a valid one whether All the requirements of the Law wore met. Fat them to Mako the determination of whether is was a fair will they would have had to have spent their whole lives with the Sobel now 80, reflects on old wills which failing to anticipate inflation left beneficiaries in dire Straits Many a wealthy Man left his widow Iho Park Avenue apartment the summer Home and $100.000 to be invested Only in Railroad Bonds at 4 percent. That was Lino in 1945. She could live nicely on Hal Bui As wages living costs and prices soared that kind of annuity. Means to Mai Wilain her Standard of living did t even come Sobel Gays wills create the greatest bitterness when parents bequeath unequal amounts of Money to their children siblings who receive less Ollen Lake it As evidence that they were less loved although it s Clear to everyone else that the parents allotted amounts according o the children s financial needs Harvey Korn Law Secretary to Manhattan surrogate judge Marl Blamberg. Say his Job has loft him less optimistic about human nature. I be seen Many cases whore a Man has promised people everything and loft them Arpee he says heiress Barbara Piasecka Johnson with her brother Cregor in front of Gates to her mansion in Princeton . Threatens Europe i big Baymor Rosenblum associated press world drug traffickers under press rein the United sales arc dumping cocaine and heroin into Europe using Alrica smugglers and Spanish wholesalers and sinking deals on the High seas new evidence shows the French underworld which once processed and exported heroin is now importing drugs in growing quantities for local use via a third world connection spanning three continents. Other european traffickers Are doing the same. The Heady Day sol the French connection Are Over said Michael Pavlick a drug enforcement administration agent in Paris. There is no doubt thai the South americans and mexicans Are looking East to Europe according 10 european us and Interpol narcotics of Licals new trends include Lai in american cocaine is bartered for asian heroin and hashish on ships in the Mediterranean or All Sulic this avoids ports Cash payments and commissions paid to middlemen and couriers. Indian heroin is smuggled into Nigeria Ghana and the Ivory coast Ollen with help from bribed customs agents and carried to Europe in false Bol Lomed suitcases shoes and swallowed contraceptives new markets Are opening for cocaine in Europe and also in the Middle East and Asia where heroin has predominated. At the same time latin americans Are using More heroin and also relaying it Rivilli to the Umed Stales. Cocaine flows heavily into Spain where frequent arrivals irom latin America Are difficult to screen. From there in moves easily across european Borders. We Are particularly worried because once a drug crosses any exterior bolder m the common Market the smugglers game is won said Jacques a Floc. Deputy Chiei of the French narcotics Bureau Inlo pol has been concerned or More than a year Over Ihu Rise in european cocaine use recently. West German police have made two spa ale secures of crack a potent lorm of cocaine that has spread quickly through the Umland states. In 1969, chief Interpol narc ohcs official Paul Higdon said european cocaine seizures totalled loss than two pounds. In 1985, they added up to a ton and Are running at Al least Hal level his year. Britain s chief customs invest Gator Richard Lawrence reported m january Hal cocaine seizures there More than doubled in 1985 from Ilic previous year to 174 pounds. There Are signs that the cocaine Market in the United sales has reached saturation level and drugs dealers Are looking toward Europe for new markets he said then French police seized h3 pounds of cocaine in August their largest total Ever when they caught iwo couriers from Colombia passing through French airports bul French authorities say they Are More worried about the growing addiction to heroin. During the 1970s, French chemists produced heroin of tabled purity Al laboratories in Marseille which was then exported to the United sales and other countries. They were manufacturers then said Higdon who was a narcotics agent in the Southern French City at the Lime. Now they Are much of the new heroin traffic originates ram India processed by South asians trained by French experts several French chemists still operate on contract in Asia authorities . A steady Stream of the heroin comes in with couriers often nigerians and customs of Licals say they cannot begin to search everybody you give us six hours Al an Airport and Woll Lind live said a senior , agent in Europe who spoke on condition he not be identified Bui who has Hes half Lor Shaf tale pol figures indicate More than 4,000 pounds of heroin was seized in Europe last year. In 1975. Authorities seized 541 pounds. But specialist admit seizures Are a poor gauge of traffic. The truth is that we have no idea what gels Maffre said. We might gel 10 percent. Or 20 percent or 5 percent. It is impossible to agents say traffic is heavy through Amsterdam where marijuana Anco hashish can be purchased easily and confirmed addicts Are officially allowed Access to drugs on sept. 14, dutch police arrested a colombian air passenger who had sewn five pounds o cocaine into the mattress of his baby s Cradle. Across Europe authorities Are Laking Lough action to combat drug traffic. A year ago Britain increased the maximum penalty irom 14 years to Sile for producing and supplying hard drugs. Under a Law enacted this summer anyone convicted of laundering drug earnings is Diablo to 14 years imprisonment. The French government has begun a sweeping crackdown against drugs bul details of new proposed Anli drug legislation have nol been announced All europeans rely heavily on an Lormer network infiltrated agents and electronic intelligence funded heavily by tha Dea. They Are a Greal a ranking French official said of the americans they have a lot of resources and they Are very very the stars and stripes Page is
