European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 8 thursday october 30,19b6 japanese tourist Falls to death at Scenic Gorge Taipei Taiwan a a japanese tourist walking backward to snap a better picture of fellow tourists slipped and fell to his death a the Scenic Taruko Gorge police reported monday. Police in Halien 60 Miles Southeast of Tai Pei said in a Telephone interview that Ichiro Gawara. 55, of Nagano fell 66 feet off the Cliff sunday Landing on a Beach. Gawara arrived in Taiwan a Day earlier with 16 other japanese and inc group was scheduled to return Home tuesday police said. Gawara was the third tourist to fall to his death in the Central Taiwan area which is famed for Marble Gorges and Steep Cliffs. Authorities said they have told guides to warn tourists to be More careful Jerusalem hotel fire sends 50 guests fleeing Jerusalem up an apparent Short in a computer system sparked a Smalt tire in Jeru Salem s posh King David hotel monday Send ing smoke into air ducts and forcing the Brief evacuation of about 50 guests. No injuries were reported in the fire which a hotel spokesman a d was extinguished in about20 minutes. Guests sipped Orange juice outside the stately hotel in downtown Jerusalem As firemen put out the Blaze. Visiting . Rep. James sch cur d n ,�., was wearing Only a Towel. I was caught in the Middle of a Shower St a cur explained As he mingled with other american tourists. A hotel spokesman said wire trouble in the King David s computer room started the late afternoon fire. About 50 guests were forced to leave the hotel during the commotion. China releases movie on life of Sun Yat sen peking a China preparing to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sun vat sen monday released a film depicting the adult life Ollie Man considered the father of modern China. The film produced by the Pearl River film studio stare Liu Wenshi As Sun. It Conrays Sun s life from the late 19th ten Lury to shortly before his death in 192including the downfall of the Ching dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911. Directed by Ding Yin Nan the film took 10 months to produce. There Are plans for it to be shown in Japan and the United Stales. Dodds Roundup business students receive Merit aware it Baden five Dodd buness Stu dents removed Merit awards Flora inc european business a cation  their work during the mb5-s6 school be receiving acc awards wer aria Louise Vandersloot of Cwik High spool Turkey Dawn Blackstock of  England Gary Hensley  Germany Karen Lisa Zoubra Munich Mph. Germany and Lau Rie Price bad a Rewth Germany. 4$1, warships dents four Studon Timoc University of maund s Munich campy such  the first Burger King Schibor ship a " to a Campus spokeswoman. _ Ather Crawford received the Munkh com icily adult scholarship Larry Hen Denby the Thomore business scholarship most thaw Krebs Balfa the freshman scholarship and Julie Wright the Sophomore scholarship. Duty free Industry fighting dec plans for abolishment Cannes France a the $7 billion duly free shops Industry opened a world exhibition tuesday shadowed by plans to kill Oil duty free privileges at most european airports. More than 400 manufacturers of prestige products ranging from rare brands of scotch to French perfumes and solid Gold watches and cigarette lighters exhibited wares in the festival Palace specially Buill for the Cannes film festival. Spokeswoman Milanic ice said More than 1,000 delegates were registered to take part in the exhibition. The luxury hotels of Cannes were fully booked for the four Day event. The president of the $3 million exhibition. Peter Brandsma of the French liquor firm Cointreau announced creation of a permanent secretariat to handle the duly free Industry s interests and to fend off pres sure from governments and consumer groups. Statistics published in conference documents said 40 percent of an estimated annual 500 million International air passengers visit duty free shops installed at nearly every Airport. The percentage of duty free customers is estimated at 80 percent among the hundreds of millions of passengers using International ferries and cruise Linen throughout the world. Guntram Brendel Swiss president of the International confederation of suppliers to airlines airports and shipping said if the european economic Community earned out its plan to abolish duty free purchases for passengers within the dec most of the Muil billion Dollar Industry gradually would disappear. Travellers within Europe spend up to $4 billion a year at duty free outlets representing at East 55 per cent of the world total of duty free sales. The suppression of All duty free privileges within in european Community is supposed logo into effect in 1992," he Lold the associated press. If int plan is carried out duty free shops would no longer be viable at any but he largest intercontinental airports in Europe. Furthermore Airport operating costs would in crease substantially leading to a Rise in International airline fares by s to 10  nonetheless the european economic Community plans to Stop the privilege by 1992 As a logical Conse Quence of the creation of a single european Market and customs area. The Industry is mounting a Enron wide Campaign against the move. The world s first duty free shop for air passenger was set up at Ireland s Shannon Airport in the 1950s when propeller driven aircraft had to make slope Ventiere on trans Atlantic flights. Duty free sales concentrating on liquor cigarettes and luxury goods were quickly installed at other airports be coming a major source of income fur Airport administrations through fees paid by concercion holders. So great Are the profits made by Airport administrations that Many european Airport Are considering let Ting up duty free shops for arriving passengers a prac Tice hitherto banned the idea would create chaos and we Are not in favor of it Brendel said. Savings Mode by passengers vary widely Between one Airport and another and Are difficult to estimate globally. A recent report by a european consumer Organiza Tion in Brussels Belgium estimated the average Sav Ings Over internal prices Range from 70 percent for whiskey and cigarettes at the Airport in Copenhagen Denmark to a Mere 9 percent for whiskey at the two International Uip Orts in Milan Italy. In Germany local Laws Force duty free shops Loncharge european value added tax yet the savings Over German internal prices is still More than 30 percent. Germany also has the so called butter boats Small ships thai sail out of German territorial Waters for a hour or two and thereby qualify for the right to make duty free sales to passengers. The european economic Community has decided to abolish the butter boats As a first step to removing the duty free privilege for passengers within the dec. Conference documents showed London s Heathrow Airport has the world s largest duty free Trade More than si20 million Worth pee year. The Airport for Amsterdam Netherlands follows with is 13 million and Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris is third with a $101 million turnover. U.s., Japan hold joint Maneu vers Chitose Japan up japanese and american combat units staged a mock Battle on the Northern Island of hokkaido tuesday As part of a War game representing a soviet invasion. The threat has increased significantly and the growth of the threat has caused an increase in our preparedness said it Gen Charles w. Dyke com Mander of the . Army Japan and co director of the exercises dubbed keen Edge 87. Dyke made the remark to reporters in Chitose the site of a major japanese air defense Force base on hokkaido Japan s closest territory to the soviet Union where the mainstay of the first .-Japa Nese military exercises involving ground air and naval forces of both countries Are being held. Taking part Are about 10,000 soldiers from Japan and the United Stales the largest number Ever in joint exercises Between the two forces. The five Day manbevers which also involve More than 100 warplanes Are based on a scenario in which enemy forces have invaded hokkaido the Northern most main Island and Are advancing South. On Day two of the Drill american and japanese soldiers look to the Field and fought in a mock land and air Battle using Dummy artillery warplanes chop pen and tanks at a training Field near Chitose. Under tray skies units of the Hawaii based . Army 25th int div and a combat team from the japanese ground self defense Force staged an Advance against the enemy farces which also was made up of the two units. With . Warplanes and japanese helicopters provid ing dose air support the two countries Force worked alongside each other for the first time on the Field and launched to coordinated attack forcing the enemy to re treat at the same Lime anti submarine Drill were con ducted in air naval exercise by american and Japa Nese forces at sea South of hokkaido. The waterway Between hokkaido and Honshu is the closet to the key soviet naval port at Vladivostok and Are considered vital for the soviet Navy to reach the open Tea. Eng pilots new fighter Over t1 i fut 1. Spain a King Juan Carlos an avid flyer Toie controls of a new Spanish air Force f-18 fighter  the first time tuesday Cruis ing Over an air Bassiri his northeastern City. The King who  the Large jets and helicopters he uses on Ofil Chamul guided the plane Over Zaragoza province for 40 Milf 8/asf Dama Cologne Germany Aeija to bomb exploded tuesday at the main Djup ration building of Ger Many s Lufthansa  causing damage bul injuring no not Vricic said. Police spoke John Werner Schmidt said the revolutionary cd Furj offshoot of tic pc fist red array fac Tion fib Psi gang claimed responsibility for the blast bomb was placed next to an outside Watt of the administration building and exploded at 2 30 am by an air Force colonel Frog Jihn Aid i had never  like Tail one and wanted to  was like the Monarch Totag polding. 10, the first four of 72 f-18 jets Spain to Purchase from the . Company Mcdonnell let arrived in Spain. 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